Laura Biagiotti's iconic Laura, with its aqueous character, has been so characteristic of its era that 30 years later it still springs f...

Lately I have been noticing a strange phenomenon which brought about this examination. Versace's post-millennium child, Crystal Noir fro...

 Cacharel's Eden from 1994 is the precursor of neon green compositions like Mark Jacobs Decadence and Thierry Mugler's Aura , whic...

 Papilio , the latest Puredistance fragrance, almost coaxes a butterfly to sit upon your shoulder: Its realistic depiction of a magnolia tre...

 When Etat Libre d'Orange introduced Exit the King as a soapy fragrance to the perfume loving crowd it was lost upon the majority that t...

 There is a serenity but also a dark horror surrounding incense. The zen and the apocryphal. Which is which, each time? While Kilian's I...

Photo by Bianca Czarnock on behance , borrowed for educational purposes   Dior's Dolce Vita fetes its 30th anniversary this year, bein...

Chanel often comes to mind when we talk about festive occasion drenched in champagne, if only because of the reputation of aldehydes being f...

Although we tend to overlook Boss fragrances, if only because of their ubiquitousness and confusing names, apparently, they still possess th...

 Glamour fragrances go hand in hand with the celebrities who endorsed them. No myth is stronger than the tie of Marylin Monroe with Chanel N...

Back in August 2023, Jean Paul Gaultier launched Gaultier Divine , the brand's new feminine fragrance, classified as a gourmand marine f...

  My friend Chandler Burr unfolded the story of how the charming and cerebral Jean Claude Ellena was inspired for this fragrance in a New Yo...

  It doesn't matter that Dior Homme is everywhere, either in one of its -many- versions, or in some copy of it from another brand. It ...

In 2016, the house of Thierry Mugler opened a new chapter in the story of the famous gourmand galaxy of Angel fragrances - the "futuris...

  Hermès launched another vegetal, light, and airy fragrance in its Cologne collection in July 2022. Eau de Basilic Pourpre represents a su...

 It was a full seven years since Prada introduced an entirely new perfume for either gender, exploiting its established lines all this time....

  Naked Lady Godiva, Countess of Mercia, rides on her proud gray horse, with leather bridles and wet saddle, keeping her word as a personal ...

 Much of our information on the particularities of Sergey Diaghilev the man come from the many exhibitions and press catalogues which have b...

Elizabeth Arden Green Tea is one of Francis Kurkjian's timeless success stories, which built his reputation for effortless light diaph...

  There are not as many fragrances with a leading narcissus note, as I would wish, and some of the best have been discontinued, for example,...