At the start of Avenue Montaigne, in the heart of Paris, stands the newly opened Henry Jacques Perfumes boutique. Though the family-owned French perfume house was launched in 1975, this is their first ...
In a laboratory set amid fields of roses, perfumer Antonin Khalifé is unpacking a chunk of ambergris. The substance, which forms in the bile ducts of sperm whales, has been used in fragrances for over ...