Spark the season with a fire-red spritz
By Ashley Kowalewski The colour red evokes so many emotions: Love, lust, happiness, confidence. It’s a colour that stands out from the crowd and demands…
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.
Perfume in super-posh packages
By Adriana Ermter It’s safe to say that in fragrant circles, luxurious packaging began with the bottle and quite possibly with Marc Lalique. In 1907,…
Cedar to oud: the wonders of wood
By Deborah Fulsang What a rose is to women’s perfume, wood is to history’s portfolio of men’s fragrances. Not that women’s spritzes aren’t embracing wood—Chanel’s…
The Six Scents of Bond, James Bond
By Elio Iannacci Bond mania is upon us. Skyfall, the latest 007 film, which stars two hectically handsome leading men—Daniel Craig (hero) and Javier Bardem…
Being thankful for a fragrant world
On this day of Canadian Thanksgiving, we contemplate this perfumed world and all that we have to be thankful for. A simple list turns into…
Home scents of the fab & fashionable
Ever wonder about the wonderful and welcoming scents that perfume the homes of your most fashionable friends? Us too. So, as we move back indoors…
Oud wood
When it comes to oud-laced perfumes, the Middle East is Mecca. Shrouded in mythological history, Sufi mystics and Arabian princesses alike have claimed for centuries…
Truffle Hunting
Since 1481, truffle hunting has been a prized pastime, first by peasants and pigs, later by Parisian nobility and in recent years, by the employees…
SPOTLIGHT ON HERMES AND WOOD
Have you checked out our Fragrance Buying Guide? With the coming season’s love of deep, rich woody notes, we’re taking another peek at our current…
BLOOD-INSPIRED FRAGRANCES
For years, blood has played a supporting role: as an eat-right diet to get us back into our skinny jeans, as the gross-out factor in…
Beach fragrances
Do you live for the sun and the sand? Spritz on one of these beach fragrances and you'll always be one step away from the…