Happy Friday! It’s also National Chocolate Covered Raisins Day, plus the International Day for the Right to the Truth Concerning Gross Human Rights Violations and for the Dignity of Victims. Here we’re celebrating William Morris’ birthday. Our community project for today: do whatever you like with the William Morris theme…match a textile or wallpaper or La Belle Iseult, or choose any motif (wear strawberry for Strawberry Thief, for instance)? Or take inspiration from his London house or garden, now under the care of the National Trust? Links: William Morris: A Lifelong Fascination with Flowers at Dovecot, Introducing William Morris at V&A, the William Morris website.

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 went with Fruit wallpaper, and to match I’m in Jo Malone Pomegranate Noir, which I have not worn in eons, and which is not so noir as to clash with the sunny design. The original colorways were duskier anyway…

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It’s Friday, plus National Mario Day, Harriet Tubman Day and International Bagpipe Day. Our community project for today: we’re doing Time Travel Friday…be as creative as you like with the theme. You could wear a perfume that reminds you of a trip you once took, or that brings you back to a prior period of your life for any reason, or that calls to mind a place you’d like to visit in the past or future.

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 decided to revisit my honeymoon, so it’s Prague in the late 1990s, but this time, I’m wearing fragrance (if I was the first time, I have no memory of it, but who knows). Ormonde Jayne Ta’if would go perfectly with that sky…

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It’s Friday! Birthdays: Jean Harlow, Ira Glass. RIP Wayne Shorter. It’s also World Wildlife Day, and the 2023 theme is Partnerships for Wildlife Conservation. Our community project for today: wear a fragrance from a brand making an effort in the arena of biodiversity protection (you should have plenty of choice).

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 vintage Yves Saint Laurent Paris, and taking points for YSL’s Rewild Our Earth program…

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It’s World Bartender Day, plus, Steampunk Friday! Our community project for today: do whatever you like with the steampunk theme. Suggested by JB and seconded by a bunch of other readers. (And if you need inspiration for this project, see JB’s comment here.)

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 Prada Homme / Prada Man, which struck me as the perfect retro-modern fragrance to go with the D&G fashions shown above (Prada had lots of similar steampunk-ish men’s fashion campaigns, but I was taken with this image)…

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