Dolce & Gabbana have launched two new additions to the brand’s Velvet series: Velvet Honey Santal and Velvet Passion Oud…
Vince Camuto Rosso & Amore Intenso ~ new fragrances
Vince Camuto has launched Rosso, a new fragrance for men, and Amore Intenso, a flanker to 2014’s Amore fragrance for women…
I’m getting out
A spot for the new Coco Mademoiselle Fragrance Primer from Chanel.
Wednesday scent of the day 9/17
It’s Wednesday and International Country Music Day (aka Hank Williams’ birthday). More birthdays: Billy the Kid, William Carlos Williams, Ken Kesey. What fragrance are you wearing?
For Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island, which I never did read, and which may or may not have been partly inspired by what was then called Isla de Pinos off the coast of Cuba, I’m wearing L’Artisan Havana Vanille.
Reminder: 9/19 is International Talk Like a Pirate Day…
An order of magnitude stronger than landfills
We found that the corpse plant’s powerful emission rates can be an order of magnitude stronger than landfills – albeit only for two nights. These strong emissions are well designed to move far through the Sumatran jungle to attract carrion flies.
The odors are also resilient to atmospheric oxidation – the way organic compounds degrade in the atmosphere by reacting with oxidants in pollution such as ozone or nitrate radicals. Different compounds degrade at different rates – an important factor for attracting pollinators.
— Read more in How a corpse plant makes its terrible smell − it has a strategy, and its female flowers do most of the work at The Conversation.