Friday scent of the day 10/7

Posted by Robin on 7 October 2022 208 Comments

It’s Friday and Jacques Guerlain’s birthday. Our community project for today: wear a Guerlain fragrance if you have one. Extra points if it was created by Jacques Guerlain, quintuple bonus points for wearing a week of Guerlain representing five different Guerlain perfumers. Adapted from a suggestion by Oakland Fresca.

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 the Jacques Guerlain masterpiece, Après L’Ondée…

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Neuroscientific mystery

Posted by Robin on 7 October 2022 2 Comments

And that presents quite the neuroscientific mystery: how can each randomly located, odor-detecting cell in the nose manage to send signals to just one specific glomerulus within the olfactory bulb? This feat is akin to, say, 50 friends who are originally separated in random places in a city making their way to the same apartment without initially having the address. Somehow they inherently all know where to go.

— Read more in Mental Landscapes: The Neural Cartography of Smell at Columbia's Zuckerman Institute.

The daily lemming

Posted by Robin on 6 October 2022 2 Comments

A lemming for fans of Estée Lauder Beautiful Magnolia: the Wonderland Edition for Holiday 2022. €96 for 50 ml Eau de Parfum at Nocibe in France.

We are all Angel

Posted by Robin on 6 October 2022 4 Comments

Irina Shayk, Yilan Hua, Nina de Lianin, Raya Martigny, Kai-Isaiah Jamal, Ariish Wol and Jazzelle Zanaughtti for the 30th anniversary of (Thierry) Mugler Angel.