Since almost every perfumephile agrees on the trancedental character of Bois des Iles (Chanel) or the easy swagger of Tabac Blond (Caron) an...

Whenever I smell French Lime Blossom by Jo Malone my mind reels back to my childhood; to days sprinkled with insouciance, eyes open at the ...

Perfume Shrine has long worshipped at the altar of poet C.P.Cavafy. Sometimes it is just as well that he includes fragrant references in his...

Today I chose to include an adored poem that really depicts best of all just what the sacrifice of those tragic and noble 300 Spartans reall...

L’artisan’s new Fleur de Narcisse brought to my mind something I had read a long time ago. Joan Julliet Buck, editor of French Vogue , was...

What can one possibly say about this iconic perfume? What can one add to the tome upon tome of literature on the subject? Everything has bee...