Mark Buxton is something of a legend in the perfume world. At 50, he has done it all: designed fragrances for major mainstream brands and, finally, set off on his own path to create his eponymous line. We sat down with Buxton to talk about his earliest perfume memories, the completely crazy story of how he became a perfumer, the extraordinary story of how he designed Black Angel, and his real thoughts on the "big" industry that he happily left behind.
Long-time niche aficionados all know the initials DSH. Dawn Spencer Hurwitz is a Boulder-based perfumer who was one of the earliest to appear on the modern American indie perfume scene, and her irresistible Au Lait is featured in the Olfactif Evening collection. 
Olfactif subscribers met Neela Vermeire when we featured her vibrant Bombay Bling in the On Holiday collection. So they, and the rest of the perfume world, were waiting anxiously for the release of Vermeire's fourth scent, Ashoka.
Spanish perfumer Ramón Monegal has been creating scents since 1979—his entire professional life. But when he launched his eponymous line, he discovered what many others discover when they move from behind-the-curtains wizardry and into the spotlight: Signing your work with your name and face is like turning up the volume on everything in your life.
We first fell in love with Josh Meyer's work back when we featured The Soft Lawn in our Vignettes of Spring collection. And when we smelled Cape Heartache, the follow-up scent to his debut collection, we fell a little deeper.
To say that we love Brent Leonesio, the creative mind behind niche house Smell Bent, is not a remarkable thing to say. What's not to love? Especially when he talks to us about his inspiration behind the cheeky Walk of Shame...
Yosh Han has always been a creative a spirit, so it's lucky for us that she encountered perfumery in time to make it a career. Here, she tells us about her start and the idea behind U4EAHH!
If we were to give you an exhaustive bio of Saskia Wilson-Brown, it would be a hefty tome—and as interesting as it is long. In 2012, Saskia decided to launch the Institute for Art and Olfaction, a first-of-its-kind nonprofit organization dedicated to exploring scent as an artistic medium ...
Anat Fritz was never content to follow the crowd. As a child, she felt and looked different from other kids—making her own clothes, cutting her own hair, and wearing perfume typically worn by much older women. It wasn't until she was an adult that suddenly, her unique artistic sense became a cause for celebration.
When Sabine Poncet Hernandez was growing up in France, she had two dreams: to make perfume and to live in the United States. Today, in Chicago, she does both. And it's a good thing for those of us who are wild her autumnal wonder Pleasant Promenade.
Some perfumers build their own brands because they relish the creative freedom that comes with independence. But the vast majority of the world's perfumers—including some of the people who have created the most iconic perfumes in history—work for fragrance companies.
It's not unusual for lovers of perfume to be lovers of other art forms, and perfumers themselves often are influenced by the arts. But Anaïs Biguine took her love of literature to a new level when she created Jardins dÉcrivains, a line of fine perfumes, candles, and body products based entirely on the lives of her favorite authors and their characters.