Discover the World of Perfume

Discover the World of Perfume

  • IFF
  • Symrise
  • Givaudan
  • Takasago
  • Firmenich
  • MANE
  • Robertet
  • T. Hasegawa
  • Ogawa & Co., Ltd.

Bottles & Craftsmanship

Perfume Bottle Design

  • Pierre Dinand. Calandre, Opium: shaping iconic perfumes
  • Pochet
  • Guerlain’s Dames de Table: the craftsmanship behind an exceptional bottle
  • Lalique
  • Baccarat
  • HEINZ-GLAS
  • Brosse
  • Verescence
  • Draeger

Tools & Technology for Sampling Scent

  • Scentis

Learning & Creating

Schools & Places to Learn

  • IFF’s perfumery education: opening corporate training to students
  • Ateliers Arôme & Parfum Paris: bringing perfumery training from Paris to Japan
  • ISIPCA: a specialist school born of Guerlain’s vision
  • Cinquième Sens: developing a sense of smell and a vocabulary from a small box of ingredients
  • Givaudan Perfumery School: passing Jean Carles’s teaching to the next generation
  • Japan Flavor and Fragrance School: learning to turn scent into products, from perfume to chewing gum
  • Grasse Institute of Perfumery (GIP): learning perfumery where the flowers grow
  • École Supérieure du Parfum & de la Cosmétique (ESPC): learning to create fragrances and bring them to the world

Careers in Fragrance Creation

  • The fragrance evaluator: developing a scent between perfumer and client

Culture & Archives

Museums & Preservation

  • The Osmothèque: preserving disappearing perfumes and their formulas for the future
  • The International Perfume Museum (MIP): from fragrance tools to the history of everyday life
  • The Aftel Archive: a small museum where you can smell century-old ingredients
  • Her Scent of Mystery: reconstructing the perfume from a 1960 film, 65 years later
  • Odeuropa: tracing the history of smell through old books and paintings with AI

Documenting Scent & Olfactory Art

  • Kate McLean: walking through cities to collect and map their smells
  • Sissel Tolaas: sweat and city smells as clues to understanding the world

Brand History

  • Coty: fragrance and beautiful bottles as an attainable luxury
  • Coty’s Suresnes factory: a “perfume city” connecting fragrance, bottles and boxes

Reading & Connecting

Books, Media & Information

  • Fragrantica: a fragrance encyclopedia where perfume lovers around the world exchange ideas
  • Nez: a publisher of olfactory culture that grew out of perfume criticism
  • Basenotes: a meeting place for perfume lovers, born of questions at the fragrance counter
  • Parfumo: exploring your preferences through perfume shelves and wearing records
  • Fragrances of the World: using classification to connect a favorite perfume to the next discovery

Organizations Supporting Perfume Culture

  • Institute for Art and Olfaction (IAO): from buying fragrance to creating with it
  • The Fragrance Foundation (US): bringing the American fragrance industry together through awards celebrating perfume
  • The Perfume Society: clues to a deeper understanding of fragrance, in a box of samples
  • IPBA: tracing a perfume’s history through the marks on the bottom of its bottle

Perfume Events

  • Esxence: bringing small perfume brands to retailers around the world
  • Pitti Fragranze: Florence’s perfume exhibition, with perfumer retrospectives too
  • Smell Festival: a city festival born of a desire to learn about scent
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