Guerlain's Winter Délice Candle: "A warm break by the fireside during long and cold winter evenings. Nostalgic memories of the gourmet aromas of gingerbread and candied fruits. Comfort from the crackling fire, refreshed by the green notes of pine needles, an evocation of contrasts of this festive season." $86 at Nordstrom.
It’s Tuesday, and it’s United Nations Day. What fragrance are you wearing?
I’m wearing Thierry Mugler Aura. Review coming up this week, possibly today.
Reminder: 10/27 will be Guessing Game Friday…
Two minutes in the woods, for Aesop Hwyl.
While they’re susceptible to a range of other diseases and parasites, waterbucks simply aren’t of much interest to tsetse flies. Researchers from Kenya, the United Kingdom, and Germany identified five compounds that give waterbucks their characteristic scent—and found that they can help repel the flies.
— Read more at Waterbuck-Scented Cologne Can Protect Cows From Tsetse Fly Bites at Atlas Obscura.
Marie (not her real name) is a 44-year-old history professor in Virginia, married, and a mom of two boys, aged nine and five. So far, she sounds like a lot of us.
Her perfume history sounds familiar, too. Her first perfume was a sample of Nina Ricci Nina she sent away for in a magazine when she was 10. As an adult, she dabbled in the 1980s “Holy Trinity” of Calvin Klein Eternity, Christian Dior Poison, and Giorgio.
Where Marie diverges from many perfumistas is in how she stores fragrance, and, more interesting, her awareness of why she enjoys perfume…