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Demeter

March 24, 2018Arts, Culture & Media

Perfumers generally design complicated scents to stimulate a fantasy or a mood, not tomatch any one particular thing. But onesmall fragrance company in New York called Demeter takes a different approach. Demeter bottles thesmell of celery, or ofa gin and tonic, or of snow. Sarah Lilley went to find out what isolating smells like these […]

Demeter

March 24, 2018Arts, Culture & Media

Snow in a Bottle

March 24, 2018Arts, Culture & Media
Hiram Green shows off some of the raw essences that go into his perfumes. He's at Twisted Lily, a fragrance boutique in Brooklyn.

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