Friday scent of the day 8/21 :: Now Smell This

Happy Forgotten Friday! (And, happy National Spumoni Day and Count Basie’s birthday.) Our community project for today: root around in your perfume cabinet or drawer or basket of samples or what have you, and find something you keep forgetting to wear or forgot you even owned. 

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.

I am wearing Comptoir Sud Pacifique Thé, the long discontinued original in Eau de Parfum, sent to me years ago by Kevin, and not to be confused with the later Ecume de Thé…still lovely even though there are only a few drops left in the sample he sent. It’s the perfect antidote to my failure with the Marisa Zappos yesterday, and I’m glad I came across it last night. I will probably thunk this sample over the weekend. (Kevin mentions Comptoir Sud Pacifique Thé in his Top 10 Winter Fragrances 2010.)

Reminder: on 8/28 we’re doing “the exception to the rule”…wear a fragrance that you love despite not generally caring for fragrances of its kind, or its brand, or its main note, or whatever…you come up with the rule and the exception. 

And for those of you who like to plan ahead, see Scent of the day ~ Friday community projects 2026, where I’ll occasionally manage to have the next five or six weeks mapped out in advance.

Note: top image is Water Lily — ‘Monet in Bloom’ Phipps Conservatory Pittsburgh (PA) September 2022 [cropped] by Ron Cogswell at flickr; some rights reserved.