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A whole new world

Posted by Robin on 26 December 2018 2 Comments

We actually got rather burned out on perfume after we wrote the first guide where we reviewed about 1,800 perfumes more, so we weren't paying very much attention for a few years. And when we looked back at the department stores, it was absolutely amazing what had changed. When we wrote the guide in 2007, celebrity perfume was all the rage, and a lot of things were discontinued, changing, things didn't smell the same. ... We were really depressed about it. And then when we went back to the shops, suddenly it was a whole new world of niche perfume...

— Tania Sanchez talks to NPR's Marketplace. Read the transcript, or listen to the radio spot, at What's that smell? A rise in "perfume culture".

The daily lemming

Posted by Robin on 31 July 2018 68 Comments

Perfumes The Guide 2018, by Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez, promises over 1200 new perfume reviews: "Ten years later they bring their inimitably passionate, erudite perspective back to the hugely changed world of fragrance, to sort out which of over 1,200 new individual perfumes deserves celebration (and which condemnation)." Available at Amazon in Kindle ($9.20) or Paperback ($16.99).

Friday scent of the day 2/12

Posted by Robin on 12 February 2016 483 Comments

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Happy 5 Star Friday! Our community project for today: wear your favorite perfume ranked five stars by Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez in Perfumes: the Guide or in Luca Turin’s Style Arabia columns. Partial credit for a four-star perfume!

What fragrance did you pick? As always, do chime in with your scent of the day even if you’re not participating in the community project.

I’m wearing Chanel Bois des Iles (which made a nice showing here over the last week), in not-quite-new but not-quite-vintage Extrait. Tania Sanchez: “It is basically perfect and, though over eighty years old, seems as ageless as everything Chanel did in those inventive years…”

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Friday scent of the day 2/5

Posted by Robin on 5 February 2016 579 Comments

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Happy 1 Star Friday! Our community project for today: wear your favorite perfume ranked only one star by Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez in Perfumes: the Guide or in Luca Turin’s Style Arabia columns. Partial credit for a two-star perfume!

What fragrance did you pick? As always, do chime in with your scent of the day even if you’re not participating in the community project.

I’m wearing Serge Lutens Miel de Bois. Tania Sanchez: “smells like a New York sidewalk in July”, and yes, it does smell like that, especially in the early stages. I wouldn’t recommend it to any but the craziest of perfumistas.

Reminder: on 2/12 we’re doing 5 Star Friday…

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The Little Book of Perfumes ~ Q & A with Luca Turin & Tania Sanchez, part 2

Posted by Robin on 10 November 2011 60 Comments

Luca Turin & Tania Sanchez

Last week, we gave readers the chance to ask Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez questions about perfume and their new book, The Little Book of Perfumes: The Hundred Classics. Here are their answers.

Karin: Hey Luca and Tania – we miss you!!!! Would love to see an update of The Guide. Is that a possibility?

TS: Thanks for asking. We’re both burned out on the subject at the moment. Sorry!

Angela: My question is, in your opinion which perfume house has had the most heinous reformulations? (My money is on Dior.) Which house has had the most respectful reformulations?

TS: The most heinous would be Caron. Respectful—this may not be a fair question. Dior has been abominably unlucky. (See below.) I do think that Piguet’s reconstructions of Fracas, Baghari and Futur were perfect examples of how one can do legacy perfumery with integrity. (Of course, Cravache and Visa were perfect examples of how not to.)

Robin: Angie, I have a side question that relates to yours — in their review of Diorella (2011 update) they say “No one can blame Dior’s head perfumer, Francois Demachy, for allergen regulations that have made citrus, jasmine, and oakmoss tricky to use’, but it seems to me that you’re spot on, Dior has done the worst job of any house. Just figures that they had all the iconic Edmond Roudnitska fragrances. I’d like to know if there is something about those fragrances in particular that makes them harder to update than, say, the fragrances in Chanel’s back catalog.

TS: That’s just it…

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