I'm surprised to find myself saying that this is the best blusher I've ever worn. I've gone through dozens (maybe even hundreds) of blush products looking for something that both looked natural and w...

This sparkles with gorgeous, zesty juice...10 mins. Delightful woody florals follow...20 mins. Then all is gone - completely gone; it's as if your arm has never been sprayed all day. I haven't had ...

Delightful soft incens-y wood. Principally sandalwood, which makes it sound like a hundred other (cheaper) scents, but not many others are quite as quietly perfect as this one. Stays close to the sk...

Utterly wonderful for the first hour or so; dry driftwood and earth. I imagine it as the marine equivalent of Andree Putmann Preparation Parfumee. Then after a couple of hours, something generic and...

The two other l'Art et la Matieres that I've tried have been frustrating near-misses. Angelique Noire started edgy and interesting, but flattened out into a glutinous dessert that made me nauseous. ...

Dark, dangerous, delicious. I adore Borneo 1834. And this from one who is, frankly, not Serge's greatest fan. (And who loathes Angel, in case you wondered.) The wax sample pulled me in from the st...

When I first sprayed my dinky sample, I thought 'nice'. Not great, not awful, just nice. Kind of citrus-y, kind of washing-powdery, kind of warm. Nice. After a while, I noticed that I smelled...very...

Ambre Sultan would be quite magnificent, were it not for that infuriating curry note. It's one of what I think of as 'hard' ambers - butch, shaven-headed ambers with tattoos - such as Ambra del Nepal ...

Oh, the pictures that PdE conjures up! One sniff, and I'm in one of those dark Venetian churches, where the odour of damp stone and mouldering tapestries mingles with the scent of altar lilies. I can...

There's no house quite like l'Artisan for producing scents that evoke an impression of BEING somewhere. With Voleur de Roses, I'm an orchard on a wet, stormy night; damp earth and crushed, half-ferme...