Since our launch in 2000, we have actively encouraged our visitors to submit their own reviews of fragrances listed in our database. Presently we have over 30,000 fragrance reviews on the site. [more...]
Next month Zirh will launch Zirh Platinum, a new men's grooming range which contains Kalahari watermelon to help protect the skin against stress and pollution. [more...]
Let’s face it. If you’re a regular Basenotes user – if you keep tabs on your growing collection using the wardrobe, if you participate in the community to crow about your latest buy, and if you use the directory to research all your fragrance purchases – odds are that you might have a slightly addictive personality. I’ve long since accepted that addiction is definitely a facet of my own perfume habit, so I was slightly worried about the potential for the collapse of my work output and my marriage when I was asked to find out about perfume marketing in Second Life, the famously habit-forming online world. [more...]
Like everyone who has progressed with passion, training and persistence to become a perfumer, the new wave of natural perfumers started with an intense love of scents. Many can trace their formative moment – the zing of recognition – when a scent transformed their life, and put them on the path of creation
At the end of last year, we asked you to send in your questions for Chandler Burr. Burr is the NYT's scent critic and the author of two fragrance books: The Emperor of Scent and The Perfect Scent (both from Henry Holt). Here are Chandler's responses. [more...]
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