French niche line Pierre Guillaume has introduced 21.1 Orchidivy, a new green fruity vanilla fragrance. Orchidivy is the second fragrance in the series that started with 21 Felanilla…
The almost-daily lemming
From Diptyque for Valentine's Day: "A harmony of flowers and leaves. A new, limited-edition duo for Valentine's Day combining the the tangy green accents of Baies (Berries) with the floral notes of Roses." 2 x 190g for $156 at Diptyque.
Thursday scent of the day 1/18
Happy Almost-Friday! It’s also National Thesaurus Day, aka Peter Mark Roget’s birthday. More birthdays: AA Milne, Cary Grant, Philippe Starck. What fragrance are you wearing?
I’m in Imaginary Authors Yesterday Haze. I’m sure it has some relationship to something about Dolly Parton and I’ll think of what it is by the end of the day, hopefully.
Reminder: 1/19 is Dolly Parton’s birthday…
Some level of emotional response
Anytime we smell anything, it elicits some level of emotional response, whether it be just a vague, “I kind of like this, I kind of don’t like this.” And it can go as deep as triggering the traumatic flashback for someone with PTSD, to bringing us to a state of sublime calm and joy or ecstasy or whatever the case might be just as a function of what that particular scent means to us as a function of our prior association with it and the emotion that is grounded to it.
— Read more in Ten Minutes with Rachel Herz: On Smell at MoMA.
Zadig & Voltaire This is Really Her! & This is Really Him! ~ new fragrances
French ready-to-wear line Zadig & Voltaire has launched This is Really Her! and This is Really Him!, new flankers to 2016’s This is Her! and This is Him! respectively…