I Smell Therefore I Am

I’m a friend of good amber fragrances (“good” is obviously subjective, but I’ll explain more below). I find many amber scents too sweet an...

I admitted recently that I’ve given up trying to like vetiver and leather fragrances (aside from Tom Ford Tuscan Leather and some old classi...

I've been called splenetic before.  I won't lie. I had to look it up, and when I understood what the word meant, I didn't e...

Christy Turlington, saddled with motherhood, daydreams of a night out at Studio 54 For a long time, I regarded Calvin Klein's Etern...

Just gaze at this bottle. I do all the time. I love Dior Poison bottles, all of them, and I like to group the whole set together on an a...

Oud has been trending, as they say, for well over a year now, but it isn't exactly something that gets my imagination roaming, and fo...

It’s no secret that I’m a huge Annick Goutal fangirl. Early last year I wrote a week-long tribute about several of their most amazing fragr...

For those who have moved to another state, another region or a different country do you sometimes have nostalgic moments when you remember s...

I was surprised to learn that this little gem has been around since 1986.  I discovered it back in 1995 or so and, I guess, thought tha...