Aha, it’s Wear Your Pajamas to Work Day. Also, World Voice Day. What fragrance are you wearing?
Reminder: on 4/17, we’re doing edition 5 of the Picture Challenge…
Where that smell was coming from
Yet even though scientists knew where that smell was coming from, they didn't know the answer to another basic question: why make it? A team of British, Hungarian, and Swedish scientists investigated this question recently, publishing their findings this month in Nature Microbiology.
— Scientific American looks at why bacteria in dirt bother to create the geosmin that makes it smell good. Read more in Dirt Doesn't Smell Like Dirt.
Giorgio Armani Ocean Di Gioia ~ new perfume
Giorgio Armani has launched Ocean Di Gioia, a new green floral fragrance for women. Ocean Di Gioia is a followup to 2010′s Acqua Di Gioia; the last in the series was 2019’s Light Di Gioia…
The daily lemming
Day 3 of cheap thrills from Target: Everspring Liquid Dish Soap Rosewater & Mint. "Find yourself in the first days of spring with this Liquid Dish Soap Fragrance from Everspring...features the gentle aroma of rosewater and mint to provide a refreshing scent that will have you dreaming of cool spring days. It helps cut through grease and grime to leave your dishes sparkling." $2.79 for 532 ml.
Closed gardens all over x 4
Postcards from closed gardens: 1) A lovely short video from the Jardín Botánico de Bogotá (‘While you stay at home, there is a Garden renewing itself for the city’), then below the jump, we have 2) footage from the 2nd of April at the National Botanic Garden of Wales, followed by 3) Sally Petitt leading an 8 minute “wellness walk” around the Mediterranean Beds at the Cambridge University Botanic Garden, then 4) Steve Wright shows off the blooming rhododendrons at the Jenkins Arboretum & Gardens in Devon, Pennsylvania.