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Benzoin: The Incense of Churches That Became a Base Note

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Benzoin: The Incense of Churches That Became a Base Note

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Labdanum: The Resin That Goats Harvest Without Knowing

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Labdanum: The Resin That Goats Harvest Without Knowing

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Frankincense: 5,000 Years of Sacred Commerce

By Premiere Peau

Before silk, before spices, before tea, before opium, there was resin.

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The Concentration Lie: Why an Eau de Toilette Can Outperform an Extrait

By Premiere Peau

A lie repeated so often in perfumery that it has calcified into received wisdom.

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Vetiver from Haiti: Geopolitics of a Root

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The root is ugly. There is no way around this.

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Why Your Favourite Perfume Changed (And Nobody Told You)

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You wore it for years.

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The Accord: When One Plus One Equals Three

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The Accord: When One Plus One Equals Three

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Absolute, Concrete, Resinoid: The Lexicon Nobody Masters

By Premiere Peau

A particular kind of ignorance thrives not in the absence of information but in its abundance. The vocabulary of perfumery extraction is a case study.

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Supercritical CO2 Extraction: The Third Way

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Supercritical CO2 Extraction: The Third Way

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