It’s Hump Day. RIP Graham Greene. What fragrance are you wearing?
There have been stretches of my life where hearing just the opening of Bohemian Rhapsody (written by Freddie Mercury and released on A Night at the Opera, 1975) made me leave the room, and also stretches where I’d play it loud, usually in my car, not quite at Wayne’s World levels of participation, but still. Anyway, WBUR says it is “probably one of the most recognizable recordings ever made”* and that has to be true. We’re having lovely weather here today, but even with a high of 77 I am not willing to put on the sort of over-the-top fragrance that would properly honor the song. So instead I’m in a dab of vintage Old Spice, because it reminds me of the 70s, and the irony of a carnation fragrance becoming the quintessential aftershave of the era — how did I never notice this as the time? — makes it an extra good fit with Mercury.
Reminder: 9/5 is Freddie Mercury’s birthday…
