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Friday scent of the day 12/19

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Happy Friday and happy National Oatmeal Muffin Day! It’s the 6th night of Hanukkah and there are 12 more days to go in the year. Birthdays: Italo Svevo, Carter G. Woodson, Jean Genet, Cicely Tyson, Richard Leakey, and, the subject of today’s community project, Édith Piaf. Your task: scent an Édith Piaf song, or honor Édith Piaf with your fragrance in any other way you see fit. 

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 La Vie en Rose (music by Louiguy, lyrics by Piaf, and you can see the lyrics and English translation here), I’m wearing a fragrance that makes me see life through rose-colored glasses, Aftelier Candide…

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Wednesday scent of the day 12/17

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It’s Hump Day plus Wright Brothers Day and Maple Syrup Day. Birthdays: Ford Madox Ford, Penelope Fitzgerald, Art Neville. What fragrance are you wearing?

So AJ Liebling talked to Édith Piaf in 1947, and asked her if she still had “wonderful sad songs” to sing…

“No, I don’t feel the old songs any more. I have evolved. I was never really a pessimist. I believe that there is always a little corner of blue sky, nevertheless, somewhere. In those old songs, there arrived invariably, at the end, a catastrophe. But now I have one called ‘Mariage,’ which is quite different. It begins in the cell of a woman who has already murdered her husband. She reviews her life, she hears the wedding bells, she sees herself in the arms of this man whom she has killed, an innocent young bride. It’s very beautiful.” As for herself, Mlle. Piaf said, she has never married and never killed anybody. “For me, love always goes badly,” she said. “It is perhaps because I have a mania of choosing. I don’t wait to be chosen. That places me in a position of inferiority. And I always choose badly. So the relationships turn out badly. Sometimes only two or three days. But I’m always optimistic.”

So for Mariage, I’m in vintage Guerlain Shalimar. It’s what I’d wear to my murder trial. 

Reminder: 12/19 is Édith Piaf’s birthday… 

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Friday scent of the day 12/12

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Happy Friday and happy Gingerbread House Day! It’s also Frank Sinatra’s birthday. Our community project for today: tell us about a personal hobby or interest or any activity you do frequently, other than perfume, and match it to a fragrance. Thanks go to Kanuka 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.

For yoga (cliché, I know, but I do feel like yoga and sauna keep me sane) I’m in Comme des Garçons Ouarzazate…

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