Most people aren’t aware that perfumes and colognes, like fashions, have a season. There are always exceptions – Chanel #5 being an archetypal example – but most perfumes have a run of two to three years, before the designer or the company that makes them alters them. This provides an opportunity to get the previous formulation now called a discontinued perfume at a fraction of the original price. Read more...(655 words, 1 image)
For reasons scientists are not entirely clear about, the olfactory sense is closely linked to memory. As performer Garth Brooks once commented, a whiff of a certain perfume and he “was right back in high school.” All of us associate certain smells with times and places in our lives. Read more...(1248 words, 10 images)