This July, let a British summer seduce you. Following in Jane Austen's footsteps, we settle by the Albion coast with three refined green florals housed in flacons worthy of a novelist's dressing table: Penhaligon's Daphne Bouquet, Santa Maria Novella Fresia, and Parfums de Marly Delina.
In a fragrance industry often driven by trends, rapid releases, and mass appeal, Ylem Parfums emerges as a brand that deliberately takes a different path, approaching perfumery as an art form that blends concept, emotion, and identity into a carefully curated experience.
Three aesthetic senses: stillness, movement, and individuality reveal your inner identity.
There's something I need to talk about. Something that explains why a fragrance can smell like the opening sequence of a masterpiece on Monday and arrive on your skin the following Thursday smelling like the administrative corridor of a hospital.
June pulses with midsummer sensuality, the season of Kupala Night magic and fragrant flowering fields. Let me seduce you with three of the most carnal perfumes for warm evenings: Givenchy L’Interdit Rouge, Jean Paul Gaultier Scandal Intense, and the discontinued Mugler Aura.
For years, perfume discourse has leaned on a lazy hierarchy: Western designer fragrance is framed as the source material, Arab perfume is framed as the imitation.
The original blueprint was to build a corner of the internet where you do not need a master's degree in chemistry to figure out what you actually like. A place where saying "this smells exactly like vanilla cupcakes" completely wins out over "an opulent symphony of half-wilted eucalyptus from Zimbabwe."
In today's world of luxury perfumery, where new fragrances appear almost daily, only a few brands manage to build a philosophy that goes beyond the aesthetics of a bottle and the structure of notes.
Hello, I'm Rina, a perfume lover living in Japan. I joined the smell100 community because I believe scent is a universal language that deeply connects people across borders. Today, I'd like to introduce you to the mysterious and delicate world of Japanese scent culture.
