There all is order and beauty, Luxury, peace, and pleasure. -Charles Baudelaire, L' invitation au voyage In the poem, Baudelaire inv...

Photo by Bianca Czarnock on behance , borrowed for educational purposes   Dior's Dolce Vita fetes its 30th anniversary this year, bein...

 Much of our information on the particularities of Sergey Diaghilev the man come from the many exhibitions and press catalogues which have b...

It's tough to do a good melon note, if only because in hindsight the overuse of Calone in the 1990s has tampered with our own perception...

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

I sometimes ask myself what does it say about a particular fragrance if I'm not even temped to seek out a sample of it, but eventually g...

Rose stands as a symbol of femininity, at least in the western world. Perfectly formed, delicately or more passionately hued, its scent comb...

Les Parfums de Rosine isn't removed from the romantic notion of fragrance as a pleasure, a smile, a memento to accompany the most beauti...

Reflecting on a classic fragrance which has inspired me into delving deeper into perfume history and appreciation, I can’t disregard L’Air d...

Composed in 1987, Aria by Missoni is predictably as big as a house. In the 1980s, you see, fragrances announced themselves from around the b...

For a lover of mimosa, spoiled on the honeyed powdery facets of Caron's Farnesiana or the cassie-rich musky-animalic meowing of Une Fleu...

K de Krizia by Italian designer Krizia is a fragrance like they don't build them anymore: a very classy aldehydic floral fragrance with...

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

What do you get when you cross-polinate a popular feminine theme from the early 90s with the desire to break away from the simplistic fruiti...