It depends on what kind of love you’re talking about. But I think real love — not lust, not passion, but just love — smells like fresh lilacs. It’s the most calming, cooling, sweet scent. They smell alive, but also soft, and you just don’t want to be away from it.

— Alia Raza of Régime des Fleurs on the smell of love. Read more in The Perfumer Whose Sheets Smell Like Rose Water at The Cut.