Back to school shopping yet? Crayola has updated and repackaged their Silly Scents collection for 2017. The new Twistable Crayons come in a pack of 24, with scents that include cherry, strawberry, cinnamon, orange, popcorn, lemon, banana, lime, watermelon, green apple, pine, beach, blueberry, cola, wild berry, grape, fruit smoothie, fruit punch, cotton candy, licorice, coconut, fresh air, root beer and flower ($7.99). They've also redone the Silly Scents Markers and Twistable Colored Pencils.
Clap Clap's scented botanical greeting cards ("The collection contains specially created fragrance chips that are dipped in fragrance oils, dried to perfection, then sealed and packaged with every card. Send a scent along with your message, and we assure it will be a memorable one.") will keep their scent for 2-4 weeks after you remove the chip from the packaging (or, you can put the chip back in the packaging to make it last longer). They run $7 each, and there are 16 fragrances, including Fig, Grapefruit, Hinoki, Pine and Tuberose, at Clap Clap at Etsy.
Melissa's limited edition Roller Joy skates are on mark-down (from $530 to $318), and since I assume they have the same bubblegum scent as other Melissa shoes, they qualify for inclusion here even if I'm sure I'd rather look at them (aren't they cute?) than actually roller skate. At Melissa.
Confession: I don’t have any tattoos. When I recently visited an exhibition on the history of tattoos at the New-York Historical Society, I found myself admiring some vintage designs, but I think my moment to get “inked” has passed. When I was a college student, tattoos were still a rarity on my campus, sported only by a few punk rockers and metal heads. When tattoos became popular with mainstream twenty-somethings, I developed a certain level of scorn for the butterflies and “tribal” swirls and Japanese characters everyone suddenly seemed to have on their calves and shoulders and lower backs. And by the time tattooing became legal again in New York and some truly talented tattoo artists were available, I was trying to maintain a serious façade at my then-workplace, for reasons I can no longer remember.
Changing public standards and personal circumstances would now allow me to get a tattoo, if I wanted, but I still don’t think I’ll take the plunge. The main reason: I wouldn’t be able to decide on one image or even several images…
If yesterday's scented magnetic clips were too kitschy for you, these pretty scented paper bookmarks will class up the joint. There are 12 fragrances; shown are fig, lavender, jasmine and orange. (There's also sandalwood, but it's spelled sandlewood. Oops.) $3.99 each at Fine Arts Products.