Synchronized Fridays 2020

[N.CAL Fragrance Reviewer]

2020 Sync Friday List

Key Legend:
(1) House, Genre, Note, Perfumer - 12x
(2) Geographical Location - 12x
(3) Interesting/Creative Theme - 16x
(4) Individual BNers - 12x

January
01-03-20 - Boozy Scent(1)
01-10-20 - Around the World in 80 Sprays #1: Antartica(2)
01-17-20 - Your hardest to pronounce fragrance(3a)
01-24-20 - Perfume Porn - Wear your most provocative(3b)
01-31-20 - Donna255’s Reformulated Scents (Changed over time) Day(4)

February
02-07-20 - Vintage Scent(1)
02-14-20 - Around the World in 80 Sprays #2: Asia(2)
02-21-20 - Perfume that you wear with a favorite item of clothing(3)
02-28-20 - Grayspoole’s Tardis perfume Day(4)

March
03-06-20 - House: Neil Morris(1)
03-13-20 - Geographical Location: Siberia(2)
03-20-20 - Wear a Spring Fragrance/Spring Equinox Day(3)
03-27-20 - Zilpha’s Aldehyde Day(4)

April
04-03-20 - Purple Florals(1)
04-10-20 - Around the World in 80 Sprays #3: South America(2)
04-17-20 - Scents that got you into trouble(3)
04-24-20 - ClockworkAlice’s Breakfast Theme Day(4)

May
05-01-20 - House: Dior(1)
05-08-20 - Geographical Location: Mediterranean Sea(2)
05-15-20 - Fragrance Haikus & Limericks(3a)
05-22-20 - Perfumes with a Musical Theme(3b)
05-29-20 - Robin-in-FL’s Fruity Day(4)

June
06-05-20 - Artistic Scent(1)
06-12-20 - Around the World in 80 Sprays #4: Africa(2)
06-19-20 - Wear a Summer Fragrance/Summer Solstice Day(3)
06-26-20 - P.Stoller’s Animal Pose with Bottles Day(4)

July
07-03-20 - House: Chanel(1)
07-10-20 - Geographical Location: Deep South of the US(2)
07-17-20 - Synaesthesia(3a)
07-24-20 - Scent your favorite sports team/player or celebrity(3b)
07-31-20 - Kiliwia’s Tropical Florals Day(4)

August
08-07-20 - Chypre Scent(1)
08-14-20 - Around the World in 80 Sprays #5: Oceania(2)
08-21-20 - Your Unicorn scent(3)
08-28-20 - Earlyn’s Cinema Scents Day(4)

September
09-04-20 - House: Rogue Perfumery(1)
09-11-20 - Geographical Location: The Black Forest of Germany(2)
09-18-20 - Wear a Fall Fragrance/Fall Equinox Day(3)
09-25-20 - Roberto’s Vetiver Day(4)

October
10-02-20 - Rose Scent(1)
10-09-20 - Around the World in 80 Sprays #6: North America(2)
10-16-20 - Panned by The Guide(3a)
10-23-20 - Scent Version of One’s Spirit Animal(3b)
10-30-20 - Ineespenes’ Gothic Day(4)

November
11-06-20 - Industrial Scent(1)
11-13-20 - Geographical Location: Sea of Tranquility on the Moon(2)
11-20-20 - A perfume name that has a Q, X, Y, or Z in its name(3)
11-27-20 - Rynegne’s Woods & Incense Day(4)

December
12-04-20 - Sweet Spices(1)
12-11-20 - Around the World in 80 Sprays #7: Europe(2)
12-18-20 - Wear a Winter Fragrance/Winter Solstice Day(3)
12-25-20 - ComDiva’s Cardamon Day(4)

[tdem1961]

How about:

Blind buys

Nostalgia scents - bring you back to or evoke a certain time in your life

Neglected favorites - the ones in your collection that you inexplicably forget but when you remember them you think “I should wear this more often”.

[Cook.bot]

How about switching from cities to countries for the geographical ones? The cities were really tough this year, and seemed to get lower turnout, too.

[HouseOfPhlegethon]

How about switching from cities to countries for the geographical ones? The cities were really tough this year, and seemed to get lower turnout, too.

I concur with this!

[Hazel5]

How about:

Blind buys

Nostalgia scents - bring you back to or evoke a certain time in your life

Neglected favorites - the ones in your collection that you inexplicably forget but when you remember them you think “I should wear this more often”.

+1 all of the above

Favorite visual artist and what you think they might wear....would Dali wear Dali? or did he?
Scent your favorite sports team or player.
Scents you often wear more than two (three? four?) days in a row.

[HouseOfPhlegethon]

Your hardest to pronounce fragrance.

Fragrance by a now deceased Perfumer.

Perfumes made in California.

Perfumes made in New York.

Perfumes that make you think of the deep south, of the U.S.

Perfumes that make you think of The Black Forest of Germany.

Perfume with Lily.

Your most clunky bottle.

Perfume with an industrial feel / accord.

Your favorite vintage perfume.

People I nominate for their own special day: ClockworkAlice, donna255, ineespenes, Zilpha... These folks, can chime in as to their favorite style and or note.

[Zilpha]

People I nominate for their own special day: ClockworkAlice, donna255, ineespenes, Zilpha... These folks, can chime in as to their favorite style and or note.

Why, thank you, HOP, for the nod. But you may regret it should I be chosen to have a synch day because the most obvious feature of my style are aldehydes and I know how unpopular they are!

[HouseOfPhlegethon]

Why, thank you, HOP, for the nod. But you may regret it should I be chosen to have a synch day because the most obvious feature of my style are aldehydes and I know how unpopular they are!

I love most aldehydic perfumes!

[Redneck Perfumisto]

Smell-alikes, clones & rip-offs. Fragrances that are clearly supposed to smell like some other fragrance, even if not openly admitted.

[Redneck Perfumisto]

Truth or Dare - wear a fragrance with a great personal story. If you don't add enough interesting details, you may get dared to wear a fragrance not of your own choice!

[teardrop]

Adding to the above suggestions for BNer days:

ROBERTO
rynegne
ComDiva
Kiliwia
Robin-in-FL

[PerfumedLady]

Oh, you know what sync I'm going to beg for! Same as every year, may we please do Panned by The Guide? It's nothing new but has come to feel like a BN tradition. And it does get great turnout with many interesting posts-I think this year's Panned sync is one of the best so far!

Loving all the ideas so far, and would second every BNer who has been mentioned already for a special day. Red, that's just pure evil. And I love it!

[Cook.bot]

Smell-alikes, clones & rip-offs. Fragrances that are clearly supposed to smell like some other fragrance, even if not openly admitted.

Love this idea. It could be called "Separated at Birth?", after that old humor column that used to be in National Lampoon magazine.

Example:

Separated at Birth?
Jeff Sessions and Granny Clampett

[incense+heliotrope]

Fougere; Chypre;
coniferous/woods; purple florals
Guerlain,
Chanel, Dior

desert, mountains, orchards

the fragrance in your current collection that you have been wearing for longest and most often (or your BN 'most worn')
use the BN 'select a random frag from your wardrobe' and wear it (report back, especially if it was spectacularly inappropriate)

[Redneck Perfumisto]

Oh, you know what sync I'm going to beg for! Same as every year, may we please do Panned by The Guide? It's nothing new but has come to feel like a BN tradition. And it does get great turnout with many interesting posts-I think this year's Panned sync is one of the best so far!

Loving all the ideas so far, and would second every BNer who has been mentioned already for a special day. Red, that's just pure evil. And I love it!

Yes, we MUST do Panned by the Guide again!

We could also add a Favorite Five-Star Day, too!

Love this idea. It could be called "Separated at Birth?", after that old humor column that used to be in National Lampoon magazine.

Example:

Separated at Birth?
Jeff Sessions and Granny Clampett

WHOA!!!!

[N.CAL Fragrance Reviewer]

Great ideas so far

I would add Grayspoole, Earlyn for BN nominations

One classic theme that I wouldn't mind seeing again is fragrance haikus.

[Redneck Perfumisto]

Great ideas so far

I would add Grayspoole, Earlyn for BN nominations

One classic theme that I wouldn't mind seeing again is fragrance haikus.

Yay, haikus!

Limericks are good, too!

[Cook.bot]

I would add Grayspoole, Earlyn for BN nominations

Excellent choices.

One classic theme that I wouldn't mind seeing again is fragrance haikus.

Great idea! Maybe make it a choice -- you can submit either a haiku OR a limerick. That would be truly fun.

[N.CAL Fragrance Reviewer]

How about switching from cities to countries for the geographical ones? The cities were really tough this year, and seemed to get lower turnout, too.

I concur with this!

While I do agree to an extent, some countries with notable cities I think actually help. I do think some notable cities would be nice to have. Perhaps there can be some kind of compromise between cities and countries.

One idea that I have is bringing back the Around the World series that was done back in the 2017 Sync. Allow 1 continent per month - that would mean 7 of the 12 months would be continent based. The other remaining months could be cities.

[N.CAL Fragrance Reviewer]

Great idea! Maybe make it a choice -- you can submit either a haiku OR a limerick. That would be truly fun.

Yay, haikus!

Limericks are good, too!

I'd like to see both have their chance to shine. Double the fun!

[ClockworkAlice]

Your hardest to pronounce fragrance.

Fragrance by a now deceased Perfumer.

Perfumes made in California.

Perfumes made in New York.

Perfumes that make you think of the deep south, of the U.S.

Perfumes that make you think of The Black Forest of Germany.

Perfume with Lily.

Your most clunky bottle.

Perfume with an industrial feel / accord.

Your favorite vintage perfume.

People I nominate for their own special day: ClockworkAlice, donna255, ineespenes, Zilpha... These folks, can chime in as to their favorite style and or note.

I love the ideas for the most clunky bottle and the industrial accord! The Black Forest also sounds very interesting.
And thank you for nomination! I personally think we should honor the veteran members first though, are there more people such as Donna and Zilpha who didn't have their day yet?
If there aren't, my most favourite note ever is grapefruit. I could bathe in the stuff. I also do love coffee, ginger and cinnamon a lot. And all the other citruses, too.

As for Zilpha's aldehydes - I think I do normally hate them, but I read there's quite a lot of them in Salvador Dali, but somehow I'm either not getting them or they don't bother me there!

[Cook.bot]

If there aren't, my most favourite note ever is grapefruit. I could bathe in the stuff. I also do love coffee, ginger and cinnamon a lot. And all the other citruses, too.

It sounds like a ClockworkAlice day could have a breakfast theme!

[ClockworkAlice]

It sounds like a ClockworkAlice day could have a breakfast theme!

Hahaha! as a true hobitess who never misses her first and second breakfast of the day, I cannot truly disagree!

[teardrop]

It sounds like a ClockworkAlice day could have a breakfast theme!

That's a brilliant idea!

[Redneck Perfumisto]

It sounds like a ClockworkAlice day could have a breakfast theme!

Hahaha! as a true hobitess who never misses her first and second breakfast of the day, I cannot truly disagree!

That's a brilliant idea!

Now I have the perfect excuse to get that sample of Black Opium!!!

[ineespenes]

Thanks for the nomination HoP I love everyone's ideas. I would like to add a music theme. Your favourite artist and then post a video maybe and wear a scent that reminds you of them / the group. And maybe a scent fitted for that reminds you of the opera.... A Serge Lutens synch....An art synch.... Forest-synch,The tundra / norhern Europe, your darkest rose or a rose-chypre synch, most animalic scent, a blinde buy....For cities: Cape Town,....oh and a fairytale synch

[Robin-in-FL]

A few thoughts:

(1) Pick a particular perfumer, house, or genre. I would suggest picking one that enough BNers can participate.
Neil Morris! or L'Artisan

(2) Geographical location. Choose a city located somewhere around this World!
Savannah, GA., Miami or Tampa FL

(3) An interesting, creative idea. Brainstorm some ideas, think outside of the box. If it's unique or never done before even better!
The ground. Dirt, concrete, grass, compost...

[Trilby Lark]

How about “mood” scents - ones that make you feel happy, introspective, comforted, nostalgic?

[N.CAL Fragrance Reviewer]

A few thoughts:

(1) Pick a particular perfumer, house, or genre. I would suggest picking one that enough BNers can participate.
Neil Morris! or L'Artisan

We had a Neil Morris day one year, unfortunately Basenotes was shutdown for a few days so that sync Friday never happened.

[N.CAL Fragrance Reviewer]

It sounds like a ClockworkAlice day could have a breakfast theme!

We've never done a breakfast sync before so that would be good to have. I'm sure a lot of good ideas could be spawned from that.