Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Michael Edwards raises the curtain on America’s most iconic fragrances in his latest — and final — tome, “American Legends.” In ...

Glassmakers, designers and artisans translated scent into form. They gave shape to something invisible. A bottle could suggest elegance, modernity, intimacy or power before the fragrance was ever ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Körner’s Folly invites the public to experience history through the senses with the History of Perfume Tour, a program presented ...

Walk into a perfume store, and you’re overwhelmed with the scent and shine. Glowing bottles, long, dramatic names, and a vast array of scents that just want to become your next go-to. Perfume’s been a ...

Is the quest for the perfect top notes responsible for some of the world’s most influential scientific discoveries? A new article in Isis, a journal of the History of Science Society, argues that ...

In 19th-century Europe, delicate florals defined olfactory perfection. Then came the rise of bold, musky ‘oriental’ scents, which revealed much about the West’s perception of Eastern culture. Credit..

"I was amazed by the volumes," says Olivier Polge, Chanel's head perfumer, of the luxury brand's fragrance exhibition Le Grand Numéro de Chanel at the Grand Palais Éphémère, an events space in Paris.

If you have ever sprayed a scent in store, loved it instantly, then felt unsure an hour later, you are not imagining things. That, my friend, is your introduction to how perfume notes work. Most ...

AN ARTICLE written by T&A columnist Helen Mead focused upon so-called ‘old lady perfume’ - scents that brings back memories ...