Chanel often comes to mind when we talk about festive occasion drenched in champagne, if only because of the reputation of aldehydes being f...

  Chanel No.5 L'Eau , endorsed by the debutantes of the Chinese press, has been hailed as an innovation, but it's really "new o...

Everything there is to know about the feminine fragrance by Trussardi from the early 1980s (1984 to be exact) can be seen right from the st...

My experience with Niki de Saint Phalle goes back many years ago. I was aware of Niki being a force to be reckoned with artistically of cour...

Frankincense is met at the church as the censer spreads the fragrant smoke in the congregation. Myrrh is met at asketaria; monastic places o...

Coriandre by Jean Couturier first piqued my interest when I read Susan Irvine's description of it: "fit for a red headed Raymond C...

One of my preferred short stories in the canon by American author Edgar Allan Poe is William Wilson . Less popular than many of his more ...

Part of the New Romantics collection in 1978, Celadon and Pavilion are two of the three fragrances which could be layered with one anothe...

Many state that Snob by Le Galion is a poor man's Joy , referencing "the costliest perfume in the world" ~as the Patou perfum...

"Give him Madame Rochas . A few drops at a time."  ~New Yorker magazine vintage ad 27 November 1965 Madame Rochas was the s...

There is a human, flawed sublayer beneath the icy, perfect Hitchockian beauty of Betty Draper from Mad Men , which manifests itself when the...

Ask any aspiring perfumista about aldehydes and you will hear that they are synthetic materials first used in Chanel No.5 , that thanks to t...