It’s Tuesday and National Black Forest Cake Day. Birthdays: Maxim Gorky, Mario Vargas Llosa, Lady Gaga. What fragrance are you wearing?
I’m on the outskirts of Paris, in Parfums de Nicolaï Vie de Château, from an absolutely ancient sample that still smells pretty darned good. My tea at the moment is Kusmi Troika.
Reminder: on 3/31, for Eiffel Tower Day, wear a perfume that says Paris to you…
It’s Monday, plus International Whisk(e)y Day and World Theatre Day. Birthdays: Edward Steichen, Ben Webster and Sarah Vaughan. What fragrance are you wearing?
I’m in CB I Hate Perfume M #2 Black March.
Reminder: on 3/31, for Eiffel Tower Day, wear a perfume that says Paris to you…
Happy Friday! It’s also National Chocolate Covered Raisins Day, plus the International Day for the Right to the Truth Concerning Gross Human Rights Violations and for the Dignity of Victims. Here we’re celebrating William Morris’ birthday. Our community project for today: do whatever you like with the William Morris theme…match a textile or wallpaper or La Belle Iseult, or choose any motif (wear strawberry for Strawberry Thief, for instance)? Or take inspiration from his London house or garden, now under the care of the National Trust? Links: William Morris: A Lifelong Fascination with Flowers at Dovecot, Introducing William Morris at V&A, the William Morris website.
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 went with Fruit wallpaper, and to match I’m in Jo Malone Pomegranate Noir, which I have not worn in eons, and which is not so noir as to clash with the sunny design. The original colorways were duskier anyway…
Happy Almost-Friday! It’s also World Meteorological Day. What fragrance are you wearing?
For an aged (rather than recently produced) rose-themed textile from Morris & Co, I’m wearing the rose-themed Parfums de Nicolaï Balkis Light, from a now relatively ancient bottle.
Reminder: 3/24 is William Morris’ birthday…
It’s Hump Day and World Water Day (the theme for 2023: accelerating change). Happy 92st to Mr. William Shatner! What fragrance are you wearing?
Today I’m scenting La Belle Iseult, Morris’s only finished easel painting. The painting is intended to portray Isolde mourning Tristan’s exile from Cornwall; the model was Jane Burden, who would marry William Morris a year later in 1859. (Morris reportedly was not happy with the painting, and wrote on the back “I cannot paint you but I love you”, but the Tate, where the painting resides, does not mention this so perhaps it is just a neat story.) I’m focusing on the rosemary in her crown, and I’m wearing Astier de Villatte Commune de Paris 1871.
Reminder: 3/24 is William Morris’ birthday…