The coronation oil was created using olives harvested from two groves from monasteries on the Mount of Olives — a mountain ridge on the eastern borders of Jerusalem’s Old City.

The site has great significance to Christians: The Bible says Jesus prayed on the day before his crucifixion. The olives were picked from groves at the Monastery of Mary Magdalene and the Monastery of the Ascension and pressed into oil just outside Bethlehem, believed by Christians to be the birthplace of Jesus.

The palace has said the oil is perfumed with sesame, rose, jasmine, cinnamon, neroli (oil from an orange tree), benzoin (balsamic tree bark resin), amber and orange blossom.

— Read more in From the 'stone of destiny' to a holy spoon, strange and sacred items will play a key coronation role at NBC News via AOL.

“Signature scents now belong mostly to boomers and Gen Xers who are like, ‘My dad wore this, so it must be good,’” Bendeth says. But zillenials — the ‘micro-generation' of people born between 1993 and 1998 — and millennials aren’t so tied to what their parents wore. Bendeth tells Vice that those younger generations have “mercurial attention spans” when it comes to fragrance, prioritizing novelty and the pursuit of switching things up, even if it’s sometimes only under the umbrella of the same brand. “Fragrance wardrobing has turned into fragrance speed-dating,” she says. “Getting married to just one [fragrance] is now a hard sell, but marrying into a name is still trendy.”

— Read more in When It Comes To Fragrance, Are Men Monogamous? at Vice.

Pimento. Pistachio. Peyote. Seaweed. Olive oil. Absinthe. Tiramisu. No, these are not the ingredients for a dish from The Menu, nor the inventory of an L.A. art party bar cart. These are perfume notes—all in new, fairly mainstream fragrances. They may not be as extreme as Elon Musk’s Burnt Hair cologne (billed as “the essence of repugnant desire,” it sold out—30,000 bottles—within days), but still, they aren’t smells you would normally elect to spritz on your wrists.

— Read more in What's That Smell? The Unusual Fragrance Notes Trending For 2023 at Town & Country.