Happy Almost-Friday! It’s also World Arabic Language Day and International Migrants Day. Birthdays: Paul Klee, Fletcher Henderson, Ossie Davis, Jacques Pépin. What fragrance are you wearing?
For the song Sous le ciel de Paris, I went with the obvious: vintage Yves Saint Laurent Paris.
Reminder: 12/19 is Édith Piaf’s birthday. Scent an Édith Piaf song, or honor Édith Piaf with your fragrance in any other way you see fit.
And for those of you who like to plan ahead, see Scent of the day ~ Friday community projects 2025, where I’ll try (but usually fail) to have the next five or six weeks mapped out in advance.
Note: top image shows Édith Piaf and Yves Montand in a still from the 1946 movie Étoile sans lumière. Montand on Piaf:
”We lived together for two years,” Mr. Montand recalled.”But we had only one year of love life. She was exceptional when she sang but in life she could be bitchy and she could be captivating. One was never bored.” Legend has it that she left Mr. Montand because she was jealous of his success, which she had aided. ”All the men she loved she left,” Mr. Montand declared. ”She was never left. For me, it was one of the most beautiful years of my life and I was terribly hurt.”
Bonus listen: Édith Piaf singing Sous le ciel de Paris, followed by the Yves Montand version.
