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  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),...

The $5,000-a-pound wood scent: Would you oud? It’s strong, it’s musky and almost animalistic in its sensuality. Some people love it while others find it offensive and gross. We’re not talking about durian, the beloved but smelly southeast Asian fruit but oud – one of the most expensive raw scent ingredients in the world.Known as oud (or oudh), it comes from the wood of the Southeast Asian agar (aquilaria) tree. When the wood becomes infected with a particular type of mold, the tree reacts by producing a dark, scented resin, which is often called “liquid gold.” “Oud” is used to...

    I’m terrible at keeping secrets; I’m one of those people who tells friends and family what I’ve bought them for their birthday because I can’t contain my excitement! So, it feels incredibly fitting that I’m unveiling our latest brand launch, Parfums de Marly, a high-end niche perfumery brand that I can’t keep to myself. Parfums de Marly marries the style and opulence of the 18th-century French court with bold, unique fragrances, creating a breathtaking collection that makes you feel like royalty. A relative newcomer to the world of perfumery, Parfums de Marly was founded by Julien Sprecher in...

Every '90s fragrance we could remember: The provocatively androgynous, the cloyingly fruity and every high and low note in-between. Tweens and teens of the '90s reminisce on the scents they grew-up with: The provocatively androgynous, the cloyingly fruity, the blithely optimistic and every high and low note between. Stream "Jagged Little Pill," uncap a Snapple and settle in for an olfactory stroll down memory lane. Bonus: We include men's cologne, too.   Something still smells like Teen Spirit in here... After our, we realized that a few staples were left out. Who could forget the original Rush, Happy, or Bath...

  Our editors independently research, test, and recommend the best products out of hundreds of Niche perfumes on the market. Frags are a funny thing. Years ago, I developed a habit of changing perfumes after the end of a relationship. Now, I have a habit of changing perfumes every month in an effort to stay present, and to constantly create new memories. In 2016, Dr. Rachel S. Herz published this medical journal on odor-evoked memory and how it affects psychological health. Scent is a central feature of olfactory cognition. That means your brain is able to recall whether it has...