Honest writing about perfume, spray counts, vibe voting, and the community behind smell100.
Vanilla is all too often reduced to sweetness, and that is perhaps the greatest injustice ever done to it. A guide to the orchid, the molecule and the six principal forms of vanilla, followed by fourteen perfumes read for the face of vanilla each one wears.
August is summer at its fullest: golden grain, heavy fruit trees, herbs perfuming the meadows. Three perfumes for the abundance of high summer and the first harvest: Bee by Zoologist, Un Jardin à Cythère by Hermès, and Rose Jam by Lush.
Four thousand years of lavender - from Egyptian tombs to Esxence 2026. The chemistry, the history, the supply crisis, and why it's the most misunderstood note in perfumery.
This July, let a British summer seduce you. Following in Jane Austen's footsteps, we settle by the Albion coast with three refined green florals housed in flacons worthy of a novelist's dressing table: Penhaligon's Daphne Bouquet, Santa Maria Novella Fresia, and Parfums de Marly Delina.
In a fragrance industry often driven by trends, rapid releases, and mass appeal, Ylem Parfums emerges as a brand that deliberately takes a different path, approaching perfumery as an art form that blends concept, emotion, and identity into a carefully curated experience.
Three aesthetic senses: stillness, movement, and individuality reveal your inner identity.
There's something I need to talk about. Something that explains why a fragrance can smell like the opening sequence of a masterpiece on Monday and arrive on your skin the following Thursday smelling like the administrative corridor of a hospital.
June pulses with midsummer sensuality, the season of Kupala Night magic and fragrant flowering fields. Let me seduce you with three of the most carnal perfumes for warm evenings: Givenchy L’Interdit Rouge, Jean Paul Gaultier Scandal Intense, and the discontinued Mugler Aura.
For years, perfume discourse has leaned on a lazy hierarchy: Western designer fragrance is framed as the source material, Arab perfume is framed as the imitation.
The original blueprint was to build a corner of the internet where you do not need a master's degree in chemistry to figure out what you actually like. A place where saying "this smells exactly like vanilla cupcakes" completely wins out over "an opulent symphony of half-wilted eucalyptus from Zimbabwe."
In today's world of luxury perfumery, where new fragrances appear almost daily, only a few brands manage to build a philosophy that goes beyond the aesthetics of a bottle and the structure of notes.
Hello, I'm Rina, a perfume lover living in Japan. I joined the smell100 community because I believe scent is a universal language that deeply connects people across borders. Today, I'd like to introduce you to the mysterious and delicate world of Japanese scent culture.
