It’s Tuesday and International Sloth Day (the mammal, not the sin), International Chefs Day, World Osteoporosis Day, Information Overload Day and World Statistics Day. Plus a bunch of birthdays: Arthur Rimbaud, Jelly Roll Morton, Bela Lugosi, Tom Petty, Viggo Mortensen. What fragrance are you wearing?
I’m in Fendi Theorema, which handily covers most of the emotions? Tea at the moment is Bombay Breakfast from The Jasmine Pearl Tea Co.
Reminder: 10/23 will be Unbottling Emotions Friday…
France gets all the scented glory today, but Florence was the birthplace of modern fragrance. During the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, the boundaries among perfume, pharmaceuticals and prayer were more fluid than they are today, and Tuscan monks were specialists in extracting scents from the flowers and herbs in their cloister gardens. When Catherine de Medici left home in the 1500s to marry the future king of France, the friars of Santa Maria Novella designed a scent for her that could insulate her from the olfactory barbarism she was sure to encounter.
— Read more in Lilac, Amber and a Touch of Vanilla: A Perfume Lover’s Guide to Florence at The New York Times.
Welcome to our 8th annual fall reading poll! Please recommend a great book to add to our fall reading lists, and tell us what fragrance we should wear while reading it.
(Or, do what I do and record here everything you have read since the last quarterly reading poll. And if you want more recommendations, scrolling through the literature tag will bring up all the older reading polls.)
Or, as always, just talk about something else, and of course, do report your fragrance of the day if you like…
At Via Giorgio Washington 52 in Milan, the Perfume Passage Foundation has opened, a museum devoted to the history of perfume in Italy. Spread over two floors and 1,000 sqm, the collection features more than 3,000 items dating from the 19th century to the 1970s.
— Read more in Perfume Passage Foundation opens in Milan: immersive perfume museum at inITALY.
Matière Première, the French niche house of perfumer Aurélien Guichard, has launched Cherry Amber, a new unisex fragrance. Cherry Amber is currently exclusive to the Middle East…