When Avon Called: Lemon Velvet and My First Fragrance Crush
The fragrance I yearned for was Avon Lemon Velvet, with its Peter Max-style graphics and implied promise of year-round California sunshine
Vivienne Westwood Boudoir (Martin Gras) 1998 “A Tribute”
Vivienne Westwood Boudoir (1998) is sweet, intensely floral and verges on the indecent. It will either charm you or repel you
Vintage Perfume Review: Coty Styx (Francois Coty) 1911 “Shadowy Chypre ”
Coty Styx released in 2011. is a deeply musky chypre-style perfume – ambery floral, shadowy, somber, and quite elegant.
Christian Dior Dior-Dior: Here’s to the Ladies Who Lunch
Edmond Roudnitska last perfume for Christian Dior, Dior Dior-Dior was a beautifully composed, aldehydic floral tinged with longing.
Vintage Hermès Eau d’Hermès Review (Edmond Roudnitska)1951 + Divinely Ribald Eau de Toilette Giveaway
Edmond Roudnistka composed Hermès Eau d’ Hermès in 1951, which is among the most polarizing perfumes ever created, and light-years ahead of its time.
Vintage Hermès Calèche Review (Guy Robert) 1961: Unstoppable Elegance
Hermès Calèche composed by Guy Robert in 1961 was among the brand’s first forays into feminine fragrance: an aldehydic floral chypre, a particular genre which appealed to the perfumer