What Perfume Names Really Mean: A Fragrance Taxonomy
Walk into the museum of perfume naming and the first thing you realize is that bottles almost never begin with scent alone. They begin with language. A name arrives first, and with it a temperature, a room, a woman, a landscape, a private mood. In niche perfumery, especially, names rarely behave like labels. Instead, fragrance taxonomy operates more like little openings in the wall, each one asking you to peer through and imagine life on the other side.
March 31, 2026
