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The Monday Mail ~ help Jennifer find a new fragrance
The Monday Mail is back from its holiday vacation! If you want to get on the waiting list (and it’s not too long right now), see the instructions here.
This week, we’re helping Jennifer. She loves perfume but she’s relatively new to the subject, and she says her tastes are “all over the place”. She’d like to find a versatile fragrance for day or evening, something “pretty and elegant with an interesting twist”. She’d also like to keep the cost under $150.
She’s in her mid-20s, and she majored in science in college but she’s drawn to the arts, especially literature (she loves everything from Marian Keyes to Virginia Woolf).
She says she’s an introvert, and people describe her as calm and gentle.
She lives in Hawaii, where she works part time and attends massage therapy school.
Jennifer says she doesn’t know much about notes, but she thinks what she might want is what she calls a “disguised” gourmand: nothing to sweet or “in your face”, and no sugary vanilla — it should be cloaked in incense, woods, musk, leather or smoke…
They will smell good
Which might explain why they’re occasionally – and affectionately – referred to as perfume geeks. After all, the biggest difference between them and comic-book collectors is the guarantee that they will smell good. Joke!
— Daniel Joffe has been organizing perfume outings in Toronto. Read more at Scent geeks of the world, unite! at the Globe and Mail. Many thanks to Erin for the link!
Kylie Minogue Pink Sparkle Pop ~ new fragrance
Kylie Minogue will launch Pink Sparkle Pop, a new limited edition flanker to last year’s Pink Sparkle fragrance for women. The woody floral scent was inspired by “life itself” and is meant to be modern and glamorous…
Send your old perfume to the big cats
The folks at the San Diego Zoo want your "old or unused cologne and perfume":
The Behavioral Biology Division of the San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation Research is currently conducting a research project examining individual and species enrichment preferences for large felids (lions, tigers, and cheetahs) at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park (see post, Big Cat Preferences, Part 2). Based on some preliminary results, we are interested in learning more about different scents (perfumes) that attract the animals and promote the behavior of exploration.
For information about how to donate, go here. Many thanks to odonata9 for the link!
See also: Tiger Bait, Not Just For Tigers, Curious, unpredictable, and mischievous