Perfume tips and insights
There's a particular audacity to Yves Saint Laurent that has always set the house apart. The man who put women in tuxedos and scandalised polite society with sheer blouses understood...
"Luxury is attention to detail, originality, exclusivity, and above all, quality," Coco Chanel once declared—presumably while side-eyeing her competitors from across the Rue Cambon. One suspects she'd have opinions about...
There's a quiet revolution happening in perfumery, and it smells like almost nothing—at least at first. While mainstream fragrance houses continue their arms race of ever-more-complex compositions (seventy notes! A...
There's a certain kind of fragrance that doesn't walk into a room—it makes an entrance. Louis Vuitton's Ombre Nomade is that fragrance. Launched in 2018 as the house's first oud-centric...
Chicago isn't supposed to be a fragrance city. Not in the way Paris is, or even New York. It's a place of brutal winters, industrial grit, and Midwestern practicality—a city...
There's a particular kind of disappointment that comes with reaching for your favorite fragrance only to discover it smells like something dredged from the back of a vintage store. Perhaps...
From the niche perfumeries of Wynwood to the custom scent studios of Coral Gables, Miami has developed a fragrance culture as vibrant and complex as the city itself. Here's what...
You wouldn't wear the same outfit to brunch, the office, a wedding, and the gym, right? So why are you wearing the same perfume for literally everything? Building a fragrance...
New York City has quietly become one of the world's great fragrance destinations. From century-old apothecaries to Brooklyn indie upstarts, here's where to smell your way through the five boroughs....
Look, we love a good designer perfume as much as the next person, but dropping $300 on a bottle of Chanel? In this economy? Hard pass. The good news is...
There's something almost absurd about a Parisian luxury house trying to bottle California. The land of juice cleanses, perpetual sunshine, and people who say "vibes" without irony doesn't exactly scream...
Move beyond "it smells nice" with a practical framework for articulating what you're actually experiencing. This is the vocabulary that transforms vague impressions into precise descriptions. You spray a fragrance....
