One of my long-term love affairs and pure bliss in a bottle. Jean-Claude Ellena is commonly described as creating haikus with scents, conveying tremendous complexity despite the superficial lightnes...

As the odd male reviewer on MakeupAlley I must say... I love this fragrance! And it is weird because I normally despise vanilla fragrances. They are a throw back to this period in the 90's where every...

Over the last few months I've become interested in sampling fragrances from Houses/companies that I'm not very familiar with. Hermes fragrances are well reviewed on MUA and Fragrantica so I've become ...

LILIES! beautiful lilies cascading down on you. Not at all foody TG, and appears to be evanessecent but you keep getting faint whiffs of it for hours later, how do they do that? Fairylike and ethere...

I am a huge fan of unusual vanillas and a self-confessed Jean-Claude Ellena groupie. But, until the life-changing moment I tried Vanille Galante, “Ellena” and “Vanille” were two words that didn’t belo...

This is a poem in a bottle. No, a haiku. Of all perfume I've ever smelled this is the one masterpiece that like all brilliant creations is simple and genius. And yet the simplicity is deceptive. The...

This is AMAZING. It reminds me exactly of the freshly blossoming honeysuckles my grandma used to have growing in her backyard in North Florida. Also reminds me of when I was little, sitting outside ...

This is not something for foody, gourmand vanilla lovers. It is a beautiful, elegant, tender and subtle gardenia scent with just a hint of vanilla. Very demure and feminine, cosy and innocent and some...

I tried this perfume in the boutique, spraying it liberally over my hair and jacket. I though it smelled "great," but I did not buy it. I came back to work and hung my jacket in my father's office. Af...

Vanille Galante is exquisite. A sister of Osmanthe Yunnan! Instead of being sunshine in a bottle like Osmanthe Yunnan---- Vanille Galante is that first spring day ... warm , rejuventaing and inviti...