What's in a name? What's in a material? Shakespeare's immortal line has a lot to account for. Lots of scents with heliotrope pos...

Lots of scents with heliotrope pose as "almond" or "marzipan" or "powder with tonka". These are all scents wit...

You may find similar recipes under “Bacchus Biscuits” because the followers of Bacchus carried a stalk of wild fennel with them; an image ra...

Heliotrope is at once deep, soft and mysterious, a note traversing the rainbow from the yellow of vanilla pods and almond, to the light blue...

When Cacharel Loulou first came out in 1987, there was a wonderful TV ad set to the romantic Pavane , Opus 50 by Gabriel Fauré and veiled...

There is no question that Germaine Cellier was a formidable woman and an innovative perfumer mapping history with her Balmain and Piguet c...

In contemplating the newest Jo Malone fragrance, Vanilla & Anise , one reverts to an overview of the brand , originally founded by one r...

Douce Amère's sonorous name, meaning "bittersweet" in French, brings back memories of childhood with a Prustian rush: the prec...

Today we continue our project of organising fragrances with anise inspired by one of the herbs that aromatize absinthe and offer a distincti...

Our new Series takes you into the realm of the forbidden and the bohemian, the realm of the "green fairy that lives in the absinthe&quo...