"The panel defined artistic perfumery as a type of creative design where the perfumer is not necessarily limited by someone else's concept, brief, or vision. Art itself lies at the core of artistic perfumery and as such, the panel addressed how such art can be judged and critiqued."
"Could I really write about a 3200 year old woman, of which we know so very little?"
Marlen has an alter-ego, “ThePerfumeCritic”! Read his take on ten, great male fragrances for 2013 in MensJournal.com. Read the article...
EDUCATION Interested in creative expression and psychological development, I began my education with a focus on counseling and expressive arts...
PHILOSOPHY OF TEACHING “To love what you do and feel that it matters, what could be more fun?” In the...
Image by Grant Osborne Osaka, Japan – A trip to the Body Shop proved near fatal for one American man...
COLOGNE BUYING GUIDE Every man needs a signature scent. This guide to navigating the fragrance counter like a pro—from test...
Friendship and imminent threat are two themes that are emerging concurrently in my reading of Willa Cathers’ My Ántonia and Sue Monk Kidd’s The Invention of Wings.
"In an on-going effort to challenge stereotyping, and correct the current nature of education concerning American Indians, the NMAI will devote the required scholarship to inform and assess these permanent visual statements."
In addition to Fragrantica.com, Marlen has also contributed to the following: BASENOTES, 2005-2014 (10 articles) Addicted: The Ramblings of a Fragrance Junkie...
Poster presented at South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SMLA) conference in Jacksonville, FL, 2016 See the full-sized poster here: poster-for-conference-2-1...
UK home makeover show from BBC2 using virtual reality for immersive previews.











