We’re in a sex recession. According to the Institute for Family Studies, the number of Americans engaging in sex weekly has dropped to record lows with fewer than half of those surveyed — 1,000 men and women — getting it on on a regular basis (but don’t tell that to gay men). Olfactorily speaking, however, people have been indulging their inner freak with perfumes meant to imitate the primal, filthy scent of sex, and it’s more apparent than ever when we look at some of this year’s fragrance drops.

— Read more in The Year Everyone Wanted to Smell Like … Sex? at The Cut.