end-of-summer scent
With the start of term speeding toward me, I’m trying to gobble as much fun reading as I can — right now, I’m devouring the bonbon that is Catherine Sanderson’s Petite Anglaise. More on that…
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Un-common scents
Under “sentences that make you go ‘huh,’ ” read this passage from Chandler Burr’s explanation (in The Perfect Scent, which I also wrote about here) of how junior perfumers learn to put molecules together to…
View PostStories in Perfume
I’m reading Chandler Burr’s The Perfect Scent: A Year Inside the Perfume Industry in Paris and New York and I’ve come across an image I love. Céline Ellena, the daughter of parfumeur Jean-Claude Ellena, is…
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