On the Scent: An Interview with Alyssa Harad
/The author of Coming to My Senses in conversation with our own example of a very special breed of aesthete, the perfume lover.
Read MoreOn the Scent: Adventures in Perfume Layering
/You choose a perfume, you apply it, and you let it live and breathe on your skin - but you never, never mix and match. Or so goes the conventional wisdom. Our resident maitresse de parfums begs to differ - and shares some interesting discoveries
Read MoreOn the Scent: A Dip in the Mainstream
/Our resident nose slows down in front of a perfume counter and stops to smell what's selling
Read MoreOn the Scent: The Odorants in Deodorants
/Our resident nose sniffs those most populist of perfumes: the ones we rub under our arms. Join her on a guided tour through the pharmacy aisle.
Read MoreOn the Scent: The Naturals
/It seems a given that natural scents would be preferable to synthetics, but might it be that our our perfume biases are too simplistic?
Read MoreLearning to Read Perfume: A Talk with Chandler Burr
/Our poet of perfume and the curator of the brand new Center of Olfactory Art discuss why perfumes demand to be smelled and why "perfume is the only art form in which Americans are more illiterate than poetry."
Read MoreOn the Scent: Auteur Theory
/The great lie of the perfume industry is that the scents you wear are created by the designers that brand them. In fact perfumers with signature styles are behind those scents, and Elisa Gabbert gives them some overdue recognition.
Read MoreThe Scents of Memory Theater
/Music and photographs can stir memories, but in the world of scent, only a single molecule -- a single note -- is needed to take us deep. In this installment of her regular column, our author waxes on how the Eighties and Nineties smelled.
Read MoreOn the Scent: Difficult Pleasures
/Our regular scentstress extols the difficult: sharp notes, throwbacks, and sweaty musks over easy patchoulis and fruity bores.
Read MoreOn the Scent: A Dozen+ Roses
/Roses: they might have smelled sweet to Shakespeare, but what did he know about the perfume industry? Our regular olfactory column takes on the biggest scent cliche of them all.
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