The Diary of a Nose: A Year in the Life of a Parfumeur
When wine is mixed with your saliva and warmed, volatile compounds in the wine are released and waft back through the retronasal passage at the back of your mouth and up to the cavity behind the bridge of your nose.
Karen MacNeil • The Wine Bible
Depuis tous les points de la boussole, depuis la terre inférieure et les cieux supérieurs, sont arrivées ces inspirations, dûment consignées dans ce journal selon l’ordre de leur arrivée. Ensuite, en temps voulu, on les a vannées en conférences, puis, là encore en temps voulu, transformées de conférences qu’elles étaient, en essais.
Henry D. THOREAU • Journal (LITTERATURES) (French Edition)
What did your clothes smell like? It wasn’t your own scent, Arthur thought, not to you anyway. His clothes at Hal’s always smelt of the Somerset earth, damp and iron-rich. In London, he remembered cedar and laundry detergent. And the particular scent of Eliza. The trace of chemicals from the lab where she worked, and the perfume she wore, a verbena
... See moreSophie Ward • Love and Other Thought Experiments
Host: And of course, the luxury sector spans over so many different products. But what do you think the definition of luxury is?
Bernard Arnault: First of all, I don't like very much the word luxury, because you have something attached to it, which means show off, which mean something of non significance or something, something that is useless. And ... See more
Bernard Arnault: First of all, I don't like very much the word luxury, because you have something attached to it, which means show off, which mean something of non significance or something, something that is useless. And ... See more