A lemming for Teapot Tuesday: Rose Cardamom Chai from Herbs & Kettles. "Rich and fragrant, Herbs & Kettles' Rose Cardamom Chai combines single-origin loose leaf Assam black tea with delicate rose petals, generous green cardamom, and traditional chai spices. This exquisite blend offers a surreal tea experience transporting you to a world of pure indulgence." $16 for 50g at Beautyhabit.
Estée Lauder has launched Serene Sierra, a new addition to The Luxury Collection…
It’s Tuesday and World Octopus Day. World Space Week started last Friday (oops) and ends on Thursday. What fragrance are you wearing?
I’m having a cup of Upton Christmas Tea, brewed double strength so I could add half-and-half, and still contemplating my fragrance for the day but I’m thinking of Prada Infusion d’Iris Absolue.
Reminder: 10/11 will be FOMO Friday…
Fragrance is visually suggested in images of daydreaming figures smelling flowers or burning incense, enhancing the sensory aura of ‘art for art’s sake’. Scent was also implied in Victorian painting to evoke hedonism – pleasure in exquisite sensations – and a preoccupation with beauty; or to reflect the Victorian vogue for synaesthesia (evoking one sense through another) and the penchant for art, like scent, to evoke moods and emotions. [...] Visitors to the exhibition will be able to participate in an optional scent experience that will enliven the scents suggested in certain paintings.
— Scent and the Art of the Pre-Raphaelites opens Friday at The Barber Institute of Fine Arts in Birmingham, England.