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Bringing Sexy Back
As intimacy declines and images dominate, a new wave of beauty brands are reclaiming the most sensorial experience of all — sex.
Zhenya Tsenzharyk
Apr 19
At Domestica, Home is an Honest Lie
The Chicago-based perfume label’s debut scents dabble in the art of confabulation, from Band-Aid accords to the smell of cereal milk.
Ruby Robison
Mar 23
The Best (and Worst) Perfumes of 2025, Reviewed
From Comme des Garçons to Hollywood Gifts, and everything in between.
Audrey Robinovitz
Jan 19
Breaking Bread and Spreading Butter at Clue
Some perfumes feel like déjà vu. Dandelion Butter, the latest from Chicago’s Clue Perfumery, is one of them: an olfactory whisper that tugs at a half-forgotten childhood memory.
Allison Skultety
Aug 28, 2025
Faux Rose's Parlor of Pleasure
The four perfumes — Mons Venus, Dauphine, Viva Maria, and Josephine in Furs — demonstrate a perfumer setting a dazzling precedent for an up-and-coming perfume house.
M.P.S Simpson
Aug 22, 2025
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