The Perfumer's Apprentice: Our goal is to enable perfumers and flavorists of all levels to learn about and experience truly professional components. Let us help you on your journey into the world of personal scent and flavor creation.

Lucky Scent: Shop for current, hard to find perfumes, fragrances and candles.

The Perfumed Court: Decants of new and vintage perfumes.

Basenotes: huge database of perfumes indexed by house, fragrance, perfumer and notes.

Osmoz: a perfume site for consumers, operated by the big fragrance & flavor company, Firmenich.

Perfumeworld: an encyclopedia of world perfumes.

Perfume Organizations and Museums

International Perfume Bottle Association : The IPBA is an association of collectors of perfume bottles and related ephemera. It is a nonprofit, all-volunteer organization of thousands of collectors world-wide.

Accademia del Profumo: Italian version of The Fragrance Foundation. Site in Italian and English.

Artisan Natural Perfumers Guild: consortium of perfumers, suppliers and enthusiasts dedicated to perfumes made with natural aromatics.

Barcelona Perfume Museum: nice site with lots of information on the history of perfume.

CosmeticsINFO: the consumer website of the Personal Care Products Council (formerly the Cosmetic, Toiletry, and Fragrance Association). Focus is on safety information.

Fragrance Foundation: the non-profit, educational arm of the international fragrance industry (US site).

Le Parfum Quelques Gouttes de Luxe: consumer site of the Comité Francais du Parfum. Site in French.

Osmotheque: the "living" perfume museum in Versaille. Site in French.

Bois de Jasmin Bois de Jasmin is a weblog on various aspects of perfume, ranging from history to organic chemistry. It also features great reviews of some of the most exclusive perfumes available today. The site is in English.

Miscellaneous

Chandler Burr: the website of Chandler Burr, author of The Emperor of Scent. Includes some perfume reviews.

Fragranced Products Information Network: health, environmental and regulatory aspects of fragrance. Prepare to worry.

Perfume Bibliography: a comprehensive bibliography of books about perfume, in English and French.

Perfume Paths: take a personalized walking tour of Paris perfume boutiques.

Sniffapalooza: shop for fragrance in New York City with other perfume addicts.

Scent of Jerusalem--Christian & Jewish Gifts

Fragrance & Flavor Companies

CPL Aromas

Firmenich

Givaudan (formerly Givaudan Roure, and recently acquired Quest)

International Flavors & Fragrances (IFF)

Mane

Symrise (merger of Haarmann & Reimer and Dragoco)

Takasago

Fragrance Forums

Basenotes

MakeupAlley

Now Smell This  Now Smell This is a daily updated perfume blog with several contributors. It features perfume news, reviews, and upcoming releases. The site is in English.

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