photo by Elena Vosnaki

photo by Elena Vosnaki photo by Elena Vosnaki photo by Elena Vosnaki photo by Elena Vosnaki These small pleasures amount to...

photo copyright by Elena Vosnaki Read my fragrance review of Christian Dior's Diorella on this link.

photo copyright Elena Vosnaki I cannot shake the impression that the task of scaling down, of attenuating the formula of Vetiver Orienta...

Photograph copyright by Elena Vosnaki     Chant d’Arômes does not aim to be a link in the Guerlain chain, but making a fresh, ever...

photo by Elena Vosnaki (copyright) Let this be a lesson on consuming liquid pleasure. 

Back when I bought almost each and every one Serge Lutens fragrance launch. I also have a few bell jars (subsequent post about those) and 2...

Alahine (2007) by Parfums Téo Cabanel literally smoulders in the guise of an ode to ylang ylang and amber, composed like a palimpsest of or...

Feast your eyes upon an authentic 18th century perfume cabinet. What would you put in there? Let me hear you! As seen on Chateau Thombeau .

Few niche fragrance lines today are as devoted to opulence as the Omani firm of Amouage founded in 1983. Rich, multi-nuanced baroque tapestr...

Why is it that leather fragrances often produce the effect Frau Blücher's name does to horses in Young Frankenstein ? Many otherwise acc...

Reflecting upon Grasse and the Côte d'Azur I find myself in an embarrassment of riches: Is it the Notre-Dame-de-Puy cathedral with its p...

Discovering the secret charms of the Riviera, never more attractive than during the fall of the last cool days into rampant warm spring, is ...

"Photographing a cake can be art" ~thus said Irving Penn, who is no longer with us. Photos I am on my Vacation 1944 and Rythm 1950...

I'll take communion with sea water, distilled from your body drop by drop, in an ancient copper cup from Algiers, as done by pirates of ...

2009 has been in many fragrant ways so far a marked year for Chanel, due to their 100th anniversary: what with the new Chanel No.5 campaign...