Happy Friday and happy National Nachos Day! Birthdays: John Philip Sousa, Glenn Frey, Arturo Sandoval and Colson Whitehead. Our community project for today: wear the fragrance you’d like to give to your 21-year-old self (even if it wasn’t on the market at that time). Thanks go to Kanuka 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.

My 21 year old self was not going to give any thought at all to the relationship between gender and fragrance for some years yet…M7 would have been too big an ask, but I’m pretty sure Dior’s Eau Sauvage would have been an easy entry point…

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It’s Friday and National Candy Corn Day. Birthdays: Christopher Wren, John Adams, Clifford Brown, Louis Malle, Grace Slick. RIP Patrick Stewart. Our community project for today: celebrate the start of Halloween weekend by wearing a fragrance that you like, but that isn’t quite “you”…so it works as a costume, so to speak.

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.

Me: points for sure, in Chanel no. 5…

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It’s Mole Day, plus we have a few birthdays: Johnny Carson, Pelé, Anita Roddick. And it’s Unbottling Emotions Friday…our community project for today: wear a scent that you think embodies an emotion, and tell us what that emotion is. Thanks go to happy888cat 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.

Me: Hermès Eau de Néroli Doré for cheerfulness…

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It’s Friday plus World Food Day. Birthdays: Lucy Stanton, Oscar Wilde, Eugene O’Neill, Günter Grass. Our community project for today: wear a savory gourmand fragrance, if you have one. 

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 in Dawn Spencer Hurwitz Wasabi Shiso…

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It’s Friday and National Wildlife Day. Birthdays: Mary Renault, Richard Wright, Beyoncé. RIP Gloria Steinem.  Our community project for today: wear a fragrance that celebrates how there is never enough time to do everything you ought to do! This project might end up being so wonderful that we do it twice!

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’ve been commando since last Thursday…not enough time for perfume at the moment…

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