Category Archives: Computers

A Gentle Correction to Online Cosmetic Batch Code Checkers for Modern Guerlain Products

Posted on December 11, 2017 by cologniac

It is with great sadness that we report to the PERFUME LITERATURE otherwise known as the fragrance community otherwise known as the worldwide brotherhood and sisterhood of perfumistae otherwise known as (*shudders*) “fragcomm” that NONE of the three (3) online … Continue reading →

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Sikkim Grlz

Posted on July 5, 2016 by cologniac

I don’t think that I understood the whole Lush / Gorilla Perfumes concept until yesterday.  That’s when I smelled one of their earlier entries – Sikkim Girls – for the first time. I was immediately transported back to a head-shop in … Continue reading →

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Going Postal: Addressing the Perfume Mailability Problem at USPS with Technology

Posted on February 2, 2014 by cologniac

I will admit that I’ve been a merciless critic of the USPS in regard to fragrance mailability.  When it was pointed out to me on Basenotes that it is far easier to mail fragrances in China – as in RED … Continue reading →

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The Adventures of Hinoki Oh

Posted on January 2, 2014 by cologniac

This post was inspired by the amazing and unique Comme des Garçons fragrance Monocle Scent One: Hinoki.  Everything you are about to read is true.  As determined by a secret court that you cannot question, using secret law that you … Continue reading →

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Land of the Lost

Posted on June 14, 2013 by cologniac

The NSA are not, apparently, the only people keeping an archive of the internet’s past.  There is also web.archive.org, a.k.a. The WayBack Machine. Using this wondrous technological device, I was able to uncover a bunch of deleted blog posts from … Continue reading →

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Aurora: Spirit of Mosaic

Posted on January 5, 2013 by cologniac

Let’s start off the New Year with a good post.  Something nice.  In fact, something very nice. If you’re somebody who happens to like the Firefox web browser, then let me suggest a way in which you can help pay … Continue reading →

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Impressions of L’Heure Bleue: Art / Science / War / Peace

Posted on December 2, 2012 by cologniac

Note:  This isn’t a fragrance review.  But these may be the droids you were looking for. ************************* Patterns.  You just gotta love ’em.  Not all of them have predictive value, but if you look at them right, they all have … Continue reading →

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ChatPerf: Blowing Sweet Smoke

Posted on October 20, 2012 by cologniac

For this special occasion, my OCD cousin, Rube Sternberg, unemployed fragrance physicist, is making a special guest appearance on Joey and Snake’s Virtual Truckstop of Fragrance Fashion, hosted somewhere in Middlin’ America on community access television (or as Snake’s tea-party … Continue reading →

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Office Mac 2011, Time Machine Troll

Posted on May 11, 2012 by cologniac

(Or Why Your Backup is Likely an Epic FAIL) UPDATE:  Apple now has a workaround which conforms to this observation.  Simply run your backups in Safe Boot mode (hold down the shift key after rebooting, as soon as the music … Continue reading →

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Old Blogeo, Blogeo – Wherefore Art Thou, Blogeo?

Posted on September 13, 2009 by cologniac

There was a time, before I found basenotes.net, when I was pretty sure that a personal blog was the only way for me to say anything very personal about my love for (or, to those who don’t understand it, “peculiar … Continue reading →

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