It’s Wednesday, plus Leo Tolstoy’s birthday. What fragrance are you wearing?
I’ve been commando since August 27, and probably will be for the next little bit.
Reminder: the community project this week is the same as last week’s! Wear a fragrance that celebrates how there is never enough time to do everything you ought to do…
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…
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.
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…
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…