It’s Friday and Emily Dickinson’s birthday. Our community project for today: wear a fragrance with a note she mentioned in one of her poems (helpful lists here, here, here).
What fragrance did you pick? As always, do chime in with your scent of the day even if you’re not participating in the community project.
I’m in what I think of an outdoor rose: Diptyque L’Ombre dans L’Eau. (Une Rose by Frédéric Malle would have been even better, but I’m all out.)
Reminder: 12/17 will be Best Buy Friday…
Since skunks use several VSCs [volatile sulfur compounds] in their foul-smelling spray, lead study author Iain Oswald and researchers suspected these particles also play a role in cannabis’ smell. The team examined the flowers from 13 different types of cannabis plants using a custom 2D gas chromatography system with three different kinds of smell detectors.
— Read more in Why marijuana has skunk-like odor at Fox 5 San Diego.
A second chance at an Idôle collector bottle for the holidays: the Emily in Paris x Idôle edition. "To complete the limited-edition Emily in Paris x Lancôme line-up, Idôle Eau de Parfum comes in a new bottle dressed with Emily's famous heart shape and Eiffel Tower bag charm and brings a sense of power and sensuality that captures the exuberant joy of living in the French capital." $99 for 50 ml at Lancôme.
It’s Almost-Friday, National Pastry Day and International Anti-Corruption Day. Birthdays: Joseph Pilates, Redd Foxx, Judi Dench. What fragrance are you wearing?
I am commando for an early dentist appointment. Hopefully I will be home soon and wearing something cheerful.
Reminder: on 12/10, for Emily Dickinson’s birthday, wear a fragrance with a note she mentioned in one of her poems…
[Gary] Marr designs scents for the workaday side of the perfumery business, a vast and, in many ways, more demanding assignment. “I know fine fragrance perfumers won’t agree with me on this,” said Marr, “but I’ve always said that fine fragrances are relatively easy. It’s all about making nice, harmonious, round fragrances. Whereas you come to home care/body care—the fragrances have to perform.” Dishwashing scents must “bloom” when they hit water, but also slough off surfaces immediately, so your tableware doesn’t leave your food smelling of perfume; bleach can be made to smell nice, but the perfumer’s task is complicated by the fact that sodium hypochlorite tends to destroy everything it touches.
— Read more in The Odor of Things: Solving the mysteries of scent at Harper's Magazine.