A spot for the 2023 Blossoms collection from Jo Malone, which consists of 4 reissues: Nashi Blossom (2016), Osmanthus Blossom (2013), Star Magnolia (2017) and Waterlily (2020). Below the jump, an image of the packaging.
Human odors produced in times of fear and joy
Horses are able to discriminate between human odors produced in times of fear and joy, researchers in France report.
The findings, reported in the journal Scientific Reports, indicate that smell can be added to hearing and vision as senses through which horses can perceive human emotions.
— Read more in at Horses show ability to discriminate between human odors of fear and joy at Horsetalk.
Life is but a dream
Elliot Page, Julia Garner and A$AP Rocky for Gucci Guilty Pour Femme and Pour Homme.
I decided to work a little bit like a painter might do
I didn’t give up on the idea. I decided to work a little bit like a painter might do. When a painter paints a landscape, he might stand in front of the landscape, with an easel, copying the landscape. But there’s a different way of going about it. Some painters might want to have a very intense look at the landscape, absorb it, and then go back to their workshop to paint it from memory.
— Perfumer Christine Nagel, on developing Hermès Un Jardin à Cythère during the Covid lockdown, when she could not travel to Kythira. Read more in Hermès perfumer Christine Nagel turns to memories to create new fragrance at Vancouver Sun.
Parmesan can smell like pineapple
Everyone knows cheese can smell like stinky feet. But did you know parmesan can smell like pineapple, green teas carry a whiff of seashore, and Belgian beers share an aroma with Band-Aids and horse stables?
“Smell is a really interesting sense, maybe the most interesting sense, because it’s our most intimate and direct contact with the outside world,” said Harold McGee, author of the book “Nose Dive: A Field Guide to the World’s Smells.”
— Read more in What Harold McGee learned after decade of sniffing durian, keyboards, outer space at The Harvard Gazette.