Making scents: the secret ingredients to African luxury
The African continent used to be known for trade-route crafts and curio-shop artefacts, but there’s a new wave of African items making themselves k...
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MAKING SCENTS: IVE GROWN A CUSTOM SCENT FOR YOU
A few days ago I discovered something new about smell — something that is helping to inform the way I compose bespoke and signature fragrances. I r...
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Making Scents: the right fragrance for your skin type
People ask whether their perfume will smell different on another person’s skin. It will, but usually I answer: “It should!”
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Making scents: perfume as portraiture
In Versailles, France, is L’Osmothèque, a scent library holding the world’s largest archive of historical fragrances. When people ask how long perf...
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MAKING SCENTS: (A)SCENT OF THE INDIE DESIGNER
In my early days as a young and naive perfumer, I flew to Grasse, the birthplace of modern perfumery and centrepiece for the novel and film Perfum...
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