I'm guessing a few of you might want one? A 27 day (December 5 to December 31) advent calendar from Chanel in biodegradable paper pulp packaging, and including a number of items (a snow globe, keychain, a tree ornament, a magnetic bookmark, a bracelet, etc) that aren't usually for sale. It's $825, and possibly sold out already but you could call your local Chanel counter.
Happy Friday and happy Global Handwashing Day! It’s also Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse‘s birthday. Our community project for today: wear a perfume for Jeeves OR Wooster. If you have never seen or read anything about Jeeves and Wooster, pick a favorite comic character from any medium, and scent that character.
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 Astier de Villatte Commune de Paris 1871, which doesn’t really address the cp proper — I’m not assigning it to Jeeves or Wooster in particular — but if you ignore the name, it’s a decent way to conjure up the series as a whole, maybe even the entire Wodehouse universe, covering what Kevin called…
…a lovely scented mix of country-walk (lemon and bergamot leading to lavender-coumarin-moss) and cozy parlor — a smooth benzoin-patchouli accord combining with scents I’ll describe as “candy dish” and powder puff…
Before COVID, Datta says, “It was hard to get many people—some scientists included—to pay attention to smell as a legitimate wedge that one might use to understand the brain. And I think that’s really changed now.” For researchers like him and [Venkatesh] Murthy, the fresh urgency directed at their field is an unfamiliar feeling, but a galvanizing one. “I’m excited to begin to think more about the underlying problem of smell itself,” Datta says. Murthy foresees a renaissance in olfaction research. Lately he’s been contemplating how breathing and smelling might intertwine neurologically.
— Sandeep Robert Datta is professor of neurobiology at Harvard. Read more in The Mystery of Smell: COVID-19 shines a spotlight on a once-obscure field of science at Harvard Magazine.
Comptoir Sud Pacifique has launched Vanille Iconique, a new fragrance celebrating the brand’s signature fragrance note…
Limited edition collector bottles, day 4: Yves Saint Laurent Libre Eau de Parfum, flocked in gold for holiday 2021. In 50 ml, €97 at Breuninger in Germany.