French niche line Phaedon has launched Poivre Colonial, a new spicy woods fragrance.
Orange box ballet
Happy holidays from Hermès.
Online fragrance shopping
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New at indiescents: Nomaterra line.
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New at sears (CA): Calvin Klein Sheer Beauty.
Ted Baker Sweet Treats Ella ~ new fragrance
Ted Baker has launched Ella, a new addition to the Sweet Treats collection. The series was inspired by the brand’s Sweet Shoppe pop-up accessories stores; Cate, Vida and Polly launched in 2012…
We all experience odours in a completely different way
We all think we know how certain things smell. But to someone else that same bottle of perfume - or piece of cheese, or glass of wine - may smell completely differently. American scientists have discovered that we all experience odours in a completely different way. Their paper, published in the Nature Neuroscience journal, reveals that 30 per cent of smell receptors differ between any two people.
— Read more at Why perfume smells different to each of us: Receptors in the nose vary by 30% in two different people at the Daily Mail.