Independent online guide to perfume

Latest Features

- Joseph Quartana of Six Scents Essentials on Ultra-Modern Gourmands and The Beauty of Duality
  by Carla Seipp
  Designed by Rad Hourani and created by nose Christophe Raynaud, Ascent represents the life and death cycle via semen, baby powder, leather, and frankincense accords (olfactory equivalents to conception, infancy, middle-age, and death). It’s a slightly sweet musk that maintains a hint of darkness. “Ascent is the black sheep, some people like and enjoy it, but it&rsqu… [Read More]
- Scent takes the stage: An interview with Sarah Baker
  by Carla Seipp
- Olfactory Adventures with 4160 Tuesdays' Sarah McCartney
  by Carla Seipp
- The Enduring Influence of Oud
  by Elizabeth Harris
- Geza Schön: Rebel With An Olfactory Cause
  by Carla Seipp
- Givaudan Evaluator Interview part 1 - "Always Find Something Positive" Naila Hamayed
  by Persolaise

Sweet Lime & Cedar by Jo Malone
by rogalal
That plasticky wood smell of assembling Ikea furniture, lightly minty and herbal. Maybe a mojito made with vodka instead of rum. Sawdust mixed with industrial glue. I've said in other reviews that thin, synthetic woods are some of my least favor...More
Nuit des Sens by Louis Féraud
by Buzzlepuff
This soft well mannered fragrance is very reserved, all background and context and a pleasant suede neutral warm unisex scent. A tone poem of violet leaf leather softened by pepper and nutmeg at the start and cleansed with vetiver patchouli and ince...More
Valentino Uomo Born in Roma Yellow Dream by Valentino
by Zealot Crusader
Part of me wonders if the marketing department at Valentino really did their homework on the name of this flanker-of-a-flanker Valentino Born in Roma Yellow Dream (2021), a flanker of Valentino Uomo Born in Roma (2019), which itself is a flanker of V...More