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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...

By Rachel Felder February 22, 2021   If you’re looking for something new to stream this week—and, really, who isn’t?—please direct your attention to a film that includes more dreamy locations than Emily in Paris, as many tirelessly determined characters as Lupin, and celebrity cameos that wouldn’t seem out of place in an episode of Call My Agent. Nose, a project commissioned by Parfums Christian Dior that premieres on Apple TV, Amazon Prime Video, and Google Play today, follows acclaimed perfumer François Demachy on his never-ending quest to find the perfect ingredients to make some of the world’s most popular...

  Our Top Tip: How to get better prices on luxury niche perfumes? You purchased a tester and found your perfect new dream perfume, and scout for the full bottle. To your surprise you get blown away by the eye-watering prices on luxury perfumes that easily stretch beyond the £300 mark per 100ml. Yikes! Well, there's a secret trick to buying super-luxury niche fragrances for less if you don't mind the shortcuts. Try buying your favorite perfume in demonstration testers. You get the same beautiful perfume you love but with a good discount price. What exactly is a demonstration tester...

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...

  Baudruchage, also known as baudruche, is a way of sealing a perfume bottle with a covering of kid leather, animal membrane, cellulose, collodion, sheet rubber, gelatin, onion skin, cellophane, parafilm or. It is done during the finishing period and can often be quite lovely as a finished part of a presentation.During the late 1800s, the bottles had ground glass stoppers which was preferable over cork, which happened to have a peculiar odor which it would communicate to the liquid. For the more perfect exclusion of air the stoppers and bottle necks would be covered with goldbeater's skin (animal membrane),...