Natural does not mean simple, untouched or automatically safer. Here is what origin, extraction, regulation and sustainability really mean in modern perfumery.

Jasmine, May rose and tuberose reveal why the romance of Grasse depends on exacting labour, timing and extraction.

How Grasse evolved from leather and scented gloves into France’s perfume capital through flower cultivation, extraction, trade and generations of expertise.

She did not bring perfume to an unscented France. Here is what Catherine de’ Medici may genuinely have changed — and what later writers attributed to her.

The elegant legend of Catherine de’ Medici, René le Florentin and the poisoned gloves — examined against the evidence that survives.