Tag: Christopher Brosius

Radical and imaginative – The young Noses of the perfume world

Posted by M. Bijman in Aspects of perfume, How people perceive perfume, Perfumers, The Maxiamo Blog

Les nez, the Noses, of today are turning the perfume world on its head, independently creating micro-perfumeries and unusual perfume ranges. The trends have been to create unisex perfumes, or perfumes with rarely-used or obscure components, or to recreate sensory experiences, or memories, as opposed to recreating or using scents in nature, such as florals or woods.…Read more »

Scientists and a perfumer define and distill the smell of old books

Posted by M. Bijman in How people perceive perfume, The Maxiamo Blog, The psychology of fragrances, The science of perfume

How we know what we smell is through odour signals being processed in the part of our brain that stores smell identification, memory, and emotion. Smells can take us back years and years, to specific times, happenings and feelings. But how about multiple lifetimes? Two researchers at the UCL Institute for Sustainable Heritage, Cecilia Bembibre and Matija Strlič, have…Read more »