Happy Friday! It’s also National Barbecue Day and the International Day of Living Together in Peace. (PSA: the Haiku challenge starts on Saturday.) Birthdays: Studs Terkel, Woody Herman, Liberace, Betty Carter and Christian Lacroix. (PSA: the Haiku challenge starts on Saturday.) Our community project for today: wear a fragrance you normally put on to wear to bed. If you don’t usually put on fragrance then, wear a fragrance you normally only wear in the evening or on special occasions? Thanks to NinaV 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.

I’m in my most-worn bedtime fragrance, Diptyque Philosykos. I keep a sample vial in my night table drawer (refilled as needed), and typically put a single drop on my forearm when I settle in to read…

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It’s Friday, Europe Day and John Brown’s birthday. Also, Guessing Game Friday (edition 5)! Our community project for today: describe your perfume to us, OR, give your perfume the name it ought to have had, and we’ll see if we can guess what it is. Thanks go to Glannys for the suggestion. And PLEASE, if nobody guesses your fragrance, come back and tell us what it was!

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 fragrance was made by a British brand, and named for a mountain town famed for its flower plantations…

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