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Lazy weekend poll ~ five questions for December 2021

Posted by Robin on 11 December 2021 201 Comments

It’s the weekend, and we’re repeating (with slight variations) a poll we’ve done for the past few years around this time. As always, answer as few or as many as you like, or just talk about something else.

1. What fragrance are you wearing today?

2. What’s your favorite holiday (any holiday) food, OR, what’s the best thing you cooked in 2021? (Feel free to share or link to a recipe!)

3. Did you make any perfume-related resolutions for 2021, and if so, did you stick to them?

4. Possibly related to #3, what’s the next fragrance you are itching to buy?

5. Share something wonderful with us! It can be anything — something delicious you ate, a great movie you saw recently, the last good book you read, any fabulous news you recently received — really, anything…

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The mechanisms of smell

Posted by Robin on 11 December 2021 Leave a Comment

But most smell scientists believe Covid-centric research will yield insights on the mechanisms of smell writ large — and new approaches to treating a wide array of olfactory issues. Notably, scientists still aren’t absolutely sure how Covid causes smell loss; the disease may actually be doing several things at once with the potential to affect smell, all in slightly different ways. However, emerging consensus holds that many cases of Covid-related smell loss are not the result of direct damage to smell receptors, or the olfactory nerve, but instead to the cells that provide structural support to them.

— Read more in COVID is inspiring smell scientists to explore exciting new frontiers at MIC.

8 from Dawn Spencer Hurwitz ~ new fragrances

Posted by Robin on 10 December 2021 Leave a Comment

A selection of 2021 fragrances* from indie perfume house Dawn Spencer Hurwitz: Bleu Ambrée; Don’t Explain :: Billie Holiday / Ida Meister; Samarkand; Bois E´tincelants; Le Sazerac; Re-Assess; New Hope…Is Where We Dream; and the 2021 holiday fragrance, Ruby Candlelight…

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The daily lemming

Posted by Robin on 10 December 2021 Leave a Comment

A soy candle for Holiday 2021, from Rifle Paper Co: "This holiday candle brings to mind memories of cozy nights by the fire, fresh balsam fir and boughs of cranberries dipped in frost." $34 for 270g at Nordstrom.

Spell on You

Posted by Robin on 10 December 2021 5 Comments

Léa Seydoux for Louis Vuitton Spell on You.

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