Elizabeth Arden has launched Sunflowers Sunlit Showers, a new flanker to 1993’s Sunflowers…
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Gucci's trio of Bloom perfumed soaps (Bloom, Bloom Acqua di Fiori and Bloom Nettare di Fiori; 100g each) is marked down to $55.25 at Macy's today with coupon code FRIEND (it's normally $65).
Friday scent of the day 5/3
It’s World Press Freedom Day and Sun Day, and possibly even better, it’s Friday. Our community project for today: wear lily of the valley for May Day, which was earlier this week.
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’m went with the lovely Hermès Muguet Porcelaine, which has already made a good showing in the comments this week…
Differences in scent perception
These — and dozens of other differences in scent perception — are detailed in a new study, published this week in the journal PNAS. The work provides new evidence of how extraordinarily different one person’s “smellscape” may be from another’s. It’s not that some people are generally better smellers, like someone else may have better eyesight, it’s that any one person might experience certain scents more intensely than their peers.
— Read more at You Will Never Smell My World the Way I Do at The New York Times.
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From 100% Pure, Yuzu & Pomelo Glossing Shampoo — and my hair could use some glossing, I think — which seems to have good reviews on the scent and mixed reviews on other things, like most shampoos. $22 for 390 ml at Dermstore.