In our world of short attention spans, how do we maintain a meritocracy for what we indulge in our minds? Continue reading Along a tessellating spectrum of expansion and contraction of the mind
It’s a game of balancing contrasts. Continue reading A perfume for forgetting?
To do something you love is a beautiful thing—even better if it smells good. Continue reading The smell of doing something fulfilling
Being “always there,” regardless of whether “there” is the foreground or background, takes a special kind of strength. Continue reading Constant presence is strength
Recreating an impression requires some translation across the senses. Continue reading When reconstruction takes more than the sum of deconstructed parts
It’s a nice idea, as rose and saffron are bound to make. Continue reading Rose Anxiolytique
My first “fantasy chypre.” Continue reading Known Entity
One can be had without the other, but no one said it would be easy. Continue reading Is it the ingredient or the effect that you really want?
In other words, it’s all relative. Continue reading The importance of a thing (depends on the other things)
Happily, you don’t have to be synesthetic to enjoy perfume and music simultaneously. Continue reading Listening to perfume? (L’Orchestre Parfum)
The beginnings of a peachy rose perfume. Continue reading A Peach at Heart
A perfume that infatuates and then leaves a lot to be desired, and how our own inconsistencies can manifest. Continue reading Pepper me with first impressions (Poivre Electrique)
It’s the totality of an experience that determines whether it’s worth your while. Continue reading Of dimensionality and transitory displeasures
You know when you get something stuck on your nose and you smell it everywhere you go? Continue reading Maybe it’s not all around, but only on your nose
Reformulation is inevitable—especially when it comes to you and me. Continue reading When memory becomes better than the real thing
It’s sleek, compact, and refillable. Continue reading I bought this for the bottle (Ag by Ted Baker)
Why I haven’t devoured all my perfumes yet. Continue reading A little inertia (and scent doppelgängers)
My first experiment with opoponax. It might relax an opossum… Continue reading Opossum Tries to Relax
My impressions of animalic perfumery ingredients. Continue reading The animal in stink (t)
The scent and the story may be the ultimate symbiotic relationship. Continue reading Perfume: a threshold of imagination
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