A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically. ―Diane A...

"Perfume is made mainly so that one remembers the woman who wears it. I like to call it the elevator effect. This is the man who goes t...

~by guest writer AlbertCAN The idea of la chamade floated wide in the Parisian psyche years before the Guerlain creation. Françoise Sagan...

‘ Now come’, thought Lucile, ‘he’s only holding my hand as we cross the park. It’s spring, no need to worry. I’m not sixteen any more’. Bu...

Sensual, warm, elegant, Habit Rouge was conceived by master perfumer Jean Paul Guerlain in 1965 when faced with a surprising and novel prob...

Le Bolshoi 2011 Edition Limitee is the new limited edition perfume (set to circulate in only 400 bottles retailing for $570) to be released...

It's easy to lose track in the Guerlain portfolio : The vastness, scope and sheer volume of perfume produced is astounding, stirring the...

It's probably not strange, but certainly unexpected, that a figure with retro connotations such as comte Robert de Montesquiou-Fézensac ...

Perfumery is a minefield. It's not only perilous to make an olfactory mistake and distance your core audience, a communication faux pas ...

Two clips concerning Guerlain perfumery via Wim Janssens who is an ardent Guerlain fan: First the journey of the perfumer to Bulgaria to pic...

Take a room that appears goldenish baroque in its ambience, but actually comprised of little, aptly chosen, dramatic furniture and saturate ...

Gustave Claudin writes about Marie duPlessis in Mes Souvenirs : “She was fickle, capricious, wild. She adored today what she hated yesterday...

~by guest writer AlbertCAN sam•sa•ra Pronunciation: \səm-‘sär-ə\ Function: noun Etymology: Sanskrit saṁsāra, literally, passing through Date...