{"id":12729,"date":"2026-02-01T20:29:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T20:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/the-self-taught-french-nose-bringing-history-to-life-through-fragrance\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T20:29:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T20:29:16","slug":"the-self-taught-french-nose-bringing-history-to-life-through-fragrance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/the-self-taught-french-nose-bringing-history-to-life-through-fragrance\/","title":{"rendered":"The self-taught French nose bringing history to life through fragrance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/s.rfi.fr\/media\/display\/8ca32e60-dcd1-11f0-89cd-005056bfb2b6\/w:1024\/p:16x9\/portrait-Focused.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><br \/>Young Frenchman Alexandre Helwani is using ancient texts and forgotten techniques to bring old fragrances back to life.\u00a0 Through experiments in his laboratory, this self-taught &#8216;nose&#8217; merges history, culture and smell to create scents such as the Bible and the Odyssey.<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rfi.fr\/en\/culture\/20260201-the-self-taught-french-nose-bringing-history-to-life-through-fragrance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Young Frenchman Alexandre Helwani is using ancient texts and forgotten techniques to bring old fragrances back to life.\u00a0 Through experiments in his&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","category-mode-de-vie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}