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Perfume Shops

50ml: Turning Perfume on a Screen Into a Shop for Smelling and Talking Together

From online beginnings to a Milan boutique, Fabio and Matteo Stringhini built 50ml around perfume discovery, unhurried conversation, samples, and encounters with makers.
Perfume Shops

Villa515: Arab and Italian Perfume Cultures Under One Roof

Explore Dubai’s Villa515, from its family fragrance roots and collaboration with Alessandro Gualtieri to its shops, laboratory, and workshops.
Perfume Shops

Skins: Bringing New Choices to Familiar Shopping Streets

Trace Skins from its seven-brand Amsterdam shop to international boutiques, personal fragrance advice, creator collaborations, and learning experiences.
Books and Movies

Fragrances of the World and Michael Edwards: Building a Guide, a Database, and a History of Perfume

From Michael Edwards’s career and his first classification guide in 1984 to the Fragrance Wheel, database, and perfume history books: how the work is checked with creators and used by perfume lovers and sales staff.
Perfume Shops

Isolée: Bringing Perfumes Still Unfamiliar in Spain Into Everyday Life

From a small perfume corner in a Madrid concept store to beauty galleries and department-store spaces, Isolée connects distinctive brands with new audiences.
Perfume Shops

Senteurs d’Ailleurs: Bringing Beloved Scents of Southern France Into Brussels Life

A family’s love of Provence grew into a Brussels perfume and beauty specialist, shaped by customers’ discoveries, thoughtful selection, and personal advice.
Perfume Shops

Aus Liebe zum Duft: Captivating Perfumes Like Jewels, From a Small German Town

From a Bruchsal jewellery store to online perfume retail, Aus Liebe zum Duft connects fragrance writing, personal advice and hand-filled samples with discovery at home.
Fragrance Suppliers and Companies

Scentis: The Grasse Specialists Behind a Single Scent Strip

From Jean-Paul Malerba’s home-based venture to specialist papers, bags, and holders, discover how Scentis shapes the small tools used to test and present perfume.
Fragrance Suppliers and Companies

Aftel Archive of Curious Scents: A Berkeley Museum for Exploring Natural Aromatic Materials and Old Books through Smell and Touch

Discover the small Berkeley museum Mandy Aftel created with her family: its origins and the experience of exploring scent history through natural aromatic materials, old books, antique scent bottles, and botanical ingredients.
Perfume Shops

escentials: Choosing Perfume for Your Own Skin, Not Just a Brand Name

From its 2001 beginnings at Raffles Hotel, escentials has connected personal fragrance discovery with beauty retail, online shopping, and expansion across Southeast Asia.