Saturday is National Iced Tea Day and Sunday is is King Kamehameha I Day. We’re marking all the occasions with our usual open thread poll.
Talk about anything you like — the fragrance you’re wearing today, your favorite iced tea (or tea fragrance), the last fragrance you sampled, whatever.
Or, ask a question about fragrance, then see if anyone else has asked a question that you can answer…
A quick spot for the reissued Tom Ford Azure Lime.
Bananas! From Wary Meyers: "The scent of bananas when they’re at their perfectly ripest - not green, not mushy, but how you’d think bananas smell when you see a picture of a giant bunch of them at a fruit market in the sun-drenched tropics. Or picture you just lopped of [sic] a bunch from a banana palm to use as a pillow as you fall asleep on a hot exotic beach. How this translates to your living room is intriguingly unexpected. Its scent is neither food nor fruit, but vibe. Adding to its unique quality, this delectable candle comes with a sheet of 14 different stickers for you to decorate your own jar." $44 at Luckyscent.
Happy Friday! It’s also Coral Triangle Day. Birthdays: Cole Porter, Jackie Wilson, Michael J Fox. Here, we’re celebrating Adjectives Friday. Our community project for today: wear a fragrance with an adjective in the name. Bonus points if the adjective is apt! Thanks go to pyramus for the suggestion.
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’m copying PriscillaE’s Tuesday choice in Parfum d’Empire Corsica Furiosa…
Perhaps unsurprisingly, some of the smells required to accurately recreate certain historic settings are not particularly pleasant – among the more-than 500 speciality scents listed on AromaPrime’s website are such unappealing but evocative offerings as mildew, garum, chlorine gas, sewers, and rotting flesh – but, when the company launched in 1973 (then known as Dale Air), its main focus was removing bad smells. Founder Fred Dale began with designing pleasant aromas for places like hospitals and care homes, and also devised nostalgic scents to encourage reminiscence and conversation between residents of the latter spaces, particularly those with dementia. Many of these individuals had been young in the 1920s and ’30s, and so Fred created comfortingly familiar scents from those decades: toffee, coal fires, horses, carbolic soap.
— Read more in Scent back in time: how ancient odours can bring the past to life at The Past.