I Smell Therefore I Am

2013 was eventful for me - a little more eventful than I tend to like - and it had less to do with perfume than I'd prefer. Still, there...

Is there a more derided niche house than Bond No. 9? I'm tempted to say no. The brand's infamously aggressive tactics - with cons...

Summer is a real dry spell for me. I can't seem to smell anything, and my skin can't seem to absorb anything fast enough, so I en...

Almost every day I pack a bag the way a parent might prepare a lunch pail for a student. Theirs are full of baloney. Mine is full of perf...

Leave it to Tom Ford to bring frankincense back to basics. It isn't just the name of his latest fragrance, which retraces ancient t...

There's a unifying thread in the some of the work perfumer Frank Voelkl has done for Le Labo, but you'd have to consult another ...

Several years ago, traveling back from a film festival in Greece, a good third of a full bottle of Luxe Patchouli leaked out into my carry...

When I first heard about my friend's twin brothers and their obsession with dressing themselves like something out of a Bond film, I ...

It's been interesting, as early reviews of Hedonist have come in, to see what people make of the word. I had no idea it had quite the...

Over the last several years, I've purchased something like 50 bottles of perfume on Ebay. For the most part, my transactions with s...