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2015

I am glad to announce that today, a major update of the Parfumo site went online.Parfumo has been adjusted to the so-called "responsive web design" which enables a much better use of Parfumo on small output devices such as smartphones and tablets.The major difference is that Parfumo is no longer...

How can one host a small perfume fair especially for Germany just 3 weeks before the big Esxence in Milan? The date isn't that bad after all. One or the other new perfume that is to be officially launched at Esxence can already be spotted today in Düsseldorf – even...

Cups of sweetened lemon teaWith some jasmine just for me;Some bergamot to set the moodThe table's set with summer food;Next to where the peppermint growsThe celery's lined up in rows;And so outside in the summer sunI sit and chat with my dear mum.by Dorothy Grace.

The reason was there for quite a long time now, but the cause was inadvertently given to me by a kind lady who sent me a 10ml bottle of Tosca perfume. I've read a number of reviews just out of curiosity, and I was fed up by the "old lady stinker" kind of comments, apparently written by people...

First of all, I'd like to remind to anyone who would be kind (and patient) enough to read this article, that these are my personal views on this particular subject, and they are by no means axiomatically right. Our personal preferences are 100% subjective, and subjectivity is usually the worst...

As you have probably already guessed, this is an article about the irrational prices at which many discontinued and thus rare fragrances are offered (and possibly sold) nowadays. I know that everything is a matter of supply and demand, but come on now! What's wrong with all these people?...

Are we trained to like perfumes? I mean like Pavlov's dogs? Are we susceptible to anyone telling us stuff like "This is what you should like now. Everything else is either dated, old-lady, or hackneyed." or "If you wear this, girls will be at your feet, if you wear that, boys will love...

As if 2015 had not already blighted me enough with fires and floods, it had another nice surprise for me to savour during its last days.Dior having probably concluded that old crones (myself included) had their fair share of Poisons thus far, decided the time was right for breeding a bunch of young witches...

Something strange happened in Greece during the early '90s. Being polarising by its very own nature, some would call it a study in stupidity and some would call it inspired marketing. Here's how it goes... One day, some "luminary" from an ad agency discovered or remembered that due to the live...

Have you ever thought that a beloved fragrance might act as a much better advisor than many people would ever do? Have you ever radically changed your disposition on some burdensome crux after wearing a scent anew, especially when it's one you used to wear when you were somebody else? Have you ever...

Last year I tried to modernise myself a bit, cause being half-covered in spider webs had begun to look a little unsettling. Thus I decided to sort of give up my 30 years old smoking habit and convert to e-cigarettism, the newfound religion for nicotine repenters. At some point I bought...

Coming of age during the '80s may be more ambiguous than it seems at first glance. Although I feel very lucky that I was present at the birth of so many legendary fragrances, I can't help but underline how deeply they have affected me and how they shaped my aromatic preferences for ever....

We live in times of great excess. No one seems to show any inclination towards being a better person anymore. Not in the sense of being useful and helpful to others at least. They all want to be extremely famous and make shedloads of money. Especially younger people, who found...

I see that some of you are interested in finding Micallef perfumes on the net. There is still a lot to discover by Micallef rsp. their house perfumer Jean Claude Astier that is a bit off the beaten track. Geoffrey Nejman has apparently been busy over the years touring Europe and keeping...

Perfumes are some of the most potent image generators out there. And I believe that a good deal of this potence lies in the way they were christened. As William S. Burroughs allegedly used to say, language is a virus from outer space. And the most effective one ever I might add, since it has infected us all....

I made the most amazing Perfume the other dayWith lavender, frankincense, Jasmine and nerolae.I added rosemary and ginger,Galbanum and hibawood,(At this stage you knowIt didn't smell too good).What to do to rescue?(Ignoring less is more)A few drips of carnationTtook over the whole floor.Gardenia,...