It’s (Teapot) Tuesday and World Fair Play Day. Birthdays: Johns Hopkins, Malcolm X, Nora Ephron, Grace Jones. What fragrance are you wearing?
We’re expecting a scorcher of a day here. I’m in Eau de Guerlain. Tea at the moment is Traditional Medicinals Rose Hips & Hibiscus.
Reminder: 5/23 will be Recommendation Friday…
It’s Friday and National Chocolate Chip Day, plus the International Day of Families and Peace Officers Memorial Day. Birthdays: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, L. Frank Baum, Katherine Anne Porter, Richard Avedon, Jasper Johns. Our community project for today is the Picture Challenge, edition 11: choose a fragrance based on the Arnolfini Portrait by Jan van Eyck.* As usual, you are free to be as farfetched as you like in your fragrance choice…or go literal: her dress is green, they are both wearing animal fur, there are oranges on the chest and windowsill, and cherries on the tree outside the window, etc etc. Thank you to Calypso 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 Ms. Arnolfini’s green wool dress, I’m in Hermès Vetiver Tonka. The vetiver is a decent enough match with the color, and some of you may remember that when the first four Hermessences launched, each was matched with a fabric, and Vetiver Tonka was meant to suggest wool…
Happy Almost-Friday! Birthdays: Thomas Gainsborough, Sidney Bechet, George Lucas. What fragrance are you wearing?
I’m stealing SheriG’s fragrance from yesterday, Parfum d’Empire Azemour Les Orangers. Note that some experts think the oranges in the painting are included to advertise the couple’s great wealth, but others emphasize the biblical connections to innocence, sin and temptation (and note that in Van Eyck’s Ghent Altarpiece, Eve is holding a citrus fruit).**
Reminder: on 5/15 we’re doing the Picture challenge, edition 11. The subject is the Arnolfini Portrait by Jan van Eyck…
It’s Hump Day and World Cocktail Day and Stevie Wonder’s birthday. What fragrance are you wearing?
For the carved wooden figure of Saint Margaret, the patron saint of childbirth, on the chair — I thought it was part of the bed but apparently it is a chair, and the carving is believed to have been added later — behind the woman who is believed to be Costanza Trenta, possibly painted after she had died in childbirth, I am wearing Diptyque Tam Dao.
Reminder: on 5/15 we’re doing the Picture challenge, edition 11. The subject is the Arnolfini Portrait by Jan van Eyck…
It’s Tuesday, plus International Nurses Day (aka Florence Nightingale’s birthday) — thank you, nurses! It’s also Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) International Awareness Day and National Limerick Day (aka Edward Lear’s birthday). What fragrance are you wearing?
I overslept and have an appointment later this morning…I am commando and will pick something this afternoon from what ya’ll are wearing. Tea at the moment is random black from Upton, brewed with cacao husk.
Reminder: on 5/15 we’re doing the Picture challenge, edition 11. The subject is the Arnolfini Portrait by Jan van Eyck…