In this guide to scent, beauty experts Josephine Fairley and Lorna McKay bring together everything you need to know about perfume

• Meet the families
• Perfume portraits
• from strength to strength
• How to find your next scent love
• Do you speak perfume?
• Signature scent -v- a wardrobe of fragrances
• How the magic of scent works on the mind
• Scents of time
• A world of ingredients
• What the nose know
• From field to flacon : the making of a perfume
• Natural -v- synthetic
• Plant a perfume
• Collecting perfume art
• Perfume, bottled
• Collecting vintage perfume bottles
• Small(ish) is beautiful
• A bespoke fragrance : the ultimate luxury
• Top 100 perfumes to try before you die
• The men's room
• (Some of) the best perfume shops in the world
• Perfume and the blogosphere
• Everything you ever wanted to know about fragrance