Say $425 dropped into your lap, and you had to spend it on perfume. What would you buy? If you want to smell like a sharply cut ice-white diamond splashing rainbows of light, you might want to consider Ormonde Jayne White Gold Extrait.
Perfumer Geza Schoen developed White Gold, and it’s the third in Ormonde Jayne’s Gold trilogy…
It’s Tuesday, and International Mountain Day, (and I remembered the teapot). What fragrance are you wearing?
I’m sticking with yesterday’s Aftelier Candide. Tea at the moment is Organic English Breakfast from Upton…
Our study was looking at how olfactory receptors and brain structures cope with mixtures and single odorants. At first, we thought that mixtures would mean complications but it turned out there was no extra complications and in fact, it's usually easier to smell mixtures than single odorants and the sensing is also slightly faster. This wasn't what we expected but this is what came out from our mathematical investigation.
— Thomas Nowotny of University of Sussex, quoted in Smelling the forest not the trees: Why animals are better at sniffing complex smells at Science Daily.
4711 has launched four new limited edition fragrances in the brand’s Acqua Colonia range this year: Blackberry & Cocoa, Vanilla & Chestnut, Saffron & Iris and Myrrh & Kumquat…
Happy Monday and happy Human Rights Day. Birthdays: Ada Lovelace, Emily Dickinson, Cornelia Funke. What fragrance are you wearing?
I am commando for some morning errands. Plan for the afternoon: jasmine, via my latest splurge, Aftelier Candide…