I can truly identify with smells transporting us elsewhere. AND I'm also suffering from Anosmia. đ© I've also lost sense of smell gradually over a period of 1 year Since 2022. Have run from pillar to post but to no avail. ENT specialists are absolutely clueless and somehow medical science hasn't progressed much in this regard. No one knows why exactly it happened.. It could be due to covid (jan 2022) or due to a booster dose of vaccine (July 2022).
Any pointers (which work) are welcome! On Fri, Apr 18, 2025, 9:42 PM Hari Shenoy via Silklist < [email protected]> wrote: > Reading this note made me feel so grateful. Also, the replies from the > rest of you will give me inspiration. Here's why: > > For all of 2024 I lost my sense of smell due to a chronic sinus issue. > That also led to difficulties breathing, speaking, singing and rapping. > I had surgery in December to get my sinuses operated on, after months of > strong medication that didn't help with anything. > > Following recovery from the surgery, I have worked to regain my sense of > smell gradually. > Ergo, I paid good money to experience every possible scent. > > The other day, I was at a pub in Dublin and the gents loo was stinking. > My first thought was - "Jeez that stinks so bad!" My second was - "Yay, > wow that stinks so bad!" > > Hari > > On Fri, Apr 18, 2025 at 3:03âŻPM Thaths via Silklist < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Smells, more than taste (well, what is taste, but just a weaker way of >> smelling?), play the role of bringing memories of madelines past for me. >> >> What are some scents from the past that you would pay good money to >> experience again? >> >> https://www.ft.com/content/53a3a13b-fe98-4670-9163-be659ccbf4f2 >> >> >> Inside the hot market for discontinued perfume >> >> >> Very few things can be as personal, emotional and sensory triggering as >> perfume, which is why some people spend hundreds of pounds to get their >> hands on a favourite fragrance that has been discontinued. >> >> Since 2007 it has been the job of Mathieu Iannarilli, a Paris-based >> vintage perfume dealer, to track down rare scents for clients who spend >> from âŹ150 to more than âŹ3,000 per bottle. âSome buyers only wear one >> perfume. When that is discontinued by a brand, from one day to the next, >> they find themselves orphaned of their olfactory identity. These people >> then turn to all possible ways to find their perfume again,â he says. >> >> There is no estimate for the market of vintage and discontinued >> fragrances, but demand is high. A simple search for âdiscontinued >> fragrancesâ on eBay brings up more than 50,000 results. Among the most >> expensive listings are Tom Ford Amber Absolute ($4,300, shipped from the >> US), Vivienne Westwood Boudoir ($2,784, from Japan) and Giorgio Armani >> Prive Myrrhe ImpĂ©riale ($1,500, from Sweden). The market is partly fuelled >> by the craze for âflankersâ â short-term spin-offs of brandsâ core >> fragrances, which are catnip for collectors. EstĂ©e Lauder Sensuous Noir, a >> 2008 flanker for EstĂ©e Lauder Sensuous, goes for ÂŁ265 on eBay, for example, >> while Thierry Mugler A*Men Pure Malt, a version of Thierry Mugler A*Men >> from 2009, goes up to more than ÂŁ600. >> >> There are a few reasons why a fragrance might be discontinued: it might >> not be commercially successful; a long-used ingredient in its composition >> might later be banned and prove too difficult to substitute; or the brand >> itself might end its license or go into bankruptcy. âThe prices of some >> fragrances from iconic British brands such as Vivienne Westwood and Stella >> McCartney have tripled since these brands ceased their perfumery business,â >> explains Iannarilli. Other vintage perfumes from heritage brands such as >> Guerlain often reach high prices because they are both sought after by >> customers who want to wear them and by collectors who would preserve them. >> â[Guerlain] Djedi can exceed âŹ3,000,â says Iannarilli. >> >> Itâs not just high-end fragrances that stoke demand. Since 2019, >> Alexander Fury, fashion features editor at Another magazine and the FTâs >> menâs fashion critic, has been buying Ultima II Sheer Scent for his mother >> as a Christmas gift. The Revlon fragrance from 1990 was and still is her >> favourite, but was discontinued at the turn of the millennium. >> >> âIâm not hunting for it every day, but it is something I look for every >> week or so. It has become progressively more difficult and progressively >> more expensive,â he says over the phone. When Fury bought it the first time >> six years ago, the perfume was already selling on second-hand platforms for >> about ÂŁ500. Today it can be purchased on Etsy for more than ÂŁ700. >> >> In some cases, people are hunting for the original formulation of >> perfumes that are still on shop floors today. Starting from the early >> 2000s, regulations on cosmetics ingredients have become stricter, >> particularly in the EU, forcing many brands to recreate best-selling scents >> using alternative ingredients. In some cases the results have been less >> than satisfactory â at least according to some noses â prompting the >> hoarding of older bottles. >> >> âI have a tiny bottle of Guerlainâs Mitsouko from the 1970s that smells >> completely different and so much better than Mitsouko does now,â says Aimee >> Majoros, a beauty PR and fragrance collector from upstate New York who has >> worked for Guerlain, Givenchy, Acqua di Parma, Tommy Hilfiger and Donna >> Karan. Majoros, who learned to love perfumes from her grandmother, had at >> some point 300 bottles in her collection. âThe best thing I have ever >> smelled in my life was a sample of LâAir du Temps by Nina Ricci from the >> 1960s,â she continues. âThe current formulation smells awful. I know that >> in the fragrance community people are upset when things are reformulated.â >> >> Claire Smith, a cell biologist based in the UK who has a 130-rich >> fragrance collection (around half of them are discontinued) became >> passionate about perfume in 2019. After reading rave reviews online of >> Thierry Mugler Alien Essence Absolue, which had been recently discontinued, >> she decided to go on a hunt for it. âIt goes for hundreds of pounds, but I >> was very, very lucky and found a good deal. For a lot of people itâs about >> the find as much as the fragrance itself,â she says. âWhen I started I >> would only buy things that I could afford to lose the money for, until I >> learned what I was looking for.â Her self-training included watching online >> videos comparing fake and real fragrances to learn how to spot them (colour >> is a good giveaway). Smith now has a YouTube channel called >> @dr.claire.perfume where she talks about her collection, explains relevant >> terminology and tells the back-story for some famous fragrances, such as >> Chanel No 5 or Robert Piguet Bandit, to her 13,900 subscribers. >> >> But for certain perfume collectors, the draw is not the scent but the >> bottle. Some even collect factices, the oversized display bottles brands >> used for advertising in pharmacies and department stores until the early >> 2000s. Simon Martynoff, owner of Galerie Martynoff in Paris, both sells and >> collects factices. Among his treasures currently on sale he lists a >> 30cm-tall Nina Ricci Lâair du Temps bottle for âŹ5,200 and an even taller >> (39.5cm) decorative bottle by Baccarat of Guerlain Shalimar for âŹ4,100. >> âThere are two different consumers: one is a collector who wants an example >> of each bottle, and the other is an [interior] decorator,â he says. >> Martynoff sources them from auctions or shops that still have them, but >> says they are becoming increasingly hard to find as the number of >> collectors increases. âThe interest has gone up and you can see it from the >> prices. In the 1990s you could find some at a very good price, now some >> bottles are 30 to 50 per cent more expensive.â >> >> Antoine Poujol is the founder of the Perfume Art Museum in Paris, which >> houses a collection of almost 8,000 bottles, factices, press kits and shop >> catalogues. He says interest in collecting perfume bottles started in the >> 1980s, when many of the bottles designed by artists such as Leonor Fini >> (Shocking by Schiaparelli, 1937), Raoul Dufy (Rosine by Paul Poiret, c1925) >> and RenĂ© Lalique (for Lucien Lelong, 1929) started to hit the 50-year mark. >> His goal is to âkeep track of everything that was and is made by the key >> brands, because the idea is to trace their evolution from the start to >> today,â he says, adding that his expertise has been tapped by some of the >> largest brands who want to build their own collections and retrace their >> histories. >> >> Poujolâs collection includes rare examples such as LancĂŽme RĂ©volte, >> designed by Georges Delhomme in 1936, which is a block of raw rock crystal >> shaped like the Parisian cobblestones thrown during the French Revolution >> (currently valued between âŹ1,000 and âŹ2,000), but also mass-produced >> bottles that can be purchased for âŹ50. âWe are in a universe where you have >> very expensive bottles, but you also have very nice stuff from âŹ50 to âŹ200, >> which can make a nice collection. You also have collectors of miniatures >> which go for âŹ5, âŹ10 and âŹ15,â he says. âThere are bottles for everyone.â >> >> After speaking to Poujol, I took out my own collection of perfume minis, >> which I used to hoard as a kid in the 1990s. I used to spend an unusual >> amount of time admiring the small bottles and smelling them and they are >> still kept in a wicker box in a bathroom cabinet in my childhood home. I >> have at least 40 of them, an assorted selection that includes Miss Dior, >> Gianfranco FerrĂ© Gieffeffe, Fiorucci Vanilla Scent, 4711 Cologne and La >> Perla Body Silk. While Iâm quite sure there is nothing particularly rare in >> there, even if there were, Iâm not sure I could part with it. 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