Jicky by Guerlain is a gender bender perfume to end all gender benders; changing sex and direction mid-stream in its illustrious career like...

Mon Guerlain does not dare veer into the animalic, like its forerunners   Guerlain Jicky and Guerlain  Shalimar do; this is the first thi...

Paco Rabanne has been the green giant looming on the bath sill of many a bathroom in my country of origin in the 1970s and 1980s. This class...

Back in 1995 when this Francis Kurkdjian composed fragrance launched Le Male didn't look like it would become that huge in popularity. ...

It's hard to go wrong with an aromatic fougere; men have been conditioned to opt for them and women to respond to them as "the natu...

"Sexy as hell" is what our Hellenic readers hail this cologne as. An enthusiastic endorsement from people who do actually enjoy a ...

ISIPCA perfumer teacher Isabelle Doyen and art director for the Goutal brand Camille Goutal have proven their flair for the concept of an &q...

This coming September star perfumer Francis Kurkdjian is launching a duet of scents, Feminin and Masculin in Les Pluriels, for his eponymou...

Patricia de Nicolai is repositioning themselves (the new bottles being one of the hints), if intimations are any indication, and no luxury n...

The Passport to Paris Collection is a trio of perfumes exploring the fin de siècle (that is, the 19th century's prolonged swan song) wh...

Husks of cardamom, crashed and fragrant, in my pocket. A window opening up to a vista of green pines overlooking the Mediterranean azure blu...

~ by guest writer AlbertCAN History has a way of repeating itself, though from a pragmatic point of view it isn’t always monotonous. More...

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

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...

La Vallée Bleue from 1943, smack between the Occupation of Paris and the turmoil of WWII, comes in a moment in history rich in intrigue, ra...

When autumn and winter weather takes its toll, there is a not so perverse pleasure into getting out the lush florals and the green scents fr...

Penhaligon’s latest fragrance, Sartorial , is tailored; literally. It reminds me a bit of the Humphrey character in 1980s BBC Yes Minister! ...