Tonight's scent is Sugar Cookie -- a limited edition scent that I got an empty-but-damp vial of as a sampler. It smells to me like sugary vanilla (for sure) and almond (maybe) and makes me want to eat dessert. I put it on my forearms and did the dishes in a cloud of sweetness... it's aptly nicknamed "the devil's bake sale."

But it does me no good because it's been discontinued for the past two years.

Kumiho, the white tea/ginger scent I wore to work, was okay, but I didn't love it. It was so reminiscent of the kind of thing you'd buy in a mall shop. It's similar to another one I've got that also has white tea and ginger [baobhan Sith], so at least I can confirm what is what and what I don't really care for in those scents. Half the fun in all this is educating my nose.

When I got up this morning, the Viper I put on last night was gone. After sniffing and sniffing I caught the faintest ghost of a tea smell, but I might have been imagining it. Calico Jack was still going strong, though. Dude's got stamina. It's the musk, I think, that stays forever on my skin. (Or if there's ambergris in it, maybe that. It doesn't say if there is, but it seems like the kind of thing you'd put in a perfume named after a sea-dog.)

From an e-mail sent 4/18/07.