I Smell Therefore I Am

Today is my Father’s birthday – happy Birthday Dad! There are so many mainstream department store perfumes that I mix up, confuse and barely...

Who knew? Hampton Sun’s Privet Bloom is a lovely Green (yes, green with a capital “G”) floral. I’ve been looking for a new green fragrance...

If you don't have a perfume buddy, a PBFF, I suggest you find one.  Most of us spend time on perfume blogs, I think, not just because we...

Kenzo Kashaya was created by Sophia Grojsman in 1994--the same year Cashmere Mist, Havana, G Gigli, Jaipur, CK One, and Iris Silver Mist ca...

Amouage Lyric Woman is stunning . I say this after being disappointed by Amouage Jubilation 25 and Amouage Dia. (I have yet to try Gold, b...

There's a certain logic, if not sense, to the complicated but efficient machinery behind most celebrity fragrances. After the marketin...

Most of us dislike the term, but I do understand what people mean when they describe a perfume as smelling “old lady-ish.” Given that the c...

There weren’t any members of my immediate family growing up who wore perfume. I don’t have memories of my mother’s fragrance wafting about ...

I haven't been reporting from the perfume counter much lately because almost all of my purchases were made online.  I got sick of the ha...

This week was really cold – perhaps that’s why I was into big powerful fragrances (Insolence EDP, Alien, Joy). Today I’m wearing Calypso Mim...