Flower fields once blanketed Grasse, France, where blossoms used in Chanel No. 5 are grown. Now luxury brands are reinvesting ...

A fine perfume can have a hundred ingredients coming together to create an olfactory sensation—but sometimes, something simple is just as sweet. While you can make perfumes with complex top notes, ...

Learn how to make perfume out of flowers using a French technique using fresh flowers, alcohol and fat called enfleurage. Believe it or not, I know a technique by which you can make an infinite ...

Northeastern North Carolina, not far from the coast, is a long way from the fine fragrance houses of Europe. But the best noses in France have farmers in this region—and its peculiar-smelling purple ...

Renowned for its centuries-old perfume industry, the intense heatwave is wreaking havoc on flower production in Kannauj and diminishing the fragrance of rose, mehndi (henna), and bela, posing a ...

Also known as “Queen of the Night” or Lady-of-the-Night, this evergreen shrub produces long, tubular flowers that open only after dusk. Its intoxicating, almost tropical fragrance becomes strongest in ...