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Frangipani is the scent people remember from holidays they took twenty years ago. Creamy, tropical, sweet in a way that bypasses the intellect and lands...

Jasmine is the most used flower in perfumery and one of the least understood. It appears in an estimated 80% of women's fragrances and a...

Peony is the most popular flower in perfumery that does not actually exist in perfumery. Over 5,000 fragrances on major databases list it as a...

Sandalwood is the slowest bet in perfumery. Plant a tree today and your grandchildren harvest it. The heartwood of Santalum album, the species that produces...

Frankincense is the smell of prayer. Not metaphorically, literally. For five thousand years, across every major monotheistic religion and most polytheistic ones, human beings have...

Tuberose is not a rose. It is not a tuber. The name misleads twice, and the flower itself misleads a third time, by smelling so...

Vetiver is the ingredient nobody talks about. It sits in the base of roughly one in three fine fragrances, doing the structural work that keeps...

Osmanthus is probably the most important flower most Westerners have never smelled. In China, where it is called 桂花 (guìhuā), it perfumes entire cities when...

Bergamot smells like citrus and flowers at the same time. That contradiction, sharp and soft, acidic and sweet, lemon brightness threaded with something close to...