A team who used ancient recipes to recreate an ancient Egyptian perfume perhaps worn by Cleopatra is back at it again. This time, they're turning to chemical analysis to decipher the perfume's exact ...

Young Frenchman Alexandre Helwani is using ancient texts and forgotten techniques to bring old fragrances back to life. Through experiments in his laboratory, this self-taught 'nose' merges history, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "There are no perfume historians as such. We have historians of trade, food, medicine and all of them, at some point, will talk ...