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...

Jicky by Guerlain is a gender bender perfume to end all gender benders; changing sex and direction mid-stream in its illustrious career like...

Paco Rabanne has been the green giant looming on the bath sill of many a bathroom in my country of origin in the 1970s and 1980s. This class...

Back in 1995 when this Francis Kurkdjian composed fragrance launched Le Male didn't look like it would become that huge in popularity. ...

It's hard to go wrong with an aromatic fougere; men have been conditioned to opt for them and women to respond to them as "the natu...

Launching October 2014, the release of the new haute parfumerie collection celebrates the new modern direction of the MUGLER fashion house ...

This coming September star perfumer Francis Kurkdjian is launching a duet of scents, Feminin and Masculin in Les Pluriels, for his eponymou...

The Passport to Paris Collection is a trio of perfumes exploring the fin de siècle (that is, the 19th century's prolonged swan song) wh...

~ by guest writer AlbertCAN  This is my tenth year, in various capacities, within the fragrance industry. One does not come this far witho...

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

Open any perfume guide with fragrance "notes" or any online discussion or blog post on perfume description and you're bound to...

Penhaligon’s latest fragrance, Sartorial , is tailored; literally. It reminds me a bit of the Humphrey character in 1980s BBC Yes Minister! ...

Due to launch in October 2010, Sartorial [the new Penhaligon's fragrance for men] continues the theme of heady innovation. Formulated b...

Field Notes from Paris is the latest installment in the alphabetized line by San Francisco-based independent perfumer Ineke Rühland, a wood...

~ by Mike Perez Some fragrances play the part of the “quiet, silent type”. Let me explain: Strangely, there are fragrances that I’ve sampled...

Noir this, noir that...What is it about Black that makes it creep up on you with the silent force of a nidja? After Serge Noire [click for ...