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Gift guides, getting-ready routines, and notes on scent, season and mood.
Scent, mood & season
A rainy day ritual worth keeping
Rain gives you permission to do nothing, and most people spend it scrolling. Here is a version that actually feels like the thing it promises.
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Scent, mood & season
Choose a mood instead of chasing whatever is trending
Buying by trend produces a shelf of bottles you do not wear. Buying by mood produces three or four you finish.
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Scent, mood & season
How to build a summer memory you can smell later
Scent memories usually happen by accident. There is a simple way to make one deliberately, and it takes one decision at the start of a trip.
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Scent, mood & season
How to give your home a smell people recognize
A home that smells like something is not a home with more candles in it. It is a home where one thing is consistent and everything else is absent.
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Scent, mood & season
How to record a family smell before it disappears
Every family has two or three smells that will vanish without anybody deciding to let them. They are recordable, but only while someone still remembers.
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Scent, mood & season
How to remember a trip through something other than photos
You will take four hundred photos and look at nine of them. Here is what actually survives, and how to collect it while you are there.
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Scent, mood & season
What fall actually smells like, in five notes
Autumn fragrance has been reduced to pumpkin and cinnamon. The real thing is drier, colder and considerably less sweet.
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