Tuesday, plus World NGO Day, International Polar Bear Day and Anosmia Awareness Day. Oh, and Pokémon Day. What fragrance are you wearing?
I went with my old friend Serge Lutens Chêne. Tea at the moment is cold brew coffee.
Reminder: 3/2 will be Uncle Serge Day…
Northwestern University researchers have developed a new "smell virtual landscape" that enables the study of how smells engage the brain's navigation system. The work demonstrates, for the first time, that the mammalian brain can form a map of its surroundings based solely on smells.
— Read more at Brain can navigate based solely on smells at Science Daily.
To many of us — especially those in love with vintage fragrance — Jana has the dream job. She owns The Fragrance Vault in gorgeous Lake Tahoe. Besides selling what’s on the market today, she carries rare, discontinued and vintage fragrance, and estimates she has more than 8,000 bottles in stock. Marshmallow, her half-malamute rescue, greets visitors. Anytime she wants, she can sample from decades of Caron Bellodgia or sniff Shiseido Nombre Noir.
Jana says it took her a long time to discover perfume. She grew up poor, splitting her time between her mother’s home in Rhode Island and her father’s place on a Native American reservation. In her teens, she moved in with her Italian grandmother, who was “hard-working, formal and quite glamorous” and who had bottles of Chanel Coco and Diane Von Furstenberg Tatiana, among other fragrances, on her dresser…
A spot for Atelier Cologne Iris Rebelle.
New at bloomingdales: Chanel Coco Mademoiselle Intense.
New at lordandtaylor: Isabey line, Versace Dylan Blue.
New at macys: Kate Spade In Full Bloom.
New at neimanmarcus: Mon Guerlain Florale.
New at twistedlily: Beaufort Iron Duke, Berdoues Hoja de Cuba.