Some sexy little body mists that have caught my attention this summer - they are brilliant for freshening up without perfume-gassing everyone within a ten mile radius. The key to summer fragrancing is to keep it subtle, I think - if you're going for something heady...
Due to popular demand, I am creating yet another category to go in my "scented things" section: this one will be called Orange-Blossom Scented Things. I just need to work out a way of getting these categories into the menu bar without having drop-down lists with...
Lots of you have been asking for a "fragrance collection" video and so I have caved in to popular demand! This isn't a collection so much as "the bottles of perfume that have ended up on my special shelf", but there are some firm favourites in there so I hope that...
See what I did there? With the title? The "l'eau-down"? Get it? Let me just dodge the huge tumbleweed that's rolling towards me and then I'll get on with the post. Colognes! What does that word make you think of? Beautiful orange and lemon groves and crumbling old...
You must know by now how much I love all things "rose". I'm developing a whole category on the site dedicated to rose things - I just need to work through the archives and add old posts in too, but if you want to view the contents so far, then it's here: Rose-Scented...
I'm in love with this scent from Acqua di Parma. I was wrongly convinced, at first, that this was a male fragrance, but only because my friend Justin was wearing it last weekend! It is, according to the blurb, unisex, though a quick Google tells me that it was...
I hate the term "affordable luxury" because so often the "luxury" isn't there. It's just affordable "mediocre stuff" that some clueless idiot in an office somewhere has deemed to be luxurious. When it comes to Abahna, however, I have to admit that the term fits very...
Today, Guerlain launch their new fragrance La Petite Robe Noire into Selfridges. It's a bit of a departure from the norm for Guerlain, because this is quite a fun and "young" little fragrance, whereas most people associate Guerlain with seriously good, but very...
Whilst trawling through the archives, I found a post that had never been published - I think it's because I published the video on Basenotes fragrance website instead! Anyway, here it is now. A video review of Tom Ford's Santal Blush and Jasmin Rouge, both from the...
Smart new products in Jo Malone's 'Home' range: Scent Diffusers and Room Sprays. Available in the classic Red Roses, Pomegranate Noir and Lime Basil & Mandarin, they come smartly packaged and expensively bottled. The glass scent diffuser is extremely heavy and the...
Who better to create a special Royal Jubilee fragrance than Floris? Did you know that Floris are Her Majesty the Queen's own appointed perfumers? I'm sure that I've mentioned this before - perhaps in my bespoke perfumery post - but Floris really are a brand with an...
I have instant love for l'Eau de Chloe, the latest version of the original Chloe eau de Parfum. I have another version, the Rose Edition (see the Chloé Rose Edition Review here) but I don't like that anywhere near as much as the new one. I loved it before I had even...