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Somerset House's Perfume exhibition featured a recreation of Coty's L'Origan. Nick Gilbert tracks the story of the classic scents reconstruction.

As summer draws to an end, Marian Bendeth highlights some of her scents of summer alongside her photos of the season.

Claire Vukcevic tells us everything you need to know about musk – and runs though the top musk fragrances everyone should try.

Scent Verse is a poetry project curated by Basenotes writer Eddie Bulliqi that seeks to explore scent language and metaphors by publishing poems from contributors across different industries that either take scent as their inspiration or are very evocative of smell.  If you are interested in being involved, please send a…

As the series comes to an end, Nick Gilbert picks fragrances for the clones of Orphan Black.

In the first of a new semi-regular series, Claire Vukcevic speaks with JK DeLapp of The Rising Phoenix Perfumery about attars, the company’s upcoming range of Eau de Parfums and crowdsourcing campaign.

Persolaise talks to the founder of Aether about the brand's synthetic-only compositions.

As sustainability goes mainstream, “green” fragrances can be found and purchased everywhere these days. The 2016 Organic Market Report revealed that UK sales of “green” beauty products increased by 21.6% percent last year and is expected to grow rapidly

Persolaise catches up with Etat Libre D'Orange founder Etienne De Swardt about his collaboration with Chandler Burr.

We asked Claire Vukcevic to write an article about the best fragrances for summer. Claire gave us this instead, which is why we love her.

Considering a digital detox? Viola Levy explores how smell can hold the key…

Last year my nose was at Kitty Hawk or Menlo Park. Like the beginning of the electrical age or the era of flight I witnessed a magic moment in which you are given a glimpse – or rather, a sniff - of the future: a future, in this case, where smell would be regarded by Western civilization as a sense on par with sight and sound; in which art would be something inhaled as well as viewed, in which live poetry would affect your emotions by way of your olfatory bulb as well as your ear drum; in which films would have genuine smelltracks or a smell sequence might have a soundtrack; in which performative arts were self-evidently multi-sensory affairs fusing and contrasting visual, aural, olfactory and tactile perceptions. Welcome to the Century of Smell!