Choosing a fragrance

How to narrow the collection down to one bottle, and what to do once you have it.

Storing and caring for a fragrance

Storing and caring for a fragrance

A bottle keeps its character if it is kept cool, dark and upright. How to store one, how to travel with one, and how to look after the sprayer.

Choosing a fragrance as a gift

Choosing a fragrance as a gift

The honest version: we can narrow it down, we cannot guess it. How to choose with what you actually know, and what to do when you know almost nothing.

How to choose a fragrance online

How to choose a fragrance online

You cannot smell a screen. What a perfume page can tell you — the notes, the family, the concentration and the size — what it cannot, and where to go when you still cannot decide.