Fragrance Journal
Everything worth knowing about fragrance — find your scent, make it last, skip the designer price.
Chanel-inspired perfumes for women
Chanel's women's fragrances are the ones people come back to after ten years of trying other things. They're rarely anyone's most exciting bottle and they're very often the...
Read the guide →How to store perfume
A good bottle of perfume can last for years. Kept in the wrong place it can go sour...
Chanel perfume — history and famous scents
A hundred years is a long time for a perfume to stay in production. Chanel No 5 came...
What does vetiver smell like in perfume?
If you've ever smelled a men's fragrance and thought "that smells expensive and I have no idea why",...
Paco Rabanne-inspired perfumes for women
Paco Rabanne's women's fragrances have the same personality as the men's: they arrive before you do and they...
EDP vs EDT — what's the difference?
Two bottles, same name, same brand, different letters, twenty dollars apart. Nobody at the counter explains it, so...
Calvin Klein-inspired perfumes for men and unisex
CK's men's fragrances have never tried to be the loudest thing in the room. They're the ones you...
What does leather smell like in perfume?
Leather sounds like a terrible idea for a perfume. It's a smell people associate with car seats, jackets...
Paco Rabanne-inspired colognes for men
Paco Rabanne makes the loudest men's fragrances on the shelf, and they sell in enormous numbers because loud,...
Best perfume for fall
Fall is the hardest season to dress for and the easiest to smell good in. Mornings are cold,...
Niche vs designer perfume — what's the difference?
People use these words as if they mean cheap and expensive. They don't. They describe who made the...
Why Paco Rabanne smells like nothing else on the shelf
Most designer fragrance is designed not to offend. Paco Rabanne went the other way and built a house...
