Often times in any business or industry, a trend can be established when something seems to take hold of the audience that the industry serves. Whether it's in fashion or film, technology or music, cuisine or politics; there are certain things or phrases that seem to pop up in every product or material that comes out of that industry. Over the past several years, rose has been an ingredient that has found its way all over the fragrance world. What was once thought to be a note simply for the floral fragrances of yesteryear, has now become a signature part...

One of the amazing things about fragrance, especially in the niche fragrance world, is the element of discovery. It is a world where there never seems to be a point where you know everything that it is out there. There are so many independent and niche perfumers that hidden is small cities and large metropolitans across the world that you never seem to come to the end of the discovery of new scents. What's also amazing is when you can find a shop who knows and understands these fragrances, the artists behind them and the stories in which they are...

  As an individual who is on a never-ending rabbit hole path into the world of fragrance, and in particular the subculture of niche fragrances, sometimes you still want to walk into a mall to a department store to see if there's something you've missed. As a young fellow who was enamored with the compliments that came with smelling good, trips to the fragrance counters in the department stores at the malls were like going on a safari into the wild world of fragrances. When I was in high school, I would take my check that came from my after school...