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Competing notions: high art, perfume & scent culture

This not so recent article from the Guardian demonstrates some of the ongoing confusion without addressing it directly: “From France to Dubai, scent is viewed as high art – but not in America. What is it about US’s relationship to smell that puts it so far behind in this field?”. Moreover, there are numerous subtle and open contradictions about art, perfume, & culture and a commitment to scent culture (the name we coined for our group): Continue reading Competing notions: high art, perfume & scent culture →

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Francis Kurkdjian and Fabien Ducher, Changing History in a Bottle – The New York Times

Together, a fragrance legend and a horticultural pioneer have cultivated what could be the first new perfume rose in more than a century.

The new rose above was created by the nose Francis Kurkdjian and the breeder Fabien Ducher. They spent six years ferreting out the ancestral chains of Damask and May roses to develop their hybrid, which they call Nevarte.

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Top 500 Modern Perfumes : The Data ~ by Grant Osborne — Basenotes.net

To celebrate its 15th birthday, Basenotes, “the largest fragrance information resource on the internet,” released over the past few weeks an impressive list titled 500 Greatest Modern Perfumes that culminated on Friday. The list presents an immense culling of users’ data to rank the top 500 fragrances of our millennium as evaluated by its huge user base. The website’s founder, Grant Osborne, also offered an insightful breakdown of the data according to launch year, gender, brand (along with types and parent companies), perfumers, flankers, as well as fragrances that have been discontinued or contain “oud” in the name (a testament to the recent flare of the “exotic” ingredient in the fragrance marketplace).

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ODOU issue 4 out now!

Odou is the only magazine dedicated to smell and perfume through creative writing, photography and design. The issue is exclusively available for print.

In issue 4 we go on a chronological perfume narrative. Beginning with raw materials like ambergris and myrtle,  Mandy Aftel and Hector Villeda-Martinez describe what makes them unique.

We go to perfume school with Dana El Masri, where she shares the inner workings of her time at the Grasse Institute of Perfumery, and Writer John Preston fears he’s smelled the last great Comme des Garçons fragrance – understandably.

Perfumer and Writer Pia Long wants us to move on from ingredients lists, focusing on the beauty of the perfumes themselves, whilst Persolaise is searching for weird and otherworldly perfumes in the mainstream market. Brooke Belldon shares her joy for perfume events with illustrations by Massimo Alfaioli, and lastly, Alex Musgrave delivers a series of stunning scent shorts and visuals.Â