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Perfumery in all its styles
A gourmand perfume that isn't cloying: what makes the difference
A gourmand turns cloying when sugar has no counterpoint. Wood, leather, spices, the bitterness of...
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Aquatic Perfume and Marine Notes: Calone, Salt and Seaweed
The sea cannot be distilled. We explain how Calone, discovered in the late 1960s, created the fam...
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How to Read a Fragrance Page at Passion Parfum
A Passion Parfum fragrance page reads block by block: tagline and concentration, the olfactory py...
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Whiskey Perfume and Boozy Notes: Rum, Cognac, Mezcal
Boozy notes in perfumery recall a drink, rum, cognac, whiskey, gin or mezcal, and have nothing to...
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Gulf Perfumery: Oud, Rose and Bakhoor
Oud comes from Asia, while Taif rose and Omani frankincense come from the Arabian Peninsula. Bakh...
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Chocolate Perfume: Cocoa Bean, Absolute and Accords
Cocoa in perfumery is the roasted seed of Theobroma cacao, an Amazonian tree. We explain how ferm...
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An evening fragrance: presence without overload
An evening fragrance should be noticed up close without filling the room. The families that work,...
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What is labdanum: cistus, resin and perfumes
Labdanum is the resinous gum of the gum rockrose, a shrub of the western Mediterranean. We explai...
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Allergens and IFRA: what a perfume label tells you
What the word "Parfum" and the allergen names on a European perfume label mean, what changed with...
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Leather perfumes and smoky scents: the dark side of Adi ale Van
Adiere, Leaves in the wind, Gun Shadows, Labels of Feelings and Mezcal My Love make up the smoky,...
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What is tobacco: cured leaf, latakia and perfumes
Tobacco in perfumery is the cured leaf of an American plant, Nicotiana tabacum. We explain how cu...
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When the Perfume Bottle Becomes Art: Cut Glass, Hand Painted, Sculpted
Hand painted bottles from Adi ale Van, hand cut optical glass from House of Atropa, concrete and ...
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