Happy Almost-Friday! It’s also National Barbecue Day and the International Day of Living Together in Peace. Birthdays: Studs Terkel, Woody Herman, Liberace, Betty Carter and Christian Lacroix. (PSA: the splitmeet and the Haiku challenge are both coming up on Saturday.) What fragrance are you wearing?

The only thing I bake with any regularity these days is granola, so I’m doing ingredients from my granola recipe this week. Today: vanilla, in Hermès Vanille Galante.

Reminder: 5/17 is World Baking Day…

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It’s Wednesday, National Chocolate Chip Day, International Day of Families and Peace Officers Memorial Day. Birthdays: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, L. Frank Baum, Katherine Anne Porter, Richard Avedon, Jasper Johns. RIP Alice Munro. What fragrance are you wearing?

The only thing I bake with any regularity these days is granola, so I’m doing ingredients from my granola recipe this week. Today: nutmeg, in Le Labo Bergamote 22. 

Reminder: 5/17 is World Baking Day…

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It’s Tuesday. Birthdays: Thomas Gainsborough, Sidney Bechet, George Lucas. (And a happy belated birthday to Stevie Wonder, who turned 74 yesterday.) What fragrance are you wearing?

The only thing I bake with any regularity these days is granola, so I’m doing granola ingredients this week, starting with coconut: Estée Lauder Bronze Goddess. Tea at the moment is Harney CTC Assam + Art of Tea Cardoz Legacy Masala Chai.

Reminder: 5/17 is World Baking Day…

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Happy Almost-Friday! It’s also Europe Day and John Brown’s birthday. What fragrance are you wearing?

I’m in Tauer Perfumes Au Coeur du Désert.

Reminder: 5/10 is the International Day of Argania, so we’re off to Morocco…

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