How Birth Control Can Affect Your Sense of Smell and Attraction
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Your sense of smell is more powerful than you might think. It influences everything from the way you experience food to how you connect with others. Science has shown that hormonal birth control can subtly alter the way we perceive scents, including pheromones that play a role in attraction. For fragrance lovers, understanding this connection [...]
The Families Behind the Fields: The Jasmine Growers of Grasse
Grasse, the perfume capital of the world, owes much of its legacy not to corporations or factories, but to families, generations of cultivators who have tended their flower fields with devotion and skill. In this chapter of The Families Behind the Fields, we turn our attention to the jasmine growers whose blossoms have defined French [...]
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Why Lavender Left Grasse, France
If you’ve ever imagined fields of lavender swaying under the Provençal sun, chances are you were picturing Grasse. While rose and jasmine are still pillars of the region’s perfumed identity, lavender has largely faded from its agricultural foreground. But it wasn’t always that way.
For decades, lavender thrived in the Grasse hills, cultivated by small multi-generational [...]
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