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Friday scent of the day 10/21

Posted by Robin on 21 October 2022 169 Comments

It’s Friday, and it’s Ursula LeGuin’s birthday. Our community project for today: choose a work of speculative fiction or a character from such a work, and wear the fragrance that you think fits. Your chosen work can be written, audio or visual. Bonus points if you choose a work of LeGuin’s or one of the shortlisted works for the inaugural Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction.

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.

For the episode of The Good Place where the characters find out that the Good Place smells like whatever makes you happy (season 3 episode 10), I’m wearing Aftelier Candide…

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Thursday scent of the day 10/20

Posted by Robin on 20 October 2022 125 Comments

Happy Almost-Friday! It’s also International Chefs Day, World Osteoporosis Day and Information Overload Day. Birthdays: Arthur Rimbaud, Jelly Roll Morton, Bela Lugosi, Tom Petty, Viggo Mortensen. What fragrance are you wearing?

I’m in Annick Goutal Nuit Etoilée for the pine tree in The Bedlam Stacks by Natasha Pulley.

Reminder: on 10/21, for Ursula LeGuin’s birthday…

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Wednesday scent of the day 10/19

Posted by Robin on 19 October 2022 155 Comments

It’s Hump Day and International Gin & Tonic Day. Birthdays: John le Carré, Peter Max, Divine, Philip Pullman. PSA: The splitmeet will start on Saturday. What fragrance are you wearing?

I’m in Olivier Durbano Black Tourmaline for the character Crowley (played by David Tennant) in the 2019 series Good Omens (from the novel of the same name by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, which I have never read).

Reminder: on 10/21, for Ursula LeGuin’s birthday….

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Tuesday scent of the day 10/18

Posted by Robin on 18 October 2022 163 Comments

It’s Tuesday plus National Chocolate Cupcake Day. Birthdays: A. J. Liebling, Anita O’Day, Chuck Berry, Martina Navratilova, Wynton Marsalis. What fragrance are you wearing?

I went for the easy points today: I’m in Annick Goutal Mandragore for the Harry Potter series. Tea this morning is chai (a mix of Numi Chai and Mariage Frères Chandernagor) with a splash of cream.

Reminder: on 10/21, for Ursula LeGuin’s birthday…

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Monday scent of the day 10/17

Posted by Robin on 17 October 2022 170 Comments

It’s the Monday-est of Mondays, plus National Pasta Day and the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. What fragrance are you wearing?

I meant to pair something with Lyra’s Oxford by Philip Pullman, since ockeghem brought up the author yesterday, but somehow I’ve ended up in L’Artisan Parfumeur L’Eau du Caporal. It does not fit. If I think of a way to retrofit my fragrance to something in the His Dark Materials / Northern Lights universe by the end of the day, I’ll come back and claim points.

Reminder: on 10/21, for Ursula LeGuin’s birthday…

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