Now Smell This is a blog about perfume. Regular topics include fragrance reviews, news, perfume shopping tips, and new & upcoming fragrance releases. We also cover related areas such as home fragrance, scented bath & body products, and perfume books.
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Editor: Robin K.
I am an avid perfume fan living in a small town in Pennsylvania, far from the nearest perfume store. If you are wondering what qualifications I have for writing this blog, the answer is simple: none. I just like perfume.
I wear men’s, women’s, and unisex perfumes. I love woods, incense, citrus, florals, spices, vetiver, and green notes. I am very fond of chypre perfumes, or anything with oakmoss for that matter. I am not so fond of patchouli or amber, and with a few exceptions, I don’t care for very “clean” perfumes, marine fragrances, or very sweet gourmand-dessert type perfumes.
I am also addicted to high-end chocolates & teas, and I waste massive amounts of time online, mostly reading other people’s blogs.
Robin’s email address: robin at nstperfume dot com.
Robin at twitter: nowsmellthis
Contributor: Angela S.
Angela’s love of perfume began when she was about four years old, playing on her grandmother’s bathroom floor with a set of perfume minis filled with water. These days she especially like chypres, leather, full-bodied aldehydic florals, and anything she can imagine Rita Hayworth wearing. She works part-time writing grants for an organization dedicated to preventing the spread of HIV and part-time writing freelance articles, mostly on food and Pacific Northwest history and culture. She’s also writing a mystery novel featuring, naturally, a perfume-loving protagonist.
Angela’s email address: angela at nstperfume dot com.
Contributor: Erin T.
Erin creates lists of fragrances for Now Smell This. Her love of perfume blossomed out of her first love, reading: while working as a librarian, she found an article on aromachemicals and the fragrance industry, which started her obsession with all things scented. Currently, she lives in Toronto, Canada, with her husband and a perfume-addicted toddler. Erin is particularly fond of men’s fragrances as well as woods, chypres, green or herbal scents and soft orientals. She haphazardly maintains her own blog, Emergency Backpack.
Erin’s email address: erin at nstperfume dot com.
Contributor: Guest Shopper
Current Guest Shoppers, who file reports on brick ‘n mortar perfume stores, include Jessica in New York (see Jessica M, below) and Nina in London (Nina is a writer who posts as Vanille on Perfume of Life).
Contributor: Dr. Jessica M.
Jessica writes about scented body products and New York perfume shopping for Now Smell This. She is an art historian working in New York, and when she is not doing research in a museum or a library, she can often be found browsing at various perfume counters and beauty-product boutiques around the city. Her love of fragrance is rooted in early memories ranging from Baby Magic lotion to the bottle of Bellodgia on her grandmother’s dressing table. She is a dedicated wearer of rose-based perfumes and other old-fashioned, powdery florals. She also has a weakness for good-smelling, nature-based toiletries of any kind.
Jessica’s email address: jessica at nstperfume dot com.
Jessica at twitter: lipstickrose
Contributor: Kevin S.
Kevin reviews men’s and unisex fragrances (and the occasional home fragrance product) for Now Smell This. He became addicted to ‘perfume’ as a child by helping his grandmother in her garden; she banned all plants from her flower beds unless their blossoms, leaves, or bark smelled good. As a young adult, Kevin continued his perfume studies at the “University of Bullocks Wilshire” in Los Angeles, where a kind and knowledgeable sales clerk from Paris guided him through the ‘classics’ of perfumery and never once asked: “Kevin…do you really need a new bottle of perfume each week?” He’s a senior editor at a news service, and also volunteers as a docent – specializing in Buddhist art.
Kevin’s email address: kevin at nstperfume dot com.
Contributor: Marcello A.
Marcello writes about perfume books. In 1997 he wrote his graduation thesis on the rise of unisex-perfumes in the nineties, and he has been reading and writing about perfume culture ever since. He is currently pursuing his second Master’s degree in sociology, for which he conducts fieldwork on gender, smell and sexuality. His own site, ScentedPages, is a virtual library catalogue dedicated to the culture of perfume. Besides perfume, he has a passion for motorcycles.
Marcello’s email address: marcello at nstperfume dot com.
Marcello at twitter: scentedpages
Contributor: Pia C.
Pia reviews home fragrance products. Her love of all things scented started with the Barbie perfume maker at age 6, and really took off when she discovered aromatherapy and noticed the impact of scent on mood. She loves to use scented products to create an ambience for entertaining or relaxing, as well as to delight the senses in every day activites (hooray for Persian Lime counter top cleaner!). She is a freelance consultant who works in international affairs, focusing on religion and peacebuilding.
Pia’s email address: pia at nstperfume dot com.
Former contributors:
Anjali K.
Anjali wrote about scented bath & body products from September 2005 through June 2007.
Marlen H.
Marlen wrote about men’s fragrance from August 2005 until October of 2006, and now concentrates on his own site, Perfume Critic.
Victoria F.
Victoria covered home fragrance products from August 2005 through June 2006. You can still read her opinions on perfume at Bois de Jasmin.
