Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab, an American indie perfume label specializing in literature-inspired scents and "formulating body and household blends with a dark, romantic Gothic tone," have released Cohen v. California and Sordid & Unusual Activities in support of Banned...
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A 40th Anniversary Edition of Perfume by Süskind Gets a Christian Lacroix Makeover
Book collectors and perfume lovers alike can turn their attention to the 40th Anniversary Edition of the French edition of Perfume The Story of a Murderer, by German writer Patrick Süskind. Published by Le Livre de Poche at the...
New Book Looks at the Birth of the Modern French Fragrance Industry in the 19th Century {Fragrant Readings}
A new French book entitled "La fabrique des parfums : naissance d'une industrie de luxe" by Eugénie Briot looks at the birth of the modern fragrance industry in France in the last decades of the 19th century......
Perfumer Mathilde Laurent Pens a Book {Fragrance News} {Fragrant Reading}
In-house perfumer for the house of Cartier, Mathilde Laurent, has published a debut book in French entitled Un monde d'odeurs (A World of Smells)......
Fragrances of the World 2015 by Michael Edwards Release their Annual Vintage {Fragrance News} {Fragrant Reading}
© Courtesy picture Fragrances of the World 2015 by Michael Edwards is out in its 31st edition, a compendium of old and new perfume launches as available in the markets, indexed and classified with an aim to ease the...
Do You Need to Smell Good to Seduce? is New French Book by Scientist Roland Salesse {Fragrant Reading}
Last May 2014, was held a colloquium on Olfactive Creation, La Création Olfactive, at the Sorbonne university in Paris of which French agronomist, as well as molecular and cellular biology specialist Roland Salesse was one of the organizers and...
New Book on a Least Liked Flavour: Bitter {Fragrant Readings} {Fragrant Recipes & Taste Notes}
If currently sweetness in perfumery has become so popular as to give birth to a mega gourmand-fragrance movement - and maybe the reverse happened too - it might be a good idea to cultivate its reverse side, bitterness, by...
Jamie Lee Curtis Tells of Her Devotion to Oscar de la Renta Debut Perfume {Fragrant Reading} {Celebrity Perfume}
Jamie Lee Curtis will remain faithful to the spirit of Oscar till her dying day.
Thierry Wasser: "There are Zero Rules in Perfume - It's Empirical" {Fragrant Readings}
In a particularly free-thinking interview, Guerlain in-house perfumer Thierry Wasser reveals unknown sides to his personality - like his admittance that he's a 12-year-old really - as well as his idiosyncratic method for composing fragrances......
Perfumer Germaine Cellier in Vanity Fair this Month {Fragrant Readings}
Famous post WWII perfumer Germaine Cellier - the author of Robert Piguet Fracas - is featured in Vanity Fair France this month in a rare article written by her niece Martine Azoulai......
Plantes à Parfum by Serge Schall (2014) {Fragrant Reading - New Book}
Agronomist and garden specialist Serge Schall has released a new book devoted to plants which are used in perfumery entitled Plantes à Parfum......
Flowers for Fernando, a Short Olfactory Tale by Tom Ford {Fragrant Reading} {Perfume Images & Ads}
Tom Ford Took Some Time Off Daddy Duties...By Penning a Children's Tale for his Fashion Followers Designer Tom Ford has been less in the news since he's become a new dad - and that's understandable. He's however found...
Chandler Burr to Write Book on Dior Perfumes {Fragrance News} {Fragrant Reading}
As Dior are launching into an effort to offer deeper cultural credentials to their perfumes, more recently with an exhibition at the Grand Palais, it is of interest to note that the former critic of the New York Times...
Why it's Best not to Wear Perfume Nor Take the Pill when Looking for a Mate {Fragrant Reading}
Fine perfume might be more intellectual and spiritual in nature than instinctual after all. A few years back - in 2008 - there were a series of articles on olfaction and attraction shedding light on enduring sexual attraction thanks...
New Book on Coco Chanel in Russian {Fashion Notes} {Fragrant Reading}
Fashion history and criticism outside of politics might be a fairly new genre in Russia given the history of the country. Here's a 2013 book on Coco Chanel entitled simply transliterated Koko Shanel' by Bronuin Kosgreyv, a contibutor to Vogue...