While the rest of the internet may have melted down over the politics of “olfactory ethics” last week, we at Cosmo HQ had a different smell-related mission: to figure out what a vampire smells like.

Don't get me wrong, solid perfume isn't going to replace your extrait. They're not strong on their own, but help build your ...

Food-inspired perfumes (aka “gourmands”) typically rely on notes of vanilla and coffee bean. Lately their creators have glommed onto pistachio. “The vanilla crowd started looking for [something] a bit ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." The relationship between a celebrity and fragrance is a long-standing one. While it’s easy enough to ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Gourmands are evolving: Sweet scents are getting darker, nuttier, boozier, and more complex, with vanilla ...

Even though I write about fragrance, I don’t necessarily like smelling like perfume, per se. That doesn’t mean, though, that I don’t want to smell good. In a perfect world, that would mean that the ...

“I never liked fragrances when I was a kid,” perfumer Josh Meyer tells Forbes. It’s an unlikely story: the kid who doesn’t like perfume grows up to become a perfumer. But Josh Meyer, the founder of ...