It’s Tuesday and National Beer Lovers Day. What fragrance are you wearing?
I’m commando for a quick doctor appointment this morning, and drinking a cup of Upton Season’s Pick Jin Jun Mei black tea.
Reminder: 9/10 is Karl Lagerfeld’s birthday…
Hummingbirds using their sense of smell
“This is pretty exciting, as it is the first clear demonstration of hummingbirds using their sense of smell alone to make foraging decisions and avoid contact with potentially dangerous insects at a flower or feeder,” said senior author Dr. Erin Wilson Rankin, a researcher in the Department of Entomology at the University of California, Riverside.
— Read more in Hummingbirds Use Sense of Smell to Make Foraging Decisions: Study at Sci News. (You can find the original paper here.)
Create the extraordinary
Willow Smith for Mugler Alien Goddess. Below the jump, perfumers Marie Salamagne and Nathalie Lorson talk about the fragrance.
The daily lemming
From the new Les Mains Hermès collection (24 nail polish colors, plus various other nail care products including nail files), the Complete Hand Care With White Mulberry Extract hand cream, featuring a Christine Nagel scent with sandalwood and arnica absolute. $185 (seriously, what were you expecting? turns out the Frédéric Malle Iris Hand Cream is a bargain) for 100 ml.
Jo Malone Starlit Mandarin & Honey ~ new fragrance
Jo Malone will launch Starlit Mandarin & Honey, a new limited edition fragrance for holiday 2021, next month. In addition, Orange Bitters and White Moss & Snowdrop will be reissued for the season…