Journal

Notes from
the studio.

Guides on oil based cologne, what is actually in a designer bottle, and how to wear perfume oil so it lasts a full day.

Oil-based cologne vs alcohol cologne

Alcohol is a delivery vehicle. It flashes off your skin in under an hour and takes the top notes with it. Here is what oil does instead.

One word on the label — fragrance — can legally hide dozens of individual chemicals. Here is what tends to be behind it.

Perfume oil is not a spray. Applied the same way you use an alcohol cologne, you will waste it — and it will not last.

"Natural" is not a regulated word on a fragrance label. Here are the five things that actually separate a clean formula from a marketing one.