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When: Tuesday, Dec. 30th, 2008.

What: Over-the-knee black Italian leather boots from Lamica, by way of the wonderful Lori’s Designer Shoes in Chicago, IL. Most amazing romper with gold sequins and bronze leather earring by Brooklyn’s Idyllic4U Couture. Sequin headband and misc. bracelets from Glow on Lakeshore Ave. in Oakland, CA.

Scents: Pillow Of Flowers by Parfums d’Armando Martinez, an aldehyde, goes on smelling like fancy milled soap and bushels of lilac. It’s kind of exactly how you want your freshly made bed to smell right before you climb into it, squeaky clean, only to sully it right away with some raucous sexing. I want to dirty it up immediately. It stays consistent through the dry down, but the bouquet of white florals – tuberose, jasmine – gradually unfurls. It’s very lovely.

Annayake Pour Elle starts seductively, coquettish. It reminds me instantly of the tomboy chasing me around the pub table. Then, rather suddenly, it darkens and stays there, clinging all sullen and sharp to my wrist. The description is as follows: “The vivid, fresh notes reveal the peaceful plant world of Japan. They blend with soothing, comforting notes of tea and precious woods. For a fulfilled woman in perfect harmony with herself.” It barely softens over time.

Confession: This is the foundation of my This is what I’d wear if I had NYE plans outfit, i.e. How tragic is it to not be in the Brooklyn lezzie basement tomorrow night!? These are also my super brand new reasonable flat boots, which the tomboy helped me to find last week. They are pretty amazing: comfortable, they smell so good, they fit me perfectly and the wonderful folks at Lori’s gave me a whopping 25% off the asking price! I ? ? ? ? ? ? ?   them lots and look forward to wearing them with actual, you know, pants.

Someone should make bookends shaped like sexy gams. I’d buy ‘em.

When: Wednesday, Nov. 12th, 2008.

What: Clearly you’ve memorized these boots by now, black trousers from Express, black patent and gray suede belt from Tristan in NYC, ruffled white blouse from INC. Black and pink suede flogger from Good Vibes.

Scent: Today I wore Annayake Tsukimi, an Oriental amber. As soon as I put it on I kind of floated away. It’s described as “the amber fragrance of autumn infused with warm, woody notes for a radiant woman attracted by traditions and the family.” It is not dissimilar to Kenzo Amour, which I love, but I must admit that Tsukimi outlcasses Amour in every way. If dreamy soft-focus had a smell, it would be perfectly encompassed in Tsukimi! Both this and yesterday’s Figue Amère from Miller Harris had significant staying power. I’m still sniffing at my wrists greedily.

Confession: I did not accessorize this outfit with a flogger at work, FYI. (I really just don’t know what got into me. Probably, I want to get a rise out of B. Also, Dr. K and Sparkle and I have fond memories of this thing from the Bachelorette Weekend on Labor Day of this year.)

The really important confession is that M and I swore that tonight was the ANTM finale. Since we have a regular crowd of like-minded lovelies over on Wednesdays for ANTM and Project Runway or Stylista or Top Chef or whatever, we thought we’d get a little treat for them, to celebrate. I bought a wonderfully fragrant bouquet of paperwhite narcissus, orange-gold orchids and a very large bloom of orange that looks very much like a sea anemone. I also bought two twee little cakes, one vanilla and one chocolate, with “ANTM” written in frosting on top of both.

Well, it wasn’t the finale. We decided to name the chocolate cake for top pick McKee and the vanilla cake for other top pick Ana-Leigh. They are delicious cakes. THEY. ARE. DELICIOUS. CAKES. Let me show you them.

Perhaps most amusingly, way back in the beginning of this cycle, I said that Ana-Leigh was basically a Cory Kennedy facsimile (a la Zooey Deschanel and Katy Perry), at which point M said, “Does that mean that Cory Kennedy also looks like a moose?” Some research was conducted straight away, and we’d like you to weigh in: Who looks more like an actual moose – Cory Kennedy or Ana-Leigh? (Pls. try not to let the obnoxiousness of either interfere with your scientific analysis. -M )

Disclaimer: This moose thing is all M’s doing. I simply pointed out the resemblance between Tipton and Kennedy.

And would you like a slice of cake with that?

PS. Marjorie spazz here: