February 28, 2015
marketing will get the consumer to the retail counter but it’s the scent itself that will bring them back for a second purchase
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February 27, 2015
While Sweet is not breaking any new ground particularly, it shakes its fairy-tale booty with chic c’est freak allure
Read More...You know that place between sleep and awake, that place where you still remember dreaming? That’s where I’ll always love you” -Peter Pan
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February 26, 2015
Cilice provides a very smooth-talking and sinful option for those willing to throw off their vows and be tempted.
Read More...John Pegg is a busy boy. Now we have something new for spring 2015, a scrumptious trembling gourmand called Unforsaken.
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February 25, 2015
Maison Nicolas de Barry recreates famous (infamous) characters since 2003 A fascinating scenting of history
Read More...Fragrances of the World isregarded as the ‘bible’ of perfumery, independent and impartial, unsurpassed in both its research and scope
Read More...Bed of Roses was inspired by “… sleeping on scattered Wild Rose petals after all day oceanside harvests…”
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February 24, 2015
Misia is an absolute masterpiece. Welcome to Chanel, M Olivier Polge.
Read More...It was not love at first sight with Douce Amère, yet I was determined to make a friend of this perfume
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February 23, 2015
Franz Klein said that art is the careful taming of an accident. I am constantly training my nose so I’ll recognize accidents when they occur
Read More...With Gentlewoman, I wanted to give women a dash of dandy. A composition conceived like an eau de Cologne
Read More...Somehow Sybarite is the inside of a Louis Vuitton steamer trunk- bought for Audrey Hepburn and ready to be filled for a sea voyage
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February 22, 2015
She Came to Stay, the debut fragrance by British perfumer Timothy Han is based on the novel by Simone de Beauvoir (1943
Read More...Held at Back Label Wine Merchants located at 111 West 20th Street in the heart of Chelsea, the store has gained a wonderful reputation
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February 21, 2015
The last in our triptych on Patchouli: Le Labo 24, Patchouli Imperial, perhaps Patchouliful my favourite.
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February 20, 2015
The old classic perfume Tabu by Jean Charles in 1932 is still to this day worked with in Peruvian San Pedro cactus shamanry, and perfumerismo practice
Read More...In composing Rose Privée, Stephanie Bakouche has learned well from Bertrand Duchaufour’s ability to create harmony from duality
Read More...This review will let the world know I am officially done with winter this year. I’m hoping a great perfume can airlift me out of the frozen streets and elevate my mood.
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February 18, 2015
When I use this incense, I feel like *I* am the sacrifice, *I* am the prayer…..it’s a profound experience.”
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February 17, 2015
DIVINE Parfums L’Être Aimé Femme is a fragrance that takes you on a surreal voyage of lucid dreaming and astral travel
Read More...NOVA’s mission is to make beautiful, one of a kind products using high quality materials
Read More...In fact the more I wore it, the more my mind wandered through a set of Cordon Bleu Cookery Course magazines my mother had from the 70s
Read More...The Bloody Chamber is a collection of short fiction of 10 rather adult fairy tales by Magic Realist and feminist British writer Angela Carte
Read More...if anyone wondered why a real rose, why natural perfume has more dedicated junkies than Breaking Bad: smell this
Read More...AEDES de VENUSTAS 5th fragrance is Pallisandre d’Or, a intricately woven fragrance carved of wood, balms and spices
Read More...Neela Vermeire and Bertrand Duchaufour continue their fragrant Journey with Pichola..named for Lake Pichola in Udaipur
Read More...Rarely do I come across a perfume house that I love so much that I instantly want to buy every single one of their fragrances
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February 14, 2015
The name Douce Amère means bittersweet. For once Serge Lutens the storyteller is not speaking in tongues.
Read More...Spring is vetiver- and the way the vetiver here warms is the morning, waking to the awareness of something you recognize: the dawn
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February 13, 2015
The perfect multisensory experience for valentine’s day : Chocolate, wine and perfume
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February 12, 2015
Mae West was a sex symbol, but most importantly was a blunt, independent woman who became an icon simply by being her wild self
Read More...Atelier Cologne has launched a fourth collection “Collection Azur” which will be sold exclusively at Sephora and at ateliercologne.com as of March, 2015
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February 11, 2015
The burning of sage and copal in sacred ceremonies and the use of perfume in South American Curanderismo practice are deep traditions within the America
Read More...Creative Director Celine Verleure introduces Panorama, a scentscape that captures the majestic view of The Sheats House
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February 10, 2015
JoAnne Bassett’s Sybarite is the inside of a Louis Vuitton steamer trunk- bought for Audrey Hepburn & ready for a voyage across the sea
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February 9, 2015
Atelier Cologne #sharethe love for Valentine’s Day… because a box of chocolates just isn’t the same
Read More...Emerald Moss is a perfume with which I would scent the world had I the capability- the very air of the Garden of Eden
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February 8, 2015
Perfumer Julia Zingalli of NOVA has been featured in many major magazines and is best known for her collaborations with prestige retailers.
Read More...I am also very influenced by ritual performance artist and throat singer Soriah from Portland, Oregon.
Read More...Wearing Le Maroc Pour Elle lovingly summons this spirit of languid days and nights spent under Morocco’s Sheltering Sky
Read More...Mandy Aftel has built a formidable botanical brand that is not only pleasing to the nose but to the eye
Read More...If a page from ‘The Bloody Chamber’ had a scent, it would smell of Vero Profumo Rubj in one of her many incarnations.
Read More...True Lust, Rayon Violet De Ses Yeux is a mash up of Dangerous Complicity by Violaine Collas (2012) and Putain de Palaces by Nathalie Feisthauer (2006)
Read More...Rarely do I come across a perfume house that I love so much that I instantly want to buy every single one of their fragrances
Read More...Perfumer Beckie Sheloske began her career in fragrance in 2009 She read books like Mandy Aftel’s “Essence and Alchemy”
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February 4, 2015
Sunday February 8, 2015, The 57th Annual Grammy Awards will be held at The Staples Center in L.A. The National Academy of Recording Art and Scientists vote on who were the most outstanding musicians of the year. LL Cool J returns for the 4th time to host. Just a bit of trivia; the record for […]
Read More...At the Crosby Hotel in Soho NYC, I had met with Stephanie Bakouche and previewed L’Artisan Parfumeur’s new Spring 2015 offerings
Read More...As I lived again with these two very different fragrances, I looked at the work of Rembrandt, the master of painting chiaroscuro
Read More...Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow yesterday and that means 6 more weeks of this weary winter; Daesin Spring Perfume is a great antidote
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February 2, 2015
To celebrate Atelier Colognes 5th Anniversary a 4th collection of fragrances will launch exclusively at Sephora and Atelier Boutiques/online
Read More...François Demachy at Dior has been quiet and consistently solid, producing and maintaining an elegant and tricky swathe of perfume
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February 1, 2015
I am also a musician and music, like scent tells the audience stories. Soriah, creates the same level of depth that I hope to bring with my perfume.
Read More...Lys Noir is as deeply wondrous, narcotic and secretly addictive as any hookah parlor or speakeasy from the decadent 1920s
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