Since when does Anthropologie have a blog?

Turns out when you contact the subscription services department at Anthology because your issue that was apparently released in August hasn’t reached you yet, it’s the editor-in-chief that answers your email and sends you a replacement copy.

From La Seduction: How the French Play the Game of Life:

When [Bernard] Toulemonde was director of a global flavors research laboratory at Nestle in the mid-1980s, he and his team of experts and scientists entertained themselves by playing games with smells during their morning coffee breaks.

“One of our favorite games was to pick a theme and try to illustrate it with a perfume. We probably had something like fifty to a hundred perfumes to play with.  One morning, the theme was ‘Illustrate the woman you would follow down the street.’ And something unbelievable happened. There were twelve of us, and all twelve of us picked the same perfume, without talking to each other! It was the first time this had ever happened!”

“No!” I replied. “What was it?”

He told me it was First, by Van Cleef & Arpels.