Happy National Book Lovers Day! Our community project for today: wear a fragrance inspired by an author or a book or a character in a book.
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 Hermès Kelly Caleche Eau de Toilette. Perfumer Jean-Claude Ellena said he was inspired (at least in part) by the Jean Giono novel Jean le Bleu…
If Cleopatra wanted to woo you, you’d smell her before you ever saw her. Legend has it that when she first visited Marc Antony in Tarsus, she coated the purple sails of her golden boat in a fragrance so pungent that it wafted all the way to shore.
— Read more at Researchers Concocted an Ancient Egyptian Perfume Perhaps Worn by Cleopatra at Atlas Obscura. Hat tip to ringthing!
Almost-Friday and International Cat Day. What fragrance are you wearing?
Me: another day Strange Invisible Perfumes Musc Botanique.
Reminder: on 8/9 we’ll celebrate National Book Lovers Day…
“It’s sickly,” said Dr. Laven, a history professor from Britain who was in Manhattan on an eight-day vacation. “I dislike it intensely.”
— A visitor comments on the fragrance being diffused at One World Observatory in New York City. Read more at That Smell at the Top of One World Trade? It’s on Purpose at The New York Times.
Hump Day, National Lighthouse Day. What fragrance are you wearing?
I am planning to spend my day in Strange Invisible Perfumes Musc Botanique.
Reminder: on 8/9 we’ll celebrate National Book Lovers Day…