Over the last year I have had several requests for more information and deeper reads on subjects brought up on the blog. So after banging around my shelves a bit, here is the Death/Scent reading list. Some of them are staples of both olfactive and death literature, others are weird and wonderful deep cuts. This…
Category: Lost History
Disasters, Mysteries, and Perfume: Unearthing the Philistines
In this post, we explore what we know and what we don’t about Philistine culture, thier death practices and how perfume may have played a role in their cosmology.
The Lost History of Women in Chemistry: Mariam, The First Alchemist
This post is part of D/S Women’s History Month series, click here for more women from our alchemical past. In the Indie perfume universe, the word alchemy pops up a lot. It graces the title of several popular companies. It also tends to be the word we use once words fail to describe the…
The Lost History of Women in Chemistry: Tapputi, The First Perfumer
This post is part of D/S Women’s History Month series, click here for more women from our alchemical past. On the day I’m sitting down to write this post, it is International Women’s Day, and all of March is Women’s History Month in the US, so I thought it would be a splendid time to…