Lazy weekend poll ~ Haiku challenge 2020!

Posted by Robin on 9 May 2020 535 Comments

Today, our eleventh annual Haiku Challenge (if you like, you can check out past years for inspiration). We’re also happy to include other forms of poetry if haiku don’t inspire you. Have a perfume-related limerick or a sonnet you’d like to share? Please do.

If you’re writing a haiku, pick a perfume or a perfume house (or really, anything related to perfume), and write a haiku about it. OR, skip the perfume theme altogether, and write a (non-political, please!) haiku about the COVID-19 pandemic.

Either way, use the simplified English form…

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Iris week x 4

Posted by Robin on 8 May 2020 9 Comments

First, irises at three gardens: RBG’s Laking Garden in 2019, then, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden at the end of April/early May, and Santa Barbara Botanic Garden in April. Then we’ve got Cocktails with Iris (Apfel). She will mix her own drink, thank you very much.

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The daily lemming

Posted by Robin on 8 May 2020 15 Comments

Cire Trudon's latest candle: "At the base of the High Atlas Mountains, the Ourika Valley is where it flourishes: iris thrives on sun and an essentially pure rural life. La Belle Matière Ourika marries a floral head note composed of gardenia, rose and magnolia with the spicy notes of benzoin and pink peppercorns to highlight iris’ sensual and powdery nature." $115.

Friday scent of the day 5/8

Posted by Robin on 8 May 2020 464 Comments

Happy Friday, happy World Red Cross Day, and happy Iris Day! (Also, happy birthday to Sir David Frederick Attenborough and to my little sister.) Our community project for today: wear an iris fragrance, if you have one.

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 Prada Infusion d’Iris Absolue, my favorite reasonably priced iris…

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