Using as fine fragrance the equivalent of ecclesiastic incense of the Catholic variety, marvelously assimilated in Avignon by Comme de Garço...

One of the delights of being a historian and a perfume writer is coming across excerpts which combine these two subjects. The Histories by H...

Monastic, cool, ethereal? In many ways L'Eau Froide is anti-Lutens, whereas Passage d'Enfer is L'Artisan Parfumeur down to the...

Exultat by Italian perfumer Maria Candida Gentile is touching on both the contrast and the accomodating orifices between citrus and sacerd...

Inhale the icy ringing air coming from the thundra filling your lungs. Feel the chill of cold water in a silver-tiled pool where you anticip...

One of the most elusive terms in fragrance terminology appears to be -according to readers' comments- "resinous" and "bal...

When Lutens launched L’Eau Serge Lutens , in 2010, he didn't mince his words: ‘When I presented L’Eau to my team, I felt like Saint Ju...

Perfumer Annick Ménardo does a Marc Buxton on us with Le Labo Gaiac 10 ; a sensual, diaphanous and creamy season-less woody fragrance with j...

There is nothing more early April-like than the smell of bitter orange trees blossoming, their waxy white petals infiltrating the glossy gr...

Nothing is more alluring than the forbidden and at a time when the Muslim world appears as West's "enemy" in the zeitgeist, th...

Few niche fragrance lines today are as devoted to opulence as the Omani firm of Amouage founded in 1983. Rich, multi-nuanced baroque tapestr...

O Marvel! a garden amidst the flames. My heart has become capable of every form: it is a pasture for gazelles and a convent for Christian mo...

"Princess Asagao had sent perfumes kneaded into rather large balls in two jars, indigo and white, the former decorated with a pine bran...