Perfume

‘Scents of Normality’ captures the essence of everyday life before lockdown

August 21, 2020COVID-19

From the scent of a cinema to a classic pub or outdoor music festival, this candle line aims to transport you to the places you miss when you can’t go anywhere.

Shipwrecked scent: A perfumer re-creates a 150-year-old fragrance

July 22, 2020History

Nose in a book (and vice-versa)

December 5, 2019Books

Tanwi Nandini Islam poses in her Hi Wildflower studio in Brooklyn, New York.

Nose in a book (and vice-versa)

October 24, 2018Books

Hiram Green shows off some of the raw essences that go into his perfumes. He's at Twisted Lily, a fragrance boutique in Brooklyn.

Independent perfumers are making a big splash in the fragrance world

May 6, 2015Lifestyle

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"Smells of Auld Reekie on a very breezy day in 2011" -- Kate McLean's smell map of Edinburgh.

This graphic designer makes ‘smell maps’ of cities around the world

May 13, 2014Arts, Culture & Media

Kate McLean pays close attention to what we smell and where we smell it. And she’s been mapping those smells in cities around the world.

This graphic designer makes ‘smell maps’ of cities around the world

May 13, 2014Arts, Culture & Media

Kate McLean pays close attention to what we smell and where we smell it. And she’s been mapping those smells in cities around the world.

Science Note: Synthetic Ambergris

August 15, 2013

Ambergris is a strange substance regurgitated from the stomachs of Sperm whales. It is a key ingredient in some perfumes, and can sell for as much as $10,000 a pound. But natural ambergris may soon be replaced by a synthetic alternative, and that’s a good thing for the whales.

Israeli Soldiers Refuse to Give Up Their Patchouli

August 15, 2013Arts, Culture & Media

The story tells that soldiers in the beginning would put perfume of their girlfriends, and afterwards they put something else. It’s a special liquid.

Science Note: Synthetic Ambergris

August 15, 2013

Whale vomit, ambergris, is commonly used in perfumes. Now scientists have discovered a way to create synthetic ambergris in the laboratory.

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