Parfum Satori’s Fragrance Travels
The blog of Satori Osawa, one of the world’s best-known Japanese perfumers. Her perspective, both as a Japanese person and as Satori herself, is exceptionally instructive, and I often quote her. I also recommend her Instagram.

Bois de Jasmin
Victoria, who runs the site, originally trained with Sophia Grojsman as her mentor at IFF. As a writer, she has contributed columns to major publications including The New York Times, ELLE and Marie Claire. I hope to build a site worthy of recognition by someone with her international standing.

Ca Fleure Bon
Known for its interviews, reviews and YouTube work, this blog has informed many of my articles. It is recognized by many perfumers.

Colognoisseur
One of the most specialized perfume blogs. I often consult it for particularly detailed subjects. This is no surprise: its author writes for Fragrantica, is a former managing editor of CaFleureBon and has also been involved with Basenotes.

CreedBoutique.com
The official blog of Creed, a brand that abruptly disappeared from Japan. It has an excellent feel for presenting and selling perfume, even offering guidance on how to choose a fragrance. I consult it occasionally.

Flair
A freelance journalist based in Paris has produced numerous articles from interviews with perfumers and conversations with the founders of niche brands.

Fragrantica (Fragrantica)
Probably the best-known overseas perfume information site in Japan. Many of its articles are specialized, and I have consulted them for numerous pieces. It is one of the sites I aspire to emulate.
In February 2026, the official Japanese Fragrantica site was launched.

Grain de Musc
　「The Perfume Lover」 is a book by Denyse Beaulieu, who also writes this blog. I have drawn on some of its articles.

Hisoires de Parfums Blog
The blog of perfume brand Histoires de Parfums. Its owner, Gérald Ghislain, sometimes contributes, making it particularly instructive.

MimiFroufrou.com The Scented Salamander
Running since 2006, this blog is written by an Oxford and Harvard graduate with a PhD. It is now rarely updated, but the breadth and depth of its subjects are compelling.

Nez The Olfactory Magazine
A must-read for specialists: books produced with fragrance companies, focused expert explanations and updates on technical developments as well as perfume. I draw extensively on the site and its books.

Nose Paris
Perfumer Mark Buxton is one of the founders of the well-known French perfume shop Nose Paris. As well as selling perfume, it publishes interviews with perfumers that I have consulted.

now smell this

A site publishing perfume news and reviews since 2005. Now Smell This seems especially quick with fragrance news, so I recommend following it on Twitter.

parfumo community
It identifies the perfumers behind many fragrances whose creators are not listed on Fragrantica, which is mainly how I have used it. I find its layout easier to read than Fragrantica’s.

Perfume Shrine
One of the most specialized perfume blogs. I often consult it for particularly detailed subjects. This is no surprise, since its author is an executive editor at Fragrantica.

Perfume Society
As its name suggests, it operates rather like a society, with publications, special perfume sets, a blog and other activities. I particularly consult the blog.

Persolaise
One of the leading blogs in the field, with perfume reviews from the distinctive perspective of an author who has won four Jasmine Awards from the UK Fragrance Foundation. It is also known for its many interviews and the trust it enjoys among perfumers.

Sylvaine Delacourte.com
The website of Sylvaine Delacourte, who previously worked on fragrance creation as creative director at Guerlain. Her personal perspective makes the explanations interesting. Although its terminology coverage has its own slant, I have found it very useful.

Tauer Perfumes
The blog on Andy Tauer’s official website, written since 2010. Like other brands’ official blogs, I consult it occasionally.

The Candy Perfume Boy
Perfume expert Thomas Dunckley, a six-time Jasmine Award winner from the UK Fragrance Foundation, runs this blog to help more people feel at home with perfume. Its perfumer interviews and invitations to shop launches also speak to its high standing.

The Good Scents Conpany Information System
A site where you can look up the properties of ingredients offered by fragrance companies. I have mainly used it to understand how ingredients smell.

What we do is Secret
The blog of A Lab On Fire, the brand founded by Nobi Sacre from Japan. Some posts are in Japanese and are instructive. The involvement of very famous perfumers makes it interesting, although the workings of the brand are difficult to see and remain somewhat mysterious.

Wikiparfum
An intuitive tool for finding fragrances in four ways: by brand, ingredient, idea or fragrance family. What is interesting is that the three methods other than brand let you choose scents visually.With ingredients, you combine them to find a perfume; with ideas, you explore an idea and combinations that appeal to you; with fragrance families, you move from broader to narrower categories.It is a fascinating approach that can dramatically change the way you experience perfume.

Cahiers de Mode
A perfume education site for which I also supervise some articles. Its depth and thoroughness are outstanding, with content that is unmatched even by overseas sites. It can be somewhat provocative, but perhaps that is necessary to change a stagnant perfume industry that venerates old ideas.
With permission from Cahiers de Mode, links to individual perfumes on this site generally lead to its explanations of those fragrances.

Profice — A Fragrance Portal
Established in 2003, this site offers a vast collection of reviews—still growing and approaching 7,000—alongside brand profiles, book introductions and more. The slightly dated design and uncertainty about how much worthwhile information the ¥500 monthly subscription provides are two drawbacks. Nevertheless, it remains among the best content created by knowledgeable authors. It is, after all, the work of Tomoo Inaba, the perfumer who created Moth and Nightingale for Zoologist. Being able to read from a perfumer’s perspective makes it endlessly interesting.

Nettaisei Koikiatsu
A fountain pen and perfume blog by Kenken, a well-known figure in the fountain pen world. I have never encountered a blog that expresses more love for L’Artisan Parfumeur. It is essential reading for fans of the brand. It is no longer updated; Kenken now writes for 1001 Perfume Nights, one of Japan’s foremost blogs devoted to the oud its writers love.