I Smell Therefore I Am

After all these years, I'm still ashamed about perfume. I am ashamed, I realize - I must be - even though I talk about it openly and ...

A few days ago, doing some maintenance on the blog, I realized that I don't often review recent fragrances, and I started thinking ab...

As excited as I was to smell one of the latest Histoires fragrances, Editions Rare Petroleum, recent sniffs from the rest of the line...

There's a great scene early on in The Last Picture Show (Peter Bogdanovich, 1971) between Cybill Sheperd and Ellen Burstyn, who play...

Last Sunday, in a not so rare mood of profound boredom, I was sitting in front of the TV, as I sometimes do, trying to decide whether I s...

Maitre Parfumeur et Ganteur has released Ambre Dore, which seems to be (might be?) a re-release of Soir d'Orient, a hard to find fra...

There aren't many Parfums de Nicolaï fragrances I don't at least like a lot, and some, like Maharanih Intense, are among my favori...

 I was excited, in 2010, when Swiss perfumer Vero Kern released eau de parfum concentrations of the three fragrances in her line, Vero Pr...

Around this time last year, I interviewed a woman about the scents the women in her family used to wear. Each of her aunts had her own s...

Last week I was in Denver, and smelled several things I hadn't yet had a chance to. Here are some impressions: Tom Ford - Violet Bl...