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2026 / Browsing by date: January 2026

Lazy 3-day weekend poll ~ winter reading list, edition 14

Posted by Robin on 31 January 2026 287 Comments

There are 47 days until the spring equinox, but only 29 days until the first day of meteorological spring. (Plus, if you’re reading this on Sunday, rabbit, rabbit, rabbit and welcome to February). That means it must be time for our annual winter reading poll!

Tell us about a great book to curl up with on a frosty winter night, and what fragrance we should wear while reading it. (Or, do what I do and record here everything you have read since the last quarterly reading poll. And if you want more recommendations, scrolling through the literature tag will bring up all the older reading polls.)

Or, as always, just talk about something else…

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Enchanted Masquerade

Posted by Robin on 31 January 2026 Leave a Comment

A quick spot for Floral Street + Bridgerton Enchanted Masquerade.

A human emotional chemosignal

Posted by Robin on 31 January 2026 Leave a Comment

This is what’s known as a human emotional chemosignal: a subtle chemical cue that lives in sweat that carries information about an individual’s emotional state. According to a foundational 2020 study published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, fear can actually change the chemical composition of sweat, and in measurable ways, at that.

— Read more in A Biologist Explains How The Human Brain Evolved To ‘Smell Fear’ at Forbes.

Boss Bottled Striking Lavender by Hugo Boss ~ new fragrance

Posted by Robin on 30 January 2026 2 Comments

Hugo Boss will launch Boss Bottled Striking Lavender, a new fragrance for men. Boss Bottled Striking Lavender is a limited edition flanker to 1998’s Boss Bottled and follows 2025’s Boss Bottled Beyond and Boss Bottled Bold Citrus…

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The daily lemming

Posted by Robin on 30 January 2026 8 Comments

Another new limited edition candle from Diptyque, this one for the Lunar New Year: Lamei (Wintersweet). "A bright yellow blossom, a beacon of hope in the frost of winter, emerges from a limited-edition vessel bearing artist Zinan Lam's poetic and contemporary design. The Lamei flower, also called Wax Plum, unfolds velvety floral notes softened by honeyed accents and lifted with woody undertones. An emblem of renewal and optimism for the year to come." 190g for $88, but hard to find and possibly sold out already? 

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