Korres has launched a trio of new fragrances:
Pepper, Jasmine, Gaiac wood oil, Passion fruit (shown) ~ “Jasmine is a climbing deciduous shrub with fragrant white or yellow flowers. The so-called jasmine absolute one of perfumery’s most sought-after ingredients…”
Cinquième Sens in New York City has scheduled another session of their 2-day course, "Introduction to the techniques of perfumery and the language of scents", designed for "perfume enthusiasts who would like to work in the perfume world, students who would like to start a marketing or sales career in the fragrance industry or professionals who are joining the perfume industry or would like to have an objective view of the perfume world".
The sessions will be held on at the Cinquième Sens location at 274 Madison Avenue on February 11th and 12th from 9:30 am to 5 pm. Space is limited; for details or to sign up, call 212-686-4123 or email laetitia@cinquiemesens.com. (via press release)
New Hope, PA boutique A Beautiful Life has launched Smitten and Smitten Pink:
Smitten (shown above, launched in 2008) ~ “Sparkling top notes of tangerine and white pepper melt into a bed of creamy florals (Lily of the Valley, Cananga, Jasmine Absolute), anchored by the warmth of sheer woods and a touch of patchouli. It's fresh, feminine, and sexy – like the blush of first love or the sultry promise of a summer night. Try it and you'll be SMITTEN.”…
We were in a rambling antiques mall in Billings, Montana, and all around us were the remains of other people's lives — the Spode soup bowls, ratty mink stoles, worn cowboy boots, and stacks of old issues of Look magazine that people thought were worth keeping until they died or were too lazy to throw out. Once I was able to rip my attention away from a 1940s plaster lamp of a Southern belle with a light bulb under her skirt, I saw a battered box with the unmistakable Chanel logo on a nearby shelf. Inside was a two-thirds-full bottle of Chanel No. 5 Eau de Cologne that looked like it was at least fifty years old.
I forgot about the No. 5 cologne until last night when I was looking for something to wear while I watched The Earrings of Madame De…, a decidedly 1950s movie about pawned jewelry and forbidden love in the 19th century. The No. 5 seemed perfect. It is modern and retro at the same time, and something about its old vermouth and jasmine scent seemed to match the spirit of Danielle Darrieux as the movie's lovelorn comtesse.
I got to wondering about who had first owned the bottle of No. 5…
Back in the 1980s and 1990s, he says, various compounds were proposed as being human pheromones, including a family of steroids related to testosterone. "But there is no good evidence that these actually are the human pheromones," Wyatt says. "The evidence is always circumstantial and rather poor."
Wyatt says if you bought a jar of something called human pheromones, it would be "wasted money."
— Tristram Wyatt of the University of Oxford talks to NPR about pheromones. Read more (or listen to the radio spot) at Pheromones: No Love Potion No. 9.