Happy Friday and happy National Mint Julep Day! Today’s birthdays: Countee Cullen, Benny Goodman, Colm Tóibín. Our community project for today is Rainbow Friday…wear something that makes you think of your favorite color. Bonus points if the color is in the name! Thanks to pyramus for the suggestion.
What fragrance did you pick? As always, do chime in with your scent of the day even if you’re not participating in the community project.
I’m in the OG Prada Infusion d’Iris, for purple…
I was often distracted: ‘Don’t forget to get the bread!’
If I described the bakery as a ‘golden place’, it’s because that’s how I saw it. Part of its bright aura was due to the amber loaves of French bread – bâtards, ficelles and baguettes – waiting in fragrant rows.
— Serge Lutens on Jeux de Peau. Read more in ‘Don’t forget to get the bread!’ Serge Lutens writes an ode to a singular perfume at Wallpaper.
Indie perfumer Bruno Fazzolari’s Fzotic brand launched Deixis, a new fragrance, this morning and it promptly sold out. Deixis is the first in a projected series of “direct drops” available only through the brand website…
Happy Almost-Friday! It’s also World Digestive Health Day, National Biscuit Day and JFK’s birthday. What fragrance are you wearing?
It’s a bit dreary here, again, and I’m patiently awaiting nicer weather in Comme des Garçons Kyoto. Kyoto is brown, I think, and I don’t tend to gravitate towards brown so no points for me today.
Reminder: 5/30 will be Rainbow Friday…
But in a study published on Wednesday in the journal PLOS One, Dr. Uchiyama and his team managed to achieve some research findings in feline behavior, establishing that cats respond differently to the scents of their owners than to the odors of strangers. That suggests your feline friend knows what you smell like, in addition to what you look and sound like.
— Read more in Your Cat May or May Not Love You, but It Knows Your Scent at The New York Times, or see Cats distinguish owner's smell from stranger's, study finds at BBC.