The Osmothèque: France’s library of smells is a breath of fresh air

The collection in Versailles has the formula of every new fragrance and also stocks sniffing samples of classic perfumes to conjure up your most cherished memories. Original-formula Old Spice, anyone?

Robbie Williams v Jimmy Page – and other celebrity neighbours from hell

The singer’s planned building works on his London home have got his guitarist neighbour up in arms. But they’re not the only celebrity neighbours antagonising each other with grandiose reconstruction plans

Live it up: the celebrity homes that anyone can rent

Fancy a holiday in Jimi Hendrix’s ‘gingerbread house’ or Kurt Cobain’s graffiti-riddled Los Angeles flat – and willing to pay a premium for the pleasure?

Does wearing red really make you dominant, charismatic and sexy?

A new study claims it does. Stuart Heritage puts the theory to the test in his local town centre

Welcome to Görlitz, the perfect German town that’s a movie star in its own right

The Grand Budapest Hotel has been nominated for nine Oscars – if only there was one for ‘best location’ so the eastern German town where it was filmed could win

The weather bomb, the polar vortex, #snowvember: will the storm of extreme weather names ever end?

It used to be that only hurricanes and typhoons were entitled to them, but now barely a day’s forecast goes by without another catchy monicker being coined