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…
Trends
What’s the latest coming around the fragrance bend? Chocolate-noted perfumes? Scents with mandarin or pear? How about oud or gardenia blooms? We explore the “what” and discuss the “why” behind the just-arrived and soon-to-land launches in the world of perfume.
Sexy scents for Earth Day love
By Danielle DesRosiers Earth Day comes but once a year and as we strive to take that extra eco-minded step—picking up the neighbourhood trash, swapping…
Black licorice
By Deborah Fulsang Black licorice has a polarizing effect: Love it or hate it. The same can perhaps be true of fragrances sporting the dark…
Spring forward with flowers, fruit
It’s officially spring, and while the weather hasn’t supported that reality this past week, the sunny smorgasbord of fragrances launching this season certainly does. Sophisticated…
Of love, lust and perfume names
In the wake of Valentine's Day, so you still have love on the brain? Us too. And then we started brainstorming perfumes, past and present,…
NSFW: The sexiest perfume ads of all time
Provocation is the name of the game when it comes to perfume ads. From too-sexy videos and revealing poses to drug-alluding imagery, we’re looking back…
Year of the Snake and sexy scents
2013 marks the Year of the Snake in the Chinese calendar; the New Year of which is celebrated on February 10. Asian astrologers and soothsayers…
Pantone names Emerald colour of 2013
By Deborah Fulsang Green: it is the colour of healing and rejuvenation, of growth and renewal. When Carlstadt, N.J.-based colour expert Pantone announced recently that…
Snow, snow, glorious snow scents
For one who gains strength from the sunshine of summer and days spent in the garden, winter is a cold, hard time. But looking out…
Perfume to suit literature’s beloved heroines
What would the most famous literary leads dare to dab in 2013? As we take time over the holidays to read, or re-read the classics,…
Pop the bubbly!
By Ashley Kowalewski The bubbly sweetness that is oh so tingly on your tongue and synonymous with tonight’s festivities inspires us. After all, why should…