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Lazy 3-day weekend poll ~ Spring Forward, 2025

Posted by Robin on 8 March 2025 192 Comments

PSA: Don’t forget to change your clocks tonight! (Unless you live in a happy place that doesn’t bother with daylight savings.) 

Today: our annual spring forward poll. As always, answer as many or as few as you like, or just talk about something else. If it’s fall where you live, adjust the questions accordingly.

1. What’s the fragrance you’d most like to add to your collection this spring? 

2. You have to vote one perfume in your collection off the island. Which one will go first, and why?

3. It’s time for (fantasy) Spring Break! Where are you going, and pick ONE fragrance to bring with you…

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Friday scent of the day 3/22

Posted by Robin on 22 March 2024 199 Comments

It’s the first Friday of Spring 2024. (Also, World Water Day and William Shatner’s birthday.) Our community project for today: wear a spring floral, or any fragrance that says spring to you (if you’re in the southern hemisphere, adjust accordingly.)

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 Jour d’Hermès (again), although if I could find it, I’d be in Frédéric Malle En Passant (I included both in 5 perfumes: pretty spring florals)…

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Lazy weekend poll ~ Spring Forward, 2024

Posted by Robin on 9 March 2024 191 Comments

PSA: Don’t forget to change your clocks tonight! (Unless you live in a happy place that doesn’t bother with daylight savings.) 

Today: our annual spring forward poll. As always, answer as many or as few as you like, or just talk about something else. If it’s fall where you live, adjust the questions accordingly.

1. What’s the fragrance you’d most like to add to your collection this spring? 

2. You have to vote one perfume in your collection off the island. Which one will go first, and why?

3. It’s time for (fantasy) Spring Break! Where are you going, and pick ONE fragrance to bring with you…

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We’re better at smelling it than sharks are at smelling blood

Posted by Robin on 20 March 2023 2 Comments

Humans are super-sensitive to it as well. In fact, according to plant scientists at the U.K.'s John Innes Centre, we can detect it in as few as 100 parts per trillion – that's "trillion" with a "T" – which, as they vividly put it, means we're better at smelling it than sharks are at smelling blood.

— On geosmin, from We know what causes the scent of spring, but what's it actually for? at The Weather Network via Yahoo.

Lazy weekend poll ~ Spring Forward, 2023

Posted by Robin on 11 March 2023 179 Comments

PSA: Don’t forget to change your clocks tonight! (Unless you live in a happy place that doesn’t bother with daylight savings.) 

Today: our annual spring forward poll. As always, answer as many or as few as you like, or just talk about something else. If it’s fall where you live, adjust the questions accordingly.

1. What’s the fragrance you’d most like to add to your collection this spring? 

2. You have to vote one perfume in your collection off the island. Which one will go first, and why?

3. It’s time for (fantasy) Spring Break! Where are you going, and pick ONE fragrance to bring with you…

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