The infamous cotton candy note (candyfloss, for those in the UK) lies at the heart of Aquolina's  Pink Sugar (2003), and the fragrance ...

Britney had told us quite a while ago, in her lyrics, "I used to think I had the answers to everything, but now I know that life doesn...

It's hard to bypass Angel by Thierry Mugler in the greater scheme of perfumery's historical progress , as it is truly seminal, a fo...

Mugler's Innocent seems in retrospect to be the perfect alternative for people who like gourmand fragrances, love sugared almonds, love...

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...

Do ballerinas secretly stuff their lithe forms with cherry-pie flavored cupcakes? If models routinely consume tissue paper in order to satia...

I'm starting with the really spectacular: We have a giveaway on Perfume Shrine, one winner will win TWO free perfume bottles of the newe...

The upcoming Lancome fragrance, La Vie Est Belle ( i.e. Life is Beautiful ), is exactly the kind of perfume we dedicated perfumephiles love...

Despite allusions to Messianic status and references to a Far Asian dish full of endemic ingredients, Fils de Dieu is neither incense-based...

Violet is a limited edition "flanker"* of the signature Oscar fragrance, one of the group of limited summer editions by fashion ...

Few are the males ~and the masculine fragrances to accompany them~ that indulge into tipping their long toes (with a few stray hairs on them...

Heliotrope is at once deep, soft and mysterious, a note traversing the rainbow from the yellow of vanilla pods and almond, to the light blue...

It's been called "Werther's Original in a bottle". It's been called "Infusion de benjoin". It's been c...

Home-toasted cashews and hazelnuts, enrobed with a mixture of dulche de leche that contained salt and tahini paste, is part of the treats ...

Pierre Guillame, the young and charismatic perfumer behind the Parfumerie Generale line, composed an unusual gourmand musk with subtle anima...

It was with delight that I had introduced perfume audiences outside Italy to the cosmos of Hilde Soliani niche Italian scents and it is with...

Appraising my impressions on the upcoming L'Artisan Havana Vanille (later changed to Vanille Absolument ) I can't help but think th...