If travel-inspired fragrances usually hint at the region via their name mainly, then Assam of India corresponds to...India, naturally. As on...

Maison Berdoues is well known for their classic violet fragrance, Violettes de Toulouse, as de rigeur retro as a finicky collector would de...

All the colors of a bruise: black and blue, teal green edging out in purple, fading to rosy, ending in ochre yellow like ancient parchment. ...

The Passport to Paris Collection is a trio of perfumes exploring the fin de siècle (that is, the 19th century's prolonged swan song) wh...

Husks of cardamom, crashed and fragrant, in my pocket. A window opening up to a vista of green pines overlooking the Mediterranean azure blu...

One of my better English teachers was a longtime resident of San Francisco; in fact she had met her husband in the City by the Bay, which, g...

The sea accord is sweet. The smell coming from the bed of the ocean and the misty fog in Brittany is not. To evoke therefore the changing s...

From the noontide sun depart Here belov'd awhile repose And the murmurings of my heart Let me tenderly disclose, to my forest rose.[...

Gucci Première represents the culmination of perfumery catering to those, on the one hand, sick of too candy-like creations, but, on the ot...

To understand the demise of Chunga is to realize that it is truly unmarketable in today's world: For a feminine perfume it flunks the t...

Cast your eye back to the days when you were a kid in a floral print sundress, pig-tails hanging down the sides of your face, flowers pinned...

Parfums Lubin has been a rekindled fragrance brand, after the old house was brought into new ownership some years ago, when the niche marke...

Much as I was predisposed to at least enjoy the unashamedly girly Idylle Duet and dislike the sanctimonious (I thought) Shalimar Parfum Ini...

While travelling on scented adventures across the globe I distinctly recall the uplifting properties that a rind of bergamot tucked in my p...

The use of bergamot in the Mediterranean fragrant waters is something of a tradition, even to this day. My mother, same as lots of men and w...