I Smell Therefore I Am

Recently, I've been exchanging emails with Elena over at  Perfume Shrine about a series of mysteries revolving around Youth Dew and its...

In 1969, Dina Merrill, until then regarded as a socialite turned model/actress, created a line of cosmetics in association with Coty unde...

If you've only smelled the reformulation of Molinard's Miss Habanita and been led to believe it has little or no connection to it...

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...