Ahoy! It’s Friday and International Talk Like a Pirate Day. Our community project for today: get as creative as you like with the pirate theme. Wear a fragrance inspired by a pirate or piracy, wear something you bought so cheap it was a steal, steal an idea from someone else, whatever! 

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.

My plan today was to wear something inspired by “Pirate Queen” Zheng Yi Sao. Instead, I’m sick, and hoping to get back to bed pretty soon…

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It’s Friday, National Chocolate Milkshake Day and the National Day of Encouragement. Our community project for today: wear a fragrance that evokes one of Pantone’s picks for the Autumn/Winter 2025/2026 NYFW Color Palette (see image at bottom of post, and if you like, click through to the article and pick your fragrance based on the color name or description rather than the color itself, as in “Damson is an intense purple whose contemporary glamour conjures a dramatically vintage feel” or “Cozy and comforting, Hot Chocolate summons thoughts of decadent indulgence and deliciousness”, etc.)

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 L’Artisan Parfumeur Drôle de Rose for Primrose Pink…

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Happy Friday and happy International Day of Charity! It’s also Freddie Mercury’s birthday (he was born in 1946, and would be 79 if he were still alive today). Our community project: scent a Queen song, or honor Freddie Mercury with your fragrance in any other way you see fit. 

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. And a bonus question: suggest an artist, group or theme for a music community project. For reference, I will post a list of what we’ve done so far in the comments. And remember, you’re ALWAYS welcome to suggest a community project on any theme, and you’re ALWAYS welcome to ignore community projects …nobody cares, and you don’t ever have to apologize or explain if you don’t join in. They’re just for fun. 

My inspiration today: Somebody to Love, the Aretha-Franklin-inspired, gospel-tinged 1976 song from the album A Day at the Races. It’s easily my favorite Queen song (of those I know, which admittedly is a fraction of the band’s output). The lyrics are introspective bordering on morose, but the music is soaring, and it always makes me happy when I hear it. I’m in Aftelier Candide…

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Happy Friday! Birthdays today: John Locke, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Ingrid Bergman, Charlie Parker, Dinah Washington. Our community project is Desert Island Friday…come up with a list of 5 fragrances you could live with for some unspecified amount of time while marooned on a desert island. Share your list with us, and wear one of the fragrances. Thanks go to springpansy for the idea! 

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.

In case I get stressed about being stranded, I’m bringing Comme des Garçons Ouarzazate. My other four picks, which are woefully inadequate unless I am going to be rescued within, say, a week or two, are Diorissimo, Diptyque Philosykos, Hermès Eau de Néroli Doré and Chanel Bois des Iles…

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