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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,...

Geraniol is printed on the back of almost every perfume box you own, tucked into the allergen list in a typeface designed not to be...

How to make perfume is a question with two honest answers. The first: you can do it this weekend with five ingredients, a kitchen scale,...

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...