Diptyque has introduced their Holiday 2018 candle collection, Légende du Nord, decorated by Pierre Marie…
Scented advent calendars 2018, part 2
More scent-related advent calendars for 2018 — see part 1 if you missed it. And don’t forget, most advent calendars sell out early! If you know of any I missed, do comment.
Diptyque’s 2018 Advent is out: “25 little pleasures to discover before Christmas. The advent calendar brings together holiday treasures in a magical box. Emblematic products of the House in discovery formats make everyday a celebration; contains candles, fragrance & body care products.” (Includes fifteen 35g candles, one 70g candle, seven 10 ml fragrances, two 15 ml body products.) $425 at Diptyque…
The daily lemming
Chocolate and coffee, anyone? At left, Coffee and Chocolate Incense from Scentscape's limited edition Fall & Winter 2018 collection (and there is also a Tea and Hot Milk incense, if you prefer). The tube's lid functions as a ceramic incense burner. 40 sticks, $12. At right, Paris Cafe (chocolate, coffee and cinnamon) from Fragrance Memories' City & Style collection. 20 sticks + mini ceramic holder, $7.50. Both at Nippon Kodo.
Friday scent of the day 10/19
Yep, it’s Friday! Our community project for today: for Family History Month, wear a fragrance that someone in your family wore, or that reminds you of someone in your family, or that reflects your family history in some way.
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.
If I had any Jean Naté, I’d wear that for my grandmother (and I can still smell it clearly in my brain, even though she has been dead for many years). Instead, I’m in Yves Saint Laurent Paris, which my mother wore for a few years as a signature, around the same time that I also wore it as an almost-signature. Unless I’m forgetting something, it was our only fragrance overlap…
The size of the olfactory bulb
In 2012, Lucia Jacobs, an animal behaviorist at Berkeley, proposed that the size of the olfactory bulb, the neural structure that helps all animals smell, was less about "odorant discrimination and acuity" and more about navigation. Her paper, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, suggested that this reasoning explained why there was a pattern in the scale of olfactory bulb sizes in animals, even those that relied more on their eyes than their noses to survive.
— Read more at Your sense of direction is intrinsically linked to your sense of smell at MNN.