Even people with extra money in their wallets aren't buying luxury items these days. Cornell University economics professor Robert Frank, who writes the Wall Street Journal blog called "The Wealth Report" talks to Madeline Brand about the trend.
— Listen to Rich Are Spending Less On Luxury Goods at NPR (less than 4 minutes). They don't talk specifically about perfume, but the implications seem obvious.
A funny for Friday, from Meat & Livestock Australia.
As some of you may know, we're planning to move Now Smell This to a new location next month. We'll be using WordPress, so we'll have the ability to open up the comments to everyone — that is, not just registered users — while still preventing unreasonable amounts of comment spam.
A few people have mentioned that they'd rather see comments remain restricted to registered users. I'd love to hear your views on the matter, so please let us know: would you rather that we open up comments to anyone, or keep them the way they are? Two quick points to consider…
The Monday Mail, our weekly feature in which readers help other readers find fragrances they might like, will return from its “holiday break” next week. If you're already on the waiting list, you should hear from me soon; if you're not but you'd like to be, please wait — over the next week or so, I hope to post detailed instructions on how to apply. In my ongoing efforts to make this blog easier to run (and thus leave a little time for other life matters), in the future the Monday Mail will be a strictly reader-to-reader feature, that is, I'm no longer going to make any fragrance recommendations myself. I don't think that will be any great loss since you all did better than I did anyway.
I'm gearing up to move Now Smell This to WordPress under its own domain…
We'll be back on Friday.
Note: image is [unnamed] by j / f / photos at flickr; some rights reserved.