Chanel No.5 L'Eau , endorsed by the debutantes of the Chinese press, has been hailed as an innovation, but it's really "new o...

Kilian's Moonlight in Heaven is a fragrance I had my eye on for at least a year, nay, more! I took the opportunity to try it out in sto...

Now that perfumer Christine Nagel is at the helm of Hermès, looking back on her work for various brands reveals her core aesthetics; at once...

The problem with the term "charnelle" (carnal in French) for Anglo-speaking audiences persists after the online mocking of Guerlai...

To celebrate 25 years in business, niche fragrance brand Parfums de Nicolaï is launching Musc Monoï, inspired by the scent of Ambre Solaire...

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

Ylang 49 , newly launched by Le Labo this summer, is more treacherous to its assumed floral disposition and deceptively crepuscular: like ...

Hiram Green is no newcomer to perfume, though his site would suggest otherwise, touting Moon Bloom as their "debut fragrance". Sim...

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...

Some perfumes the minute you put them on feel like you've slipped into a pair of black satin slingbacks or a silk peignoir in ivory. Osc...

From the noontide sun depart Here belov'd awhile repose And the murmurings of my heart Let me tenderly disclose, to my forest rose.[...

Does the mental association of airheads frying on the beach to attain a lizard-worthy tan, replete with tons of sweet oily stuff smeared wit...

You might have heard that Loretta, the newest fragrant baby arising from the collaboration of perfumer Andy Tauer & film-maker Brian ...

A warm, sandy beach...soaking up the rays, you rest sprawled in a deckchair, your hand hanging down in the shadowy spot beneath it, idly car...

~You let yourself be impressed by that sailor with the pierced ear? ~But no... Caïn to Pandora Groosvenore (nicknamed " bijou romantiqu...

"Poor man's jasmine" isn't quite the enthralling description, is it? And yet this is how Ylang-Ylang (pronounced "ee-...