The heirs of the aristocratic perfume tradition of post-Middle-Ages Europe were precursors, innovators, pioneers who helped establish moder...

The first "real" celebrity perfume is probably Sophia by Coty , issued in 1981 after the persona of Sophia Loren, Italian su...

There are few images more precious to an adult than one that involves angst-ridden teen years, when we spent our time snatching vintage stuf...

One of the major pitfalls that awaits a perfume enthusiast is for them to disregard valued, glamorous specimens of the past due to the merel...

We continue our interview with writer and perfume critic of The New York Times, Chandler Burr. For part 1, click here . PART 2 PLEASE NOTE: ...

Perfume Shrine always aims to bring our readers the highlights of fragrance appreciation with objectivity and a level-headed analytical appr...

Advertising and presentation are icings on the cake of a great fragrance and in the case of Coty Chypre they evoke the lovely aesthetics of...

By guest writer Denyse Beaulieu/Carmancanada When friends complained to Pablo Picasso that the portrait of Gertrude Stein he’d just painte...

It has long been my opinion that fragrances do not merely reflect their makers' vision or the desire to attain beauty and harmony thro...