I completely missed it the first time, but if you look at the tiny print next to the Jean Claude Ellena article in the New Yorker, there is a link to a 1930 profile of perfumer Francois Coty. It is a fascinating article in its own right, and also a nice illustration of how much the perfume industry has changed since Coty's time.
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oooh, thanks for catching that, R! I loved the main article…very enlightening!
I love the New Yorker. I wish they would do a semi-regular article on perfume. For that matter, why can't the fashion magazines do a better job? All we get is little blurbs raving about the latest release. Blech.
Thanks so much, R! We subscribe to the New Yorker, so hopefully our magazine will arrive in the mail today. I plan to make the article on J-C E my bedtime reading tonight, along with the article on Francois Coty, which I am printing right now.
I totally agree with you about perfume articles in these “upscale” magazines. Vogue has this huge issue for March, with all of the clothes and jewels you could imagine, yet not one article or even a blurb on perfume. And you are right: when they finally publish something on perfume, it is usually disappointing and leaves me wanting more information!
More rant: almost every year, Allure wins the Fifi for perfume reporting. That cracks me up. I have never read a single critical (or even interesting) word about fragrance in Allure. I hope Chandler Burr will keep writing about perfume.