One can blame LVMH for many things, but not for not knowing how to milk a thing on their hands. The Poison  fragrance brand is a huge succes...

Part of PerfumeShrine's regular Underrated Perfume Day feature ,   I'm inspired to talk of Calyx because it strikes me as the Prome...

What do we know of India really? Its people say सत्यमेव जयते (i.e. truth alone triumphs), a motto inscribed in all local currency, but to o...

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

Mandarine by L'Artisan Parfumeur began its "career" under a different guise: a limited edition bottle for summer 2006 under th...

Named after the primeval garden of creation, Eden by parfums Cacharel broke new ground back when it launched (1994) "for the first ti...

A proud in its weirdness creation by nose Ilias Ermenides from 1990, this fragrance is now discontinued. Why bother trace it, you might ask...

Nahéma ...The sonorous name comes from the 1001 Nights , in a story by Scheherazade recounted on the one and only day of her storytelling. S...

"She had no gowns, no jewels, nothing. She only loved that, she felt made for that. She had such a desire to please, to be envied, to b...

“The exotic image of the deepest jungle, lush vegetation, powerful spices borne over amethyst seas and strange girls in distant sun-kissed p...

"If I can't have too many truffles, I'll do without truffles", Colette used to say. Although earthy truffles do not featur...

Fragrance brands have cottoned up to the fact that jaded travellers who have to sail through the Symplegades to travel by air are searching...

"Gravity cannot be blamed for people falling in love" is one of Albert Einstein's wittier quotes. Although falling in love ne...

Everyone has an aunt that used to bathe in cold water regardless of it being winter or summer, slip on her bathing suit first thing in the...