DESPERATE CHARACTERS (PAULA FOX) AND THE EXPIRATION DATE OF PERFUMS

He sniffed at her hair. There was a faint trace of the perfume she always wore, but it floated on a rather stronger chemical smell. That monstrous bottle he had given her had probably turned to alcohol. Next birthday, he would buy her three small bottles instead

Once opened, perfums begin to loose their volatile compounds ( especially esters, aldehydes and ketones). These compounds are in charge of their smell and due to the passage of time, they may smell to alcohol sometimes. Not everybody knows that cosmetic industry is an important career opportunity for many chemists, where the composition of the perfum is as important as the addition of masked agents that avoid copying the scent to the competition.

OTHER´S MEN DAUGHTERS (RICHARD STERN) AND SCIENTIFIC DEFENSE OF SUPERFICIALITY

 It used to be thought the body was more “sensitive” as it got deeper. But no, it’s like the earth itself, the vividness is at the surface. You can crush an organ and get no pain, but look at the skin. One cm. of human skin contains two sensory machines for cold, twelve for heat, three million cells, ten hairs, fifteen sebaceous glands, a yard of blood vessels, a hundred sweat glands, three thousand sensory cells at the end of nerve fibers, four yards of nerves, twenty-five pressure apparatuses for tactile stimuli, two hundred nerve cells to record pain. This fantastic factory is our surface. No wonder our feeling is so exposed. Our hearts are on our sleeve.

How many things on the surface which we disregard for not being deep! All the stuff the skin has! Who needs more? It´s better not to go in depth hardly ever, you have to surf throughout life . Everything gets better, the friendship, the work,...if you keep on kindly superficial