Happy Friday and happy Daiquiri Day! Our community project for today: wear a fragrance by Jo Loves, Jack Perfumes, Jardins D’Écrivains, Jul et Mad or Juliette Has A Gun, if you have one. Partial credit for any other small-ish brand that starts with the letter J.

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 Richard E Grant’s Jack Covent Garden, a light citrus / iris which is a good fit with the crazy hot weather we’re expecting today…

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Happy Friday and happy Kebab Day! It’s also Henry David Thoreau’s birthday, aka Simplicity Day, and that’s our community project for today: do absolutely whatever you like with the Simplicity Day theme. (And a link I would have included earlier in the week had I seen it in time: Thoreau: “The country knows not yet, or in the least part, how great a son it has lost.” by Ralph Waldo Emerson, from the August 1862 issue of The Atlantic.)

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 am wearing unscented lotion mixed with a few drops of Frankincense oil and a few drops of Sweet Orange Oil.

Reminder: on 7/19, wear a fragrance by Jo Loves, Jack Perfumes, Jardins D’Écrivains, Jul et Mad or Juliette Has A Gun, if you have one…

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Happy Dealer’s Choice Friday! Our community project for today: propose a theme for a Friday community project, and wear a fragrance that fits your theme. (We did this in 2015 and 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.

My theme is “people change”: wear something you never would have worn in your pre-perfumista days. I’m in CB I Hate Perfume Memory of Kindness…

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It’s Time Travel Friday! Our community project for today: wear a perfume that takes you back in time, or reminds you of something / somewhere in your past. It does not have to be a perfume you wore in the past. Thanks go out to chocolatemarzipan8 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.

My very sad bid for partial credit: when I wear Cutter Lemon Eucalyptus next year, it will remind me of this week at the lake when it’s all I could wear because of the bugs…

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