It’s Monday and National Nachos Day. Birthdays: John Philip Sousa, Glenn Frey, Arturo Sandoval and Colson Whitehead. What fragrance are you wearing?
I’m in April Aromatics Liquid Dreams.
Reminder: 11/10 is Neil Gaiman’s birthday…
Very close to natural sandalwood
“Consumers are more conscious and concerned about the impact of what they buy and how products are produced,” says François-Raphaël Balestra, perfumer and director of new-ingredients discovery at DSM-Firmenich. One of the house’s ingredients is Dreamwood, a lab-grown iteration of sandalwood that has made its way into popular scents like Jean Paul Gaultier Scandal Le Parfum and Rabanne Fame. “Olfactorily speaking, Dreamwood is very close to natural sandalwood oil,” he says. “It is less smoky and thus more creamy, but it has the same long-lasting effect as sandalwood and is of course more sustainable.”
— Read more in These New Perfumes are Pushing the Boundaries of Scent Science at Harper's Bazaar.
Lazy weekend poll ~ Fall Back, 2023
PSA: If you live in a daylight savings zone, don’t forget to change your clocks tonight! That means it’s time for our seventh annual Fall Back poll.
As always, answer as many or as few as you like, or just talk about something else. If it’s spring where you live, adjust the questions accordingly.
1. What’s the fragrance you’d most like to add to your collection this fall?
2. You have to vote one perfume in your collection off the island. Which one will go first, and why?
3. It’s time for a (fantasy) fall getaway! Where are you going, and pick ONE fragrance to bring with you…
The two sides do synergize
The findings suggest that the brain does make use of the different arrival times. When an odour was delivered to a single nostril, the side of the brain closest to that nostril reacted first, and a reaction then followed in the opposite side of the brain. “There seem to be actually two odour representations, corresponding to odour information coming from each nostril,” [neuroscientist Naz] Dikecligil says.
When the researchers provided a scent to both nostrils simultaneously, they saw that both sides of the brain recognized the scent faster than either did when it was delivered through only one nostril. This suggests that the two sides do synergize to some degree, even though one lags behind the other in encoding a scent, Dikecligil says.
— Read more in You smell your coffee in stereo: the brain records an odour’s spatial information at Nature.
The daily lemming
From Byredo's holiday collection, the Choco Mascarpone candle: "Evoking the joyful indulgence of seasonal confectionery, enticing notes of roasted coffee lead on to enveloping floral aromas of Jasmine India Absolute, before the piquant kick of bitter chocolate whets the appetite. Woody notes of patchouli provide warmth at the base, ending with a creamy caramel of brown sugar." £64 for 240g at Harvey Nichols.