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One of my earliest scent childhood memories is of my dad smoking his pipe. I should, in fact, say pipes because he proudly collected them. I have inherited this...

Is there a fragrance you have purchased over and over again? I can think of several, but Dolce e Gabbana for Women might win the contest for me. Launched in 199...

Maison d’Etto is a line whose fascinating fragrance collection I’ve had the pleasure to try after winning a discovery set from the artistic perfumery magazine C...

If I had to pick one perfume for life it would probably be Chanel Cristalle Eau de Toilette. This fragrance embodies many of the warm/cool, bright/dark contrast...

I first heard of Sixteen92 Bruise Violet while researching fragrances inspired by cosmetics a couple of years ago. I was immediately drawn to its name and descr...

Inspired by the silhouette of a mysterious woman wearing high heels on Lexington Avenue as she begins her career in the beauty industry, Stilettos on Lex is the...

Many of us search for perfumes that are reminiscent of make-up accords because they evoke memories of sniffing and playing with lipsticks, creams, eye shadows, ...

I have loved chypre fragrances for as long as I can remember. I like how the kaleidoscopic orchestration of contrasting notes and accords – warm and cool, brigh...

I have always had a complex relationship with hesperidic (citrus) fragrances. I am drawn to their crisp brightness I often smell on others, but I am often disap...

Tobacco Rose, a creation by Papillon’s Liz Moores from 2014, was one of my favorite discoveries of 2019. As a rose fragrance lover, I knew early on there may be...