"For more than half a century, Olivier Creed, heir to a French fashion empire but out to conquer an adjacent field by himself, created the most compelling and costly perfumes in the world - scents so successful - artistically and commercially - that the world's largest asset manager bought his small olfactory enterprise for nearly $1 billion in 2020. One could arguably have called him the world's most capable perfumer. Except Olivier Creed never authored...

Throughout history people have applied scents to their bodies and clothing. They have carried perfumed objects, worn scented jewelry, sent scented letters, even exchanged scented coins. Gaining an understanding of how scents were used allows us to get up close and personal to daily life in any given period. Some uses of scent are particularly revealing: the smell of the impressive quantities of blood spilt in the Colosseum of Ancient Rome was masked...

Elena Rossini tiene un don. Desde hace siglos, las mujeres de su familia elaboran fragancias y se han trasmitido este conocimiento de generación en generación, ellas saben que los perfumes son un camino para llegar al corazón de las personas. Cuando Elena pierde la illusion tras un engaño amoroso, se marcha a París y en poco tiempo hace florecer su talent: rs la única capaz de crear el perfume adecuado para poder recuperar un amor perdido, para...

Tristan Rosier might have asked Malorie Monsard to marry him when he was five years old, but things had only gone downhill from there. She'd spent the rest of their lives ignoring him, abandoning him, and destroying his perfumes. Now she was back, to wreak who knew what havoc on his life. Tristan might choose to dismiss the generations-long enmity between their two families, but Malorie didn't have that privilege. Like all the other privileges wealthy,...