Christian Dior Fall 2010 – Chic and Iconic but not Cheap… Picture this: You’re tasked with buying a 30ml bottle of perfume. It has to be something that smells good, isn’t tack...
The Candy Perfume Boy Scents The Royal Family for Escentual.com I am very chuffed to have been asked to write a guest-post for Escentual.com (a wonderful fragrance and beauty e-tailer*), in which I h...
The Rapture of Dandelions in Spring There are so many niche perfume houses out there it’s a struggle for your friendly neighbourhood perfume blogger to keep up. There are niche lines within des...
Roger & Gallet L’Homme & L’Homme Sport – “Intense Freshness” Sampling masculine fragrances can be a royal pain in the bum because for the most part they are drea...
Last week’s Saturday Poll focused on the love-it-or-hate-it note of Tuberose. You were posed the question “Tuberose – Yay or Nay?” and you were forthcoming in your answers. Mu...
Tweet Tweet We interrupt our usual programming for a brief post that may involve a small degree of shameless self promotion. Both Persolaise (@persolaise) and I (@Candyperfumeb0y) are approaching the...
Summer in Swinging London Town There are a few big and exciting events happening in London this summer; in June we have the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and in July we will be hosting the 2012 Summe...
Floating Gold by Christopher Kemp – A Natural (and Unnatural) History of Ambergris Posts are going to be on the light side this week because there seems to be a lot going on here at Candy Perfu...
A Gaggle of Perfume Bloggers: Birgit & Tara of Olfactoria’s Travels, Vanessa of Bonkers About Perfume and me, The Candy Perfume Boy. The Perfume Lovers London events organised by Lila Das G...
On the last Saturday Poll, which was a whole two weeks ago if you can cast your mind back that far, we discussed the subject of perfume gender bending. This is a subject that I am quite passionate, a...
Leather Oud Photographed by Diego Porcel for BDBM Magazine We all have a lot to be grumpy about when it comes to Christian Dior Parfums. Not only must we be giving them the evil eye for the dwindling...
“Legends of the Silk Road” I have said it a number of times before, but things that are true must be said more than once; I am taking my sweet time working my way through Amouage’s ...
From L to R – My older brother, sister, grandma and I at the Safari Park in 1991 – each of my siblings and I sporting the same DREADFUL haircut… 10 days ago I put out a call for hel...
Lady Gaga wears her meat with style… My love for leather in perfume is certainly a work in progress. It was Lila Das Gupta’s Evening of Leather for Perfume Lovers London that helped me fo...
Plain and simple – not normally The Candy Perfume Boy’s bag… The purgatory drawer is a lonely place, it’s where my unloved and abandoned perfume bottles go to live out the res...
Last week I was in the mood for discussing the subject of celebuscents, a topic which many would possibly call “the scorn of the perfume industry”. The poll asked you whether you think ce...
Posing runs in the family… Things have been a bit hectic here at Candy Perfume Towers, last Saturday I became an uncle (OMGMYNEWNEPHEWISSOCUTE) and I have exams coming up in the next couple of ...
“I’m a classy honey kissy huggy lovey dovey ghetto princess” The Scent a Celebrity Series is my vain attempt at picking perfumes for those who don’t know any better, yes I mea...
Due to my recent mini-hiatus there was no Saturday Poll last week but if you can cast your mind back to the week before you will remember that we focused on a ‘clash of the titans’ questi...
“Madonna – Candy Perfume Girl” This post should come with a disclaimer – I am a Madonna fan, or as I put it ‘a royal subject of her Madgesty’. I just can’t h...
“There’s just something about the glamour and luxury of wearing great big flowers that takes away the grey humdrum of everyday life.” I’m always keen to see what Amouage is up...
Katie Puckrik Does Indeed ‘Smell’ YouTube frightens me slightly. Maybe I’m just a wimp but despite the wealth of content YouTube has more loons, weirdos (not the good kind) and trol...
Last week’s poll focused on your favourite perfume genres. I wasn’t entirely sure which one would be the winner in such a big poll, but I am not shocked to discover that ‘Oriental&#...
“This extreme freedom, indifference to commentary, spontaneity and even her excesses make her magnificent. She is who she is; she is irresistibly set against prejudice and convention and is una...
“Perfume, like fashion, is about attitude, seasons, colour, mood and context. There is a time and place for everything.” My experience of the Heeley line (brainchild of designer James Hee...
“It is in the summer when I truly feel happy and at peace.” The weather has been more than a bit funny during the last couple of weeks. Firstly it was unseasonably warm for a couple of da...
Last week’s poll focused on the age old debate of spraying vs dabbing. Unsurprisingly, due to the fact that is the most commonly available application method, spraying won the battle with a tot...
“Let it Rock!” Throughout the majority of my perfume journey I have been under the impression that it’s all about the juice with my mantra very much being; ‘nothing else matte...
“Super hero by night, rapper by day.” I have decided that due to the overwhelming number of abysmal celebuscent (celebrity perfume) launches the celebrities of this world simply cannot be...
“A grand perfume for a grand neighbourhood.” Bond No. 9 is the Octomom of the niche fragrance world – they just keep popping ‘em out. This spring they will be releasing a tota...
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