French niche line Juliette Has A Gun has launched White Spirit, a new fragrance in their Luxury Collection…
Jingle bells
Merry Christmas from The Body Shop. You can read more about their WaterAid initiative here.
Online fragrance shopping
New at beautyhabit: Etat Libre d'Orange Remarkable People.
New at belk: Bvlgari Omnia Paraiba, Jessica Simpson Ten.
New at luckyscent: Tauerville Amber Flash.
New at neimanmarcus: Giorgio Armani Rose d'Arabie L'Or du Desert.
New at nordstrom: Aerin Rose de Grasse.
Tauerville Amber Flash ~ new fragrance
Andy Tauer’s Tauerville brand has launched Amber Flash, the fourth fragrance in the brand’s Flash series…
Smells like a banana
Describe a banana. It's yellow, perhaps with some green edges. When peeled, it has a smooth, soft, mushy texture. It tastes sweet, maybe a little creamy.
And it smells like... well, it smells like a banana.
Every sense has its own “lexical field,” a vast palette of dedicated descriptive words for colors, sounds, tastes, and textures. But smell? In English, there are only three dedicated smell words—stinky, fragrant, and musty—and the first two are more about the smeller's subjective experience than about the smelly thing itself.
— Read more at Why Do Most Languages Have So Few Words for Smells? at The Atlantic.