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Our passion is fragrance, from the latest to the greatest: Get perfume reviews, trends, gift ideas, celebrity news, insider interviews and more.
"Smell is a word, perfume is literature." ~ Jean-Claude Ellena
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01/19/2026
On Blue Monday, we're proposing fragrance as a quiet tool to boost wellbeing and happiness. Because if we can't change the facts of the day, we can change how we move through it.
After all, scent is powerful.
• It grounds us when the world feels noisy
• It can lift one's mood, quietly and profoundly
• It softens stress through breath and memory
• It encourages us to pause in the middle of motion
• It brings comfort, clarity, or gentle energy
• It helps us feel present, not rushed
• It reminds us that pleasure can be subtle
• It turns routine into ritual
• It offers beauty as a form of care
So let's take a second with scent. Pause, breathe, repeat.
If you're also scent-minded, follow along, like, comment and/or tag a fellow perfume-loving friend.
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Love the painterly beauty of this!
It's 2026, so we're looking ahead at perfume trends.
Here, four that you’re about to smell everywhere.
Let’s start with coffee, matcha, tea.
Earthy. Grounded scents.
A little bitter. A little green.
More soil and leaf than sugar and foam.
Caffeinated scents that feel calm, not buzzy.
And vanilla. That beloved note isn’t going anywhere.
But it’s less sweet now.
Rich. Deep. Still delicious.
Think nuts, spice, and warmth.
Vanilla with texture. With presence. With depth.
Fruits are getting juicier.
We saw cherries everywhere in 2025 —
now they’re darker, deeper, more ripe.
Add lush tropicals: banana, passionfruit, mango are being added to the ripe berry and stone-fruit mix.
Sun-warmed, pulpy, almost overripe.
And skin scents.
Still intimate. Still close.
Grounded in woods and oud, but softened.
Sheer. More transparent.
Scents you lean into, not step away from.
2026 isn’t about loud perfume.
It’s about calm, deep, grounded and sexy scents.
Which trend are you leaning into?
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