Issey Miyake will introduce L’Eau d’Issey Eau Essentielle and L’Eau d’Issey pour Homme Eau Essentielle, new flankers to 1993′s L’Eau d’Issey and 1994′s L’Eau d’Issey Pour Homme respectively…

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Coming soon from Diptyque, the limited edition Pinède candle: "Diptyque Pinède (Pine Grove) Classic Candle unfolds with that sun-warmed calm the house does best. Housed in a glass vessel, Mathilde Jonquière’s mosaic-inspired design recalls a water-garden landscape. The fragrance leans woody and aromatic, a chorus of umbrella pines meeting a herbarium of notes—warm underbrush, flowering shrubs, and the brightness of orange trees by sunlit fountains." The 190g candle will be about $94, and the green lid shown above will not be included in the price.

French niche line Anatole Lebreton has launched Tabaquero, a new fragrance…

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It’s (Teapot) Tuesday and World Fair Play Day. Birthdays: Johns Hopkins, Malcolm X, Nora Ephron, Grace Jones. What fragrance are you wearing? 

We’re expecting a scorcher of a day here. I’m in Eau de Guerlain. Tea at the moment is Traditional Medicinals Rose Hips & Hibiscus. 

Reminder: 5/23 will be Recommendation Friday…

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Samantha King, a former fashion model from Northern Tasmania, noticed a different kind of sensory shift after starting Mounjaro nine months ago: Fragrances that once turned her stomach suddenly felt wearable, even irresistible in some cases. [...]

“Anecdotally, I have had patients report that their sense of smell feels ‘stronger’ or that certain scents are more noticeable after starting GLP-1 medications,” said Fatima Cody Stanford, an obesity medicine physician and associate professor of medicine and pediatrics at Harvard Medical School.

— Read more in People On GLP-1s Say They Suddenly Have This 1 Unexpected Obsession at HuffPo.

This weekend, our seventeenth annual Haiku Challenge (if you like, you can check out past years for inspiration). We’re also happy to include other forms of poetry if haiku don’t inspire you. Have a perfume-related limerick or a sonnet you’d like to share? Please do.

If you’re writing a haiku, pick a perfume or a perfume house (or really, anything related to perfume), and write a haiku about it. 

Use the simplified English form — your haiku should have three lines, the first line with five syllables, the second line with seven syllables and the third line with five syllables. You can put the perfume name in the title if that makes it easier, and at any rate, don’t stress over the rules of traditional haiku — this is just for fun.

Or, as always, just talk about something else…

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A new plan to freshen up the decrepit NJ Transit system has designated lavender as the official scent of the agency’s cleaning products, CEO Kris Kolluri revealed Tuesday.

But long-suffering NJ Transit riders such as Ronald D., 40, argued the agency needs better service, not new scents.

— Read more in NJ Transit sprays lavender in train stations in upgrade push but riders say service still stinks at New York Post.

Tauer Perfumes has launched L’Air du Jardin Caché, a new floral fragrance celebrating the brand’s 21st anniversary…

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