UK department store Harrods opened their Salon de Parfums — a new “retail concept for perfume connoisseurs” — earlier this month. It’s located on the store’s 6th floor, in an area that had been used as office space. As previously reported, eleven brands have separate boutiques…
I wasn’t sure what to expect when the Aerin fragrance brand launched in 2013, but after smelling the first five, I got the general drift. The latest two, Iris Meadow and Waterlily Sun, are in the same easygoing light floral mold as Lilac Path, Ikat Jasmine and Gardenia Rattan (the other two, Amber Musk and Evening Rose, had a little more heft). None of them are the perfumista-bait some of us had hoped for, but they’re wearable enough, and I’ve come to think of the Aerin brand as a sort of mashup between the (early) Jo Malone brand and the (later) Guerlain Aqua Allegoria range: (ostensibly) material-driven, clean, youthful and easy to wear. The bonus factor, I suppose, is the casual-luxe “Aerin lifestyle”, which seems to be the key selling point of the advertising…
The complex neural circuitry responsible for our sense of smell is the only part of the nervous system that regenerates throughout adult life. It is this ability that scientists have tried to exploit in stimulating repair in the spinal cord. Every time we breathe, molecules carrying different odours in the air come into contact with nerve cells in the nose. These transmit messages to our olfactory bulbs - at the very top of the nasal cavity, sitting at the base of the brain. The nerve cells are being continually damaged and must be replaced.
— Read more in the long but fascinating article Paralysed man walks again after cell transplant at BBC News. Hat tip to Kindcrow!
Happy Wednesday! What’s your fragrance today?
I’m wearing Prada Amber Pour Homme.
Reminder: this Friday, 10/24, we’re doing Gender Wars…
Jacomo has launched Jacomo Le Parfum, a new spicy floriental fragrance for women…