Fragrance Editor Audrey Robinovitz and perfumer Marissa Zappas talk the smell of empty houses, symbolic violets, & everything else.

“There’s something earthy, a little bitter, behind the citrus, that makes it feel fresh and open; I feel like I’m outside in an orange grove

From Jouissance to Maison Margiela, and everything in between.

On the perfume of Sofia Coppola’s The Virgin Suicides.

And the olfactory ethics of nostalgia.

Calling your partner “stinky” suddenly has a whole new meaning.

How are we using gourmands — or, at least, the suggestion of gourmands — to offer public insight into the self?

Pretty florals, psychoanalysis, and the sublimated erotics of Jouissance Parfums’ debut collection.