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In which we unretire, listen to the new (old) Barbra Streisand record, launch an advice column, and recommend three scents to our readers.
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February 2021

A brief return to whatever this is...
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October 2020

We're back (well, kind of)!
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December 2019

Hello Dry Downers, Happy holidays! We apologize for the lateness of our gift guide this year — we’ve been traveling and spread hither and yon this…
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At this time of year I miss drinking the most. The holiday season doesn’t feel quite like itself, quite sparkly enough or special enough, and I am…
Rachel

November 2019

It's very cold, very suddenly. All month it's been in and out, days when you just need a sweater and days when two sweaters and two coats aren’t enough…
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October 2019

Vilhelm Parfumerie, Fleur Burlesque Last week, I went to a book party that felt straight out of 2005. Or maybe it was 1995. I got here in the mid-oughts…
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Sometimes, an obsessive love of fragrance is about creating the opportunity to reunite with an old friend. On Sunday, wandering around on a rare…
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Choeur Des Anges, Atelier des Ors I am writing this letter from a hotel room in Manhattan, which despite almost fifteen years of living in the city is a…
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September 2019

Hello and welcome to another installment of The Six, in which we each recommend/discuss three perfumes around a general theme. This month we are talking…
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The air is sharp in the morning now; it’s here, it’s time, at last. Fall wipes away summer’s sweat and excess, the cold dousing us with ambition and…
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August 2019

Paco Rabanne, Lady Million Last week, the New York Times dropped a huge story about the late banking heiress Cordelia Sciafe May, who came into half a…
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