It was Shakespeare who wrote, ""Cry havoc!, and let loose the dogs of war, that this foul deed shall smell above the earth with ca...

Battling bad smells has been a millenia-long battle for humanity. Fighting body odor specifically has been a battle against our very own hum...

Writing about chemical warfare and its smells doesn't come easy. The prompt was a quote I came across in a letter to Siegfried Sassoon, ...

Battling bad smells has been a millenia-long battle for humanity. Fighting body odor specifically has been a battle against our very own h...

In one of my newest historical articles for Fragrantica, amassed under the collective title of 1001 Past Tales , I discuss the infamous &quo...

via "Since she had exchanged one of the most luxurious Courts of the Middle Ages for that of Aragon, chiefly concerned with the ce...

I have been having a bit of trouble with putting in comments lately, Blogger acting up or something, so please excuse my delay in responding...

"It is during The Eleusinian Mysteries [ ceremonies of Athenian origin which celebrated the fertility and grain goddess Demeter and ...

One of my favourite readers, Minette of Scent Signals , sent me the following link which guides us down to the London...sewers! The Guardian...

Some of the most fascinating scopes of the smell-study do not revolve around commercial fragrances at all. One area which provides us with p...

Following the work of perfumer Jean Claude Ellena, I came upon The Different Company, a small niche brand which was started by him with the ...

Our new Series takes you into the realm of the forbidden and the bohemian, the realm of the "green fairy that lives in the absinthe&quo...

We have been saying it among ourselves -and hearing it discussed in perfume circles- constantly recently: there are just too many launches....

What is it that makes us pick up a bottle and anoint ourselves with its jus tentatively in the first place? The inviting colour, the present...