Look, said Dick. See the red car. Jane said, Oh, look! It goes fast. A flashback to gramps reading Dick and Jane, about a little toy car—so unlike the real red car I’ve been working on. A beauty, I think, as I park it on a red-brick street, down from Carmine’s red-brick cottage. It’s autumn and the street’s lined with maples and their colorful leaves—canary, caramel, crimson. A group of kids with marshmallows-on-a-stick are huddled around a small bonfire …
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The Olfactory Report 2: Armpits, Ribaldry, and Animalic Perfumes for Your Valentine, too! * Catherine Haley Epstein
Filthy, Stinky, Sexy Sex hormones come out of our armpits. These apocrine sweat glands do what is called emotional sweating. These hormones affect our behavior and physiology. We know the armpit sex hormone begins after puberty (when we actually begin to emit a smell from our armpits), and they are also located in the areola and nipples of the breast, ear canal, eyelids, wings of the nostril, perianal region, and some parts of the external genitalia. All, one could argue, are erogenous zones. I’ve also written recently about …
The Olfactory Report 1: Smellicopters and the Smell of Old Books * Catherine Haley Epstein
Aromatica Poetica is delighted to present The Olfactory Report, a monthly column dedicated to the business of our noses. In it scent artist and writer, Catherine Haley Epstein, shares news, thought pieces, reviews and opinions from the olfactory landscape. For our first edition of this one of a kind column, she presents a round up of some of the more exciting events and initiatives of 2020. Despite it being, and continually being, a year full of isolation, dissonance and breaking …
The Creativity and Adaptability of The Dessert Stand Sisters by Samantha Meddaugh
Brooke Smith and her twin sister, Britney Turk, are co-owners of The Dessert Stand in Westminster, Colorado. For ten years, the duo has been creating cakes and cupcakes that feature various homemade mousses or fruit fillings, topped with a thick layer of whipped buttercream frosting in complimentary flavors, and decorated in fun designs for weddings, events, parties, and everyday celebrations . “Our biggest key to success is adaptation,” Brook told me when I interviewed them in their large open-spaced bakery …
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“Psychedelic Hazelnut Cupcakes” & Other Poems by Clarice Hare
Psychedelic Hazelnut Cupcakes An unassuming cupcake! Other cupcakes would call it a scrumptious masterpiece. But this one is just a cupcake! The aroma coming from the cupcake is like the high- ground tobacco grasses that blend with our harmonious autumn lands. It is sweet and sour. Almondy. Cranberry-tinged. Sweet, but savory, and just a little bit juicy. Honey, almond, and cinnamon. Vanilla. Just the right amount of spices in the flavor. Honey, and chocolate. Apples, but I didn’t add any …
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