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Oud perfume is the most lied-about category in fragrance. A $15 bottle labeled "Arabian Oud" and a $500 niche composition bearing the same word share...

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

Winter perfume is not a matter of preference. It is a matter of physics. When the air temperature drops below 10°C, fragrance molecules lose kinetic...

Summer fragrance is a physics problem disguised as a style choice. At 32°C, perfume molecules evaporate roughly 40% faster than at 20°C. That heavy oriental...

Perfume layering is the act of wearing two or more fragrances simultaneously on the body. Most people who try it for the first time do...

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

What perfume does Rihanna wear? The question pulls 27,000 monthly searches. It is one of the most Googled fragrance queries on the planet, and the...

Sillage is not how long your perfume lasts. That sentence separates the people who understand fragrance from the people who rate it on a phone...

Cruelty-free perfume is one of the most searched terms in fragrance, and one of the least understood.