THE Guide To Sniffing Out Vintage Perfumes

Perfume, like fashion, changes in style from decade to decade. We're not encouraged to think of perfume this way, but our noses, like our eyes, need novelty. Perfumers, like fashion designers but working in an invisible medium, can decide to use perfume ingredients (that's "notes," in perfume lingo) not only to create something beautiful, but also to convey meaning and reflect a culture's zeitgeist. In the 1920s, when flappers' loose silhouettes reflected a freer, more liberated view of feminini...