Happy Friday! It’s also World Intellectual Property Day. Today, we’re celebrating Frederick Law Olmsted’s birthday. Our community project for today: 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.

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.

For the lotus and other aquatic plants in the fountain at the Bethesda Terrace in Central Park NYC, I’m wearing Hermès Le Jardin de Monsieur Li…

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Happy Friday and happy Dutch-American Friendship Day! Our community project for today: we’re off to the Netherlands (aka Holland)! 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 ?

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.

After reading Cutting-edge tech made this tiny country a major exporter of food in The Washington Post (fun fact: The Netherlands, “which is a bit bigger than Maryland … has become the world’s second largest exporter of agricultural products by value behind the United States”) I decided to go with Dawn Spencer Hurwitz Kaleidoscope for the connection to greenhouse vegetables…*

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Happy Friday! It’s also National Vietnam War Veterans Day. Birthdays: Pearl Bailey, Astrud Gilberto, Eric Idle. Our community project for today: celebrate Astrud Gilberto’s birthday by wearing Robert Piguet Fracas (her favorite), or wear a fragrance that fits her music, 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 in vintage Fracas. I expect I’ll hear Astrud Gilberto on the radio before the day is out…

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