The news hit me with the same severity they hit me everytime I hear that a legendary fragrance must be modernly reinterpreted, no matter what. This time it was Eau Sauvage's turn. As a silent watcher who has seen tenths of magnificent fragrances destroyed for no apparent reason, I thought I knew beforehand all the "arguments" that Dior was going to use. I was wrong. This time the shameless ridicule blew every fuse...

Coming of age during the '80s may be more ambiguous than it seems at first glance. Although I feel very lucky that I was present at the birth of so many legendary fragrances, I can't help but underline how deeply they have affected me and how they shaped my aromatic preferences for ever. Sometimes to the point of rendering me incapable to smell any new fragrance without inevitably comparing it with...

We live in times of great excess. No one seems to show any inclination towards being a better person anymore. Not in the sense of being useful and helpful to others at least. They all want to be extremely famous and make shedloads of money. Especially younger people, who found this web of trivialities already woven when they were born. Bruce Dickinson in "Tattooed Millionaire" has described...

As you have probably already guessed, this is an article about the irrational prices at which many discontinued and thus rare fragrances are offered (and possibly sold) nowadays. I know that everything is a matter of supply and demand, but come on now! What's wrong with all these people? Since when finding some old perfumes while cleaning their grandparents' basement means they could make a Ferrari out of them? ...

The reason was there for quite a long time now, but the cause was inadvertently given to me by a kind lady who sent me a 10ml bottle of Tosca perfume. I've read a number of reviews just out of curiosity, and I was fed up by the "old lady stinker" kind of comments, apparently written by people who think that the nth flanker of "Eau de Hush and Give Us Your Money" is the ultimate achievement in perfume history....

Something strange happened in Greece during the early '90s. Being polarising by its very own nature, some would call it a study in stupidity and some would call it inspired marketing. Here's how it goes... One day, some "luminary" from an ad agency discovered or remembered that due to the live cultures it contains, yoghurt is somehow a living thing. So (s)he thought that this was a very cool thing to underline,...

First of all, I'd like to remind to anyone who would be kind (and patient) enough to read this article, that these are my personal views on this particular subject, and they are by no means axiomatically right. Our personal preferences are 100% subjective, and subjectivity is usually the worst enemy of "right" and "wrong". I think that the very first priority in such a discussion is to define what...

Are we trained to like perfumes? I mean like Pavlov's dogs? Are we susceptible to anyone telling us stuff like "This is what you should like now. Everything else is either dated, old-lady, or hackneyed." or "If you wear this, girls will be at your feet, if you wear that, boys will love you. But only this and that, not these and those. These and those belong to the past and they'd better stay there." According...

Rest in Perfume and Peace uncle Oscar. Thank you so very much for creating some of our youth's benchmarks!