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“This is pretty exciting, as it is the first clear demonstration of hummingbirds using their sense of smell alone to make foraging decisions and avoid contact with potentially dangerous insects at a flower or feeder,” said senior author Dr. Erin Wilson Rankin, a researcher in the Department of Entomology at the University of California, Riverside.
— Read more in Hummingbirds Use Sense of Smell to Make Foraging Decisions: Study at Sci News. (You can find the original paper here.)
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Willow Smith for Mugler Alien Goddess. Below the jump, perfumers Marie Salamagne and Nathalie Lorson talk about the fragrance.
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In the 17th century, Cosimo III de’ Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, ordered the royal pharmacist, Francesco Redi, to devise a secret recipe for chocolate, at the time still a fairly recent arrival from the Americas. Redi’s elaborate instructions, revealed only after his death, demanded the layering of cacao and jasmine, with the flowers to be exchanged each day for fresh ones for 10 to 12 days running. The scented beans were then ground with additional flowers — vanilla orchids likewise imported from the New World — and sugar, cinnamon and ambergris, the waxy slough from the intestines of a sperm whale.
— Read more in The Ethereal Taste of Flowers at The New York Times.
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Natalie Portman for (the new, yet again) Miss Dior.
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“Nobody could see this coming,” said Larissa Jensen, vice president of beauty and industry adviser at the NPD Group, of the boom in fragrance.
The category grew 82 percent year-over-year, from January to June 2021.
“It’s completely insane,” she continued, explaining that sales were driven by more expensive products with a stronger concentration of perfume oil, eau de parfum rather than eau de toilette. “The consumer psyche plays a very important role.”
— Read more at The Growth of Fragrance: Is It Sustainable?, from Women's Wear Daily, reposted at MSN Lifestyle.