Dec 3rd, 2008 · Masik Collegiate Fragrances of Harrisburg, Pa., has been creating perfumes and colognes specific to given colleges. Katie Masik had the idea 11/2 years ago and started the business with her family. She says the odors are both literal interpretations of campus smells and the mental image of the school.
Aug 4th, 2008 · Patience is a virtue — especially for an order of monks who lived in perpetual silence until the 1960s. On an island near Wales, one community of Trappists now manages a thriving mail-order Internet business. Their sales of homemade perfumes and sweets were slowed by a sluggish dial-up connection. So they upgraded to broadband.
Jun 4th, 2008 · In recent years, poppy production has skyrocketed in Afghanistan. A group of businessmen has been trying to offer an alternative, by urging farmers to grow flowers for perfume instead of for drugs. It has been a frustrating and costly project.
May 28th, 2008 · Avon is teaming up with the 007 franchise to create a new perfume. But what is the scent of a Bond girl? Is it the floral aroma of Vesper Lynd, the femme fatale from Casino Royale? Or the steely scent of the villainous Soviet siren in Goldfinger? What Avon hopes to smell is marketing gold.
Jan 23rd, 2008 · As more than 1,000 business executives and government officials gather for the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, one thing is for sure: The rooms will smell swell. Conference organizers have set up perfume machines to pump fragrances into the rooms, apparently to enhance discussion.
Jan 21st, 2008 · In his new book, The Perfect Scent, Chandler Burr follows the developments of two perfumes: one by actress Sarah Jessica Parker; the other by French perfumer Jean-Claude Ellena. Burr is perfume critic at The New York Times.
May 29th, 2007 · Chandler Burr writes about perfume for The New York Times. He and a chef at New York's The Carlyle, A Rosewood Hotel, have developed a gourmet dinner designed to show how perfume can enhance food and drink.
Jan 6th, 2007 · 'Perfume' is a dark and dramatic tale of obsession, murder and the quest for a truly transcendent fragrance. And the main character is a dirty perfumer with a nose of gold and a heart of stone.