Nudo con el calze rosse by Giuseppe De NittisI hope that you had a lovely Valentine's Day and that you celebrated in high or low style. A rose, a glass of wine, sweet words will do, at every opportune occasion...
18th century Muscadins - from "muschardin", a pastille perfumed with musk - are pre-dandy types, who were known for their predilection for perfume Musk Oils in the 18th and 19th Centuries - Scientific Discoveries & Industrialization The systematic quest...
Cinquième Sens (Fifth Sense) a Paris- and New-York-based perfume school open to all (not just professionals) who wish to take classes to train their sense of smell and knowledge of fragrance history and marketing (check out their website for a...
Elizabeth Taylor at the launch of White Diamonds at the Plaza Hotel in New York city in September 1991The market research group Euromonitor International published a list of the 9 best-selling fragrances in the celebrity category for the US in...
We are so used to representing to our selves the scents of babies as eminently desirable that the reaction to the idea of perfuming your little bundles of love can be one of incredulity or sarcasm. I remember years...
If you missed our previous posts, you can find them here: Part 1; Part 2; Part 3 Today, we feature Brent Leonesio of Smell Bent and D.S. & Durga. Both are newcomers to the scene of independent perfumery, with...
End of a fall day in Paris If you missed the previous installments, here they are: Part 1, Part 2 Today, we continue to follow the thoughts and experiments of Anya McCoy of Anya's Garden, peruse the fall perfume catalog...
How to Marry a Millionaire (1953) How to smell like you have gold ingots in the bank while keeping this idea as a hypothetical? Here is your shopping guide to smelling expensive. Some perfumes just smell like mink fur, and...
A view of Paris fall from last year. You can spot the French gardening principle right away: trees need to look tailored, like clothing. Isn't Paris the capital of fashion? The lines were so straight I had to make them...
North-American Originals: Perfumers on Fall & Winter You can read Part 2 here; Part 3; Part 4; Part 5 American perfumery is as varied as its landscape. One of its most notable traits is the fact that...
To help you out make that mad dash to the beauty and perfume counters for Halloween 09, here is what I think will help you prep in the most ghoulish yet stylish way and usher in The Moooood.Also, bonus, see...
Vertumnus by Arcimboldo, 1591 Here is a List of Fall Perfumes I compiled last year in the beginning of November 2008, which did not make it to the blog until now. I then felt an urge to wax poetically...