Happy Friday and happy National Pie Day! Birthdays: Stendhal, Édouard Manet, Derek Walcott. Our community project for today: wear a fragrance with a pomegranate note, if you have one. Thanks go to Laila 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.
Pomegranate is my favorite fruit, and other than grapefruit, the only fruit I still eat regularly. But, like many of you, I do not have a pomegranate fragrance that I love. I'm in the only one I could locate: Jo Malone Pomegranate Noir.
Reminder: 1/30 will be Play Nice Friday...wear a fragrance which, while it still bears the stamp of the perfumer’s art, is more or less guaranteed to offend no-one. (Suggested by pyramus.)
And for those of you who like to plan ahead, see Scent of the day ~ Friday community projects 2026, where I'll try (but usually fail) to have the next five or six weeks mapped out in advance.
Note: top image is Pomegranates at farmers market [cropped] by Ella Olsson at flickr; some rights reserved. [Note: this image is a repeat from 2022.]
Hello and tgif!
Like Robin I am in the only pomegranate I could locate and from a tiny sample too, CK Euphoria.
This week was a hard one! But it made me give my collection a good throughout look and saw some things I forgot I had so that’s great.
For me it’s like cleaning out my closet where I rediscover all these wonderful things to wear H888C!
It’s a little like getting a surprise gift when we find something!
Hiya scent twin!
Hiyaaaa!
I love pomegranates and your SOTD, Robin. I chose an old favourite-Annick Goutal’s Quel Amour! It brings me right back to the time I bought it which might be half my lifetime ago. I bought it off e bay, and it had a spelling mistake in the title. I remember how excited I was to win it. I hade the matching body lotion too. It’s a nice memory.
I’m looking forward to seeing what everyone else is wearing. Hope you all have a good day.
Is it in one of those beautiful bottles with the bow?
Yes, it is! One of their classic bottles. I remember the story-it was composed by Camille Goutal, and her husband had strewn her staircase with peonies and roses. It’s a beautiful scent. I feel like it’s too young for me know-it really reminds me of a certain time of my life. But I still love both peonies and roses.
I don’t know this scent Carole but I wish you a good day too!
Thank you, LesLiesse 🙂
Spelling mistakes on ebay — serendipity!
Pretty sure I don’t have any pomegranate scents, so I’m in the only red-fruit scent I own, Tom Ford Lost Cherry. I think it’s just delightful — not sweet cherries but sour ones, a refreshing change of pace.
I don’t know if I have any either…
Pyramus have you ever tasted Luxardo cherries? Very different from regular maraschino cherries. If you like a more sour cherry the L ones may be something you enjoy.
Imaginary Authors “A Little Secret” also has sour cherry notes. Have you tried it?
Wearing Jo Malone Pomegranate Noir, the only scent I think I have with a pomegranate note.
Happy Friday! 🌻
Perfect choice! I hope you have a good weekend.
Thank you, Kanuka!
Happy weekend to you, too.
Happy Friday PL67 🌻
Thank you, LesLiesse! 🌹
I’ve thought about getting a small bottle of JM Pom Noir.
Stay warm!
Those small bottles are very convenient. A great size if you eventually decide to get Pomegranate Noir.
I’m thumbing through the paper and scrolling the BBC’s list of anticipated book releases for the year. Half His Age has caught my eye—I’ve read her other book my mom died or some title like that—and Yesteryear is firmly on my list when it’s released.
I couldn’t find my Jo Malone to twin with Perfumelover67 today, so I’m switching things up. Since Robin mentioned it’s Stendhal’s birthday, I’m pairing a Stendhal novel with a perfume instead. Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black) feels just right with Chanel No. 19: sharp & ambitious. Passion is tightly controlled.
I just adore perfuming a novel LTSG! I know the novel but not the scent but I trust that you paired them very very well!
I read that list, and the list on NYT, and this one:
https://themillions.com/2026/01/the-millions-great-winter-2026-preview.html
There is lots of great stuff coming this year!
Great list, thanks for sharing!
Like many of us, I’m in the only fragrance I own with a pomegranate note, PdE Aziyadé. I only have a one ml sample, and I ordered that many years ago while exploring tobacco scents. The pomegranate in it is very evident in the opening blast, but is gone in less than five minutes, leaving behind a really nice, very PdE-esque pipe-tobacco-and-light-incense blend. Fragrantica calls it sweet, but it isn’t particularly on me, and I never sussed out any of the other notes listed (orange, almond, plum, dates, caraway, cinnamon … the list goes on). If a bottle appeared suddenly in my life I’d wear it occasionally, but I don’t plan on acquiring more.
Sadly I cannot even remember if I tried that one, and now I’m very behind on PdE.
https://poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/how-to-cut-a-pomegranate
I was taken by how many writers have referenced pomegranates ( Edith Wharton wrote a ghost story called Pomegranate Seed ( which doesn’t actually include any references to pomegranates. It’s free, online if you’re interested) ,Oscar Wilde a short story collection called A House of Pomegranates, D H Lawrence a poem called Pomegranate and many other poems( some related to pomegranates, others to mythology). But here’s a poem by Scottish/ Pakistani writer Imtiaz Dharker that is very fruit focused. If you drop down to “ resources” you can hear her read the poem. I’m matching the poem with Un Jardin apres le Mousoon.
A magnificent poem Kanuka! Thank you for sharing!
I love “alive with parrots’ wings”…
https://xpressenglish.com/our-stories/pomegranate-seed/
Wharton’s ghost story. If you prefer to be read to them there’s a you tube video of a British guy reading it:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bQ2_c2p-OtE
Thank you, will save for the blizzard Sunday 🙂
Thanks for this. I’m actually just about done reading her The House of Mirth at present.
Joining pyramus in the only tart red fruit I own, TF Lost Cherry. We have a cold advisory here for the first time this year, and I’m really happy I applied heat tape last summer to the uninsulated water lines in the garage. No more dripping faucets in case of a freeze!
Well done on your meteorological foresight FB!
I like pomegranates but they are so much work. And I don’t have anything with pomegranate so I’m going fruit-adjacent and wearing Delta of Venus by Eris Parfums for the guava note. I didn’t grow up eating guava, pomegranate, passion fruit or even mango. They all seem exotic to me still.
I guess fruit-adjacent might not be the right wording. But anyhoo…happy Friday!
Having spent my youth in Western Pennsylvania, I had never even had avocado prior to moving to So Cal at age 14. But I learned to love those fruits you listed all starting with avocado! Have you smelled LP’s SPeachless? It’s got a long list of fruits in it including peach regardless if its name as well as lychee (which I only tried this summer in a lychee martini in a Chinese restaurant). Have you had a new discovery like that?
Ditto on the avocado, even though I grew up directly north of California.
I have not tried any of LP’s fragrances. SPeachless sounds interesting. I often like lychee! But the base notes include patchouli and cannibis neither of which I usually appreciate in a fragrance.
Patchouli I like but not cannabis. However there are so many notes in this scent that I can’t even detect the cannabis.
They all are considered exotic fruits to be honest!!
Unless you grew up where they are grown, then I would think they would seem more run of the mill.
Happy Friday and I’ll go so far as to say TGIF!
Sotd Natura Ilia Plena + Pomegranate juice for breakfast. No pomegranate notes in any of my fragrances or even red fruit at all. I picked NIP because the bottle color is pomegranate.
Close enough then! I have never had pomegranate juice except in a cocktail, and have also never had those precut pom seeds you can buy.
I like wrestling with pomegranates, and I like the red speckles on my white kitchen curtains, LOL…
Robin, do you have any pomegranate combos or recipes that you enjoy?
No fruity notes for me at all today.
SOTD is Encens Mythique.
Current weather is -10 degrees / -28 degrees wind chill. It was even colder earlier when I was out for my pedicure. That’s right. I was out in this weather earlier today. We are crazy in the Midwest🙄
Encens Mythique is always the right answer!
I agree.
Crazy- no imo. Resilient, possessing fortitude, impervious to cold – yes!
And you smell not only really wonderful but oh so warm and cozy for the weather. Excellent selection Kris!
Thanks!
You are so brave to venture out in that cold! Hope you stay cozy this weekend.
I have lived in the Midwest a good portion of my life, so I have gotten used to the different temperatures. It’s just that in my 60’s I like it less and less😉 when it is this cold.
ZOMG! 🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶
What color did you get for your pedicure?
In the winter I started not painting them. when I do have them painted, I just do a French manicure because sometimes I do different colors for my nails and I don’t like them to clash.
Cozy today in Silky Woods. Not in the mood for JM Pomegranate Noir.
We used pomegranates in lots of food in Iran.
Fessanjan with walnuts was yummy. Sharbat over ice was so cooling in the heat. And juice was mixed with yogurt and water for a cooling drink. We are lucky in Los Angeles to be able to enjoy these easily.
Gotta get some laundry going here and then English class later today at library.
Good Friday, all.
Are pomegranate culturally significant in Iranian culture?
I’ve had some sort of salad in Persian restaurants here that is so delicious. It uses fresh tomatoes with feta and a dressing of pomegranate molasses. I’ve tried making it but never got it quite right.
I’m not sure I’ve seen fesenjan on any menu here in Denver. Maybe I should make some
Maybe look for it in Boulder or Colorado Springs?
Went with someone’s suggestion of fruit-adjacent rhubarb, so Jo’s Rhubarb it is.
Perfect!
For my own challenge (pomegranate – Persephone – winter & spring), I picked Francesca Bianchi The Dark Side. Obviously, this one is for winter and the underworld: spicy, animalic amber and incense.
Thank you for all your supportive comments this week. The situation is dire, and for the moment I don’t see it improving. There is some good news: it’s getting warmer (less power is needed for heating), and I also heard about some foreign generator donations.
I hope with all my heart that things improve for Ukraine.
My heart sinks at your use of dire. The strength of mind and spirit which gives the Ukrainian people the ability to bear such prolonged adversity with courage is inspiring to behold! Your take on the CP has been fascinating. I hope your creativity and fragrance library deep dives give you a modicum of warmth in your soul to wait for the warmer weather Glannys!
I really hope you will receive more good news soon, even if they are little. And it’s always so inspiring to see that you gain such joy and exercise creativity with your scents!
Being cold is awful. It probably seems trite but I’m holding good thoughts for you and your country, Glannys.
Oh, I sure hope those generators get to Ukraine double stat! I heard some sobering numbers on how many apartment buildings in Kyiv don’t have power at the moment. It’s cruel.
Currently under attack. There will be even less power.
😠😠😡🤬😿
Hate hearing this😥
Oh Glannys.
I’m wearing my only perfume with a pomegranate note, SHL 777 Rose de Petra. This is a soft spicy rose, it’s lovely.
I’m very glad it’s the weekend. It was our provincial holiday on Monday so it was only a four-day week, but the rest of the country wasn’t on holiday, so Tuesday was hectic and the rest of the week was no better.
I’m teasing myself with the thought of a perfume purchase to reward myself for surviving the week 🙂 .
I think you should start the year with a new perfume…in lieu of sun and to ward off the endless dismal days of “ summer”
Gaynor, don’t edge- go for it!
This is definitely the right time for a fragrance purchase. Pray tell, which fragrance is calling your name???
What is SHL? I can’t think of it. The rose and pomegranate combination sounds delightful.
Stephane Humbert Lucas
What would you get as your perfumed reward? inquiring minds want to know!
ITA.
I didn’t realize I had a fragrance (aside from my sample of Melograno) with a pomegranate note until I checked Parfumo this week. Traversee du Bosphore! So that’s what I’m wearing today. I tried really hard and just detected a hint of pomegranate in the opening – powdery tart and a touch of green.
Keeping my fingers crossed that anyone in the path of this ice storm manages to stay warm and with power this weekend!
Gosh yes TPA ! Safety & warmth for all in the path of the storm!
I never got to smell your SOTD before it was discontinued-I bet it’s beautiful.
Wearing the lovely Santa Maria Novella Acqua Di Colonia Melograno.
As I confessed earlier in the week, I did not know that Melograno is Italian for Pomegranate but I am thankful that it took me down a nicely scented path of SMN fragrances.
Also, this fragrance reminds me of Christmas candles from my childhood. As an adult, when I’ve recognized that scent, I haven’t taken the time to figure out what it was, until now, thanks to this CP😊
I never knew “granada” was the Spanish word for it until I went to the city of that name in Spain!
Thank you for that info, I had no idea.
Allô, you made me wonder whether or most probably when the CP was to invoke a happy childhood memory. Delighted to read that the CP sparks such happy memories of your childhood Christmases!
I’m curious if anyone else associates this note with Christmas candles.
Twins
Hi Twin!
When I think of childhood Xmas candles, I think of real bayberry, which is surprisingly difficult to find. Plenty of things say they are bayberry but don’t smell right.
That’s interesting…sounds like Bayberry has more woods and spices than the “Melograno” scent that’s more fruity and perfumey (is that a word?).
Me too – my mother loved them particularly. The real thing is very expensive to produce, so I think that’s why they’re rare nowadays.
I’m wearing the very beautiful La Ravissante from MDCI. It leads with a pomegranate note and includes other exotic fruits, musk, a marshmallow note, and many beautiful florals. It’s got depth and I adore it. It was love at first sniff when I was testing perfumes from that line at Fumerie in Portland several years ago. (Where I got to meet our delightful Foxbins!). I seem to have a taste for that line, but I can’t usually find anywhere to try it out in person here in Houston. That was a fun opportunity. It is sweet, one must admit, but I find the citrus notes moderate it and it’s just plain pretty. It veers very “feminine”, if that matters to you.
Come back to Portland and we will go sniffing again!
I’ll have to save my money!
Pomegranate + marshmallow? 🤔
Tough theme! I checked and I don’t have any perfumes with pomegranate note, so I went for pomegranate-adjacent connection: I am wearing an all natural attar from Persephenie, specifically Parijata – Vetiver attar that they don’t make any more. They still have few other attars in stock: https://persephenie.com/natural-perfumes/
The one I’m wearing is very earthy and dark, appropriate for the pomegranate loving queen of the underworld.
That’s a lovely sounding perfume house.
Excellent!
SOTD = Serge Lutens Chergui
Someone (Glannys ?) mentioned this this week and I thought why not. I have the older bottle, not the Palais Royale one; it is quite good!
I had my haircut this morning so I feel like a human being again. I was supposed to go in mid-December but my cousin & family were around and I just did not have time to go then. January was also quite busy even though I’m supposed to put a small dent in my decluttering (which I didn’t). The upcoming snowmegamagastorm kicked me into high gear (for the haircut) and so here we are!
I stopped by Panera to get my “free” drink. I looked over at Wegmans and the parking lot was FULL! It felt like it was a Saturday afternoon but in fact, today IS Friday! Oy!
For those who are in the path of the storm, please stay safe and do not drive when you don’t really have to.
I had my haircut in December (my 6 year old gets trims at the salon regularly – me – I usually don’t have enough time for me). But before I had my haircut in December I talked about needing it for several months.
I usual think about the next haircut while still at the salon. I’m probably at 50% at best.
Good job getting that haircut before your weather really tanks!
Thanks. I was also thinking about the best time to get pictures taken for my passport renewal.
Hello, everyone!! It’s finally Fri-yaaayy!! Thankfully I finished work… It’s been a long week. I am a landscaper and work a very hard job. The second I finish my work I run to pick up my child from school/after school daycare. But today I have a little leeway and finished work earlier so I’m drinking my coffee now – then I have to shower and run get my child.
This morning I wore the original Sycomore EdT. I was lucky enough to score an authentic pretty full 75ml at a low price. It was a find of a lifetime. When I bought it I had no idea I was buying something so rare and hard to find. I also own the new 75ml bottle of the EdP. It’s a beautiful fragrance in both versions. They both smell like…. Two different versions of variations on the same fragrance. Smoky vetiver + grapefruit on me. Or grapefruity note. The old EdT is dense, darker, fuller, smokier. The new EdP is more polished, lighter in color and overall composition but it’s also very beautiful just more airy.
I also own 1957 and never ever reach for it. I had two but gave one away. I keep one as a reference and just to keep in my collection. People seem to love 1957. To me the opening is VERY reminiscent of #19. It’s like when they were making 1957 they took #19 as a reference. There is no way that I am imagining this connection. It’s so evident.
I used to wear #19 and Coco Mademoiselle some 20 years ago as a very young person.
I acquired a large bottle of #19 and it is vintage but the bottle is not beat up or anything at all. The bottle is in perfect condition. The juice is as fresh and nothing in it smells like it turned. It smells as fresh as if I had broken the seal on it right now. But the juice smells very very #19ish… Not for faint hearted. You really have to have an acquired taste in order to enjoy vintage #19 (and I don’t mean because it smells dated, how could #19 smell dated to anyone? And I don’t mean because it’s rancid or smells old. It’s very fresh and crisp but the geranium smells strong).
After I finish my coffee I will take a shower and slap on my breath-taking Coco Mademoiselle extrait. I am absolutely crazy about it. It has lychee but You seem when I see lychee listed as an ingredient in other perfumes – I expect a synthetic and generic notes. Right away. But in Coco Mad extrait it smells soooo juicy, every waft of Coco Mademoiselle extrait is like an Angel’s literal breath. I spoiled myself – I can no longer touch the EdP. Also before I even got the extrait I realized today’s Coco Mademoiselle (modern, recent) EdP lacks… Just lacks, it’s like a shadow of it’s former self. No lasting power, doesn’t waft that special way. From the most recent versions I much prefer the EdT – it lasts longer, is rounder, has more depth and has the most juicy of orange notes. Super yummy and juicy. But my absolute favorite is the extrait. Ohhh how good the extrait is. It’s so good that when I wear Coco Mademoiselle extrait I think of Coromandel but when I am wearing Coromandel I think about Coco Mademoiselle extrait.
That is just how I feel about the old Bois des Iles Extrait…it ruined all the other versions for me!
I buy fresh pomegranates for my 6 year old Daughter. She has a ball taking the seeds out and loves eating them. When I give Her a pomegranate to play with (aka eat) I have some uninterrupted time to for example wash the dishes.
🤣🤣🤣
That’s so sweet!
I don’t have any perfumes with pomegranate. One of the only 3 perfumes my fiancé complained about not liking was Jo Malone Pomegranate Noir, so I stopped wearing it years ago. I am wearing three spritzes of Jo Malone Sandalwood & Spiced Apricot, again.
I eat all the fruits. I haven’t eaten dessert in almost a decade, but I do eat whole fruit and very dark chocolate daily. Supposedly the sugars in fruits get absorbed by the body differently than added sugars or sweeteners, because of the fiber in whole fruit, so I read…and there’s the antioxidants and vitamins.
So You haven’t had a bite of ice cream in almost a decade?
JM Sandalwood & Spiced Apricot is one of my favorites. It is addictive!
Do you have preferred brands of dark chocolate?
May I suggest my idea for a community project?
Since we are all on here mainly and typically because we share the same hobby: we love/wear/collect perfume or at least are interested in mainly perfume:
Name Your Holy Grail perfume (or fragrant or fragrance related) object(s). In other words name Your favorite treasures that You own (and treasure). Name the crown of Your collection etc.
Thank you! We have done adjacent projects but perhaps not exactly that.
I got my sample of DSH Pomegranate Rouge a week or 2 ago so just in time for the project. It’s pretty with a crisp opening but I don’t need a full bottle.
Cool perfume name!
My only perfume that includes a pomegranate note is the wonderful L’Artisan Traversee du Bosphore, so that’s my SOTD. I’m so glad I have a bottle since it’s discontinued. I sure love it.
I did not know that had pomegranate, I could have worn it this week!
Wear it this weekend!
Well the cold came in sooner and hit harder than yesterday’s forecasts indicated. I started dripping my faucets last night before I went to bed. When I woke up this morning, it was 8 degrees F for the air temperature, and the Wind Chill was around zero. Yuck! It didn’t warm up much more than that; I think the high was around 14F. Snow has been nearly non-existent. Been making a batch of Green Chile Stew this afternoon.
SOTD = CK Euphoria. I bought my bottle shortly after it came out, so I have the original formulation. Been enjoying this!
Euphoria is a good one. I haven’t worn it in years.
I’m happy that mine still smells good both in the bottle and on me! Paired it up with Bum Bum Cream, since this is the weather for that.
Green chile stew sounds just right for that weather. Ack.
Glad I picked up the fixins for it earlier this week. Getting better at making it, but still have a couple things I could do better. Third time will be the charm!
When I woke up this morning, it was also 8, but it was a -8 with about a -20 windchill. The high today was -3. Joining you in drips for a second night. It’s already -9.
I keep thinking to myself “At least it isn’t Chicago bad here!”
Currently 5 degrees F here, with Real Feel temps in the subzero range. Back to lightly snowing here.
It is chilly out there …
Robin, I’m delighted to hear that pomegranate is your favorite fruit because I have absolutely no idea why I suggested pomegranate as a community project. I don’t dislike them but I can’t remember the last time I ate one, and it’s not a scent note I ever remember searching for!
The only fragrance I knew I had with a pomegranate note was BBW’s Midnight Pomegranate, but in researching this note I was surprised to learn I actually had several. The one I chose for today was a real surprise: DKNY Sweet Delicious Pink Macaron. Its notes are nectarine and kumquat at the top, with midnotes of marzipan, pomegranate and rose, layered over tonka bean, amber, and woodsy notes. I used YR Pomegranate Red Berries shower gel and BBW’s Pink Cashmere body products (no pomegranate in this) to add some coziness on this bitterly cold day. I wouldn’t normally wear a ‘pink’ scent in mid-January but it’s all working quite well.👍
The Sweet Delicious collection also had Tart Key Lime and Creamy Meringue. I have these, too, since I enjoy gourmand scents occasionally and these were inexpensive and delightful fragrant treats.
Sharing Kris’s bitter cold weather with below 0 temps all day; bitter cold all next week with high temps only in the mid-teens but I’m grateful we’re not in the path of that brutal snow and ice storm and ☝️and 🙏 all of you in its path stay safe!
Where do you live? I’m sure you have mentioned before, but I don’t remember.
You certainly sound pink today, which is one of my favorite colors, so it all sounds good to me!
Chicago suburbs. I love pink,too, actually I love all things red, from the palest pink to the deepest burgundy, but I rarely wear pink during winter.
I love pink too! 🩷😊
Well you probably can’t remember why because it was in 2021…ha, I am slow!
And I can hardly remember 2021, ha!
sotd = l’ambre des merveilles
I wanted to wear something that smells of contrast to me for the CP, because holding, seeing, opening, smelling and tasting a pomegranate feels like a strange and lovely surprise every time I do it.
I don’t have any pom note perfumes, but salty-sweet l’ambre des merveilles feels like it fits. ♥️
Perfect then!
😊💕
And I have that scent coming in the mail on Monday from an NSTer friend.
Yay for l’ambre des merveilles 🧡 I hope you love it!
I don’t know if anyone else experiences this, but I get a pine-like note whenever I open up a pomegranate. Contrasts nicely with the fruity sweetness of the arils.
Yes! I can smell that too, Pomegranates are completely improbable fruits! 🤭