Thanks to French grammarian Gilles Ménage (1613-1692), who devoted an article to the topic in his Observations de Monsieur Ménage sur la langue françoise (1672), we know that neroli, the floral essence of the bitter orange tree (Citrus Aurantium...

Cherry Tree at Night // Un cerisier la nuit © Chant Wagner 2018 If you stood in the right place under one of the cherry trees, you could get briefly engulfed in scent surround......

With the new Chanel Coco Mademoiselle Eau de Parfum Intense, the house is proposing to emphasize the "naturally excessive" nature of the original perfume born in 2001. Its original intent, we are told today, was to contrast the sensuality...

Guerlain's latest flanker to L'Homme Idéal (2014) is called L'Homme Idéal L'Intense, which as its name indicates, brings out more olfactive presence - a notion which has been interpreted here as smelling of hotness and smokiness, combined......

Amidst the medley, a persistent note of cassis reins in the natural exhuberance of the tropical olfactive landscape which readily forms in your imagination, picking up on the cue of the name of the perfume and hints of sultry-weather...

Taking (in) Spring Lying Down // Se coucher devant le printemps © Chant Wagner 2018 This photograph makes me laugh, personally. It seems as if city dwellers have been vanquished by the sheer intensity of spring, their senses overwhelmed......

Rochas is launching a new summery interpretation of one of the house's classics, its perennial agrestic opus, Eau de Rochas (1948 / 1970), called Eau de Rochas Escapade Tropicale, which takes inspiration this time from the luxuriating nature of...

A Cherry Tree Against the Evil Eye // Un cerisier contre le mauvais oeil © Chant Wagner 2018 I have been visiting this cherry tree, each year for a few years, when the time comes around in the spring....