Celebrity-inspired Halloween costumes require perfume
Get serious this Halloween. Whether dressing as Barbie or Marilyn Monroe, the best-costume prize goes to those who channel via fragrance. Still don't know what you're dressing up as…
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Interview with Susan Langdon of the Toronto Fashion Incubator
Fashion design mentor Susan Langdon shares her perfume thoughts and favourite fragrance picks—just in time for World Mastercard Fashion Week in Toronto. QUESTION: What is your favourite…
A perfume gift that gives back
Twentysix perfume by Natasha Koifman and Aromachology to benefit Haiti. With the holidays quickly approaching, we know you’ve probably started a mental wishlist. We’d be…
Autumn is tea time. Get steeping
Cinnamon, spice and everything nice: That's what fall teas are made of. And cranberry, and peanut butter and... As the seasons change, so to do…
Tea sommelier Linda Gaylard on fall aromas and tea time
Her new project, The Tea Book, has just hit bookstores, so we spoke with author Linda Gaylard about what she calls the ultimate fall beverage, and how its aroma…
Celebrity perfumes you haven’t heard of
Ariana Grande to Tilda Swinton: Celebrity perfumes run the gamut from flash to philosophical. You’ve heard of Elizabeth Taylor’s White Diamonds—the best selling celebrity…
Home fragrances for the holidays
The menu is planned. You've bought the turkey, the flowers, and a pretty dress too. Now you need a home fragrance with soul-satisfying scents. Buy a nebulizer.…
Big is better: An ode to oversized perfume
Why buy a 200 ml bottle of perfume? It's great value? You have a signature scent so why not? It just looks glam? Whatever the reason,…
Vegetable perfumes
Vegetable juicing is de rigueur. No wonder perfumers are experimenting with garden-variety notes. Love beets? Kale? How abut carrots? Sorry, we're not talking salads or side…
Canada welcomes H&M beauty. Is fast-fragrance in the future?
H&M enters the Canadian beauty market in a big way with 700+ plus products. And yes there are perfumes. Lots. And at ridiculous prices. Among the (over) 700…
The Body Shop travels the world with its Voyage perfumes
New fragrance captures the smells and tastes of Italy. Italian Summer Fig, the latest perfume release from The Body Shop, joins the brand's travel-loving Voyage Collection of spritzes…