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The recently launched website perfumerarchive.com has quietly entered the stage of the fragrance world. The project, which describes itself as an "open source platform for the perfumery...

Exhibitions all about perfume fascinate scent lovers and history buffs alike. In the museums of olfactory art, forgotten aromas are brought back to life and the stories behind...

Perfumes are composed of a variety of chemical compounds, including fragrance molecules, which together form a unique scent composition. Whereas in the past, only natural fragrances were used, synthetic fragrance molecules opened up new dimensions in the perfume industry in the 19th century....

In these days of foghorn pongs and woody sharp citrus, the need to compete with male peacocks may have obliged perfumers to boost up their feminines, just to get them heard above the din. But how did we get here? Some...

Champagne, chocolates, a single red rose... What would you give your Valentine?Wine would last the evening, chocolates maybe the weekend, a cut rose a few days. What about something more permanent, a rose perfume?A...

Fahrenheit is a monument - but it didn't spring from nowhere. Like most great art it had its genesis in what went before and was a product of its time. Fahrenheit is an eighties perfume and is typically...

Ernest Beaux is known for Chanel N°5, the most famous perfume in the world. But the man remains in the shadows, a name less familiar than some of the others in the Chanel circle: Stravinsky, Diaghilev...