It’s Monday, National Orange Blossom Day, National PTSD Awareness Day and Canadian Multiculturalism Day. Birthdays: Paul Laurence Dunbar, Helen Keller, Norma Kamali, Vera Wang, Alice McDermott. What fragrance are you wearing?
I have Dawn Spencer Hurwitz Pineapple King on one arm and Lili’uokalani on the other.
Reminder: on 7/1, Rabbit rabbit rabbit! It’s July, and Canada Day…
End gross practice #1 from fashion and music brands at literally no cost: demand that perfumer(s)’ names are on the bottle. Would they sell music or a poem with no singer, songwriter, or poet’s name on it? Do they hide the name of the fashion designer? When they do, you know the quality and the creativity of the fashion. Perfumery is no exception.
— Read more in Part 1: Christophe Laudamiel's Dear World Manifesto at BeautyMatter.
A quick PSA: Donatella will be stopping by a little later than usual…expect her on Wednesday, July 6.
Meanwhile, a variation on a half-year poll we did in 2021. As always, answer as many or as few of the questions as you like, or just talk about something else.
1. What’s the best new scented thing you discovered in the first half of 2022? It can be anything, from a flower to a fragrance to a body product.
2. What new scented thing do you hope to discover in July?
3. Now that the year is about half over, what do you think is the best new fragrance release of 2022 so far?
4. Share something wonderful with us! It can be anything — good news you received recently, something delicious you ate, the latest TV series you binged — really, anything…
Indeed, in a small study published Wednesday in the journal Science Advances, researchers investigating pairs of friends whose friendship “clicked” from the beginning found intriguing evidence that each person’s body odor was closer to their friend’s than expected by chance. And when the researchers got pairs of strangers to play a game together, their body odors predicted whether they felt they had a good connection.
— Read more in Does Your Nose Help Pick Your Friends? at The New York Times.
French niche line Frédéric Malle will launch Uncut Gem, a new fragrance from perfumer Maurice Roucel…