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Perfume: Articles of Interest #9
99% Invisible
Scent and Subversion by Barbara Herman
Barbara Herman is the creative director of Eris Parfem. She sniffed her way through the 20th century to find out what perfume used to smell like. Perfumes had ingredients like amber-gree, which is oxidized whale vomit and musk. These were scents for the bedroom; now they're in your face cream or laundry detergent.
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