In September 1864, exactly 150 years ago, the Mary Celestia, a Civil War Blockade Runner sailing to Charleston, South Carolina, sank off the south shore of Bermuda. Lili Bermuda Perfumery have partnered with Drom Fragrances to reconstitute a 150...
Historical Fragrances Archives
WWII Leaders & Dictators Get Perfumed by Spanish TV {Fragrance News} {Historical Perfumes} {Celebrity Fragrances}
Spanish cable television Movistar TV have collaborated with perfumer Mónica Ceño and WWII expert Felipe Botaya to create an olfactory exhibition showcasing fragrances inspired by the lives and personalities of Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, Churchill, Roosevelt and Tōjō......
Legacy 1912 Titanic (2012) {New Perfume} {Historical Fragrances}
In 2007, an artifact exhibition took place about the Titanic at the Ontario Science Center which showcased a salvaged commercial sample of perfume once carried by Adolphe Saalfeld, a perfume-maker from Manchester in search of business opportunities in the New...
A Look at Louis Vuitton Perfumes Past {Historical Fragrances}
Louis Vuitton Perfumes in the Making Across the Decades As Louis Vuitton have announced plans for joining the fragrance business, anew, we thought it would be useful to offer a brief retrospective by taking a look at the perfumes...
Two Cleopatra Perfumes by Kanebo
Claudette Colbert in Cleopatra (1934) by Cecil B. DeMille: What to wear this morning? I can't concentrate with all these ladies in waiting swarming about me.Perfume history buffs will appreciate the effort put out by Japanese company Kanebo and in...
What Summer Perfumes Women in New York Wear {Historical Fragrances}
Elle.com has a feature on perfume streetwear conducted in the streets of New York City. LOL at the nod of approval for Princess by Vera Wang from the beauty editor "It's an oldie but a goodie": it was launched in...
HSH Prince Nicolo Boncompagni Ludovisi L'Aurora & Giove Nettuno Plutone (2009): Art, Love & Italy {New Perfumes} {Historic Fragrances}
HSH Prince Nicolò Boncompagni Ludovisi have released two debut perfumes which can be called new and ancient at the same time. The multi-secular family archives as well as the art of Villa Aurora in Rome the ancestral home of...
Maître Parfumeur et Gantier Louis XV, Marquise de Pompadour (2008) {New Perfumes} {Historical Fragrances}
Maître Parfumeur et Gantier have released two new compositions in their Parfums Historiques series. This time it is the era and glamor of La Cour Parfumée (The Perfumed Court) which is being paid homage to by perfumer Nicolas de Barry....
Maître Parfumeur & Gantier La Reine Margot (2007) {Perfume Review & Musings} {Historical Fragrance}
La Reine Margot (Queen Margot) by Maître Parfumeur et Gantier is a beautiful, even stupendous jasmine fragrance with a strong personality. The scent strikingly develops both a sophisticated and frank animalic character softened down and made to feel like...
Romea D'Ameor Collection - 7 Perfumes For 7 Legendary Women Types (2007) {New Fragrances} {Historical Perfumes}
Les Espionnes Du Tsar - (Lit. The Female Spies Of The Tsar ) December 1st of 2007 saw the release at the Galeries Lafayette of a collection of 7 perfumes inspired by legendary feminine types rather than famous personalities by...
Penhaligon's Hammam Bouquet (1872): Gentleman With A Rose {Perfume Review} {Historical Fragrance} {Smell-The-Roses-Till-Valentine's Day Challenge - Day 2}
Hammam Bouquet by Penhaligon's is a beautiful, intense rose perfume for men, which offers a primitivist charm, mainly due to the sheer energy unleashed by the otto of rose used in the scent, while being undeniably elegant at the...
Parfums 137 Nara 1869: New House, Unique Old Stories (2008) {New Fragrances} {Historical Perfumes}
Parfums 137 subtitled Jeux de Parfums (Perfume Games) is a new French perfume brand that proposes an interesting, both learned and playful serialized concept, that of introducing each semester a new range of three perfumes meant to be layered...
Napoléon à Sainte-Hélène: L'Authentique Eau de Cologne de l'Empereur by Cosmalia {Historical Fragrance}
Napoléon 1er is famously known for having been an Eau-de-Cologne junkie of the first magnitude. He would pour 60 bottles a month of the cologne introduced in France by Jean-Marie Farina on his shoulders and proceed with invigorating frictions,...