Snow in a Bottle
Perfumers generally design complicated scents to stimulate a fantasy or a mood, not to match any one particular thing. Christopher Brosius is a perfumer with a different approach: he bottles the smell of celery, a gin and tonic, thunderstorms, even snow. Sarah Lilley went to find out what isolating smells like these does for us.
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