An interesting exercise by Guerlain in the gourmand trend set by Thierry Mugler's Angel. I had expected this to be a little more in the grand Guerlain manner, but don't detect a great deal of the Guer...

This review is for the extrait, which I was lucky to score on eBay. I had avoided Samsara for years despite being a Guerlain collector (in a minor way, you understand). And I fully admit it: it was be...

This rose is on the opposite of the spectrum from the ironically titled 'Portrait of a Lady'. I can't help thinking Frederic Malle was having a giggle with that one, because it is the embodiment of wh...

I find this doesn't quite live up to the hype, although it is undoubtedly a very nice rose-scented body wash with reasonably 'natural' ingredients. (Anytime I see a company claiming to be 'natural' I ...

Screaming scrubber. Eau de furniture polish. An industrial accident in a plastics factory. Sure-fire migraine trigger. Should be marketed as an emetic by a major drug company. Possibly the worst perfu...

I don't understand the bad reviews for this exquisite fragrance, but I conclude it just underlines how much perfume is about individual taste. Metalys strikes me as an intellectual hiding behind a b...

I think of this as a good everyday Iris scent that is more interesting and refined than Prada's. It's a soliflore/radix and on me is quite uncomplicated. I certainly don't get the decaying bag of carr...

This is a triumph. I too am one of those people who respect, but don't love, the original Chanel No. 5. To paraphrase Viktoria from Bois de Jasmin's brilliant comparison, the original is like stiff sa...

I finally get it, having tried Vol de Nuit in pure parfum. I struggled with this for a long time, reading the lyrical reviews and not understanding. When I spritzed it on (in EdT) all I got was a shar...

An over-hyped, overrated vanilla IMHO. The drydown turns thin and sharp on my skin, and the much lauded booziness smells like cheap, sugar-laden alco-pops. A big disappointment, but not for my wallet....