long before I can even remember, I have always considered giving to be my spiritual gift. When I found out that a friend and fellow perfume lover had been inflicted with a life threatening condition, I made the decision to do something to help. While the project has been pretty successful, it is far from over. Many members have donated time, money, perfume, shipping, articles, links, and plugs to build awareness...

walk through the forest, and more. This perfume sings the forest sounds, the filtered light from above through the trees, the thick mushroom laden ground with crushed leaves, wet dew drops hanging. I feel immersed in green muffled beauty. Other scents will take you on trips to far away exotic places, this perfume brings you close to nature. The stillness of a great forest. ...

Hi all, I've had to go to South Carolina because my mother is ill in hospital. She'll have been in here a week tomorrow. She came in with pneumonia and bladder and ear infections. Later, we found out she has late stage COPD and a "sepsis like condition". She's on oxygen and has a feeding tube. Please, if you believe in prayer or positive thoughts, I'd appreciate if you could direct those to her...

JAR. These letters stand for the abbreviation of the name of the creator. The house has several perfumes, but one stands out. Its beauty hits like a "Bolt of Lightning" and that is the only description it has. What is in it? We don't know and we are not supposed to know. Each individual... stand for the abbreviation of the name of the creator. The house...

shortcomings. We do get many proposals by the users – even more than we can handle with our small team. That's the point: Parfumo Research has never been intended to be run by only a few persons. It is lot's of fun for us Final Verifiers but we currently spend too much time with it by far. There is a life outside Parfumo and Parfumo Research, and we will not be able to keep up our current pace for very...

for putting a date on certain vintage perfumes. Looking at the labels and boxes of perfumes produced and/or sold in Italy, you can encounter two acronyms seemingly unimportant: UTIF and UTF. One or other, never simultaneously. The acronyms mean, respectively: -Technical Office Tax-Manufacturing (UTIF); -Technical Department of Finance (UTF) In practice, it is the license...

member Zora, I have been smitten.  I wrote a review which is just a few bare words as a result of my first impressions.  Under this link Gaia Fishler describes the impact better and more eloquently - http://www.thenonblonde.com/2013/03/isabey-la-route-demeraude.html  A far away place is the concept of marketing.  Fine and good and certainly fitting. My eager...

to stand out. Au contraire, these people might wear their perfume as a sort of shielding white noise. Soft, safe modern classics, like Coco Mademoiselle are often their choice, as are polite barely-there floral woody musks, floral greens and green tea types. Kenzo fragrances suit them well, L'Eau Par Kenzo and the soliflores of the Les Eaux des Fleurs line. Not to forget "the other fish",...

for the city authorities to "not lose face". Deodorants appeared on regular supermarket shelves, whereas before the "hygienically-challenged laowai" had to bring them in bulk from trips home. Westernization flourished, and so did the typical Western goods, including perfume.    So far, we have numerous Sephora stores which carry new releases only and, contrary to belief,...

little update: You can now browser ALL perfume photos. http://www.parfumo.com/PerfumePictures/ 20694 so far ;-) Thanks to Apicius for this great idea...

just added a new feature: You can now tag perfumes! How should I tag perfumes? What does the perfume remind you of? Use associations and thoughts as tags! You can check the screenshot below to get the idea... Where are the tags displayed? Right underneath your review (if you have actually reviewed the perfume). We'll show popular tags for...

have been away for too long, I know. Moving to a new space has been a rejuvenating experience but so many things are happening that the moving process seems already too far in the past. I hope all these things will have a positive outcome. This could not have been a better moment for an exciting project to be published on a A Shaded View On Fashion. Through my blog I met Ana Maria Rusu, a brilliant...