Blogs about Perfume

or how I watched Pride and Prejudice and Zombies Honestly, I didn’t think it would be a movie that would spur me to write. But that’s the beauty of life, it surprises you. Well, it’s …

I bought this giant yuzu yesterday. Dense, knotted and rindy, the peel will be used to make salad dressings, hot yuzu and ginger tea now the temperatures have suddenly dropped, and possibly, as the Japanese …

Uncle Vladimir, diadia Volodya, passed away in his sleep in his home in Israel. He was in his 80s. He fell ill with polio when he was a child during WWII. The first doctor he …

Source: weddingfactorydirect.comIf you had told me back in October 2009 that I would still be writing blog posts 15 years on, perfume-themed or otherwise, I would not have believed you. I am telling myself this …

Andrea Byrne's Scents of Man Ancient Forest captures the beauty of the native woods using sweet notes to balance the more aromatic greenery. The post Scents of Man Ancient Forest (Andrea Byrne) 2023 + Forest …

Briny aquatics thrive when they embrace their salt-soaked nature without being softened by fruit or generic crowd-pleasing notes. Maison Margiela’s Sailing Day, launched in 2017, attempts an intriguing balance but falls oddly short. It’s loaded …

Welcome to chemical anthropomorphism, where Ethyl Maltol attends acocktail party, meets a candy bar, and tries to help cousin Maltol make friends. Spritz your favorite gourmand fragrance and join the party. Bestread whilst eating cotton …

Happy end of wretched 2022, everyone! I’ve become too superstitious at this point to claim that 2023 will be better. But I so sincerely hope that it is for you! For me, personally, it’s actually …

A 30 ml Wellbeing Fragrant Water and a 30 ml hand cream, (perfumath free!) from Roger & Gallet, shown in Feuille de Thé: "It all started with this feeling of comfort, this warmth that invades …

Perfume PosseI Smell, Too. Well, Musette started it (as is her wont) so I am going forward with it. As I mentioned in the comments yesterday, I have been noticing in the past few years …

[Edited to add: I wrote this post over the weekend and scheduled it to go live on Wednesday (today). I almost postponed it just now, but decided to leave it, in case anyone needs a …

Laura Biagiotti's iconic Laura, with its aqueous character, has been so characteristic of its era that 30 years later it still springs forth in our minds as a 1990s staple, alongside L’Eau d’Issey (1992), L’Eau …

WHAT I SMELL: L’ÂME D’IRIS opens with a tender embrace of cashmere iris, warmed by a subtle kiss of mandarin. Dreamy from the first spritz, it feels like a celestial whisper. As time unfolds, the …

Rabbit rabbit! Welcome to the weekly Perfume Chat Room, perfumistas! I envision this chat room as a weekly drop-in spot online, where readers may ask questions, suggest fragrances, tell others their SOTD, comment on new …

Confession: I am not fond of cedar as a note in perfumery. Perhaps because these days it is so often paired with vetiver and Iso E Super to produce that piercing sucker punch of ‘woody-fresh’ …

I know it’s Sunday already, but let’s pretend I published it yesterday. Leaving aside that most of us shouldn’t be buying more perfumes, period, and that most of us would break and buy a bottle …