Byredo, the Swedish perfume house was one of the first niche brands I encountered and sampled in full, thanks to the generosity of the Byre...

     First things first: Happy New Year.  I haven't posted anything for a while, a fact for which I can partly blame an ove...

Adding a new perfume bottle to your collection is always exciting, but sometimes there is a level of anxiety involved. Will I still like it...

Sometimes you don't need many words to describe a perfume. The kinkiest scent around is probably all you need to know about Absolue Pou...

Once a hippy, always a hippy? I do have pictures of me wearing purple, hand died dungarees, a Palestine scarf and about 2 dozen badges sho...

This Pure eVe (pretentious spelling alert!) by The Different Company was originally released as Pure Virgin , a name that probably only Eta...

I am just back from a holiday in France where the temperamental weather meant that we spent most of our time with eating, drinking and visi...

Different cultures have different rules as to what is considered an unsuitable topic for polite conversation around the dinner table. In G...

I used to be a smoker and I am sure the habit has done unspeakable things to my sense of smell; just how much it improved after quitting wa...

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...