It’s Friday, plus National Double Cheeseburger Day, the International Day of Democracy and Agatha Christie’s birthday. Our community project for today: we’re off to Italy! Wear a perfume that is named for a place in Italy, or that reminds you of a (real or imaginary) trip to Italy, or that features an Italian 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 still at the beach, still commando, and even more behind on comments. (I’ll catch up when I get home on Sunday.) Zero points for me this week! (But if I was home and if I still had any, I’d have gone with the sadly discontinued Eau d’Italie Paestum Rose…)

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Rabbit rabbit rabbit! It’s September, and the start of the long Labor Day weekend. Our community project for today: wear a fragrance that pays tribute to your own work, paid or unpaid, or that will bring you good luck for the month.

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 paying tribute to my work on Now Smell This in Carthusia Mediterraneo, which I was wearing back in May 2014 when we started doing daily scent of the day polls…

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Happy Friday and happy National Banana Split Day! (Plus a few birthdays: Leonard Bernstein, Sean Connery, Wayne Shorter, Martin Amis, Elvis Costello.) Our community project: Do whatever you like with the banana split 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’m doing vanilla + nuts + cherries, again, this time in the old-school cult classic The People of the Labyrinths Luctor et Emergo…

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It’s Friday and it’s August. Maybe it’s too hot to cook? Our community project for today:  wear a fragrance that features a note that you might eat in a salad, or that you might grow in a vegetable garden…carrot? tomato? basil? rhubarb? 

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 going to be spending my day in the car, heading home from a week of vacation. I’m commando — I didn’t bring any perfume with me — but when I get home I’ll put on a dab of Dawn Spencer Hurwitz Kaleidoscope…

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