I just recently rediscovered this lush tuberose-ylang ylang beauty, and I LOVE it. When CH launched this signature scent in 1988, I was still a kid, and very biased against fleshy white floral perfume...

SO.DAMN.GOOD. It’s hard for me to even write an objective review of Youth Dew Bath Oil. I grew up with several of the matriarchs of my family— some of them young!— keeping a bottle of this stuff on t...

I first smelled the current EDP & EDT at Macy’s, just to make sure this fragrance was “up my alley.” It was! So I hopped on eBay for a vintage (1970s-80s) bottle of No. 19 EDT. I wanted to smell thi...

For something called Happy, this sure is Annoying. I’ve been trying to like this stuff since it came out 22 years ago— lord knows I’ve gotten enough free samples with purchase over the years, and the ...

Popular for excellent reasons, Coco Mad is as structurally perfect as fragrance gets. It just smells undeniably GREAT— in fact, I tend to compare new fragrance releases to Coco Mad and always find the...

An unexpected love that took a few tries to develop! White Linen (1978) is an early Sophia Grojsman creation for Estée Lauder that is “clean” in the same way that many aldehydic classics (Chanel 5, Ch...

I would not recommend this product for oily skin. It’s basically cream lipstick smooshed into a little pot. Powder Pink creates a lovely, very natural-looking, peachy-pink flush on my light yellow-t...

Are you ready for the QUEEN MOTHER of fruitchouli fragrances? The trailblazer that started it all, back in ‘92? Well fasten your seatbelts, because Angel ain’t for the meek. When this perfume launch...

Ahhh, Aromatics. I can’t think of a fragrance that better represents the joy, the intellectual challenge, the beauty, the funk, and the continued relevance of Old Skool Perfumery. This is a five-star ...

The current Opium doesn’t know what it wants to be. It smells as if the vintage version were sent through a disinfecting chamber to remove all of its character, and then doused with rubbing alcohol. I...