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Can You Use Perfume to Seduce a Partner?
Calling your partner “stinky” suddenly has a whole new meaning.

Kaitlin Owens
Nov 5, 2024


Saccharine: On X, Fragantica, and Communicating Desire
How are we using gourmands — or, at least, the suggestion of gourmands — to offer public insight into the self?

M.P.S Simpson
Sep 29, 2024


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

Audrey Robinovitz
Sep 5, 2024


Zoologist Welcomes a Cobra to Their Kingdom
The niche perfume house — who capture the idiosyncrasies of the animal kingdom — is moving deeper into the reptile world.

Carlota Gamboa
Aug 24, 2024


There's a New Way to Smell Like Flower
New perfume lines love a cannabis note. But can the rest of us embrace it, too?

Carly Silverman
Mar 27, 2024


Mushrooms, Macbooks, and other Perfumed Premonitions of the Apocalypse(s)
Agar Olfactory's eschatological fragrances, reviewed.

Audrey Robinovitz
Jan 15, 2024


Notes on Notes
In the digital age, a sense of smell affirms our sense of self.

Reilly Tuesday
Dec 14, 2023


Of Chicago, Candlesticks, and Clues
Dispatches from Clue Perfumery's debut.

Audrey Robinovitz
Dec 3, 2023
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