One of the few and far in between fragrances composed by Françoise Caron for Oriflame (as per the company's official info), Mirage had t...

Patricia Davis in her Aromatherapy A-Z   [ 1 ] claims that the source of the name "elemi" is an Arabic phrase meaning "above ...

"A gentleman is simply a patient wolf." ~Lana Turner William Thackeray, who knew a thing or two about snobs, wrote in Vanity Fa...

One of the most elusive terms in fragrance terminology appears to be -according to readers' comments- "resinous" and "bal...

I distinctly recall watching Cio-Cio San ritualistically commit suicide with her father's knife at the end scene of Madama Butterfly an...