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Lazy 3-day weekend poll ~ summer reading list, edition 15

Posted by Robin on 12 July 2025 29 Comments

Welcome to our annual summer reading poll! Please recommend a great book to add to our summer reading lists, and tell us what fragrance we should wear while reading it.

(Or, do what I do and record here everything you have read since the last quarterly reading poll. And if you want more recommendations, scrolling through the literature tag will bring up all the older reading polls.)

Or, as always, just talk about something else, and of course, do report your fragrance of the day if you like…

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Friday scent of the day 7/11

Posted by Robin on 11 July 2025 206 Comments

Happy Friday! It’s also Free Slurpee from 7-Eleven day, plus World Population Day (that would be about 8.2 billion). Birthdays: James Abbott McNeill Whistler, EB White, Jhumpa Lahiri. Our community project for today: imagine you are an astronaut and you’ve just returned to earth after nine months in space. What scent did you miss most, and what perfume would you reach for? 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 think what I would miss the most is the smell of real flowers, so I’m in the perfume from my collection that smells the most like real flowers: Aftelier Candide. (My runners up, but I have only a few drops left of each, would be CB I Hate Perfume On A Clear Day You Can See Forever or April Aromatics Jasmina; if I still had any at all I would have considered Hiram Green Moon Bloom…)

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Thursday scent of the day 7/10

Posted by Robin on 10 July 2025 118 Comments

Happy Almost-Friday! It’s also Piña Colada Day and Nikola Tesla Day, plus, watch for the Buck Moon tonight. More birthdays: Marcel Proust, Mavis Staples, Arlo Guthrie, Arthur Ashe. What fragrance are you wearing?

Among the many smells I would miss from Earth: spices. So I’m in Comptoir Sud Pacifique L’Eau du Gouverneur.

Reminder: on 7/11, imagine you are an astronaut and you’ve just returned to earth after nine months in space…

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Wednesday scent of the day 7/9

Posted by Robin on 9 July 2025 120 Comments

It’s Hump Day and National Sugar Cookie Day. Birthdays: Oliver Sacks, Tom Hanks. What fragrance are you wearing?

DeniseH commented yesterday that what she would miss after nine months in space were natural odors, not perfumes, and that is pretty much how I feel. For the next three days I’ll wear perfumes that come close to natural smells on earth, starting with the scent of soil, CB I Hate Perfume Black March. 

Reminder: on 7/11, imagine you are an astronaut and you’ve just returned to earth after nine months in space…

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Tuesday scent of the day 7/8

Posted by Robin on 8 July 2025 139 Comments

It’s Tuesday and Math 2.0 Day. Birthdays: Louis Jordan, Billy Eckstine, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Anjelica Huston. What fragrance are you wearing?

I’m in Arielle Shoshana Saturday. Tea at the moment is Chai Impérial from Palais des Thés.

Reminder: on 7/11, imagine you are an astronaut and you’ve just returned to earth…

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