What's in a name? What's in a material? Shakespeare's immortal line has a lot to account for. Lots of scents with heliotrope pos...

Tom Ford is eagerly awaited by fashionistas during New York Fashion Week due to his excellent finger on the pulse, in both sartorial as well...

Lots of scents with heliotrope pose as "almond" or "marzipan" or "powder with tonka". These are all scents wit...

It's hard to go wrong with an aromatic fougere; men have been conditioned to opt for them and women to respond to them as "the natu...

Few toiletry indulgences feel more decadently feminine than owning a fine goose down puff for applying face or body powder. Few rituals feel...

Do ballerinas secretly stuff their lithe forms with cherry-pie flavored cupcakes? If models routinely consume tissue paper in order to satia...

Among the most popular and beloved notes in perfumes, heliotrope evokes images of goose down comfort, almondy yumminess, fluffiness and powd...

Heliotrope is at once deep, soft and mysterious, a note traversing the rainbow from the yellow of vanilla pods and almond, to the light blue...

The upcoming Mon Parfum Chéri par Camille , by Camille Goutal, marks the 30th anniversary of the house of Annick Goutal. The company was fou...

It's unusual in perfumery for the start of this century to encounter a modern composition which focuses on that loaded term which is dre...

When Cacharel Loulou first came out in 1987, there was a wonderful TV ad set to the romantic Pavane , Opus 50 by Gabriel Fauré and veiled...

It seems that the end of the year lately presents me with one stellar specimen of orgasmic olfactory experience: Two Decembers ago I was imm...

Some pieces of music are inherently inducive to daydreaming, relying on this art form's absence of visual stimulus to ignite introspecti...