Happy National Fragrance Day! We’re celebrating with our same old weekend open thread: talk about anything you like — the perfume you’re wearing today, the perfume you’ve got in an online shopping cart right now, whatever.
Or, ask a question about fragrance, then see if anyone else has asked a question that you can answer…
The Academia del Perfume in Spain has announced the winners of their fragrance awards for 2015:
Best women’s fragrance, luxury: Narciso by Narciso Rodriguez
Best men’s fragrance, luxury: Valentino Uomo…
Study participants who were shown images of heavy and thin individuals while sniffing odorless substances rated the “scent samples” as smelling worse when they were paired with images of heavy people. [...] And that effect was most pronounced among study participants who were themselves heavy.
— Read more at Study measures the foul smell of fat bias at UK Reuters.
Italian niche line Acqua di Parma will launch Colonia Ambra, the third fragrance in the brand’s Ingredient Collection. Prior entries include Colonia Oud (originally known as Colonia Intensa Oud) and Colonia Leather…
