Iris Law in the Versacesphere for Versace Dylan Purple.
Monday scent of the day 10/24
It’s Monday and United Nations Day, plus happy Diwali! The splitmeet is open for business. What fragrance are you wearing?
It’s chilly and gloomy out, so I went with a little spice: Comptoir Sud Pacifique L’Eau du Gouverneur.
Reminder: on 10/28, wear a fragrance with geranium leaf, if you have one…
Smelling the outside world
So adapted are dogs to smelling the outside world that they have little ability to smell food in their mouths. When humans chew food, we force gases escaping from the food up into our nasal cavity via passageways in the back of the throat. This process, called retronasal olfaction, partially reverses the flow of air in the nose, which normally comes in through the nostrils. [...] But the internal anatomy of a dog’s head allows little of this backward airflow. Dogs mostly lack the combined feeling of smell and taste that makes up flavor. As a result, they care little about the flavor of their food once it is in their mouths. Detecting the smells of edible things before opening their mouths is enough for them to take a bite.
— Read more in Do Dogs “See” Smells? at Psychology Today.
Lazy weekend poll ~ open thread, late October 2022
It’s the weekend, and we’re relaxing with our usual open thread poll. Talk about anything you like — the fragrance you’re wearing today, the fragrance you’d most love to find in the splitmeet this week, whatever.
Or, ask a question about fragrance, then see if anyone else has asked a question that you can answer…
The splitmeet, episode 18
The splitmeet (episode 18) is open for business. PLEASE read the instructions! For people who would like to chat in addition to, or instead of, splitting, there will be a poll along shortly.
Don’t know what a bottle split is, or you know but you’ve never tried it? See here.
Please note that the intention of the splitmeet is to split newly purchased bottles of perfume, not to sell decants of fragrances already in your collection! Anyone can join a split, but only people with current, active reader accounts may host splits. Update: in other words, you cannot host a split if you have never commented here before the day the splitmeet opens…