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Tuesday scent of the day 10/21

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It’s Tuesday and National Apple Day, plus happy Diwali! Birthdays today: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Celia Cruz, Dizzy Gillespie, Ursula Le Guin, Carrie Fisher. What fragrance are you wearing?

I’m in Astier de Villatte Grand Chalet, a fragrance I connect with Kevin, and it’s also his fault I want that teapot.

Reminder: on 10/24, wear any fragrance you like and tell us what you’d like people to think of you when they smell it on you, OR, wear a fragrance and connect it with a fellow reader who “enabled” you to get it or who you know likes it/has mentioned wearing it…

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Friday scent of the day 10/17

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It’s Friday and National Pasta Day, plus the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. Our community project for today: wear the perfume you would like to be buried or cremated in. (This was a suggestion from Deva, who did note that it is a bit macabre, but also that many cultures include fragrance materials of various sorts in their funerary rites. I was saving this project until Deva rejoined us, but since it looks like she has moved on to other interests, I’d like to take this opportunity to honor her since her presence here brightened everybody’s day for so long. If it’s too macabre for you, don’t join in, obviously!) 

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 do not have any strong opinions on what fragrance I’d want to be buried or cremated in. If I was to be buried, it wouldn’t hurt to throw a vintage houndstooth bottle of Diorissimo in my coffin? I’m more interested in what I’d smell while I was dying, and I think it should be something calming that did not bring up any associations with things I was trying to hold onto or fret over, so I’m going with my old standby Comme des Garçons Ouarzazate, layered over my DIY lotion of ylang and sweet orange for a little uplift. I suppose if I am cremated someone could spray on a refresh…

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Thursday scent of the day 10/16

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Happy Almost-Friday! It’s also World Food Day. Birthdays: Lucy Stanton, Oscar Wilde, Eugene O’Neill, Günter Grass. What fragrance are you wearing?

For Oscar Wilde, who was buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris — where today’s photo of the monument of Dominique Vivant Denon was taken — I’d be in Floris Malmaison if I could, but since I no longer have any I went with a modern carnation, Aedes de Venustas Oeillet Bengale.

Reminder: on 10/17, wear the perfume you would like to be buried or cremated in…

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Wednesday scent of the day 10/15

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Happy Hump Day! It’s also Global Handwashing Day and World Students’ Day. Birthdays: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche and Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse. What fragrance are you wearing?

I’m wearing what I’d think I’d like to wear as I was dying: my DIY lotion with ylang ylang and sweet orange oils. Layered on top today: Astier de Villatte Grand Chalet.

Reminder: on 10/17, wear the perfume you would like to be buried or cremated in…

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