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

Your wedding perfume will outlast the flowers, the cake, and the dress itself. Not physically — olfactorily. A 2004 study by psychologist Rachel Herz at...

Unisex fragrance is not a modern invention. It is a correction. For most of human history -- roughly four thousand years of recorded scent use...

Vintage perfume is not a hobby. It is a speculative market built on a single, uncomfortable truth: the fragrance inside a sealed 1980s bottle is...

Grasse perfume did not begin with flowers. It began with the stench of animal hides. In the sixteenth century, this hill town above the Côte...

Gourmand perfume is the youngest family in fragrance. It did not exist before 1992. That year, a perfumer named Olivier Cresp loaded a composition with...

Fougère is the most important fragrance family most people cannot define. The word means "fern" in French, yet ferns produce almost no volatile compounds. They...

Chypre is not a note. Not an ingredient you can hold, distill, or synthesize. It is an architecture — a skeletal structure of bergamot, labdanum,...

Who invented perfume? The honest answer is: no single person, no single civilization, no single century. The history of perfume is not a straight line...