It’s Friday and Bastille Day. (It’s also Shark Awareness Day. Birthdays: Gustav Klimt, Ingmar Bergman.) Our community project for today: See if you might possibly have anything French in your collection? Extra points for extra-French-ness, or for silly perfume Frenchification. (This is a repeat from 2017).

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 taking bonus points for extra-French-ness, in a little dab of vintage Guerlain Jicky…

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It’s Friday and the last day of June. (Don’t forget to rabbit tomorrow.) Also, Asteroid Day and Lena Horne’s birthday. Our community project for today: we’re off to Germany. Wear a perfume by a German brand (Escada? Hugo Boss? Jil Sander? Mäurer & Wirtz / 4711?) or named for a place in Germany, or that you bought in Germany, or whatever you can think of to fit the theme. Suggested by ockeghem and voted for by carole and chocolatemarzipan8.

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 Ormonde Jayne Champaca…

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It’s Friday, plus United Nations Public Service Day. (Plus, a few birthdays: Alan Turing, June Carter Cash, Frances McDormand.) It’s also National Let It Go Day. Our community project for today: wear a perfume that works in the way the day is intended…that is, that helps you let go of negative feelings from the past. OR, wear a perfume you’ve been hoarding, OR, thunk (use up) a bottle or sample, OR, come up with some other creative take on the theme of letting go. 

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 giving myself bonus points. On one arm, I’m wearing Gobin-Daudé Sous Le Buis, a perfume I adored, waited to buy at half price when the brand went out of business, then hoarded too long: it really does not smell so great anymore and I am throwing it out right now. On the other arm I’ve got Gobin-Daudé Sève Exquise, which is no longer in pristine condition but it does still smell lovely after it settles…I need to stop “saving it” and wear it more often…

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Happy Friday and happy Bloomsday! Birthdays today: Geronimo, Adam Smith. Our community project for today is Close to Home…wear a perfume that comes from a local maker, or has your location in its name or backstory, or maybe uses a ingredient/ plant that is native to your area, or interpret this howsoever you like. 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.

I’m in Dawn Spencer Hurwitz Kaleidoscope for the many years that my husband kept a large vegetable garden out back…

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