There are as many types of musk as there are flowers in the field. Musk has diverged from a single ingredient to a pleiad of genres within a...

Maison Berdoues is well known for their classic violet fragrance, Violettes de Toulouse, as de rigeur retro as a finicky collector would de...

Has Miuccia Prada exhausted the fragrance concepts for her own brand and has expanded into its sister brand, Miu Miu? More like the youthful...

There is something about the green floralcy of lily of the valley, the tiny bells echoing the spirit of the renewal of spring, humble-lookin...

On May 1,1561, King Charles IX of France received a lily of the valley as a lucky charm. He decided to offer the flower to the ladies of his...

What possessed Givenchy to create two fragrances in 1957, the well known L'Interdit and the less known Le De , both inspired from and o...

"Give him Madame Rochas . A few drops at a time."  ~New Yorker magazine vintage ad 27 November 1965 Madame Rochas was the s...

The charming custom of offering lily of the valley on May 1st in France dates further back than one might think: it was Charles IX who first...

It's easy to be convinced that the later day Aqua Allegorias have been subpar: The history of the Aqua Allegoria line by Guerlain prove...

A lucky symbol ~it means “return of happiness” in the language of flowers~ the delicate beauty of lily of the valley is however poisonous (e...

The newest fragrance by Andy Tauer, Carillon pour un Ange , takes its inspiration from a material that is often described as angelic, lily o...

The first molecule to challenge the notion that women smell more efficiently than men is revealed, having the dubious ~but fascinating too~ ...

Although in nomenclature lily of the valley is easily confused with lily and its own varietal richness, the two are completely different flo...

There is no greater endearment than the nostalgia of bygones. Sommerset Maugham would have plenty to say about this, I’m sure, in his usual ...