Lazy weekend poll ~ four questions for late June 2022

Posted by Robin on 25 June 2022 165 Comments

A quick PSA: Donatella will be stopping by a little later than usual…expect her on Wednesday, July 6.

Meanwhile, a variation on a half-year poll we did in 2021. As always, answer as many or as few of the questions as you like, or just talk about something else.

1. What’s the best new scented thing you discovered in the first half of 2022? It can be anything, from a flower to a fragrance to a body product.

2. What new scented thing do you hope to discover in July?

3. Now that the year is about half over, what do you think is the best new fragrance release of 2022 so far?

4. Share something wonderful with us! It can be anything — good news you received recently, something delicious you ate, the latest TV series you binged — really, anything…

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A good connection

Posted by Robin on 25 June 2022 Leave a Comment

Indeed, in a small study published Wednesday in the journal Science Advances, researchers investigating pairs of friends whose friendship “clicked” from the beginning found intriguing evidence that each person’s body odor was closer to their friend’s than expected by chance. And when the researchers got pairs of strangers to play a game together, their body odors predicted whether they felt they had a good connection.

— Read more in Does Your Nose Help Pick Your Friends? at The New York Times.

Frederic Malle Uncut Gem ~ new fragrance

Posted by Robin on 24 June 2022 17 Comments

French niche line Frédéric Malle will launch Uncut Gem, a new fragrance from perfumer Maurice Roucel…

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Friday scent of the day 6/24

Posted by Robin on 24 June 2022 178 Comments

Happy Friday and happy Midsummer 2022! (The solstice was on the 21st, but traditional Midsummer, in some countries, anyway, is celebrated today). Our community project for today: wear what you’d wear to dance around a Maypole or light a bonfire on the beach, or whatever you think fits.

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.

We did not make it to Montreal again (boo hiss to Air Canada!!) but after five wasted hours in the airport, we repacked and reoriented and got on the road: we’re now at the beach. I’m commando because I remembered to add a bathing suit to my luggage, but perfume did not even cross my mind. It looks like we will have good weather this weekend, and some day, maybe, I will make it to Canada…

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