A Scented Odyssey – Top 10 Perfumes For Greek Gods
Persolaise Unless you’ve been held captive on a remote island by a lusty witch for the last few months, you’ll be aware that the most anticipated movie of the summer is…
Hermes
Hermes Un Jardin Sous La Mer and Musc Pallida, Van Cleef & Arpels Les Classiques and Ode Ona reviews – 2026
– Here’s a link to my Substack post on Hermes Un Jardin Sous La Mer, Hermes Musc Pallida edp, Van Cleef & Arpels Les Classiques and the debut trio from…
Top 10 Perfumes For Spring 2026 – The Scents Of Friendship
Call me a dewy-eyed softie, but I think the world would be a better place if we spent a bit more time on maintaining friendships. So for my list of…
Tom Ford Oud Voyager, Guerlain Royal Extract III and other reviews – 2026
– Please click on the link below to be taken to my Substack reviews of the following perfumes: Tom Ford Oud VoyagerGuerlain Royal Extract IIITrudon Midnight Omen, 45° & MystiqueAnforh…
The Slow Burn – Top 10 Best Tobacco Perfumes
Smoking may be a socially dubious activity these days — and rightly so — but there’s no doubt whatsoever about the allure of tobacco perfumes, which is why I featured…
Waiting For The Right Time – Christine Nagel On The Creation Of Hermes Barenia Intense
– Some perfumes arrive on the market not at the right time. I have a good example — Wrappings from Clinique. I love this perfume. But it arrived too early.…
Top 10 Perfumes For Autumn 2025 – Celebrating Simple Pleasures
Regular readers and viewers invariably tell me that autumn is when they enjoy pulling out the more baroque scents in their collections: the rich, Mitsouko-esque chypres, the darker florals, the…
Top 10 Perfumes For Summer 2025 – Super-Joy Scents!
Perfume feels increasingly trivial at a time when more corners of the world are being plunged into darkness. But joy is never trivial. So as spring turns to summer, I…
Scented Kylie – Perfumes For Her 10 Best Songs
Kylie Minogue has long maintained an image as one of pop music’s most fun-loving characters, so I suspect she would have approved of a recent episode of Love At First…
Hermes Terre D’Hermes eau de parfum intense, Creed Eladaria, Akro Breathe and Hiram Green showcase reviews – 2025
From the molten core of the earth to the lung-filling openness of the sea — we covered a wide range of territories in my recent set of Love At First…
The Top 25 Perfumes Of The 21st Century… So Far
As 2024 came to an end, many of you asked if I’d compile a rundown of the best perfumes of the decade so far. I found the idea appealing —…
Top 10 Best Perfumes Of 2024 – Searching For The Human
— It doesn’t seem possible that twelve months have passed since I put together my last end-of-year roundup, but the reality is plain to see in the electronic diary beaming…
Top 10 Perfumes For Winter 2024 – Nostalgic Scents
I’m always slightly suspicious of the self-indulgent aspects of nostalgia, but I decided to revel in the feeling when broadcasting the rundown of my top 10 perfumes for winter 2024.…
Hermes Barenia, Le Labo Coriandre 39 and other City Exclusives reviews – 2024
As though determined to send us fragrance nerds into fits of apoplexy, Hermes are calling their latest release, Barenia, their very first chypre. Yes, you may well gasp. But dubious…
Top 10 Classic Eaux De Cologne – The Perfect Pick-Me-Up
It may be the oldest perfumery genre in existence, but it’s taken me until now to present my list of the Top 10 best eaux de cologne, for reasons which…
Top 10 Perfumes For Summer 2024 – Energising Scents
As I type these words, the summer solstice is just a few hours away, which means it’s the perfect time to present my latest seasonal list: Top 10 perfumes for…
Top 10 Tuberose Perfumes — All Our Favourite Divas
It was time for a bit of diva domination over on YouTube the other day when I presented my list of the Top 10 best tuberose perfumes — a compilation…
Hermes Paddock, Crivelli Tubereuse Astrale, Ffern Spring 2024 and Eau D’Italie reviews – 2024
Despite the (extremely off-putting) technical glitches, I broadcast a few more reviews over on YouTube the other day, including one of an entirely unexpected Hermes exclusive called Paddock, composed by…
Top 10 Perfumes For Spring 2024 – The Power Of Nature
As I type these words, hailstones are tapping away on our roof, but never mind — spring is here, right? Ever the optimist, I presented my list of the Top…
Christine Nagel On The Creation Of The New Hermes Oud Alezan And H24 Herbes Vives
“In my entire career, I’d made only one oud perfume. I didn’t like oud; I never had a passion for it. If you look on the market, there are many…