Happy Friday and happy National Bittersweet Chocolate Day! Our community project for today: we're off to Denmark...wear a perfume that is named for a place in Denmark, or that reminds you of a (real or imaginary) trip to Denmark, or that features a local ingredient, or ?
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 wish I still had some Ko Denmark Jasmine + Neroli, but I have long since used up my sample. I'm wearing the closest thing in my collection, I think, Aftelier Candide, although I can't decide if I deserve any points for my meager efforts today.
Reminder: 1/17 is Betty White's (1922-2021) birthday. Do absolutely whatever you like with the theme. If you need it: Betty White: A legacy of saucy joy that never grew old at The Christian Science Monitor, Why Betty White is so awesome at Today, Betty White, Progressive Superhero of TV History at Peabody Awards.
And for those of you who like to plan ahead, see Scent of the day ~ Friday community projects 2025, where I'll try (but usually fail) to have the next five or six weeks mapped out in advance.
Note: top image is Purple trail: Through the dunes of Blavand, entering the moorlands in Late Summer. Jylland, Denmark [cropped] by Christian Kortum at flickr; some rights reserved.
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Sotd is MJ Daisy Hot Pink, honouring Denmark’s national flower, the daisy. I have no memory of why I bought a bottle of this. Maybe it’s because Daisy is “too iconic” to not own a bottle but the original never appealed and this version seemed cute enough? Anywho, I am happy to have it for today.
Oh, I did buy a tin of Danish cookies and just had some for breakfast with a mug of decaf latte.
Is it you who collects fans? This came over the transom this morning for year of the snake:
https://store.moma.org/products/ibasen-zodiac-hand-fan
Yes that’s me! Thank you so much! This fan is sooo cute. The chubby snake also looks somewhat like a glazed donut with the (mud?) splatters which makes it all the more adorable. Ordering one RIGHT NOW. 😀
I didn’t know you collect fans! So did my grandmother, and when she died, no one else wanted her collection so I took it. I’ve got an enormous box of fans. I’ve had a few of my favorite ones framed but honestly don’t know what to do with all the others. If you might be interested please write to me: cfreeland quadruple nine in the yahooo land. You could tell me more about what you like or are interested in. She had quite a range of things including some especially old ones with feathers, as well as more touristy Spanish and Asian style ones.
I’m pretty much twins with you though I went with the original Daisy😊
Happy Friday everyone!
I was going to find another perfume for hygge today but instead I am wearing L di Lolita Lempicka, for The Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen. I love the pretty bottle with it’s ocean theme. Usually L gets worn in the summer for it’s salty sweetness but it smells great on a cold day, too.
L is delicious in all seasons, isn’t it!
I chose Imaginary Authors Every Storm A Serenade for the CP. As you probably know, IA invents an author and a story/novel to go along with each of its scents, and the one for Every Storm is set in Denmark and is attributed to imaginary author Niels Bjerregaard. From Imaginary Authors: “When Stina, a burgeoning writer, decamps to her mother’s summer house for the winter to write a book, her trip overlaps for one day (and one steamy night) with a brawny fisherman named Ulv. While she struggles to gain traction with her novel, her fixation on the mysterious seafarer results in countless unsent letters, the contents of which chronicle the spiraling psyche of lust and longing. Set on the desolate west coast of Denmark during the tourist off-season, Every Storm a Serenade is a meditative masterwork that will lull you with its well-designed sentences and intimate tone.”
Long walk on that explanation, but it’s a very nice, unobjectionable fragrance with notes of Danish spruce, eucalyptus, vetiver, calone, ambergris and sea water. Hey, happy Friday!
I had no thoughts on Denmark today, so I just put on a recent favorite, Toy Boy. I love the pepper in this. I just got my full bottle in the mail, but I thought I’d use up my mini first.
https://www.world-archaeology.com/issues/object-lesson-trundholm-sun-chariot/
I’m going to the early Bronze Age , 1400 Bc, for this Sun Chariot, found by a farmer in his field in Zealand at the turn of C20. The sun goddess, Sol, is pulled in a chariot by horses, bringing light and life. The sculpture not only provides information about Nordic myths relating to the sun, but information relating to the domestication of horses…it’s an interesting article .
I am an early riser, so watch the sun rise every day ( the joy of listening to the dawn chorus is absolute) , and I love thinking about all these myths. Wearing Mitsuoko, a magnificent perfume to match an incredible piece of art and culture.
I went with Denmark’s national flower as well and am wafting in Mark Jacob’s Daisy. I know it’s mainstream but I still love it!
I put on Hypnotic Poison this morning and thought I was off the cp, but thanks to ringthing (and definitely not my own cleverness), I’m going to connect it with Danish hygge.
Haven’t been sleeping well for a while (any tips for logging those amazing 12 hours, apsara?). I’ll go for a good hard walk later this morning and work on some projects. Hopefully that will help.
I’m also wearing Hypnotic Poison today, in my case for the almond note that in my mind links to the almond paste used in some Danish pastries. Hey, maybe we get double CP points: one for hygge and one for it’s close companion, sweets!
Oooo – I love it. Double points for us!
When I was in Denmark, I remember eating Æbleskiver, the sweet round batter balls spiced with cardamom. (As an aside, I also love takoyaki, savory balls with octopus.) Today’s scent is Santal Kardamon, for the spice often used in Scandinavian cooking.
Since it’s snowing, decided to focus on hygge and opted for BdI/box of eels. Fingers crossed precipitation doesn’t reach a shovelable amount.
Stopping by on a break from a miraculously meeting-free day.
CP choice involves a contorted narrative with a dotted line to Denmark:
Back in the distant day, when I was living abroad, I dated a Dane who was also living abroad. At that time I mostly wore the cheapie O Boticario insensatez. It has been decades since I’ve even seen a bottle, but I’d say CK one is its closest analog & fragrantica seems to agree.
It was an era of s music and partying and vintage leather jackets and we were in a city that was firmly committed to smoking. Everywhere – elevators, archives, stores, etc. So, even though France is entirely irrelevant here, I’ve chosen ELdO Jasmine et Cigarette because it absolutely fits the mood.
(I have spent time in different parts of Denmark and would love to return sometime.)
Couldn’t think of something that complied with the CP. SOTD is a vintagish no 19 edp on this freezing winter day.
This will be a stretch: the movie Out Of Africa has a scene between Barkley Cole and Karen Blixen. He admires her perfume, and she offers the inside of her wrist for him to smell. It doesn’t say anything about notes, so I just chose a really beautiful perfume-Annick Goutal’s Tubereuse, after using La Chasse body wash. A gentle tuberose scent that stays close to the skin. Love all the innovative ways people interpret the Friday CP 🙂