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

People sometimes say things are not what they used to be, and in the case of fragrances, they're unequivocally right. Despite a certain ...

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...

To consider Cristalle by Chanel a predominantly "fresh" scent begs the question: which version of it? Contrary to some of the prev...

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 ...

Ylang 49 , newly launched by Le Labo this summer, is more treacherous to its assumed floral disposition and deceptively crepuscular: like ...

It had been ages since I had last smelled the refined herbal, acrid top notes of Acqua di Parma's cologne, atavistically named Colonia...

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...

There is a family of perfumes composed by the same brilliant perfumer: Aramis being the butch Godfather patriach, well behaved on the outsi...

"I have to say that green is the only color I understand. I can really frame it; I know how to work with it. I see other colors, and th...

When art history enchiridia are written they emphasise how Art Deco style covered almost every sphere of human life in the 1920s and 1930s: ...

Once upon a time women wore corselets & real silk chemises underneath their tailored dresses to work, painted their lips deep pink or co...

The Russian Leather theme (termed Cuir de Russie due to the invasion of the Francophones into the Russian diplomacy) was very popular at th...

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...

Few perfumes are entangled in such mythos and in such erroneous rumours as Mitsouko by Guerlain. Mysterious, balanced, sumptuous, it's ...