Perfumer Christopher Brosius of CB I Hate Perfume has a book coming out, which bears the title Scent: Mysteries of Perfume and The Smell of Happiness. The author is widely known for his work as a realistic and psychological perfumer. He was the founder of the Demeter line of perfumes, which offers a library of scents based on the search of simple yet unusual olfactory facets of our ...

Floris of London, sometimes presented as the oldest existing perfume house in the world as it was founded in 1730, is now proposing a new besposke service in response to the perceived revival of the luxury market (we can be optimistic about that)........

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Kai Fragrance Oil was created by brand owner Gaye Straza Rappaport in 2000. Since then it has achieved a kind of cult status. The scent has reportedly been adopted by many stars from the performance industry, ranging from Reese Witherspoon and Pamela Anderson to Tommy Lee. Looking at the press on the Kai website and remembering other names like that of Julia Roberts, it appears to be easier to ask ...

By now the Parisian niche perfume house founded by Etienne de Swardt, Etat Libre D'Orange, have become infamous for their love of dubious plays on words (very French!, the playful part, not the dubious part necessarily), its carabin's humor (a carabin (kah-rah-ben) is a student in medecine and if you live near the faculty of medecine in Paris, you will know what I mean. If you have heard stories of ...