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

Tabu by Dana has always had a reputation wickeder than its actual self ("for women who wear their knickers on their heads" [1]), ...

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...

Ysatis remains among the most memorable perfume launches of my childhood, alongside Cacharel's Loulou , mainly due to the commercial th...

Much as Serge has always dwelled in the aesthetes of the 19th century, if there is one art movement of the 20th century which would reflect ...

Smell La Nuit by Spanish-born designer Paco Rabanne and nostalgise about the 1980s with a vengeance. In that carnal decade, La Nuit was aim...

The velvet feel of rose, the sweet nectar of jasmine, the tartness of raspberry...the human presence, felt subtly like the paws of furry ani...

The archetypal example of a smooth, beautiful jasmine that could be worn sufficiently well without evoking particularly dark tendencies yet ...

Torrid opulence...When perfumer Maurice Roucel was developing Musc Ravageur (2000) for Les Editions de Parfums Frédéric Malle, a young woma...

If there is one perfume which conjures up a devilish sorceress in full-wiccan attire it is none other than Lancôme's splendlidly devilis...

The exotic-sounding name of Ubar by parfums Amouage comes from a lost Omani city founded in 3000BC and still functioning during the first c...

If Mona Lisa were Parisian and one hell of a sexy lady she would have worn Mona Lisa , the all natural perfume by Abdes Salaam/ Dominique Du...

~ by guest writer Carmencanada It is rumoured that soon Serge Lutens will relinquinsh the aromatic business and focus on his makeup line, he...