Hermès launched another vegetal, light, and airy fragrance in its Cologne collection in July 2022. Eau de Basilic Pourpre represents a su...

Hermès has always seemed to me the height of luxury: not just a status symbol to carry around, but a brand organically grown out of that m...

In old novels, in the time of Balzac and thereabouts ( as I have written in detail before ), or even prior to that time, there is the well-k...

There are brands conceived to claim something very potent, to break with the mold of their times, and to establish themselves in the market,...

Perfumer Christine Nagel 's style could be likened to an Italian sunset. Probably has to do with her paternal Italian side. The bleeding...

Now that perfumer Christine Nagel is at the helm of Hermès, looking back on her work for various brands reveals her core aesthetics; at once...

Many perfume aficionados have noticed the ubiquitness of patchouli oil in modern fragrances ; either in the form of the "fruitchouli&q...

Thus presents the aphorism perfumer Jean Claude Ellena . And Christine Nagel, co-head perfumer at Hermes perfume development, quips: "I...

“But then fall comes, kicking summer out on its treacherous ass as it always does one day sometime after the midpoint of September, it stays...

Hermès officially announces something that was in the works for a little while: the arrival of a sidekick perfumer to help Hermès home perfu...

It wouldn't be inaccurate to claim that Sì, the latest feminine fragrance by Giorgio Armani , is L'Oreal's (the parent company ...

“I wear the fragrances I am creating. My skin is my work instrument. When I have the time to wear some fragrances, I like to smell of Fémini...

Henry James wrote "There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as an afternoon tea." ...

Some years after being sold to the Lauder Group, Jo Malone, the doyenne of prim British elegance in skincare and fragrancing, is set to laun...

There comes a time when something pleasant is mercilessly called out for what it is: a derivative! This is one such time and I have no regre...

Like probably half the female population of the affluent West with about 40 minutes to kill on a winter's week evening ~nails filed at a...