Alas, it’s another Monday. (And a quick PSA: the freebiemeet is coming up on Saturday!) What fragrance are you wearing?
I am commando except for some Weleda Sea Buckthorn body lotion.
Reminder: on 1/17, wear a fragrance with immortelle, if you have one…
Other countries have also made efforts to recognise the value of their odours. In 2001, Japan’s environment minister classified the country’s top 100 best-smelling spots, which included both natural and cultural sites. Later, in 2016, the Koç University’s Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations in Istanbul opened the exhibition “Scents and the City” to explore 4,000 years of civilisation through its smells.
— Read more at The people trying to save scents from extinction at BBC. Hat tip to Jalapeno!
It’s Heritage Treasures Day in the UK, and we’re marking the occasion with our usual open thread poll. Talk about anything you like — the fragrance you’re wearing today, the fragrance you consider to be an important part of our collective cultural heritage, whatever.
Or, ask a question about fragrance, then see if anyone else has asked a question that you can answer…
A lemming for fans of Jo Malone English Pear & Freesia: a limited edition collector bottle for the Lunar New Year. $193 CAD at Holt Renfrew.
The holiday season has wound down and we’re more than a week into January, but I’m still catching up on late 2019 in many areas of my life. This effort includes a trial of MaccaBees, the nineteenth annual Holiday scent from indie perfumer Dawn Spencer Hurwitz. Referring to the Maccabean Revolt and the lighting of the Hanukkah menorah, MaccaBees “celebrates the candles, and the oil, that have illuminated our world for thousands of years, as well as the light and warmth within us that they represent.” Its name is also a play on “bees,” hinting at the beeswax used for candles and the beeswax and honey notes in this fragrance…