Guerlain has launched Tabac Sahara, a new addition to the Absolus Allegoria collection…
Tuesday scent of the day 1/6
It’s Tuesday and Three Kings Day. What fragrance are you wearing?
I’m drinking a cup of Upton Christmas tea and trying to pick out the apricot in Tauer Perfumes Phi — Une Rose de Kandahar.
Reminder: 1/9 is National Apricot Day…wear a fragrance with an apricot note, if you have one…
Giorgio Armani Power of You ~ new fragrance
Giorgio Armani will launch Power of You, a new gourmand fragrance for women, later this month. Power of You will be fronted by Kendall Jenner, and is the latest in the series that started with 2017’s Because It’s You for Women and Stronger With You for Men…
An enormous gap
Dr Kate McLean-MacKenzie, a designer and researcher at the University of Kent, said she first became intrigued by the sense of smell 15 years ago.
“I realised that there was an enormous gap in the fact that we communicate what we see – and we can record that and we can share it via Instagram and photography and sketching – and we can record and share sounds digitally. But any way of recording and communicating smell was largely missing,” she said.
As a result, McLean-MacKenzie began mapping “smellscapes” in different locations, including many of the world’s cities.
— Read more in Nosy researcher’s quest to map the world’s ‘smellscapes’ at The Guardian.
Lazy 3-day weekend poll ~ New Year’s resolutions, 2026
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…