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Friday scent of the day 4/3

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Happy Friday and happy Poetry Month! Our community project for today: tell us about a favorite poem (or link to the text) and wear a fragrance to match.

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 am an abject failure. I tried a couple times this week to look at poetry, but I am not in the mood for poetry. My capacity to make myself do (more) things I don’t want to do is also severely impaired at the moment. So, zero points for me, despite this project having been my idea. But I do smell great, in Dawn Spencer Hurwitz Kaleidoscope…

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If you lose your sense of smell quickly

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If you believe you've lost your sense of smell (and do not have a medical reason to explain the loss), experts say to take the symptom seriously.

"At this point I would be fairly confident to put it in the same category as, say, fever," said Munger. "Obviously a variety of things can cause a fever. But if you lose your sense of smell quickly you want to self-isolate and contact your physician to talk about what actionable steps you might want to take."

— Steven Munger, director of the Center for Smell and Taste at the University of Florida, on COVID-19 symptoms. Read more in Loss of smell from coronavirus: How to test your sense at CNN.

Keap Northlands candle ~ home fragrance review

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So…a lot has happened since I wrote my last review here. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, New York City and the surrounding areas have been on “lockdown” for the past couple weeks; social gatherings were discouraged even earlier. My husband and I are both working from home, scheduling video-chats with family and friends, doing some pleasure-reading and playing with our two cats. It’s a stressful time, but we’re grateful that we’re safe and sound.

Since I’m spending nearly all my time inside, it’s a happy coincidence that I started exploring the Keap candle line last month. Keap is a Brooklyn-based, online-only business, offering candles with “nature-inspired scents created alongside legendary master perfumer Christophe Laudamiel…”

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