Perfume Review & Musings Archives

The outer packaging, inspired by the tiles of Capri, was designed by Sitki Gulergun © Courtesy Estée Lauder cos Inc, Aerin Beauty Mediterranean Honeysuckle Eau de Parfum Mediterranean Honeysuckle is the 9th introduction in the Aerin Beauty fragrance range....

A Review of the Reformulated Création EDT by Ted Lapidus Création was the first perfume launched under the Ted Lapidus label in 1984. According to Elizabeth Cereijo, head of fragrance products at Groupe Jacques Bogart, it was named this...

Fire Tree Fragrance Oil by Nomad Two Worlds Fire Tree is the debut scent by Australian non-profit Nomad Two Worlds founded by photographer James Russell and spearheaded by CEO Joyce Lanigan who was instrumental in turning the project into...

Eau Parfumée au Thé Bleu Eau de Cologne by Bulgari Bulgari have been adding to their tea caddy with Thé Bleu last year and Thé Noir in 2016. This sudden burst of creativity follows the releases of Thé Vert...

Review of L'Eau de Paille Eau de Parfum by Serge Lutens L'Eau de Paille is a fougère, that you can tell from the get-go as the latest perfume from the expatriate from Morocco reveals its first accents. A first...

Perfume Review of Omnia Paraiba by Bulgari The latest addition to the Omnia range pays homage to a rare blue-green tourmaline stone originally discovered in the state of Paraiba in Brazil in 1987. Noted for its blue and green...

Review of Dior j'adore Eau Lumière edt Dior released a new flanker to their pillar fragrance j'adore this spring with j'adore Eau Lumière. The name might make you think of a luminous, sunny, golden eau. In reality, it smells...

We're publishing for the first time the article below which was written in 2009. We think that as Hermès is launching a new muguet composition by Jean-Claude Ellena this spring, which pays homage to the classic Diorissimo, now was...

Perfume Review of Poison Girl by Dior Framing It Poison Girl is the latest major perfume launch by Dior aiming a new generation of young Dior women. If it could be expected to be a direct descendant of the...

Perfume Review of Angel Muse by Mugler The latest fragrance by Thierry Mugler - now just Mugler please - Angel Muse, is offered as an olfactory interpretation of addiction, which could be viewed as both justified and overly easy...

The Fiancée of Jesus is Waiting on a December Evening - La fiançée de Jésus attend un soir de décembre © 2015 CHANT WAGNER Humer le flacon As you discover the scent of the imagined olfactory form of the...

The flacon is now made of frosted black glass Black Orchid Eau de Toilette by Tom Ford is a new flanker to the original Black Orchid Eau de Parfum (2006), which was released in the fall of 2015 in...

The Love 2 Love collection of perfumes, created in collaboration with Walmart, was launched to coincide with Valentine's Day 2014. Two years later, we take stock and assess the olfactory personalities of the fragrances. But before, let's trace back...

Tom Ford Noir pour Femme Eau de Parfum Review Tom Ford Noir pour Femme opens on a soft, sweet, blond tobacco accord with ambery reflections, soon followed by powdery accents and, more durably, resinous notes whose highest-pitched nuances smell...

The new First Rosée d'Or by Van Cleef & Arpels is not just any flanker, it is a creative one, but also simply a beautiful one thanks to the modernized classical beauty of the rose it contains, that rose...