Those of you who have read my thoughts on Vero Profumo’s Onda know I’m a fan of this perfume, perfumer and line.   Onda’s rich strange nod to Guerlain’s Djedi, while not being just a copy of that perfume – a new slant on how you get to Mars from Pluto - is brilliant.  She currently has two other scents out, [...]

To anyone who´s spent more than five minutes reading my blog posts, it must be screamingly obvious that I am, how you say, no trained professional. I do not possess the impartiality or the discernment of the chemist or master perfumer who is capable of dissecting some fragrance with enormous artistic merits that s/he may, [...]

I tried to write about perfume, honest, but other things got in the way. On Saturday, we went out to have a meal with a couple of friends, chew the cud, the usual stuff. I’d been perky all day but found myself getting quieter and quieter as evening progressed. I seemed sad. There wasn’t any [...]

Chandler Burr sets forth the opinion in his new book, The Perfect Scent,  that tastes and styles of perfume change, which is true – each decade seems to have a theme.  He continues on that perfumes from earlier decades - and I am wildly characterizing this and hoping I get it more or less right – tended to have [...]

Chandler Burr is the sort of guy I´d want to sit next to at a dinner party – full of funny stories and interesting facts and insider information. I wouldn´t necessarily want to be his roommate; my guess is he travels a lot, and we´d end up arguing about whose turn it was to deal [...]