From the Louis Vuitton collaboration with Beijing-based contemporary artist Sun Yitian (you can see images of the fashion items at Harper's Bazaar), a limited edition bottle of Imagination with a yellow duck motif. It can be pre-ordered now for $515 at Louis Vuitton USA, where you'll also find special bottles of Spell on You and Heures d'Absence).
Tom Hardy, the new face of Jo Malone Cypress & Grapevine.
It’s Tuesday. Birthdays: Thomas Gainsborough, Sidney Bechet, George Lucas. (And a happy belated birthday to Stevie Wonder, who turned 74 yesterday.) What fragrance are you wearing?
The only thing I bake with any regularity these days is granola, so I’m doing granola ingredients this week, starting with coconut: Estée Lauder Bronze Goddess. Tea at the moment is Harney CTC Assam + Art of Tea Cardoz Legacy Masala Chai.
Reminder: 5/17 is World Baking Day…
Researchers have discovered that giving names to odors not only affects our perception of them but how they are processed in our primary olfactory cortex, the area of our brains related to our sense of smell.
Participants were given minty and citrusy odors to sniff, which had been labeled with two words; for example, mint-menthol or eucalyptus-menthol. While sniffing, participants were scanned using an ultrahigh-field (7-tesla) functional MRI (fMRI) machine.
— Read more in Naming Scents: How Labels Shape Our Perception of Odors at Neuroscience News.
May is flying by! We’re taking a brief rest break with our usual open thread poll. Talk about anything you like — the fragrance you’re wearing today, the last fragrance you had a dream about (or spotted in a book or movie?), whatever.
Or, ask a question about fragrance, then see if anyone else has asked a question that you can answer…