Like Estee Lauder's Private Collection, Bluebell is a powerful but ethereal fragrance that uncannily evokes the smell of freshly cut leaves and stems from a garden dripping with dew. But there's a tw...

I tried this on at Nordstrom yesterday, walked around for an hour, and came back for a second spritz so I could think about it some more. To me, this smells less like the original Shalimar and more l...

I sniffed this at the mall today, and I was stunned to find that it is almost identical to Cinema by Yves Saint Laurent. Perhaps the most notable difference is the strength of the sillage and the tim...

There's a lot to love about F by Ferragamo parfum. First, it's a lovely blackberry scent that isn't too sweet or too strong but just right. Then there's the abstract bottle design. Paying tribute ...

Someone sent me a sample as a swap extra, and it is utterly delightful. To me, it's the love child of Ombre Rose and Chamade-- sweet and powdery and ever-so-slightly green, but not too powdery as Omb...

Imagine that you uprooted a bushel's worth of assorted weeds from a sprawling garden and ran them through an industrial-sized blender-- leaves, stems, twigs, roots, and all, with lots of damp earth an...

Une Fleur de Chanel has the mild, unobtrusive scent of a liquid soap in a public restroom or the bar soap you find in a hotel. It smells clean and pleasant, but there's nothing obviously perfumey or ...

Ambre Fetiche is simply beautiful! It's a mouthwateringly delicious, ethereal amber that's gourmand without being too sweet. Some ambers, like Ambre Sultan by Serge Lutens, have a heavy, animalic qu...

A sweet lady at MUA sent me a little Iris Poudre as a swap extra to satisfy my long-time curiosity about this scent. It was lovely, but it was nothing like I expected. First of all, the powder in it...

After a hugely disappointing encounter with a scented magazine strip, I was almost certain that I wouldn't enjoy a real spritz of Calvin Klein Beauty. But yesterday, when I tried some on at Ulta, I wa...