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.

"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 ...

Perfume usually mixes with natural oils and sweat on your skin. Your skin’s pH balance and moisture level change how perfume smells and feels. If your skin is oily, the scent may last longer. Whereas, ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

“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 ...

Perfume is usually the last thing I’d wrap up for someone. Fragrance is incredibly personal and deciding which one to gift feels akin to guessing their coffee order or choosing their go-to lip shade.