I Smell Therefore I Am

I keep thinking I must have written about Givenchy's Organza.  It's one of my favorites - even though, until recently, I didn...

So I decorated this bottle for a film we're shooting this week involving the discovery of a long lost fragrance in a vintage clothing st...

Lately I've been on a crazed hunt for an old perfume factice.  You've probably seen these larger versions of well known perfumes in...

Last night, I had a dream I was visiting my step mom, and we got in the camper and drove I don't know where.  Somewhere with an indoor p...

Woman's Picture: Snapshot 3 - Slightly Stinky from brian pera on Vimeo . Woman's Picture is a film series I started this year,...

Is it just me, or does this Serge Lutens non-export smell foody? I smell the myrrh in there, but it feels as if it's cushioned in som...

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,...