I Smell Therefore I Am

In The Diary of a Nose , perfumer Jean-Claude Ellena writes, "Green is the only color that makes sense as a smell," adding that...

I've never really seen how the early scents produced under the Balenciaga name had much to do with the designs, let alone mystique, o...

I resisted the Ramon Monegal line for a long time, for several old reliable reasons. The fragrances embody two emerging trends I'm no...

I have only the vaguest recollection of the Wind Song now being sold in drugstores. I remember buying it on impulse and, a few days later...

Watching Noontide Petals evolve over the last year or so has been a real highlight, during a period of time which was often dark and at t...

Nearly every American of a certain age remembers the neighborhood Avon lady. Avon, like Tupperware, was a massive Mid Century door to doo...

Unless cacao and vanilla combined are to be taken as the new oakmoss, Keiko Mecheri's Johana seems anything but a chypre to me, yet t...

If I'd been looking for a spokeswoman in the eighties, and had a sultry perfume to sell, Jaclyn Smith wouldn't have been my first...

Even when I was a kid and I knew nothing more about perfume than the fact that I liked it, I could see a through line from Halston, which...

A few years ago, when I discovered that Bonwit Teller carried the Maitre Parfumeur et Gantier line, I bought a few of my favorites over ...