Friday scent of the day 5/22 :: Now Smell This

 

Happy Friday, plus happy World Goth Day and Sherlock Holmes Day. RIP Olivier Creed. Our community project for today: recommend a favorite song, show, movie or book (or any form of entertainment, really) and match a scent to your pick, or to one of the characters, or whatever. Adapted from a recommendation by therabbitsflower. 

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.

If you love old screwball comedies and you have not seen My Man Godfrey, do watch it!* William Powell and Carole Lombard, what could be better? I have been trying to get my son to watch it for years and finally convinced him just last week, so it’s on my mind, but it’s been a favorite of mine for eons. I ought to go with something period (Schiaparelli Shocking would be perfect, if I had any) but instead I’m matching the exuberance with Aftelier Candide.

Reminder: there will be a community project on 5/29, and once again I am late…I will refill the bucket over the weekend! 

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

Note: top image is Peony Festival @ Garden of Toshogu Shrine @ Ueno Park [cropped] by Guilhem Vellut at flickr; some rights reserved.

*Bonus reading My streaming gem: why you should watch My Man Godfrey at The Guardian, My Man Godfrey: The Right Kind of People at Criterion Collection. The latter article was written by Farran Smith Nehme aka Self-Styled Siren, a fellow perfumista.