Kobako means "small box" in Japanese, as far as I know. But try adding a katana-blade symbol over the first "o," and it...

  Blue Silk , part of a flanker duet launched in 2018 by lingerie brand Agent Provocateur (the other being Lace Noir) is credited to Beverly...

 Many of the original scents created by William Penhaligon were modernized and re-introduced as part of the Anthology Collection. The compan...

A comrade of mine in fragrance said, taking the 2019 fragrance launches in retrospect, "In today’s world, chamomile will never be a ma...

Sandalwood comes with all the trappings of voluptuous legends told off the cargo ships coming from the Indian peninsula. The myth of the imp...

If travel-inspired fragrances usually hint at the region via their name mainly, then Assam of India corresponds to...India, naturally. As on...

Poor Jon Hamm had to smoke 74 herbal cigarettes in the pilot of Mad Men alone, such is our modern shunning of smoking, even more so on scre...

"Wow, this smells like…I've never smells anything like this" or "This doesn't smell like Dolce & Gabban's Lig...

The upcoming launch by the historic house of Guerlain is called Santal Royal and comes in a bottle in the style of their "Eau de lit&qu...

Ysatis remains among the most memorable perfume launches of my childhood, alongside Cacharel's Loulou , mainly due to the commercial th...

Husks of cardamom, crashed and fragrant, in my pocket. A window opening up to a vista of green pines overlooking the Mediterranean azure blu...

What do we know of India really? Its people say सत्यमेव जयते (i.e. truth alone triumphs), a motto inscribed in all local currency, but to o...

Frédéric Malle has a few tricks up his elegant sleeve for catering to jaded perfume lovers still. In a new project involving collaborating w...

The majestic scent of sandalwood stands as the benevolent Hitopadeśa tales of the Far East, a fan of fantasy woven in didactic morals for pr...

A new fragrance by Serge Lutens is always news on Perfume Shrine. In addition to the Paris exclusive  Lutens  Une Voix Noire which we announ...

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

La Vallée Bleue from 1943, smack between the Occupation of Paris and the turmoil of WWII, comes in a moment in history rich in intrigue, ra...

Should anyone were to purchase a masculine Chanel fragrance off the mainstream, department store circuit, Antaeus would top the list. Beyon...