Kolkata: A huge volume of flowers that goes to waste daily at Mullick Ghat, the city's wholesale flower market off Strand Road near Howrah Bridge, may be processed for use in manufacture of natural ...

Northeastern North Carolina, not far from the coast, is a long way from the fine fragrance houses of Europe. But the best noses in France have farmers in this region—and its peculiar-smelling purple ...

Union Beach, N.J.? A Garden of Eden for perfumers is in a most unlikely place. Inside a rather nondescript building in a rather nondescript industrial office park about an hour outside of New York ...

Lucknow’s National Botanical Research Institute (NBRI) has opened a lab, Parijat Lab, dedicated to exclusive research and development of natural ingredient-based perfumes. This is a first for any ...

VERSAILLES, France (AP) — The Versailles flower gardens were once a symbol of the French king’s expeditionary might and helped water-deprived courtiers perfume their skin. Now, they have been ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Celia Shatzman writes about fashion, beauty and grooming. “[With] plants that are from another time, never before have we been ...