I Smell Therefore I Am

Boudoir is perhaps the only fragrance which caused me to swoon to unbelievable heights at first spritz then soar into absolute nausea by the...

Nuit de Cellophane does not smell particularly like osmanthus. Instead it is a bright, joyous and billowy white floral, heavy on jasmine, l...

Un Matin d’Orange is the newest fragrance from Annick Goutal created by Isablle Doyen. It’s important to note the name is “d’Orage” and no...

Wearing Chaldée gives me visions. Composed in the 1920’s, Chaldée makes me think of this period of time, in the early 1900’s, when an obses...

I’ve been quiet for ages – I’ve missed writing and I’ve missed my imaginary readers! First: Guerlain’s newest, Le Petit Robe Noire is atroci...

Many online reviewers have it stuck in their craw: a major offense committed by a perfume with the word camelia in its name is the fact that...

"Chanel's competitors have spent millions of dollars in (mostly) ill-fated attempts to produce perfume bottles as memorable as No....

From the New Yorker, October 27, 2003, "Mother of Invention", by Judith Thurman: Chanel spent the war shacked up with a Nazi offic...

Ralph Lauren launched Safari in 1990 and it was created by nose Dominique Ropion. It is now discontinued and this is such a shame, for it i...

Recently, over at nowsmellthis.blogharbor.com, Angela posted a piece on Shocking de Schiaparelli, comparing old version to new. The lucky wo...