Nez Magazine #03 The Sex of Scent

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The nose…
of an illustrator by Pascale Caussat

Odorama

• The Herbarium: Blackcurrant bud by Patrice Revillard
• Molecule under the microscope: Iso E Super by Olivier R.P. David
• What’s that smell? Flowers (pollination, reproduction, protection) by Olivier R.P. David
• Analysis: the car (new car smell, petrol, leather seats, the garage, magic trees) with scented pull-out card by Béatrice Boisserie

Connections

• Artist: Peter de Cupere by Koan Jeff Baysa
• Author: Baudelairean Aromas by Clara Muller
• Open letter to a young perfumer by Jean-Claude Ellena
• Olfactory portfolio: From Pigalle to Montmartre by Céline Ellena
• Interview: Hippolyte Courty, owner of L’Arbre à café by Juliette Faliu
• Perfumer’s Column, by Céline Ellena

Magazine

• Interview: Perfumer Francis Kurkdjian by Sarah Bouasse
• Report: Symrise Madagascan Vanilla by Cécile Clouet
• Flashback: The Roaring Twenties by Yohan Cervi
• The Fantasy Perfumery 1929: Louise Brooks, Agatha Christie, Helena Rubinstein, Al Capone, Charlie Chaplin, Duke Ellington by Léa Walter

Feature: The scent of sex

• Sex sells: Seduction and the sexes in perfume advertising, by Delphine de Swardt
• Incense, Cologne and testosterone: A history of male fragrance, by Eugénie Briot
• Male/Female: How is gender characterised in scent?, by Denyse Beaulieu
• Does love have an odour? Attraction through smell and hormones, by Éléonore de Bonneval
• Pheromones: fact or fiction?, by Éléonore de Bonneval
• The aroma of desire: sex dolls, strip clubs, scented products, love potions, by Guillaume Tesson

Perfume pages

• Analysis: The impact of blogs Awards on perfume brands by Eddie Bulliqi
• Meet the brand: Arquiste by Angela Sanders
• A genealogy: Ambre Antique by Coty by Juliette Faliu and Alexis Toublanc

Opinion: Synesthesia by Alexis Toublanc

Perfume reviews and editors’ picks

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