Scents and Sensibility: Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose

I love the smell of roses (also, chocolate chip cookies, sunshine, and The Beatles. I AM SO ORIGINAL.) Rose is one of my favourite notes in a perfume, so you’d think that a perfume called Mille et Une Roses would be my favourite perfume times 1001.
Lancome’s 1999 scent is a lovely musky rose perfume [...]

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Scents and Sensibility: Yet another perfume by a lady named Annick

According to this perfume blog that sounds like she knows a hell of a lot more about smelly stuff than me, Grand Amour was composed not by but for Annick Goutal by the house’s expert nose Isabelle Doyen. It was apparently inspired by the passion Goutal had for her cello-playing husband, and if that is [...]

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