It’s Friday and Emily Dickinson’s birthday. Our community project for today: wear a fragrance with a note she mentioned in one of her poems (helpful lists here, here, here).
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 what I think of an outdoor rose: Diptyque L’Ombre dans L’Eau. (Une Rose by Frédéric Malle would have been even better, but I’m all out.)
Reminder: 12/17 will be Best Buy Friday…
Happy Friday and happy Global Handwashing Day! It’s also Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse‘s birthday. Our community project for today: wear a perfume for Jeeves OR Wooster. If you have never seen or read anything about Jeeves and Wooster, pick a favorite comic character from any medium, and scent that character.
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 Astier de Villatte Commune de Paris 1871, which doesn’t really address the cp proper — I’m not assigning it to Jeeves or Wooster in particular — but if you ignore the name, it’s a decent way to conjure up the series as a whole, maybe even the entire Wodehouse universe, covering what Kevin called…
…a lovely scented mix of country-walk (lemon and bergamot leading to lavender-coumarin-moss) and cozy parlor — a smooth benzoin-patchouli accord combining with scents I’ll describe as “candy dish” and powder puff…
Last call…the freebiemeet is open all day Saturday! The splitmeet will start on the 23rd.
Meanwhile, please recommend a great book to add to our fall reading lists, and tell us what fragrance we should wear while reading it.
Or, as always, just talk about something else…
Welcome to our annual summer reading poll! (And we’ve done quarterly reading polls the last couple years, so if you want more recommendations, see fall, winter and spring. Also, you can help me out by telling me if you’d like to keep the reading polls going on a quarterly basis, or go back to once or twice a year?)
Author birthdays this weekend: Marcel Proust, Jean Kerr and Alice Munro on Saturday; Jhumpa Lahiri and Kevin Powers on Sunday.
The poll: please recommend a great book to add to our summer reading lists, and tell us what fragrance we should wear while reading it…
Rabbit, rabbit, rabbit and welcome to May! And welcome to our 2nd annual spring reading poll. Please recommend a great book to add to our reading lists, and tell us what fragrance we should wear while reading it.
(Or, as always, just talk about something else.)
What I’ve read since our winter reading poll…