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Discounts at Beautyhabit & Lacremebeauty, and other shopping notes

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New at beautycafe: Comptoir Sud Pacifique Vanille Pineapple.

New at beautyhabit: Antica Farmacista Casablanca and Pompelmo. Specials: with any purchase from Anthousa Collection, get a free votive candle in Red Holly & Edelweiss. With any $65 or more purchase, get a Juniper Ridge Sachet (assorted scents) with coupon code JUNIPER, good through 4/13 or while supplies last.

Deal from jomalone: Get a free 1/2 oz Orange Blossom Shower Gel and free shipping with any purchase using coupon code SPRING06, good through 4/4 or while supplies last.

Deals from lacremebeauty: with any order of $100 or more, get the Keiko Mecheri Deluxe Presentation Album with 20 Keiko Mecheri fragrances in deluxe sized purse spray samples. Enter coupon code Promotion1 in the comments field to get the free gift. Or, for orders of $140 or more, get the Keiko Mecheri Deluxe Presentation Album AND a Serge Lutens miniature, using coupon code Promotion2. Both offers good while supplies last only. Lots of items are on markdown, including selected fragrances from Sage, Tipton Charles, Susanne Lang, Flowerbelle & more.

New at luckyscent: Comptoir Sud Pacifique Vanille Pineapple.

The latest smell research: scent of fear improves brain power

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Researchers at Rice University have found that women who were exposed to the scent of fear-induced sweat performed better on cognitive tasks:

"It is well-documented in the research literature that animals experiencing stress and fear produce chemical warning signals that can lead to behavioral, endocrinological and immunological changes in their fellow animals of the same species, but we wanted to see if this applies to humans as well," said principal investigator Denise Chen, assistant professor of psychology at Rice.

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National Sense of Smell Day 2006

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This year's Sense of Smell Day, sponsored by the Sense of Smell Institute, will be on Saturday, April 29th:

Participating museums and science centers feature a variety of hands-on, interactive activities including, but not limited to: demonstrations of how the sense of smell functions in animals and humans; the link between our senses of taste and smell; how smells can alert us to danger, enhance our alertness, improve our moods and much more. There are also many creative and fragrant craft activities and entertainment in the form of puppet shows, treasure hunts, storytelling, musicians and contests.

Participating museums for 2006 are…

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Le Labo Rose 31 ~ fragrance review

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Le Labo Rose 31 fragrance

Le Labo is a relatively new niche perfumery in New York City. Last week I posted some background on Le Labo along with a list of their fragrances, and today I am wearing one of the offerings for men, Rose 31, by perfumer Daphne Bugey. The fragrance notes are Grasse rose, cumin, pepper, clove, nutmeg, olibanum, cedar, amber, gaïac wood, oudh wood, cistus, vetiver and animalic notes.

Rose 31 is one of my early favorites of the Le Labo line. The list of notes include cumin, so I was fully prepared to hate it (and for that matter, I was prepared to remove it quickly if necessary); instead, I was charmed. It starts with light citrus and strong, dusty spices, and for anyone who is as cumin-phobic as I am, I will say that the cumin is quite noticeable, but the effect is buffered by the other spices — I guessed coriander and maybe cardamom, but as you can see from the notes above I was quite off…

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