Saturday is National Sense of Smell Day and Independent Bookstore Day (go smell a book!), and Sunday is Superhero Day. We’re celebrating all the holidays with our basic weekend open thread poll. Talk about anything you like — the fragrance you’re wearing today, the fragrance you’d be wearing if the weather would cooperate, whatever.
Or, ask a question about fragrance, then see if anyone else has asked a question that you can answer…
I featured these Method body washes in a lemming post early last year, but I never bought them and now there's a trial size coffret for just $5.99, with three 100 ml bottles of Deep Detox (cucumber, seaweed and green tea), Energy Boost (citrus, ginger and sea buckthorn) and Pure Peace (peony, rosewater and pink sea salt). At Target. If anyone ever tried them, do comment!
A spot for Azzaro Wanted Girl.
Italian niche line Eau d’Italie has launched Easy To Love, a new fragrance…
You may not know Annette Green’s name, but if you have ever worn perfume, shopped for perfume, or enjoyed the scent of someone else’s perfume, you have likely been touched by her long and remarkable career. For more than forty years, she worked at the Fragrance Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting the perfume industry in the United States. As the executive director and, later, the president, she did more than perhaps any other figure to shape the trajectory of the modern fragrance industry.
— From A Grande Dame of the Perfume Industry Turns Ninety-Five at The New Yorker.