Puredistance have a solid, well regarded collection of perfumes and it’s always a nice surprise when they announce the arrival of a new edition to the fold. Last year’s White was one of my favourites of 2015 and now we have Sheiduna, the first oriental addition to their fragrance […]
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Happy Monday : Scent Of The Day : Mini Review : Shalimar Parfum Initial : Sweetly Satisfying
Happy Monday. Scent Of The Day is Shalimar Parfum Initial the cruelly discontinued gem from Guerlain in house perfumer Thierry Wasser. Billed as a Shalimar for the younger generation, it presumably failed to meet sales expectations and was purged from the lineup. Guerlain does have a track record of resurrecting […]

New Perfume Review: Viktoria Minya : Eau de Hongrie
Viktoria Minya is a young Hungarian perfumer based in Paris. She launched Hedonist, her first perfume under her own brand in 2013. It is a gorgeously ripe, lush peach of a scent and was much beloved by reviewers. Its appeal is enhanced by a covetable blinged up bottle […]

The Top 5 Serge Lutens Perfumes for the Festive Season
I noticed that this seasonally appropriate perfume piece from a year ago (one of my first posts) was getting a few views again so I decided to repost it et voilà here it is for more recent readers … I love lists so here’s my first […]

Perfume Review : Shalimar : The Sexy Oriental Queen
Top of my list of must try classic perfumes is Shalimar. It’s easily accessible, it’s a Guerlain, it’s French and simply a beautifully intoxicating creation. The current EDP version smells pretty good to me so god knows how brilliant the Parfum Extrait– the Queen Bee […]