Women and men have worn perfume for millennia. Excavated burials tell us the Egyptian as well as ancient Chinese wore it, and later the Greeks and Romans. They kept perfumes in some kind of container, ...

A team who used ancient recipes to recreate an ancient Egyptian perfume perhaps worn by Cleopatra is back at it again. This time, they're turning to chemical analysis to decipher the perfume's exact ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In the old days people bought perfume by taking their own empty, generic bottles to be filled with their scent ...