Rabbit rabbit! Welcome to the weekly Perfume Chat Room, perfumistas! I envision this chat room as a weekly drop-in spot online, where readers may ask questions, suggest fragrances, tell others their SOTD, comment on new releases or old favorites, and respond to each other. The perennial theme is fragrance, but we can interpret that broadly. This is meant to be a kind space, so please try not to give or take offense, and let’s all agree to disagree when opinions differ. In fragrance as in life, your mileage may vary! YMMV.

Today is Friday, August 1, and I remembered to say “rabbit rabbit” for good luck, so we may be off to a good start. It has been beastly hot all week, with the heat index well above 100 degrees Fahrenheit on most days due to the high humidity. In the last two,days, we’ve had some rain showers which have helped a bit, and relieve me of some watering duties in the garden.

I’ve been inside a lot, and I’m trying to do a bit of work every day to organize my “stuff.” This includes fragrances; I’m using the Perfumist app to at least list what I have, whatever the size (I have many travel sizes from when I had a monthly subscription).

I enjoyed those subscriptions very much and they introduced me to some scents that are now firm favorites. I stopped using them a while ago, because my collection had gotten very large, but I might resume subscribing in the future. Meanwhile, I’m enjoying how easy it is to catalog them using an app, especially since I expect August will continue to be too hot and muggy for me to spend much time outside.

Do you have any big plans for August?