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“This is lime limette. It smells like a lime, but it’s a bit aggressive, like a cleaning product. And this,” Nagel says, handing me another strip, “is cinnamon. You can smell the cake, the spice. Cinnamon is warm; lime is cold. And if you do this,” she says, twirling the two sticks in front of my nose at once, “you smell Coca-Cola.”
— Perfumer Christine Nagel, in ‘You smell Coca-Cola’: the scent secrets of Hermès’ top perfumer at Financial Review.
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The WPE technology is an innovative process for dispersing the perfumed composition in pure water, without using any alcohol or solvent, but based on a plant-derived ingredient.
“It is an oil-in-water dispersion; not solubilization, which is used with alcohol, nor encapsulation. That is what makes our technology different and interesting. The binder is a plant extract in very small quantity: a saponin derived from a variety of tea. Today, our formulations pass accelerated stability tests for one month at 50 degrees”, explains Marc Bonnevay.
— Read more in WPE technology makes perfume love water at Premium Beauty News.
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Perfumer Christine Nagel talks about her latest fragrance, Hermès Un Jardin à Cythère.
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Flies, Clark and Emonet concluded, must sense the motion of odor packets, as Emonet calls discrete clumps of odor molecules. Think about this for a second: When you smell the neighbor’s barbecue, can you tell whether the smoke particles passing your nose are traveling from left to right, or right to left? It’s not obvious. But a fly can tell — and olfaction researchers have previously overlooked this possibility.
— Read more in Scientists Are Trying to Figure Out How Animals Follow a Scent to Its Source at Smithsonian.
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Man, woman, horse, for Carolina Herrera Stallion Leather.