WildGardener

Three times a Lady
Sometimes it can be difficult to say what a perfume smells like. It can change from the smelling strip to when it’s worn, from one time to the next, how much you spray on, the seasons; many things may influence the way a perfume smells. But there is another factor, one that is more objective, the concentration of the juice - which can vary in composition...

Is Frédéric Malle going off the boil?
There has been grumbling for a while now, niche houses sell out to corporations and the quality of the perfume goes down; both in the back catalogue and, most likely – but harder to gauge, in new releases. By comparing old and new samples you can often find out if a perfume has been tweaked, but the quality of new releases...