Listed below are upcoming (and below that, finished) Friday community scent of the day projects. (You can find past years here: 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023. Or, skip ahead to 2025.)
2024 ~ upcoming
12/13: Wear a fragrance with ginger, if you have one.
12/20: Holiday Special: Wear a perfume inspired by or based on a holiday — any holiday! — or wear a perfume that seems perfectly suited to the holiday of your choice. Suggested by therabbitsflower.
12/27: Best of 2024...wear your favorite new release of the year, or your favorite purchase of the year, or the fragrance you wore the most in 2024, or interpret this project however you like. (We've done this project several times.)
2024 ~ finished
1/5: Wear a fragrance to match Peach Fuzz, Pantone's color of the year for 2024. "PANTONE 13-1023 Peach Fuzz is a velvety gentle peach whose all-embracing spirit enriches heart, mind, and body. Subtly sensual, PANTONE 13-1023 Peach Fuzz is a heartfelt peach hue bringing a feeling of kindness and tenderness, communicating a message of caring and sharing, community and collaboration. A warm and cozy shade highlighting our desire for togetherness with others or for enjoying a moment of stillness and the feeling of sanctuary this creates, PANTONE 13-1023 Peach Fuzz presents a fresh approach to a new softness. An appealing peach hue softly nestled between pink and orange, PANTONE 13-1023 Peach Fuzz inspires belonging, recalibration, and an opportunity for nurturing, conjuring up an air of calm, offering us a space to be, feel, and heal and to flourish from."
1/12: It's National Marzipan Day. Wear a fragrance with honey, almond or both.
1/19: It's Dolly Parton's birthday! Do what you like with the theme.
1/26: We're off to The Caribbean! Wear a perfume that is named for a place in The Caribbean, or that reminds you of a (real or imaginary) trip to The Caribbean, or that features a local ingredient, or ?
2/2: Groundhog Day...assemble some winter- and spring-appropriate samples in a bowl, and pick one at random, then tell us if spring will be early or late this year. (This is a repeat.)
2/9: Lunar New Year's Eve...wear an auspicious fragrance to ring in the Year of the (Wood) Dragon, or burn or wear incense to honor your ancestors.
2/16: It's National Almond Day! You know what to do.
2/23: We're off to New Zealand! Wear a perfume that is named for a place in New Zealand, or that reminds you of a (real or imaginary) trip to New Zealand, or that features a local ingredient, or ?
3/1: Rabbit rabbit rabbit! It's March. Wear a fragrance that will bring you peace, happiness or good luck for the month.
3/8: International Women's Day... do what you like with the theme. Wear a perfume in honor of a woman who is important in your life or an important female historical figure, or wear a perfume by a female perfumer, or ? Suggested by Kanuka.
3/15: Vanilla Friday: wear your bestest vanilla for spring (or fall, if you're in the southern hemisphere.) (This is a repeat from 2018, when we did it in January.)
3/22: It's spring! Wear a spring floral, or any fragrance that says spring to you (if you're in the southern hemisphere, adjust accordingly.)
3/29: For Astrud Gilberto's birthday, wear Robert Piguet Fracas (her favorite) or wear a fragrance that fits her music, or ?
4/5: Salt & pepper: wear a fragrance with salty notes, pepper notes, or both. (I think this was suggested by Calypso, please correct me if I am wrong!)
4/12: It's National Licorice Day. You know what to do!
4/19: We're off to the Netherlands (aka Holland)! (Friday is Dutch-American Friendship Day.) Wear a perfume that is named for a place in the Netherlands, or that reminds you of a (real or imaginary) trip to the Netherlands, or that features a local ingredient, or ?
4/26: It's Frederick Law Olmsted's birthday. Wear a fragrance that connects to a public park you love, or wear something green (Olmstead liked greenery over showy flowers), or that evokes a Frederic Law Olmsted quote, or ?? More reading: When Parks Were Radical: More than 150 years ago, Frederick Law Olmsted changed how Americans think about public space at The Atlantic, 8 Famous Parks Designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, Plus a Tiny One You May Not Know About at How Stuff Works, or find lots of information at Olmsted Network. The Frederic Law Olmsted home in Brookline, Massachusetts is administered by the National Park Service.
5/3: Chypre Friday! Wear a chypre fragrance of any sort — classic or modern or post-modern. This is a repeat from 2016.
5/10: It's the International Day of Argania so we're off to Morocco! Wear a perfume that is named for a place in Morocco, or that reminds you of a (real or imaginary) trip to Morocco, or that features a local ingredient, or ?
5/17: For World Baking Day, you could wear a gourmand, or you could wear any perfume with any ingredient you like to bake with (or eat), or ?? Be as creative as you like with the theme.
5/24: It's International Tiara Day aka Queen Victoria's birthday. Wear your perfume equivalent of a tiara.
5/31: Picture challenge, edition 9...wear a perfume that matches the image, which is Genesis, The Gift of Life, a 1954 glass mosaic by Mexican artist and anthropologist Miguel Covarrubias. The mosaic was commissioned by The Stewart Company of Dallas and later moved to the main entrance of the Dallas Museum of Art. It is shown above in situ at the museum, and below broken into 3 images from left to right. You can find more biographical material at Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, National Portrait Gallery (plus scroll down for a helpful video), Harry Ransom Center.
...Covarrubias drew inspiration from various indigenous sources, incorporating American Indian lore, Pre-Columbian and early Mexican mythologies, and contemporary South and North American symbols. In Genesis, he created a composite Creation theory which tells the story of the new fifth world under the mythological belief system of the Aztecs. Speaking of the inspiration behind Genesis, Peter Stewart said, "The burning idea behind Covarrubias' great mural was to recognize the fundamental unity of an ancient New World belief system by isolating the concept of 'Genesis' and studying it in various cultural traditions". Covarrubias executed this theme through his illustration of the Indian concept of the four elements: water, earth, fire, and air. Within each element is a dichotomy that contributed to the destruction of earlier worlds and it was only with the creation of the current fifth element that all elements were brought into balance to the potential benefit of mankind. Noteworthy symbols within the work include the five plants upon the Earth's surface: wheat, maize, citrus, sunflower, and cotton. — Read more at Dallas Auction Gallery.
6/7: It's Prince Rogers Nelson aka Prince aka The Artist's birthday. Scent a Prince song, or do whatever else you like with the theme.
6/14: It's Roulette Friday! Devise a game of chance to choose your fragrance of the day. Suggested by AnnieA.
6/21: It's summer — the solstice is on Thursday. Celebrate the season with your bestest summer fragrance. If you're in the southern hemisphere, adjust accordingly.
6/28: It's Henry VIII's birthday and we're off to England. Wear a perfume that is named for a place in England, or that reminds you of a (real or imaginary) trip to England, or that features a local ingredient, or ?
7/5: Cologne part 1: wear a classic citrus-based cologne. (If it helps start you off, see 5 perfumes: (great) old school summer colognes.)
7/12: Cologne part 2: wear a modern citrus-based cologne. (If it helps start you off, see 5 perfumes: (great) new wave summer colognes.)
7/19: Mint Friday: wear a fragrance with a mint note. Extra points if mint is in the name!
7/26: It's Mick Jagger's birthday. Scent a Rolling Stones song, or scent the man himself, or do whatever you want with the theme.
8/2: Silly Friday: wear a silly perfume, or a perfume with a silly name, or a perfume that comes in a silly bottle, or ?
8/9: We're off to Greece! Wear a perfume that is named for a place in Greece, or that reminds you of a (real or imaginary) trip to Greece, or that features a local ingredient, or ?
8/16: Mood Changer Friday: wear a perfume that instantly changes your mood. Suggested by pixel; possibly a repeat.
8/23: Cypress Friday...wear a fragrance with a cypress note.
8/30: For the start of Labor Day Weekend in the US, wear the fragrance you think you probably wore the most — or wish you'd worn the most — for summer 2024 (or if you're in the southern hemisphere, for winter 2024).
9/6: Jolie Laide Friday...wear a jolie laide perfume, howsoever you wish to interpret the term (for help, though, you can see The Unfairest of Them All at The New York Times.) Suggested by austenfan.
9/13: Wear the fragrance from the oldest bottle in your collection that you bought new (in other words, not counting any vintage fragrance purchases, etc). Suggested by Gail.
9/20: We're off to Mainland Southeast Asia! Wear a perfume that is named for a place in Mainland Southeast Asia (we'll include Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam and West Malaysia), or that reminds you of a (real or imaginary) trip to to the region, or that features a local ingredient, or ?
9/27: Young(ish) guns Friday...wear a perfume by Jérôme di Marino, Quentin Bisch, Fanny Bal or Dora Baghriche, if you have one. If you don't, see if you can think of another perfumer aged 45 or under that you can represent.
10/4: For National Cinnamon Roll Day, wear a fragrance with a cinnamon note.
10/11: FOMO Friday...wear the perfume you bought because everyone else was buying it and you didn't want to miss all the fun. Suggested by SarahN.
10/18: Wear a fragrance that evokes one of Pantone's picks for the Autumn/Winter 2024/2025 NYFW Color Palette. (If you like, click through to the article and pick your fragrance based on the color name or description rather than the color itself, as in "Tomato Cream, a nourishing toasty hue that warms the soul." or "Italian Plum, a deep dark purple full of magical energies.")
10/25: We're off to Turkey! Wear a perfume that is named for a place in Turkey, or that reminds you of a (real or imaginary) trip to Turkey, or that features a local ingredient, or ?
11/1: Rabbit rabbit rabbit! It's November. Wear a fragrance that will bring you peace, happiness or good luck for the month.
11/8: For the 10th anniversary of our Friday projects, we're repeating the first one we did, way back in 2014... think of your favorite fragrance note (or one of them, if you can't narrow down), wear your favorite fragrance that features that note, and tell us about it. (Hat tip to happy888cat who noticed the anniversary! We are quite a few months late, but that's how things go around here.)
11/15: Wear a fragrance with tonka bean, if you have one.
11/22: We're off to Nepal! Wear a perfume that is named for a place in Nepal, or that reminds you of a (real or imaginary) trip to Nepal, or that features a local ingredient, or ?
11/29: Pick your Black Friday poison: wear the last fragrance you bought, wear a cheap thrill, or wear a fragrance you love but refuse to buy in a full size because it's too expensive. (We've done this project several times.)
12/6: Plus One Friday...wear your favorite layering combination, or try a new one. (We've done variations on this project before.)