Part four in our eight-part series on fragrance related holiday gifts features various and sundry coffrets and gift sets. Do add any of your own recom ...
Bvlgari will launch Aqva Atlantique, a new fragrance for men. Aqva Atlantique is a flanker to 2005\'s Aqva Pour Homme, and follows 2014\'s Aqva Amara ...
Here we are then, at the very end of 2016. It feels, especially after the losses of George Michael, Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher, to name but a f ...
Not every perfume is a groundbreaking work of art. It?s best that way. Some fragrances earn their keep as supporting characters ? everyday auras that ...
Swedish beauty brands like Verso, Sachajuan, and L:A Bruket are percolating ? not to mention the groundbreaking success of Byredo, known for its mi ...
A beautiful day is a day of being introduced to a new marvelous perfume. A day off isn\'t always a cause for joy ? work Saturday! ? but a new perfu ...
With a collection of four new fragrances, Montblanc introduces four unique facets of its rich heritage of creativity and craftsmanship: from the birt ...
The hottest topic of recent years is artificial intelligence. It is used to create illustrations and videos, to create fragrances and texts. I think ...
I usually spend little time discussing projection and longevity when evaluating fragrance, as I find it more distracting than insightful into the m ...
French fashion house Courrèges has launched L?Eau Pâle, a new unisex fragrance... ...
Last year, Anna Sui launched L\'Amour Rose Saint-Tropez, a new green fruity floral flanker to 2016\'s L\'Amour Rose... ...
Anna Sui has launched Fantasia Rose, a new flanker to 2017\'s Fantasia... ...
Now, a study coauthored by researchers at the University of California, Davis provides insights into how plants ?smell.? By using a combination of gen ...
The beginning of the 21st century was a time of great advertising campaigns in the perfumery industry. Before we moved on to the current context of m ...
Part One: Scents in the Writer\'s Life Part Two: Madeleine and a Few Other Things ____________________________ Holiday, James Tissot, 1876 In Mar ...
At the Milan exhibition of art perfumery, ESXENCE 2024, French niche brand Jacques Fath presented a very interesting new perfume called Encens Copal ...
With global climate warming up incessantly, either due to man\'s laboriousness or the sun\'s phases influencing the weather, we have a dire need to f ...
Melbourne-based Aussie perfume brand Flâner launched its new perfume, Sonic Silver, in March 2024, inspired by \'tram tracks connecting city street ...
Crushed young linden leaves — milky, tart, reminiscent of overripe lemons Moist soil — pencil shavings, moss, steeped black tea, lingering ...
An interesting idea was proposed to Natalie Feistauer by the young French brand J\'Elle Bulan Parfums: to create a fragrance that would tell others a ...
This year, my selection of the best fragrances from Esxence is largely intended for men. If in mid-March, right after the exhibition, I was telling ...
Snif\'s Dead Dinosaur, composed by perfumer Ugo Charron, is a magnificent contemporary take on the aggressive, brittle, hazelnutty biker leather of ...
I\'m sure there were many wonderful fragrance releases beyond my selection at Esxence 2024, but perfumery is subjective by nature: we all choose sc ...
This week a genuine beauty is ready to give, but random events and strangers are trying to alter that amazing flow and spring of abundance (Pl ...
In 2020, Ali Raza founded niche perfume brand Mahdi Perfumes (named for his firstborn son) in Karachi, Pakistan. A lifelong lover of beautiful scen ...
Earlier this year, I dove into Rosarine, a fragrance that some of my lovely colleagues picked as the best perfume of 2023, and even I was excited abo ...
The French collection by Birkholz Perfume Manufacture at ESXENCE 2024. When discovering new niche brands, it is reasonable to expect something bey ...
Roland Barthes, a French essayist and philosopher, wrote a short essay in 1975 titled "Leaving the Movie Theater" ("En sortant du ci ...
I find Aquila Absolute to be a strange fragrance bordering on uneasy and nefarious in its slimy cloy of flowery fruit greased onto charred leather. I ...
Saturday is National Sense of Smell Day. We\'re celebrating all weekend long by smelling things and talking about them. (And, maybe, by trading thing ...
French ready-to-wear line Zadig & Voltaire has launched This is Her! Unchained, a new limited edition flanker to 2016\'s This is Her!... ...
Diptyque has just inaugurated a new space at 7 rue Duphot, in the heart of Paris. Halfway between a boutique and a cultural space, the "Maison D ...
This year, 25 years have passed since the launch of the Aqua Allegoria Guerlain collection. I remember reading how the collection was dedicated to th ...
For many scholars in the realm of perfumery, who dedicate not only their time but also their entire lives to research, testing, and experimentation ...