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Western perfume history is often told in broad strokes: the rise of modern perfumery in France, the golden age of the early 20th century, the diversification of niche and experimental perfumery today. The Single Note Series intervenes in this narrative and lingers around key moments and hopefully a few less considered ones. Each lecture focuses on a single perfume—an icon, a benchmark, a cultural phenomenon—and asks what it meant in its own time and why it endures in memory and influence.

French classics like Shalimar, No. 5, Mitsouko, and Iris Gris provide a point of entry into the mythology of modern perfumery, while Indian attars such as mittī or gulab, Arabic ouds and mukhallats, and other global traditions open the discussion outward. The aim is by no means to repeat a canon, but to follow a trail of perfumes that have become unique reference points: compositions that reshaped taste, marked turning points in history, or embody the spirit of a place and time.

This is a series of cultural studies with perfume as its object. It is designed for those who want to move beyond simply wearing or collecting fragrance and instead ask what these works have meant in broader artistic, social, and sensory contexts.