• Niceties — Le Louvre Douzaine by Buly 1803

    Niceties — Le Louvre Douzaine by Buly 1803

    To look upon you would think that this cigarette pack-like box contained anything but the fine fragrant delights that await you within — that typifies the whimsical nature of Officine Universelle Buly. Open the “pack” and what greets you are twelve copper topped porcelain-like vials, each containing an alcohol-free water-based Parisian fragrant accord. While “La…

  • REEDITION | BYREDO UNNAMED

    REEDITION | BYREDO UNNAMED

    It was 2016 when Ben Goram decided to give his minimal aesthetic fragrance line an even more minimal aesthetic by leaving the name off the bottle. The concept was that without the preordained name, BYREDO customers were able to form their own associations with the scent and name it in a way that is reflective…

  • LUMINOUS | Cheeky Smile by JUSBOX

    LUMINOUS | Cheeky Smile by JUSBOX

    As far as I’m concerned, fragrance is an artform, a form of expression that transcends the traditional; the fourth dimension I call it, invisible and intangible, yet pertinent. Fragrance has the ability to convey a personality, a mood, a brand message and most importantly— your taste. Used correctly, fragrance is essentially an extension of self.…

  • REIMAGINED | BLACKBIRD INCENSE

    REIMAGINED | BLACKBIRD INCENSE

    Incense has always been an intriguing type of fragrance to me mainly due to its unique characteristics and ‘tone’ of smell. In its pure incense format, the dense tangibility of scent has seen incense used as an accompaniment for pious ceremony, but the personality of incense goes far beyond the format. Any fan of the…

  • STOER Skincare for Men

    STOER Skincare for Men

    STOER skincare combines ingredients sourced from different climate and global locations to underpin the values of protecting the skin against the extreme elements of weather and the growing concern of pollution. The five best clinically-tested plant actives sourced from across four continents and four contrasting climates to create STOER Skincare’s Clima 5TM formulation. Clima 5TM…

  • Sandalwood & Clove by Pall Mall Barbers

    Sandalwood & Clove by Pall Mall Barbers

    When you hear the word “Classic” used it is often a sign of true class, quality craftsmanship and longevity. When the term is used regarding fragrance however, the first thing that comes to mind is “dated” or “a dad’s fragrance”. That said, when describing this new scent from Pall Mall Barbers, it’s hard to use any other…

  • LE LABO | The Gift of Love

    LE LABO | The Gift of Love

    To make for a happy Valentine, ensuring your token of love, lust or coy enquiry hits the right is chords is paramount. It’s difficult to dictate or explicitly direct your acquisition as any gift should, of course, be reflective of your feelings and be agreeable to the tastes of said Valentine. Feeling and taste are…

  • L’Envol de Cartier

    L’Envol de Cartier

    Cartier are renown for their prestige, their almost ethereal quality as a brand representative of that glass ceiling purchase. But as often happens when a brand releases a fragrance, that aspirational price point is temporarily relinquished in favour of a more affable one, which is – much like the low reaching branches of a tree…

  • REVIEW | Encre Noire à l’Extrême by Lalique

    REVIEW | Encre Noire à l’Extrême by Lalique

    It was 2006 when Lalique reinvented the most masculine olfactory note with their fragrance enigma Encre Noire – regarded by many as the contemporary “vetiver of reference”. Now in excess of its 10th Anniversary, Lalique challenged its nose, Nathalie Lorson to create a new chapter in the saga, aptly entitled Encre Noire à l’Extrême. While…

  • Gosha Rubchinskiy Perfume + Book

    Gosha Rubchinskiy Perfume + Book

    Gosha Rubchinskiy’s ascent pays tribute to the organic realism that fashion can represent, with his works a true reflection of the Soviet landscape in which he learned his craft. A photographer by nature, Rubchinskiy has taken his parternhip with Comme des Garcons a step further and released a fragrance to sit with his ever-growing streetwear…

  • Thinkpiece: I forget what’s good

    Thinkpiece: I forget what’s good

    You find something you like, so you screenshot it. Then you forget it, find it amongst your Amazonian screenshot library, so you screenshot the screenshot again to send it back to the top; admit it we’ve all done it. Screenshots have become the modern version of a scrapbook as we try to make sense to…

  • OUD by VINCE CAMUTO

    OUD by VINCE CAMUTO

    Often called “liquid gold” and derived from Agarwood, the “Wood of the gods,” Oud is one of the rarest and most expensive ingredients in perfumery, and has been prized in the Middle East for thousands of years. 
Vince Camuto Oud combines the elegance and luxury of Oud with the strength, confidence, and independent spirit of…

  • Censer by Apparatus

    Censer by Apparatus

    Look around your room and you’ll see that in its basic element, it’s a construction of detailed shapes; complex geometry all characterised by their positioning – or lack thereof. But home inspiration can come in many different forms as demonstrated by New York based design studio Apparatus, and none more so than their simple yet…

  • Taxonomy of Design | Aesop ION

    Taxonomy of Design | Aesop ION

    The epitome of ‘Glocalisation’, Aesop’s international expansion could almost be considered subterfuge, the way they ‘quietly’ integrate themselves into established retail districts all over the world. It would be wrong to say that these spaces were obscurely submerged within their retail communities, but their method of integration, connecting the store design with local history, always references such…