How Perfume Works

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.5 • 82.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2015

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Women consistently rate scent as the most important factor in a man's attractiveness and men have been manipulating that for centuries with scents of all sorts. Learn about the fascinating history -- and, well, art -- of making perfumes in this episode.

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
0:05.7	That's why we launched The Big Take.
0:08.3	It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit
0:14.0	to give you some space to think.
0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
0:17.7	Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.
0:23.6	Listen to The Big Take on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
0:31.3	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know from Howstuffworks.com.
0:41.3	Hey and welcome to the podcast.
0:42.9	I'm Josh Clark with Charles W. Chuck Bryant and Jerry Gers.
0:49.1	That'd be great if that was her name.
0:50.4	Jerry, Jerry Gers.
0:51.6	Yeah.
0:52.6	Tony Tony Tony Tony.
0:54.9	My friend used to call them Tony, Tony, Tony, why?
0:57.5	Is this spelling?
0:58.9	Oh, I don't know.
0:59.9	Okay.
1:00.9	But I thought the last one was an E with a little accent.
1:05.4	Well that was Tony but he didn't say Tony accent.
1:08.3	I wouldn't say that's Tony.
1:09.9	Tony.
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