A holiday video from Parfums de Marly.
This medicinal component
In one case study, we looked at the content of incense burners and found a plant called Peganum. The common name is Syrian rue, and it’s a medicinal and psychoactive plant. So we realized that in these incense burners, specifically, people actually used it for therapeutic or psychoactive purposes. This was very interesting because the practice of incense burning seems to not only be sensorial but also have this medicinal component.
— Read more in Ancient Incense, Cosmetics and Mummies: Scientists Sniff Out the Scents of the Past at Scientific American.
Holiday tale
The holiday collection from Diptyque.
Silent receptors without known matches
Givaudan states that for 30 years, researchers struggled to study many of the receptors in a laboratory due to their low sensitivity, leaving silent receptors without known matches.
Human smell senses rely on 400 olfactory receptors, each working like a lock waiting for its scent molecule key. The company’s latest innovation has successfully activated previously unresponsive receptors, unlocked 20 specific human odor receptors, and detected natural scent molecules. It says that it is now possible to pinpoint specific odor molecules to particular receptors.
— Read more in Givaudan scent receptor research unlocks unexplored molecules for fragrance at Personal Care Insights.
Merry, mischief and mayhem
The holiday video from Jo Malone.