Saturday is Penguin Awareness Day and Sunday is International Sweatpants Day.
We’re celebrating all of it with our usual open thread poll. Talk about anything you like — the fragrance you’re wearing today, your favorite “fight the chill” perfume, whatever.
Or, ask a question about fragrance, then see if anyone else has asked a question that you can answer…
Happy Friday and happy 78th to Dolly Parton! (More birthdays: Edgar Allan Poe, Paul Cézanne, Patricia Highsmith, Julian Barnes, Janis Joplin, Edwidge Danticat.) Our community project for today: our theme is Dolly Parton, do what you like with it!
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.
Kris pointed out yesterday that there is a hybrid rose named after Dolly Parton, plus she likes (yellow) roses. I’m in The Perfumer’s Workshop Tea Rose, the rose in my collection that seemed like the best fit…
Happy Almost-Friday! It’s also National Thesaurus Day, aka Peter Mark Roget’s birthday. More birthdays: AA Milne, Cary Grant, Philippe Starck. What fragrance are you wearing?
I’m in Imaginary Authors Yesterday Haze. I’m sure it has some relationship to something about Dolly Parton and I’ll think of what it is by the end of the day, hopefully.
Reminder: 1/19 is Dolly Parton’s birthday…
Happy Hump Day! Birthdays: Benjamin Franklin, Anne Brontë, Betty White, Eartha Kitt. What fragrance are you wearing?
For my favorite Dolly Parton song, a version of the traditional ballad Silver Dagger, released on the 1999 folk / bluegrass album The Grass is Blue, I’d be wearing Serge Lutens Iris Silver Mist if I still had any. In its place I’m wearing Prada Infusion d’Iris Absolue, which isn’t quite right but will have to do. (You can listen to the song here.)
Reminder: 1/19 is Dolly Parton’s birthday…
It’s Tuesday. Also, National Religious Freedom Day, or, if you prefer, National Nothing Day. Birthdays: Susan Sontag, Sade, Kate Moss. What fragrance are you wearing?
I’m in L’Artisan Parfumeur La Chasse aux Papillons, because Dolly Parton loves butterflies (and because carole and TeaInTheGarden mentioned it in yesterday’s poll).
Reminder: 1/19 is Dolly Parton’s birthday…