The Making of a Witch: Circe by Madeline Miller
When you are very young, every book can be a miracle, if you’re so inclined. It’s always a new world, exciting and unique, something you haven’t experienced before. Your mind is blown and then blown again. Nothing exists but the book in your hands, you are c..
Persian Pistachio Soup: A Bowl of Beauty
As has been often remarked on this blog, I get easily exited. I can be enthusiastic about almost anything, from ancient Mesopotamia to a specific tone of red lipstick, from fiscal policy to biathlon. Among other things, I’m a big fan of food: making it, eati..
A Perfect Summer Cologne: Chanel Paris-Deauville and Friends
A perfumista’s life tends to go through phases: frantically sampling and testing all the perfumes in the world; buying everything that seems interesting; being disillusioned and bored with the entire scent thing; cutting down the collection and only wearing ..
Five Reasons To See Avengers: Infinity War
This piece was supposed to go online very soon after my second (yay!) guest appearance on the Estonian radio programme Popkulturistid, where we discussed this very movie. That was a month ago. I wasn’t exaggerating when I said it’s been a bad time for bloggi..
June Memo: Football, Skincare News and How to Eat a Peach
We are entering this time of the year when I would ideally spend all my days lounging in the garden with a book, eating peaches and goat cheese with truffle honey. I might break that routine occasionally to have friends over for a negroni and scallops with b..
On How to Sniff
A little while ago, I wrote a piece about perfumes men “should” try. This prompted a surprising amount of conversations both on and off line, with men and women alike – about why and how to smell, about the experiences with scents I suggested, about perfume-..
Nine Books I Read in May
May – a bad month for reading, a horrible one for blogging. I knew it was going to be suboptimal, but it turned out worse than I expected. The pace at work combined with losing my iPad meant I didn’t manage to post even the things I had half-prepared and tak..
Casual Friday: Sporty Trousers
This shoot didn’t quite turn out the way I wanted. Don’t get me wrong, I think it looks lovely (thanks to great work by Laura Nestor), but due to a couple of coincidences, the look is sportier than originally intended. That in itself would not be a problem e..
11 Books I Read in April
The title sounds better than the actual reading results of April, as five of the books I finished were small Penguin Moderns. Then again, I read two books of 400+ pages, so it evens out.
1. Gio-Graphy: Serious Fun in the Wild World of Fasion by Giovanna B..
Jordan Samuel Skincare
May is not going to be a great month for blogging around here, as you may have already realised: it’s busy at work and it’ll only get worse; I’ve lost my iPad and this messes with my writing and posting big time (I have no computer at home) and my partner ha..