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.
Mild temperatures, steady sunlight, and low humidity make the fields around Kalaat M'Gouna a perfect cradle for growing its signature flower: the Damask rose. Abundant precipitation and several desert downpours this year have bestowed Morocco with an exceptional yield of the flower, used for rosewater and rose oil.
Pink and pungent, the roses are set to come in at 4,800 tons this year, a bloom far beyond the 2020-2023 average, according to the Regional Office for Agricultural Development, in nearby Ouarzazate.
— Read more in The desert blooms, roses perfume the air and a Moroccan town comes to life at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
For a while, it seemed like the best compliment you could give a rose perfume was that it’s for people who don’t like rose. “This isn’t your grandmother’s rose perfume,” they promised. But as it turns out, grandma was onto something.
— Read more in Reinventing the Rose: The Scents Seducing a New Generation at InStyle.
If you were to travel back in time twenty years or so and see what I was doing on a random weekday afternoon, you might find me browsing at Parfumerie Douglas in West Philadelphia. I might have been buying a nail file or a sparkly hair clip, and I was certainly sniffing my way through the perfume section, especially a shelf holding Sui Dreams, Sui Love and, best of all, Anna Sui’s eponymous debut fragrance from 1999. That powdery rose scent in its black-and-purple, rose-embellished bottle is still a favorite of mine.
Anna Sui recently celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of her brand’s foray into fine fragrance by launching a quintet of new scents: the Wild Wonder collection. All five were developed by perfumer Jérôme Épinette, who has worked on Sui’s fragrances since 2017’s Fantasia, and the face of the collection is Scarlett White, the daughter of model and singer-songwriter Karen Elson. Elson herself is a longtime Sui “muse,” and there’s a feeling of generational continuity with the packaging for Wild Wonder, as well: the gilt rosebud cap is shaped just like the black rosebud cap of the original Anna Sui perfume (now known as Anna Sui Classic)…
Happy Friday! It’s also Rose Day, plus we have a few birthdays: Charles Dickens, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Sinclair Lewis, Eubie Blake. Our community project for today is a spin on rose. Wear your favorite fragrance that has a rose note but doesn’t smell primarily of rose, or wear a rose fragrance layered with something that tones down the rose.
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 vintage Guerlain Jicky…