photo by Elena Vosnaki  It was inescapable. The new goodies from Penhaligon's have trickled their way to my lap and I'm slowly savou...

A picture is worth a thousand words. Succumbing to celebrity culture has never been the Guerlain way . Guerlain does not follow th...

Guerlain has been making fragrance exclusives honoring the famous Bolshoi ballet for the Russian market for some time now. With three editio...

I wouldn't hesitate to think of the latest Paris exclusive fragrance by Lutens , going by the insolent name Boxeuses , as Féminité du Cu...

Although only one out of the triad issued by Baccarat is known among perfume aficionados, Les Larmes Sacrées de Thèbes, the collection by t...

Quite often on Perfume Shrine we break some news before they become "official" (We tag them under the label "rumour"). B...

We're always happy to confirm rumours which we had started on this place (last December) and this is the latest one: Guerlain teamed aga...

Among the four variations on the original Féminité du Bois, which in 1992 catapulted Les Salons business into the niche market (namely Bois...

Take a room that appears goldenish baroque in its ambience, but actually comprised of little, aptly chosen, dramatic furniture and saturate ...

Van Cleef & Arpels, the famous jewellers their dragonfly brooches on the jacket lapel of every BCBG woman and their Alhambra bracelets o...

"Days begin and end in the dead of night. They are not shaped long, in the manner of things which lead to ends – arrow, road, man's...

Bergdorf Goodman, as well as Aedes , are now stocking the Paris exclusive Santal de Mysore by Serge Lutens and Christopher Seldrake for $20...

If the current economic standing of several households across the globe is anything to go by, surely the market should be catering to their ...

~by guest writer Mike Perez This week (Thursday, the 13th) Comme des Garcons release an exclusive collection of clothes, accessories and fra...

Champaca Absolute by Tom Ford~men and big florals ~ by guest writer Mike Perez When I started exploring niche perfumery, I stumbled upon a b...

Sporadically one comes across a perfume composition that is perplexing yet enthralling like a chameleon actor who manages to marry opposite...

Today I am trying to disentangle the thread of the elusive Seraphim by Ormonde Jayne and to clear misunderstandings: surely such an elusiv...

Laura Mercier has a UK-only limited edition fragrance for women coming to the US, available at Nordstorm for 4 days only. It's Nuit Ench...