For Janet Marple, 54, of Edina, Minn., coffee, peanut butter and feces all smell vaguely like burning rubber or give off a sickly sweetness. It’s like nothing she has ever smelled in her lifetime.
“I literally hold my breath when shampooing my hair, and laundry is a terrible experience. Even fresh-cut grass is terrible,” said Ms. Marple, a former corporate banker.
— Read more about post-Covid parosmia in Distorted, Bizarre Food Smells Haunt Covid Survivors at The New York Times.
Monday again, plus Flag Day and World Blood Donor Day. What fragrance are you wearing?
I’m heading home after a quick weekend trip to the beach. I’m wearing a dab of Aftelier Candide. I may or not be able to post again until tomorrow, we’ll see how the day goes.
Reminder: on 6/18, we’re doing edition 3 of Bottle Porn Friday, by request…
An overdue repeat of our guilty pleasures poll: tell us about your guilty (perfume) pleasures, that is, fragrances you love even though you (or others?) think maybe you shouldn’t.
Another way of stating it might be “the perfumes you don’t usually admit you own”…
Some day, I will go to Geneva and buy all the Mizensir candles (and the pencils too). This one is a limited edition in a ceramic jar made by Louisa McEwan / A Place By The Lake, in Palissandre Des Indes ("A quintessentially luxury compound, this fragrance of roughly processed precious wood gives way to the intense notes of Ceylon cinnamon. Pure refinement in perfume."), €190 at Mizensir. (There are also 5 other styles / scents in the collection.)
Mizensir, the fragrance line of perfumer Alberto Morillas, has launched Blue Gin, a new spicy aromatic fragrance…