Happy Friday, plus happy Coast Guard Day and National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day. It’s also Louis Armstrong’s birthday. Our community project for today: scent a Louis Armstrong song. If that’s too hard, wear rose for La Vie en Rose? Or wear something by Lanvin (he had a half empty bottle of some sort of Lanvin cologne on his dresser when he died).

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 Robert Piguet Fracas, for Louis Armstrong singing Cole Porter’s Let’s Do It, from the album Louis Armstrong Meets Oscar Peterson, 1959…

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It’s Friday, plus World Nature Conservation Day and National Milk Chocolate Day. Birthdays: Beatrix Potter, Marcel Duchamp, Malcolm Lowry, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Our community project for today: we’re off to Africa! Wear a perfume that is named for a place in Africa, or that reminds you of a (real or imaginary) trip to Africa, or that features an African ingredient, or ? Modified from a suggestion by JB. 

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.

It’s too hot for anything else, so I’m ending the week how I started, in Hermès Un Jardin Sur Le Nil…

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It’s Friday and Bastille Day. (It’s also Shark Awareness Day. Birthdays: Gustav Klimt, Ingmar Bergman.) Our community project for today: See if you might possibly have anything French in your collection? Extra points for extra-French-ness, or for silly perfume Frenchification. (This is a repeat from 2017).

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 taking bonus points for extra-French-ness, in a little dab of vintage Guerlain Jicky…

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