It’s Monday and Earth Day (the 2024 theme: Planet vs. Plastics). What fragrance are you wearing?
I’m taking a park greenery point in Annick Goutal Mandragore. (I’m also cheating since I did not announce the week’s community project until today.)
Reminder: 4/26 is Frederick Law Olmsted’s birthday…
A new scientific study suggests that some species of ticks—those Lyme Disease-spreading creepy crawlies—are scared off by pheromones produced by ants. Now, a team of researchers is working to synthetically replicate these ant excretions and sell them as tick repellent. Because unlike DEET or Citronella or other popular tick spray, the one derived from ant juice is virtually undetectable by the human nose.
— Read more in To Repel Ticks, Hikers Should Smell Like Ants at Outside.
Saturday is 420 / Weed Day; Sunday is World Creativity and Innovation Day.
We’re marking it all with our standard lazy weekend open thread poll: talk about anything you like — the perfume you’re wearing today, the last perfume you tried and loved because you read about it in the comments here, whatever.
Or, ask a question about fragrance, then see if anyone else has asked a question that you can answer…
The swapmeet (episode 24) is open for business! PLEASE read the instructions! (For those of you who refuse to read the instructions, please do not respond to anyone else’s comment except to say that their email address does not work. ANYTHING else you need to say, say it in an email. If you insist on responding to a comment, I will delete your comment. If you want to know how to swap for something, see #6 below!) For people who would like to chat in addition to, or instead of, swapping, there will be a poll along shortly.
Don’t know what swapping is, or you know but you’ve never tried it? See here. You can also take a look at the feedback from episode 3, episode 4, episode 5, episode 6 and episodes 7-8, episodes 9-10, episodes 11-17.
Please, do not participate if you do not have time to mail your items within the next three weeks! Hopefully, another swapmeet will be coming up in the fall…
Indie Canadian line Zoologist will launch Rabbit, a new unisex fragrance, in May…