News — Perfumes

Can language ever capture the mysterious world of smells? My obsession with perfume began when I was around ten years old, spritzing on layer after layer of my mother’s Anaïs Anaïs and Poison, until I reeked of a duty-free store. It continued through my mall-rat teen-age years, when I blew through my babysitting tips at Bath & Body Works, convinced that I could amplify my personality with a generous dose of Sun-Ripened Raspberry. Throughout my twenties, I collected hundreds of fragrance samples, bought for less than five dollars apiece from Web sites with names like the Perfumed Court and Surrender...

Why is the perfume not smelling the same anymore? This is a very common question asked by perfume lovers. Victoria Frolova with Bois de Jasmin will explain the answer to this question. Inspired by her mentor, renowned perfumer Sophia Grojsman, Victoria researches raw materials and travels around the world to find new aromatics. As a journalist, she covers all topics related to art and culture. As a member of the Société Française des Parfumeurs (French Society of Perfumers), she collaborates with universities around the world to designs perfume seminars and lecture series on olfaction, art, and science. If you're interested...

Losing your sense of smell is a well-documented Covid symptom but for Liz Darke problems with her sense of smell lasted for 12 months and now she’s learning to sniff again. The Independent, 12 April 2021   Until March 2020, I had the superpower of a razor-sharp sense of smell. Nothing got past me: a rogue sock under the bed, a chip shop lurking around the corner, a Big Mac being devoured seven train carriages away. I was a fast-food truffle pig, if you will.But come 16 March, I lost my sense of smell completely after contracting Covid-19. While the...