Monday’s ugly little sister! Also, the International Day of Non-Violence and Sting’s birthday. What fragrance are you wearing?
I’m in Prada Infusion d’Iris Absolue. It smells good enough to wear two days in a row, plus, I’m running late and it was still sitting on my desk.
Reminder: 10/5 is International Teachers Day…
Tea collection truffles from Sôcôla in San Francisco ("made with local ingredients, including Straus Creamery butter and cream. Sôcôla uses only the best ingredients to make your palate sing and your soul feel heavenly.) in Jasmine, Earl Grey, Matcha Green, Masala Chai. Four for $12, or a dozen for $32. (And if you're a coffee person, or like me you go both ways, check out the Vietnamese Espresso Chocolate Truffles.)
Whenever we inhale, the receptors most closely matched to a particular scent will signal first.
But if you take a deeper sniff in that wineglass, you will inhale many more scent molecules, which can activate less specific receptors. Those added signals should dramatically change the scent, but they don’t, a riddle sensory neuroscientists call “concentration-invariance.”
— Read more at Fine-tuned Sense of Smell Relies on Timing: First impressions matter for precise scent identification at Duke Today.
One afternoon last week, I sniffed my wrist, trying to remember which perfume I’d put on that morning. “Oh, Shalimar,” I thought, smelling the familiar animalic shellac of lemon, vanilla and amber. But, no. I’d actually worn Carthusia Ligea. Without too much of a stretch, it might have been Coty Emeraude or even Etro Shaal Nur.
It spurred me to think about perfume smell-alikes. It makes sense that a success in one grand perfume house would spark drugstore copies. One of my favorite vintage scents, Ciro Danger, is clearly a drugstore take on Schiaparelli Shocking with cinnamon. Or, to return to Shalimar, its success has led Guerlain to gin up copies of its own fragrance in flankers…
French niche line Jardins D’Écrivains has launched a new trio of fragrances: Howl, Alcools and Exil…