Happy Friday, and happy International Day of Acceptance! Our community project for today: wear one of your “top 10 of winter” fragrances (unless it’s summer where you are, in which case wear one of your “top 10 of summer” scents).
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 wearing Fendi Theorema, which has carried me through more than one bad winter…
Results showed that the body odor of men who ate more eggs and tofu, and more oils and fats, were rated more favorably than that of men who ate more seafood or carbohydrates. Diet explained 20% of the differences between men’s odor, meaning that diet has an important affect on body odor but is clearly not the only factor.
— Read more at Love at First Sniff? Fertility, Diet, and Body Odor at Psychology Today.
Go ahead, perfumistas, think of all the perfumes you know with a pompom attached to the bottle. I am sure there are more — do comment! — but I could only think of four off the top of my head. Three of those are from Ariana Grande (Ari / Frankie / Sweet Like Candy) and the fourth is Annick Goutal’s latest launch, Tenue de Soirée. If Ariana Grande and Annick Goutal strike you as unexpected bedfellows, think again, because the times they are a-changing at Annick Goutal. The new buzz words are “fun, quirky and young”, and they’re looking to shake up everything from the packaging to the logo to the brand name itself. Tenue de Soirée (evening dress or evening wear) is the “bridge” between the old Annick Goutal and the new, brand-name-yet-to-be-announced. Expect to see the full results of the rebranding by 2018, and for Goutal’s existing line up to be pared down to about 20 or 25 fragrances…
Jil Sander has launched Sun Men Sport, a new flanker to 2002’s Jil Sander Sun Men…