EditorialLeft: lamp for the festival of Lights (Hanukkah). Late 19th century. Brass and glass. From Djerba (Tunisia). Center: perfumer for the Habdalah ceremony. 19th-20th centuries. Silver and ivory, inscriptions in Hebrew. From Central Europe. Right: Kiddush ...
EditorialAn illustration of a bear. A Treatise on Bear's Grease, with observations ... to preserve the head of hair, etc. London, 1795. Source: 1186.c.37 frontispiece.
EditorialDispensary and laboratory of an Arab perfumer chemist of the 12th century. From a Persian manuscript of the era. Chromolithograph from Eugene Rimmel's Le Livre des Parfums, Paris, 1870.
EditorialThe shop of Rene the Perfumer on Pont au Change, Paris. Woodcut engraving by Gabry from Eugene Rimmel's The Book of Perfumes, London, Chapman and Hall, 1865.
EditorialPerfumer Ernesto Collado forages for plants to use at his fragrance factory, near where he lives in Pontos, Spain June 29, 2021. (Samuel Aranda/The New York Times)
EditorialPerfumer Ernesto Collado forages for plants to use at his fragrance factory, near where he lives in Pontos, Spain June 29, 2021. (Samuel Aranda/The New York Times)
EditorialPerfumery prepared for the Emperor of China by Alex Ross, perfumer with a shop in Bishopsgate Street, London. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Rudolph Ackermanns Repository of Arts, London, 1816.
EditorialAn illustration of a bear. A Treatise on Bear's Grease, with observations ... to preserve the head of hair, etc. London, 1795. Source: 1186.c.37 frontispiece.
EditorialAdvertisement for the perfume Un Air Embaume from the perfumer Jean-Baptiste Rigaud. Lithograph from the luxury fashion magazine Art Gout Beaute, ABG, Paris, April 1926.
EditorialDispensary and laboratory of an Arab perfumer chemist of the 12th century. From a Persian manuscript of the era. Chromolithograph from Eugene Rimmel's Le Livre des Parfums, Paris, 1870.
EditorialThe shop of Rene the Perfumer on Pont au Change, Paris. Woodcut engraving by Gabry from Eugene Rimmel's The Book of Perfumes, London, Chapman and Hall, 1865.