French niche line Lubin has launched Princesses de Malabar, a new fruity floral fragrance intended as an “ode to the Nair Princesses of the Malabar coast of India who reigned supreme in their matriarchal society”…
Thursday scent of the day 9/27
Almost-Friday and World Tourism Day. (And don’t forget the freebiemeet is this weekend!) What fragrance are you wearing?
My full-credit pick: Bruno Fazzolari Lampblack.
Reminder: on 9/28, wear a fragrance by Byredo, Berdoues or Bruno Fazzolari, if you have one…
The daily lemming
A coffret with 10 ml bottles of all five Claus Porto Agua de Colonia fragrances: "The essence of Portugal in five timeless scents created for Claus Porto by perfumer Lyn Harris. Agua de Colonia is [a] collection of fragrances that expresses the beauty of Portugal’s magical landscapes, from the pine forests of Comporta to citrus groves by the Douro river." $95 at Claus Porto.
Food odor memory
Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology used behavioral experiments to show that desert ants are able to quickly learn many different food odors and remember them for the rest of their lives. However, their memory for nest odors seems to differ from their food odor memory: Whereas food odors are learned and kept after a single contact, ants need several trials to memorize nest odors.
— Read more at Desert ants have an amazing odor memory at Science Daily.
Ormonde Jayne Cuir Imperial ~ fragrance review
How many leather fragrances do I own? Three. Chanel Cuir de Russie, Robert Piguet Bandit and Frédéric Malle Monsieur. Stand-out leathers are hard to find; many leather fragrances smell so similar.
Cuir de Russie is a perfume version of a sleek, quirky, man-made bibelot (my house is full of these, too; see my current lemming — the eyeball paperweight from L’Objet —below). Bandit is more of a stand-out ‘natural’ object that’s showy and hard to miss: a glossy chunk of red coral, say…or a hot-pink seashell the size of your head, a Haida basket full of aromatic betel nuts from India. Monsieur’s raunch and libertine paunch prompts a “leather” virtual reality experience…