BrianBuchanan

There has recently been some chat on message boards to the effect that "women generally have a better sense of smell than men". The Mechanism Why would females have a better sense of smell? Could it be because...

Seine Story by Victor Delouya, have you ever seen anything like it? Schiaparelli released Shocking You in a cigarette box, but that didn’t have the ampule cards. I hope they put as much care into the odour.

In these days of foghorn pongs and woody sharp citrus, the need to compete with male peacocks may have obliged perfumers to boost up their feminines, just to get them heard above the din. But how did we get here? Some Background In the past, masculine perfume, and perfume in general,...

Champagne, chocolates, a single red rose... What would you give your Valentine?Wine would last the evening, chocolates maybe the weekend, a cut rose a few days. What about something more permanent, a rose perfume?A...

Fahrenheit is a monument - but it didn't spring from nowhere. Like most great art it had its genesis in what went before and was a product of its time. Fahrenheit is an eighties perfume and is typically...

Ernest Beaux is known for Chanel N°5, the most famous perfume in the world. But the man remains in the shadows, a name less familiar than some of the others in the Chanel circle: Stravinsky, Diaghilev...