I Smell Therefore I Am

It's ironic, I guess, that the current fragrance profile at Hermes is regarded as sophisticated, elegant, and refined, while the fragran...

Woman's Picture Trailer from brian pera on Vimeo . Here's the trailer to a film about three women called Woman's Picture ....

I'm always a little cranky when I show up at my favorite perfume kiosk here at the mall and the Russian women who own it aren't th...

Reformulations, sometimes (as here) referred to as "updates" or "modern interpretations" are rarely, in my experience,...

Parfums DelRae Debut Having first met Amoureuse, I didn’t think I was a fan of DelRae’s florals. Then I met Debut and realized Amoureuse...

You might think that people comment on my perfume all the time.  Alas, they don't.  It's exceedingly rare that anyone says anythin...

Diorella, Diorama, Diorling, Diorissimo and Miss Dior seem to get the lion's share of appreciation when it comes to older Dior fragran...

In a recent interview with the New York Times, Center of Olfactory Art curator and author Chandler Burr argued for the official re-appraisal...

This is the first time I’m breaking my rule of always spraying from the bottle and wearing a perfume 2-3 days before writing a review. Fu...

I don't know why--because they've largely been disappointing--but every year I look forward to all the various Thierry Mugler ...