Puig's old school unisex Agua Lavanda, in 750 (yep) ml Body Splash ("Agua Lavanda Puig Cologne Body Splash is the classic after bath product in Europe. It imparts just the right amount of fragrance for a fresh, clean feeling throughout the day. Refreshing and fabulous, with an earthy, woodsy scent of lavender. Made in Spain!") and Body Milk. $10 each at The Soap Bar. Also available in Shower Gel or in a three pack of 125g Bar Soaps.
Dawn Spencer Hurwitz has been around longer than most indie perfumers — long enough, in fact, that she recently began a “retrograde files” fragrance series, relaunching and re-imagining discontinued scents from her back catalog. She wrote in a recent blog post, “Passionflower Perfume Poems was a small collection that I started releasing around 1999–2000 with a young, ‘millennial’ audience in mind.” Well, the Poems are back, with slight reformulations and name changes. I looked forward to trying a few because I remember them from the mid-2000s but I drained my sample vials years ago.
First, here’s Bluedaisy, formerly known as Daisy or Daisy Be Young. (I can guess why it would be difficult to re-release a fragrance under the name Daisy in 2017…)
Atelier Cologne will launch Café Tuberosa, a new fragrance in the brand’s Avant Garde collection…
But when you’re a mouse (or, perhaps, a human) and fattening food is all around, a new study finds that those with little or no ability to detect odors may have a key advantage. While mice with an intact sense of smell grow obese on a steady diet of high-fat chow, their littermates who have had their sense of smell expunged can eat the same food yet remain trim.
If you’re thinking this is a cautionary tale about the effect of enhancing gustatory delight on portion control, you’re on the wrong track.
— Read more at Does my sense of smell make me look fat? In mice, the answer seems to be yes at the Los Angeles Times.
Tom Ford has launched Oud Minérale, a new fragrance in the Private Blend range…