It’s Friday, National Paul Bunyan Day, Tau Day and Henry VIII‘s birthday.  Our community project for today: we’re off to England! Wear a perfume that is named for a place in England, or that reminds you of a (real or imaginary) trip to England, or that features a local ingredient, or ?

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 following SheriG’s Thursday pick with Ormonde Jayne Champaca.

Reminder: on 7/5, we’re doing Cologne part 1: wear a classic citrus-based cologne…

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Happy Friday and happy National Bourbon Day! It’s also Flag Day and World Blood Donor Day. Birthdays: Harriet Beecher Stowe, Alois Alzheimer, Jerzy Kosiński, Laurie Colwin, Boy George. Our community project this week: it’s Roulette Friday! Devise a game of chance to choose your fragrance of the day. Thank you AnnieA for the suggestion!

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.

No points for me this week! I am still on vacation, and still in unscented lotion that I have doctored with sweet orange and ylang ylang oils. When I get home tomorrow I’ll pick a random sample to participate a day late. I am also again way behind on reading comments and will try to catch up on Sunday…

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Happy Friday and happy Prince Rogers Nelson aka Prince aka The Artist’s birthday. (Other birthdays: Beau Brummell, Elizabeth Bowen, Gwendolyn Brooks, Dean Martin, Tom Jones, Liam Neeson, Louise Erdrich). Our community project for today: scent a Prince song, or do whatever else you like with the theme.

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 get zero points for creativity, but all the same, I’m in Hermès Violette Volynka just for the color match with Purple Rain…

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Happy Friday! It’s also the last day of May, Walt Whitman’s birthday and World No Tobacco Day. Our community project for today: the Picture challenge, edition 9…wear a perfume that matches the image, which is Genesis, The Gift of Life, a 1954 glass mosaic by Mexican artist and anthropologist Miguel Covarrubias. [Above is just detail from the central part of the mosaic; more images and info here.]

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.

For the green underground figure, which I assume is based on the Aztec “earth monster” Tlaltecuhtli, I decided to go with something rooty / underground, so vetiver. After realizing I no longer have a single fragrance from my post 5 perfumes: vetiver fragrances for spring, I moved on to summer. I’m in Guerlain Vetiver…

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