Christine Nagel: “It’s impossible…
Christine Nagel, in-house perfumer at Hermes, as told to The Cut. "It's impossible to wear a perfume that you don't like. If you took more…
Jean-Claude Ellena
Perfume review, Hermès Le Jardin de Monsieur Li
By Deborah Fulsang Imagine being in a garden, one with water and lots of greenness—in the heat of the peak summer months. Then add the…
Use your intuition and layer your scents
By Deborah Fulsang Sometimes you wake up in the morning and just aren’t sure what to spritz. You want something different but can’t make up…
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…
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:…