Top Blog Articles

Week

From lectures on trends to the People's Choice Awards: The ScentXplore is entering its seventh edition in New York. In just a few years, the ScentXplore...

“There's an exhibition in Stockholm at the end of November. If you have the bottles for Burning Piano ready by then, I'll take them with me.” “They'll definitely be ready in time! How cool is that?!” I can hardly...

With the new unisex fragrance "Figue Érotique", Tom Ford explores the different sides of the fig - from its green freshness to its rich ripeness. An uninhibited study of pleasure....

It’s that time of the year to break out the reusable advent calendar. This year I decided to put a spin on last year’s 24 Days of Vanilla and do 24 Days of Samples. My attempts to adhere to a no-buy or low-buy have been largely unsuccessful. After placing one last cyber Monday order, I decided...

The Parisian niche perfume house Rania J presents "Samar Kand", a new unisex fragrance that olfactorily captures the cultural significance and history of Samarkand. The...

Right. Let’s get this out of the way: I have never been a fanboy of PDM or any similar brands. Never understood the hype. The brands like that always gave me the impression of 30$ worth of juice in a 300$ bottle, like someone decanted supermarket custard into a Fabergé egg and called...

The Italian niche label The House of Oud presents "Pure Diamond" - a unisex fragrance that blends sweet, spicy and powdery-woody notes. The distillation of the diamond....

 Are you familiar with what a well balanced woody floral musk fragrance is? (Not an animalic musk fragrance based on black musc nor  an ambergris fragrance.) We are talking about the art of woody floral musk perfumes. An art so very well cultivated in the Middle East and in the Northern...