There are few things I appreciate more than stumbling upon a clever word play which intrigues my mind and excites my hopes for something u...

Maybe the most unexpected in the line Power by Kenzo is Kenzo World Power , a woody aromatic fragrance for women launched in 2019. Although ...

Bottega Veneta Eau de Velours from 2017, with a seductive name that evokes caresses with the softest materials, is a lasting, worthwhile sp...

Paco Rabanne has been the green giant looming on the bath sill of many a bathroom in my country of origin in the 1970s and 1980s. This class...

Using as fine fragrance the equivalent of ecclesiastic incense of the Catholic variety, marvelously assimilated in Avignon by Comme de Garço...

"Sexy as hell" is what our Hellenic readers hail this cologne as. An enthusiastic endorsement from people who do actually enjoy a ...

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

Far from the crowd pleasing orientalism of Benjoin 19 (Le Labo's Moscow "city exclusive") which I had reviewed for Fragranti...

The shady, cloistered Cour Mirabeau in Aix-en-Provence hides a treasure trove of small cafes to challenge even Athens. But it is the seeming...

Composed by perfumer Olivia Giacobetti exactly 20 years ago in 1994, Premier Figuier still remains one of the very best out there, conjuring...

Essence of a dream, that is  Extrait de songe ,  was the very poetic name of a limited edition “clean”perfume for summer 2005 by L’artisan ...

Andrée Putman's fragrance is not easy to review, exactly because it eschews traditional classification, much like the acclaimed designe...

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

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...

Songe d' un Bois d'Été is perfumer Thierry Wasser's offer to the chthonian deities, a prophylactic philter for safekeeping from ...

Thanks to its pliability, which fits like a glove many diverse compositions of different fragrance families, or thanks to its diffusiveness ...

If Calèche encapsulates perfumer Guy Robert's idea of a great taste feminine perfume, then Équipage is his idea of the perfect mascu...

There is an eerie feeling upon coming across a ghost town, the very cinematic experience of bypassing a highway into a smaller, abandonded ...