Pass the salt. Saline is the latest in perfume tastes
Salty perfumes are sexy and intimate, and a move away from sugary gourmands. Every so often a perfumer will introduce a note in an elixir…
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Perfumes to wear with cozy winter fashion
By Adriana Ermter Probably the most famous passage in Marcel Proust’s novel, Swann’s Way, is when the narrator eats a madeleine—a small, sweet, fashionably French…
Perfume storage—tiered dishes declutter, add glam
By Deborah Fulsang Having an excess of perfume bottles is a professional hazard. They overflow on my dresser top, my night table, my desk at…
Wishing you a merry, marvellously scented holiday
May your holidays be filled with the sweetest scents on earth. May you be treated with gifts of perfume from those who love you, admire you…
Sweet Scents For The Holiday Season
By Marilisa Racco 'Tis the season to indulge in sugary delights from sugar plums and candy canes to shortbread and sticky toffee pudding. We're all…
Fragrances for holiday party season
By Deborah Fulsang Your calendar is booking up with parties, from the annual all-inclusive holiday-slash-Christmas-slash-Hanukkah-slash-Kwanza office soirée to your best buddy’s annual cinq-à-sept. You have,…
Patchouli Sheds Its Hippie Heritage
By Marilisa Racco Long the domain of those dirty hippies* — Nixon’s words, not mine* — patchouli has been saddled with an unsavoury image of…
Talking fragrance, fashion and cocktails with Penhaligon’s
By Deborah Fulsang With perfumers whipping together fragrances spiked with cocktail notes these days, we reached out to niche perfume brand Penhaligon’s to discuss its…
J.Crew teams with Arquiste to launch first perfumes
By Marilisa Racco You know that feeling you get when you open a J.Crew catalogue? Like you want to jump into the pages, envelop yourself…
Remembering Oscar de la Renta and his fragrance world
By Adriana Ermter In the 1980s, like every other girl, I prescribed to perfume’s golden rule: I spritzed with a very heavy hand. But contrary…
The fragrance of pumpkin in the fall
By Deborah Fulsang 30 DAYS OF FALL FRAGRANCE: PUMPKIN Autumn brings with it the harvest, Halloween and Thanksgiving. And with that, pumpkin. We crave it…