Beauty Issue
Who Made Your Perfume? The Hidden Authors of Scent
A painting arrives with the name of the painter. A novel with the name of the writer. A film may involve hundreds of collaborators, yet its director still occupies a privileged place in the story of authorship. Perfume is strange. For much of modern commercial perfumery, the house has occupied the foreground while the individual perfumer has remained less visible to the general consumer. As fragrance increasingly claims a place beside other creative disciplines, that imbalance raises an awkward question: who, exactly, authored the perfume?
