The London Lounge

I'm an - ahem - fragrance junkie; and I know of no one book on the evolution of fragrance, but offhand, I'd say that the evolution was quite slow until the mid-twenties when fragrance notes began to be synthesized. A very good read is THE EMPEROR OF SCENT by Chandler Burr, which tells the story of L...

Hi, Thank you for your warm welcome. In NYC a lovely fragrance shop is Aedes de Venustas, they also have a web site at: http://www.aedes.com/home.php and will sell samples. They carry most of what I spoke of as well as a few of those also mentioned by others. Also worth smelling if you go there, are...

Yes, I too smoke a pipe, and started in college; I'm now in my late 50s. I smoke only flakes, and usually the lakeland tobaccos. My two current favorites are Sam Gawith's "Sam's Flake" a delicious Virginia and Oriental (sans Latakia) flake; and G&H's Rum Flake, a dark, stoved virginia with a rum/map...

Hi, This is my first post here, and I found londonlounge through a fragrance board that I frequent; by way of introduction, I am a lawyer in my late 50s, and live just outside of NYC. I have enjoyed fragrance since my teen years; some might call my interest in it "serious", LOL! Today I'm wearing An...