De Profundis opens with the scent of big, lively chrysanthemums, in the fall -brisk, slightly spicy and musty. Delicate, dewy violets and damp loamy earth follow shortly thereafter, along with a cool ...

Annick Goutal's Mandragore reminds me of a scene in the 1980's vampire film The Lost Boys, when the main characters' grandpa says "....well that's about as close to town as I like to get." My perfume...

I am afraid that I have taken to calling this scent "Dame Bland." I do smell all of the things that people seem to love about it: the elusive whiff of soft suede from the inner pocket of an impossibl...

Purchased due to a recommendation from my salon, I am afraid this has since been relegated to the guest bathroom (hey, they only have to use it for one or two nights, and it beats throwing all of that...

When I was 18, I was dating the boy who used to live next door to me, but who had since graduated high school and moved to Indiana to attend Notre Dame. We spent a week together on summer break, durin...

I really wanted to love this. I was absolutely certain that I would. Which goes to show I know nothing. Regrettably, Cuir Mauresque smells like that one plastic Barbie you neglected and never felt b...

On first application Les Nuits d'Hadrien smelled a bit like musty celery but after sniffing my wrist repeatedly over the course of the next hour or so, the weird thing is...I really liked it. (The boy...

Foliage and tall trees and rich, gritty dirt, soft smoke and damp greenery, and all the best smells of a forest ramble--but the hiker is wearing Prada boots and an Hermes scarf. This scent of a woodla...

I reviewed this a few years ago under a different moniker (I used to be 'mangolassie', see below) , and though imagery invoked remains the same, it's not so fresh and clean as I remember. More like a...

This is my all-time, hands-down favourite lip balm. Probably for everything it is not, rather than what it is: for example it is not mentholated or tingly; there is no noticeably flavour or smell (pe...