Monthly Archives: April 2024

just going to go and see if that big bottle of caron infini cologne is still there

You never know if you will relate to people you have only communicated with previously on the internet, but I trust my instincts and Pissara Umavijani of Dusita Parfums and I got along like a house on fire. We had a great time together with her friends at Seryna, a high end Japanese restaurant where they delighted in crab shabu shabu and I went through my beautifully made multi petite course lunch set knowing I shouldn’t really be eating anything at all feeling a little bit dodgy to say the least. Still, the atmosphere was fab, gifts were exchanged – I received the new upcoming release and I gave her a bag o’vintage classics and a kimono cushion sewn by d in return (who was still in bed with the thing I must have contracted) and couldn’t attend.

The lady likes to party, as do I, even though I was beginning to feel rather dire. Still, the show must go on, so off we went to karaoke where I had a true chills down the spine moment singing Britney Spears’ heartbreaking ballad Every Time with her up close which segued naturally into Don’t Cry For Me Argentina, both divas refusing to relent the mic as we sang out to the dusk of the Tokyo skyline from the window like Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson in Lost In Translation.

Elated but bilious – I know she could have gone on a couple of more hours at least – I said my goodbyes in the Ginza night not hugging anyone as i knew for sure at that point I was sick – and dragged myself like a slow drugged skin sensitive hot sloth through the streets to Tokyo station where I promptly puked my guts up in the disabled toilet. Haven’t done that years but it was kind of interesting : emesis definitely = catharsis.

Not being able to move from the bed yesterday, feeling fragile as an incense stick, the day and the evening swirled striking and vivid in my mind’s eyes and nose brain. It was an extraordinary day of extremes, intensely memorable, and great to meet in person sometime whose perfumery and character I admire: we turned out to have a great deal more in common than I had realized and I know that we will meet again.