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Weekend energy inspired by Sol de Janeiro

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Making Scents: Can perfume attract your perfect match?

Fragrance manufacturers claim their products can lure the opposite sex. The secret behind allure, is little more subtlety writes Tammy Violet Frazer.

In the fragrance industry

Making Scents: I’ve grown a custom scent for you

In the fragrance industry, perfumers are champing at the bit to offer distinct personalised fragrances, writes perfumer Tammy Violet Frazer.

Making scents: ‘Natural’ products are no longer a luxury

The time has come for consumers to question what exactly is in the products they habitually replenish, writes Tammy Violet Frazer.

The more oil-filled your skin is

Making Scents: The right fragrance for your skin type

Fragrances especially natural scents, which are more subtle and nuanced than chemicals – smell different on different skins because of skin chemistry.

A fragrance is a framed story and sometimes how that story is told is as important as the juice itself. Brad Pitt’s monologue served as the “reboot” for Chanel No. 5 in 2012. Here was a man promoting a woman’s perfume with a strange esoteric message.

Making scents: A perfume speaks a thousand words

"A fragrance is a framed story, and sometimes how that story is told is as important as the juice itself," writes perfumer Tammy Violet Frazer.

Making scents: A scent endures after words fade

“Dissonance”, “counterpoint” “Sillage”… perfumer Tammy Violet Frazer talks us through some perfume lingo.

Making Scents: Smell’s power to evoke memory

Tammy Violet Frazer writes about the powerful link between smell and memory.

Making Scents: Put the genius back in the bottle

"The shape, style and colour of a perfume bottle plays a vital part in your attachment to a fragrance," writes Tammy Violet Frazer.

Making Scents: Giving life to the scent

Perfumers should seize the essence of the notes to construct a story that will be pushed through every available marketing and advertising channel.

Making scents: Raw deals can ruin a perfumer

Formulating a fragrance is made more complicated by the complexity of sourcing raw material for the final scent.

George Kegakilwe.

Making Scents: Scentless buying

Apt descriptive prose, comparisons and personal truths from perfume aficionados are what drive the purchase of perfume online.

Victoria Falls

Making scents: To mark territory

A house scent can make guests feel immediately at ease, but it can be dangerous if not executed properly.

Perfumers call an accord of smells that bring back and evoke an individual’s memories the Proust phenomenon.

Making scents: On the track of a writer’s tale

The creation of perfumes is informed by scientific research into smell and memory, but also by art and literature.

A tree in the Ethiopian mountains where opoponax resin is collected.

Making scents: Resins are really from Africa, by gum

We should be investing in local technology, otherwise the only winners are logistics companies that transport our precious natural resources away.

Roses from Bulgaria.

Making scents: Seduced by sweet, shy roses

An African hand helping to preserve a fragile and dignified business – rose harvesting.

A couple in the nose

Hadley Freeman meets the authors of an intelligent and funny guide to the intangible world of fine fragrance.