Perfume Review & Musings Archives

The Beckhams moved to the United States before their new duo of fragrances, Intimately Beckham Night for Men and Intimately Beckham Night Women will cross the Atlantic. The perfumes were launched in September of 2007 in Asia and Europe...

 Model Garrett Neff fronts the Man ad Man by Calvin Klein was launched in October of 2007 and proposed as a new classic for the modern Calvin Klein man, aged from 25 to 40. The name itself is programmatic and...

Midnight Poison by Christian Dior is the fifth perfume in the Poison collection since 1985. It comes after Poison (1985), Tendre Poison (1994), Hypnotic Poison (1998), and Pure Poison (2004). It was one of the most prestigious launches of...

This review of Skarb by Humiecki & Graef is continued from Part 1. I would like to pick up where I started last time to describe the scent proper,"...Skarb is romantic in a forgotten sense; the word "eruptive" chosen...

As announced previously, the estimable perfume boutique Aedes de Venustas, which is based in New York city collaborated this year with the Molinard perfume house to release a limited-edition fragrance called Une Histoire de Chypre (A Chypre Story). The perfumer...

Gris coulée de Loire à la trace ocre by Olivier Debré, 1987 The Hermessence collection, which now includes Brin de Réglisse (it becomes lit. "strand of licorice" without the "un" at the beginning), is the most exclusive of the...

Daniel Craig by Sam Taylor-Wood in Men Crying Skarb means "treasure" in Polish; it is the name of the first fragrance put out by the niche perfume brand Humiecki and Graef, named after the two grandmothers of founders Sebastian Fischenich...

The she-wolf... imagination carries reality away....who inhabits this name? Where do wolves live? At the Louvre! The she-wolf is heraldic. It resides on top of a mountain in a snow castle A legend of the beginnings of time...a perfume?...

As previously announced, L'Occitane introduced this fall a collection of four fragrances called Notre Flore (Our Flora) and Les Quatre Vents (The Four Winds). It is inspired by richly historic aromas of the Mediterranean region, in particular as they...

We just came back from a visit to the By Kilian website and we have to admit, the biggest shock we have experienced this year so far in terms of marketing attention-getting ploy, is not the by now infamous...

 Through some mysterious accidents of history, the recipe for a cologne that was once upon a time used by Pope Pie IX (1792-1878) - the longest reigning pope in the history of the Catholic church after Saint Peter (1846-1878) -...

Cognac Pierre Frapin, cuvée 1888  Inhaling the different facets of the new quatuor of perfumes by Frapin which includes Terre de Sarment, Caravelle Epicée, Passion Boisée, and Esprit de Fleurs, put out by the venerable multi-secular French Cognac house ("established"...

Elle is the new women’s perfume creation by Yves Saint Laurent and is being billed as a major fragrance launch for the brand, which reportedly has made the choice to issue fewer fragrances over the years but to support...

    Le De by Givenchy has the clarity and purity of a fountain of youth cascading with crystalline floral water, only emitting the loveliest of murmur in the middle of a glade in a delicate green forest. Alternatively it...