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3 Jun

From Ancient Rome to 304Tok: A brief history of

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From Ancient Rome to 304Tok: A brief history of
A post on X asking for perfume recommendations to “smell like a French whore” recently went viral, garnering 50,000 likes and a flood of replies suggesting perfumes heavy with animalic notes and overpowering florals. While provocative, the idea isn’t new. The link between scent and sex work runs deep. In A Natural History of the Senses, Diane Ackerman notes how many slang terms for sex worker – like the French putain and Italian puttana – derive from the root pu, meaning “to rot” or “decay” (as in putrid), reflecting a long history of associating sex workers’ bodies with foul odours.  In Ancient Rome, brothels, or lupanaria (“wolf dens”) were sensorially overwhelming: cramped, poorly ventilated, the air thick with smoke from oil lamps,...
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12 Jan

ESScent Of The Week: This Unexpected Jo Malone Scent

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ESScent Of The Week: This Unexpected Jo Malone Scent
“You don’t look like a Jo Malone variety of girl.” I remember when my girl Felice said that to me once I was raving a few fragrance I’d fallen in love with from the brand. After I quizzed her exactly on what she meant (I needed to grasp if I ought to be offended), I learned that she and others, often associated this as a beloved brand of our parents generation, and never one in every of the trendier brands you’d often see as you scroll on #FragranceTok. And while that will have been a theme once upon a time, I’m here to say, not anymore. Or at the least, not in my eyes. For those unfamiliar, Jo Malone London has been around...
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28 Feb

Ashley Tisdale Launches Latest Being Frenshe Palo Santo Scent

by Beautifaire101
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Ashley Tisdale Launches Latest Being Frenshe Palo Santo Scent
The most recent scent from Ashley Tisdale’s wellness brand Being Frenshe could also be Palo Santo Sage, however the mood, Present & Grounded, got here to the multihyphenate first. “I all the time create each scent based off of the mood first,” she said of the wellness brand’s products, which each have a mood and a scent labeled on the packaging. Present & Grounded, for instance, joins the present lineup, exclusively available at Goal, that features moods like Unwind & Rest, which has a Lavender Cloud scent; Soothe & Comfort, which has a Cashmere Vanilla scent, and Awake & Uplift, which has a Citrus Amber scent. Palo Santo Sage is the primary recent scent because the brand’s launch. Since inception, the corporate...
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