Friday scent of the day 12/22

Posted by Robin on 22 December 2023 192 Comments

Happy (Best Buy) Friday! There are 9 days left to go for the year. Birthdays: Lady Bird Johnson, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Ralph Fiennes. Our community project for today: wear your favorite fragrance purchase of 2023. If you didn’t buy anything this year, pick a favorite from a prior year. (This is a repeat, several times over, from 2016.)

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 wearing my favorite fragrance buy of 2019, Neela Vermeire Créations Pichola…

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An enjoyable, inoffensive smell

Posted by Robin on 22 December 2023 3 Comments

Cé Noir has an enjoyable, inoffensive smell — and that’s my main issue with it. Of the few things Beyoncé said about the scent in her unboxing video, what stood out was that she wanted to create a “monolithic” fragrance. It’s accurate. It smells like someone who is comfortable with uniformity and sameness, which feels out of step with the whole vibe of Renaissance.

— Read more in Beyoncé’s Cé Noir Fragrance Is Not What We Expected at Allure.

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Friday scent of the day 12/22

An enjoyable, inoffensive smell