Happy 20th Monsieur Gaultier. You’re still Classique
By Deborah Fulsang The conical bust worn by Madonna in 1990 for the singer’s Blonde Ambition World Tour imprinted itself onto the memory of a…
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what is ambrette: (noun) am·brette (m-brt)
By Danielle DesRosiers The soft and delicate scent of Le Labo Ambrette 9 can best be described as the smell of a newly born babies…
PERFUME FOR a DIGITAL AGE
Fragrance-loving techies unite. Ten-year old perfume house, Bond No. 9, is embracing the digital age with a new spritz named HTTP set to debut June…
what is vet·i·ver (noun), vet·ə·vər (also vet·i·vert/-vərt)
By Danielle DesRosiers Vetiver: From Coco Chanel and Geoffrey Beene to Jo Malone and Tom Ford, leading trendsetters of the 20th and early 21st century…
Big style in small, chic packages
By Deborah Fulsang Many fragrance collectors, us included, love Christmas at least in part because it’s the season of stocking-stuffer-sized perfume bottles. Tiny Chanel No.5s.…
25 years later, hot for Fahrenheit
By Deborah Fulsang I love men’s fragrances. And, as you know, I am endlessly fascinated with perfume history—hello, The Whale & The Rose! As part…
Perfume, passion and poetic prose
By Deborah Fulsang Every young woman should know someone like writer, academic and perfume aficionado Denyse Beaulieu. If they’re lucky enough, she will teach them…
What is Ca·lone (noun)?
By Danielle DesRosiers Calone does not originate from a fresh flower, nor even the resin of a tropical tree. It doesn’t even come from freshly…
Of Pleats, Perfume and pushing the creative envelope
By Deborah Fulsang Issey Miyake elevated the simple sartorial pleat to extraordinary heights in the late 1980s. His innovation, technically and artistically, inspired the now-famous…
Smells good enough to eat
By Erin Richardson If you were given a candy that would make your entire body smell like roses, would you eat it? Deo Perfume Candy…
Spritzing for a life-saving Cause
By Ashley Kowalewski The notion of water can be described in many ways: calming, cleansing, purifying and hydrating, but more than anything, life-giving and life-sustaining.…