Bvlgari Omnia & AQVA Iconic Miniature CollectionUnisex Edt SetReflecting the brand?s commitment to excellence, this new Bvlgari seven piece miniature ...
In the vast universe of perfumery, there are creations that transcend the mere act of perfuming the skin to become authentic artistic expression ...
In the realm of perfumery, there exists a fragrance that transcends mere scent, weaving an enchanting tale of elegance, luxury, and sophistication. Th ...
In the vast world of perfumery, few creations manage to capture the very essence of nature with the same mastery as Narciso Rodriguez For Him Vetiver ...
Our ?Recommend Me a Perfume? thread is open this week. You can use this space to find perfume recommendations, to share your discoveries and favorite ...
Despite a persistent belief that perfumers aim to imitate nature, fragrance is about a fantasy. So looking for the exact smell of a rose in a bottle i ...
As I was updating my ISIPCA course and preparing my new spring seminars, I tried a selection of new launches, some of which seemed interesting enough ...
Spring is not spring for me unless it has hyacinths. I buy the forced bulbs and leave them around the apartment to wait for the moment when the flower ...
Update: the dates for the classes in my Brussels studio are now available. Please take a look below. It’s been such a pleasure to teach my onlin ...
To inspire those of you who will be taking my Osmanthus classes. Once the weather turns cool in Tokyo, a sweet perfume fills its streets. It escapes f ...
It?s almost the sakura season here in Brussels. While sakura blossoms don’t have much fragrance, their petals and leaves contain coumarin, which ...
Whenever I browse the accessories racks in vintage shops, I furtively sneak a whiff of the leather purses. They are always full of surprises, these ol ...
“I will bring you cassie, if you still enjoy its perfume,” wrote French novelist Prosper Mérimée in Lettres à une inconnue (Letters to ...
Our ?Recommend Me a Perfume? thread is open this week. You can use this space to find perfume recommendations, to share your discoveries and favorite ...
Mimosa, violet, jasmine, incense. Our spring classes will cover different aspects of perfumery, so you have lots of choice. We will talk about the fun ...
Today have a wonderful giveaway made possible by Bois de Jasmin’s reader Tamara. She would like to give away a nearly full bottle of vintage Mis ...
Snow Mountain Pai Hao black tea (Trà Shan Tuy?t Pái h?o) is a rare tea variety harvested from 300-year old tea trees in the central Vietnamese provi ...
“Bush warblers start singing in the mountains.” This is the name of the current season, according to the traditional Japanese calendar. Th ...
I was recently having dinner with a friend at Le Soufflé, a restaurant in Paris specializing in the iconic French dish comprising little more than eg ...
Our ?Recommend Me a Perfume? thread is open this week. You can use this space to find perfume recommendations, to share your discoveries and favorite ...
The scent of sandalwood is glorious–creamy, velvety, with a rich rose nuance. It’s as if wood shavings had been steeped in rose liqueur an ...
With the holidays behind us and still too many winter days ahead, it’s important to find ways to add a splash of color to the grey, cold morning ...
?Bring, bring that musk-scented wine! That wine is the key to joy, and it must be mine? that wine is the key that will open wide the door to the treas ...
These winter days are cold and grey, and I would like to light them up with scents. So I propose a new perfume winter training schedule. Rose, Orange ...
I’ve always heard while working in the perfume industry that the incidence of brain-degenerative diseases among perfumers is fairly low. Given t ...
A few years ago, I wrote an article about winter fragrances for the Financial Times. I enjoyed working on that piece and I still like rereading it, bu ...
Happy 2024 to my readers and friends! I wish you many wonderful experiences, health and success. Above all, I wish that 2024 will be a more peaceful y ...
I’m always reluctant to sum up the year, especially one as complicated as 2023. We all read the news and we know that the world is in a terrible ...
Merry Christmas! Warm wishes to you this holiday season. Our ?Recommend Me a Perfume? thread is open this week. You can use this space to find perfume ...
I’m immensely grateful to all of you for your support and kind words about my book The Rooster House. I’ve received many warm letters and ...
Update: I have a last-minute opening in the Citrus workshop on Wednesday. You don?t need any essential oils for that class, just citrus fruit and easy ...
Any style rule stated too categorically is circumspect?don?t pair black and navy, avoid mixing prints, or hide colognes away till the summer. The last ...
Since many of my readers are avid tea drinkers, I decided to start my 2023 holiday gift guide with a selection of my favorite tea stores. Once I made ...
I’ve discovered my passion for teaching early in my career. As a political science and perfumery student, I’ve taught introductory courses ...
?What makes a perfume beautiful"? I pose a question to Maurice Roucel knowing fully well that it is a complicated question to answer. Roucel is a ...
Our ?Recommend Me a Perfume? thread is open this week. You can use this space to find perfume recommendations, to share your discoveries and favorite ...
I was preparing the materials for my ISIPCA lectures when I remembered a wonderful series of articles that the Osmothèque kindly made available to me ...
Napoleon Bonaparte is said to have used liters of cologne. While exiled on St. Helena, his servant Mameluke Ali created a blend that approximated the ...
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone celebrating! The combination of rose and black tea is gorgeous–the honeyed, citrusy note of rosewater complements ...
I’m delighted to share that I have joined ISIPCA and I will teach a Perfume History course starting this fall. ISIPCA (Institut supérieur inter ...
I?m delighted to share that my book The Rooster House was selected among ?The Best Books of 2023? by Waterstones. I?m grateful for this recognition a ...
Today have a generous giveaway courtesy of Bois de Jasmin’s reader Valerie. She would like to give away a 1/2 full bottle of Guerlain Chamade ex ...
Our ?Recommend Me a Perfume? thread is open this week. You can use this space to find perfume recommendations, to share your discoveries and favorite ...
I already shared that I will be visiting Germany to speak about Ukraine and my book The Rooster House. I also would like to ask you for your recommend ...
One of the most interesting principles in Japanese garden design is the idea of borrowed scenery, shakkei. Using existing landscape elements?distant m ...
I will be in Germany from October 18th to 26th teaching a writing seminar and talking about Ukraine and my book The Rooster House. I will be visiting ...
I prepared a different article for today over the weekend, but when I spoke with my cousin in Israel and learned some of her friends ended up among th ...
The news of another Russian attack shook me, because it touched Kharkiv and claimed more than 50 lives. I couldn’t read the news without breakin ...
I often receive letters from women explaining that they feel guilty about their interest in perfume, because it?s ?too indulgent? or ?unnecessary ...
I’m happy to share that I will be presenting my book, The Rooster House, during the Frankfurt Book Fair 2023, the largest book fair in the world ...
If you?ve ever wondered what ?solar musk,? ?lunar petals? or ?electric vanilla? smell like, you aren?t alone. Fragrance marketing lingo is in a world ...
Today have a generous giveaway courtesy of Bois de Jasmin’s reader John. He would like to give away a nearly full bottle of Serge Lutens La Myrr ...
The colors of Kateryna Bilokur (1900-1961). Born into a peasant family, she learned painting on her own. Her family thought that she brought shame on ...
Eau de cologne, eau de toilette, eau de parfum, extrait de parfum. What do these terms mean" Open any perfume book, and I guarantee that you will ...
I’m participating in the Hay Festival Querétaro 2023 and I have two events, during which I will present my book, The Rooster House, and talk ab ...
Today have a generous giveaway courtesy of Bois de Jasmin’s reader Carla. She would like to give away a nearly full bottle of Chanel Gardenia ED ...
Our ?Recommend Me a Perfume? thread is open this week. You can use this space to find perfume recommendations, to share your discoveries and favorite ...
Perfume wearers and boats have more in common than one might reasonably suspect. Sillage (pronounced as see-yazh) is a French word that means ?wake?, ...
What a beautiful fragrance do sweet peas have! Until I grew these flowers in my garden, I didn’t realize the full dimensions of their scent. In ...
Marie Kondo, the author of the best-selling book ?The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up,? suggests that only items that spark joy should be kept aroun ...
Bitterness is usually to be avoided. We take easily to sweet flavors and scents, but it takes time to get used to the bitter ones. Yet, I find them mo ...
This year I once again couldn?t go to Ukraine. I miss my family, but I also miss our garden in Bereh. Over the years that I have been visiting my gran ...
I’m participating in the Edinburgh International Book Festival this year, and I hope to meet some of you there. I will be in conversation with t ...
The tonka bean, one of my favorite ingredients looks unprepossessing?a shriveled black pod covered with suspicious white bloom. However, its scent of ...
My book The Rooster House was selected as “Book of the Week” by BBC Radio 4. In anticipation, my book is featured twice in their latest is ...
Spend a day in Catania, a baroque jewel on the east coast of Sicily, and you will understand why Boudoir 36, an artisanal perfume boutique, is such a ...
Our ?Recommend Me a Perfume? thread is open this week. You can use this space to find perfume recommendations, to share your discoveries and favorite ...
I was enchanted by the premise of ?Grandmas Project? as soon as I read about it in the New York Times. It is a web series in which film directors docu ...
I was saddened to learn that perfumer Olivier Pescheux passed away on July 10 in Paris after battling a long illness. He was only 57 years old, too yo ...
On Thursday, Russia launched a missile attack on Lviv, a city in western Ukraine, about 60 km from the Polish border. A jewel of Renaissance art, Lviv ...
I spent much of last year traveling and researching the way spices and other aromatics are grown. My pursuit took me to the clove gardens in Indonesia ...
I’m delighted to share that my book The Rooster House is now available in the USA and Canada. It has been released by Abrams Press on June 27th ...
Our ?Recommend Me a Perfume? thread is open this week. You can use this space to find perfume recommendations, to share your discoveries and favorite ...
When the Hermessence collection was first launched in 2004, it was conceived as an olfactory haiku?a few subtle details combined to create a complex i ...
Today I would like to introduce you to a fascinating blog called Asian Markets of Philadelphia. Written by David Dettmann, it’s a treasure trov ...
?Would you like to try butterfly pea flower tea"? asked a friend as we were getting ready to order drinks at a small restaurant in Georgetown. Af ...
Once again the news from Kakhova and the Kherson region are terrible. Russia bombarded the Kakhovka dam and water from the Dnieper River flooded the r ...
Another Ukrainian summer I will miss. I planted a few flowers and herbs that my grandmother always hand in her garden, such as marigolds, tagettes, ho ...
Today’s article is written by Joan Ramirez, an ESL educator and author. Right now she is writing a historical suspense series that begins in occ ...
My great-grandmother Asya believed that art healed and her collection of embroideries and lace was a testament to her need to create something beautif ...
Our ?Recommend Me a Perfume? thread is open this week. You can use this space to find perfume recommendations, to share your discoveries and favorite ...
My book The Rooster House was published yesterday by Virago Press. It’s being released during a trying time for my country. Even though its stor ...
A few days ago I was going through some old photos when I came across this image of my mother and me taken in our apartment in Kyiv. I must have been ...
This summer I will will be in Bulgaria exploring its lavender plantations from June 26th to June 30th, 2023. I?m partnering with Silvia Yonkova of Ros ...
The last time I was in Venice, the water level rose precariously leaving me with no choice but to stay on the balcony of my hotel. It was a disquietin ...
Today have a generous giveaway courtesy of Bois de Jasmin’s reader Lori. She would like to give away a nearly full bottle of L’Artisan Par ...
Happy May Day! I’m writing with a bouquet of lily of the valley on my desk, and although today is rainy and overcast, the delicate sweet scent o ...
Our ?Recommend Me a Perfume? thread is open this week. You can use this space to find perfume recommendations, to share your discoveries and favorite ...
It was a few days before Easter when I arrived in Ukraine in 2014 to stay with my grandmother, Valentina. Taking advantage of being together for the f ...
Stepping inside the Princess of Wales Conservatory during Kew Gardens? annual orchid festival?it usually runs from February to March?is a chance to di ...
Endless fields of lavender. The scents of flowers and spice. The generous warmth of the summer sun. We will be in Bulgaria exploring its lavender plan ...
I started this morning with a stroll through a bluebell forest, continued to a Japanese peony orchard, and got lost in an Italian garden before fallin ...
?A paean to hope and home, written with such gentleness and deep adherence to emotional truth that to me its words become a fierceness to cast against ...
I am a recent convert to the pleasure of a scented body cream. I used to think that a plain lotion was sufficient, and as for fragrance, I could alway ...
