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This year, instead of waiting until the last minute and ducking into a drug store for a case of Altoids and a bow, pause and reflect upon the people on your gift list. Then reward them with your thoughtfulness.

If names like Patou, Worth, Cire Trudon, Santa Maria Novella, and Lalique set your heart beating faster, then the biannual Elements Showcase, which takes place in Manhattan in August and January of each year, is every perfume fanatic’s fantasyland.

If you’ve a friend fortunate enough to have secured a summer sanctuary and if you’re fortunate enough to have secured a weekend invitation, then at least have the decency to arrive with a host/ess gift - and without a list of demands.

What’s more sexy than confidence? You can smell it across the room, pulling you closer like a subliminal aphrodisiac. Confidence is knowing that fragrance is non-gendered - no matter what the marketers want you to believe.

One of our first fragrance memories is the smell of lilacs in the spring. All of us recall moments when the beauty of fragrance has caused us to pay closer attention. This summer, let fragrance waft into the recesses of your memory.

It’s not easy for everyone on Valentine’s Day. There are a lot of Miss Lonelyhearts out there - and Valentine’s Day is the perfect opportunity to show them some love. Celebrate those who put the eros and amour in your life with any of these gifts.

It’s possible to think of Elements Showcase as the Art Basel of the fragrance industry. As much an art fair as it is a design show, New York’s Elements Showcase has become an acclaimed exhibition for some of the most visionary creators of fragrance.

For years, the Waldorf=Astoria has been synonymous with grandeur and glamour - and it’s fitting that the first Guerlain Spa outside of Paris is housed on the 19th floor of the Waldorf Towers.

Ready, set, go: we’re in the holiday season now and what you need is some calm. What you want is an hour to relax and breathe. Regain your sanity and serenity with some of the season’s more therapeutic products.

"This fragrance is really for people of all ages and I’ve had to talk some of my guy friends out of wearing it," Swift said, laughing. "So it’s debatable whether it’s, you know, for both (sexes)."