In the mid-1830s two ambitious Parisian chemists, Édouard Laugier and Auguste Laurent, set out to answer a question that had perplexed scientists for centuries. By day they worked at a perfume house, ...

This scattershot chronicle by Levitt (A Short Bright Flash), a history professor at the University of Mississippi, gets lost in the weeds exploring the 19th-century French perfume industry. She ...

For the keen-nosed perfume connoisseurs in the GLAMOUR office, certain fragrance notes are definitely more divisive than others. Some of us coo and fawn over the first spritz; others wince and get ...