Gaetano Pesce and Wadi Dawkah: A Frankincense Love Story
January 2023, New York. Gaetano Pesce wakes from a singular dream: a frankincense tree, one he has never seen in his life. The beginning of an adventure between design, resin and perfume.
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Maison Lautier 1795 reinvents the art of transforming naturals
Heir to a long tradition of transforming natural ingredients for perfumery, Grasse-based Maison Lautier 1795 is now exploring new extraction techniques that meet today’s demand for sustainability while staying true to the spirit of traditional methods.
Saskia Wilson-Brown, Art and Olfaction Awards: “The concept of perfumery we champion is universal.”
Every year since 2014, the Art and Olfaction Awards have celebrated international and artisan perfumery with their recognition of perfumers, independent brand creators and creative directors as well as experimental practitioners with scent.
The surgical precision of perfumery: reinventing distillation
Essences are not eternal. Technical processes for capturing the soul of a host of plants have continually evolved over the course of history.
The Colors launches Fragrance for Impact to reconnect perfumery with local communities
The Colors and the United Nations Population Fund launched Fragrance for Impact. Its principle: to create a link between the perfume industry and the programs run by UNFPA in the territories that produce raw materials.
ScentFest SF: The US West Coast now has its own fragrance festival
Following a successful first edition, ScentFest SF has just announced the dates for the festival’s second instalment, to be held from June 4–6, 2027. The ideal moment to look back at the birth of this new olfactory event and get a feel for the goals of its founder, Sebastian Jara.
Perfuming design and designing perfume
DSM-Firmenich is marking Paris Design Week by unveiling Anankè in the garden at Maison de Victor Hugo. An excellent opportunity to celebrate the bonds between fragrance, art, and design.
De Laire bases: a 150-year revolution
The Smell Talk at Palais Brongniart during Paris Perfume Week dedicated to the de Laire bases attracted a crowd of over 150 visitors, keen to listen to Symrise perfumers Aliénor Massenet and Pascal Sillon recounting the bases’ long history – and get the chance to smell some of them.
Thierry Duclos, Simppar: “Placing every exhibitor, whether a small producer or a multinational company, on equal footing”
For 35 years, Simppar has maintained a unique format dedicated to the discovery of raw materials. Following the success of its first edition in Grasse in 2024, the trade fair is now confirming its establishment in the perfume capital.
Maurice Roucel and Francis Kurkdjian get together to talk about the Héritage(s) collection
To mark Maurice Roucel’s contribution to the Héritage(s) collection, Symrise and the Per Fumum endowment fund organized a very special get-together between the perfumer, filmmaker David Richard, and Francis Kurkdjian.
A porcelain perfume
DSM-Firmenich continues to deepen the fruitful dialogue between art and fragrance since it created an olfactory signature for the musée national de la Marine in 2023.
Ayn Dawkah: the cornerstone of Omani frankincense
At the heart of Wadi Dawkah, the UNESCO-listed site and birthplace of Omani frankincense, Amouage has just laid the cornerstone of an ambitious project for a cultural center dedicated to the desert’s white gold.
Ivan Borrego : “Through the Barcelona Perfumery Congress, we aim to maintain an innovative, inspiring, and distinctive approach.”
On June 18 and 19, 2025, Spain will host the sixth edition of the Barcelona Perfumery Congress. Meeting with Ivan Borrego, General Manager of Beauty Cluster and Founder of the event.
Fragrances with taste: DSM-Firmenich’s vision of the future
For the past twenty years, DSM-Firmenich has been unveiling its vision of perfumery trends to its clients. The Mind Nose + MatterAn exclusive platform available to clients in New York, Paris, Dubai, Shanghai, Geneva, and São Paulo at the end of 2024. program explores major societal phenomena, giving free rein to perfumers in Paris and New York – offering a “preview” of the future.
Time to get your ticket for the Paris Perfume Week 2025
Drum roll and festive notes: the ticket sale for the Paris Perfume Week is officially open!
Paris Perfume Week returns for its second edition from March 20 to 23, 2025!
After a debut edition that brought together nearly 3,000 enthusiasts and professionals from around the world, Paris Perfume Week is back from March 20 to 23, 2025, at the Bastille Design Center. With it comes a vibrant and inspired lineup.
ScentXplore (New York) : “A spirit of camaraderie”
As Nez makes its annual world tour of fragrance events, our next stop will be New York, for the 2024 edition of ScentXplore (5-7 December), a trade show we’ll be taking part in for the 3rd year running. We met Max Forti, its founder.
5th Experimental Scent Summit: Olfactory culture under the Lisbon sky
On 6 June 2024, the 5th Experimental Scent Summit, organised by the Los Angeles-based Institute for Art and Olfaction, took place in Lisbon. A day teeming with encounters between researchers, artists and perfumers from all over the world who shared research and ideas about olfactory culture.
Scent, money, and ethics
Several scandals have hit the fragrance industry recently – while the word ethics is repeated over and over by the perfume brands. Maybe one of the keys lay in the fair remuneration of the first links in the chain? What seems obvious is yet far from being the rule. We offer an analysis of this burning issue, published in the last issue of Nez magazine.
Nez x GDR O3 – Smelling of roses
Did you know that a better understanding of the origin of the rose’s fragrance would pave the way for innovations both in cosmetics and pharmacy? This is, among other things, what the CNRS research engineer and member of the GDR O3 Benoît Boachon explained to us.
