THE LEMONS OF DREAR: EAU UNIVERSELLE by L’OCCITANE (2012)
Would you buy a perfume with this name? ‘Universal water’? I used to get excited whenever I went into the L’Occitane shop. Sixteen years ago, when the brand had not become the great high street empire...
View ArticleA bristling citrus: PHILTRE D’AMOUR by GUERLAIN (2000)
With so many perfume houses releasing limited editions that are released, fanfared and then disappeared without trace, it becomes easy to equate their brevity on the market with similar levels of...
View ArticleEveryone, meet Ms Cabochard’s younger sister……………QUIPROQUO by Grès (1975)
Cabochard, Bernard Chant’s classic patchouli chypre from 1959, looms large and elegantly in the Parisian canon as an archetype, and it is not surprising therefore that the house of Madame Grès...
View ArticleYOU LOOK RIGHT THROUGH ME : : : EAU DE ROCHAS (I970)
Strangely, I read the other day that Eau De Rochas is currently the venerable company’s best selling scent in France (I...
View ArticleÔ DE LANCOME ( 1969 )
I find wearing Ô de Lancome almost unbearably nostalgic. This is one of those perfumes that is indivisible from my own life and my family; the walls of our old house in Olton, Solihull. My...
View ArticleBLACK MIRROR, AND THE PERFUMES OF MAISON FRANCIS KURKDIJIAN : : ABSOLUE POUR...
Utopia and dystopia are often very close, at least for me. Perfection is perfection, but it can be cold – even terrifying. Black Mirror, a very British series made by...
View ArticleRADICAL REMIXING : : : :: LIMON DE CORDOZA by THE DIFFERENT COMPANY
I love a cheap niche bargain, where I can enjoy the smell of a contemporary perfume without the familiar feeling that it wasn’t worth the money. Just to use at my leisure without thinking too hard....
View ArticleMOUCHOIR DE MONSIEUR by GUERLAIN (1904)
I picked up a bottle of Guerlain’s classic Mouchoir De Monsieur the other day for thirty dollars: I could not resist. Although I remember smelling this Belle Époque ‘gentleman’s cologne’ at...
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