Culture
Scent in art, history, and society.
Culture
Perfume beyond the bottle: memory and science, museums, bottle design, the history of scent, and the culture forming around it now.
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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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Incense to Instagram: 4,000 Years of Perfume in Twelve Objects
A history of fragrance told through the vessels that carried it, from temple braziers to the discovery set.
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The Flacon as Object: A Century of Bottle Design
Long before the juice inside mattered, the bottle was the message, and one jeweler turned glassmaker rewrote it.
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How to Smell: A Beginner's Guide to Training Your Nose
Perfumery students in Grasse learn hundreds of raw materials by heart; you can borrow their methods at home.
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Scent and Memory: What Science Actually Says
The madeleine moment is real, but the science of smell and memory is subtler and more interesting than the legend.
The Drydown
One letter each week: what mattered in perfumery, and what to smell next.
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