Francis Kurkdjian talks about Christian Dior New Look.
Monday scent of the day 1/22
Welcome to a January Monday. It’s also National Hot Sauce Day. Birthdays: John Donne, Lord Byron, August Strindberg, Beatrice Webb, George Balanchine, Sam Cooke. What fragrance are you wearing?
I’m in Chanel Bois des Iles, and taking a partial point for the island theme.
Reminder: on 1/26, we’re off to The Caribbean…
A completely different olfactory world
In humans, the sense of smell is similarly developed in men and women, although women have slightly more olfactory neurons and therefore a slightly more sensitive nose. On the whole, however, they perceive the same odors. Male moths, on the other hand, live in a completely different olfactory world to their female counterparts.
— Read more in The differing olfactory worlds of female and male silk moths at Phys.org.
Lazy weekend poll ~ open thread, mid-to-late January 2024
Saturday is Penguin Awareness Day and Sunday is International Sweatpants Day.
We’re celebrating all of it with our usual open thread poll. Talk about anything you like — the fragrance you’re wearing today, your favorite “fight the chill” perfume, whatever.
Or, ask a question about fragrance, then see if anyone else has asked a question that you can answer…
Nina Ricci Nina Illusion ~ new fragrance
Nina Ricci will launch Nina Illusion, a new flanker to 2006’s Nina. The last in the series was Nina Le Parfum…