How do we experience perfume? Do we wear it as an accessory? A personal expression? A status symbol? Do we sense it as a fleeting vapor on people we love, or get annoyed by it on strangers in an elevator? And with all the visual, marketing, and lifestyle cues we associate with it, is there a way to experience fragrance on its own, without all the advertising and cultural “noise”?
Chandler Burr has spent over twelve years exploring and writing …
