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Friday scent of the day 4/10

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It’s Sibling Day. Our community project for today: wear two fragrances that might be siblings, or wear one and tell us about the other, or wear a fragrance that your sibling wears, or interpret this project in any way you like.

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 my old favorite Diorissimo, along with its modern younger sister Hermès Muguet Porcelaine. If I had some DelRae Debut I’d put that on too, as the middle sister…

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Heeley Eau Sacree ~ fragrance review

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Last Sunday, I took a late-afternoon walk and noticed a wonderful incense fragrance “accord” in the air, a mix of spring flowers (magnolias, English laurel, Oregon grape) and the scent of wood burning in fireplaces. I decided to wear an incense perfume the next day and selected a sample vial of Heeley Eau Sacrée.

I love the ritual of burning incense and watching curlicues of incense smoke move through my house. Prime spots for placing incense? In front of religious images and statues, especially my Ayutthaya crowned Buddha that I “adopted” in Chiang Mai, Indra from Nepal and many Ganesh statues from India (one given to me on my wedding day). I light a candle or burn incense on days a person or animal I loved was born…or died. Incense feels important, not simply a product to scent a space…

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The daily lemming

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Will we ever be able to buy hand sanitizer again? Who knows. But if this one ever comes back in stock, I'm planning to buy it: Grove Collaborative Hydrating Hand Sanitizer in Blood Orange. "This is not your average hand sanitizer! Our 7.5 oz gel is fast-absorbing and eliminates 99.9% of germs for clean hands in a flash. We've added coconut oil for hydration + it has antibacterial and anti-fungal properties and 100% natural essential oils for a lovely blood orange scent." $7.95 for 221 ml. (And if you have a favorite hand sanitizer that smells great, do tell us about it!)

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