The consumerist excess of the Eighties was embodied by scents like Giorgio by Giorgio Beverly Hills – a shoulder pad of a fragrance crammed with fruit and flowers. But few movements in history ...
The unappreciated significance of perfume research reflects, Shyndriayeva notes, a more general disdain for scholarship regarding the "aesthetic-industrial complex." Some historians—and female ...
A quick perfume history lesson: In 1904, François Coty, a young perfumer, made several unsuccessful attempts to find a market for his latest creation. He had just developed La Rose Jacqueminot ...