Luxury Catches Up with eBay

Visit MarketWatch to read an interesting commentary about the recent ruling in France ordering eBay to compensate LVMH for loss of profits (and glamour?) by way of allowing vendors to sell luxury goods on this online auction site that has become an integral part of so many people's shopping habits.

Must Read: Liquid Assets

Read Liquid Assets - an article in the New York Times, about Jean-Claude Ellena's latest travels that inspire his newest scent for Hermes, Un Jardin Après la Mousson (A Garden After the Monsoon).
The article is well written (by Phoebe Eaton) and if not for that, the pictures make a fabulous eye-candy...

You may be also interested to read the review of the scent by Robin on Now Smell This.

Must Read: Why It's Good to Smell

"We can render 10,000 smells and yet we only have two words to describe them - good or bad. Apart from that the only language we have is metaphors and the slogans of perfume adverts." - Sissel Tolaas, a smell-revolutionist, in a Sunday Herald interview.

- Thanks to Robin for the link!