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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Drum roll and festive notes: the ticket sale for the Paris Perfume Week is officially open!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Olfactory receptors are mysterious, but they are gradually unveiling their secrets to researchers. Biochemist Claire de March, a member of the GDR O3, and her colleagues were recently able to observe this secretive protein, in order to understand it better.
Founder of the natural ingredients company that carries her name in 1983, Monique Rémy passed away on Thursday 4 January 2024. Let’s take a look back at the career of a grande dame to whom the industry owes a great deal.
