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Friday scent of the day 6/14

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Happy Friday and happy National Bourbon Day! It’s also Flag Day and World Blood Donor Day. Birthdays: Harriet Beecher Stowe, Alois Alzheimer, Jerzy Kosiński, Laurie Colwin, Boy George. Our community project this week: it’s Roulette Friday! Devise a game of chance to choose your fragrance of the day. Thank you AnnieA for the suggestion!

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.

No points for me this week! I am still on vacation, and still in unscented lotion that I have doctored with sweet orange and ylang ylang oils. When I get home tomorrow I’ll pick a random sample to participate a day late. I am also again way behind on reading comments and will try to catch up on Sunday…

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The fascination with Joy

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The fascination with Joy [Milne] is of course attributable to the fact that she can smell the way she can, but it is heightened by the fact that no one knows why. She is hyperosmic by any reasonable definition, but hyperosmia has been the object of so little serious scientific investigation — the smell taboo in action, no doubt, at least in part — that it lacks even a set of agreed-upon definitional criteria.

— Read more in The Woman Who Could Smell Parkinson’s at The New York Times.

One of the fastest rates in the beauty industry

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They might come in refillable glass bottles and contain higher concentrations of fragrance oils – in some cases up to 40 per cent. Most use high-quality natural ingredients that are too unruly – and costly – for mass production. Their limited quantities, meanwhile, lack economies of scale. In a category growing at one of the fastest rates in the beauty industry – the global perfume market is set to reach $69bn by 2030 – the niche fragrance is the leader, expected to expand at a compound annual growth rate of 13.2 per cent.

— Read more in Why has perfume become so expensive?: The rise of the £250 scent at Financial Times.

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