British actress Vanessa Kirby, plus a big cat, for Cartier La Panthère.
I had never smelled anything like this in my life
Something so magical happened the moment my mother sprayed Climat by Lancôme. I had never smelled anything like this in my life. The whole composition was so different from anything I smelled. It immediately transformed me. But what I also saw was that my mother was completely transformed. I could see it on her face; I mean, there were tears in her eyes. There was something so special in that moment. Every time I smelled Climat, I would always remember that moment.
— Fresh Beauty co-founder Lev Glazman, who grew up in the Soviet Union when the only available fragrance was Red Moscow. Read more in Lev Glazman Owns 500 Fragrances, But Favors This One The Most at The Zoe Report.
Touch of Immortelle
From Robertet (and their subsidiary, Charabot), harvesting and immortelle in Corsica.
They just sit there on the shelf
“So many times, I talk to perfumers and they will have a shelf of interesting stuff they made. Smells that are fascinating and interesting, but can't be a product,” Keller explains. “They're not pleasant-smelling, they’re not a traditional perfume smell – they just sit there on the shelf because there's no other way of ever sharing that with the world… The gallery is an outlet for those people to create non-perfumey smells and share them.”
— Andreas Keller on his New York City gallery, Olfactory Art Keller. Read more in Meditations On Scent With Andreas Keller, The Socrates Of Smell at HighSnobiety.
Extremely slight service
While odors themselves were regarded with distrust, it seems like every famous man in history who ever felt moved to write about our sense of smell had some derogatory point to make (there’s a notable shortage of opinions from the women of history). Most fall into one of two camps: those who regarded smell as relatively unimportant, and those who associated it with depravity. Plato considered that smell was linked to “base urges,” while others described it as degenerate and animalistic. Aristotle wrote that “man smells poorly” and Darwin asserted that “the sense of smell is of extremely slight service.”
— Read more in How Smell—the Most Underrated Sense—Was Overpowered By Our Other Senses at LitHub.