It’s Almost-Friday and Jane Austen’s birthday. RIP bell hooks. What fragrance are you wearing?
I’m wearing Hermès Eau de Néroli Doré, my pick for the 2016 episode of the Best Buy community project.
Reminder: 12/17 will be Best Buy Friday…
A molecule expressed by the human body that influences human behavior
Researchers have identified an odorless compound emitted by people—and in particular babies—called hexadecanal, or HEX, that appears to foster aggressive behavior in women and blunt it in men. “We cannot say that this is a pheromone,” says study author Noam Sobel, a neuroscientist at the Weizmann Institute of Science. “But we can say that it’s a molecule expressed by the human body that influences human behavior, specifically aggressive behavior, in a predicted manner.”
— Read more in Chemical emitted by babies could make men more docile, women more aggressive at Science.
Amouage Epic 56, Honour 43 & Reflection 45 ~ new fragrances
Earlier this year, Amouage launched Epic 56 Woman, Honour 43 Woman and Reflection 45 Man, which along with Interlude 53 Man make up the Exceptional Extraits collection…
The daily lemming
Aha, it’s been some years since I checked out the candle collection at Gucci, and lo and behold, they are still making candles I want and can’t afford. This one is the Mehen rose print (“The scent, Mehen, combines aquatic ingredients such as Persian blue salt, seaweed and water moss with licorice, capturing the essence of a water snake. The name Mehen is a reference to the Egyptian deity—a coiled up snake—recalling the various depictions of the symbolic animal throughout the House narrative”) and it’s $430 (house narratives don’t come cheap, my friends, but monthly payments are available), which is about $380 more than I’d like to spend and it’s an aquatic which I probably would not like anyway…
Scent-A-Claus
Did Old Spice have a tough year? They could only afford Isaiah Mustafa's voice for Christmas? Here's last year if the voice is not enough.