Leave it to Serge Lutens to invent a fragrance so divine, I would give any amount of money to possess it. Five O’Clock Au Gingembre is a throwback to olden times, when the ritual of tea drinking was still en vogue. This is not tea with milk. This is spicy black tea with jam, sugary syrup tea with an aftertaste of ginger. The sweetness and comforting...

her. I bring up this sad ring story because I have never forgotten my mom’s reaction when I told her the ring was gone for good. I’ve drawn on that memory on several occasions throughout my life when the need arose. When I gave her the bad news about her wedding band, I was close to tears and shaking a little. She replied, "It's a shame it’s gone, honey, but it's not the end of the world. It's just...

due to the general olfactory clamour. Some of them last much better on fabric than skin. If you do want to get to know them, spray them one at a time away from such smell clutter. I love being liberal with these (I own or have owned Seville a L'Aube, Dzing!, Safran Troublant, Tea4Two, Mechant Loup, Chasse aux Papillons, Mimosa Pou Moi, Voleur de Roses, Drôle de Rose,...

of the dome. “Oh! That is the woman on the back of our 50 stotinki coin!” The woman sits on a throne next to a man who wears a crown that looks like sun rays. In a touching gesture, she rests her outstretched hand and wrist on his. Around them, servants bring food and possessions and hold a team of horses. “This is a funeral feast. They loved each other unto death.” Rosa takes Nikola’s hand and they...

a single chord with me. I am hoping this will change with Calèche, of which I just bought a vintage edt mini, but I am also thinking of just leaving Hermès be for now should I not like it. And as for Serge Lutens, I really need to come clean: so far, I haven't found a single perfect ten or even a laudable nine. SL has a large selection though, but after Chergui, Ambre Sultan,...

at a steady and quick pace. With far more than 40,000 perfumes we have already achieved a lot. Our goal is to collect the available information about all perfumes of mankind that have ever existed or that are still to come in the future. But we are not satisfied with the progress of our team, it is still too small. If just one of us quits for a few days, the queue slows...

in public restrooms or the dangling pine tree "air fresheners" in taxi cabs, but I do recognise that it's a dislike and nothing more :-) Language used can be pretty unclear (and dramatic) around this issue. If the situation or relationship warrants it, some gentle inquiries might help tease out the differences between a response that could legitimately be called an allergy, as distinct from...

off, she couldn't choose a favorite. It was a tie between the magical Blackbird from the House of Matriarch and Jovoy's hypnotic La Liturgie des Heures. Now Fizur, Walad's personal guard, enters their lotus courtyard with bad news. Someone has absconded with all their favorite incense perfumes! Tears fill Yasmin's eyes, but Walad cannot bear to see his bride weep. "You still have your Jasmines," he points out. "Yes,...

wall of my bargain hunter pride. Still, I was missing the point and I knew it. A no buy for perfumes shouldn't mean a "buy everything else." I am taking reprieve from that January sales splurge. I didn't buy a scented product all of February, and it's been really hard. I can name at least ten things I want to buy on the top of my head. I am trying to delete them from...

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