Profumo

First of all, there is nothing dark about this. At least not in the way we know fragrant darkness all too well, sometimes to the point of exhaustion: tarry, smoky, bacon-like, dark-forested, dripping with resin. Nothing of the sort. Instead:...

I know, another rose-oud - enough already! Hardly a combination that would be more reliably pulled out of the hat than 'dernier cri' whenever a new label pops up somewhere on this globe. And yet the combination...

Normally, fragrances with animalistic additions polarize - just think of 'Kouros'. But even fragrances without significant animal components, like this one, seem to divide opinions irreconcilably. What separates both camps is primarily the question...

Hadrian and Antinous - here we go again! After Marguerite Yourcenar's famous 'Memoirs of Hadrian' and Rufus Wainwright's opera 'Hadrian', this fragrance is also dedicated to the undoubtedly most famous queer couple of antiquity. The Roman emperor...

Faithful to the old “Eau Noble” by Paul Vacher from 1972, which at the time of its introduction did not stand out for its innovative spirit, it nevertheless scored points with sophistication and a fragrant nobility that remained committed to a tradition...

Few perfume manufacturers have consistently delivered such high-quality work over the past few years as the small workshop 'Les Indémodables' from the quaint Alpine town of Annecy in the Haute-Savoie department of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region....

I have smelled this combination of gasoline and oud notes before. Shortly after I sprayed ‘Nuvolari’ for the first time, I also knew where: in Kilian’s ‘Pure Oud’. Unfortunately, I no longer have the sample of the Kilian...

Actually, ‘Albatros’ combines quite a bit that I have long since grown tired of: a watery-ozonic opening in the style of the over-copied ‘Cool Water’, a rose that can confidently be counted among the usual - and exhausting...

Isn't the idea seductive? To pack everything into a fragrance that has been banned for the benefit of consumers over the last few decades and yet supposedly smells so wonderful: Nitro-musk compounds like 'Musk Ketone' and 'Musk...

“Sebastian” is more of a softie. At least, that’s what I thought. He comes across so soft, so smooth, and his large doe-brown eyes look so dreamy and melancholic. The colors he chooses also have nothing harsh or angular about them. No sharp...

Orson Welles! Who doesn’t like to adorn themselves with this giant of acting, this great director and storyteller, whose radio play of War of the Worlds Carine Roitfeld listened to with her whole family as a young girl, captivated....

Just the scent alone has kept me from smoking weed. Whereas in the past only one or another shared flat was clouded by cannabis fumes, and some terribly left-wing Antifa establishment, today this sweet-grassy odor wafts...