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Friday scent of the day 8/29

Posted by Robin on 29 August 2025 271 Comments

Happy Friday! Birthdays today: John Locke, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Ingrid Bergman, Charlie Parker, Dinah Washington. Our community project is Desert Island Friday…come up with a list of 5 fragrances you could live with for some unspecified amount of time while marooned on a desert island. Share your list with us, and wear one of the fragrances. Thanks go to springpansy for the idea! 

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.

In case I get stressed about being stranded, I’m bringing Comme des Garçons Ouarzazate. My other four picks, which are woefully inadequate unless I am going to be rescued within, say, a week or two, are Diorissimo, Diptyque Philosykos, Hermès Eau de Néroli Doré and Chanel Bois des Iles…

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Boosts in the gray matter volume

Posted by Robin on 29 August 2025 Leave a Comment

Researchers from Kyoto University and the University of Tsukuba in Japan asked 28 women to wear a specific rose scent oil on their clothing for a month, with another 22 volunteers enlisted as controls who put on plain water instead.

Magnetic resonance imaging ( MRI) scans showed boosts in the gray matter volume of the rose scent participants.

— Read more in Smelling This One Specific Scent Can Boost The Brain's Gray Matter at Science Alert.

The daily lemming

Posted by Robin on 28 August 2025 4 Comments

From Paddywax, a Cherie candle in Black Fig & Olive: "Our new Cherie candle effortlessly brings a touch of charm to any space. This elegant ceramic vessel features hand-painted details on a scalloped lid with a knob. Once the wax has burned, this vessel is perfectly suited to hold jewelry or trinkets!" With notes of green olive leaves, meyer lemon, frosted aldehydic accord, black figs, hedione, misted fig leaves, poplar wood, clear musk and tonka beans. 155g for $27 at Paddywax.

Gucci Guilty Absolu de Parfum ~ new fragrances

Posted by Robin on 28 August 2025 6 Comments

Gucci has launched Gucci Guilty Absolu de Parfum Pour Femme and Gucci Guilty Absolu de Parfum Pour Homme, new variations on 2010’s Gucci Guilty and 2011’s Gucci Guilty Pour Homme…

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Thursday scent of the day 8/28

Posted by Robin on 28 August 2025 112 Comments

Happy Almost-Friday and Almost-Labor-Day-Weekend! Plus, National Red Wine Day. Birthdays: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Edward Burne Jones, Robertson Davies, Janet Frame, Rita Dove. What fragrance are you wearing?

To maintain a sense of hope and joy while stranded on an island: Hermès Eau de Néroli Doré.

Reminder: 8/29 will be Desert Island Friday…

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