Giorgio Armani has launched Sable Nuit, a new fragrance in the Armani Privé fragrance range…
Narciso Rodriguez Musc Noir for Her ~ new fragrance
Narciso Rodriguez has launched Musc Noir, a new fragrance for women. Musc Noir is a variation on the original Narciso Rodriguez for Her scent and follows Amber Musc, Rose Musc, Fleur Musc, Santal Musc and Pure Musc, among others…
Escada Summer Festival ~ new fragrance
Escada has launched Summer Festival, the brand’s limited edition summer fragrance for 2021. 2020’s model was Flor del Sol…
Friday scent of the day 1/15
Happy Friday! It’s also Martin Luther King’s birthday and we’re about halfway through meteorological winter (we won’t be halfway to the spring equinox until February 3, though). Our community project for today: wear a fragrance to match Ultimate Gray and/or Illuminating, Pantone’s colors of the year for 2021.
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.
I went partially with the colors, and partially with Pantone’s description (repeated here from the community projects page) of “a message of happiness supported by fortitude”; I’m in vintage Guerlain Jicky…
Within weeks
For most people, smell, taste and chemesthesis recover within weeks. In a study published last July, 72% of people with COVID-19 who had olfactory dysfunction reported that they recovered their sense of smell after a month, as did 84% of people with taste dysfunction. Claire Hopkins, an ear, nose and throat consultant at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital in London, and her colleagues similarly observed a speedy return of the senses: they followed 202 patients for a month, and found that 49% reported complete recovery over that time, and a further 41% reported an improvement.
— Read more in COVID’s toll on smell and taste: what scientists do and don’t know at Nature.