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...

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

When art history enchiridia are written they emphasise how Art Deco style covered almost every sphere of human life in the 1920s and 1930s: ...

Few perfumes are entangled in such mythos and in such erroneous rumours as Mitsouko by Guerlain. Mysterious, balanced, sumptuous, it's ...

~ by Mike Perez Some fragrances play the part of the “quiet, silent type”. Let me explain: Strangely, there are fragrances that I’ve sampled...

Impropable finds come like heavy snow in August at a coastal town in Sicily or an apparition of the Virgin to St. Bernadette Soubirous perfo...

If in the darkest moments of our urban stress we want to eschew European civilization and "everything that is artificial and convention...

Roja Dove likes to narrate the tale of an American customer who came into a British shop opulently dressed in mink and diamons when Vol de ...

"Funny business, a woman's career. The things you drop on your way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need...

He locked the door behind him and came over and sat on her bed and put one hand firmly on the little hill that was her left breast. "No...

If you ever come in contact with volcanic earth you will discover that despite the sulphurous yellow emanations it is exceptionally fertile....

Shalimar...its sonorous name reverberates long after its smell has evaporated, conjuring images of prodigal sensuality and old-fashioned rom...