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Francois Coty 1874-1934 There are few Houses that have shaped Modern Perfumery and continue to exert their influence worldwide.  Coty is surely one of them and revolutionized the first thirty years of the 20th century.   From the invention...

Sarah McCartney is a self-taught perfumer and founder of 4160 Tuesdays. Having worked as a copywriter at Lush Times for 14 years Sarah embarked on writing a novel involving fragrance, but while researching how to make particular smells, fell in love...

Dressed in red, with a bag full of presents and a visual image "perfected" by the countless Coca-Cola ads,  Santa wears ... sandalwood. One of the strongest image from my childhood is a crystal perfume bottle in a red packaging bearing this name which...

Bill Gates wasn’t sniffing “poop” for nothing. As the billionaire philanthropist explains in a recent Gates Notes blog post, he recently spent time smelling an artificial scent of feces in Geneva, Switzerland as part of a plan to help people in poor...

As is often the case, I was searching for something when I got completely distracted and lost in old perfume advertisements. I started with with my favorites, like the 1953 Bandit ad above, or the classic Dior ads illustrated by Rene Gruau (I'd sell...