I Smell Therefore I Am

This is the first year I’ve been wondering, well in advance, what I’ll wear during Christmas. Normally, I just wear whatever I want, depend...

Private Collection is one of my favorite fragrances, yet I've resisted reviewing it until now. Like Estee, I guess I've wanted to ...

Something happened this year. This Fall. Is it because the Summer was so extreme? I could barely smell anything the last four or five mo...

Hearing and reading about Womanity is one thing. Smelling it inevitably begs the age-old question: "What's in a name?" As has...

I’m not entirely sure what motivates me to write these seasonal favorites posts. Maybe its part diary. I know I’ll be interested five year...

It's easy enough to smell Niki de Saint Phalle's perfume without thinking of the woman behind it; easier, no doubt, than trying to...

Henry James, Isabel Archer, blah, blah, blah. Portrait of a Lady is an Oriental Rose perfume. There is nothing Victorian about Portrait of...

During the late eighties and early nineties, I lived in the East Village. It was something of an electrified ghost town at the time. Many ...

There are many things to like in The Secret of Chanel No.5: The Intimate History of the World's Most Famous Perfume. Biographer Tilar ...

From good old Wikipedia, some thoughts on the misunderstandings wrought by the centuries-old practice of satire: "Because satire oft...