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Jasmin-Immortelle-Neroli is the fruit of a limited-edition collaboration between L'Occitane x Pierre Hermé for Holidays 2015. The French pastry chef known for his variegated, dainty macarons hails from Alsace, a region which has encouraged the vocations of several top...

The form of Must is recognizable but now it's a very sweet, balmy, powdery floral with subtle green reminiscences of Panthère de Cartier - of the originator scent too of course, with its galbanum-inflected Oriental warmth. Must was composed...

Ambery Light - Une lumière ambrée © 2015 CHANT WAGNER Dead Reckoning an Amber Sillage while Crossing Paris - by CHANT WAGNER The other day, after devoting part of the day to memorializing the Paris Attack sites thanks to...

Sauvage edt by Dior opens on a prolonged and intense impression of white-hot freshness in the sense that light refracted on the white sands of the desert creates a representation of near intolerable heat. That visual was consciously chosen...

The latest launch by Sisley, Soir d'Orient, is said to be inspired by a childhood memory of co-founder Isabelle d'Ornano treasured from a time when she was visiting the gardens of the Alcatraz in Sevilla. d'Ornano was then struck...

Nijinsky © Chant Wagner Misia in the Les Exclusifs collection by Chanel is the latest creation by the fashion house for its exclusive range of scents, which is admittedly inspired more by style than fashion. For a monument of...

Noir Exquis Eau de Parfum by l'Artisan Parfumeur ≈ Perfume Review & Musings Noir Exquis is autumnal in its makeup, and this is explained by the fact that it leaves room for perfumer Bertrand Duchaufour's personal expressions rather than...

The new Bamboo by Gucci smells at first - you cannot help but think with some amusement - like how a greedy Panda might be perceiving his favorite bamboo shoots: it's sweet, vanillic and citrusy, which translates as a...

Some people are on a quest for the perfect, be-all and end-all gardenia perfume -and they are still looking. So, when I realized that Bodycology have a body mist called Pure White Gardenia (my bottle is bilingual and reads...

Alien oud Majestueux on the background of a Southeast Asian Buddhist Manuscript - Agarwood bark would be used to write manuscripts on. In Alien Oud Majestueux (Majestic Alien Oud), the signature of Alien is instantly recognizable. But now emerge...

Sofía is the debut fragrance of actress Sofia Vergara. It launched in 2014. She said then about the floriental composition created by perfumer Bruno Jovanovic of IFF that it bore the character of not only her personality but geographic...

L'Extase by Nina Ricci, signed by perfumer Francis Kurkdjian, who now has his own house but still works for the industry at large, is to my mind a study on the suggestive sensuality of the floral musk. It is...

A Social-Media Inspired Scent The opening of the new Modern Muse Le Rouge by Estée Lauder is crisp and green, soon followed by a sweet-vanilla meringue accord interrupting you in the middle of your musings as you think that,...

The Room to Welcome Guests Inside a Uzbek house, Samarkand region © 2002 Chant Wagner A Review of Hermès Poivre Samarcande by Chantal-Hélène "Chant" Wagner Poivre Samarcande by Hermès in the Hermessence series opens on a cuminey and cedarey...