It’s Friday, International Lego Day, Data Privacy Day, and Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette’s birthday. Our community project for today: wear a fragrance to mark Colette’s birthday. (You could wear a fragrance inspired by Colette or one of her characters? scent a character? scent Leslie Caron in the movie Gigi? Or wear Guerlain Jicky, which Colette is said to have worn.)

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 Robert Piguet Fracas…

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It’s Friday and Emily Dickinson’s birthday. Our community project for today: wear a fragrance with a note she mentioned in one of her poems (helpful lists here, here, 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 what I think of an outdoor rose: Diptyque L’Ombre dans L’Eau. (Une Rose by Frédéric Malle would have been even better, but I’m all out.)

Reminder: 12/17 will be Best Buy Friday…

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Happy Friday and happy Global Handwashing Day! It’s also Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse‘s birthday. Our community project for today: wear a perfume for Jeeves OR Wooster. If you have never seen or read anything about Jeeves and Wooster, pick a favorite comic character from any medium, and scent that character.

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 Astier de Villatte Commune de Paris 1871, which doesn’t really address the cp proper — I’m not assigning it to Jeeves or Wooster in particular — but if you ignore the name, it’s a decent way to conjure up the series as a whole, maybe even the entire Wodehouse universe, covering what Kevin called…

…a lovely scented mix of country-walk (lemon and bergamot leading to lavender-coumarin-moss) and cozy parlor — a smooth benzoin-patchouli accord combining with scents I’ll describe as “candy dish” and powder puff…

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