A Whiff Of Change: Tony Marcus On Fragrances At The Forefront
I have been wearing the dark rose Róisin Dubh. The name is Irish and means 'little black rose'. The perfume has enough class to prompt reviewers to say it is exquisitely blended, but I was drawn to its absence of
Halston, Bowie And The Scent Of A Moment
Halston’s first perfume, 1975’s Halston Classic, is a sensual one.
Tony Marcus On The Scent Of Lost Love
I have been going deeply into a perfume that was never meant to be made public. It was a private scent that Edmond Roudnitska, one of the great perfumiers of the last century, made exclusively for his wife Thérèse. I
Tony Marcus On Perfume’s Old Notes With New Relevance
I get blasts of other people’s perfume. The harsh dry scent in men’s changing rooms. It is so artificial it could be off-planet. And there is a base note that lots of people wear; something like a wet, sticky forest
Five Creatives Reimagine The Infiniment Coty Paris ‘I Am Dusk’ Collection
Few fragrance launches have intrigued us as much as Infiniment Coty Paris’s I Am Dusk collection. The acclaimed fragrance writer Tony Marcus explores its five different moods, while creatives from fashion, art, music and literature respond to the sensual scents.
Tony Marcus On The Time-Travelling Power Of Fragrance
I have read that Guerlain’s L’Heure Bleue is a melancholic perfume. Its creator Jacques Guerlain said he was influenced by twilight in Paris, by a kind of blue he saw in the sky on his walks by the Seine. Introduced
Tony Marcus On The Smell Of Elegance
I recently became addicted to a perfume that smells like perfumed wood. Or perfumed cedar, to be super precise. I was looking for an “elegant” perfume and this one stood out.
The Power Of The Flower
I wasn’t around in the 1960s; I never witnessed “flower power” first-hand. I was a post-punk teenager who went to Bauhaus gigs. My bestie was the daughter of a famous ’60s guitarist (who treated her like shit) and we used
Alone Together: Tony Marcus On The Power of Reading
I briefly wondered how a book written in 1945 could make me think of Corinne Day, but I should have remembered there is nothing new about young bodies and giving yourself to desire and narcissism in rough-looking rooms. The book
Notes on Perfume: Tony Marcus Bottles The Essence of Fragrance Erotica
I have a bottle of Chanel No 5 that was bought in Paris in 1972. The bottle belonged to my girlfriend’s step-great-grandmother, a lady who lived to be 104. She was an aristocratic Japanese woman who still wore a kimono,
Ten Tips on ‘Smelling Like A Man’
I have known boys who never became men. But if they kept the boarding-school haircut until the very end, their hearts were old. I have never seriously considered the journey from boy to man. That arc is something I know
Wistful Thinking: Tony Marcus Writes About Missed Opportunities
Modigliani only showed his paintings once in London while he was alive. There was a show at the Mansard Gallery in 1919. There was a big wicker basket of his drawings for sale; they were sold for 1 shilling each,
From Issue 48 of Ten Men: Subtle by Tony Marcus
When I was a child growing up in Tokyo, I saw Paloma Picasso on TV. She showed the interviewer a small antique tin. “Russian tea,” she said. “I cannot live without it.” Those may not have been her exact words,