Perfumer Gérald Ghislain Says ‘Make Perfume Not War’
The luckiest of children are those who are freshly-bathed nightly and tucked into bed by a grandparent, preferably one who smells like lilacs and tells bedtime stories of good children and bad children and children who are rewarded with sweet oranges and…
Five Savage Summer Fragrances
As the 1955 song has it, “spring can really hang you up the most,” which is itself a sort of paraphrase of T.S. Eliot’s opening line to The Waste Land: “April is the cruelest month.” In other words, spring can be dangerous…
Elements Showcase 2012: Fragrance Fantasyland
Sometimes a fragrance smells so delicious that you want to lick your wrist (or bite into your sweetheart’s neck). Smell is as much associated with taste as it is with memory and this August’s edition of Elements Showcase featured a pop-up shop by Alice…