The Diptyque story began in 1961 Paris at 34 Boulevard Saint-Germain with, at its heart, three friends driven by the same creative passion, ...

Berries are an especially pliant fruity note in perfumes; no less because a certain group of synthetic musks has a berry undertone. The cl...

The realm of soapy fragrances is huge, probably because "cleanliness is next to godliness" in several cultures. Therefore buying a...

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

Back in 1995 when this Francis Kurkdjian composed fragrance launched Le Male didn't look like it would become that huge in popularity. ...

It's hard to go wrong with an aromatic fougere; men have been conditioned to opt for them and women to respond to them as "the natu...

The top of a baby's head. The milky breath. The soft, soothing chamomile note of a baby soporific infusion. The talcum powdered bottom. ...

There are as many types of musk as there are flowers in the field. Musk has diverged from a single ingredient to a pleiad of genres within a...

Few fragrances boast their very definition in their name, unless they're programmatic, but so few celebrity scents are anyway. Lovely i...

Creating a contemporary violet fragrance was a true challenge back in 2006; Insolence by Guerlain is already celebrating its 10th anniversa...

Would you appreciate a fragrance that projected around the way knitting needles would stick inside your nostrils, the equivalent of a scent ...

Essence of a dream, that is  Extrait de songe ,  was the very poetic name of a limited edition “clean”perfume for summer 2005 by L’artisan ...

Gucci Première represents the culmination of perfumery catering to those, on the one hand, sick of too candy-like creations, but, on the ot...

The blinding white of Oia on Santorini island, Greece, against the pale blue of the natural pools contained within some of its cave-houses i...

Inhale the icy ringing air coming from the thundra filling your lungs. Feel the chill of cold water in a silver-tiled pool where you anticip...

The aliphatic aldehydes string of Chanel No.5 is what is termed " aldehydic " in perfumery parlance and characterises a whole su...

Musc 25 by niche outfit Le Labo reminds me of The Body Shops' White Musk , more than I'd care to admit for something super-exclusi...

First things first: I have a brand new bottle of the to-be-launched Gelsomino Nobile for a lucky reader, from which only a 5ml decant is mi...