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Fourteen Perfumes Frozen in Time: The 4,000-Year-Old Factory
On a hillside in southern Cyprus, near the village of Pyrgos, there is a place where the earth swallowed a secret and kept it for...
The Blind Monk Who Carried a Civilization of Scent in His Hold
In the winter of 743 CE, a Chinese monk named Jianzhen stood on the bank of the Yangtze delta, looking at a ship loaded with...
The King of Nine Essences: A Seventeenth-Century Manual for Scenting a Room
Sultan Ibrahim Adil Shah II of Bijapur preferred to be called the King of Nine Essences.
Asmat Begum: The Mother-in-Law Who Invented Rose Attar
Asmat Begum : la belle-mère qui inventa l'attar de rose
Shesmu : le dieu à tête de lion du parfum et de l'exécution
Shesmu : le dieu à tête de lion du parfum et de l'exécution
Thyestes: The Oldest Named Perfumer Was a Civil Servant
The oldest named perfumer in European history was not an artist. He was a bookkeeping entry in a bureaucrat's ledger.
The Olfactory Wardrobe: A Case Against the Signature Scent
La garde-robe olfactive : plaidoyer contre le parfum signature
Le parfum comme autobiographie involontaire
You chose your fragrance this morning. Or you chose it years ago and have worn it since out of habit.