Oud is one of the most mysterious and expensive perfumery ingredients. Its lore is so profusely rich and oversized that perfume marketing departments can only dream of such a layered origin story. But ...

What does conspicuous consumption smell like? On a December afternoon in 2013, the Parisian perfumer Francis Kurkdjian was scheduled to meet with the renowned French crystal manufacturer Baccarat at ...

Established in the 19th century, Guerlain is today a household brand marked by the contributions of successive generations who have propelled the family name to the pinnacle of French perfumery. Among ...

A woman leaves a room, and her perfume lingers. She is gone, but something of her presence remains. The woman, perfumer Mandy Aftel, has slipped into another wing of her home in search of a relic.

The perfumer dips a tester into one of the tiny glass vials aligned on the desk in front of him. There are dozens of them, with labels identifying various dilutions of compounds such as methyl ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Master perfumer Olivier Pescheux died Monday in Paris at age 57. The passing "after fighting against a long disease" was confirmed ...

Gain an intimate view of the perfumer, a creative artist that is also a trained chemist and who has the unique ability to combine fragrance ingredients to create extraordinary, iconic fragrances.

Perfume making dates back at least 3,000 years—to the time of Tapputi-belat-ekalle, who is considered the first chemist in history. What we know about her comes from inscriptions on fragments of clay ...