Makers

Discover Ogawa’s journey from an Osaka ingredient merchant to a flavor and fragrance company connecting cultivation, extraction, research, and perfumery.

Discover The Perfume Society’s founders, sample boxes, magazine, and perfumer conversations, with dated guidance on resources and services for readers in Japan.

Explore Parfumo’s origins, community-built database, reviews, collections, and wearing records, and learn to use ratings without replacing your own judgment.

Trace Basenotes from a British fragrance counter to a global community, and explore its database, reviews, forums, and editorial articles.

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.

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.

Discover how Odeuropa combined AI, historical research and perfumery to explore Europe’s smell heritage and create new ways to experience museum collections.

Explore Pierre Dinand’s bottle designs, from Madame Rochas and Calandre to Opium, and the conversations, materials and manufacturing choices behind them.

Explore how the International Perfume Bottle Association turns collectors’ discoveries into shared perfume history through magazines, archives and gatherings.