“Unleash the rose” is Diptyque’s latest collection, created in collaboration with LA floral artist Maurice Harris (of Bloom & Plume). The new Eau Rose Eau de Parfum (shown below the jump) features notes of litchi, artichoke and camomile, and the collection includes limited edition packaging for Eau Rose Eau de Toilette and Eau Rose Eau de Parfum, plus 4 candles: Roses, Litchi, Artichaut, and Camomille ($76 each for 190g)…
It’s Almost-Friday and Three Kings Day. What fragrance are you wearing?
I’m wearing Dawn Spencer Hurwitz Samarkand. No community project points for me so far this week.
Reminder: on 1/7, wear a fragrance to match Very Peri, Pantone’s color of the year for 2022…
The science behind sight, taste, touch, and sound are lightyears beyond smell. Most cameras work better than human eyes, able to see spectrums of light invisible to us. Audio systems can hear wavelengths our ears can’t. Robots can now use an artificial sense of touch to carefully peel a grape. Some artificial flavorings are tastier than the real thing. Similar efforts to capture olfactory sensory experiences have fallen short because the physics behind how our brains smell isn’t as straightforward as other senses. Sight is photons, sound is compressed air. Scent is something else entirely. Roughly 400 receptor types can recognize millions of scents, combining them to create an overall smell.
— Read more in Digital Olfaction Brings Scent Systems Into the 21st Century at Propmodo.
It's that time of year when many of us realize we need a new lip balm, right? Glossier's popular Balm Dotcom ("a hydrating lip balm packed with antioxidants and natural emollients to nourish dry, chafed skin—in original or other fun flavors") has a new-ish limited edition flavor, Cookie Butter ("sweet, slightly spiced Speculoos cookies, with a melted caramel tint"). $12 for 15 ml, or get any three flavors (including Cookie Butter, if you like) for $30. At Glossier.
A spot for the Jo Malone Roses Collection.