Fragrance Suppliers and Companies

Fragrance Suppliers and Companies

Firmenich: From Molecular Research to the Art of Perfumery

Explore the history of Firmenich, its ingredient research, perfumers, and the relationship between chemistry and fragrance creation.
Fragrance Suppliers and Companies

T. Hasegawa: Capturing and Recreating the Scent of Living Flowers

Explore T. Hasegawa’s history, Aquaspace aroma research, perfumers, and the collaboration that brings the scent of living plants into everyday products.
Fragrance Suppliers and Companies

Robertet: From Seed to Scent in Grasse

Explore Robertet’s history, the Maubert family, natural ingredients, extraction technologies, and the perfumers who turn those materials into fragrances.
Fragrance Suppliers and Companies

Ogawa: 130 Years of Turning Japanese Materials into Aroma

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

Parfumo: The History and Uses of Germany’s Fragrance Community

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

Basenotes: Grant Osborne’s Fragrance Community and How to Read It

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

The Perfume Society: Sampling, Publishing, and Bringing Perfume Lovers Together

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