Perfume inspired by Paris Fashion Week
By Adriana Ermter In honour of Paris Fashion Week, we’re turning the spotlight on French style. Meander your way down Avenue Montaigne, the Rue de…
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La Dolce Vita, scents inspired by Milan Fashion Week
By Adriana Ermter Do you live in your heels even while running errands? Is your familial greeting a kiss on both cheeks? Does your closet…
Pass the salt. Saline is the latest in perfume tastes
Salty perfumes are sexy and intimate, and a move away from sugary gourmands. Every so often a perfumer will introduce a note in an elixir…
Perfumes to wear with cozy winter fashion
By Adriana Ermter Probably the most famous passage in Marcel Proust’s novel, Swann’s Way, is when the narrator eats a madeleine—a small, sweet, fashionably French…
Remembering Oscar de la Renta and his fragrance world
By Adriana Ermter In the 1980s, like every other girl, I prescribed to perfume’s golden rule: I spritzed with a very heavy hand. But contrary…
Rainy day spritzes
When Henry Wadsworth Longfellow uttered: “Into each life some rain must fall,” we’re fairly certain the 18th Century American poet wasn’t referencing fragrance. And yet, since…
Paying lip service: Makeup and scent
Beauty products usually have a distinct smell, and today we're talking about makeup and scent. If you grew up in the ’80s, chances are you swiped…
How to battle Perfume Prohibition
By Adriana Ermter To spritz, or not to spritz: that is the question. At least it has been since those with sensitive sniffers sneezed loud…
Truffle Hunting
Since 1481, truffle hunting has been a prized pastime, first by peasants and pigs, later by Parisian nobility and in recent years, by the employees…
BLOOD-INSPIRED FRAGRANCES
For years, blood has played a supporting role: as an eat-right diet to get us back into our skinny jeans, as the gross-out factor in…
Kate Middleton spurs gardenia love
If Kate Middleton was your run-of-the-mill celebrity and, eh hem, not so royal, it’s safe to say we’d soon be spritzing her namesake scent on…