Many perfumistas heard the Jean Claude Ellena was writing a book several years ago. I was on a waiting list at Amazon.com for at least a year until I finally took it out of my cart.Well it’s back in!
This poem was written by Michael Ondaatje (the author of the English Patient) is perhaps one of the most beautiful odes to love using our fifth sense as its lingua franca., This tale of love is told in two voices, in all tenses, by both the Cinnamon peeler and his wife
Resurrecting the legacy of Houses of perfumery past. The sleeper in ‘everything old is new again’ perfumery, and one of our personal favorites, is Jovoy Paris
What is Sniffapalooza ? It’s the world’s largest scent event founded by Karen Dubin and Karen Kovel Adams where fragrance newbies and aficionados gather to meet, greet and eat with the movers and shakers in the world of fragrance!!!
I was vacationing on Koh Samui island when my dear editor Michelyn asked to me to name the cities I have visited and the scents they evoke. Sydney, Amsterdam, Paris, Moscow, New Delhi, Bangkok, Mumbai, Florence…. All aboard my Diorella scented
magic carpet
One of the most popular ingredients in fine perfumery today is oud or agarwood, a material as ancient as the art of perfumery itself, rooted in the culture of the Middle East; highly prized for its unique, aphrodisiac and sensual properties. Three of our favorites are from M.Micallef who hosts our draw
