Our thirteenth annual holiday gift poll. Here are the three questions:
What is the fragrance-related gift you’d most like to receive this year?
Let’s say you were going to ask for just one unsniffed fragrance this year, what would it be?
Are you giving any fragrance items for gifts this year, and if so, what?
My answers…
The book is infused with enthusiasm, (including more than 200 exclamation marks), and full of calls to go out and explore. Find the smells! That might mean taking an olfactory-guided stroll through the osmocosm of a local park or plunging a nose deeply and attentively into the spice cabinet. It could just mean stopping to examine the scent of a pet or loved one. While “Nose Dive” can certainly be read straight through, McGee’s approach invites readers to jump ahead to the parts that intrigue them and to turn around later when they want to dive into the specifics of a particular molecule or scent bouquet.
— From a review of Harold McGee's new book, Nose Dive. (McGee is best known for his food science and cooking books.) Read more in Book Review: Sniffing Out the Vast World of Smell at UnDark.
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Want! From Orla Kiely, shaped wax candles in fig and cedar (the green dog); grapefruit and basil (the yellow hen); and rose, geranium and eucalyptus (the pink snail, not shown). £26 each for 275g, or you can get the dog and hen snail in a gift set for £26. At John Lewis in the UK, or AllBeauty has them for $27 and free US delivery.