Körner’s Folly invites the public to experience history through the senses with the History of Perfume Tour, a program ...

Though often marketed through a Eurocentric lens, perfume's multilayered history spans Mesopotamia, India, Egypt and Europe, besides being retold on PerfumeTok. Mention "perfume" and one might first ...

A brief history of perfume would begin roughly 4,000 years ago in Mesopotamia, where the process of heating flowers in oil first revolutionized the olfactory world. Four hundred years later in Western ...

"I was amazed by the volumes," says Olivier Polge, Chanel's head perfumer, of the luxury brand's fragrance exhibition Le Grand Numéro de Chanel at the Grand Palais Éphémère, an events space in Paris.

Is the quest for the perfect top notes responsible for some of the world’s most influential scientific discoveries? A new article in Isis, a journal of the History of Science Society, argues that ...

When it comes to perfume, telling a story is a surefire way to connect to a scent. Nobody does this better than the House of Krigler, a perfume dynasty with five generations going strong. Inside each ...

The city's contributions and history are lovingly illustrated in the museum. There are also more than 5,000 treasures on display from around the world. Egyptian ointment pots, modern crystal perfume ...

Mention “perfume” and one might first envision fragrant liquids in fancy flacons. Yet the name itself, derived from the Latin “per fumum” — meaning “through smoke” — indicates that what we understand ...