While L'Eau d'Iris incorporates elements of traditional perfumery, the net result is lightness, she added.

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Plus, to understand the history of perfumery is to (partially) understand its chemistry and (fully) embrace synthetics.

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New York perfumery school, teaches aspiring perfumers the basics of perfume skills.

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Nicholas Rushlow, a 14-year-old eighth-grader from Lancaster, Ohio, was eliminated when he misspelled "vetiver, " an aeromatic grass whose especially fragrant root yields an oil used in perfumery and mats in India.

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But would the perfumery radar make the same choices?

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Now, the Argentine perfumery is going global.

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