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2023

There has been hubbub surrounding the politicization of a very popular perfume community.  It has provided Parfumo quite the windfall in terms of growing membership; I found this community...

Parfumo is excited to launch "Top Picks", a feature that allows users to creatively showcase their fragrance choices. Building on the top-rated fragrances page, this new addition...

Disclaimer: This whole article is a ~30 minute read. All of the categories have accompanying lists with images at the end of the relevant categories - you may want to skim the post and read the parts...

The Parfumo Community is excited to announce that we have successfully migrated our platform to Parfumo.com.  This change comes as part of our ongoing commitment to providing...

The day we buried my grandmother I wore Calandre. It seemed soft and comforting, but also chic and somehow modern, despite being a perfume from the 1970s. As we stood around the family cemetery plot on that warm June morning, I would catch a bit of Calandre every now and then when there was a slight...

When you click on a perfume in the collections, there is now a better preview. It replaces the "big" window and should make it easier to use. A number of other useful features have also been...

Hey there! It's me (27F), once again sharing my internal monologue. This time, I wanted to delve a bit further into the subject of writing reviews about fragrances. I've been practicing my writing...

For millennia, fragrances have exerted a magical attraction on people and have become an indispensable part of daily life for many. It is therefore hard to imagine that there was a time when they were a rarity...

With the new "Profiler", we launched a new feature that lets you discover the most common fragrance notes, scent type and additional information about a fragrance...

If for some reason there was a situation that you could choose only one perfume house with you on a desert island for the rest of your life, which house would it be? This ancient question of a desert...

There is a trend in fragrance reviews which is both amusing and mildly irritating.  The trend of which I speak is reviewers, who have never been in their fifties,  determining what fragrances are suitable for "women [and men] in their fifties," based the reviewers' dislike of the fragrance. ...

There have been some minor updates recently. I would like to briefly summarize the most important changes here Collections You can now add perfumes directly to the collections without having to visit...

Happy November, my dear fragrant friends! What are you going to wear this month? Last week when I was photographing my selection for November 2023, I came up with this thought that...

There must be a reason vanilla is a favourite fragrance for many people, even if not everyone likes it. When we say vanilla, we often associate it with vanilla body products, or with the creamy aroma...

My dearest hobbies are fragrances, nails and photography. I'm going to combine all three in my blog. For a few years now my nail art has been inspired by perfume bottles, and this first blog post related to the subject...

Hey there, it's me (28F) who's back again, this time with a rant. I wasn't planning on polluting Parfumo with a negative rant, but I have to do it to get it out of my system.  A few weeks ago, as I was perusing...