The beast cradles the jasmine vine in the garden and its salty-dirty stench of its hide, as well as the warmth of its fur, only serve to...

Oddly enough, though I love both orientals and Serge Lutens fragrances on the whole, both of which I own a rather significant collection, I ...

Arabie is a virtual stroll amidst the exotic Al Halili bazaar at noon, rows and rows of succulent dried fruits and colorful, piquant, pungen...

What would happen if you took the traditional Eau de Cologne formula (based on citrus essences) and gave it an orientalized spin? Fleurs de ...

Fumerie Turque (Turkish smoking salon) is one of the most majestic scents amidst the Serge Lutens impressive line-up of orientalise composit...

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

Dedicated to the night and voluptuous, feminine women everywhere, A la Nuit by Serge Lutens is probably the most life-like rendition of nigh...

The divide between darkness and light, between sanctity and profanity, between spirituality and carnality, and the overtones of a Catholic u...

Much like the mysterious (and incestuous) half-sister in Leos Carax's   radical adaptation of   Melville' s Pierre: or, the Ambigu...

The melancholic timbre of Billie Holiday's voice, the "black voice" behind the inspiration for Serge Lutens's latest Pari...

The majestic scent of sandalwood stands as the benevolent Hitopadeśa tales of the Far East, a fan of fantasy woven in didactic morals for pr...

If Charles Baudelaire or Oscar Wilde (pleading with Lord Alfred Douglas from within his jail) are references both in plain view in the new S...

"Sometimes he frets his instrument with the back of a kitchen knife or even a metal lipstick holder, giving it the clangy virility of t...

Sheldrake didn't intend to be a perfumer when he was young. He wanted to be an architect. His father thought he should learn a European ...

"The original No.19 was created in the 70s," Sheldrake says in a full-bodied British accent. "This was an era of the emanci...

Much has been made of Ambre Sultan 's resemblance to women's odorata sexualis, the intimate scent of a woman, and although I fail to...

Horace had written* referring to his diet: "Me pascunt olivae, me cichorea, me malvae" ("As for me, olives, chicory, and mall...