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Lauren Lexa Brown
3 days ago
If You're Going to Kill Yourself, Wear Your Best Perfume
On the perfume of Sofia Coppola’s The Virgin Suicides.
M.P.S Simpson
Dec 9
What Perfume Reveals to Us About Power
And the olfactory ethics of nostalgia.
Kaitlin Owens
Nov 5
Can You Use Perfume to Seduce a Partner?
Calling your partner “stinky” suddenly has a whole new meaning.
M.P.S Simpson
Sep 29
Saccharine: On X, Fragantica, and Communicating Desire
How are we using gourmands — or, at least, the suggestion of gourmands — to offer public insight into the self?
Audrey Robinovitz
Sep 5
Beyond the Pleasure Principle
Pretty florals, psychoanalysis, and the sublimated erotics of Jouissance Parfums’ debut collection.
Carlota Gamboa
Aug 24
Zoologist Welcomes a Cobra to Their Kingdom
The niche perfume house — who capture the idiosyncrasies of the animal kingdom — is moving deeper into the reptile world.
Carly Silverman
Mar 27
There's a New Way to Smell Like Flower
New perfume lines love a cannabis note. But can the rest of us embrace it, too?
Audrey Robinovitz
Jan 15
Mushrooms, Macbooks, and other Perfumed Premonitions of the Apocalypse(s)
Agar Olfactory's eschatological fragrances, reviewed.
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