Articles/ Discussion index

2007 fragrances round-up: what makes for the popular vote?
2007 and 13 honest & cynical musings
Allergies and Perfume: Your Scent is giving me the hives/allergies/a migraine/asthma
A perfume for Sirens
Art by Women: an Equal Opportunity Manifestation?"
Art Revered for the Sake of Reverence?
Art in perfumery: an essay
Art in perfumery part deux
Average Person vs. Perfumista
Back to the Future (of Fragrance this time)
Beautiful Bottles in time for Christmas 2006
Best of the next: what lies ahead
Chic: perfumewise, that is!
Colour of the juice: delivering more hints than you thought
Continuing the saga: what future of perfumery?
Cult of the Celebrity scent: fragrance history
Dirty Secrets of the Grey Market and Fakes
Eau Flirt: Can a Perfume Make you Appear More Attractive?
Economic Crisis? What Economic Crisis?
End of Ebay sales
Experiement to put an itchy rash on the butt of science
Famous people on the wedding day and their scent: Eva Longoria
Gimmick or Innovation and at what price?
Givaudan iPerfumer application:  Cutting-edge or demystifying?
Glorious Stink: why smelling dirty is not as you imagined
Hope for the average perfume buyer (still)
How far can one's allegiance to a brand go? (vis a vis the Galliano/Dior case)
How many of you have been wearing less than a dollar perfume?
How much can the niche fragrance market bear?
Is Perfume Political? You bet!
"It smelled so good and now I'm not loving it as much!": on Perfume Reformulations
It's the end of the world as we know it
Jacques Polge for Chanel
La Parfumeuse Chauve (the bald perfumista): a play in three acts
Lies and Misdemeanors
Luxury Market amidst the Recession & Other Bedtime Stories
Mitsouko death...
"Noir" in Fragrances: The Power & the Mystique
Old Lady vs. Older Woman: the Perfume Wars
Perfume appreciation and the Quest for objective beauty
Perfume and the Perfumed: When Icon& Fragrance delightfully clash
Perfume in Public Places: etiquette or paranoia?
Perfume preferences & How Body Chemistry can Affect Fragrance
Perfumery Restrictions and Why Everything we Say in Public Matters
"Put all the perfume you want on a smelly beggar, it will spoil the perfume" Seriously?
Powdery and Dry in relation to Perfume
Rich people: what do they smell of?
Quest for the great dry citrus
Rest in Peace Jacques Helleu
Sally sells sea "sel" at the sea shore
Season specific fragrance wardrobe and Rotate your fragrance so you don't stop smelling it: Fact/fiction?
Sex and the parfum
She's only got 2 and a half expressions for Pete's sake!
Should we or shouldn't we say "You Stink!"
Signature fragrance: Its indefinable allure
Soapy Fragrances: More than Just a Matter of Clean
"Stop Dousing with Musky Perfume" (from Facebook)
Take it back
The Guerlain Conundrum
The Origins of the Olfactory Theory of Shape?
The politics of perfumery: Jean-Paul Guerlain makes a faux-pas
Top 13 Worst Perfumes? Come again?
Too Many Launches? Some perfume history
Romancing the Scent: part 1, part 2
Valentine's Preparation: Movie and a Fragrance
War of the worlds: natural vs. synthetics
When someone usurps your signature fragrance
What fragrance would these Oscar winners wear?
What type of perfume collector are you?
Who are we wearing perfume for, really?
Who is questioning the Guide?
Why crusading against perfumery restrictions is an exercise in omphaloscepsis
Why do perfumes smell the same?
Why do French (and Europen) people grow up to love scents,  while Americans don't (social anthropology)
Yes, but is it original?

Fragrance History Articles Index

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Coty and the beginnings of modern perfumery:
Coty and his Chypre
Coty Chypre : packaging and advertising

Chypres:
The Origins of the Chypre perfume family: Lost in Antiquity ~everything you wanted to know
Chypre fragrances and their chronology: historical relevance of olfactory vogues related to chypres

Crossing Oceans of Time to Bottle Antiquity: David Pybus and his museum projects

Cult of the Celebrity scent: an historical approach to the phenomenon of celebrity endorsed fragrances

From the history of the house of Chanel:
Beige (vintage)
Cuir de Russie

From the history of the house of Christian Dior:
Miss Dior (1947)
Diorama (1949)
Eau Fraiche (1953)
Diorling (1963)
Diorella (1972)
Dior-Dior (1976)

From the history of the house of Guerlain:
Pour Troubler (1911)
Shalimar (1925)
Djedi
Liu (1929)
Sous Le Vent (1933)
Vol de Nuit
Vega (1936)
Fleur de Feu (1948)
Atuana (1952)
Ode (1955)
Vetiver (1956)
Chant d'Aromes (1962)

Little known facts: fragrance trivia you might not know

Romancing the Ripe: historical evidence on the lure of "dirty/skanky"

Space Odyssey: Ten Monoliths Ten moments in the history of scent that changed everything

The Different Company: history of a niche line

Vetiver in historical fragrances: the iconic references
Vetiver and gender: the history of a miscalculated note