Thursday scent of the day 11/16

Happy Almost-Friday! It’s also the International Day for Tolerance. Birthdays: WC Handy, Chinua Achebe, Diana Krall, Lisa Bonet. What fragrance are you wearing?

I am grateful that people on the MakeupAlley fragrance board were still talking about Fendi Theorema in the early 2000s; I never would have heard of it otherwise. By the time I bought my first bottle (around 2004?) it had already been discontinued (why?) but bottles were still easy to come by — I picked mine up at a local mall kiosk at a discount price. It’s still my go-to holiday scent.

Reminder: 11/17 will be Gratitude Friday…

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