Hello after the summer break ;-)

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Sorry guys, I was on holiday and moved in the meantime as well… lots of new things happening at the moment!

I found this Missha brand promoting their ‘meditanical’ toner. Quite interesting way of presenting and also the word play of medicinal and botanical!

Well, a nice eye-catching packaging can make the difference!

Enjoy your summer holidays 😉

Yours, Fran

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Puglia… ohhh Puglia

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I am sending you energy and love from Puglia, south of Italy! This is my first Yoga Retreat experience, and I have to say that I really enjoy!

We are 14 people from different countries, enjoying good food, nice weather and relaxation.

Yesterday we did a wine tasting at an old castle – what a great experience !

Our teacher for the 5 days.

I smell wonderful flowers (such as gardenia, jasmine, etc.), eat super nice food and relaxing by the pool is also not bad 😉

Yoga in nature! Or on the rooftop…

Thanks to Do.Be.See for organizing this!!!

Yours, Fran

Innovation – Ani Liu has used emerging technologies to create human-scented perfumes

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Ani Liu makes human-scented perfume by capturing volatile molecules from a person’s garment in a solvent for several weeks and then distilling the solution through traditional glassware.

Imagine bottling the scent of someone you love, eternalizing them forever, allowing you to dive into a fond memory of that person with just one whiff. Ani Liu has figured out how to make this sci-fi sounding fantasy a reality.

Liu is an artist who uses technology and science to develop multi-sensory experiences. Her work pulls from tools used in architecture, augmented reality, and synthetic biology—creating art that examines the social, cultural, and emotional effects of these emerging technologies.

Who did she bottled so far? She did around six people: Her husband, herself, her parents, a lab mate, and the chemist that was helping out. Using her parents … was very emotionally driven. She knows there will be a time when they pass away, so it was to create a time capsule of them before they passed.

It’s time for the weekend!!! Yours, Fran

Eye catching veggie inspired beauty line

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“Hands on Veggies” places importance on precious, natural fermented ingredients that act as preserving agents while also caring for the skin…. Oils, fermented substances and extracts are part of the natural, vegetable components that make up their products.

Im mostly in love with the images and the packaging!

Let’s connect with nature again! A walk in the forest this weekend? Yours, Fran

Lisbon – here we come!

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Ohhh how much I was looking forward to have a little sunny vacation in these dark winterdays!

Good food, tasty wines and the best company… What else do you need?!?

We discover Lisbon for the next days with all its beauty.

I wish you already a great new years celebration!!! Let’s go for a fantastic 2018 😉

Yours, Fran

San Fran – a green paradise

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I am visiting a friend of mine in San Francisco at the moment and have to tell you about the gorgeous vegetation over here!

Wherever you pass by, you notice never-seen trees/ plants/ cactus/ flowers.

Crazy trees with red fluff or hanging flowers… just wonderful to see! So i googled quickly what variety the city really offers:

You can do great hikes too, where you can smell a combination of eucalyptus and laurier trees – a true scentsation 😎

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Greetings from my holidays! Yours, Fran

Clairy: the natural Air Purifier

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Clairy, a natural air purifier powered by nature and technology that eliminates indoor pollution and analyses it. It has no filters, all natural, so no replacing needed.

Clairy is a made-in-Italy design flowerpot with a fan that directs the air from inside your home to the roots of the plant to be detoxified. Indoor air quality, temperature and humidity  sensors continually test the quality of your air. Normal plants have no airflow in the roots, that’s what makes the difference.

From there, the build-in wifi module sends real-time updates to your smartphone.

Plus it looks quite appealing!

Growing fresh air sounds like a promising concept, and a great new years resolution. You can preorder on Indiegogo (starting from 179$).

Good start into the year! Yours, Fran

 

What you see is what you get!

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Baxter of California Soap bars have a coloured line that runs through them implying the addition of scent – just like what you get in toothpaste stripes.

Baxter is dedicated to elevating the craft of men’s grooming since 1965. “Our approach is science plus nature, built from the ground up in California. We may be old school in concept, but we’re high-tech in practice.”

I like their looks! Simple and still catchy! Yours, Fran

 

 

 

Inflatable plastic dome in London

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London based design studio Loop.pH has created an inflatable plastic dome by London’s River Thames that was pumped full of scented vapour to create a gathering space intended to replicate the atmosphere of a traditional bathhouse.

Named the Horticultural Spa & Apothecary Experience, the installation consisted of an inflatable PVC membrane. Pot plants were set into the pockets of a latticed birch plywood arch that formed an entrance to the structure.

A slit in the plastic skin allowed visitors to slip into the misty interior, where scented vapour produced by adding essential oils and plant extracts was pumped into the bubble-like dome.

The aromatic mists were developed with medicinal herbalists who advised on the properties of each plant and will be dispersed through a nebuliser fog machine more typically used in agricultural warehouses.

The Daily Fog Menu included a refreshing grapefruit, lemon balm and peppermint scent that will be dispensed in the early part of the day, a more invigorating bergamot, juniper berry and parsley concoction for mid afternoon, and a soothing bedtime fragrance comprising chamomile, lavender and basil oil in the evenings.

The event took place in June in London. Yours, Fran

Exploring the smell of growing cheese bacteria

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We live in a biological world completely surrounded by rich communities of micro-organisms, but also in a cultural world that emphasizes total antisepsis.

The intersection of our interests in smell and microbial communities led the smell artist Sissel Tolaas and the biologist Christina Agapakis to focus on cheese as a model organism. Many of the most aromatic cheeses are hosts to species of bacteria that are closely related to the bacteria responsible for the characteristic smells of human armpits or feet.

But could that mean that knowledge and tolerance of bacterial cultures in our food could improve the tolerance of bacteria on our body and in other aspects of our life? Sissel & Christina‘s project is work in progres, but raises a lot of questions already.

How do human cultures cultivate and value bacterial cultures on cheeses and fermented foods? How will synthetic biology change with a better understanding of how species of bacteria work together in nature, as opposed to the sterile cultures of the lab? Will we be able to re-engineer bacterial communities? How will synthetic biology change our relationship to the microbial communities that surround us?

Here is the great video about the idea:

Stay curious! Yours, Fran