AT some point, nearly every gardener has paused over a flower and experienced an epiphany: If I could capture the scent of that jasmine in a bottle, I’d be a millionaire. The next day the petals are ...

Take a deep, sweet lungful of jasmine fragrance–and admire its courage. Its swaggering machismo, even. For a strongly scented flower takes terrible risks, says scent biologist Robert Raguso of the ...

San Michele, the restaurant on the premises, sources most of its food from the farm that surrounds it, where vegetables are planted among olive groves for oil and vineyards producing red, white, and ...

Northeastern North Carolina, not far from the coast, is a long way from the fine fragrance houses of Europe. But the best noses in France have farmers in this region—and its peculiar-smelling purple ...

Perfume flower grower Pierre Chiarla picks jasmine flowers in his field in Grasse, France. (Bénédicte Desrus for NPR) GRASSE, France — The town of Grasse sits in the hills above the more famous French ...