There are few things I appreciate more than stumbling upon a clever word play which intrigues my mind and excites my hopes for something u...

Tucked among the crags of western Portofino Promontory is the town of Camogli, which the novelist Charles Dickens once declared "the sa...

The ember glow of a dying fire shining through the window of the yalı, the iodine assault of intensely animalic ingredients brought in by th...

I'm starting with the really spectacular: We have a giveaway on Perfume Shrine, one winner will win TWO free perfume bottles of the newe...

~ by guest writer AlbertCAN  This is my tenth year, in various capacities, within the fragrance industry. One does not come this far witho...

The main criticism upon announcing the news on the Arabian inspired triptych by Guerlain, affectionately termed "Les Deserts d'Orie...

The advertisements read: "Exuberant. Smouldering.Uninhibited".  It was all that and more. Mink coats, cigarette-holders, lightly ...

Indie perfumer Andy Tauer gets inspired by music scales into arranging his newest line of fragrances we're exclusively previewing on Pe...

Perfume companies and their ad copy often end up confusing the consumer. Whether they do it inadvertedly or on purpose is to be examined. Th...

The newest Andy Tauer fragrance, Orange Star , is based on his previous soap-making for Christmas-giving for which he produced Mandarins Amb...

L'Eau Ambrée, maestra Miuccia’s latest fragrance, talks with the whispers of a ghost; an ectoplasmic take on the dry woody, patchouli a...

In "The Fisherman and his Soul" by Oscar Wilde a fisherman falls in love with a mermaid and eschews everything, even his very soul...