It’s Tuesday and National Tempura Day. Birthdays: Zora Neale Hurston and Gerald Durrell. What fragrance are you wearing?
There is apparently a tradition in Denmark that if you’re still single at 25, your friends can cover you in cinnamon. I suspect this is not widely practiced but it’s a good story, and so I’m wearing cinnamon, in Tauer Perfumes Phi — Une Rose de Kandahar. Tea at the moment is Numi Golden Chai, with extra cinnamon to stay on theme.
Reminder: on 1/10, we’re off to Denmark…
The way Osmo’s digitization process works is that the researchers trap and concentrate a physical scent emitted from a source (a stinky sneaker, say, or a rose, or a freshly-cut plum) in the form of volatile molecules. The researchers then analyse the scent sample to figure out the exact type of molecules involved, and the proportions of each type of molecule found in that air sample. They send that information, which is essentially the chemical formula for that little pocket of air, to a printer equipped with all the molecules or similar-smelling ones, and recreate the exact chemistry that was found in the original scent.
— Read more in Digital smell has arrived. Are we ready for Stinkygram? at Salon.
Quick PSA: the damage poll is coming up on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, are you making any perfume-related resolutions for the New Year? Fragrances you’d like to buy, fragrances you’d like to not buy, perfume projects you’d like to complete, anything? Tell us!
Or feel free to share anything you’d like to accomplish this year.
Or, as always, just talk about something else…
Pretty pretty please bring these across the pond? Shower gels from Lush, already out in the UK, in Cherry Pop ("Daydreaming of dates by the jukebox and smoochin’ over a soda pop or two? Then this colour changing, cherryade hit of nostalgia, might just be the one for you!"; it changes from green in the bottle to red in your hand) and Posh Chocolate ("Say it with chocolate. Gift a true feast for the senses to your loved one this Valentine's. Lather up in a marvellous meeting of rich, cleansing hazelnut milk and sweet cocoa powder, warm and comforting vanilla absolute, along with bundles of skin-hydrating glycerine"; the original in the tub is the greatest thing ever although I nearly always mix it with something else.) Both are in the usual 3 sizes, pretty sure both have been kitchen exclusives in the past, both are limited edition.
French niche line Pierre Guillaume will introduce 20.2 Eglise de Velours, a new incense fragrance, in February. Eglise de Velours is the second fragrance in the series that started with 2008’s L’Eau Guerrière, followed by 2019’s 20.1 Sorong…