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Reading about independent perfume: what the season smells like, who is making what, and how one material behaves in a hundred different hands.
Beginner guides. Plain answers for anyone starting out.
Beginner guide
Perfume oils and solids are sold as whole small bottles, while natural parfums are priced by the millilitre, which is why a first order can cost $4.75 or $60.
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Beginner guide
Staging notes into top, heart and base is a documentation habit rather than a property of the liquid, and in the library the split cuts across oils…
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Beginner guide
Concentration words are house conventions rather than measurements, so the useful reading is format, size and price per millilitre.
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Three mornings a week the journal publishes one piece about independent perfume, drawn from the same catalogue as the rest of the site: 22 articles so far, every one of them linking back to the houses and the notes it talks about. It is published by Undernotes; nothing in it is sponsored, and no link is an affiliate link.
