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Lazy (2 or) 3-day weekend poll ~ transitional fragrances, fall 2026

Posted by Robin on 6 September 2026 129 Comments

The eleventh edition of a poll about transitional fragrances: what are your favorite fragrances as summer turns to fall this year? What scent makes you happy as the nights get chilly and the days take on that crisp edge? And tell us what perfume you wish you owned for chilly weather.

(Or, if you’re like me, tell us what fragrances will allow you to hang on to that summer feeling just a little bit longer. And of course, if winter is turning to spring where you are, adjust the questions accordingly.)

Or, as always, talk about something else…

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Both soothing and disconcerting

Posted by Robin on 6 September 2026 Leave a Comment

Standing in the room is somehow both soothing and disconcerting. If you don’t read the informational display or listen to the audio tour, you might feel like you’re just standing under a particularly fancy disco ball, listening to a higher-pitched edit of dry wind across an empty plain. But it was the scent of the room that struck me: a blend of thyme, black juniper, moss, and gunpowder, inching the red cave toward the realm of the uncanny with the combination of color, sound, and scent, making it easy to envision yourself in the isolation of space or a very high-concept haunted house where that staticky pulsing wind might start saying your name.

— Rena Behar on the El Sol exhibition at Kristallwelten in Innsbruck, Austria. Read more in Art Can Be What You Smell at Defector.

Friday scent of the day 9/4

Posted by Robin on 4 September 2026 187 Comments

It’s Friday and National Wildlife Day. Birthdays: Mary Renault, Richard Wright, Beyoncé. RIP Gloria Steinem.  Our community project for today: wear a fragrance that celebrates how there is never enough time to do everything you ought to do! This project might end up being so wonderful that we do it twice!

What fragrance did you pick? As always, do chime in with your scent of the day even if you’re not participating in the community project.

I’ve been commando since last Thursday…not enough time for perfume at the moment…

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Lazy 4-day weekend poll ~ open thread, late August 2026

Posted by Robin on 29 August 2026 201 Comments

August is winding down, and we’re marking the last weekend of the month with our standard open thread poll.

Talk about anything you like — the fragrance you’re wearing today, the fragrance that will remind you of Summer (or Winter!) 2026, whatever.

Or, ask a question about fragrance, then see if anyone else has asked a question that you can answer…

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Friday scent of the day 8/28

Posted by Robin on 28 August 2026 189 Comments

Happy Friday and happy National Red Wine Day! Birthdays: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Edward Burne Jones, Robertson Davies, Janet Frame, Rita Dove. RIP Tim Curry and Yayoi Kusama. Our community project for today: “the exception to the rule”…wear a fragrance that you love despite not generally caring for fragrances of its kind, or its brand, or its main note, or whatever…you come up with the rule and the exception. 

What fragrance did you pick? As always, do chime in with your scent of the day even if you’re not participating in the community project.

My plan for today was L’Occitane Immortelle de Corse, a favorite of Kevin’s. I did not think I would love it because I don’t usually love immortelle, but as it turned out it’s the only immortelle fragrance that has ever grabbed me…unfortunately, it was limited edition and I did not decide in time that I wanted a bottle. Regrets! I do still have a few drops but I cannot wear it today so I am commando, running late, and behind on everything (I have not read yesterday’s comments, and likely won’t be able to read today’s until tomorrow, we’ll see). If I do not manage to post at all on Saturday, please use this post as an open thread…I will almost certainly be back early next week…

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