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Parfums de Nicolaï has launched Eau Turquoise, a new fragrance for women in the line's Eau Fraîche collection of summer scents. Eau Turquoise is a spicy fruity floral described as “gourmand and sensual, light, young and feminine”.
The fragrance notes include mango, apricot, osmanthus, Key lime, Turkish rose, pepper, cardamom and Texas cedar…
It is a gadget straight out of a science fiction story: a machine that can record a smell and play it back to you at your leisure. Present it with a designer perfume or freshly baked bread and it will analyse the odour and reproduce it for you later using a mixture of non-toxic chemicals.
— From Nothing fishy about smell-recording device, in today's Guardian.
Yesterday I wore two discontinued favorites: L’Artisan’s lovely Jacinthe des Bois and Gobin Daudé’s Sous Le Buis. Layered, the combination was the perfect spring-time fragrance: happy, floral, and very green. But the cool evenings of spring are also perfect for incense fragrances. Here are four worth considering:
I loved Incense extrême by Tauer Perfumes, and I can’t remember now why I took it into my head that I wouldn’t like the newer Incense rosé nearly as well. Whatever the reason, I was quite wrong, as I like it even better. This is a simply lovely fragrance, not quite so bright and airy as the extrême, but still, not quite dark: it has the same soaring quality…
The Reg Vardy Gallery at the University of Sunderland, Tyne & Wear, England, will host If There Ever Was: an exhibition of extinct and impossible smells:
In his book of essays entitled, Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler’s Ninth Symphony, the physician Lewis Thomas wrote, “The act of smelling something, anything, is remarkably like the act of thinking itself.” And it is with this appreciation of smell as comparable to thought and interpretation that the exhibition If There Ever Was considers scent as integral to the perception of abstraction and representation…