Happy Friday and happy International Tiara Day aka Queen Victoria’s birthday! (Plus, happy 83rd to Bob Dylan, and the splitmeet is still open.) Our community project for today: wear your perfume equivalent of a tiara.

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.

If I had any vintage Joy extrait left, that would be my automatic pick for a tiara, but I’m all out, so I’m in Aftelier Candide. Like Joy, it smells like it is made from real flowers, lots of them, and not much else…

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It’s Friday, the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia, and World Baking Day. Our community project for today: do what you like with the Baking Day theme. You could wear a gourmand, or you could wear any perfume with any ingredient you like to bake with (or eat), or ?? Be as creative as you like.

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.

The only thing I bake with any regularity these days is granola, so I’ve done ingredients from my granola recipe all week. Today I’m on the almonds with Marni Rose…

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