Tender Romance by Ralph LaurenWomen Edp Tester Launched in 2016, Ralph Lauren Tender Romance Eau de Parfum celebrates the sweet and gentle mome ...
L?Occitane will launch Cerisier Pastel Eau Légère, the brand’s annual spring cherry blossom fragrance. Last year’s model was Fleurs d ...
CK2 by Calvin KleinUnisex Edt TesterCalvin Klein Fragrances has just announced the global release of CK2, a new gender free fragrance, made for ...
Indie line Smell Bent has launched Tea House, a new fragrance... ...
Photo by Beata Cervin. You can read more here.It?s not that I?ve stopped wearing Miel de Bois, thick velvety chypres, or any old amber-vanilla-sandalw ...
Pierre Amédée Marcel-Béronneau, Parfum Caressant, circa 1897There?s a YouTube genre of videos called ?reactions?. People film themselves as they wa ...
Christian Dior photographed by Lord Snowdon, Anthony Armstrong-Jones, for Vogue 1957. Just a bit of a cultural and memory reboot.This has been on my m ...
Summer is the season for perfumed body powders. Sometimes it\'s for physical comfort, for other people it\'s the preference to go with something light ...
It\'s been two since I checked my perfume wearing statistics on Basenotes.net where I try to keep a somewhat accurate log of my daily scents. I confes ...
I\'ve been stuck writing this review for weeks. Many weeks. I bought my bottle of Guerlain Black Perfecto La Petite Robe Noire in Italy back in ear ...
This one comes to us from the "never say never" category of perfume picks. I think I\'ve mentioned before that I\'m having a gentle rose moment th ...
I will remember this winter as a time of searching for comfort as well as increased awareness. Two concepts that can be seen as contradicting. I prefe ...
I have an attitude when it comes to new perfume lines. It comes from a lifetime of sniffing and collecting fragrance, but mostly from blogging about i ...
Usually when I take a perfume for a test run I also compose the review in my head as I\'m going about my day. Once in awhile just as I\'m building the ...
The year was 2005 and people who love perfume had more places to visit on the Internet. Just as independent blogs provided more venues to discuss frag ...
The Parting of Lancelot and Guinevere, photo by Julia Margaret Cameron, 1874*The sample of Aftelier\'s Memento Mori has been sitting on the side table ...
My perfume picks this summer will focus on the here and now. Or mostly on the "here". Scents that evoke life in suburban New Jersey as I know it. The ...
I\'ve mentioned Aristoqrati by Moresque as one of my top perfume picks this spring, and true to that it\'s the perfume I\'ve been wearing the most ove ...
We usually go to Italy in the early fall around our anniversary, because that\'s where the Blond and I have spent our honeymoon. Three years ago we we ...
In this still place, remote from men,Sleeps Ossian, in the Narrow Glen;In this still place, where murmurs onBut one meek streamlet, only one:He sang o ...
The name Edward Bess is probably familiar to those interested in elegant makeup. In the early days of his eponymous line Edward himself used to man th ...
When it comes to iris perfumes my opinion is that more is more, and even that is barely enough. I\'ve already told you that I\'ve been hoarding the la ...
I realize that I\'m one flanker behind. Aromatics In Black was a 2015 release, followed by Aromatics Black Cherry last year. Prior to that Clinique ha ...
It\'s becoming a numbers game. How many of the year\'s over 1500 new perfume launches can we even get to smell given the 365 days a year, one nose, a ...
There\'s a lesson there for all of us in the fact that Sarah Jessica Parker didn\'t give up on perfume. The 2005 Lovely didn\'t resemble the very prec ...
The first time I wrote about Ilang Ivohibé by Pierre Guillaume of Parfumerie Generale was just before I got my first bottle of this perfume, as I ...
One way to cope with an oppressive heatwave is to perfume yourself with dignified summer colognes. There are all those beautiful classics such Acqua d ...
I\'ve stopped asking myself how many amber perfumes one needs about ten bottles ago. The deciding factor is rather simple: if I like it and feel the f ...
I had no idea I wanted (needed!) a bottle of Fleur de Fleurs, a Nina Ricci perfume from 1980 (via Nigel Groom, second edition) until I actually had on ...
Back in 2007 I made a comment about the newly-launched (back then) Infusion d\'Iris, saying that for pretty and easy going iris perfume we already hav ...
Or: Beyond Diorissimo and Apres l\'OndeeWe need some fun here. Between the weather that killed the magnolia and wisteria blossoms before they reached ...
The first time I\'ve smelled Mona di Orio\'s Oudh Osmanthus back in 2011 when it was still called simply "Oud", my reaction was "well, it\'s not ou ...
Sometimes a perfume arrives in your life at exactly when you need them. That was the case with the newest Aroma M Geisha perfume, Vanilla Hinoki. Perf ...
A friend who was combing through my various perfume lists happened upon this post from 2008, Twenty Five Top Perfumes You Can Actually Find. She had a ...
It\'s time for a quarterly evaluation of my "Most Worn" statistics as logged on Basenotes. Since my previous post I\'ve been more diligent in entering ...
Poor Bois de Turquie. It was launched in 2008 just around the time the North American distributor of Maitre Parfumeur et Gantier went AWOL or ou ...
Because one cannot wear Cadavre Exquis every day in a 90-degree weather.It\'s a good time to remember that Bruno Fazzolari has a special gift for hand ...
I\'m a sucker for Chanel No.5 paraphernalia. A hopeless sucker. Which reminds me that I\'ve just finished my most recent tub of body powder (must rect ...
The last theme I thought Serge Lutens would want to revisit is gingerbread. It seems like I\'m the only one who truly loved his 2008 Five O`Clock Au G ...
Art by Chris BuzelliMany things went through my head over the course of wearing Cadavre Exquis, the new limited edition perfume by Bruno Fazz ...
I\'ve heard from people who regularly forego regular perfumes in the heat of summer. For some it\'s a matter of sillage. I guess not everyone wants to ...
I started the day by posting about a $5 eye shadow primer, so it\'s fitting to end it with a much-requested list of perfume cheap thrills. Â The pro ...
Searching for inspiration or a clever idea to use in this post, I idly googled "books to read in autumn". I\'m not sure what I was expecting, but the ...
Eris is the Greek goddess of chaos, strife, and discord. Described by Homer in the Iliad:"Strife whose wrath is relentless, she is the sister an ...
One of my favorite things in the world is being at home on a rainy afternoon, the stormier the better, wrapped in a blanket with assorted cats, readin ...
My first order of business was trying to find out who or what is Coralina. It\'s a lovely name for either a perfume or an orange tabby, but I was inte ...
Here\'s something for the dog days of summer: a classic Guerlain eau. Eau de Fleur de Cedrat was originally launched in 1920, a year after Mitsouko ...
I didn\'t know anything about Nokomis by Coty when I picked a half full bottle at a random estate sale. To be honest, I barely remembered it ever exis ...
My original plan was to do a general overview of the entire Chabaud Maison de Parfum line, because all of a sudden I realize that there are about f ...
