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The chocolate note in perfumery

The chocolate note in perfumery

The chocolate note in perfumery

The chocolate note in perfumery

If there is no longer any doubt that Easter and chocolate go hand in hand, this has not always been the case when it comes to perfume. Last year in our Easter editorial, we explored the origins of ...

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A Brief History of Jasmine

A Brief History of Jasmine

With nearly 200 different varieties and up to 259 molecules that make up its fragrance, Jasmine is a prolific and prolific flower to say the least. The Queen of the Night is an undeniable white flo...

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Away, together in the Balkans

Away, together in the Balkans

For this new series, Histoires de Parfums has chosen to reproduce the fictional letters of real lovers. Over the course of these lines, we read of landscapes where history and perfume are never too...

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Away, together in Calabria

Away, together in Calabria

For this new series, Histoires de Parfums has chosen to reproduce the fictional letters of real lovers. Over the course of these lines, we read of landscapes where history and perfume are never too...

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A little taste of summer

A little taste of summer

Ah, here comes summer. Here comes the call of Parisian terraces, of escapades in the provinces, of Atlantic journeys, of week's end retreats in Brittany, of concerts in Provence, of Parisian heat w...

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Music, perfume & synaesthesia…

Music, perfume & synaesthesia…

Many of you with no doubt have noticed that the olfactory lexicon borrows a lot from that of music - we speak readily of accords, of notes, of mute flowers, and often we expand on the range of colo...

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Gourmand-croquant

Gourmand-croquant

What do the Gulf and Balkans wars, hot chocolate, Thierry Mugler, candyfloss and a “little black dress” have in common? They are all symbols, more or less obvious, of an olfactory family, the young...

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Chocolate and Marie-Antoinette

Chocolate and Marie-Antoinette

"At seven o'clock, Sanson comes in. (...) The Queen lunches of a cup of chocolate brought in from the neighbouring café and one of those sweet rolls called mignonnettes. (...) then the Queen of Fra...

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The woman who invented perfumes.

The woman who invented perfumes.

Perfumery owes a lot to women. Whether it is the discreet diligence of Marie-Thérèse de Laire who formulated mythical bases of perfumery with the molecules developed by her husband at the beginning...

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Queen of flowers & flower of Queens…

Queen of flowers & flower of Queens…

Thinking of perfumery and femininity inevitably leads to looking at the history of the Rose. This flower, the most emblematic of all, almost the queen of all plants, still captures our imagination....

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