Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. They say it’s never good to judge a book by its cover, but can you judge a perfume by its bottle? Should you?

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, ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Coco Chanel kept hundreds of perfume bottles on her vanity, many of them empty. When asked why she held ...

Long before minimalism and refillable spritzers, perfume bottles were works of art. Crystal stoppers, hand-painted glass, and sculpted silhouettes turned fragrance into a luxury display piece-and ...