Tuesday scent of the day 2/2
Happy World Wetlands Day! What fragrance are you wearing?
I’m wearing Serge Lutens Chêne. Tania Sanchez gave Chêne 2 stars, and while I’d probably give it 4 (?), I have no quarrel with “a lean smell of sawdust; less a fragrance than a proposal for further discussion.”
Reminder: on 2/5 we’re doing 1 Star Friday…
Tauer Perfumes Lonesome Rider ~ new fragrance
Tauer Perfumes has launched Lonesome Rider, a new fragrance thanking his clients for 10 years…
Smells like you
In the study, six male and six female donors provided odour samples without fragrance, wearing their own fragrance, and wearing an assigned fragrance. Then 296 female and 131 male participants - average age mid-20s - were asked to choose, which ones were from the same individual. Psychology PhD researcher Caroline Allen, of the University of Stirling and lead author of the report, said participants matched a person's body odour with their chosen perfume "at above chance levels".
— Read more at Study links people's natural scent to chosen perfumes : Your favourite perfumes always smell like... you! at Daily Times.
The Shalimar Face-Off
Has everyone recovered from Friday’s group project of wearing Guerlain Shalimar? Today I’ll test your endurance with a Shalimar Face-off. For the past few days, I’ve been wearing different formulations and vintages of Shalimar to suss out their differences.
Before we start, let’s have a quick Shalimar refresher. Jacques Guerlain created Shalimar, and it launched in 1925. Its notes include bergamot, lemon, iris, jasmine, rose, vanilla, incense, opopanox, patchouli, musk and tonka bean. What you smell are chiefly Shalimar’s tent poles of lemon, vanilla and rotting squirrel. Wafting over these tent poles is a complex fabric smelling of incense, amber, tonka, opopanox, vetiver, musk and powder.
For the face-off, I dug out every concentration of Shalimar I had on hand: a 1970s Eau de Cologne, the sought-after 1980s Parfum de Toilette, a 1990s Eau de Parfum and a pre-1985 Extrait…