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There’s a pep talk happening when I arrive at the Saks Fifth Avenue Toronto flagship on an early Saturday morning. Benoît Verdier, one of the three co-founders behind French perfume line Ex Nihilo, is here for a guest appearance, and the beauty hall sales associates are buzzing, excited to hear him speak before they open […]

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One year after the beloved designer's tragic death, we revisit her legacy.

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Just like your wardrobe, the changing of the seasons calls for a shift in perfume practices: out with the heavy, multi-layered and overly warm, and in with the fresh, cool and light. Summer 2019 brings some cheery new scents, from the citrusy to the fresh and fruity, with plenty of inspiration from sunny destinations around […]

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In one of the most recognizable photos of Gabrielle Chanel, she’s wearing a striped sailor shirt, her hands shoved into the front pockets of her belted, wide leg trousers as she stands next to her dog. Her chin is tilted down and her eyes are slightly squinting as bright beams of sun hit her face. […]

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Monogamous creative relationships are unusual in the perfume industry, where few perfumers enjoy in-house status at venerable houses. Masters like Christine Nagel (Hermès), Mathilde Laurent (Cartier), Olivier Polge (Chanel), François Demachy (Dior) and Thierry Wasser (Guerlain) are exceptions. Most perfumers work at one of the major raw materials companies (like Symrise, Firmenich, IFF or Givaudan) […]

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Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez’s Perfumes: A–Z appeared in 2008 in what was then a fragrance criticism wasteland, where it quickly elevated the analysis and rating of scent to a high art on par with any five-star perfume. Funny, unforgiving and totally memorable, the book became the definitive fragrance lover’s bible. Ten years later the […]

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Louis Vuitton’s three new scents take their inspiration from Los Angeles, capturing lemony sunshine, bright blue skies and fresh ocean air.

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With Mother’s Day just over a month away and Father’s Day quickly following suit, Chanel is getting a head start on honouring moms and dads everywhere—making the rest of us, who will likely end up scrambling at the last minute per usual, look extra bad. The French brand looked to their team’s gene-slash-talent pool, commissioning […]

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Ignore your thermostats, people: spring is officially around the corner. You may not be able to ditch your parka and boots just yet, but you can start welcoming the season with a fresh new fragrance. The newest perfume launches combine everything our olfactory systems go crazy for at this time of year, from grass starting to […]

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A few years ago on one of her weekly visits to the flower market, Laura Slatkin, founder of Nest Fragrances, noticed a bucket of extremely unattractive buds. “I looked down and said ‘What ARE those?’,” Slatkin recalled on a recent visit to Toronto. “They were wrinkled and hairy”. But by the following week, a flicker […]

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If you watched the recent couture shows or any of this year’s award ceremonies, you were probably left pining for warmer weather, shorter hemlines and brighter pops of colour in your life. But pace yourself: we still have two months to go before it’s officially spring. Meanwhile, here are some products that will bring back […]

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Elle Fanning is gushing over the phone about her co-star in the campaign for Miu Miu Twist, the new fragrance for which she is the face. But the object of her adoration isn’t a male model with his shirt off flexing his oil-soaked abs (which would be predictable and clichéd). “A lot of perfumes are […]

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