Indie brand Imaginary Authors has launched Every Storm a Serenade, a new fragrance. Like the others in the line, it was inspired by an imaginary book by an imaginary author…
Friday scent of the day 12/18
It’s Best Buy Friday! Our community project for today: wear your favorite fragrance purchase of 2015. If you didn’t buy anything this year, pick a favorite from a prior year.
What fragrance did you pick? As always, do chime in with your scent of the day even if you’re not participating in the community project.
I’m cheating a wee bit. I did not buy anything this year, but last year, I bought Cartier La Panthère unsniffed, didn’t like it, and happily swapped it for a bottle of Cartier Baiser Volé. So that’s what I’m wearing…
A diminished sense of smell
Recent research found that a diminished sense of smell predicted frontal lobe damage in 231 soldiers who had suffered blast-related injuries on the battlefield. In the Department of Defense study led by Michael Xydakis of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, subjects with low scores on a smell test were three times as likely to show evidence of frontal lobe damage during brain imaging than those whose sense of smell was normal.
— Read more at Smell Tests Could One Day Reveal Head Trauma and Neurodegenerative Disease at Scientific American.
Raw Spirit Winter Oak & Summer Rain ~ fragrance reviews
Last week I reviewed Desert Blush and Wild Fire, two fragrances from the new-ish brand Raw Spirit, both inspired by the landscape of the Australian outback. This week I tried Winter Oak and Summer Rain; once again, these fragrances were developed for Raw Spirit by perfumer Harry Fremont, but they refer to seasons in California and Florida, respectively.
Winter Oak is “a smooth, creamy, warming scent” inspired by “the oak-lined trails of the Chumash Lands of California on cool winter mornings.” Its composition includes clary sage, bergamot, pepper, lemon and geranium; saffron, maté, clove bud and olibanum; leather suede, oakwood, oakmoss, cedarwood, vetiver, patchouli and musk. It feels more nuanced than the woody Wild Fire…
L’Ecrin des Colombes
The creation of the Nina Ricci L'Air du Temps L’Ecrin des Colombes edition (shown in our recent luxury gift post).