New things can come from second lives—as with perfumery ingredients, so with us. Continue reading Neo-absolutely, yes

Some ingredients are more likely than others to be lonely in a crowd. Continue reading The many scents of loneliness

We need to give ourselves space and remind ourselves that things are often cyclical. Continue reading The moral of the story is buffer

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?

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

In other words, it’s all relative. Continue reading The importance of a thing (depends on the other things)

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

You don’t have to internalize everything that’s thrown at you. Continue reading It can be given but you don’t have to take it

Information is like perfume, in that it can be shared without loss. Continue reading It can be given but not taken away

If “familiarity breeds contempt,” what happens with overfamiliarity? Continue reading The devil you know is still a devil

Take a whiff of your favorite perfume to remind yourself of what you have. Continue reading The scent of small successes

Perfume speaks directly to the one who smells it. Continue reading Perfume: a universal language