I’ve never met my fellow Now Smell This writer Kevin “in real life,” but I feel as though we’ve been friends for years — not only because we’re familiar with each others’ fragrance tastes and we’ve read each others’ writing for so long, but because we share other, non-perfume interests and opinions as well. One of them is a background in art history. Another is a strong dislike of hot summer weather. Kevin’s recent post on two fragrances for heatwaves suggested one scent-strategy for coping with soaring temperatures: “merging” with the oppressive weather by wearing intense, vivid scents. As I was testing Blackbird’s Broken Glass this week, I thought of another: wearing a fragrance that foreshadows autumn…
