Η ζωή ενός ταπεινού , αλλά ουχί ταπεινόφρονος , συλλέκτη . από την Έλενα Βοσνάκη Μια φορά κι έναν καιρό ζούσε ένας άνθρωπας. Με τα καλ...

Lucien François, famous journalist and critic of the 1920s, used to say about perfumers that they are mirage creators, constructors of a un...

I have been having a bit of trouble with putting in comments lately, Blogger acting up or something, so please excuse my delay in responding...

"Marneffe, destroyed by the debaucheries peculiar to great capital cities, described by the Roman poets but for which our modern sense...

I was talking to someone I hadn't seen for a while the other day. "This will give you cancer" she mentioned with an ominous fo...

It's an all too common observation with people I fragrance consult. "Tell me what perfumes you have enjoyed wearing in the past&quo...

In Opera aperta , Umberto Eco argued that literary texts are fields of meaning, rather than strings of meaning. He proposed therefore that t...

I admit it: It took hard work on my part to appreciate rose for what it is and to familiarize myself with the better grades of rose absolute...

The nose is never wrong. You read this right, the nose, any nose, is never wrong! Like the eye or the ear, the nose is a means to an end, a...

What are the perfume classics and why are they classics? Do they have something in common that has made them "the classics"? What ...

"He had been before in drawing rooms hung with red damask, with pictures 'of the Italian school'; what struck him was the way i...