Note deep dive
What 'ambergris' means on an attar's ingredient list
Whale-derived material runs past $100,000 a kilogram and cannot legally be traded in the US; the synthetic that replaced it costs a few hundred.
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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.
Note deep dives. A single material, followed everywhere it goes.
About the journal
Three mornings a week the journal publishes one piece about independent perfume, drawn from the same catalogue as the rest of the site: 7 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.