Photo via: @angelineilmastDenim lovers should stock their online carts with this season?s coolest style: baggy, wide-leg jeans. We love oversized deni ...
Photo via: @leasy_inparisI love copying Paris street style because it?s a guaranteed way to create effortlessly cool look. This particular French girl ...
Santos Angel Makeover How-to details for painting a Santos Angel to take it from dark to a more updated white with soft gold accents. We\'be been c ...
This limited edition holiday collection celebrates small gestures with big impacts, wrapped up in a signature Tiffany Blue Box®. The post Tiffany � ...
 Sometimes surprises come in the guise of super market shopping. The German supermarkets Lidl are known for their thrift store policies and odd pla ...
Photo by Bianca Czarnock on behance, borrowed for educational purposes Dior\'s Dolce Vita fetes its 30th anniversary this year, being launched in 1 ...
 The drift into the corporate mainstream by some of the older niche brands always creates the risk of a possible (or rather probable") diminishing ...
 This glorious resinous scent of cool frankincense is pure magic at this time of the year!  I absolutely love La Liturgie des Heures by Jovoy; i ...
Encens Mythique by Guerlain is a great choice for mid-season as well as wintertime in the north hemisphere, because it adapts so well to a multitude o ...
 Hermès launched another vegetal, light, and airy fragrance in its Cologne collection in July 2022. Eau de Basilic Pourpre represents a sunny and ...
 Glamour fragrances go hand in hand with the celebrities who endorsed them. No myth is stronger than the tie of Marylin Monroe with Chanel No 5 Par ...
I have been consulted on an article on Gourmand Fragrances on the prestigious publication of Who What Wear. The author Marie Lori covers the reason ...
 Naked Lady Godiva, Countess of Mercia, rides on her proud gray horse, with leather bridles and wet saddle, keeping her word as a personal wager ag ...
 My friend Chandler Burr unfolded the story of how the charming and cerebral Jean Claude Ellena was inspired for this fragrance in a New Yorker pie ...
 For many of us, the process of elimination is fierce and daunting. How to go about it without a sense of loss" On the other hand, the specter of ...
 It doesn\'t matter that Dior Homme is everywhere, either in one of its -many- versions, or in some copy of it from another brand. It remains one o ...
 Happy new year!The following pictures from Dior\'s opening and exhibits in Asian metropolises are testament to LVMH\'s wish to dominate those mark ...
Chanel often comes to mind when we talk about festive occasion drenched in champagne, if only because of the reputation of aldehydes being fizzy and s ...
In 2016, the house of Thierry Mugler opened a new chapter in the story of the famous gourmand galaxy of Angel fragrances - the "futuristic-gourmand" A ...
A dirty mind is a joy forever, they say! The newest Baruti perfume, Oh my deer!, a play upon the expression and the deer musk ingredient prized in per ...
Although we tend to overlook Boss fragrances, if only because of their ubiquitousness and confusing names, apparently, they still possess the power to ...
 It was a full seven years since Prada introduced an entirely new perfume for either gender, exploiting its established lines all this time. To my ...
Back in August 2023, Jean Paul Gaultier launched Gaultier Divine, the brand\'s new feminine fragrance, classified as a gourmand marine floral. America ...
 Much of our information on the particularities of Sergey Diaghilev the man come from the many exhibitions and press catalogues which have been rel ...
Elizabeth Arden Green Tea is one of Francis Kurkjian\'s timeless success stories, which built his reputation for effortless light diaphanous fragranc ...
The house of Roger & Gallet presented Bois d\'Orange built from fresh accords of citruses and the warm nuances and strength of wood several years ag ...
There are not as many fragrances with a leading narcissus note, as I would wish, and some of the best have been discontinued, for example, Le Temps ...
True Love is a classic Sophia Grojsman composition in that it possesses three main constituents: a clean, groomed outlook with lots of musk, mainly ...
Although iris scents are often mentioned in regards to powdery and starchy shades in perfumery, which would recall paper, skin, and bulbous vegetabl ...
Kobako means "small box" in Japanese, as far as I know. But try adding a katana-blade symbol over the first "o," and it turns into K?bako. Then it gai ...
Fashion designer Thierry Mugler passed away on January 23rd 2022 as announced on the designer\'s Instagram account. Although he had distanced himse ...
The actor who is best known to perfume lovers thanks to fronting the advertising campaign for Bleu de Chanel is no more. The star of many films, inc ...
The new year opens before us with the world of perfumes reflecting everything that concerns us in the rest of pop culture. From the world of woke to ...
Apart from the pandemic, which made 2021 a very hard year to test out fragrances in physical stores, since testers were removed, there were three si ...
Finding one\'s perfect soapy fragrance is a question of defining the scent of soap in the first place. Will it be the classic Camay and Lux soap of ...
There are few things I appreciate more than stumbling upon a clever word play which intrigues my mind and excites my hopes for something unusual. Mo ...
It\'s been almost two years since my last At the Moment post. Whew, what a realization. These past two years with the pandemic have taken a toll on ...
Anne Rice, the author of the gothic novel Interview with the Vampire, among many many others in different genres, has died at the age of 80. You mig ...
I suppose it was all pre-mapped out for me in a way, but like Indiana Jones famously said ?there?s no X marking the spot.? I found the way to bein ...
One often sees young girls looking for a perfume for everyday -clean, that will be well liked by their entourage, that will make them feel feminine, a ...
The beauty of the gigantic blossoms of magnolia is their happy citrusy freshness: I always find myself surprised that the sheer awe the blossom crea ...
Chanel No.5 L\'Eau, endorsed by the debutantes of the Chinese press, has been hailed as an innovation, but it\'s really "new old school". And I\'m s ...
Allegedly when Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana were in the search for their first foray into perfumes, they took mods developed for them and smashe ...
The Thierry Mugler news announcement for Alien Goddess, the latest fragrance in the Alien collection, was met with more eyebrows raised on the choice ...
Have you ever wondered what would happen if two brands collaborated to produce something unique to both, with the emblems of them both, and, well, aim ...
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Imperial Amber is the sort of fragrance one would expect from a truly established, traditional parfumerie, that catered to a refined aesthetic and d ...
Regarding Pierre Cardin fragrances, his first officially documented release has been Pierre Cardin pour Monsieur in 1972 and Cardin for women (Card ...
Adapted from the 1991 book Simply Halston by Steven Gaines, a TV mini-series of five episodes was ordered by Netflix in September 2019, and it premi ...
People sometimes say things are not what they used to be, and in the case of fragrances, they\'re unequivocally right. Despite a certain glamorization ...
Blue Silk, part of a flanker duet launched in 2018 by lingerie brand Agent Provocateur (the other being Lace Noir) is credited to Beverly Bayne, shi ...
Many of the original scents created by William Penhaligon were modernized and re-introduced as part of the Anthology Collection. The company maintai ...
The Cinnamon Peeler If I were a cinnamon peeler I would ride your bed and leave the yellow bark dust on your pillow. Your breasts and shoul ...
Nooud started with the spermatic idea by Spyros Drosopoulos, creative force behind the Dutch-based Baruti niche brand, of getting inside the constru ...
The first encounter I had with this unique ethereal green floral fragrance was with its predecessor in the misty glass and plastic bottle with the hug ...
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A glimpse of the ongoing madness...It doesn\'t seem to ebb. This probably 1/5 of the collection. ...
Exploring the Baruti line, a niche collection by Greek perfumer Spyros Drosopoulos, based in the Netherlands, I found myself transfixed by Onder de ...
That wonderful rich smell of books, old or new, with that inherent variation ingrained, which lures seekers of knowledge since at least the time of ...
The Diptyque story began in 1961 Paris at 34 Boulevard Saint-Germain with, at its heart, three friends driven by the same creative passion, who chose ...
Portrait of a Lady in the line Editions des Parfums Frederic Malle is named after the homonymous novel by Henry James from 1881; a romantic detail w ...
The infamous cotton candy note (candyfloss, for those in the UK) lies at the heart of Aquolina\'s Pink Sugar (2003), and the fragrance made the chord ...
Berries are an especially pliant fruity note in perfumes; no less because a certain group of synthetic musks has a berry undertone. The classic Mû ...
The annus horribilis is behind us. Perfume was one luxury which alleviated the gloom for us. Here are a few top perfumes of 2020. In photo form for ...
Hermès has always seemed to me the height of luxury: not just a status symbol to carry around, but a brand organically grown out of that most aris ...
Babylon is a quite a "new and now" launch by Penhaligon\'s, a Harrods\' exclusive till January 2021, but I was lucky enough to secure some and ...
by guest writer Rose Strang Interview by Rose Strang, professional artist and perfume reviewer for L.L.M ? Edinburgh?s lifestyle magazine What word ...
photo by Elena Vosnaki It was inescapable. The new goodies from Penhaligon\'s have trickled their way to my lap and I\'m slowly savouring their delig ...
The Favourite is the latest fragrance by British brand Penhaligon\'s and the story behind it is inspiring. It involves as its protagonist Sarah Church ...
Blast from the past. ...
Kilian\'s Moonlight in Heaven is a fragrance I had my eye on for at least a year, nay, more! I took the opportunity to try it out in store with an Ame ...
What\'s in a name" What\'s in a material" Shakespeare\'s immortal line has a lot to account for. Lots of scents with heliotrope pose as "almond" or "m ...
White Zagora by The Different Company stands as an optimism shot for occasional gloomy days, even if the heat does not let us perceive them as such. I ...
First of all, let me prephrase this review by saying the original vintage edition of Molinard de Molinard from 1979 was a gift of my beloved, who chos ...
Britney had told us quite a while ago, in her lyrics, "I used to think I had the answers to everything, but now I know that life doesn\'t always go my ...
Everything there is to know about the feminine fragrance by Trussardi from the early 1980s (1984 to be exact) can be seen right from the start. The mo ...
Sheiduna parfum, purse gift set, photo by Elena Vosnaki Puredistance M and Opardu, parfum spray, photo by Elena Vosnaki ...
A comrade of mine in fragrance said, taking the 2019 fragrance launches in retrospect, "In today?s world, chamomile will never be a major perfume tren ...
photo by Elena Vosnaki photo by Elena Vosnaki photo by Elena Vosnaki photo by Elena Vosnaki These small pleasures amount to a great deal in ...
The heroine of the memoir of a love affair wears a classic by Dior, from 1947. ...
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Tom Ford is eagerly awaited by fashionistas during New York Fashion Week due to his excellent finger on the pulse, in both sartorial as well as beauty ...
The newest fragrance to take the Les Parfums de Rosine brand by storm is Ballerina No 5, which is as gorgeous a specimen in the rich tapestry of rose ...
Maybe the most unexpected in the line Power by Kenzo is Kenzo World Power, a woody aromatic fragrance for women launched in 2019. Although the fragran ...
Jicky by Guerlain is a gender bender perfume to end all gender benders; changing sex and direction mid-stream in its illustrious career like an adoles ...
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Although warm fragrances wear comfortably on the natural heat of the skin and provide an instant "aaah" moment, like wrapping oneself with a cashmere ...
photo by Elena Vosnaki The bottle of Shalimar Parfum Initial is a jewel, and thus should be accompanied by jewels. The choice of pearls is not ran ...
Happy New Year to everyone! Hope you had a lovely celebration! 2019 was a good year for perfume and hopefully 2020 will be as well. There were worthy ...
In the Grey Flannel scent by American designer Geoffrey Beene, crisp greenery and musk tonalities (plus that seductive coumarin in the bottom) combine ...
Another holiday season upon us, the good and the bad, the merry and the sad ones, and we can rejoice, yes, everyone. So a merry, merry Christmas (and ...
