Wadi Dawkah, The Land of Frankincense

Elle est entrée chez Symrise en 2016. Aliénor Massenet a notamment composé Only the Brave pour Diesel, Jazz Club pour Maison Martin Margiela, Irish Leather pour Memo… Ou encore Elisabethan Rose pour Penhaligon’s, dont elle explique la genèse dans ce quatrième épisode d’Icônes. Un ...  Show more

Que se passe-t-il dans notre cerveau quand un parfum nous émeut ? Grâce à la technologie Wavemotion, la maison de composition Parfex explore les réactions inconscientes déclenchées par les odeurs. Jean-François Thizon, maître parfumeur chez Parfex et Vasco Fontes, Neuroscience Ma ...  Show more

1470 BC - A five-ship caravan by Egyptian Pharoah Hatshepsut undertakes a unique voyage, possibly the first plant-collecting mission masterminded by a woman. The voyage is successful as the touring party returns with 31 live plants of a certain species. Over 4000 kms away, in ...

543 BC, Lord Buddha had left the earth, and his body was cremated in a sandalwood pyre at Kushinagar, in modern-day Uttar Pradesh. His left canine tooth was retrieved from the funeral pyre by his disciple, Khema. Over the decades, it changed hands and found itself in Kandy, Sr ...

‏كان الحديث مع الدكتورة نعيمة شيقا جدا ونستضيفها في حلقة اخرى، الحلقة 83 لـ #بودكاست 🎤 #ڤُصرة. للتذكير، الدكتورة نعيمة بن قاري استاذة بجامعة السلطان قابوس بعمان، ونستضيفها في الحلقة الثانية للحديث عن بحوثها حول القرى في الجزائر والعمارة وأهميتها في حفظ الذاكرة الجماعية. في هذه ا ...  Show more

Part 2/4. At their most powerful, the Inca had the largest empire in the world. Lasting just one century from the mid-15th century, it stretched across the South American continent from the Amazon to the Pacific. The Inca developed ingenious ways to grow food in some of the wo ...