Infusion DeZanzibar

Chinatown, NYC. Tourists and natives crowd the streets, shoulder-to-shoulder, in a neighborhood spanning nearly 500 acres that’s jammed with tea shops, bakeries, dumplings, dim sum, ramen, temples, souvenir shops of both the “I (heart) NY” and little ceramic Quan Yin variety, and swirled with smells of the city, fish markets, grill smoke, incense, that change with each breeze. It is wonderfully overwhelming, and a great place to find out how stunningly short a day is.

Success is a hackneyed word. Whenever I hear about someone being successful, I imagine an accomplished person full of vitality: Everything is going smoothly at work, and if fate poses some questions to him, he eventually finds answers. A successful person knows the rules of the game, and he knows how to follow them. But what should this person do when the familiar world around him collapses and the rules are no longer in place? What is the success of someone who lives in an era of change?

In the fall of 2022, the perfume brand BeauFort London presents a new fragrance called Acrasia. The release of the fragrance, built around the smell of a rose, is timed to coincide with Halloween. “All is not always as it first appears,” the brand says in a press release.