Friday scent of the day 3/20 :: Now Smell This

Happy Spring! So many of us wearing green scents today, even more than on St. Patrick’s Day! I’m joining you in one I’ve been longing to wear this month – the 1991 version of Balmain Vent Vert. It’s the fragrance that taught me how much I love a galbanum note. I love everything about it; of course, the scent itself, but also its name (so indicative of Spring weather) and the bottle itself with its jaunty polka-dot tie and feathery cap blowin’ in the wind. I’m so happy to switch over from vanilla and patchouli to green and oakmoss.

Looking forward tonight to another Shakespeare Project of Chicago play at a nearby library, ‘Dear Rhoda.’ It’s based on a pair of letter-writing lovers and set in the Roaring 20’s era in Chicago with some famous name characters of that era. The inspiration was born In 1986 when a woman bought an old trunk at a garage sale in Wisconsin; it was locked and stayed that way for 20 years in their garage until they moved to another state. When finally opened, it contained clothes and other items from the 1920’s and hundreds of letters written by a Chicago bookseller to his love. Eventually made into a play, the woman who purchased the trunk, who spent her career as a hairdresser and restaurateur with no writing experience, was convinced by her playwright friend to compose the letters from Rhoda for the play, as none were found in the trunk. I can’t wait to see!

Happy Spring! Happy Fall! And Nowruz Mubarak to those who celebrate!