The Baccarat "turtle" bottle has just been re-issued in precious few numbered bottles by Guerlain and Vogue Russia dedicates a cha...

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

It's easy to get immersed in the White Bear Problem while reading Clinique's laconic message for their newer fragrance Aromatics in ...

Few toiletry indulgences feel more decadently feminine than owning a fine goose down puff for applying face or body powder. Few rituals feel...

How can a strictly indoors smell, that of burning incense, so tied to wooden pegs and tight clusters of people, gain an outdoorsy veneer? Th...

I recall a particularly tough professor back in my University days demanded such hard-to-crack questions that one way to bypass embarrassmen...

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

The shady, cloistered Cour Mirabeau in Aix-en-Provence hides a treasure trove of small cafes to challenge even Athens. But it is the seeming...

If like me you have been searching for a Catherine Earnshaw kind of fragrance all your life, then the options haven't always been that p...

Much like the mysterious (and incestuous) half-sister in Leos Carax's   radical adaptation of   Melville' s Pierre: or, the Ambigu...

Reading there are two editions, one old, one new, by Cartier with the emblematic panther in the name, one is faced with an embarrassment of ...

Finding a composition that manages to bypass the ennui of too many generic " ouds " on the market is a relief (for a small sample ...

One could be excused for getting all dreamy eyed and nostalgic à la Nuovo Cinema Paradiso upon watching the latest commercial by Dolce &...

One of my preferred short stories in the canon by American author Edgar Allan Poe is William Wilson . Less popular than many of his more ...

Mon Parfum Cristal is the new release by niche perfume brand M.Micallef. The descriptions and the breakdown of notes (cinnamon, pink pepper,...

I'm overjoyed to be able to offer our readers a most generous giveaway today: two full bottles of the newly launched Wildbloom Rouge a...