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Ugo Charron at MANE signs Nuit Elastique for Premiere Peau — jasmine pushed until the white flower turns rubbery, elastic, carnal.

Grégoire Balleydier at DSM-Firmenich signs Gravitas Capitale for Premiere Peau — a tuberose forbidden to bloom, anchored in wet asphalt.

Florian Gallo at DSM-Firmenich signs Albatre Sepia for Premiere Peau — raw Alba truffle and tattoo ink, left geological and uncooked.

Claire Liégent signs four Premiere Peau compositions from Takasago's creation studio. Insuline Safrine, Doppel Dancers, Simili Mirage, Rose Monotone.

Petrichor, the smell of rain on dry earth, is one of the most universally loved scents on the planet, and you will never find it...

Iris is the most misunderstood word in perfumery. When you read it on a label, you imagine the flower, that blade-petaled thing standing upright in...

Gardenia is the flower perfumery cannot capture. Steam distillation destroys it. Solvent extraction yields a product that smells almost nothing like the living bloom. CO2...

Calone smells like the ocean. Except the ocean does not have a smell, not a single one. What we call "the sea" is dimethyl sulphide...

Musk is the most misunderstood word in perfumery. Ask ten people what it smells like and you will get ten answers: clean laundry, bare skin,...