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Perfume Review of Serge Lutens La Fille de Berlin by Chantal-Hélène Wagner The first tonalities of the perfume are of ruby red petaly roses and earthy, dirt-like tones making you think of humid black soil, possibly graveyard dirt. Then...

I can say that it became all the more exciting to have read a bit about Dries Van Noten's biography after smelling the perfume created with him and for him by Frédéric Malle and realizing that pieces of the...

I am surmising that the reason why Lancôme called their new addition to their high-perfumery collection Maison Lancôme, L'Autre Ôud is that more than its promised uniqueness, it is their manner of stating elegantly and upfront, that this is...

Time flies! But what is it to a perfume like L'Aurora, which is inspired by an ancient Italian Renaissance recipe held for centuries in the books of HSH Prince Nicolo Boncompagni Ludovisi and committed to the Vatican secret archives...

Perfumer Jean-Claude Ellena seems to have reached a new level of maturity in his art as his penultimate perfume creation L'Ambre des Merveilles demonstrates (a new creation has recently been launched albeit so far in a limited fashion, Un...

Check out what the top-selling fragrance for women in France smells like

 The other day, I had some extra time to spend in-between two appointments, so I decided to swing by a hypermarché to take a look at the mass-market fragrance shelves. This is when I happened on a red tester, H...

 Korean Chrysanthemum Tea, "Gukwacha" via Wikipedia Blossom is part of the new Pacific Collection by Robert Piguet destined primarily, but not exclusively to the Asia-Pacific region and its predominant tastes.“This is the first time that Piguet has been introduced in Asia—with...

Oud by Robert Piguet is a veritable animalic fest. It seems almost too much to bear at first, before you decide that, well, no actually, you are changing your mind, and will have another helping of that excessive potion....

Femme Amazigh / Amazigh Woman by Emile Lecomte-Vernet, 1870 You could not mistake Belle au Parfum de Oud for anything but an Oriental. It plays upon a palette of deep, warm and coded notes as surely as an Orientalist...

Une Voix Noire is a dark and spicy gardenia, which could have been called « Black Gardenia », if deemed appropriate. But that would have been possibly un-PC. This is a composition signed by perfumer Christopher Sheldrake and artistic...

 Jeweler Charriol have released a new perfume inspired by a precious stone. After red ruby, come smell the blue sapphire. The result is very interesting. Not at all what one would have expected.  Not expected: a blast of Ethyl...

 Lady Gaga's debut juice Fame is such a let-down that we wanted first to vent about it on Twitter. Having to think in condensed 140-character form and wondering how best to express the disappointment provoked by what's contained in...

Diptyque Volutes is the most recent perfume composition by the French brand, about which we talked earlier on as a precursor in the field of what is commonly called today "niche perfumery" - the artier and more artisan-conscious branch...

We said yesterday how Coco Noir was by design a perfume meant to smell very good and to make you smell fabulous but deplored the abrupt ending of the sillage. A new twist in the personality of the fragrance was...