A beautiful iris perfume with many compliments due also to the presentation. Continue reading Worth the wait (L’Attesa by Masque Milano)

Red wine pairs more instinctively with chocolate. Continue reading Chocolate and red wine pairing—with perfume

Three’s company when it’s a trio of chocolate, wine, and perfume! Continue reading Chocolate and white wine pairing—with perfume

A definitively nonlinear perfume that never colors outside of its curvy lines. Continue reading It hits the spot, but which one? (Le Point G by Veronique Gabai)

A jigsaw puzzle of a visual of a smelly object accompanied by a sticker with the smell. Thinking outside the (literal) box! Continue reading Rose puzzle

Plenty of perfumes are inspired by chocolate, but how about the other way around? Continue reading Chocolates inspired by perfumes—Neuhaus Love Letter Box

Is it possible to speak of a love objectively? Continue reading Lunar New Year’s Eve—Year of the Tiger (and Osmanthus Interdite by Parfum d’Empire)

A sweet, bold, jammy fragrance for candy lovers. Continue reading Double concentrated (Hibiscus Mahajád by Maison Crivelli)

I may be over 20 years late, but we can still talk about this friendly, fruity, lactonic floral, right? Continue reading A rush of notes (Gucci Rush by Gucci)

Notes unite to form new ones in this luscious extrait. Continue reading Coloring within bold lines (Gozo by Jeroboam)

A beautiful botanical perfume with heart for endangered pangolins. Continue reading Something olde, something new, something precious, something true (Pangolin Violette Rose by Velvet & Sweet Pea’s Purrfumery)

A collective lightness of being somehow conveys gravitas in this fragrance. Continue reading Forever dusk (Nuit de Megève by Eight & Bob)

An encounter with a scent of this generation’s moment. Continue reading Green is the new black? (10 a.m. Flirt by Kierin NYC)

More green than blue; more moss than sea. Continue reading An exercise in contrast (Cap d’Antibes by Eight & Bob)

In a world with not enough scented novelty items, one doesn’t always have to be practical! Continue reading Time for a scented swim

Its reputation preceded my serendipitous encounter with it. Can it live up to expectations? Continue reading I bought this for the bottle (Black by Bvlgari)

The flower, the whole flower, and nothing but the flower? Continue reading A refuge in simplicity (Gardenia by Caswell-Massey)

Nostalgia and some contagious, friendly influence also played a part in my impulse buy! Continue reading I bought this for the bottle (Contradiction by Calvin Klein)