Spicy stuff is usually reserved for wintertime because it so often appears in heavier compositions such as spicy oriental fragrances, a gen...

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

Maison Berdoues is well known for their classic violet fragrance, Violettes de Toulouse, as de rigeur retro as a finicky collector would de...

"And at night I love to listen to the stars. It's like five hundred million little bells. [...]"You...you alone will have the ...

Yes, this is my copy of Bois d’Iris—right up to the obtuse notch on the top left corner of the box upon yours truly’s overzealous unwrapping...

Exultat by Italian perfumer Maria Candida Gentile is touching on both the contrast and the accomodating orifices between citrus and sacerd...

People have been complaining about the Library Collection in Amouage comparing it to the other symphonic pieces in the house's portfol...

In Oscar Wilde's tale " The Nightingale and the Rose " , drawing upon an ancient Sufi tradition, roses are dark red like blood...

All Mugler fragrances create a stir, from the iconic Angel to the stomping woody jasmine in Alien , the metamorphosis-inducing androgyne tub...

It is with a sense of disillusionment that I encountered Scarlett by Cacharel while perusing the aisles of Sephora in search of a gift. The...

Much as I haven't been personally impressed by the Omnia franchise at the respected Bulgari brand ~despite liking many of their other ...

Some pieces of music are inherently inducive to daydreaming, relying on this art form's absence of visual stimulus to ignite introspecti...

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Kia ora tātou!, which means "greetings" in New Caledonian, should be the line that introduces the first fragrance of 2009. As repo...