Welcome to the first Mood Scent 4 edition of 2018 with my blogging pals A Bottled Rose, L’Esperessence and I Scent You A Day. At Mood Scent Four we select perfumes to match moods and occasions or whatever takes our fancy. Please note that for […]
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Perfume Favourites for 2017 : And Other Fragrant Finds
Hello everyone and welcome to 2018. Here’s to a Fragrant New Year across the globe 🌺. I’m going to take you through my favourite fragrances of the year and a few musings. This is a year where I blogged less frequently for various reasons, however my […]
June / July Favourites : Summer Is Here
Summer is with us in a huge way. Temperatures are blazing and all the tourists are in town. There are near daily trips to the beach in the late afternoon when I can just about handle the lashings of sun. Unfortunately there have been some […]
Speed Smelling #2 : 5 x New Perfumes in 5 Minutes
For the second run of Speed Smelling we’re going to take a look at perfume samples from magazine inserts. In France many magazines contain fragrance advertisements with small pockets of the scent that you tear back and wipe on skin. I presume that this is […]
Six Classic “Parfums Mythiques” According To Vogue Paris
The new Vogue Paris is out on shelves this week and it’s a bumper 95th anniversary edition and the best in some time. It is bulging with brilliant photography, fashion and French icons. There are four covers to choose from. The selection is between Gisele Bündchen, Kendall Jenner, Christy Turlington […]
Anjelica Huston On Serge Lutens In The 1970’s : Finding Serge And That Haircut
“In 1971 Bob (Richardson) and I decided to move to Paris. We loved to shoot for Dior with the great makeup artist and perfume designer Serge Lutens, whose extraordinary talent and eye for detail inspired us. Working for the European magazines was liberating in terms […]
Ads About Town : Dior’s Eau Sauvage with Alain Delon
Walking around the French village I live in, there are often a multitude of perfume billboards to be viewed. I sometimes think this is overkill for such a small town and can’t imagine it’s a good use of the advertising budget. However now that the tourist […]
Very Belated May Perfume News Round Up
I’ve fallen completely behind doing these monthly updates and Esxence side tracked me as I smelt so many perfumes that were new to me that the updates seemed superfluous. However I’m ready to launch into a new wave of round ups. So here we go. […]
Top 10 Perfumes : Chosen By French Perfumers
I kept a perfume article from Grazia France magazine that I read a while back and here is a summary of its contents. Grazia had six French perfume creators (or ‘noses’ as they’re called in the industry) each compile a list of their Top 10 perfumes, excluding […]
Perfume News : Top 10 Best Selling Feminine Perfumes in France 2014
I first read this top ten list on Bois de Jasmin and she referenced the original article where she sourced this data (Challenges France), so I thought I’d take a peek and see if there were any other interesting bits and pieces. I’ve had a […]
John Galliano Is Back : At Martin Margiela
After a spectacular fall from grace, John Galliano has been working on his recovery and rehabilitation since he was filmed making an anti semitic ass of himself in 2011. Dior promptly fired him and it really was a huge fall. Galliano was a theatrically brilliant […]
My 2014 Perfume Favourites : Read All About It
Here’s a round-up of my perfume favourites from this year. Admittedly I have not tried anywhere near the hundreds of perfumes that have been released in 2014, however my first New Years resolution is to try and sniff more in 2015! Mainstream Favourites Feminine Guerlain […]
Megan In Sainte Maxime 