When you pick up a new book by Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez and you discover that a review of a gardenia perfume begins with that familiar refrain of ‘Not…
The latest instalment of Sixty Second Scents features a release that made it onto my list of the best perfumes of 2017: Antoine Lie‘s Bruma for Trudon. You can watch…
Last Sunday I broadcast this year’s final episode of Love At First Scent – the 10th in the series – and I’ve now uploaded it to YouTube, so you can…
Here comes part 2 of the latest digest of my mini-reviews. For part 1, please click here. Bamboo Rose from Aerin (2017)* One of a trio of rose ‘colognes’ (which…
Here comes another Sixty Second Scents review: the new eau de toilette of Cartier‘s L’Envol, composed by Mathilde Laurent. To watch it on YouTube.com, please click here. Persolaise
For my latest dose of Sixty Second Scents, I’ve turned to the new release from Patricia De Nicolaï: Patchouli Sublime. You can watch the review above or directly on YouTube…
I’ve long considered Frederic Malle to run as close to a perfect perfume brand as we can get. Staggering compositions. Intelligent marketing. Genuine respect for customers. There’s very little that…
My teachers were right: perspective is everything. When you get close to Noir Anthracite (a flanker which, despite its name, shares few features with the original Noir from 2012) your…
Here’s another Sixty Second Scents video review for you: Sophia Grojsman‘s Outrageous for Frederic Malle, which has just come out of its exclusivity to Barneys and joined the brand’s regular…
Time for another YouTube review: this one’s for Amouage‘s Bracken Woman, composed by Karine Vinchon Spehner and Dorothée Piot, under the Creative Directorship of Christopher Chong. To view the video…
After allowing the range to remain fairly static for a while, the creative forces at Maison Margiela have taken an unexpected conceptual leap with their Replica scents: they’ve expanded it…
It’s not often that you catch Thierry Mugler on the back foot. In fact, as far as its fragrance range is concerned, I don’t think there’s ever been a time…
The soundbites If Baptême Du Feu were a piece of music it would be Metamorphosis One by Philip Glass. If it were an image, it would be a bright sari…
Today’s review takes the form of a conversation between the outgoing, in-house perfumer at Hermès, Jean-Claude Ellena, and his replacement, Christine Nagel. It is entirely fictional. Probably. — Christine Nagel…
What’s commendable about Bulgari‘s tea scents isn’t so much that they offer a literal representation of the smell of the drink – which, to varying degrees, they all do –…
Perfume is more than a smell. That’s the premise of the wonderful new book by Lizzie Ostrom, the unashamed scent aficionado whose alter ego, Odette Toilette, has provided London with…
Thierry Wasser has had the thankless task of creating flankers for classics such as Shalimar, L’Heure Bleue and Habit Rouge (could any other perfumery endeavour be more worthy of the…
I have written precisely nothing about the commercial phenomenon that is Paco Rabanne’s 1 Million, but the arrival of this new ‘Cologne’ version provides an opportunity to make amends. I…
He may not be prolific, but Michel Roudnitska must surely be one of the most fearless perfumers working today. With an apparent disdain for the path of least resistance, he…
…continued from yesterday’s post (click here to be taken to it) The latest entries from some of the more bling-tastic brands haven’t registered on my fragrance radar. I have sniffed…
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