When you think of summer perfumes, your mind might conjure warm, sunny notes: creamy coconut, solar florals, and ripe tropical fruits. But this season, a more subversive scent category is making a ...

Rain perfumes can smell fresh and floral, dewy and bright, or earthy and mysterious, depending on the perfumer’s interpretation. Find 10 rain- and petrichor-inspired fragrance recommendations inside.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Most of us recognize the smell of rain before a storm, but few know that scientists have mapped the chemistry behind it. That ...

Growing up in Southeast Asia, where it torrentially rains about once a day, the smell of petrichor grew to feel like home. Now, living in the United States, where it rains less often, the smell of ...

* Petrichor is the earthy scent after rain, caused by geosmin and plant oils * Humans are highly sensitive to geosmin, detecting it at parts per //trillion * The smell reduces stress, triggers ...

LONDON, ENGLAND - AUGUST 13: Heavy rain lands on a footpath in Piccadilly Circus on August 13, 2015 in London, England. The Met Office has issued an amber warning for heavy rain in the south east of ...

But behind its poetry lies a fascinating science of soil microbes, plant oils, and airborne molecules that together create one of nature’s most beloved aromas. The key player in petrichor is geosmin, ...