Perfume Images & Adverts Archives

©The Scented Salamander This picture was taken a couple of weeks ago when the light was more juvenile and fresh. You can really feel the chlorophylle in the leaves. The church is Saint Sulpice. ...

©The Scented SalamanderA lovely avalanche of roses as you get out of the subway station at Passy. A lady carrying a green potted plant. Still more plants needed. Two years later, this shrub of frothy climbing roses is no more,...

Trees atop a building in Paris. Palm trees add a Californian touch. Modern day urban Babylon gardens. ...

An alternate view of the Ranelagh garden in Paris from one of its main alleys....

A view of the 18th century Ranelagh garden in Paris which today corresponds to a 19th century mapping by Baron Haussmann... ...

Happy Fragrant May Day to The Scented Salamander Readers, from Paris! Are you wearing a muguet perfume today? My latest olfactory thought on the subject is: nothing compares to the real scent of lily of the valley. It's quite...

An island of a Romantic garden in Paris, behind the Grand Palais. Ruins, eplored stony white silhouettes veiled in green moss, wayward vegetation, climbing ivy, feathery plumes of green, dots of vivid floral colors. A contrasted and layered landscape. ...

  Photographic pictures of flowers are particularly moving in their added quality of frailty and transiency, I think. It seems as if looking at a bouquet of flowers in a photograph serves to underline better the inescapable passing of...

If you can't go to the mountain, the mountain will come to you, or so it seems with modern technology allowing you to contemplate cherry blossoms in bloom thanks to EarthCam and more particularly the helpful "Cherry Blossom Cam"...

I spotted this lovely Art Nouveau work of a Florentine iris motif on the cast iron gate painted bluish green of an Italian food store selling fresh pasta in Paris... ...

This photo is excerpted from the book Twilight of the Romanovs. The olfactory pretext is a little thin although please note the potted flower arrangements in the center of the table. We love this very atmospheric picture. Perfume has...

We found this amusing French postcard from a bygone era on the Bay. A woman receives a parcel labeled "perfumery" in French and instead of a perfume bottle finds a redolent fish. The missive is dated 1902. Have a...

Adweek decided to bite the bullet and tell what's what. You might not agree with everything they say but at least it's an attempt to look more closely at the evolutions of the celebrity fragrance market. In a way...

After announcing the new perfume by pin-up and "burlesque queen" Dita Von Teese yesterday, here is the advert for FleurTeese in which the celebrity is dressed in a 1950s vintage purple and white floral print dress, her nails done in a...