The Monday Mail, our weekly feature in which readers help other readers find fragrances they might like, will return from its “holiday break” next week. If you're already on the waiting list, you should hear from me soon; if you're not but you'd like to be, please wait — over the next week or so, I hope to post detailed instructions on how to apply. In my ongoing efforts to make this blog easier to run (and thus leave a little time for other life matters), in the future the Monday Mail will be a strictly reader-to-reader feature, that is, I'm no longer going to make any fragrance recommendations myself. I don't think that will be any great loss since you all did better than I did anyway.
I'm gearing up to move Now Smell This to WordPress under its own domain…
Kirsten is searching for her perfect signature daytime perfume. She loves Dior's Hypnotic Poison (“it's really comforting and I think that's what I look for in a perfume”), but it's too heavy to wear to work, and her sister-in-law also wears it so it doesn't feel like it's “hers”. She bought quite a few new perfumes this year, none of which really turned out to work for her, and she's also tried an amazing number of samples and decants — you might want to grab a cup of coffee before you start reading.
This week, we're helping Asya, who lives in California. In her own words: