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Myrrh is named for what it tastes like. The word comes from the Semitic root m-r-r, meaning bitter. Arabic murr, Hebrew mor, Akkadian murru. It...

Rose water is probably on your bathroom shelf right now. It may also be in your kitchen, folded into rice pudding, misted over baklava, stirred...

Honeysuckle is the smell you remember before you remember the flower. A vine on a fence, June air thick with heat, the careful surgery of...

Carnation was, for half a century, the most fashionable flower in perfumery. Between 1905 and the 1940s, it anchored dozens of major compositions, its spicy-sweet...

Patchouli is the ingredient people think they hate. Say the word at a dinner party and watch faces contract, a reflex memory of head shops,...

How to make your house smell good is a question with a $9.3 billion answer. That is the global home fragrance market's projected value by...

A master perfumer is not born with a supernatural nose. The title is earned through five to seven years of formal training, the memorisation of...

Niche perfume is the most used and least understood term in contemporary fragrance. Influencers call mass-distributed brands "niche." Department stores build "niche corners" stocked with...

Why do babies smell so good? Not good the way bread smells good, or rain on asphalt. Good the way nothing else smells good —...