How to Store Perfume, and How Long a Bottle Keeps
Light, heat and air are what change a perfume. This guide shows where to keep a bottle, which scents are the most sensitive and how to tell whether an older...
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Notes on niche perfume
Guides and background on perfume houses, notes and how to choose and wear a perfume.
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What Is Musk in Perfume? Smell, Types and Examples
Musk is the soft, skin-like warmth in the base of many perfumes, and today it is made in the laboratory or drawn from ambrette seed. This guide explains what it...
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Vanilla Perfumes: Eight Niche Vanillas, Airy to Dark
Vanilla can be powdery, salty, smoky or as rich as dessert. This guide sorts eight niche vanilla perfumes from eight houses from airy to dark and shows how to read...
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Niche Perfumes for Women: Who Decides, and Nine Examples
Only a small part of niche perfumery is labelled for women, and not always by the house itself. This overview shows where the label comes from and what nine labelled...
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Niche Perfumes for Men: What the Houses Label That Way
Most niche perfume carries no gender label. This overview shows which perfumes the houses themselves present for men, how they do it, and what nine of those scents have in...
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Niche Perfumes for Summer: Eight Ways to Stay Fresh
Heat makes a perfume open faster and travel further. Here is what freshness is made of, with eight niche summer perfumes from eight houses, from finger lime and fig leaf...
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Juliette Has a Gun: a guide to the house and its perfumes
Juliette Has a Gun is a Paris house created by Romano Ricci, with perfumes named like moods, drinks and one-liners and pyramids kept very short. This guide covers the ten...
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Penhaligon's: a guide to the house and its perfumes
Penhaligon's is a London perfume house whose own header reads British Perfumers, Established 1870, and which sorts its fragrances into collections such as Portraits, Trade Routes and British Tales. This...
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Jo Malone London: a guide to the house and its perfumes
Jo Malone London is a British house that sells its perfumes as Cologne and the richer Cologne Intense, names one top, one heart and one base note for each, and...
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Diptyque: a guide to the house and its perfumes
Diptyque is a Paris house, founded in 1961 by three friends at 34 boulevard Saint-Germain, whose perfumes start from places, plants and memories. This guide covers the ten Diptyque perfumes...
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Maison Margiela: a guide to the house and its perfumes
Maison Margiela is a Paris fashion house, founded in 1988, whose Replica collection turns memories into scents and puts a cotton label on every bottle. This guide covers the nine...
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Maison Francis Kurkdjian: the house and its perfumes
Maison Francis Kurkdjian is a Paris house, co-founded in 2009 by perfumer Francis Kurkdjian and Marc Chaya, that sees its collection as a fragrance wardrobe. This guide covers the ten...
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From the house of FragranceGems
The niche department of FragranceGems
NicheGems is part of FragranceGems B.V. in Zoetermeer, the Netherlands. Original perfumes from niche houses, handled by the same team that looks after every FragranceGems order.
Reviews of FragranceGems, the shop behind NicheGems
- Original perfumes, new and in original packaging
- Packed with care in the Netherlands
- Customer service by the FragranceGems team