99% Invisible

Perfume: Articles of Interest #9

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29:44 | May 19th, 2020

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The world of high end perfume is surprisingly lucrative, considering that scent is often the most ignored of our senses. But one can't judge a scent solely by the brand and shape of the bottle. With t...Show More



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rmmiller364 recommended:Jul 9th, 2021

Oh my gosh, where can I smell some ambergris?! Next time I go to San Francisco, I am totally going to Tigerlily.

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mm recommended:May 23rd, 2020

I have a new appreciation for perfume as an art form. We disregard our sense of smell so easily compared to our other senses, but it could be so complex and interesting like the others. And now I know why the 90’s is the β€œfresh and clean” era!

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jennx recommended:May 23rd, 2020

Come to think of it, our sense of smell is really underrated - compared to our other senses like visual, audio, and sensory πŸ‘ƒπŸΌπŸ‘ƒπŸΌπŸ‘ƒπŸΌ

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molinos recommended:May 25th, 2020

IΒ΄m not very into perfums but this episode make me think about that industry in a new way. How perfums have changed in history and how the problem is not that we donΒ΄t smell is that we lack words to refer to what we smell. Totally agree with the idea at the very end of the episode about how the i...Show More

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iso_squared recommended:Jun 14th, 2020

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