Hump Day, and Gingerbread House Day. What fragrance are you wearing?
Me: day 3 of Aftelier Candide. I’m still out of town so my selection is limited, but I’m pretty sure I could wear Candide happily for the rest of the month.
Reminder: on 12/14, wear a fragrance by Dame Perfumery, Dawn Spencer Hurwitz, Divine or DS & Durga, if you have one…
Viktor & Rolf's holiday video.
By October, with wiley Avni still at large, it was time to break out the big guns, the final line of defense, the Hail Mary. It was time for Obsession for Men. The cologne by Calvin Klein.
— From a National Geographic article about efforts to control wild animals, including the tiger Avni in India, with scent. Read more at How humans are hijacking scent, the universal animal language.
It’s Tuesday, and International Mountain Day, (and I remembered the teapot). What fragrance are you wearing?
I’m sticking with yesterday’s Aftelier Candide. Tea at the moment is Organic English Breakfast from Upton…
Our study was looking at how olfactory receptors and brain structures cope with mixtures and single odorants. At first, we thought that mixtures would mean complications but it turned out there was no extra complications and in fact, it's usually easier to smell mixtures than single odorants and the sensing is also slightly faster. This wasn't what we expected but this is what came out from our mathematical investigation.
— Thomas Nowotny of University of Sussex, quoted in Smelling the forest not the trees: Why animals are better at sniffing complex smells at Science Daily.