I'd love to see the brief the Christian Louboutin creative team presented to the perfumers, because their...
Another cheeky name from Tom Ford. In reality, Bitter Peach is the scent of a teenage party, when you crave alcohol...
Aqualis London produces fragrances in perfume concentration and is sold in one of the most elegant and expensive...
For the first time in many years, I recognized it. Shalimar Philtre de Parfum Guerlain is a distinctly authentic...
The blotters from the Gritti citrus collection all smell wonderful together: like summer, warmth, and something...
"Eat me," says carrot cake with orange marmalade. "Drink me," echoes fragrant herbal tea with rose petals and milk....
The UERMI project is an olfactory wardrobe. But not in the sense that fashionable perfume stylists understand....
I've been saying for a long time that Robert Piguet's Bandit is unlike anything else. Germaine Cellier "painted" the...
Alessandro Brun, creator of the renowned Masque Milano collection, dedicated his new perfume project to his beloved...
The difference between genuine niche perfumery and the stylized versions of the "big" perfume houses is immediately...
Les Indemodables is an example of how little concept matters when the perfume itself can tell its own captivating story without any crib notes.
Astrophil&Stella is an Italian niche project inspired by the sonnet cycle of Sir Philip Sidney, the Elizabethan poet and politician. In Sir Philip's poems, the hero speaks vividly of his love, with passion, jealousy, and subtle irony, but in the end, he receives not a beloved, but disappointment and experience.
If you're considering trying the Supercritique Les Eaux Primordiales collection, here's a cheat sheet from someone who spent years researching these fragrances. And yes, Supercritique isn't a perfume for supercritics, but rather a process for creating exceptionally authentic raw materials that most closely capture a living scent.
Perfumer Camille Legay released five fragrances dedicated to energies, feelings, and thoughts. She's not a household name. She worked at Mane, signed a couple of fragrances each for Lorga and BDK, and then suddenly went freelance.
