Allegedly when Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana were in the search for their first foray into perfumes, they took mods developed for them ...

In recent years we have seen an endless recycling of design, ideas, DIY tricks and products that reference the past, in a spin of retromania...

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

It's hard to bypass Angel by Thierry Mugler in the greater scheme of perfumery's historical progress , as it is truly seminal, a fo...

The heirs of the aristocratic perfume tradition of post-Middle-Ages Europe were precursors, innovators, pioneers who helped establish moder...

Lots of scents with heliotrope pose as "almond" or "marzipan" or "powder with tonka". These are all scents wit...

One day in 1635, Armand Jean du Plessis de Richelieu, commonly referred to as Le Cardinal Richelieu, sniffed his talisman of Eau de Meliss...

It is my great honor to be able to invite you in the latest project I have been involved in and which has occupied a lot of my time this pas...

Where does such a name come from? Time and loyalties made it familiar. But in 1961, it was nothing but a technical word for art specialist...

Just after World War II ended, Carmen de Tommaso, a French-born who originally studied architecture and interior design, opened a couture ho...

Like their modern day counterparts who become accustomed to the effluvium from a beloved, often recharged bottle of fragrance, the ancients ...

"A natural fragrance pervades the whole coast of Saba {i.e. South Yemen} because almost everything that excels in scent grows there unc...

Classical civilization thrives on this dichotomy of "the Dionysian and the Apollonian," of Bacchanal chaos and Sun God rational...

In what concerns the use of perfumes and fragrant unguents or fumigation rituals the path of choice lands us firmly on the land of the Phara...

When Aimé Guerlain created an extrait de parfum for use on the silk and linen handkerchiefs of the aristocracy and bourgeoisie in 1873 litt...

One of the delights of being a historian and a perfume writer is coming across excerpts which combine these two subjects. The Histories by H...

Bic pens are introducing a fragrance line (with various numbers right next to the "For Women" name to denote versions), as was br...

It's not uncommon that perfume newbies sometimes come across fragrances with the name "Guerlain" in their presentation and get...