Rabbit, rabbit, rabbit, and welcome to September! What fragrance are you wearing?
I’m in Blackbird Y06-S, because perfumelover67 reminded me of it on Monday. (And we’re expecting the remnants of Ida to pass by today. If I disappear, we lost power, or my basement is flooded, or both.)
Reminder: 9/3 will be Labor Day Weekend…
Interestingly, smell has the ability to elicit a strong emotional response without the recollection of an explicit memory. Sometimes it’s just the feeling we recall.
When you encounter a smell tied to something meaningful in your past, you first feel the emotion followed by a cognitive recognition, information that was stored in your brain. Often that happens quickly, but sometimes it doesn’t happen at all, and other times it can happen after some extensive searching in your brain, Herz says.
— Cognitive neuroscientist Rachel Herz talks to Prevention. Read more in The Fascinating Reason Certain Smells Trigger Powerful and Emotional Memories.
Goutal Paris is celebrating their 40th anniversary with a collector butterfly bottle (above left, 100 ml, sold empty, $135 at Hudson's Bay in Canada) and a limited edition pastry, available at Maison Angelina in Paris for the month of September only (above right, "Angelina's pastry chef Christophe Appert has created an exclusive pastry based on rose and pear, the iconic notes of the eponymous perfume "Petite Chérie", in the shape of the iconic butterfly ball. A collaboration that offers a unique moment of tasting, for the nose as well as the palate.")
Alien drag queen Juno Birch for Jo Malone.
It’s Tuesday and the last day of August. (And a quick PSA: the next swapmeet will be on September 18.) What fragrance are you wearing?
I am up early, and commando for an easy (but potentially time consuming, so I may or may not post more today) medical procedure. I’m drinking a cup of Cacao Kisses Colombian black tea from Upton.
Reminder: 9/3 will be Labor Day Weekend…