Midwestern Gothic

Nothing like a nice collection of novellas to end the week! Thank you Inkshares for the gifted copy in exchange for my honest review MIDWESTERN GOTHIC – Scott Thomas (Released September 17th, 2024) Book Description: Close your eyes. Picture open plains, wheat stalks swaying gently in the wind. Picture the quaint Main Street of a one-stoplight town. Picture endless summers on sunny, tranquil lakes.

American perfume brand ELLIS BROOKLYN, founded by Bee Shapiro in 2015, launches its new fragrance Vanilla Milk in the summer of 2022. The fragrance is marketed as delicious yet sophisticated, faceted yet smooth, a fragrance of paradoxes. Described by the brands as two outsiders of the perfume world, Bee Shapiro and female Irish perfumer Meabh McCurtin worked together to create a vanilla fragrance from a fresh perspective.

Last year, Miguel Matos introduced us to the new Sicilian niche brand Sikelia, and I really wanted to get to know it because Miguel and other colleagues have repeatedly recalled the originality and courage of these fragrances. This year I received 3 of last year's samples from ESXENCE 2022, Nikos, Atma and Triskelé, and two new releases – Morus and Kalsa.