Paris boutique, Nose, taps tech power to sell perfume
By Deborah Fulsang Paris: The City of Light, but also the city of food and fashion and fragrance. For me, these three things make up…
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From hot-off-the-presses scoop on perfumes that will soon hit your store shelves and recent creative perfume collaborations to simply the latest in the world of fragrance: That’s what you’ll find here.
What is coumarin (noun) koo-muh-rin
By Sloan Baron If you thought vanilla or roses were found in most fragrances, think again. Courmarin, tiny crystals found in tonka beans as well…
Miu Miu marries with Coty
By Deborah Fulsang Miuccia Prada has always played with the unexpected with her Miu Miu brand: from trompe l’oeil patterns to oversized, doll-like accessories that…
Elvira’s spooky scents for Demeter
By Ashley Kowalewski Eye of newt, hair of a witch, tears of a maiden: Is this the scent pyramid of a truly Halloween-appropriate fragrance? This…
In love with Guerlain Vol de Nuit
By Deborah Fulsang I fell in love with Roja Dove. Well, sort of. When the fragrance expert served as the perfume encyclopedia for Guerlain more…
Mugler’s eco-chic perfume approach
By Deborah Fulsang In bygone eras, it was the fashion of the day was for a woman to take her personal fragrance flask—perhaps it was…
10 things to know about Carven
By Deborah Fulsang 1. THE NEW PERFUME: A breezy and feminine floral with a certain je ne sais quoi—that is an old-school French perfume-ness that…
Perfume by the numbers: 15,000 jasmine blooms
By Deborah Fulsang 15,000: That’s the number of flowers in one kilogram of jasmine sambac, say the perfumers who have mixed the grand bloom into…
10 things about Elizabeth Arden’s Untold fragrance
By Ashley Kowalewski 1. FRUITY-FLORAL/FLORIENTAL. From a perfume category point of view, Untold crosses divides. It’s juicy and playful with a hint of powder for…
Sonia Kashuk’s scented world
By Ashley Kowalewski Those loyal to the Target brand know the name Sonia Kashuk for her great-quality-at-a-price makeup and cosmetics brushes. Now the pro makeup…
The fragrant memories of Aerin Lauder
By Ashley Kowalewski The Aerin cosmetics brand, which launched last year under the creative direction of Aerin Lauder, brought us a carefully curated collection of…