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The 8 Best Perfumes & Fragrance Trends of 2023
Emma Vernon, one of PerfumeTok's preeminent voices, boasts a following of over 110,000 for her informative yet irreverent takes on all things fragrance. A comedian and former matchmaker, Emma uses her sense of humor and innate people skills to make her encyclopedic knowledge of perfume and perfumers approachable and accessible to all. As the host of fragrance podcast Perfume Room, a PerfumeTok creator, and an all-around fragrance fanatic, I smell a lot.
✨How to Leverage Your Rejections & Why Writing A Novel Is Like Playing Make-Believe✨
Plus, we have an acquiring editor joining us on Books with Hooks this week! And how to fight imposter syndrome! Happy Friday, future bestsellers! In this week’s 📕Books with Hooks🪝, CeCe and Bianca are joined by Elizabeth Hitti Musicant, an acquiring editor at Dial Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House. They discuss a romantic fantasy query and a contemporary romance query.
Is Creed the Scent of Our Looksmaxxing Era?
For years, the only thing I knew about the fragrance house Creed was the rumor that Lana Del Rey wore Spring Flower. My friend Rory, an Australian fraghead who asked to use a pseudonym, confirmed that this was the case in her “pre-Bayou era. (Having published a novel called Perfume & Pain, I have fraghead friends all over the world.) Apparently, Lana is an outlier. According to Rory, most of the people who wear Creed are men who want to feel rich.
AMERICAN SPIRITS
Nuanced characters, lively writing, and a heaping helping of bad behavior make the pages fly. The star, her lover, her assistant: complicated relationships among women thrive in a novel of the music industry and social media. Shortly after Beatrice and Maxine Clark moved to Los Angeles at 19 and 18 respectively, Beatrice made her music debut as Blue Velour, inspired by a couch the sisters found on the street.
Cat Disabato on Rooting Interest by Anna Dorn
Cat Disabato's Rooting Interest is a sexy, off-limits romance (the best kind) between a queer sports writer and the basketball player she's been assigned to cover. Jennifer Felix, known to friends as Felix because she refuses to be yet another lesbian Jen, is devastated to be abruptly pulled off the NFL beat she worked her ass off for to cover WNBA All-Star weekend. She knows nothing about basketball and expects the assignment to be a disaster.
Lior Torenberg on Just Watch Me by Anna Dorn
Lior Torenberg’s propulsive debut Just Watch Me introduces Dell Danvers, a reckless New Yorker living in a former walk-in closet and scrambling to keep her comatose sister on private life support. Freshly fired and fourteen thousand dollars short on rent, she launches a 24-hour livestream to raise money for her sister’s healthcare and stave off eviction. Dell soon discovers she has a knack for eating brutally hot peppers on camera.
Lauren Rothery on Television by Anna Dorn
Lauren Rothery's taut debut novel Television follows Verity, an aging A-list actor who’s grown so disgusted with fame that he raffles off his recent blockbuster salary—over $80 million—to a random ticket buyer. Then he starts dating an unknown actress half his age, because why the fuck not? His longtime best friend and occasional lover, Helen, watches dubiously from the sidelines.
'Perfume and Pain' Is One of the 100 Must-Read Books of 2024
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Harris Reed Revamps Nina Ricci Fragrance
Nina Ricci's fragrance division is getting a refresh courtesy of creative director Harris Reed. At the end of September, the French fashion house will launch Vénus, its first new perfume in 18 years. The scent marks Reed's first fragrance project since joining the house in 2022. That said, the British-American designer is no stranger to the world of scent. Reed's mother, Lynette, is an artist and fragrance expert who previously launched several now-defunct perfume lines.
Santa Maria Novella's Acqua Perfume Is a Tall Drink of Water
Heritage is core to Santa Maria Novella, the over 800-year-old Italian perfumery and apothecary founded by Dominican friars in Florence, Italy. So are gardens. In 1221, the Church of Santa Maria Novella began growing herbs and flowers on the monastic grounds. These plants were then used to create elixirs, rose water, and other scented preparations that would become the basis of Santa Maria Novella's product offering.
Balmain Beauty's First Fragrances Are as Fearless as Its Fashion
The wait is over: Balmain Beauty is finally here. Two years after creative director Olivier Rousteing first announced the brand's expansion into fragrance, Balmain has unveiled a first look at its inaugural perfume collection. Dubbed "Les Éternels," the range of eight scents pays homage to Balmain's fragrant past. The French maison released its first perfume, Elysées 64-83, back in 1946.
Best New Beauty Products & Launches of May 2024
Welcome to Face Value, Highsnobiety’s monthly guide to the best new beauty products and the brands behind them. Got summer plans? Whether you're traveling to the beach or gearing up for a staycation, Highsnobiety has your warm weather beauty kit covered. Every month, Highsnobiety tests out the latest launches from our favorite skincare, hair care, fragrance, and makeup brands — and they never fail to impress us.
Review: An LA writer checks her phone, makes passes in Anna Dorn’s ‘Perfume & Pain’
"[A]s a difficult woman, I've always been drawn to L.A.: its cotton candy-colored smog and pre-apocalyptic climate, sunning lizards, lazy diction, palm trees, strip malls, bad values. It's a goal-oriented town but pretends not to be, and I live for artifice." So writes the narrator of Anna Dorn's "Perfume & Pain," a novel about a wickedly articulate, young, lusty artist behaving badly.
Fendi's First Fragrance Collection Was a Family Effort
Fendi's idea of family bonding is a bit more luxurious than your typical movie night or picnic. Members of the legendary fashion family (plus Kim Jones) have joined forces on a seven-scent perfume collection inspired by each of their personalties and fondest memories.
Better in the Middle: Eight Writing Hacks From a Mid-List Author
When my editor suggested we call the protagonist of my novel a “mid-list author” for the book copy, I must admit—I had to google it! Wikipedia told me that mid-list is a publishing term that refers to books that are not bestsellers but are economically strong enough to justify their publication.
Anna Dorn's 'Perfume & Pain' follows a young lesbian in L.A. who's struggling to write her next novel
"[A]s a difficult woman, I've always been drawn to L.A.: its cotton candy-colored smog and pre-apocalyptic climate, sunning lizards, lazy diction, palm trees, strip malls, bad values. It's a goal-oriented town but pretends not to be, and I live for artifice." So writes the narrator of Anna Dorn's "Perfume & Pain," a novel about a wickedly articulate, young, lusty artist behaving badly.
Lit Hub Daily: May 14, 2024
Teddy Wayne asks Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Noé Álvarez, Anna Dorn, and more authors 7 burning questions. | Lit Hub Craft Hari Kunzru, Freud, System of a Down, and more! These 26 new books are out today. | Lit Hub Reading Lists “Remember that there’s nothing you can say to make it better. Say only that you’re so sorry, so so sorry.” Lilly Dancyger on how to support a friend through grief. | Lit Hub Memoir What if you die before you finish your book?
CELINE's New Perfume, Zouzou, Is a Sweet Treat
CELINE's Haute Parfumerie line, a favorite among diehard fragrance fans, is introducing a new scent for the first time in two years.
Perfume and Pain
Trade Paperback LIST PRICE $18.99 PRICE MAY VARY BY RETAILER Table of Contents About The Book A controversial LA author attempts to revive her career and finally find true love in this hilarious nod to 1950s lesbian pulp fiction.
The Best Beauty April Fools' Day Pranks
Congratulations to marketing teams around the globe for making it through April Fools', a custom dating back to the 1500s that has since morphed into an opportunity for brands to charm consumers with witty gags and fake products. Sometimes, these publicity stunts backfire (take Elon Musk's April 1, 2018 tweet that Telsa had gone "totally bankrupt," causing the company's shares to drop five percent, for example).
"Grateful and Mortified": Marissa Higgins on Publishing her Debut Novel A Good Happy Girl by Anna Dorn
Marissa Higgins’ arresting debut follows a jittery attorney who becomes romantically entangled with a married lesbian couple. When she meets The Wives, Helen is hanging on by a thread. Her dad is in prison for a disturbing crime she’s downing cough syrup to avoid thinking about. In between flirting with her young assistant for a cheap thrill, Helen begins an intense relationship with the Wives that forces her to grapple with her tumultuous childhood and the demons she’s running from.
Anok Yai Talks Aliens & Fragrance
Anok Yai has always been a fragrance fanatic. The 26-year-old model — who, since being discovered in 2017, has risen fashion's ranks to become a next-gen "Super" — started wearing perfume in middle school. Her love for scent has only grown: "I wear fragrance to go to sleep," she tells Highsnobiety. "I love doing aromatherapy...
Fashion's Smelliest FW24 Trend: Scented Runway Shows
If you read Highsnobiety, you likely know what Burberry or Tom Ford’s Fall/Winter 2024 runway shows looked like. But do you know what they smelled like? At Fashion Month, a fragrant trend joined the crush of food-shaped handbags and shades of green: scented runway shows. An increasing number of luxury fashion labels are collaborating with fragrance brands to perfume their Fashion Week events, augmenting the visual and aural spectacle of a catwalk with an olfactive element.
Analysis of Osteosarcoma Cell Lines and Patient Tissue Using a 3D In Vivo Tumor Model-Possible Effects of Punicalagin
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Greta & Valdin by Anna Dorn
Rebecca K. Reilly’s debut novel Greta & Valdin was a bestseller in her home country of New Zealand in 2021, and today it’s being released in the US and the UK. Pitched as Schitt’s Creek meets Sally Rooney, the sparkly novel follows queer siblings navigating their eccentric family and messy romantic lives. Greta and Valdin share an apartment as well as a penchant for unrequited love.
Sephora's "Spider Cream" Debacle: Bad Science, Great Meme
While you were kicking your feet up and enjoying the holiday season, the folks over at Sol de Janeiro were busy putting out fires sparked by a one-star Sephora review: A user by the handle Chemkats claimed that the scent of the skincare brand's Delícia Drench Body Butter attracts wolf spiders, an arachnid genus that is particularly large and hairy. Chemkats' review, posted on December 24, asserted that Delícia Drench is "like kryptonite to wolf spiders...
Melanie Martinez Made the Wildest Celebrity Scent of 2023
2023 was the year the celebrity fragrance made a comeback. Everyone from Victoria Beckham to Harry Styles to Beyoncé launched their own scents, reviving a trend that peaked in the early 2000s with Fantasy by Britney Spears, Just Me by Paris Hilton, and Glow by Jennifer Lopez (among many, many others). It doesn't hurt that the fragrance industry is booming. Perhaps spurred by the state of the sector, too many A-listers to name launched their own perfumes in 2023.
Perfume in the Metaverse Is About Everything But Scent
We can't smell through a screen (at least not yet), but that isn't stopping fragrance brands from embracing the virtual. Last year, Byredo partnered with digital fashion company RTFKT to launch digital "scents," represented by visual renderings of their ingredients. Armani Beauty and Fortnite launched an online game that expresses the experience of wearing its fragrance, Code.
EXCLUSIVE: Eilish No. 3, Billie Eilish's New Fragrance, Is Red Hot
Billie Eilish's new fragrance smells like the color red. The pop star, who has synesthesia, a condition that allows her to visualize smell, imagined a world washed in crimson for Eilish No. 3, her third perfume. With Eilish No. 3, the singer's olfactive universe ventures into new territory.
Sending Up Autofiction: Melissa Broder on Death Valley by Anna Dorn
Internet celebrity Melissa Broder’s third novel is what one Goodreads user accurately deemed an “existential horny cactus western.” In Death Valley, the unnamed narrator arrives alone at a Best Western to gather inspiration for her new novel and escape her personal tragedies in Los Angeles—a father in the ICU and chronically ill husband. On a desert trail, the woman encounters a surreal cactus whose size and shape suggest it is not native to California.
At Home With...September Picks
Friends of Metrograph Weyes Blood, Ian Bradley, Anna Dorn, and Jennifer Krasinski each share a film they love, streaming on demand on the Metrograph At Home platform. Night Tide, dir. Curtis Harrington, 1961 Mora is a mermaid, caught in the struggle between life in the raptures of the sea and life on land… or is she? Night Tide at first comes off as a bit of schlock, an aqueous beatnik horror teething with the possibilities of a time at the dawn of transformation—the early ’60s.
Writer Anna Dorn on changing your attitude towards your work
Writer Anna Dorn discusses being prepared for a bumpy path, incorporating feedback, and how anxiety can drive work forward. Writing, Beginnings, Failure, Process, Collaboration Part of: Developing a creative process Starting something new Feeling healthy Building a community Highlights on When did you first know you were going to be a writer? I started writing when I was really young, like a child. Basically as soon as I learned how to write, I was writing creatively, or trying to.
Beyoncé's Mysterious New Perfume, Cé Noir, Is Here
This story was published on July 21, 2023 and updated on October 26, 2023 Attention, BeyHive: Something smelly is coming — and you can pre-order it now. Beyoncé has finally lifted the veil on her new fragrance, news of which first surfaced in July. On Instagram, the megastar introduced Cé Noir, an official Beyoncé Parfums creation that will begin shipping in November, according to its dedicated website. Speculation regarding the scent has run rampant online, thanks to Pop Base.
EXCLUSIVE: Hawthorne's New Scent Smells Like Summer Vacation
Imagine: You're lounging on a deserted beach, crystal waves lapping at your toes. You're sipping a fruity cocktail, and your phone is on Do Not Disturb. You're far, far away from New York City, where your friends are sweating in Dimes Square and battling gnats in Brooklyn. Now imagine the above scenario as a smell. Hawthorne, the skincare and fragrance brand scenting downtown NYC, bottles an island getaway with its new release, Canary Diamond.
JCM | Free Full-Text | Low and High Ankle-Brachial Index Are Both Associated with Mortality in German Nursing Home Residents-The Five-Year Follow-Up of the “Allo-Study” Cohort
Abstract : Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) is associated with high cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. We aimed to examine this relation in a population that tends to be under-represented in research on the topic. In a prospective observational cohort study, residents of 45 nursing homes in Germany were screened for pathological ankle-brachial index (ABI) and observed for five years. Of 1333 participants (median age 84 years), 55.5% had a pathological ABI (≤0.9 or >1.4) on one or both legs.
Anna Dorn’s Guide To Must-Read Sapphic Novels
Making a sapphic reading list for Pride Month feels like something I can only do somewhat ironically. I don’t believe in being proud of anything, especially not one’s sexuality, which frankly is a mundane preference and I think we’d all benefit if it were treated as such. And I struggle with the rhetoric. “Queer” feels sexless and corporate. It also includes men, who I’d prefer to exclude.
At Skylight: Adorah Nworah presents HOUSE WOMAN w/ Anna Dorn
When Ikemefuna is put on a plane from Lagos to Texas, she anticipates her newly arranged All-American life: a handsome husband, a beautiful red-brick mansion in Sugar Land, pizza parlors, and dance classes. Shy and willing to please, she'll happily cater to her family's needs before her own. But Ikemefuna soon discovers what it actually means to live with her in-laws.
Exponentially Femme: Jenny Fran Davis on Dykette by Anna Dorn
Brooklyn author Jenny Fran Davis’s debut adult novel Dykette is a delicious, psychosexual romp. The book follows three queer couples on a hedonistic holiday getaway in the Hudson Valley. Our narrator Sasha is a graduate student studying the “feminine miniature,” like dollhouses and “petty ephemera.” Sasha identifies as “straight for butches” and calls her lesbian partner Jesse, her “boyfriend.” Is your head spinning? Good, keep reading.
Почему все планеты солнечной системы вращаются в одной плоскости, и Луна тоже лежит в этой плоскости? Почему в целом галактики больше похожи на диски, а не на сферы, ведь гравитация работает одинаково во всех направлениях?
Орбиты всех планет Солнечной системы лежат в одной плоскости, поскольку вся эта система образовалась из одного газопылевого диска. Почему протопланетное облако газа и пыли приняло форму диска, а не шара? Потому что вращалось вокруг своей оси. На частицы вращающегося тела действует центробежная сила. Мы все ощущали ее на карусели или крутых поворотах автомобиля. Центробежная сила направлена от центра перпендикулярно оси вращения, поэтому она стремится деформировать шар в плоский диск.
За какое время может образоваться рак с момента «ничего нет» до «рак I стадии»?
Отличный вопрос! Злокачественные новообразования не одинаково злокачественны. Какие-то развиваются очень быстро, например, рак поджелудочной железы или мезотелиома. А другие — очень медленно, причем нередко они становятся, как говорят медики, «посмертной находкой»: когда при вскрытии обнаруживают опухоль, которая при жизни вела себя тихо и никак особо не светилась.
Относительно чего остается неподвижной ось вращения гироскопа?
Она остается неподвижной относительно плоскости вращения ротора, если речь о механическом гироскопе. А любое вращающееся тело сопротивляется отклонению от плоскости, в которой оно начало вращаться — можно условно сказать, что гироскоп «стремится» сохранить ее неподвижной. Если понятнее не стало, предлагаем более подробное объяснение. В основе гироскопического эффекта — инерция, то есть свойство любого тела при отсутствии внешних сил сохранять свою скорость и направление движения.
Можно ли постукиванием по банке остановить извержение пены?
На этот вопрос мы решили ответить в пятницу, разумеется — именно в тот день, когда этот ответ точно кому-нибудь пригодится. Давайте рассмотрим детально ситуацию с открытием банки с газированным напитком. Если банка до того, как вы решили ее открыть, стояла (или лежала) совершенно спокойно, то никакого извержения при открытии в любом случае не будет, как вы знаете. А в каком случае оно произойдет?
Где находится центр галактики? На вопрос ребенка, где находится восток, можно просто указать рукой - а как указать на центр галактики?
Центр Млечного пути (так называется наша галактика, напомню) находится в направлении созвездия Стрельца, аккурат чуть выше и правее кончика его стрелы (звезды Альнасл, она же Альназл, она же Гамма² Стрельца). На территории России наблюдать ее затруднительно, созвездие видно ближе к июлю-августу прямо над горизонтом (смотреть на юг) и слабо различимо невооруженным взглядом. Даже в южных широтах нашей страны созвездие Стрельца не всходит над горизонтом целиком.
Почему не делают смартфоны и ноутбуки на атомных батарейках? И могут ли они появиться в будущем?
Краткий ответ — нет, не появятся. Атомные батарейки, то есть источники электрического тока, получающие энергию от распада радиоактивных веществ, существуют очень давно, и среди них есть довольно компактные. Их широкому применению мешают не сложности с безопасностью, а стоимость и удельная мощность — первая непозволительно велика, а вторая непрактично мала для потребительской электроники.
The Best Designer & Niche Fragrances 2023
Stop and smell the roses — it's National Fragrance Day! To celebrate our love of all things olfactive, Highsnobiety's editors are sharing the scents they can't stop spritizing. From diptyque to Montale, designer to niche, there's a fragrance here for everyone. Ahead, Team Highsnobiety sniffs out the best scents on the market. Since we're transitioning to spring, I recently started wearing Do Son from diptyque, which is really just full-on jasmine. Cue Meryl Streep: "Florals? For spring?
Если спать в комнате, где включен wi-fi, то может ли это как-то негативно повлиять на здоровье? Есть какие-то исследования по этому поводу?
Судя по всем накопленным данным — нет, на здоровье это заметным образом не повлияет. Как и в случае с низкочастотным электромагнитным полем от ЛЭП (на такой вопрос Naked Science уже ранее отвечал), найти связь между излучением на частотах в несколько гигагерц (в этот примерный диапазон попадают вайфай и сотовая связь) пытались неоднократно, но внятных свидетельств в пользу гипотезы о пагубном влиянии таких электромагнитных полей найти не удалось.
Samuel Ross Talks Acqua di Parma Collab, Scent & Space
It was only a matter of time before Samuel Ross forayed into fragrance. The designer's creative output, spanning fashion, sculpture, and furniture, knows no bounds — so when Ross was introduced to the team behind Italian fragrance house Acqua di Parma, he saw an opportunity to innovate. The pair first met after Acqua di Parma scented an installation showcasing Ross' recent collaboration with Hublot, an orange version of the watchmaker's Big Bang Tourbillon that sold out in less than 24 hours.
В фантастических фильмах мы видим, как космические корабли взлетают с любого места на планете. В реальности же они стартуют с космодромов, расположенных только в оптимальных для старта ракет местах. Возможно ли в будущем и в принципе стартовать в космос с
Чисто теоретически можно запускать что-нибудь не только «в космос» (то есть, выше 100 километров), но и на орбиту, из любой точки Земли. Но до тех пор, пока человечеству доступны только реактивные двигатели (химические или иные другие), практически это невозможно. И беда не с мощностью — виноваты безопасность, логистика и физика.
Samuel Ross Remixes Acqua di Parma's Colonia Fragrance
It should come as no surprise that brands across the board are hungry for the influence of Virgil Abloh's alumni. A group seemingly possessing the Midas touch, fashion, lifestyle, sneakers, and more, have longed for a Samuel Ross interaction. Now, it's Acqua di Parma undergoing a makeover.
Представим себе твердое тело длиной от орбиты Меркурия до орбиты Плутона, которое на одном краю двигается, передавая своими отклонениями от положения покоя информацию. На другом конце этого тела информация будет принята намного быстрее скорости света. Но
Если вы вдруг смогли найти абсолютно твердое тело — не состоящее из атомов, а по сути элементарную частицу в виде такого стержня — то тогда да, у вас получится сломать теорию относительности. Дело за малым, найти в природе абсолютно твёрдое тело — это пока никому не удавалось. В реальных же телах скорость распространения колебаний будет не просто меньше скорости света, а намного меньше.
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