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Friday scent of the day 10/23

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Caesalpinia pulcherrima

It’s Slow Burn Friday! Our community project for today: wear the perfume it took you the longest to love, or the longest to buy, or the longest to find.

What 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 L’Artisan Parfumeur Bois Farine, which I thought was pencil shavings (yuck) when I first tried it. It was still pencil shavings when I tried it later (meh) and it went right on being pencil shavings through first like, then love.

Reminder: next Friday, 10/30, will be the Halloween Special…

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Scented advent calendars 2015, part 2

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We won’t start our “official” series of holiday gift posts until Black Friday, but since advent calendars tend to sell out quickly, we’re posting those early this year. We already did Part 1; today, we’ve another handful of fragrance-related calendars plus one tea calendar and one chocolate calendar. (Please note that many of these calendars are not available in the US. Clearly they like Advent calendars in the UK more than in the US).

Diptyque advent calendar 2015

From Diptyque, a calendar featuring candles, travel sprays and body care. It will reportedly be at Selfridges in the UK in November, £250…

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Maria Candida Gentile Lady Day ~ perfume review

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Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald

Some time ago, the indie brand Strange Invisible Perfumes had a Lady Day fragrance.1 It was, as you’d expect, a gardenia (Billie Holiday, aka Lady Day, was known for wearing gardenias in her hair onstage2), and it was, as you’d perhaps also expect, big, as in a BWF (big white floral). It wasn’t dark, really, or melancholy, just big and lush, and it also wasn’t the oddball take on Lady Day that you find in Serge Lutens Une Voix Noire, which Kevin found more Gaga than Holiday.3

Italian perfumer Maria Candida Gentile takes an entirely different approach, and if I can’t really connect the smell with what I know of Billie Holiday, that’s neither here nor there I suppose, and we’re always happy to have an excuse to post another image: she is shown here with The First Lady of Song, Ella Fitzgerald…

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