From Pyrgos

The box arrives in marine blue, the bottle in Montale’s signature silver, but that’s the last you’ll hear from me about “presentation.” Wha...

I've not smelled the original Drop from 2021, although it looks like it'd be right up my alley—lilac, powdery notes, fresh musks? Wh...

The 1980s ushered in my favorite period for Old Spice, perhaps from personal nostalgia. This was the decade when American Cyanamid opted to ...

In 1990, Procter & Gamble acquired Old Spice to the tune of $300 million, and immediately made changes to its products. At first, they s...

One Scent; Three Versions I've had a bottle of French-manufacture Paco Rabanne XS, considered "vintage" at this point, for man...

So Armaf has a new one dropping right now, and the internet is buzzing. Weirdly, the brand has opted to shroud the fragrance’s pyramid in ...

Released in 1988, Côte d'Azur by Avon/Féraud smells of salt and peaches (interesting combo) in the top accord, which rapidly resolves in...

This is the "soft opening" of my blog relocation: frompyrgos.com (link here) Not all of the content has been uploaded yet. Still w...

Starting in 2026, From Pyrgos will move to a dot-com address, and will no longer be updated here on Blogger. On January 1st of next year I w...

Green Valley is my favorite fragrance. It’s the most beautiful scent I’ve ever smelled, and nothing else has truly come close. Creed’s Orig...

The blurb on the box for this stuff claims it's made from the "oils of violets," which is, of course, complete bullcrap, as no...