Amouage Rebuilds Its Body Line Around Six Perfumes
Nineteen products, four formats and one material running through all of them: the Omani house has reimagined Guidance, Purpose and four more of its perfumes as a complete ritual of gels, lotions, creams and hair perfume.
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Phlur Promotes Heavy Cream From Mist to Eau de Parfum
The gourmand that built its following as a body mist arrived today as a full eau de parfum, with a whipped body butter beside it and the same perfumer deepening the formula for its new strength.
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Fine Fragrance Lifts Givaudan Past Every Forecast
The Swiss giant's third quarter beat the consensus it had compiled by nearly four points, and the engine was the division the whole perfume industry buys from.
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Bon Parfumeur Turns the Dial to Forty Percent
Three new elixirs at the highest concentration in the house's history take the Paris atelier from numbered everyday scents into full luxury territory.
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Kenz de Rasasi: Dubai Opens the Family Vault
At Beautyworld Middle East, Rasasi unveiled a new luxury house built entirely from its own archive: eight collections, reworked from formula to flacon.
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Gifting Scent: The Etiquette Issue
Perfume is the most personal gift and the easiest to get wrong; here is how to give it well.
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Nº 007, Ambergris: The Floating Fixative
Ambergris begins inside the sperm whale and finishes after years at sea; it fixed some of the most famous perfumes ever made, and its legal status depends entirely on where you stand.
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Nº 006, Oud: The Wood That Remembers
Agarwood forms when a fungus attacks an Aquilaria tree and the tree spends decades fighting back; the resinous result is perfumery's most storied wood, and its trade is now controlled by international treaty.
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Maceration: Why Great Perfume Needs Time
The formula is finished. The perfume is not. What happens in the weeks between blending and bottling.
The Flacon d'Or
Each December, the fifty fragrances that defined the year. Judged blind, ranked openly, never for sale.
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