The new year opens before us with the world of perfumes reflecting everything that concerns us in the rest of pop culture. From the world...

"Give him Madame Rochas . A few drops at a time."  ~New Yorker magazine vintage ad 27 November 1965 Madame Rochas was the s...

Few are the males ~and the masculine fragrances to accompany them~ that indulge into tipping their long toes (with a few stray hairs on them...

"It's the end of a myth, of an era," a Rochas spokesperson said of her death. "She was the muse of one of the great c...

Smooth-cheeked chaps have been the norm for more than half a century now and facial hair on men in the western world is considered either in...

There is a French expression "mettre en valeur" which roughly translates as to highlight, to draw attention to one's best feat...

The iconic summer fresh scent of Eau de Rochas is joined by a new flanker, Eau Sensuelle . Three years ago Reflets d’Eau de Rochas in femini...

Relating fragrances to the warm, cozy but also intimately erotic connotations of furs is a task almost too enjoyable to be entirely legal. S...

Surely you have heard the above dictum: "imitation is the sincerest form of flattery". It's actually a quote by Charles Caleb ...

Edmond Roudnitska Perfume Shrine embarked on a mission: to disect and discuss one of the bastions of chypre: la maison Dior in its fo...

Perfume Shrine has an eye for the visual as well as a nose for the olfactual, as has surely been apparent to our readers by now. In the inte...

There are times when I reflect upon a fragrance to realise that it has been painted by the brush of a rampant personality, bigger than life,...

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 ...