"It’s instinctive. At the same time, personal. What smells good on someone else might not work for you. There’s so much that goes into it: skin, pH, diet." Marie Du Petit Thouars, founder of perfumery Maison Louis Marie, on finding your signature scent. https://t.co/1DCyzKdxe5

In September, eight years after her debut cookbook, Samin Nosrat released Good Things—a meditative work that reconsiders the cookbook. "I survived this massive tsunami of attention and praise. I’d think: I hate food. But I keep coming back to food." https://t.co/fpbqP1lhtI

What does it mean to be an ethical hacker? Katie Moussouris, founder of Luta Security can tell you. "I embrace 'hacker' as the old-school term: When it was coined, it was about curiosity. Someone who wants to take apart systems to understand them." | https://t.co/UMvYs2CYnP

What makes a space inspire creativity? At the Santa Maddalena Foundation, a writer’s residency in rural Tuscany, there’s an atmosphere of conviviality, long, conversation-fueled lunches and quiet rooms with views over verdant groves and gardens. https://t.co/jyqHOMWFrJ

Learn why people who are blind and have low vision are calling Waymo’s fully autonomous driving technology a ‘game changer.’

"I’m in a music studio in Munich. It was in this room that I recorded my recent album. Usually, studios have separate spaces for each musician, but we recorded the album together, at the same time." Musician ENJI on the building that shaped her sound. https://t.co/yqtd0Eb2EM

In Kyoto, the looms of textile company Hosoo hum to an older rhythm. “We are based on a tradition of weaving that was pursued without regard for cost or production efficiency,” says 12th-generation head Masataka Hosoo. “Beauty was the only objective.”⁠ https://t.co/Ph8p727UqP

In Issue Fifty-Seven, curiosity gets the best of writer Haley Mlotek. "I’d like to know why every passenger is on my flight. Why are they all sitting in neat rows alongside me? Did they decide impulsively that they needed to get away? Are they connecting?" https://t.co/EM0LnnVcOT

From the Loop Table to the 2012 Olympic torch, Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby have left their mark on the design world. The secret? A solid friendship. “When you build something together from the start, it’s not about ego—it’s about making great work.” https://t.co/F8dyqKEaxf

In The Friendship Issue, we thought we'd offer our readers a little friendly advice—like how to introduce friends and how to form deep friendships. https://t.co/9PTNOsBsYE

In the latest issue, we speak with Orna Guralnik, the star psychoanalyst of Showtime’s Couples Therapy. “People create this invisible wall around their tiny unit of a couple or a family and forget their communal belonging. And that’s a shame.” https://t.co/RZQo2LttUo

In Issue Fifty-Seven, we visit Ren MacDonald-Balasia’s—the celebrated artist behind floral design studio Renko—Hawai‘i hideaway, which features almost no exterior walls. "People didn’t like the idea that there were no walls. Most people still don’t.” https://t.co/XFetikpYHg

Have you found the apple of your eye? Issue Fifty-Seven celebrates the power of platonic love. https://t.co/2MZGcMUy0s

In the Friendship Issue, University of Oxford professor Robin Dunbar tells us: "The single best predictor of our mental health and well-being—and our physical health and well-being—is the number and quality of close friendships we have." https://t.co/3VUO1aLGtL

Musicians Buddy Ross and Kelly Zutrau live on opposite coasts, but in the studio their rhythms align. “When we work, it’s a very safe space, and an environment of respect and admiration for each other. It’s been a breakthrough for me—our relationship." https://t.co/aXohjEzymW

Two decades after they met at art school in Accra, Amoako Boafo and his friends are shaping the future of contemporary art while maintaining their tight-knit group. “To grow and evolve, there must be competition. You need people around you who push you.” https://t.co/wRQukXIaks

Some friendships develop their own dress codes. See our latest fashion editorial, Common Threads, in The Friendship Issue—out now.⁠ https://t.co/VMdltQcgDv

Ottessa Moshfegh can't write her new novel, about a teen in the UK, when she's in CA. “I have to be away from the world I’ve built for myself to see this other one clearly.” Instead, she's reconnecting with her inner teen. "Being a teenager is intense. I don’t miss it.”

"It’s Ottessa, bitch” is the Substack of novelist Ottessa Moshfegh—our fall double cover star. The author started posting last year while writing her next novel: “It pushes me to be more aware of the smaller moments in my life... The scope of my existence has changed so much.”

The Friendship Issue is here! 💞 Featuring conversations with psychotherapist Orna Guralnik (Couples Therapy), author Ottessa Moshfegh and chef Samin Nosrat. Plus: a mid-century home in Hawai‘i, a textile house in Kyoto, and the London studio of Barber Osgerby. On sale now.

"I’ve always tried to write for as long as possible without knowing what the book is about, until an inflection point where I start to need to know." Writer Sheila Heti on her creative process in Issue Fifty-Six. https://t.co/Wxrr5Vtd0N