Tom Ford has launched Eau de Soleil Blanc, a new variation on 2016’s Soleil Blanc…
Friday scent of the day 1/26
Happy Australia Day, happy Peanut Brittle Day and happy Friday! Our community project for today: wear one of your “top 10 of winter” fragrances (unless it’s summer where you are, in which case wear one of your “top 10 of summer” scents).
What fragrance did you pick? As always, do chime in with your scent of the day even if you’re not participating in the community project.
From Angie’s Top 10 of Winter 2018 post (coming up later today), I picked vintage Miss Dior. I smell fabulous, darling…
The daily lemming
A dreaming-of-warm-weather lemming for late January, from Kerzon, the Baie Charnue candle: "The sunny scent of herbs, BAIE CHARNUE unveils a fruity blackcurrant head, a basil heart with a sprig of mint and an earthy base note." $38 for 185g at Beautyhabit.
Learn to associate a particular odor
In a paper published Jan. 25 in Current Biology, University of Washington researchers report that mosquitoes can in fact learn to associate a particular odor with an unpleasant mechanical shock akin to being swatted. As a result, they’ll avoid that scent the next time.
— Read more at If you swat mosquitoes, they may learn to avoid your scent at University of Washington.
Aroma M Geisha Marron ~ fragrance review
Two weeks ago, I mused about chestnut perfumes. The topic must still be on my mind, because I just unearthed a vial of Aroma M Geisha Marron in a bag of samples on my desk and decided to give it another spin. Geisha Marron was originally released as an oil (in a roll-on bottle) in 2006, but Aroma M’s founder and perfumer, Maria McElroy, launched a new Eau de Parfum concentration in 2017.
Like its “sisters” in the Geisha collection, Marron is an interpretation of a color —in this case, brown…