Hermès launched another vegetal, light, and airy fragrance in its Cologne collection in July 2022. Eau de Basilic Pourpre represents a su...

My experience with Niki de Saint Phalle goes back many years ago. I was aware of Niki being a force to be reckoned with artistically of cour...

“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...

I had always maintained that Hermès's Kelly Calèche perfume from 2007 was a sleeper classic: it has the ethereal, aristocratic quality...

Among perfume terms which are used to describe fragrances some are more confusing than others: what defines a dry scent , what is a balsamic...

There is a family of perfumes composed by the same brilliant perfumer: Aramis being the butch Godfather patriach, well behaved on the outsi...

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

Much has been made of Ambre Sultan 's resemblance to women's odorata sexualis, the intimate scent of a woman, and although I fail to...