We have all come to rely on Aedes de Venustas for the most exquisite niche brands in perfumery. But their own brand is also quite fearsome t...

How can a strictly indoors smell, that of burning incense, so tied to wooden pegs and tight clusters of people, gain an outdoorsy veneer? Th...

If like me you have been searching for a Catherine Earnshaw kind of fragrance all your life, then the options haven't always been that p...

Irises (and iris-named perfumes) come plentiful in both mainstream and niche sectors lately: from best-selling Infusion d'Iris by Prada...

Usually I'm not that taken with the outer appearance of a given perfume; the bottle is the dress on a beautiful form and it's the fl...

"With Iris Nazarena eau de parfum", perfume creator Ralf Schwieger explains "I had to face two major challenges: to find a po...