In Perfumes: The Guide, Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez rarely give Jean-Claude Ellena's scents more than 4 stars, and, based on Osmanthus, I heartily agree with them. Ellena founded The Different Compan...

Through the Looking Glass, one of the five fragrances in Mugler's "Miroir, Miroir!" (Mirror, Mirror) collection, blends very feminine ingredients with very masculine ones, i.e., a very femme, lovely h...

Created by perfumer Fabrice Pellegrin of Mane, Dis-moi is a creamy floral that seems to pay tribute to a woman at the three most important stages of her life: the first note to announce itself is lily...

Sampled this brand-new addition to the Exclusive bell-jar line in the Salons du Palais Royal Shiseido. The young, femme SA was very helpful. There's a row of pre-dipped blotters for all the scents tha...

I had heard this was a heliotrope scent so I couldn't wait to try it. On a Saturday morning, the Frederic Malle boutique on Paris's rue Grenelle was empty and the female SA was lackluster, to say the ...

To celebrate 15 years of the world smelling Angelic, Thierry Mugler Parfums had another lightning bolt of inspiration. Since Angel is a fragrance that millions of women know and love, why not let them...

I hesitate to review this after Luca Turin's seminal critique in Perfumes: The Guide, but since I've been reviewing the rest of the Mirror collection, here goes. Mirror of Vanities is described as an ...

This, to me, is the least successful of the five Mirror fragrances. According to the marketing literature for Mirror of Secrets, "for the very first time in perfumery, a natural aldehyde combines its ...

Another futuristic gourmandise from Mugler, but this time I'm not exactly licking my lips. Since jasmine is at the heart of Envies, it is ostensibly a floral, but resolutely doesn't smell like one. Co...

My friend John Marangos, Thierry Mugler's PR director for Asia Pacific, was so generous and respectful of my obsession for both the book and the movie that he gave me his own coffret since it was sold...