Fragrant Readings Archives

I was a Shoplifter, movie poster from PaxarcanaPlease read Part 1: Stardust, Part 2: The Hunt, and Part 3: Jargon, if you missed themConfessions of an Ex-Fragrance Model by Guest Contributor Christina WarinnerPart 4: Special ClientsAt our store, we had...

Perfume Jargon by Jewel PhotographyConfessions of an Ex-Fragrance Model by Guest Contributor Christina WarinnerPlease read Part 1: Stardust and Part 2: The Hunt, if you've missed themPart 3: JargonThe trouble with the fragrance industry is that most of its jargon...

Pinball by BellabelinksyEver wondered what goes on in the mind of a fragrance model and what happens behind a perfume counter? Christina Warinner tells her story. See Part 1: Stardust, if you've missed it.Confessions of an Ex-Fragrance Model by guest...

The Women, 1939, by George Cukor via NicoramaToday, TSS brings to you the first part of a story in four installments, that of one time fragrance model Christina Warinner who is now engaged in vastly different pursuits, doing archaeological work...

Madame Figaro interviewed the co-president of Fragonard, Agnès Costa who directs the perfumery together with her sister Françoise. « Je ne suis pas un nez, mais je briefe la personne qui va créer le parfum et pour moi, la...

The New Straits Times has an interview with Camille Goutal, the co-creator of Annick Goutal perfumes with Isabelle Doyen.  “We never test perfume on people, we don’t do a market test. We don’t try to go against the trend,...

Two interviews with two major defining personalities of 20th and 21st century perfumery. Both are French yet their styles and sensibilities differ, some would say diametrally so. On this blog, we might have encouraged people to see a structural...

 Wallpaper loved the new Un Jardin Après La Mousson by Hermès and took the opportunity of the recent launch to ask in-house perfumer Jean-Claude Ellena some questions about his creative process........

1921 advert by Sem for Chanel No. 5 - Doesn't it say in a nutshell how ideal this perfume is? It floats in the sky and the élégante is looking up to it. "Mademoiselle Chanel et le parfum no. 5"...

 We know that many perfumistas will appreciate and savor the fact that an upcoming debut novel by Claudia Guadalupe Martinez bears as title the commonly bandied about disparaging expressions "old lady perfume" and "old lady smell" put together in...

There is a book that promises to be absolutely fascinating to read for people who pay attention to olfaction and about which I was reminded of by a thoughtful comment from reader Anita about form and function regarding perfume...

 In an interview in French with Cartier in-house perfumer Mathilde Laurent, the "nose" reveals how the process of customization of a perfume goes. The tab is pretty steep at 60 000 €.The perfumer talks about her transfer from Guerlain...

  Mimosa is one of the most delicate of floral scents, hard to capture in a fragrance. It is simply intoxicating to inhale its scent in the South of France during the winter mimosa festivals in places like Bormes Les...

 There is a nice interview with Jean Paul Gaultier in L'Express on the occasion of the launch of his Monsieur line of beauty products, including his first ever - reportedly this is how they present it - Eau de...