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"You must have brought the bad weather with you, the sky’s the colour of lead, all you’ve left me was a feather on an unmade bed” ~...

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

We have been discussing the latest perfumery restrictions on ingredients these past few days. [You can catch up here and here ]. Today'...

Seek and you shall find: it is these biblical words that come to mind upon seeing the gorgeous advertisements of the year 1972 by Guerlain. ...

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

I'm very much afraid that the coming of autumn is given over to the Greek calendars. For those unfamiliar with this expression it is use...

Continuing from yesterday’s post, today we occupy ourselves with the matter of control versus surrender as manifested in matters of relatio...

How many times have you heard a story regarding the creation of a perfume and in the end realised it must be a fabrication? From the almost ...

What is it that links orange blossom to sexy aromas? Many of the interpretations of this note in perfumery take advantage of the naturally l...

I planned on writing up something about how the future of perfumery looks very grim indeed after so much arbitrary action has been taken to ...

Those who have followed Perfume Shrine since it started on a previous host know that I have talked about what Mitsouko means to me . How my...

Those who have followed Perfume Shrine since it started on a previous host know that I have talked about what Mitsouko means to me . How my...

What can one possibly say about this iconic perfume? What can one add to the tome upon tome of literature on the subject? Everything has bee...