A spot for the new Eau de Parfum concentration of Chanel Chance Eau Fraîche ("An intense surge of energy and vitality").
On the production side of it
“Statistics tell us we spend big within this industry,” says Elle N (black consumers in the US are responsible for 22 per cent of the country’s total spend on women’s fragrances, according to Nielsen). “So it’s even more important that we’re on the production side of it. That means we’re not just giving out money, we’re reinvesting in ourselves and gaining skills we can pass on, so that we can have generations of perfumers in our families...”
— Read more in Meet the perfumers decolonising how we smell at Financial Times.
A wild beauty
From Dior, a video on lavender fields in the Drôme Provençale region.
All the women of the world
When you start out as a young perfumer, you get told to think about who will wear the fragrance. They say, ‘She’s like this, she’s like that, she drives a BMW.’ And that used to be exciting to me. But now? It doesn’t make sense to me at all. Christian Dior once said, ‘My models are all the women of the world.’ And it gives me such a relief to hear this, because this is for the widest audience possible.
— Perfumer Francis Kurkdjian on the new version of L’Or de J’Adore. Read more in Dior’s Golden L’Or De J’Adore Is A Cult Scent In The Making at British Vogue.
The presence or absence of smell and taste loss
The presence or absence of smell and taste loss is no longer a reliable way to tell if you’ve got COVID or not.
After looking at the National COVID Cohort Collaborative database—one of the largest collections of clinical data in the country for COVID research—researchers found that the loss of smell as a key indicator of COVID infection has dropped drastically over time.
— Read more in Losing Your Sense of Smell Is No Longer a Reliable Sign of COVID at VeryWell.