Salvatore Ferragamo has launched Uomo Urban Feel, a new fragrance for men. Uomo Urban Feel is a flanker to 2016’s Uomo Salvatore Ferragamo and follows 2017’s Uomo Casual Life and 2018’s Uomo Signature…
The daily lemming
I didn't even notice that (reasonably priced) hair and body care brand Love Beauty and Planet has a home line now — Love Home and Planet, of course. Shown are two of the items in the Citrus Yuzu + Vanilla line, the dish liquid ($3.99) and the cleaner spray ($3.99), both available at Target. Other items: cleaning wipes, dishwasher cubes. The brand also has laundry products, but not in this scent.
Delight In The Unexpected
Animals, bugs, bubbles, for Jo Malone.
Friday scent of the day 5/24
It’s Friday, and Robert Allen Zimmerman aka Bob Dylan is 78 today. Our community project for today: match a fragrance to a Bob Dylan song, OR, tell us who YOUR favorite musical artist is and match a fragrance to one of his/her/their songs.
What fragrance did you pick? As always, do chime in with your scent of the day even if you’re not participating in the community project.
I am wearing a little dab of Frédéric Malle Le Parfum de Thérèse for Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands from Blonde on Blonde, 1966. (It is number 27 on the Rolling Stone list of the 100 best Bob Dylan songs. Further reading: How Dylan’s ‘Blonde On Blonde’ created the modern album at Big Mouth Mag, Bob Dylan ‘Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands’ at Sound on Sound…)
Reconstructing extinct flower smells
Christina Agapakis, the creative director at the genetics company Gingko Bioworks, started the process of reconstructing extinct flower smells in 2016 by looking through the archives of the Harvard Herbarium and cross-referencing preserved plant specimens with a list of extinct species. She stumbled upon the Scurfpea among about a dozen other plants and sent small pieces of leaves to a paleogenomics lab at UC Santa Cruz, where researchers were able to isolate sequences of DNA that are involved in producing a flower’s scent for three of the flowers. Then, Gingko Bioworks engineers stitched these fragments of DNA together into 2,000 variations, then synthesized them using yeast to see what kinds of molecules they would produce.
— Smell artist Sissel Tolaas used the Gingko Bioworks data to develop the scent of the extinct flower Falls-of-the-Ohio Scurfpea, which you can smell at the Cooper Hewitt exhibit Nature, which runs through next January. Read more at Millions of animals are going extinct–and the race to preserve their memory is already on at Fast Company.