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Friday scent of the day 9/29

Posted by Robin on 29 September 2023 248 Comments

Happy Friday and happy National Coffee Day! It’s also World Heart Day and International Day of Awareness on Food Loss and Waste Reduction. RIP Michael Gambon. Birthdays today: Elizabeth Gaskell, Colin Dexter and Diana Vreeland. Our community project for today: Wear one of Vreeland’s favorite perfumes (reportedly YSL Opium and Chanel No. 5), or wear something equally bold, or wear something from her posthumous perfume line, or take inspiration from a Diana Vreeland quote (more here), 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’m redoing yesterday, since I was out sick…I’m in Myrrhe Églantine for the deliciously ludicrous Vreeland quote “Why don’t you…have an elk hide trunk for the back of your car? Hermès of Paris will make this”… 

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Diana Vreeland Empress of Fashion ~ new perfume

Posted by Robin on 5 December 2018 2 Comments

The Diana Vreeland line has launched Empress of Fashion, a new oriental fragrance…

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Diana Vreeland Staggeringly Beautiful ~ new perfume

Posted by Robin on 10 July 2018 19 Comments

The Diana Vreeland line has launched Staggeringly Beautiful, a new fragrance…

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Diana Vreeland Wildly Attractive ~ new perfume

Posted by Robin on 3 July 2017 Leave a Comment

Diana Vreeland Wildly Attractive

The Diana Vreeland line has launched Wildly Attractive, a new fragrance…

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Diana Vreeland Full Gallop ~ new perfume

Posted by Robin on 18 November 2016 10 Comments

Diana Vreeland Full Gallop

The Diana Vreeland line has launched Full Gallop, a new “addictive heliotrope” fragrance. Full Gallop was the name of a play about Vreeland that appeared in the early 1990s…

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