I posted my perfume wishes for the coming year in 2006 and 2007, and looking back, I'm surprised at how many have come true. Of course, many of them haven't. My first wish for the coming year is simple but wildly unlikely: less product. Way less product.
The world doesn't need several new perfumes to launch every day, that much is obvious. Multi-scent luxury collections aren't special when a new one appears every few months. New “niche” lines whose fragrances don't offer any meaningful alternative to what is already on the market are just plain annoying…
Author Michael Edwards has released the 2008 edition of his yearly Fragrances of the World, known as “the fragrance bible”. 