- Jan 3, 2019
The upcoming synch theme is:
March 24 - I Promise, I Have Nothing to Wear. When your are stuck for choice, or can’t be bothered, or grab the first thing.
(Wear either your easiest reach or let Pick my scent button function decide your scent of the day.)
(I will try to update this every Monday to leave time to prepare and will post something no earlier than on Wednesday to not make this a week-long synch)
Hello, dear fragrance enthusiasts, lovers and freaks, also fraghags, fraghos, smelly sisters and smelly brothers, and welcome to the Synchronized Fridays 2023!
First of all, I want to thank you so much for participating this year. I loved - and still love - reading through your choices, reasonings, stories and comments. The Friday Synch is just the gift that keeps on giving <3
Now let's make the 2023 a great perfume year, too – together!
The Great Friday Synch Schedule for 2023:
January: Redefining your priorities, High Hopes and Crazy Rhythms
January 6 - Out with the old, in with the new: Wear either a long neglected favourite or a new find that might become a new favourite!
January 13 - Last Year I Gave You My Heart: Making reference to Grant’s new feature Your Perfume Year in Review, wear and tell us about the one you wore the most in 2022.
(if you have finished the bottle already or you can't be bothered, it can be your second most worn, too!)
January 20 - Possession Obsession/Wild Child: Your most recent scent obsession or a scent/note you're currently wild about (tell us about it).
January 27 - You're Simply the Best: Wear a scent from your favourite house.
February: Managing your expectations
February 3 - Second Best: Wear a scent from your second favourite house.
February 10 - You Give Love a Bad Name: a perfume with a name that doesn't do it justice. Either a bad name or a name that just doesn't describe it properly.
February 17 - Meh Day: wear a fragrance rated 3 stars by Turin & Sanchez in The Perfume Guide, because mediocrity needs some love, too!
February 24 - Dreaming of dunes and scorching sun. Wear a fragrance that reminds you of sand - either in texture, feel, colour, taste, look, name or scent itself.
March: Ice is getting thin, just like your patience
March 3 - Spring is just around the corner. Wear a GREEN scent.
March 10 - Feel like hiding under a rock day. (A scent that's great when home alone? A melancholy scent? A scent to get through a difficult day? A scent that reminds you of ROCKS?)
March 17 - Who cares about spring and green. Autumn is sneaking upon us in Southern Hemisphere anyway. Wear a BROWN or GOLDEN scent.
March 24 - I Promise, I Have Nothing to Wear. When your are stuck for choice, or can’t be bothered, or grab the first thing.
(Wear either your easiest reach or let Pick my scent button function decide your scent of the day.)
March 31 - Everyone's a fool anyway, so let's make fun of it. Emoji Day: Use emojis to name your SOTD, & let others figure out what you're wearing.
April: Finding a newfound inner strength while lilacs and daisies are pushing up
April 7 - Spring cleaning. Wear your most polite or cleanest scent.
April 14 - Flower Power: Your favourite flower. Tell us about it. (You can get creative here. CaliFLOWER is also a flower)
April 21 - A scent to move mountains to, or Empowering perfumes – a scent that makes you feel powerful.
April 28 - Element: Air. A breeze of fresh air, a gust of wind or a rainstorm approaching? Or just an airy, breezy scent?
May: %$@# You, I Won't Do What You Tell Me
May 5 - O Hippie Day. Patchouli, anyone?
May 12 - Contrary Week. Select a fragrance with notes that you don't normally enjoy or care for but have made an exception to.
May 19 - (H)Angry Day. A fragrance that's FIRE and ANGER personified. Or, alternatively, smells so delicious it makes you HANGRY (hungry and angry at once).
May 26 - Polyamory in Fragranceland. Wear two perfumes that go well together, or two concentrations of the same perfume at the same time.
June: Okay, maybe chill a bit?
June 2 - Cool down, it's just a summertime. Wear a scent that gives you a COOLING sensation to make that livin' easy.
Friends in the Southern Hemisphere: Winter is coming. Brace yourselves with a WARMING fragrance.
June 9 - Carefree Day. Wear a frivolous and happy scent.
June 16 - Aha! Day: What perfume/note(s) were your 'aha' moment? The notes that particularly resonate with you.
June 23 - I need some (aroma)therapy. A scent that puts you in a relaxed zen-like state whether it's at a place like a spa or at a barbershop.
July: A Holiday Romance
July 7 - A Solo Trip aka A Solinote Day. Wear a fragrance that focuses on just one main note. (Can be a soliflore, solifruit, soliwood, solifood...)
July 14 - Dreaming of 'The One'. What fragrance your favourite literature/movie/comic etc. character would wear according to you.
July 21 - Finding 'The One'. Wear a perfume that was love at first sniff—no questioning, thinking, reviews or assistance required—sold!
July 28 - Taking Selfies together aka Photorealism Day. Wear something that smells so realistic it feels like a photograph of the scent it’s copying.
August: Road Trippin' With My Favourite Allies (To Say Nothing About The Bottle)
August 4 - A People Pleaser: The scent that when worn, consistently gives you the most compliments.
(If you're like me and you never get compliments, wear something you would wear on a roadtrip with friends or family)
August 11 - An evening by the bonfire: pick up a guitar and play! Wear a scent that reminds you of a SONG - or think up of a song that fits your SOTD, and share it.
August 18 - Another evening by the bonfire: Haikus and Limericks! Or, if you're verse-averse, wear a scent that just feels POETIC to you.
August 25 - My Trusted Friend & My Fairweather Friend: Either wear a scent that fits anytime, anywhere, or the one that needs certain conditions, weather or mood to shine.
September - Time to go outside and kick some leaves
September 1 - Autumn Blues. Wear a soothing scent while nature prepares for sleep.
Friends in the Southern Hemisphere: Spring time! Wear a scent that gives that spring to your step while the nature starts to roar and flourish.
September 8 - A stroll in the park. Dead leaves & dirty ground, or maybe birds singing in the sycamore trees?
September 15 - Deep in the Woods. Wear an OUD or SANDALWOOD scent.
September 22 - Air of Mystery. Something that makes you feel special or interesting - or that you can never figure out the notes.
September 29 - The Earth is Moving and I Can't Feel the Ground. Wear an EARTHY or a GROUNDING scent.
October - In the lamplight, the withered leaves collect at my feet and the wind begins to moan.
A time for memories, reminiscences and (horror) stories
October 6 - Copycat Day – wear a perfume that someone you’re close to wears or used to wear, or reminds you of someone you used to know.
(Could be another Basenoter if you're out of real-world examples!)
October 13 - Friday the 13th: Black cats & voodoo dolls. Wear a witchy scent.
October 20 - Perfume that evokes your most powerful scent memory; Or, alternatively, brings good memories.
October 27 - The Call of Cthulhu. The Lovecraftian, the uncanny, the cosmic and the frightening.
November - Cozying Up
November 3 - A Hot Cup – tea, coffee, cocoa, cider, or even hot toddies.
November 10 - November Rain, or Be Water, My Friend. Element: Water. Lakes, ponds, streams, bogs, lagoons, oceans, waves, raindrops... A bath? A sparkling water? Eau yes.
November 17 - Kitchen Sink: A fragrance with so many different notes it has everything except the kitchen sink
November 24 - Unaccountably Peckish. (A Late Night Snack)
December: Surviving Mariah Carey and a Frantic Gift Search
December 1 - Madness Returns: The perfume that started it all.
December 8 - Snowed in. Wear a fragrance that reminds you of snow - either in texture, feel, colour, taste, look, name or scent itself.
December 15 - It's all getting silly. Wear a scent that does not take itself seriously.
(A good time to pull out your celebrity scents, fun body sprays, fruity fragrances, scents that are so over the top that's ridiculous or maybe silly looking bottles or names)
December 22 - It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas. (Or party.) Your Special Occasion Scent.
December 29 - Yeah, it's over now, but I can breathe somehow: Let's look back at the year 2023. What scents did we crave, what did we wear the most, what have we found, what was important?
The Rules of The Synch:
TBH there aren't, really. What's important is to have fun while finding new ways to enjoy perfume.
But if you still need some guidance, then there you are:
• To synch, you basically need to wear a fragrance that more or less fits the day's theme and tell us about it. That's all.
• The themes are as open or as strict as you want them to be. Feel free to take a different spin on a theme or think up ways you can join with the wardrobe or mood or scent craving you already have. You don't need hundreds of scents to join. If you feel like you need hundreds of scents to join, then it means the synch was not made well. Tell me about it so I can learn.
• You can be as eloquent & wordy or as brief & straight to the point as you feel like! But it's always more awesome when we find time to write a short (or long!) sentence or two about our choice - what kind of scent it is, why did we pick it for the theme, etc. This makes it all the more interesting for everyone.
• We're here to celebrate Fridays and our love for fragrance and play a bit, so a friendly atmosphere is what we're striving for. Just come and chat and let's have some scented fun together, my dears!
My dear fragrance enthusiasts, lovers and freaks – let's have a wonderfully scented year!
March 24 - I Promise, I Have Nothing to Wear. When your are stuck for choice, or can’t be bothered, or grab the first thing.
(Wear either your easiest reach or let Pick my scent button function decide your scent of the day.)
(I will try to update this every Monday to leave time to prepare and will post something no earlier than on Wednesday to not make this a week-long synch)
Hello, dear fragrance enthusiasts, lovers and freaks, also fraghags, fraghos, smelly sisters and smelly brothers, and welcome to the Synchronized Fridays 2023!
First of all, I want to thank you so much for participating this year. I loved - and still love - reading through your choices, reasonings, stories and comments. The Friday Synch is just the gift that keeps on giving <3
Now let's make the 2023 a great perfume year, too – together!
The Great Friday Synch Schedule for 2023:
January: Redefining your priorities, High Hopes and Crazy Rhythms
January 6 - Out with the old, in with the new: Wear either a long neglected favourite or a new find that might become a new favourite!
January 13 - Last Year I Gave You My Heart: Making reference to Grant’s new feature Your Perfume Year in Review, wear and tell us about the one you wore the most in 2022.
(if you have finished the bottle already or you can't be bothered, it can be your second most worn, too!)
January 20 - Possession Obsession/Wild Child: Your most recent scent obsession or a scent/note you're currently wild about (tell us about it).
January 27 - You're Simply the Best: Wear a scent from your favourite house.
February: Managing your expectations
February 3 - Second Best: Wear a scent from your second favourite house.
February 10 - You Give Love a Bad Name: a perfume with a name that doesn't do it justice. Either a bad name or a name that just doesn't describe it properly.
February 17 - Meh Day: wear a fragrance rated 3 stars by Turin & Sanchez in The Perfume Guide, because mediocrity needs some love, too!
February 24 - Dreaming of dunes and scorching sun. Wear a fragrance that reminds you of sand - either in texture, feel, colour, taste, look, name or scent itself.
March: Ice is getting thin, just like your patience
March 3 - Spring is just around the corner. Wear a GREEN scent.
March 10 - Feel like hiding under a rock day. (A scent that's great when home alone? A melancholy scent? A scent to get through a difficult day? A scent that reminds you of ROCKS?)
March 17 - Who cares about spring and green. Autumn is sneaking upon us in Southern Hemisphere anyway. Wear a BROWN or GOLDEN scent.
March 24 - I Promise, I Have Nothing to Wear. When your are stuck for choice, or can’t be bothered, or grab the first thing.
(Wear either your easiest reach or let Pick my scent button function decide your scent of the day.)
March 31 - Everyone's a fool anyway, so let's make fun of it. Emoji Day: Use emojis to name your SOTD, & let others figure out what you're wearing.
April: Finding a newfound inner strength while lilacs and daisies are pushing up
April 7 - Spring cleaning. Wear your most polite or cleanest scent.
April 14 - Flower Power: Your favourite flower. Tell us about it. (You can get creative here. CaliFLOWER is also a flower)
April 21 - A scent to move mountains to, or Empowering perfumes – a scent that makes you feel powerful.
April 28 - Element: Air. A breeze of fresh air, a gust of wind or a rainstorm approaching? Or just an airy, breezy scent?
May: %$@# You, I Won't Do What You Tell Me
May 5 - O Hippie Day. Patchouli, anyone?
May 12 - Contrary Week. Select a fragrance with notes that you don't normally enjoy or care for but have made an exception to.
May 19 - (H)Angry Day. A fragrance that's FIRE and ANGER personified. Or, alternatively, smells so delicious it makes you HANGRY (hungry and angry at once).
May 26 - Polyamory in Fragranceland. Wear two perfumes that go well together, or two concentrations of the same perfume at the same time.
June: Okay, maybe chill a bit?
June 2 - Cool down, it's just a summertime. Wear a scent that gives you a COOLING sensation to make that livin' easy.
Friends in the Southern Hemisphere: Winter is coming. Brace yourselves with a WARMING fragrance.
June 9 - Carefree Day. Wear a frivolous and happy scent.
June 16 - Aha! Day: What perfume/note(s) were your 'aha' moment? The notes that particularly resonate with you.
June 23 - I need some (aroma)therapy. A scent that puts you in a relaxed zen-like state whether it's at a place like a spa or at a barbershop.
July: A Holiday Romance
July 7 - A Solo Trip aka A Solinote Day. Wear a fragrance that focuses on just one main note. (Can be a soliflore, solifruit, soliwood, solifood...)
July 14 - Dreaming of 'The One'. What fragrance your favourite literature/movie/comic etc. character would wear according to you.
July 21 - Finding 'The One'. Wear a perfume that was love at first sniff—no questioning, thinking, reviews or assistance required—sold!
July 28 - Taking Selfies together aka Photorealism Day. Wear something that smells so realistic it feels like a photograph of the scent it’s copying.
August: Road Trippin' With My Favourite Allies (To Say Nothing About The Bottle)
August 4 - A People Pleaser: The scent that when worn, consistently gives you the most compliments.
(If you're like me and you never get compliments, wear something you would wear on a roadtrip with friends or family)
August 11 - An evening by the bonfire: pick up a guitar and play! Wear a scent that reminds you of a SONG - or think up of a song that fits your SOTD, and share it.
August 18 - Another evening by the bonfire: Haikus and Limericks! Or, if you're verse-averse, wear a scent that just feels POETIC to you.
August 25 - My Trusted Friend & My Fairweather Friend: Either wear a scent that fits anytime, anywhere, or the one that needs certain conditions, weather or mood to shine.
September - Time to go outside and kick some leaves
September 1 - Autumn Blues. Wear a soothing scent while nature prepares for sleep.
Friends in the Southern Hemisphere: Spring time! Wear a scent that gives that spring to your step while the nature starts to roar and flourish.
September 8 - A stroll in the park. Dead leaves & dirty ground, or maybe birds singing in the sycamore trees?
September 15 - Deep in the Woods. Wear an OUD or SANDALWOOD scent.
September 22 - Air of Mystery. Something that makes you feel special or interesting - or that you can never figure out the notes.
September 29 - The Earth is Moving and I Can't Feel the Ground. Wear an EARTHY or a GROUNDING scent.
October - In the lamplight, the withered leaves collect at my feet and the wind begins to moan.
A time for memories, reminiscences and (horror) stories
October 6 - Copycat Day – wear a perfume that someone you’re close to wears or used to wear, or reminds you of someone you used to know.
(Could be another Basenoter if you're out of real-world examples!)
October 13 - Friday the 13th: Black cats & voodoo dolls. Wear a witchy scent.
October 20 - Perfume that evokes your most powerful scent memory; Or, alternatively, brings good memories.
October 27 - The Call of Cthulhu. The Lovecraftian, the uncanny, the cosmic and the frightening.
November - Cozying Up
November 3 - A Hot Cup – tea, coffee, cocoa, cider, or even hot toddies.
November 10 - November Rain, or Be Water, My Friend. Element: Water. Lakes, ponds, streams, bogs, lagoons, oceans, waves, raindrops... A bath? A sparkling water? Eau yes.
November 17 - Kitchen Sink: A fragrance with so many different notes it has everything except the kitchen sink
November 24 - Unaccountably Peckish. (A Late Night Snack)
December: Surviving Mariah Carey and a Frantic Gift Search
December 1 - Madness Returns: The perfume that started it all.
December 8 - Snowed in. Wear a fragrance that reminds you of snow - either in texture, feel, colour, taste, look, name or scent itself.
December 15 - It's all getting silly. Wear a scent that does not take itself seriously.
(A good time to pull out your celebrity scents, fun body sprays, fruity fragrances, scents that are so over the top that's ridiculous or maybe silly looking bottles or names)
December 22 - It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas. (Or party.) Your Special Occasion Scent.
December 29 - Yeah, it's over now, but I can breathe somehow: Let's look back at the year 2023. What scents did we crave, what did we wear the most, what have we found, what was important?
The Rules of The Synch:
TBH there aren't, really. What's important is to have fun while finding new ways to enjoy perfume.
But if you still need some guidance, then there you are:
• To synch, you basically need to wear a fragrance that more or less fits the day's theme and tell us about it. That's all.
• The themes are as open or as strict as you want them to be. Feel free to take a different spin on a theme or think up ways you can join with the wardrobe or mood or scent craving you already have. You don't need hundreds of scents to join. If you feel like you need hundreds of scents to join, then it means the synch was not made well. Tell me about it so I can learn.
• You can be as eloquent & wordy or as brief & straight to the point as you feel like! But it's always more awesome when we find time to write a short (or long!) sentence or two about our choice - what kind of scent it is, why did we pick it for the theme, etc. This makes it all the more interesting for everyone.
• We're here to celebrate Fridays and our love for fragrance and play a bit, so a friendly atmosphere is what we're striving for. Just come and chat and let's have some scented fun together, my dears!
My dear fragrance enthusiasts, lovers and freaks – let's have a wonderfully scented year!
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