Fragrant Readings Archives

Perfumers of the Commission Technique of the Société Française des Parfumeurs (SFP) have released a new updated official classification of perfumes which includes what the committee have outlined as the most important perfumes they could track and select since 1782...

A February 2010 article in Cosmetics Business reports about recent trends in fragrance-bottle making and what makes a luxury perfume flacon truly tick. I especially loved the passage where specialists point out to the importance of the feeling of weight...

The June 2010 issue of W Magazine has a story on the house designed by Serge Lutens in Marrakech. The place itself is reportedly little lived-in as Lutens prefers the more humane proportions of a modest studio on the outskirts...

A new book entitled Le jardin parfumé (The Perfumed Garden) dealing with the topic of how to select 450 of the most fragrant and diffusive species to plant in your garden is out since March 2010. It is authored by...

The Body Odor Wheel An article in Slate from last year takes a closer look at human sweat and the Body Odor Wheel to make better sense of it. An early aromatic wheel was the Wine Aroma Wheel developed...

The Hindu interviews perfumer Véronique Nyberg of IFF about the creative process in perfumery. The nose created most recently Trésor in Love (with Dominique Ropion) (2010), Amor Amor Delight (2010) (with Carlos Benaïm and Anne Flipo), Moschino Glamour (2008)......

Hermès in-house perfumer Jean-Claude Ellena responds to French news title Le Figaro Magazine on the occasion of the launch of Voyage, his latest opus. I excerpted a quote from the article about his personal definition of the finite work of...

A view of Paris in the morning ©The Scented SalamanderThe Beauty Beat:• The First USA National Beard & Moustache Championships• The Lipstick that Won't Quit: L'Oréal Infaillible / Never Fail• Marion Cotillard Plays in Humorous Anti Sexual Harassment CommercialTrend to...

Little girl smelling a flower at John F. Kennedy's wedding reception by Lisa Larsen, via All Posters.The upcoming months, from May to September 2010 will see the release of no less than 8 new books focusing on the sense of...

An article looks at a new technique called "Material Degradomics" now used to diagnose the state of degradation of a book by using the sense of smell to analyze the famously musty odor profile of old, dusty tomes. "Dr...

"When you have an iconic product, Rule No. 1: Never forget quality; Rule No. 2: Deliver what you promise; Rule No. 3: Don't change the packaging." Jan Masters interviews Leonard Lauder, the eldest son of Estée Lauder and chairman emeritus...

Perfume author Annick Le Guérer will publish a new book from December 17, 2009 entitled Si le parfum m' était conté (If The Story of Perfume Were Told to Me) at Editions Garde-Temps made in collaboration with l'Osmothèque in Versailles....

Photo ©TheScentedSalamanderFrench magazine Psychologies has devoted its November-December 2009 supplement issue to Happiness - The Ultimate Luxury (Yes, it's come to that). One of the articles is about perfume and asks 11 perfumers what their favorite flowers are from the...