Let me begin by saying that I’ve never believed in miracle skincare products – even more so after being disappointed by many expensive purchases... Baume Rose d’Orient does not claim to be a youth eli...

Unexpected, soothing, wonderful, fleeting, fragile, addicting… That’s my Tubéreuse Criminelle. Your mileage may vary. All white flowers have what I call the “Dorian Gray issue”: a sweet, angelic, in...

Bois des iles, supposedly the first woody fragrance for women, is an iconic perfume created in 1926 by Ernest Beaux and reissued in at least a couple of different official incarnations since then. Tod...

Ninfeo mio is a green marvel, singing about spring and leaves and the sweetness of the first golden rays of sun. After a couple of tests I sprung for the full bottle, and I am very happy!! Ninfeo mi...

Une fleur de cassie is a perfume built on a whooping 4% of cassie absolute, and is a tribute to this difficult, beautiful, multi-faceted, scarce and valuable material. Cassie flowers belong to the ...

Paris, 1912; Jacques Guerlain creates l’Heure Bleue. Officially, he draws his inspiration from that particular hour between day and night when everything is suspended in ethereal blue light. But my...

Gardenia by Chanel is a misnomer: at best, she smells like a generic blend of jasmine-y white flowers; Gardenia by Chanel is no brainy type: she giggles, and squeaks, and jumps incoherently from one ...

Some perfumes are not just perfumes. They glide through the decades, unaffected by fashions or by the profusion of new launches, shining in the limelight year after year and reaching a veritably iconi...

Jicky is a perfume of light, contrasts and refinement. The extrait is golden and precious as the color of the juice itself. Some Guerlain perfumes, like Vol de Nuit, feature slightly different formu...

Amaranthine is a perfume that could have been all wrong, and featuring recognizable banana, vanilla and milk notes it does come close to a banana smoothie... but it manages to stay elegant and refined...