Cerruti has launched Cerruti 1881 Silver Night, a new fragrance for men. 1881 Silver Night is a flanker to 2020’s 1881 Silver, which was a flanker to 1990’s Cerruti 1881…
Monday scent of the day 12/12
It’s Monday, Gingerbread House Day and Frank Sinatra’s birthday. What fragrance are you wearing?
I’m running awfully late, so apologies to the morning people! I’m wearing Aftelier Candide on one arm, and in a bit I’m going to test Aftelier Boheme Confection on the other arm.
Reminder: 12/16 is Jane Austen’s birthday…
The odor-sensing circuitry of the locust brain
Recently, Debajit Saha, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering at Michigan State University, and his team tapped into the odor-sensing circuitry of the locust brain to detect the scent signatures of human oral cancers. Saha previously used locusts for sniffing out bombs, making the transition to cancer detection an interesting one.
— Read more in Scents and Sense-Abilities: Using Bug Brainpower to Smell Cancer at TheScientist.
Lazy weekend poll ~ five questions for December 2022
It’s the weekend, and we’re repeating a poll we’ve done for the past few years around this time. As always, answer as few or as many as you like, or just talk about something else.
1. What fragrance are you wearing today?
2. What’s your favorite holiday (any holiday) food, OR, what’s the best thing you cooked in 2022? (Feel free to share or link to a recipe!)
3. Did you make any perfume-related resolutions for 2022, and if so, did you stick to them?
4. Possibly related to #3, what’s the next fragrance you are itching to buy?
5. Share something wonderful with us! It can be anything — something delicious you ate, a great movie you saw recently, the last good book you read, any fabulous news you recently received — really, anything…
The (almost) daily lemming
From Mistral, Alpine Brandy soap for men: "Powerfully aromatic aromas of stone pine, fir balsam, and dry woods mingle with crackling fire and aged Armagnac." $12.50 for 200g at Mistral Soap.