From Lisbon-based Benamôr, Jacarandá Shower Gel: "Discover the magnificent Jacarandá fragrance, with floral and amber notes. A sheer delight for your senses...The glycerin-based shower gel provides moisturizing properties. Aloe vera is known for its hydrating and smoothing properties." $18.50 for 500 ml at Bloomingdales.
London-based niche line Gallivant will launch Nida, a new limited edition fragrance, in May. Nida is named for the resort town in Lithuania…
It’s Hump Day, plus National Pig in a Blanket Day and The International Day of Multilateralism and Diplomacy for Peace. The swapmeet is still open! Birthdays: Anthony Trollope, Elizabeth Goudge, Willem de Kooning, Robert Penn Warren, Gabriel Figueroa, Barbra Streisand, Jean Paul Gaultier. What fragrance are you wearing?
I’m in Imaginary Authors The Soft Lawn for the very old tennis courts at my local park.
Reminder: 4/26 is Frederick Law Olmsted’s birthday…
They do, though, get very close. It’s thanks to Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GCMS), an unsexily named method also used for food and drugs to identify the different molecules in a chemical sample. “They work by obtaining some of the liquid you are trying to replicate, even tiny amounts are sufficient,” explains David-Lev Jipa-Slivinschi, perfumer and founder of cult fragrance brand Toskovat. “It’s then analysed in a lab via a GCMS machine. This doesn’t give you the full ‘picture’ necessarily, but it gives you sufficient information that if you know how to interpret the results you can make something very, very, very similar,” he says.
— Read more in Inside the sudden rise of perfume dupe labs at DazedDigital.
From People I've Loved, the Rose Air Freshener: "Love Stinks. From the mustiest corners of our hearts, this air freshener makes a great gift for the romantic / anti-romantic person in your life. Hang it anywhere that needs a little freshening up—it smells like a rose!" $6 at Beautyhabit.