It's not going to surprise anyone that I enjoy a bit of media cross over. Visual art, cinema, patterns, performance art, design and arc...

I think I mentioned in one of my last posts that I am not looking for refreshment in a perfume, and while that is still the case, I have to...

Spanish perfume house  Carner  have dedicated their 5th scent, El Born ,  to the ueber trendy local borough in Barcelona of the same name. ...

Backstories for perfumes are sometimes interesting, often ostentatious and nearly always written by some more or less clever PR company....

Ach , violets. Such delicate little things. I always thought it odd that the German word for them, Veilchen ,  is also used to describe a b...

I cannot remember where and when I first met her, this strange Virgin with child surrounded by angels, but I do come across her in differen...

This spring, time is flying by even quicker than usual. While it definitely feels like it  was just last week that we were visiting Paris, ...

Italian perfume house nobile 1942 is on it's way to becoming a new favourite of mine. I have already written about the Chypre and sinc...

I started to write this post on a Eurostar train when I was not in the mood to read and M, my travelling companion, kept himself busy wit...

Our 20's should, in theory, be years of youthful joy, optimism, and independence. Mystified as a glorious time for trying out everyt...