A short recap of emerging trends from Esxence 2023 As my lucky fellow fragrance reporters are packing their bags on the way to Milan (including, rumor has it, Luca Turin, after a long and dire absence), let’s take a look at what emerged—at least for my hyperlexic brain—as a pattern in last year’s exhibit. (Not sure yet how this fits in with perfumery journalism; documentaries are few and far between, reviews are increasingly harder to distinguish from paid ads, and trends se

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