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Pass the pepper | new perfume notes | sizzling summer scents |

Monroe
Sexy and glamorous. Red carpet ready. Did someone say 'rescue fantasy'?

Why pepper, lily and Cognac are on the wishlist of perfume connoisseurs This summer, luxury perfumers are drawing inspiration from the Silk Road, warm sun on citrus, 1980s pop culture, ancient opulence, heady islands like Madagascar and Sicily, and warm, after-dinner ambience. Among the new season’s surprising A-list invitees are pepper, lily, Cognac, and that…

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Have perfume, will travel | destination in a bottle | the nose checks in

Monroe
Sexy and glamorous. Red carpet ready. Did someone say 'rescue fantasy'?

Japan in springtime, Morocco in an orange haze, London dipped in derring-do … experience exotic locations through a fragrance filter. There’s a new wave of niche perfumes that aim to re-create a destination in a bottle. It’s a cache that lets the perfume lover daydream about travel that might still be, once closed borders are…

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Smells like the ’70s | New York stories | Fragrance flashback

Monroe
Sexy and glamorous. Red carpet ready. Did someone say 'rescue fantasy'?

A pumping new perfume stumbles into the disco dawn Christopher Chong’s latest exotic perfume for the Oman-based Amouage pays homage to high-voltage 1970s New York — with its celebrities, glamour, energy and artistic daring. The newbie, Imitation (Woman & Man), evokes a time when nightclubs like Studio 54 were heady playgrounds for grown-ups; when Andy…

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Niche perfumes | Sexy scents | Fragrance stories

Garbo
Cool, understated elegance that belies inner sparkle and sizzle.

Premium perfumes no longer owe their cachet to flower power alone. Fragrance is upping the ante with notes borrowed from drugs, French palace floors, and the Three Wise Men, reports Susan Skelly. Niche perfumes are a little like a Scandinavian gourmet pizza – layers of  improbable, intriguing combinations of ingredients foraged by a “nose” who’s…

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Prince of perfume | sniffing the breeze | glitz and spritz

Monroe
Sexy and glamorous. Red carpet ready. Did someone say 'rescue fantasy'?

Perfume lovers have Nick Smart to thank for retail access to some of the oldest and loveliest fragrances in the world. So how did a property lawyer ended up shrouded in the mists of time? Niche perfume is one of the fastest growing sectors of the multi-billion-dollar fragrance and beauty industry. Of the 2,240 fragrances released last year,…

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