I Smell Therefore I Am

(Or: Why I Seem to Have Stopped Writing "Reviews") For a long time now (let's throw a number out and say five months) I...

Cristalle is nice, and I prefer the edp to the edt, which is nice too, for the all of five minutes it lasts on me. Cristalle in that big ...

There are some key differences between eau de toilette and eau de parfum, the primary difference being skank. Honeyed skank, really. The ...

A little one ounce bottle of Poison, because apparently I can never have enough. Let me tally. At this point, I own I think five - now...

Amber, Vetiver, Orange Blossom. Like Teo Cabanel's Alahine, Sublime is a strange, diffusive toasted amber. I was telling someone ...

I was in Berlin recently with Barbara Herman and Miguel Matos, and at some point, trading the smells we'd all brought, Miguel pulled o...

Originally called Doussan French Perfumery, the perfume house now known as Bourbon French Parfums dates back to 1843, the year perfumer a...

Last week, Barbara Herman (author of the blog Yesterday's Perfume and the book Scent and Subversion: Decoding a Century of provoca...

At some point in the last year or two, during their repackaging thrust, Diptyque changed the concentration of their Les Eaux series. Prev...

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...