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The premise of style is coherence. A style -- yours, for example -- must unite elements into a whole. For it to be interesting, you want a wide range of [...]

1 When you're fragrance shopping, is it better to use those paper testers or your own skin? There's nothing wrong with blotters for browsing (but make sure you don't touch […]

HOW WOULD IT FEEL TO WEAR A perfume so unusually beautiful, so rare, so haute couture, that almost no one else knew about it? Here's your chance. I've tracked down […]

I wore black on my wedding day, and I really regret that,' Sarah Jessica Parker says. 'I was too embarrassed to get married in white, and both Matthew [Broderick, her [...]

Luca Turin, a biophysicist, a genius of tastes and smell, found the world's finest sweet wine in a remote region of France. Apricot and apple flavors and rich honey, perfectly balances all the harmonies and a recipe of Garbure is also presented along with the ingredients and method of preparation.

Hong Kong is in 2001 a part of China and is known for its food and shops. Two of the city's neighbourhoods, Soho and Lan Kwai Fong, are described with emphasis on their restaurants and shops and recipes are presented.

The attractions for winter visitors to Stowe, Vermont, are discussed. The beautiful scenery, the quiet pace, the hospitality of local restaurants and the activities such as skiing and snowboarding are described.

Cuba and AIDS Traditional epidemiology solved the AIDS crisis in Cuba before it began. CHANDLER BURR Mr. Burr is a contributing editor at U.S. News & World Report. DR. Tom [...]

EPIDEMIOLOGY, which encompasses both the systematic study of infectious disease and the implementation of the means to contain it, is something of a medical oddity. As dependent on statisticians and [...]

The issue of homosexuality has arrived at the forefront of America's political consciousness. The nation is embroiled in debate over the acceptance of openly gay soldiers in the U.S. military. [...]

I STAND AT THE END OF THE LONG, elegant, crystal-and-silver-laid dinner table at the Carlyle hotel on Madison Avenue in Manhattan. It's 7 P.M., and 17 guests are watching me. […]

Everyone needs a little black dress, a businesslike suit, a killer cocktail outfit ... but we're not talking clothes here, we're talking scents. Specifically, a wardrobe of scents. Because what's […]

The role being played by luxury consultants in helping hotels enhance their services is discussed.

Time heals all wounds, and the battle over bisexuality, so fierce in the late 20th century, has faded during the past 30 years. 'Bisexuality exists!' and 'We're all really bisexual!' [...]

Byline: CHANDLER BURR Summerize Your Scent Don't Smell Like Last Season CAPTION(S): Gucci by Gucci Sport Pour Homme Vodka-clear, citrus-sharp, and rock-solid on skin: It diffuses over the day with [...]

Byline: CHANDLER BURR Get a Whiff of Independence Some guys stick to the indie stuff, labels so underground they need mining gear. So why shouldn't they be just as discriminating [...]

Byline: BY Chandler Burr ILLUSTRATIONS BY Bruce Hutchison IRIS? A¬ JuiceA®? Masculines? YES, REAL TERMSAND ACTUALLY REALLY USEFUL. WE ASKED SCENT CRITIC CHANDLER BURR FOR A CRASH COURSE IN APPLYING, [...]

The first thing you should know about olfactory works of art -- scents made by artists who work not in paint or clay but in the medium of scent -- [...]

ANGEL, for example, revolutionized the aesthetics of perfumery by reinventing the gourmand school. Thierry Mugler told his creative directors he wanted a scent that recalled the sweetness of youth -- [...]

For years, Paris has inspired a river of scents, from Evening in Paris (don't laugh) to Paris, Yves Saint Laurent's crepuscular rose. There have been literal representations and abstract concepts [...]

I have a friend who is a film editor. When you go to the movies with him, he doesn't watch the film but its composition. While you're enjoying the acting, [...]

We departed for China not, technically, from Kennedy airport but from the New York car service, a fact I mention for the smell. There is no experience more redolent and [...]

The lushness and exoticism of the tropics have always intrigued artists, but capturing their beauty requires a firm hand. The tropics are more idea than reality, and representations veer from [...]

Perfumes have structures just as buildings do, and many perfumers, like many architects, have imbibed modernism's early-20th-century precepts: eliminate ornament, simplify line, derive form from contemporary materials. Yuzu Rouge, from [...]

Formulaic scents for men are, like death and taxes, inevitable. Sometimes, given their smell, you'd take death. But every so often a perfume house has a masculine fragrance that is [...]

Byline: --CHANDLER BURR How a young hard-core chemist concocted Europe's coolest new fragrance So what do you do for fun if you're an industrial chemist in south-central France, manufacturing heavy [...]

Outrageous!, for example, is a work of talent, originality and vision. It smells deeply artificial in the best sense, intentionally bearing the same relationship to the natural world that Tang [...]

If you're in Paris and you want to see Ingres's 1862 masterpiece, ''Le Bain Turc,'' or his earlier flirtation with neo-Classicism in ''Oedipus Explaining the Enigma of the Sphinx,'' or [...]

L'Homme Sage, by Divine (****) Gucci Pour Homee (***) Light Blue, by Dolce & Gabbana (*****) For anyone who has ever walked into a lumberyard and stopped dead in his [...]

Just as BMW offers its more accessible 3 Series to younger buyers, many perfume houses offer beginning fragrances for their younger consumers. Each house follows its own logic. ck IN2U [...]

In 1964, a 3-year-old girl named Laudomia was unhappily confined to her sickbed. It was, as these things go, not a bad place to be confined; her bedroom was on [...]

Last April, Rhonda Jackson, a senior perfumer at Procter & Gamble Company in Cincinnati, started to create a perfume. Jackson had received from the brand's creative executives her ''brief,'' the [...]

The olfactory idea of ''fresh'' is a strange one. This is not because we have no referents for the smell of freshness in the natural world; we do. As T. [...]

Osmanthe Yunnan smells like a field of hay: you inhale summer sunlight, perhaps some dry straw, clover and honey. It also smells (and there's no other way to describe it) [...]

In 1984, Antonia Bellanca, a florist in East Hampton, N.Y., decided to create a freesia perfume. She told her perfumer, Bernard Chant, that she wanted freesia because she'd noticed that [...]

The movie ''Memento'' told a story in reverse, the viewer descending into the future by being pulled step by step into the past. It seems like the right technique to [...]

Byline: Burr, Chandler The Nose Knows What the world's best perfumers wear when they're not on duty By Chandler Burr Here's a little fragrance-industry secret: Calvin Klein didn't make Eternity, [...]

Patrick Suskind's 1985 novel, ''Perfume,'' is a macabre murder mystery, the story of an awkward, alienated genius. But it is really a story about smell. The novel opens with the [...]

Buildings are scent machines. At 40 Mercer, the Jean Nouvel-designed building going up in SoHo, the kitchens are Italian walnut, the backsplashes are heavy-gauge stainless steel, and the air is [...]

When it comes to men's fragrance, creativity is rare. Men are generally offered infinite clones of that numbing, visionless spice-citrus-and-burnt-aluminum-can-metallic cliche. Still, there are a few originals, like Slatkin & [...]