Founded in Kyoto in 1594, KUNGYOKUDO has carried incense traditions into everyday life. Explore its temple connections, inherited blending skills and the choices behind its modern renewal.

From overseas fragrance shops to candles made after work, discover how Keita Sugasawa built APFR and transformed encounters with travel, music and culture into fragrance.

How the match makers of Harima and incense makers of Awaji Island created hibi: the three-and-a-half-year development, material choices and design behind ten minutes of fragrance.

“I thought that bringing together two emotional elements, music and perfume, might allow us to offer something of wonderful value. These two ‘arts’ were destined to meet.” — Tanguy Le Baud, founder of Art Meets Art. The story of a Paris-born brand that officially acquired the copyrights to world-famous songs and worked with legendary perfumers to bring “the scent of a great song” to life.

“France, Italy, and Britain have perfume brands with long traditions. Why was there nothing like that in the German-spea...

“We were even told that consumers wouldn’t buy without Julia Roberts’s smile. Even so, we decided to create Bastille.” — Marie-Hortense Varin, founder of Bastille. The story of a French brand that brought a revolution to the perfume industry through transparency and 95% natural ingredients.

“The brand name BeauFort comes from the wind-force scale devised in 1805 by naval officer Sir Francis Beaufort. Wind is constant and persistent, but ultimately it is always changing and can also be destructive.” — Leo Crabtree (founder). The story of a man born on a boat on the Thames who went from drumming for The Prodigy to becoming a perfume revolutionary.

“After 9/11, I wanted to do something for New York.What could I, born in Paris, do for this city? That was the beginning...