How To Tell Which Perfume Is Right For You – From The Classics To Moderns

Everyone likes to smell good, but with a staggering 20,000 fragrances currently on the market and more than 1,000 released every year it can be impossible to know where to begin when selecting a new scent. After all, they all smell kind of great in a department store, right? World renowned fragrance expert, Michael Edwards,…

ByAlice Duthie16/11/20220Comments

Chloe’s Nomade Eau de Toilette Celebrates Adventure

Chloe's Nomade, $95-$155, available at David Jones. Chloe's new fragrance is inspired by the spirit of adventure. This is fitting as the Eau de toilette is a departure for the fragrance house known for it's rose bouquets. Nomade opens sweetly with fruits and florals but it's dry down bestows a scintillating desert heat. Think of a…

ByRuby Feneley19/03/20190Comments

Beauty & Fashion Hair Skin & Body News

Sweet Scents: Guide To The Latest Perfumes We’re Crushing On

Smell is the least understood of our five senses, and perfumery may well be the most misunderstood art, says Luca Turin in the book Fragrances Of The World. “Perfumery has created new forms to which we pay the highest compliment by wearing them as if they were part of us.” With each season, we get the…

ByThe Carousel11/05/20170Comments

Beauty & Fashion News & Trends

Bespoke Beauty: How You Can Customise Your Cosmetics

Once reserved for only the sartorial sphere, specifically Savile Row, now the term 'bespoke' can be applied to almost anything. The beauty realm too has fallen for the call of customisation, with offerings in makeup, skincare, haircare and fragrance all undergoing an individualistic spin. Here, our favourite four bespoke beauty options to indulge in. Lip Lab Custom Lip…

ByChrisanthi Kaliviotis27/06/20160Comments

Homes Lifestyle & Homes

How To Choose Winter Scents For Your Home

If anyone knows scent, it's Saskia Havekes. Much more than a green thumb with a discerning eye and knack for arrangement, Saskia is an artist. As she notes, she doesn't arrange flowers, she curates them. Australian Beauty: Saskia amongst a bed of flowers Reposed between the ferns and the fig trees at Sydney's famed florist Grandiflora, Saskia…

ByChrisanthi Kaliviotis14/06/20160Comments

Beauty & Fashion

Jessica Mauboy Reveals Her New TV Role

Singer and acclaimed actress Jessica Mauboy has been an Australian darling since she first hit our screens on Australian Idol almost 10 years ago. At only 26, she has achieved over two million music sales, 16 ‘Top 30 hit singles’, and the Aria for Best Female 2013, amongst other awards. Jessica is one of the…

ByVictoria Webster12/11/20150Comments

Hair Skin & Body

Heat Up Your Summer With These Red Hot Scents

Even though it’s not quite Valentine’s Day, this season, it’s all about fragrances housed in red and pink bottles. Traditionally and culturally, red and pink have been a symbol for love, passion and desire; it can make you feel loving, sexy, and girly all in an instant. “Colours have an emotional effect on us,” says psychology…

ByIantha Yu10/11/20150Comments