“The house smelled musty and damp, and a little sweet, as if it were haunted by the ghosts of long-dead cookies.” ~Neil Gaiman, American Go...

Feast your eyes on the gorgeous bottle of the newest feminine fragrance by Tocca cult brand, as it's so very beautiful as usual. Margaux...

Things which are equal to the same thing are equal to each other. ~Euclid photo by AlberCAN (copyright 2012) for use on PerfumeShrine ...

The melancholic timbre of Billie Holiday's voice, the "black voice" behind the inspiration for Serge Lutens's latest Pari...

I am doubtful as to whether an elegant yet lush floral with woody undertones is really reminiscent of the opulence of the 1920s and 1930s. H...

To extrapolate that Madonna's Truth or Dare celebrity fragrance is a Frac as-inspired vehicle is a given unless you had been living und...

Oh glorious day for our American readers! The renowned Chanel extraits ( No.22, Bois des Iles, Cuir de Russie and Gardenia ) are now availa...

The original Gardénia , issued by Chanel in 1925 and composed by legendary perfumer Ernest Beaux who created all the early opi/opera of Cha...

It's not often that I am caught completely off-guard and totally surprised by something. Usually my instincts and my (hard-paid for) exp...

In Giambattista Basile's charming tale The Murtle from Il Cunto de li Cunti (The Tale of Tales, 1694), a sprig of myrtle is transforme...

The burlesque phrase of the title, comical in its exaggeration and Fabio-jacketed-romance tendencies, sounds like the antithetical mood of P...

Leafing through Colette's book “Flowers and Fruit” I stumble upon this quote from “A Gardenia's Monologue”: "That flower boas...