Mother's Day is coming up in Australia and that means a surge in perfume sales. Of course, scents are purchased year-round and not just for mothers. Fragrance sales in Australia will amount to over A$1 billion this year.
Spray of perfume.
Magdalena Wajrak is a Senior Lecturer in Chemistry within the School of Science
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