Tauer Perfumes has made a sex act with Une Rose Chyprée. While bouquets of roses are so ubiquitous as to be ho-hum around Valentine's Day, there is still something brilliant and passionately hot about a real rose. Wear this perfume and first you feel fondled by real, velvety petals. It's the ..
I met with Ineke at a tea shop in San Francisco halfway between the Castro and the Mission called Samovar. We drank luscious iced jasmine lemonade on an unusually hot November day. The conversation was framed by discussion of West Highland White Terriers. We both adore our respective dogs. At ..
I spent last week wandering around old San Francisco, my favorite city. While there, I visited my favorite wall of jasmine near Bi-Rite Market on 18th, spotted magnolias like so many creamy eggs on trees, was caressed by the whispered, sweet scent of daturas, and soaked up as much sunlight as ..
It's the end of summer and the time when my mind shines its spotlight on sculptures on tables, a riot of roses from South America flown almost all the way to the pole, and memories of my first obsessive perfume loves from 2001. It wasn't the first time I loved perfume. It was just the first ..
Kim Sunée is the author of the bestselling memoir, Trail of Crumbs: Hunger, Love, and the Search for Home (Grand Central). Trail of Crumbs was a Barnes and Noble Discover pick and a Booksense Pick, and has been translated into Korean, Chinese, and Hebrew. Sunée has been featured in the New ..