To know me is to know I think life is serendipitous. I had quite literally just written the Editor’s Letter for Magic Potions, where I talked about a book that considered perfume an...
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books
Magic Potions
“Weren’t we all modern embodiments of Emma Bovary, I thought, seeking magic potions to transform our lives?” That sentence leapt off the page of The Perfume Lover by Denyse Beaulieu. It felt like...
Saw Things I Imagined
Imagine me, sitting in a dark theater, watching the opening scene of the Devil Wears Prada 2, when writer Andrea Sachs admits to a roomful of her industry peers that she and a table of her...
Setting the Stage
Do you ever get goosebumps when you encounter someone who is fully operating in their gift? I feel that way every single time I smell a Marissa Zappas perfume. There is a spirituality to them that’s...
The Books Behind Fluff
When I first got the idea for this newsletter, I had no idea that books would play such a major part in its development. I’m not sure why though, because, for as long as I’ve known me, I’ve always...