More of a biographical mapping out of the discovery of a new career path and the richness with which it has gifted its author than a mainstr...

Fragrance expert, author, teacher and speaker Karen Gilbert demystifies the secretive world of perfumery in a new book,  Perfume, The Art &a...

Grace Munroe. Eva d'Orsey. One English and pampered into false security. The other French-countryside-born and exiled in New York, servi...

Mηδέν ἄγαν (i.e. nothing in excess)   ~oracular statement inscripted on the wall of the Delphi oracle in Greece, 440 BC "We have ex...

The ultra-patriotic French won't be too pleased with Lisa Chaney's book on Chanel and her life unfolded in intimate detail for the t...

Sometimes the readers have a pre-conceived notion about where a book is going—although I suppose Proustian reminiscence never involved hea...

“Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more. It's contrast.”                         ―Virginia Woolf, playe...

To come across a book referencing scents , and specific perfumes on top of that, is one of the rare and largely misunderstood pleasures of a...

Utter the names Luca Turin & Tania Sanchez and a combination of their polarising "Guide's", irrepresible wit and -equally ...