Reading: Dominique Roque’s In Search of Perfumes: A Lifetime Journey to the Source of Nature’s Scents.

Audio: Lots of Roxy Music

Video: Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon

Art: Portia Munson’s installation The Pink Bedroom and related works

(Tr)eats: A Feliz Deliz cake, purchased for my mother’s birthday

Drinks: I’ve been in the mood for tea lately and I’ve almost used up my Apolis Victorian Cream tea.

Garb: The weather is still unseasonably warm, but I’m starting to pull out cardigans and tights all the same.

Beauty products: Ilia mascara (a birthday freebie from Sephora): pretty decent. LePaar Smooth Operator serum: helped fix some post-allergy irritation. Pré de Provence Sea Salt soap: not my first bar, definitely not my last.

Pleasures: Meeting an artist whose work I’ve admired for years and being able to tell her exactly why I love her art so much.

Plans: Next scented museum tour on October 14! A few off-season days at the beach, for a change of scene.

Image: J. J. Gould, 1896.