also popular at this time, in which various objects such as plants, shells or poems were compared. A popular practice was "takimono awase", where people mixed and tried out scents together. The participants were often inspired by poetic episodes from the novel "The Tale of Prince Genji" and wrote their own poems. A scented powder was mixed into a paste,...

is linked to the history of his family.Gritti Gritti The history of Gritti perfumes is said to date back to the 16th century, when Alvise Gritti, a merchant born in Constantinople, began trading in perfumes. He skillfully combined spices and essences that connected the Orient with the West and wrote down the recipes for these exquisite fragrances...

the Empire. He is "The Bug | Lush / Cosmetics To Go". Protest. Unsettling and disjointed, like the official description of the fragrance says. Luthen Rael's sunrise on Scarif. Photo © Lempi. I've made my mind a sunless space. I share my dreams with ghosts. I wake up every day to an equation I wrote 15 years ago from which there's only one conclusion, I'm damned...

should try it occasionally! Lush Ectoplasm Shower Scream, photo & nails © Lempi There's controversy among the mediums if real ectoplasm glows in the dark or not. But the smell of Lush Ectoplasm is definitely glowing so brightly that it pushes away all darkness whenever I wear it, as I wrote in my review. It's an uplifting zesty uncomplicated citrus fragrance, pure vitamin...

is more a personal thing i do every so often that i have wrote a blog about in the past where i would update the blog daily with the changes i would notice while taking a break from fragrances. It would be things such as my sense of smell of natural things around me would intensify, taste of my food would increase and other things. I like to take a break every...

seem to you, that more money will be recouped by selling larger volumes to fraglovers convinced enough by the notes you publish, to blind buy them. However, I warn that after one too many fails, you may lose them entirely as a customer. You only need to read the comments section of a blog post I wrote exploring the future of blind buying, to see that it is already happening....

10 list and i dare say this is where most of us heard the word "OUD" for the very first time. I am 42, i was 41 when i started collecting last year and it was the first time i heard it, or took note of it at least and i am a man of many words, just go look at the forum and how many replies i have wrote in the short time i have been here lol. Let's get back on topic though. OUD! This word...

or crowd-pleasing, though all Finns can recognize the familiar natural smells that he has managed to recreate so skillfully. Those smells might be even perceived as polarizing but definitely unique. Koitere (photo © Lempi) Finlandeol is probably the most Finnish fragrance that I own. I wrote in my Parfumo statement: "The authentic smell of a bath broom made of birch branches in the humid...

me a little of that sentiment. Lastly, fragrances we regularly choose to wear evoke a certain reaction from others that is a dopamine high to us. 'Elegant... Huggable... Feminine' these compliments elicited by Al Haramain's Junoon has me subconsciouly reaching for her every time I travel. When I wrote this article, I was in a plane travelling from London after concluding...

as you all have seen my blog has been empty for a while since i last wrote about the break i took. I simply didn't have anything of interest to talk about until now, because i really want to tell as many people about Aaron as i possibly can. The reason being, i have not felt this excited in a while about a fragrance house. I was recently discussing...

my last blog entry, I wrote about those fragrances that fall into the category of 'somebody that we used to know'. I shared two examples from my perfume journey- a win and a fail. Today, I'd like to draw your short-spanned attention to fragrances that fall into the category of 'the one that got away'.  Have you ever...

decided today that i would be making a change in how i rate longevity. I wrote a blog about how i see weak fragrances recently and it seems to have made a change in how some people see weak projecting and short lasting fragrances and even inspired someone to rethink things and write a blog about it. Thanks for the mention :) They are to the right of me on the homepage...