The perfumer's flagship store in Oman, opened in 2008, is a contemporary rendition of an Omani-style house, complete with Arabic touches.

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He doesn't credit himself with any particular olfactory gift such as the one possessed by Grenouille, the homicidal perfumer in the novel "Perfume, " who is blessed, or perhaps cursed, with the planet's most discerning nostrils. (If you haven't, it's a stunning read.) "I have an educated nose, " he explained.

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As long ago as the 1950s, a perfumer called Paul Jellinek noted that several ingredients of incense resembled scents of the human body.

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The royal family first commissioned a leading French perfumer to create one of the greatest fragrances money could buy.

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His father was a perfumer who would inhale the scent of every item on the dinner table, including the water.

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It turned out to be a deftly assembled fake, manufactured by a former perfumer who went into the wine counterfeiting business.

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Ben Whishaw plays the glowering Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, born among the fish stalls of eighteenth-century Paris, who follows his nose and becomes the assistant to a noted Italian perfumer (Dustin Hoffman).

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Daniela Andrier, perfumer for Prada's Infusion d'Iris fragrances, has been working for years on perfecting the iris note.

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