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The Muguet of Mayday

The Muguet of Mayday

In this month of May, the ambler in France can witness a most prodigious, cyclical and inevitable phenomenon that, having survived the plethora of ...

A little air of Lily of the Valley

Despite its popularity, the lily of the valley has rarely been used for its perfume. Isn't this strange since, as we have read, its name is directl...

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...

These women who changed perfumery

A l’occasion de la Journée Internationale des Droits de la Femme, nous avons souhaité rendre hommage à ces femmes, connues de l’industrie mais méco...

How Cinnamon became the smell of Christmas...

Winter usually means Advent, Christmas, Christmas trees and baubles, chocolates and marzipan - but winter also means cloves, nutmeg, cinnamon, cinn...

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....

Moulin Rouge : The Frenchiest cabaret in the world

600,000 spectators and 240,000 bottles of champagne per year, 1,000 costumes, 850 seats, 800 pairs of shoes, 455 employees, 7 world records, and 1 ...

1828 by Histoires de Parfums X Baby Yors: An Exclusive Interview

An olfactive library of stories about famous characters, mythical years, poems and music. The collection is governed by no rules other than inspir...

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 ...

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 ...

Music, perfume & synaesthesia...

Many of you will no doubt have noticed that the olfactory lexicon borrows a lot from that of music - we speak readily of accords, of notes, of mute...

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 Bri...

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 roll...