Originally released to coincide with the spring equinox and Nowruz (the Persian New Year), the intoxicating floral confection Musk Malabi by...

I'm starting with the really spectacular: We have a giveaway on Perfume Shrine, one winner will win TWO free perfume bottles of the newe...

The velvet feel of rose, the sweet nectar of jasmine, the tartness of raspberry...the human presence, felt subtly like the paws of furry ani...

Before we begin, here's the giveaway, courtesy of Mandy Aftel who will send the bottle to the winner: A 5 ml spray bottle of Aftelier Ha...

The Natural Perfumers Guild Celebrates it’s Fifth Anniversary June 1, 2011 with a Blogging Event and Membership Fee Discount. U...

Forget everything you might associate with vamps, vampires or New York City; Vamp à N Y by all naturals line Honoré des Prés is the perfect...

With the motto "be yourself, imitation is suicide" Jacqueline Clemens entered my consciousness as I received samples of her "...

In the season of thanks, I'm especially thankful for being part of a discourse on perfumery which takes diverse and interesting turns al...

Mandy Aftel is behind Aftelier, a niche brand of all natural perfumes which has a cult following. Mandy herself is considered a perfumery gu...

From niche, indie brand Aftelier, headed by Mandy Aftel, comes a new fragrance, Candide. Candide is a bright, uplifting floral, expressing ...

"The desire to smell good — without the aura of chemicals — did not seem to wane in the flop sweat of the recent economic panic. Ms. Mc...

The project by mischievously ~and fictiously~ named brand Honoré des Prés with perfumer Olivia Giacobetti at the stirring wheel is continuin...

"Just a drop on each wrist and two in the bath were enough to send silver running down the walls" wrote French Vogue editor Joan J...

O Marvel! a garden amidst the flames. My heart has become capable of every form: it is a pasture for gazelles and a convent for Christian mo...

When the well-trodden becomes anew there is reason for joy. If certain white flowers have always seem unatainable to you, if you found yours...

Essentially-Me.co.uk is an artisanal perfume company founded by Alec Lawless, whose book Artisan Perfumery or Led by the Nose we had revie...

Perfume books are diverse these days; it all depends on the axis taken when approaching the material: they can aim to be encyclopedic and ea...

Roxana of Roxana Illuminated Perfume makes some lovely botanical fragrances with which we have occupied ourselves on this venue before and ...

Your perfume wafts me thither like a wind; I see a harbour thronged with masts and sails. Still weary from the tumult of the gales, and with...