Lazy weekend poll ~ 5 questions, late March 2023

Posted by Robin on 25 March 2023 188 Comments

It’s the weekend! (And coming soon: the next damage poll, on 3 April, followed by the swapmeet on 15 April and the spring reading poll on 6 May.)

We’ve got 5 questions. As always, answer as many or as few as you like, or just talk about something else.

1. What fragrance are you wearing today?

2. What’s the new fragrance you’d most like to test soon?

3. What was your most recent fragrance disappointment? (A fragrance you were looking forward to but didn’t like, or anything really.)

4. What’s blooming in your local area?

5. Share something wonderful with us! It can be anything — something delicious you ate, any new hobbies or favorite tv series, any fabulous news you recently received — really, anything…

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Friday scent of the day 3/24

Posted by Robin on 24 March 2023 176 Comments

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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Thursday scent of the day 3/23

Posted by Robin on 23 March 2023 129 Comments

Happy Almost-Friday! It’s also World Meteorological Day. What fragrance are you wearing?

For an aged (rather than recently produced) rose-themed textile from Morris & Co, I’m wearing the rose-themed Parfums de Nicolaï Balkis Light, from a now relatively ancient bottle.

Reminder: 3/24 is William Morris’ birthday…

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Wednesday scent of the day 3/22

Posted by Robin on 22 March 2023 137 Comments

It’s Hump Day and World Water Day (the theme for 2023: accelerating change). Happy 92st to Mr. William Shatner! What fragrance are you wearing?

Today I’m scenting La Belle Iseult, Morris’s only finished easel painting. The painting is intended to portray Isolde mourning Tristan’s exile from Cornwall; the model was Jane Burden, who would marry William Morris a year later in 1859. (Morris reportedly was not happy with the painting, and wrote on the back “I cannot paint you but I love you”, but the Tate, where the painting resides, does not mention this so perhaps it is just a neat story.) I’m focusing on the rosemary in her crown, and I’m wearing Astier de Villatte Commune de Paris 1871.

Reminder: 3/24 is William Morris’ birthday…

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Tuesday scent of the day 3/21

Posted by Robin on 21 March 2023 157 Comments

It’s Tuesday (and teapot-less, despite the bajillion teapots and tea cups and tea cozies done up in Morris prints). Also, International Fragrance Day, World Vermouth Day, the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, World Poetry Day and the International Day of Forests. What fragrance are you wearing?

My tea this morning is Numi Chinese Breakfast mixed with Upton Christmas Tea, and in my imagination I’m drinking it in the library at Kelmscott (below), while leafing through one of the many books Morris decorated (above). The perfect scent for such an undertaking seemed to be Paul Smith Story. Mine is no longer in great shape and I ought to toss it, but it’s one of my favorite bottles. Meanwhile, I’m wearing a single spritz and I might top it off with another vetiver after a bit.