With Marian Bendeth, a conjurer of fragrances, who with sleight of hand and knowledgable intelligence guides us through the opaque landscape...

Valentine's Day might seem rather corny to you (and to me): after all, isn't the point in celebrating love every day? But the pleas...

Love is in the air and the perennial question on what constitutes a romantically attractive fragrance and just how scents are perceived by t...

We have been saying it among ourselves -and hearing it discussed in perfume circles- constantly recently: there are just too many launches....

Perfume Shrine loves to read. Loves to read all sorts of books. Especially those that have an inward afinity with what is not mentioned in e...

"Bob Rafelson's Black Widow with its good, flashy star-performances by Debra Winger and Theresa Russell, comes on with the seducti...

Regular Perfume Shriners will be a little shocked by this undoubtedly vulgar display of bold title and accompanying advertising image, but n...

How many times have you heard a story regarding the creation of a perfume and in the end realised it must be a fabrication? From the almost ...

In times such as ours every single matter that entails a minimum of two people has to make it through the media circuit and perfume is not a...

It might seem a silly question. And yet, it made me ponder a bit. Intrigued by gut response received upon casual comments on various fora an...

It’s always so gratifying to get samples from less known perfumers who put their heart into their perfume instead of marketing analysis and ...

If serious advertising were not enough, sometimes marketing teams play up on our conceptions about perfume in parody-style , satirizing our ...

Exploring the avenues of perfume advertising, especially in commercials to be viewed on TV, one shapes a particular assumption of how someth...

The issue of what differentiates female from male idiosyncrasies in general is complicated enough. In perfume terms the composition of diffe...

The issue of perfume advertisements arises from time to time, with mixed results. Usually it has to do with the shock value of something or ...