SHOW & SMELL
Jessica MurphyFragrance and visual culture from an old-school perfume blogger based in NYC.
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Fruit cocktail
Del Monte Fruit Cocktail advertisement, November 1935
Nearly a century ago, in the middle of the Great Depression, a canned mixed-fruit dessert in a “beguiling syrup” just might have felt like an affordable luxury. So “inviting” and “festi...
Green knights, scent swaps, and a mad tea party
Four times a year, Robin runs a Now Smell This poll named “The Damage So Far,” in which readers are invited to share the number of perfumes they’ve purchased over the past three months. If I were to tally up my new bottles for June 2026, I’...
Passing Fancies ~ June 2026 recap
This is my birthday week. The past year has been a strange one, emotionally. I’ve been working through some intense cycles of post-layoff anger and job-search disappointment, plus a certain amount of related and unrelated grief, and I’ve of...
A sea-change into something rich and strange
I’m writing this post just a few days before the summer solstice, which seems like a good time to revisit an interview I gave a few weeks ago. Beauty editor Kara Jillian Brown got in touch to ask me whether I had any thoughts to share on be...
The Art of Perfume Ads: Jo Malone Lavenderland (2020)
Violet visions and nostalgic purple paths
Jo Malone’s limited edition collection for Spring 2020 was Lavenderland, a trio of fragrances that evoked “an enchanted world of violet visions, where English lavender meanders in purple pathways a...
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Old-school fragrance blogger since 2007. Museum professional using scent in art spaces since 2018. Based in NYC. "My attitude is one of love / is all adoration / for all the fringes / all the color / all tinsel creation." -- Florine Stettheimer
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