One Thousand Scents

Normally I post every Friday, but technology threw a big old monkey wrench into my plans in the form of a hard-drive breakdown a few Saturda...

Last week it was tobacco and this week it's tobacco again and I have a feeling that, since winter is setting in fast, it's going to...

If you’ve ever seen one of those packs of runners leaving from or arriving at a Running Room on a Sunday morning, you may have had the ...

Despite my seemingly never-ending complaints about the ubiquitous fruity floral, the dominant mode of perfumery for the past decade and m...

Five and one third years ago I talked about the Lush solid fragrance Potion , or more specifically my own tin of it, which said on the bott...

Have you seen "Gravity" yet? I saw it last Thursday, and it haunted me so much that I went to see it again on Saturday. You rea...

Not that you could tell from my until-now-punctual postings, but I have been away for a few weeks. What follows is part travelogue, part wh...

Naturally, you are supposed to think of sex when you hear the name of Etat Libre d'Orange's 2011 launch "Archives 69"...

I have an unfortunate suspicion that if Afternoon of a Faun been launched (under another name, with other packaging) by a department-store b...

Last week I mentioned that I was putting a hold on ordering any new samples because I already have a bunch and because scents launched i...