Pragmatic blog about scents

Here, we keep things simple and practical, offering honest reads, easy-to-follow tips, and real talk about all things fragrance. Whether you're new to perfumes or a longtime fan, we're here to help you to discover fragrance world, without the fuss.

Diagram of odorant molecules travelling through the air to the olfactory receptor neurons inside the nose

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25 December 2024

Odor fatigue or how to decode perfumes

Why your nose goes blind after a few sniffs, what is happening at the receptors when it does, and how to turn that against a perfume you want to take apart.

perfume making

research

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Perfume raw material and set of blotters at the perfume meetup

25 December 2024

Where to study perfume making?

Workshops, online courses, raw material suppliers and the schools in Grasse and Versailles: the routes into perfume making, and which one fits what you actually want.

perfume education

perfume making

Group of people at the meetup are trying different perfumes on scent strips

25 November 2024

Top-5 resources to learn about perfumes

Fragrantica, Wikiparfum, Parfumo, Fragplace and one that is not a website at all: where to look up a perfume, its notes and the brand behind it.

perfume discovery

brands