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

The Favourite is the latest fragrance by British brand Penhaligon's and the story behind it is inspiring. It involves as its protagonist...

Tempus fugit and with it tastes change. This is the contemplative conclusion I arrive to from comparing my vintage, original Guerlain Météo...

Nothing could be further apart than the vivacious, gregarious ways of the Greeks and the orderly, over-refined ways of the Japanese celebrat...

The fallen berries that get smashed and mushed underfoot reflect something of the realization of so much waste around us that even useful, s...

I recall a particularly tough professor back in my University days demanded such hard-to-crack questions that one way to bypass embarrassmen...

Rose stands as a symbol of femininity, at least in the western world. Perfectly formed, delicately or more passionately hued, its scent comb...

Uncanningly similar to the dressmaker's dummy bottle of Shocking by Schiaparelli (1935), a powerful and iconic animalic oriental of a l...

Un Jardin sur le Toît, the fourth installment in the Les Jardins series at Hermès , a technopaegnia sample more than a simple fragrance, f...

Composed in 1987, Aria by Missoni is predictably as big as a house. In the 1980s, you see, fragrances announced themselves from around the b...

Hearing that Marc Jacobs's latest foray into fragrance, Daisy Eau so Fresh , is directed at a "younger audience", one pauses t...

Sasha Varon Luxe Parfums is behind Soulgasm , the first of what seems a new line of perfumes self-positioning into niche territory. The main...

When the same name for a fragrance is used through the decades to denote varying scents, things get entangled. Zen by Shiseido is one such ...

Accessing the popularity stakes and artistic success of a bestseller is never an easy thing. Perhaps it's the competitors who speak most...

"The recipe for Pêche Melba, created by Auguste Escoffier for Dame Nellie Melba, is set down in his encyclopaedic Le Guide Culinaire (...