Scented magnetic page clips (who knew?) in Chocolate Cupcake or Vanilla Latte. $4.95 each at Everything Smells (where "everything" ranges from a bacon-scented necklace to Gross Out Scented Goo).
Armani Prive Charm ~ new perfume
Giorgio Armani has launched Charm, a new fragrance in the limited edition Les Éditions Couture series in the Armani Privé fragrance range. Charm was inspired by Armani’s spring/summer 2017 Charmani collection…
We humans get better with practice
I’ve spent 20 years learning to recognise different aromas; I make perfume for a living, and I run workshops to guide people around the world of fragrance. Apart from those whose sense of smell is irreparably damaged, we humans get better with practice pretty quickly. Even people who believe they have a terrible sense of smell are often good at it.
— Sarah McCartney of 4160Tuesdays for The Guardian. Read more at The nose has it: it’s no surprise humans’ sense of smell can be as good as dogs’.
Lazy weekend poll ~ open thread, Mother’s Day weekend 2017
Happy Mother’s Day weekend! We’re honoring mothers everywhere with our usual open thread poll. Talk about anything you like — the fragrance you’re wearing today, the perfume your mother wore, whatever.
Or, ask a question about fragrance, then see if anyone else has asked a question that you can answer…
The swapmeet & splitmeet & freebiemeet follow-up, 2017
PSA: our next freebiemeet will be in early June, if we hold it at all (see below). And a “regular” lazy weekend poll will be along shortly.
Our semi-regular follow up poll — if you participated in any of our recent swapmeets (episode 9 or episode 10) or splitmeets (episode 6 or episode 7), how did it go?
And a special call for comments on the freebiemeet (the most recent was episode 7), please! There has been a suggestion that perhaps the rules ought to be changed…