Tag Archives: Fragrance

If I’m ever in need of a pick-me-up, I go to a stationery store. There’s no logic to it, and I rarely even write on paper anymore, but the rows of writing tools and notebooks are soothing and lately I need to be soothed. That’s how I found myself at …

Even if being creative makes you happy, it is largely improbable that all creative opportunities will make you happy all of the time. Instead, you’ll get fatigued—or at least, that’s what behavioral science researchers think. The logic goes like this: if you use up all your creative juices making 20 …

Every year when the weather starts to get a little warmer, I start dreaming of Italy. Picture: blooming walls of flowers, shiny red tomato plants, the smell of cappuccino and tobacco wafting from outdoor cafes, the sun-bleached roofs and walls that paint entire cities the colors of biscotti… Another chance …

Here’s a new twist on an old thought: Give your mom perfume this Mother’s Day. There’s a fresh idea here—promise! Gifting fragrance doesn’t have to mean nudging mom into an experimentational phase. Personal fragrance is like an olfactory fingerprint—choosing it for someone else is like trying to scribble said fingerprint …