https://accordandessence.com/ An international journal of haute perfumery. https://accordandessence.com/houses/amouage-luxury-body-line/ https://accordandessence.com/houses/amouage-luxury-body-line/2026-10-20Accord & Essence 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. https://accordandessence.com/houses/phlur-heavy-cream-eau-de-parfum/ https://accordandessence.com/houses/phlur-heavy-cream-eau-de-parfum/2026-10-20Accord & Essence 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. https://accordandessence.com/houses/givaudan-fine-fragrance-surge/ https://accordandessence.com/houses/givaudan-fine-fragrance-surge/2026-10-13Accord & Essence 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. https://accordandessence.com/houses/bon-parfumeur-elixir-collection/ https://accordandessence.com/houses/bon-parfumeur-elixir-collection/2026-10-12Accord & Essence Three new elixirs at the highest concentration in the house's history take the Paris atelier from numbered everyday scents into full luxury territory. https://accordandessence.com/houses/kenz-de-rasasi-dubai-debut/ https://accordandessence.com/houses/kenz-de-rasasi-dubai-debut/2026-10-08Accord & Essence At Beautyworld Middle East, Rasasi unveiled a new luxury house built entirely from its own archive: eight collections, reworked from formula to flacon. https://accordandessence.com/culture/gifting-scent/ https://accordandessence.com/culture/gifting-scent/2026-09-25Accord & Essence Perfume is the most personal gift and the easiest to get wrong; here is how to give it well. https://accordandessence.com/ingredients/ambergris/ https://accordandessence.com/ingredients/ambergris/2026-09-25Accord & Essence 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. https://accordandessence.com/ingredients/oud/ https://accordandessence.com/ingredients/oud/2026-09-24Accord & Essence 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. https://accordandessence.com/craft/maceration/ https://accordandessence.com/craft/maceration/2026-09-24Accord & Essence The formula is finished. 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