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Lancôme La Vie Est Belle: France's Best-Selling Bottle of Happiness
How a dream team of three perfumers spent three years and 5,000 attempts building the iris-praline gourmand that became one of the...
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Fragrance, explained
Notes broken down, dupes ranked, and straight answers on what actually lasts.
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Armani Sì: The Quiet Power of a Modern Chypre
How Armani took perfumery's most austere old structure, the chypre, and made it soft, modern and best-selling, plus Aromara's 35% extrait alternative.
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Dior J'adore: The Golden Standard of Modern Femininity
How Dior set out to bottle the scent of a new millennium and ended up with one of the best-selling feminine fragrances...
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Le Labo Santal 33: How a Brooklyn Brand Made the World Smell the Same
How a hand-labelled Brooklyn candle became the most recognisable wood scent of the decade, the smell of every boutique hotel and flat...
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Tom Ford Oud Wood: The Fragrance That Taught the West to Love Oud
How Tom Ford Oud Wood took a note the West was afraid of and made it the most fashionable ingredient in modern...
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Tom Ford Tobacco Vanille: The Scent That Made Niche Mainstream
The real story behind Tom Ford Tobacco Vanille, from the 2007 Private Blend gamble to the cocoa-and-tobacco accord everyone now recognises, plus...