Naked Lady Godiva, Countess of Mercia, rides on her proud gray horse, with leather bridles and wet saddle, keeping her word as a personal ...

Everything there is to know about the feminine fragrance by Trussardi from the early 1980s (1984 to be exact) can be seen right from the st...

The beast cradles the jasmine vine in the garden and its salty-dirty stench of its hide, as well as the warmth of its fur, only serve to...

It's tough to do a good melon note, if only because in hindsight the overuse of Calone in the 1990s has tampered with our own perception...

There's a wondrous line in Sherlock BBC S2E1 ( A Scandal in Belgravi a ) when Irene Adle r marvels at the height of the cheekbones of o...

Like erotic opponents distancing themselves from each other only to better aim at the heart with a fatal gunshot, the materials in Annick Go...

All the colors of a bruise: black and blue, teal green edging out in purple, fading to rosy, ending in ochre yellow like ancient parchment. ...

 The sum of its constellations is not one and the same as the Milky Way, and likewise holding an exquisite map is not one and the same as k...

The upcoming launch by the historic house of Guerlain is called Santal Royal and comes in a bottle in the style of their "Eau de lit&qu...

Far from the crowd pleasing orientalism of Benjoin 19 (Le Labo's Moscow "city exclusive") which I had reviewed for Fragranti...

In Jean le Bleu , Jean Giono, perfumer Jean Claude Ellena's favorite author , describes the father of the narrator as "a cobbler w...

Samarinda was an unexpected surprise in my mailbox replete with an eco-benefit (more on which below) and it was a pleasant one which prompte...

Some perfumes, like the best kept mysteries, keep their secrets close at heart and do not intend to be easily deciphered. That's part of...

Coco by Chanel must be among a handful of fragrances on the market to have not only one, but two flankers without being a spectacular marke...

"And at night I love to listen to the stars. It's like five hundred million little bells. [...]"You...you alone will have the ...

What took Le Labo a couple of years to go from announcing Cuir 28 to actually launching it? It's as yet undivulged. Smelling the recen...

Noir de Mars , named after the iron oxide (PBk11) used in painting, is aptly referenced given the collection of new niche brand Scent on Can...

Brun Sicilien is brown only in the context of southern landscapes of sienna tiles or nubuck saddles on horses riding into the wilderness: t...

Perfumery was so developed during the Mogul era in india that the most powerful empress of the Mughal dynasty, Noor Jahan popularly known as...