Several authors have chosen to incorporate perfume in their fiction lately, some of which have been featured on Perfume Shrine before. The P...

More of a biographical mapping out of the discovery of a new career path and the richness with which it has gifted its author than a mainstr...

For the first time, an official Dior perfume-centered book is set to launch this September:  Dior Les Parfums (or " Dior The Perfumes ...

Fragrance expert, author, teacher and speaker Karen Gilbert demystifies the secretive world of perfumery in a new book,  Perfume, The Art &a...

In my -and many others'- mind, Italy has always stood as the archetypal bed for the blossoming of the arts: the country not only is a li...

Grace Munroe. Eva d'Orsey. One English and pampered into false security. The other French-countryside-born and exiled in New York, servi...

Mηδέν ἄγαν (i.e. nothing in excess)   ~oracular statement inscripted on the wall of the Delphi oracle in Greece, 440 BC "We have ex...

Don't let the seemingly elitist title deter you: Le Snob is a series of books on eclectic lifestyle little luxuries (whiskey, champagne...

Sometimes the readers have a pre-conceived notion about where a book is going—although I suppose Proustian reminiscence never involved hea...

Frédéric Malle ’s just presented his first book, On Perfume Making , to an enthusiastic reception at Barneys on Dec.6th, hosted by Uma Thurm...

Utter the names Luca Turin & Tania Sanchez and a combination of their polarising "Guide's", irrepresible wit and -equally ...

Partly a biography of Gabrielle Chanel (nicknamed Coco) and partly a biography of the famous perfume she co-authored, Chanel No. 5 , Til...