The dark beauty of Balenciaga’s Florabotanica
Nicolas Ghesquière, creative director of Balenciaga, couldn’t have planned it better. Not that he initiated Kristen Stewart’s dalliance with married Snow White and The Huntsman…
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WOODY SPOTLIGHT ON CHANEL COCO NOIR
A Venetian escapade, Baroque prints and Gabrielle Chanel’s grand love affair can all be experienced in this iconic brand’s new woody-oriental fragrance, Coco Noir. The…
UNDER-$50 FRIDAY: LUSH SOLID PERFUMES
Dating all the way back to ancient Egypt, it’s due time that solid perfumes made a comeback, if only because of their modern-minded portability. LUSH,…
THE 7 VIRTUES: PERFUME FOR PEACE
Barb Stegemann is a woman on a mission to change the world, one perfume bottle at a time. The Halifax native was working in her…
Tom Ford Jardin Noir Collection
By Deborah Fulsang Perversity and chastity were the inspirations behind the Tom Ford Spring 2013 ready-to-wear collection. Where these two worlds collide just as readily…
Find your fall fragrance now!
A new season calls for new beginnings, new fashions, new food. And a new fragrance of course. The fall edition of our Fragrance Buying Guide…
UNDER-$50 FRIDAY: Bath & Body Works Brown Sugar and Fig
Close your eyes and imagine a decadent Martha Stewart-style Thanksgiving dessert buffet. Now smell. Apple crisp warm from the oven with a bubbling brown-sugar topping;…
Dahlia Noir Givenchy Paris
The Black Dahlia was the name given to actress Elizabeth Short, a young American actress who was brutally murdered and mutilated in 1947. The crime…
Under-$50 Friday: Aromatics Elixir
Our Under-$50 Friday special feature aims to showcase value-minded fragrance indulgences. And because The Whale & The Rose takes an all-inclusive approach to fragrance, we…
Ellena’s homage to the olfactory art
“Pleasures, small pleasures: I like the pleasures we pilfer from everyday life, they brighten the day,” writes Jean-Claude Ellena in The Diary of a Nose:…
Shiseido Blooms after 140 years
In the Japanese language, the word for “flower” and the word for “nose”—the insider term for a perfumer—are the same: “hana.” What sweet harmony. It…