The "Holiday" issue of Details magazine stinks.
I mean that quite literally. It reeks. It is pungent with odor. This is because the magazine is stuffed with ads for cologne or perfume or parfum or whatever you call the stuff desperate guys swab on their bodies in the hopes of getting lucky.
— Columnist Peter Carlson of the Washington Post in Pungent Details: All It Needs Is an Atomizer. He'd better stay away from Allure.
At Coco of Bruntsfield in Edinburgh, Rebecca Knights-Kerswell’s bold and dramatic confections are fragrance-led. “One of the girls who works with me has a background in perfumery, so, for example, we made a jasmine chocolate that tastes as wonderful as it smells,” she says.
— From Food detective: The rich list in the UK Times Online (go to page 2, and look for the "Handmade chocolates" section).
I'll start with a disclaimer: this is not a list of the 100 Best Perfumes Of All Time, but rather, a list of 100 fragrances that anyone seriously interested in perfume should try. Put another way, it is meant to encompass a broad range of perfumes, good, bad, pretty, ugly, mainstream, niche, etc, and to provide a sort of general introduction to the subject of modern perfumery. 