Fracas… the name of this perfume, it’s time of release and associations with noir cinema makes me want to grab my…
Valentino by Valentino – 1978
Green florals have always enticed me, vintage or modern. Florabotanica from the house of Balenciaga or Deneuve by Catherine Deneuve…
Le Trois – Diorella, Dioressence, Dior-Dior
This trio of Diors corresponds to each other very well. Not only through smell but through the names as well, something…
Diorissimo – Dior
Diorissimo is unabashedly a floral. Not that being unabashed is a bad thing but the reason why I say that is is because it is only and singularly a floral, nothing else.
No. 4 – Jil Sander
I remember I located an issue of Vanity Fair, circa 1993 with beautiful Julia Roberts on the cover in one…
Arpege – Lanvin
I don’t know how Arpege became a legendary perfume, especially since it doesn’t have Shalimar’s exoticsm or L’air Du Temps’…
Miss Dior – Christian Dior
Gorgeous advert right? The caption – misleading. Miss Dior was launched in 1947 while I suppose Dior was hot…
A short education in perfume.
Eau de toillete, Eau de Parfum, eau de cologne, Parfum de toilette, the list goes on and on. And it…
Uninhibited ~ Cher
Have you ever come across a person whom you haven’t ever even had the pleasure of seeing in person but…
What started it…
Ysatis by Givenchy came out in the early 1980’s. This perfume, like all other 80’s perfumes is a bomb. A flower bomb. An ylang ylang bomb. A beautiful bomb, non-destructive (unless you were like me when you were five and couldn’t keep the lid on the allergies). This is the first perfume I ever smelled, I think so. And on nobody other then my mother.
