The Black Narcissus | perfume obsession and the scented skin

Guest post by D
As Neil was otherwise disposed, on Friday evening I attended, on his behalf, the Nose Shop’s event at the Embassy of Argentina, introducing the perfumes of Frassaï. This Argentinian niche brand was featured in Neil’s perfume workshop in Honolulu, as...

This has just made it to Japan as a ‘new’ release by the perfume house that always has young hip things queueing up at concessions throughout city department stores here to suck up the wares for self pampering or gifts – Diptyque remains very much in...

There is often something very moving for me about a real profusion of flowers. The cascades of wisteria at flower parks in Japan, the banks of cherry blossom along city rivers, rose gardens in the English dusk. But all of these places are public: made...

There is nothing connecting these two perfumes aside from the fact that we wore them on Saturday night. The Guerlain – a peppery lavender amber – that I found retrograde when it was released and came to love, was just the right thing for a balmy then...