There is no question that Germaine Cellier was a formidable woman and an innovative perfumer mapping history with her Balmain and Piguet c...

In the pantheon of great modern perfumers it is not often that we come across women, at least during the first half of the 20th century. Amo...

My maternal grandmother had a Louis XVI vanity with silk damask that had a interlay of glass vitrine within the wood panel back, behind whic...

"A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears". ~Getrude Stein It is perhaps fitting that a review of Jol...

It was 1944, when WWII was at its most crucial stages with the battle of Monte Cassino, the fall of Rome to the Allies, the maiden flight ...