Mathilde Laurent, head perfumer at Cartier since 2006, introduces L'Heure Vertueuse (the virtuous hour), another installment in Les He...

“There is no lily oil or lily absolute,” says perfumer Mathilde Laurent, who wanted to introduce a floral scent in Cartier’s fragrance colle...

It's easy to look down on the Aqua Allegoria line as an entry level for Guerlainophile wannabes. Compared with the house's megalith...

Most of you are familiar with Mathilde Laurent through her early work at Guerlain, when as a young graduate of ISIPCA, under the aegis of Je...

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

by guest writer Mike Perez I have been a fan of fragrances with mint, for quite some time now. Mint is prominently featured in many men’s fr...

Why would a legend need modernising? Why would anyone take a mythical perfume such as Shalimar and create lighter versions of it? The ans...