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The Most Enticing Man Smells, According to Romance Novels

Cut grass

Here’s What Freshly Cut Grass Is Saying With Its Scent

The book cover of The Essence, depicting a woman donning perfume.

This New Book Unpacks the World of Fragrance

A bundle of vetiver on a white background.

Why Vetiver Is Our Favorite Botanical Right Now

Two bottles of perfume in a darkly lit tangle of grass.

The Japanese Company Applying Elements of the Slow Food Movement to Perfume

Byredo's Olfactive Stéréophonique

These Scent Diffusers Enhance a Room in More Ways Than One

Bottles of the "I'm Outside" Mist

This Body Mist Captures the Benefits of Forest Bathing in a Bottle

Perfumer Yosh Han

A San Francisco Perfumer’s Campaign to Decolonize Scent

A glass bottle of perfume on a beach

How Louis Vuitton Bottles the Scent of California’s Shoreline

Catherine Haley Epstein stands with her hand on her hip in front of several drawings.

This Olfactory Expert Is Amassing a Vocabulary for Smells

Maison/Made's Extrait de Maison

Aromatic Face Oils, Made by Regenerative Farms in France

A bottle of Floris Bespoke on a white background.

Book a Scent Consultation With This 300-Year-Old Fragrance House

Cecilia Bembibre in a blue shirt, leaning over a table with a book.

Cecilia Bembibre Is On a Mission to Save the Scents of History

Installation view of “RE_________” at the ICA Philadelphia. (Courtesy the ICA)

At the ICA Philadelphia, Sissel Tolaas Presents Smell as a Poetic Provocation

A closeup of two green leaves.

Renowned Perfumer Jean-Marc Chaillan’s Patchouli Obsession

An Aesop book leaning in a windowframe.

How Aesop Grew Into an “Anti-Salon” Beauty Empire

The blurry outline of a nose.

Why You Need to Know About Anosmia

Author and professor Hsuan L. Hsu on a yellow background.

In Literature and Art, Smell Is a Powerful Means to Convey Risk

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A New Magnolia-Scented Fragrance Invites the Promise of Springtime Year-Round

Ford's Mustang Mach-E GT perfume bottle

Ford’s New Mach-Eau Cologne Delivers the Scent of Gasoline to E.V. Drivers

An assortment of colorful Claus Porto soaps on their white box.

Take a Vacation With These Soaps

Marc J. Gian's book Aromatherapy: Essential Oils and the Power of Scent for Healing, Relaxation, and Vitality

How to Use Essential Oils to Improve Your Mind, Body, and Mood

A forest of pine trees in the snow on a mountain.

How to Bring the Scent of Pine Home Without Uprooting a Tree

A bottle of Loewe perfume on a straw chair

This Perfume Bottles the Free-Spirited Scent of Spain’s Balearic Islands

Colorful candles and boxes on a red and orange backdrop.

These Evocative Fragrances Will Transport You Home

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Botanical Artist Lara Call Gastinger on Seeing Scents

A stick of incense balanced with four pieces of stone

How Folie à Plusieurs Uses Scent to Amplify Emotional Encounters with Art

Echinopsis oxygona. (Photo: Rouibi Dhia Eddine Nadjm)

These Fragrant Cacti and Succulents Spice Up Their Surroundings

A Storm Products bowling ball

These Scented Bowling Balls Help Players Reach Their Flow States

Filmmaker Grace Boyle tracking sensory data in the Amazon. (Photo: Fábio Nascimento. Courtesy Greenpeace)

This London Studio Draws on Smell-O-Vision as a Tool for Promoting Social and Environmental Advocacy

Votary’s Lavender and Chamomile Pillow Spray

Pillow Mists, an Aromatherapeutic Cure for Sleepless Nights

An “Olfactory Labyrinth” by Maki Ueda

“Olfactory Labyrinths” That Zero In on the Remarkable Act of Smelling

Papier d’Arménie burning papers

These Scented Strips of Paper From France Are the Ultimate Deodorizers

A tin of 4ever mints in peppermint flavor.

Fix Your Bad Breath With These Minty Solutions

Fouteen Le Labo City Scents perfume bottles above an assortment of natural objects and their city names.

Le Labo’s City Exclusives Scents Offer an Olfactory Tour Around the World

A diffuser from Fueguia 1833’s new collection of home fragrances.

Imaginative Home Fragrances, Created by a Former Musician

Laurent Pouppeville, director of the Musée International de la Parfumerie. (Courtesy Communauté d’Agglomération du Pays de Grasse)

How Grasse, France, Went From a Smelly City to the Perfume Capital of the World

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The TikTok “Vabbing” Trend, Explained

A vial of perfume among rosemary and slices of lemon.

Three Perfume Brands Transforming Trash into Sweet-Smelling Treasures

A dew-covered white and pink rose.

Author and Curator Peter Kukielski on the Wonders of Roses in Bloom

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An Edible Perfume Made to Enhance Ice Cream’s Savor

A man's silhouette sniffs perfume near a bright window.

A New Documentary Traces the Life and Work of Dior’s Master Perfumer

Meet NASA’s “Nasalnaut”

The black D.S. & Durga perfume truck.

A Perfume Truck Brings D.S. & Durga’s Scents to the Street

A wooden wick from Wooden Wick Co.

The Key to Maximizing a Candle’s Aroma? A Wooden Wick

Space of Time’s Balance Fragrance Set. (Courtesy Space of Time)

Simple Sets for Carving Out Daily Moments of Calm

Two bundles of palo santo sticks in a gold tray.

The Cleansing Craze Around Palo Santo

Three clear perfume vials with insects encased in their glass stand on a white backdrop.

Artist Anicka Yi Mines Biology and Technology to Craft a Line of Perfumes

NASA's Eau de Luna perfume next to a pile of moon rocks.

NASA’s “Eau de Space” Fragrance Recreates the Smell of Outer Space

Neanderthal perfume in a white case.

Lonneke Gordijn of Studio Drift’s Favorite Perfume

A lineup of four Humankind deodorants in multicolored applicators.

The Best All-Natural Deodorants on the Market

Eleven bottles of perfume with a box and card on a white background.

Made During the Pandemic, These Perfumes Signal the Suspension of Time

A bottle of Hermés's H24 in futuristic lighting.

How Hermès’s New H24 Fragrance Defines Modern Masculinity

A red Powell's by Powell's book on a wooden table.

A Unisex Fragrance That Smells Like Old Books, Created by a Portland Bookstore

Rodrigo Bravo's pink marble vessels in various shapes.

Where We’re Turning for Our Gifts This Holiday Season

Breau on fire on a white stone.

This Amazonian Sap Will Ease Your Mind

A bottle of The Nue. Co.’s Functional Fragrance perfume.

The Science Behind The Nue Co.’s Stress-Relieving Fragrances

Perfumer Yann Vasnier

Yann Vasnier on the Fragrance World’s Renewed Interest in the Outdoors

Tubes of sunscreen and a perfume shot in front of palm leaf branches

This ’80s Summer–Inspired Fragrance Line Evokes the Era’s Popsicles, Pool Toys, and Speedos

Professor John Crimaldi using lasers to render odor plumes visible. (Courtesy John Crimaldi)

The Fascinating Significance of Understanding How Animals Detect Odors

An orange and blue candle on a wood surface.

A Designer Pays Homage to His Grandfather With a Line of Evocative Candles

Ormaie perfumes

This Natural Fragrance Brand Forgoes Synthetic Ingredients in Favor of Candor and Nostalgia

Four bottles of perfume next to a large quill feather.

This Perfume Brand Makes Scents That Evoke Los Angeles’s Rich Music History

A hinoki bathtub in a concrete room with a small tree.

Hinoki Is the World’s Absolutely Best-Smelling Wood

Tumi Continuum

Tumi’s Latest Fragrance Conjures Up the Curiosity of Contemporary Explorers

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How a Spidery Weed Spawned This Sweet-Smelling Perfume

Rain soaked soil seen through a tangle of grass and plants.

That New Rain Smell, Explained

Perfume samples at The Institute for Art and Olfaction. (Courtesy The Institute for Art and Olfaction)

Nuri McBride Paves the Way for Broader Understandings of the Crafts and Cultures of Scent

Perfumer Mackenzie Reilly

Up-and-Coming Perfumer Mackenzie Reilly on the Architecture of Fragrance

A bottle of perfume on a white background.

A Rose Perfume That Smells Like a Man

Incense burning on a pack of sticks on a red background.

The Best Japanese Incense Sticks Around

"Five Echoes" installation by Es Devlin

Es Devlin Is Planting a Forest in the Miami Design District

Five bottles of perfume on an ombre table

Old Family Photographs Are This Self-Taught Perfumer’s Muse

Yellow air freshener on car dashboard

This Car Diffuser Transforms Any Road Trip Into an Opulent Olfactory Experience

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A New Perfume Translates the Greek Island of Corfu Through Kumquat

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The Neuroscience-Based Fragrance Brand Pairing Scent With Soundscapes to Create Calm

The interior of a fragrance boutique, with many bottles lined up on shelves.

Parisian Fragrance Boutique Nose Offers an “Olfactory Diagnosis”

Bundle of incense sticks by Baba Watermill.

A Storied Japanese Watermill Produces the Primary Ingredient in This All-Natural Incense

Air Eau de Parfum by Air Company

A Carbon-Negative Perfume That Evokes the Earth’s Natural Elements

A visitor at the Van Abbemuseum’s “Delinking and Relinking” exhibition. (Photo: Joep Jacobs)

When Scent Meets the Museum, Do We See Art Differently?

A woman and a man smelling bottles of fragrances.

This Olfactory Design Studio in Berlin Makes Scents That Stimulate the Soul

Olivia Jezler gazing into the camera on a gray background.

The Stealthy World of Olfactory Branding, Explained by Olivia Jezler

Aryballe’s “universal odor sensor" device on a white background.

This “Digital Nose” Could Help Your Fridge Detect Spoiled Food

A trigeminal-based temperature illusion device developed by Jas Brooks, Steven Nagels, and Pedro Lopes. (Courtesy Jas Brooks)

What Will the Metaverse Smell Like?

Stacked wood and glass orbs with a leaf growing out of the top

This Mexican Fragrance Brand Borrows Its Notes From Local Vegetation

A bottle of Byredo Mixed Emotions perfume on a white background.

Byredo’s New Perfume Captures the Experience of a Roller-Coaster Year

The Perfume Companion book

A Definitive Guide to Finding Your Signature Scent

A brown and gold bottle of perfume next to a box reading "Old Faithful."

Caswell-Massey Bottles the Smell of Yellowstone Park, Literally

Brad Golden's Drip sculpture

This Spare Sculpture Creates a Subtle Background Scent for Your Home

A sculptural bottle of perfume is balancing between two pieces of carved stone.

Maison d’Etto Applies a Gender-Neutral Mindset to Scent

Neil Chapman. (Courtesy Neil Chapman)

What Makes a Perfume a Masterpiece, According to a Veteran Scent Blogger

Útilykt fragrance by 66° North and Fischersund

This Unisex Fragrance Captures Iceland’s Natural Splendor

Nepalese dhup. (Courtesy Tao Crafts UK)

The Perfumed History of Dhup, Nepal’s Traditional Hand-Rolled Rope Incense

White and red flowers with green leaves on a solid black background.

Horticulturist Ken Druse on Exploring the World of Botanical Fragrance

Various scented objects archived in trays.

Mandy Aftel’s Willy Wonka–Like Wonderland of Curious Scents