Chanel often comes to mind when we talk about festive occasion drenched in champagne, if only because of the reputation of aldehydes being f...

  It doesn't matter that Dior Homme is everywhere, either in one of its -many- versions, or in some copy of it from another brand. It ...

  Chanel No.5 L'Eau , endorsed by the debutantes of the Chinese press, has been hailed as an innovation, but it's really "new o...

It's hard to go wrong with an aromatic fougere; men have been conditioned to opt for them and women to respond to them as "the natu...

We've all been brought up in the legend of Chanel No.5 . Books have been written about it , it topped best-selling lists and the rumor t...

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

"Preferences change. In the 1990s, people wanted a very light fragrance. Today that’s not the case. There are now so many heady scent...

The fragrance line Les Exclusifs by Chanel has been having its ups and downs through the years, but it has always appealed to customers who ...

Launching October 2014, the release of the new haute parfumerie collection celebrates the new modern direction of the MUGLER fashion house ...

Do ballerinas secretly stuff their lithe forms with cherry-pie flavored cupcakes? If models routinely consume tissue paper in order to satia...

The upcoming Lancome fragrance, La Vie Est Belle ( i.e. Life is Beautiful ), is exactly the kind of perfume we dedicated perfumephiles love...

I sometimes wonder what would happen if the art of fragrance naming is asked to be, as the French would put it, en clair ―to speak in plain ...

"Fit for nuns and virgins" is as enticing a description of fragrance [1] for some of us as talking of a scent weaving a web of se...

A while ago we had been thrilled by the choice of Charlotte Gainsbourg , shot by Steven Meisel, as the new face of the upcoming Balenciaga s...

"Beluga" in most people’s minds is tied to caviar associations, the richest and costliest variety actually, yet not the one on top...