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

One of the few and far in between fragrances composed by Françoise Caron for Oriflame (as per the company's official info), Mirage had t...

IFF and Unilever Launch Partnership to Improve the Lives of Vetiver Farming Communities in Haiti Collaboration with Oxfam Great Br...

You emptied the soapy suds onto the polished wooden floorboards by accident, knocking the full bucket in one tug of the broom. The planks go...

Maison Berdoues is well known for their classic violet fragrance, Violettes de Toulouse, as de rigeur retro as a finicky collector would de...

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...

This coming September star perfumer Francis Kurkdjian is launching a duet of scents, Feminin and Masculin in Les Pluriels, for his eponymou...

Coriandre by Jean Couturier first piqued my interest when I read Susan Irvine's description of it: "fit for a red headed Raymond C...

Sammarco is an artisanal line based in Appenzel, Switzerland, founded by Giovanni Sammarco, a genuine lover of fine perfume and premium qua...

What took Le Labo a couple of years to go from announcing Cuir 28 to actually launching it? It's as yet undivulged. Smelling the recen...

One of my better English teachers was a longtime resident of San Francisco; in fact she had met her husband in the City by the Bay, which, g...

It had been ages since I had last smelled the refined herbal, acrid top notes of Acqua di Parma's cologne, atavistically named Colonia...

Incense has long been not only one of the badges of niche perfumery, but also one of my own personal hot buttons, so it sounds both logical ...

~ by guest writer AlbertCAN  This is my tenth year, in various capacities, within the fragrance industry. One does not come this far witho...

Yes, this is my copy of Bois d’Iris—right up to the obtuse notch on the top left corner of the box upon yours truly’s overzealous unwrapping...

"A gentleman is simply a patient wolf." ~Lana Turner William Thackeray, who knew a thing or two about snobs, wrote in Vanity Fa...