Chanel often comes to mind when we talk about festive occasion drenched in champagne, if only because of the reputation of aldehydes being f...

 The beauty of the gigantic blossoms of magnolia is their happy citrusy freshness: I always find myself surprised that the sheer awe the blo...

White Zagora by The Different Company stands as an optimism shot for occasional gloomy days, even if the heat does not let us perceive them...

Jicky by Guerlain is a gender bender perfume to end all gender benders; changing sex and direction mid-stream in its illustrious career like...

Musing by Guest Writer AlbertCAN 创新是什么? 可以吃吗？ What is innovation? Is it edible? —Contemporary Mandarin humour* 和谐 (Trad. 和諧) Pinyin: ...

To consider Cristalle by Chanel a predominantly "fresh" scent begs the question: which version of it? Contrary to some of the prev...

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

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

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...

Tucked among the crags of western Portofino Promontory is the town of Camogli, which the novelist Charles Dickens once declared "the sa...

How can a strictly indoors smell, that of burning incense, so tied to wooden pegs and tight clusters of people, gain an outdoorsy veneer? Th...

GS03 for Biehl Parfumkunstwerke is the acronym for perfumer Geza Schoen' s third composition he signs with his initials for the quirky ...

Brun Sicilien is brown only in the context of southern landscapes of sienna tiles or nubuck saddles on horses riding into the wilderness: t...

I remember walking around an exhibition on Moghul India at the British Museum, resplendent in the opulence we associate with this particular...

There is a family of perfumes composed by the same brilliant perfumer: Aramis being the butch Godfather patriach, well behaved on the outsi...

Despite allusions to Messianic status and references to a Far Asian dish full of endemic ingredients, Fils de Dieu is neither incense-based...