Eau du Evolucion

Mimosas are scrumptious. Bubbly champagne and pulpy orange juice. Add a bite of pain au chocolate and you have the perfect continental breakfast. Imagine what Mimosa Parfum must have smelled like!

Jean-Paul Guerlain quoting Pierre Louys said, "When all the laces are undone, when all the petticoats have fallen, the woman is dressed only in her perfume." Guerlain also said, "When a woman is in the arms of a man she loves, in the dark of the night, the perfume she is wearing plays a very important role." "Wear perfume wherever you want to be kissed," advised Coco Chanel. Oh I love France and its love of perfume.

Perfume Museums are always a blast in Europe. The award for the most gorgeous architecture of the European Perfume Museums goes to the Church of Santa Maria Novella in Florence, Italy, which also houses Europe's oldest pharmacy. Love!

The award for Prettiest Things in a Perfume Museum goes to the Musee du Parfum at 9 Rue Scribe in Paris (Opera).

Bottles from ancient Sumeria and Egypt right up through the art deco period.

Bottles with labels, bottles without labels.

It is a fun little place to go wander and think about the inspiration behind a scent, the layers of notes, the embodiment of a fragrance spirit in a bottle, the way the wearer interacts with the scent. Just intoxicating.


And there's plenty of contraptionary for any gadget-hounds out there.

Chemistry, beauty, the ethereal and the senses all together in one little bottle, on one delicate pulse point. And not much has changed in the last 5000 years.

"Perfume is ... 'that last and best reserve of the past, the one which when all out tears have run dry, can make us cry again!" - Marcel Proust, Novelist.