One often sees young girls looking for a perfume for everyday -clean, that will be well liked by their entourage, that will make them feel f...

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

Would you appreciate a fragrance that projected around the way knitting needles would stick inside your nostrils, the equivalent of a scent ...

Perfume Primers is a new feature on the Perfume Shrine site, intended for beginners who cannot find their way through the tangled cosmos of...

There is a family of perfumes composed by the same brilliant perfumer: Aramis being the butch Godfather patriach, well behaved on the outsi...

Once upon a time women wore corselets & real silk chemises underneath their tailored dresses to work, painted their lips deep pink or co...

Australian niche perfume house Tommi Sooni can be proud of one thing among many others: They don't charge premium prices for second-rate...

The aliphatic aldehydes string of Chanel No.5 is what is termed " aldehydic " in perfumery parlance and characterises a whole su...

Musc 25 by niche outfit Le Labo reminds me of The Body Shops' White Musk , more than I'd care to admit for something super-exclusi...

~"Father dear, will you not make ready for me a wagon, with strong wheels, that I may take to the river for washing the fine clothes t...

One of the major pitfalls that awaits a perfume enthusiast is for them to disregard valued, glamorous specimens of the past due to the merel...

Certain fragrances grab you by the throat and demand to be asked "What are you talking about anyway?" Whether they do it via shock...