Happy Friday and happy Dutch-American Friendship Day! Our community project for today: we’re off to the Netherlands (aka Holland)! Wear a perfume that is named for a place in the Netherlands, or that reminds you of a (real or imaginary) trip to the Netherlands, 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.

After reading Cutting-edge tech made this tiny country a major exporter of food in The Washington Post (fun fact: The Netherlands, “which is a bit bigger than Maryland … has become the world’s second largest exporter of agricultural products by value behind the United States”) I decided to go with Dawn Spencer Hurwitz Kaleidoscope for the connection to greenhouse vegetables…*

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Happy Friday! It’s also National Vietnam War Veterans Day. Birthdays: Pearl Bailey, Astrud Gilberto, Eric Idle. Our community project for today: celebrate Astrud Gilberto’s birthday by wearing Robert Piguet Fracas (her favorite), or wear a fragrance that fits her music, 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 in vintage Fracas. I expect I’ll hear Astrud Gilberto on the radio before the day is out…

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