Fracas Noir – Susanne Waldau – te Brake ~ for better or worse

When you are a girlfriend, a wife, a lover, you may think you are the only one. But you’re not. Because there is always the ex. I say the ex in singular, because it’s in fact the X, as in X-factor. The love of your partner’s life. That’s the X, that has become a ghost [...]

Coming back on that hotel room dream I had the other night. The hotel that figured in my dream appeared very similar to the hotel I once had a similar experience in, this time somewhat more raunchy. I must have been about 18, and had some week earlier been introduced to E who moved in [...]

I woke up to a rainy Haarlem but to a sunny husband. He recently decided that he needed to acquire a suntan to his otherwise pale face. It was last weekend, whilst doing some beauty shopping in Amsterdam. I think it must have been his own idea, because I can’t see him being convinced by [...]

A friend of mine sent me a link to an article of my signature scent – Fracas what else? It opens as follow “There are perfume legends, there are perfumer legends, and then there are perfumes that become obsessions. Fracas is all three…”. I couldn’t agree more. The opening line alone identifies my own olfactory [...]

There is no such feeling as when you have worked like a dog and you can finally enjoy the fruits of your labour. I’ve been cleaning since early this morning and at 10 pm I dotted the i’s and crossed the t’s. Fortunately I had Caroline to help me  and she did a marvellous job. [...]

Many people may not know of this but I have lived for 12 years in the Netherlands. And still I don’t speak the language. I am not going to enter into a diatribe on this subject. I can only profess to being completely oblivious to the Dutch language and shall probably remain so for at [...]

Yesterday as we fooled around with the camera I managed to take the one good picture of Reinout. He was flabbergasted by the result, and secretly I must admit, so was I. In fact it doesn’t look like Reinout at all. So this afternoon, as I was sneaking downstairs trying desperately to avoid some business [...]

There is one thing that men and women can’t agree on – money. Is this a relative new phenomena or has it been like this since time of dawn? Are men born with a running calculator adding up every shoe, handbag and piece of fashionable garment that women purchase? Some men may turn a blind [...]