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Aphrodisiac Business

“All our successful perfumes,” said Parid perfumer Jean-Paul Guerlain, “have two notes – vanilla and an animal scent. In short, they are aphrodisiacs.”

The chairman of International Flavors and Fragrances (a multi-million dollar company) agrees.

 “Our business,” he has said,” is basically sex and hunger.”

The Sex Life of Food: When Body and Soul Meet to Eat, Bunny Crumpacker
2006 Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin’s Press


Illustration: Another Kiss Lura Astor

Scent Kaleidoscope

The familiar scent of his cologne rearranged my thoughts like bright shards of glass inside a kaleidoscope. - Body of Evidence '91, Patricia D. Cornwell

Hidden Unicorn: Lura Astor

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Sailing on Scent

 




 Sailing on Scent: Lura Astor

Men Respond to the Smell of

certain smells induce blood flow
to the pen*s:

pumpkin pie

cinnamon buns

pumpkin pie combined with lavender

doughnuts and black licorice mixture

pumpkin pie with doughnut

oranges alone

Baked cinnamon buns have a greater effect than all perfumes
and

Pumpkin pie puts cinnamon buns in the shade ...



Illustration: Pumpkin Teat Lura Astor

Chemical Alphabet - Smell All About It

Like all good mysteries, it is hidden in plain sight.

It has, if anything, deepened as our knowledge of smell has increased.

Like most enticing enigmas, it is simply stated:



what is this chemical alphabet that our noses read so effortlessly from birth?

 – Luca Turn


illustration: Alphabet Stew Lura Astor

The Galaxy Center Smells of ...

The centre of the galaxy smells of raspberries and tastes of rum.

No, really. It’s to do with all the ethyl formate floating around.


- from the BBC humorous quiz show QI Quite Intelligent

Raspberry Bouquet: Lura Astor

Welsh Air

Spritz on some refreshing air from Wales

Cymru = Wales

If you want to capture someone’s attention, whisper.

- Coty Perfume

Spirit of Fumes: Lura Astor 

Chemical Poetry

Perfumes are chemical poems.

Smell is our chemical sense.

-    Luca Turin



Illustration: Sprifff Lura Astor

A Kind Offer

Three things in human life are important: 

the first is to be kind; 

the second is to be kind; 

and the third is to be kind. 

- C.S. Lewis 1898-1963









 A Sweet Offer for You: Lura Astor

Scented Winds

Plants that wake when others sleep.

Timid jasmine buds that keep their fragrance to themselves all day,

but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out

to every breeze that roams about.

- Thomas More



Petal Series: Lura Astor

3 Words

3 words we love to hear

You!

Smell!

Marvelous!







minis in the sun: lastor

OECs - Olfactory Ensheathing Cells Help Paralyzed Man Walk

Removing one of the patient's olfactory bulbs before transplanting cultured cells into the spinal cord ...

Specialist olfactory ensheathing cells (OECs), which form part of the sense of smell, were used in the treatment as they are pathway cells, enabling nearby nerve fibres to be continually regenerated.     
Source: AFP

Darek Fidyka was paralysed from the chest down following a knife attack in 2010, but can now walk using a frame after receiving treatment in which nerve cells from his nose were transplanted into his severed spinal column, according to research published in the journal Cell Transplantation on Tuesday.
  
"When there's nothing, you can't feel almost half of your body. You're helpless, lost," the patient, who is now recovering at the Akron Neuro-Rehabilitation Center in Wroclaw, told BBC's Panorama programme.
  
"When it begins to come back, you feel you've started your life all over again, as if you are reborn. It's an incredible feeling, difficult to describe," he said.
  
Specialist olfactory ensheathing cells (OECs), which form part of the sense of smell, were used in the treatment as they are pathway cells, enabling nearby nerve fibres to be continually regenerated.
  
Pawel Tabakow, consultant neurosurgeon at Wroclaw University, led a team of surgeons in removing one of the patient's olfactory bulbs before transplanting cultured cells into the spinal cord.
  
Scientists think that the cells, implanted above and below the injury, enabled damaged fibres to reconnect.
  
"What we've done is establish a principle, nerve fibres can grow back and restore function, provided we give them a bridge," explained Geoff Raisman, chair of neural regeneration at University College London's Institute of Neurology, who led the British research team working on the joint project.
  
"To me, this is more impressive than a man walking on the moon. I believe this is the moment when paralysis can be reversed."
  
Tabakow said it was "amazing to see how regeneration of the spinal cord, something that was thought impossible for many years, is becoming a reality".
  
Scientists now plan to hold clinical trials on 10 patients in Britain and Poland.

Fan and Lace

I receive a gift of a fan and lace from someone moving out of town, reminded of lace fans while watching Gran Hotel with its evocative soundtrack and beautiful lace pieces in the costuming of 1905-7 Spain.

Rubbed oils of coffee and neroli into the fan - stay cool in scented style.


Photo: Fan and Lace Lura Astor

ambrosia

Anoint your nasal brain/nostrils with ambrosia

which will it be

Illustration:  Lura Astor Bottle Series

I liked to call him Sean, his Irish name. It's a very masculine name, like him. He drank a lot and his pipe was part of him.

It reminded me of the way Father's jacket smelled. He was one of the extraordinary people my career gave me the opportunity to meet and know.

- Katharine Hepburn on director John Ford

I Know Where I'm Going: Katharine Hepburn, A Personal Biography by Charlotte Chandler

Flowers of Sleep

Flowers of Sleep

a phrase in Bali

meaning

Dreams







photo: Garden Eels in Water haplochromis

cook up something artful

Martin smiled. “Yes, well, life is short and art is long. Perhaps we can cook up something artful.”

The Orchid Thief, Susan Orlean

Salepi, sahlep, sahlab is a powder made from the root of an orchid plant, used in this Pagoto Kaimaki recipe, an orchid ice cream using gum mastic click here