Choosing an Hermès fragrance is, to me, an embarrasement of riches. The brand is among my very favorites for several reasons; most important...

It's tough to do a good melon note, if only because in hindsight the overuse of Calone in the 1990s has tampered with our own perception...

The official site introduces Eau d'Hermès as "For me. For you. His and hers" and if an androgynous sensibility is already simp...

Smooth-cheeked chaps have been the norm for more than half a century now and facial hair on men in the western world is considered either in...

Launched by Christian Dior in 1976, four years after the triumph of Diorella and composed by the same nose, the legendary Edmond Roudnitska...

Perfumers being inspired by gardens is not something new, but this very interesting article on Telegraph.co.uk highlights two of the most i...

“I will tell you of a perfume which my mistress has from the graces and the gods of love; when you smell it, you will ask of the deities to ...

Everyone has an aunt that used to bathe in cold water regardless of it being winter or summer, slip on her bathing suit first thing in the...

" Cabochard, Dioressence, Diorama were offerings to goddesses, not presents to women". This is how Luca Turin addressed the master...

Edmond Roudnitska Perfume Shrine embarked on a mission: to disect and discuss one of the bastions of chypre: la maison Dior in its fo...

There are times when I reflect upon a fragrance to realise that it has been painted by the brush of a rampant personality, bigger than life,...

By guest writer Denyse Beaulieu/Carmancanada When friends complained to Pablo Picasso that the portrait of Gertrude Stein he’d just painte...

It has long been my opinion that fragrances do not merely reflect their makers' vision or the desire to attain beauty and harmony thro...