OlfactaRama

Yesterday I attended a meeting of perfume bottle collectors.  Among vintage perfume collectors, these people are sometimes called “...

I left Los Angeles nearly twenty years ago. I go back to visit family at least once a year, so in a way one foot is still there, and the ...

It is not as through there are hundreds of fragrance artists, but there are some, and the passing of Sandrine Videault is a great loss t...

(2017 update): I had a great cartoon here. It involved two cattle in a cattle car, talking as they spy a stuffed-to-the-gills passenger ai...

Are you unique? I’m not. As I read through Alyssa Harad’s “Coming To My Senses” over the holiday weekend, I was struck, time an...

Pretty soon, it will be “OlfactaRama’s” fourth birthday.  When I started, I didn’t think anybody would ever read it. I was a ne...

I’m terrible at French. I murder it. Just about every unfortunate French person who has ever heard my lame attempts to speak the langua...

Paul Theroux has been a favorite writer of mine for a long time. I didn’t realize until I started writing about fragrance that he is mo...