Recommended by Spencer Orenstein
1) Find what's true and make it useful. 2) Publish every other Tuesday. 3) Photo cred: my dad.
Imagine you had a friend who was funny enough to be on peak SNL and smart enough to win a fancily named science prize. Now imagine that friend wrote a newsletter. Congratulations, you have conjured up Experimental History.
on fragrance, olfaction, making scents, nonsense
I didn't think anything could sound less appealing to me than a newsletter about perfume from a mysterious mononymous writer, but olfactory seconds taught me that: 1) perfume notes are a lie, but they're all we have; 2) I don't know myself as well as I thought I did.







