Fill your (fantasy) Easter basket:
1. You can pick one perfume, new or old: what is it?
2. And you can have one other scented product (a candle, a body lotion, anything): what is it?
3. Your favorite candy?
4. And any random present you'd like the Easter bunny to bring you.
Note image is They lay in suspended animation, waiting for their time. by nosha at flickr; some rights reserved.
I feel confident (and maybe 50 Roses can confirm, as the resident chemist) that the white candy shell on Cadbury’s Mini Eggs includes powdered crack cocaine. It’s really remarkable that there’s regulation on fragrances and yet this notorious product remains innocently on store shelves!
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(That sorta looks like a bunny, right? Happy Easter, all!)
I think I am one of the few people in the world who is entirely immune to Cadbury eggs…at least, the ones w/ the white & yolk inside.
Yes, the cream eggs are a whole other matter. Those are eaten purely for nostagia in my case. However, the milk chocolate mini eggs are genuinely addictive! I have found that I can only buy one little pack at a time, or once I start eating them, there’s no stopping me! (Just the right combination of sugar, fat, and salt, according to Dr. David Kessel, who writes about engineering foods to encourage overeating!)
Ah, then perhaps I have never had the mini candy eggs!
Marjorie Rose is correct: As delicious as M&Ms can sometimes be, the Cadbury mini candy-shell-covered milk chocolate eggs are PURE CRACK. I don’t know what it is, but they are so delicious. I love milk chocolate anyway, but there’s something special about those.
Agreed!
Those mini eggs are almost as addictive as buying PERFUME!!!
Yes, Joe, pure chocolate crack indeed! I won’t even let myself have ONE – no bag, nothing. If that bag gets open, it’s all gone. I think they must put some narcotic in that wonderful candy shell….
Thank Goodness I’ve never had one…..and now I never will.
Last thing I need is another chocolate product preying on my already negligible resistance.
You mean there might be something I could enable Daisy to enjoy, for a change?. . .I mean, they really are worth trying at least once–anything that gets this much love, is an experience everyone should have. You want me to send you a sample?
(*wink* How’d I do?)
I join you in that, Robin. They were never part of my Easter basket haul. I think my favorites were the little solid chocolate eggs wrapped in pretty colored foil. I used to keep them
In the freezer. I also liked the Ann Page ( A&P) jelly beans because they were spicy and not fruity.
Brach’s makes spice jelly beans – I love them!
You’re not the only one, R. I detest everything Cadbury make. Horrible stuff. Yuck!
OMG. I can eat a family size pack of those in an hour.
I try not to buy them! 🙂
LOL – you’ve described it so perfectly, MJ!
LOL, I think you are right, Marjorie Rose! 😀
Ooh, fun post!
I think I want a bottle of To Dream. And either a biiiig pot o’ Carnal Flower Beurre Exquise, or one of those candles Kevin reviewed the other day – the Cezanne’s studio one.
I like a good dark chocolate with crunchy bits in it (pretzel, panko, almonds, what have you), but at Easter, I must have Peeps… minimum 2, maximum 4.
However, since I DROPPED MY LAPTOP the other day and broke the screen, I’d like Peter Cottontail to bring me either another reconditioned Dell, or replace the screen on my old one.
And wishing everyone who celebrates it a joyous, meaningful Easter.
Ooh. Sorry about the laptop! I live in fear of doing the same thing. I use mine for everything–computer, dvd player, cd player, radio–which means I walk around with it in my apartment, placing it on whatever surface is nearby. Too bad laptops are too big to fit in an Easter egg. . .maybe one will spring up between the tulips in your garden?
Nice pick on the Carnal Flower! But so sorry about your laptop screen, what a pain.
The worst part is that I dropped it *myself,* so I can’t even shift the blame…
Oh bummer! Sorry about your laptop, Mals!
Speaking of Peeps- I saw a great post today on S’meeps (making s’mores with Peeps)- sounds delish to me!
Oh no – doesn’t that mean you have to put your Peep in the FIRE??
1. You can pick one perfume, new or old: what is it?
A giant bottle of vintage Vol de Nuit parfum.
2. And you can have one other scented product (a candle, a body lotion, anything): what is it?
OJ Woman candle
3. Your favorite candy?
Tie for M&M’s & Skittles
4. And any random present you’d like the Easter bunny to bring you.
World peace.
Have a lovely weekend, everyone!
Ooooh, nice candle pick!
LOL! You beat me to the “random present” idea! That’s exactly what I was going to ask for, so I’ll just second your idea! 🙂
1) Tauer Une Rose Chypree
2) L’Occitane Eau des Baux massage oil
3) Tie between chocolate covered marshmallow bunnies and spicy jelly bean
4) I want the Easter Bunny to bring me new sneakers/workout clothes to go with the exercise dvd’s I’ve finally committed to doing at home. An new ass (or just less of one?) would be nice too, but that is what the sneakers are for.
LOL…yeah, I’ll take “less of one” too.
LOL! I’ve been doing “ass-ersizes” to… re-shape mine! If I can just stay away from the Cadbury mini eggs 😉
so basically we need the Easter Bunny to “take away” excess ass….sign me up for that program!
Yes, this year the Easter Bunny must reduce the size of my posterior while feeding me chocolate goodies . . . the extra pounds to disappear into thin air along with any taxes I might owe this year.
Fun!
For one bottle of perfume I’d pick a bottle of Jubilation 25…or Dia…or Sycomore….or an older formulation Diorella. And for another scented product I’d go with one of those prohibitively expensive yet delectable-sounding Malle candles. Probably Russian Nights but they all sound great.
I’m not sure that I have a favourite candy but I like those Lindt Lindor eggs for Easter.
Random gift would be a macro lens for my camera, probably. Or a new iPad. In white.
Hope that everyone is having a lovely time and happy Easter to those who celebrate it!
They really do all sound great…I’d have a hard time picking one.
1. A bottle of Green, Green, Green & Green (Miller & Bertaux)
2. Liberty Seaweed & Samphire Soap ( do they still make it?)
3. Piron chocolate truffles (made in Evanston IL by a chocolatier trained in Belgium)
4. A trip to Venice for two
Hey, trip to Venice is not a bad idea!
It was that or an end to hot flashes…
ooooo….very good idea…..a trip to Italy…..plus, I’d hate to ask for too much…so a trip for one would be fine (the CEO can stay here and take care of pets and child….I’m sure he won’t mind) 😉
1) Amouage Gold Woman
2) Some Roger & Gallet scented soaps
3) Anything with dark chocolate, especially if it says “Godiva” on the box
4) If it doesn’t have to fit in an Easter basket–a new sofa for the living room.
A new sofa is perfect for Easter…but you’re probably more likely to get the chocolate, right?
My sofa has just about had it. It is still comfortable, but it looks terrible. I was going to get a new sofa, a new, dishwasher, a new backyard fence, and a new kitchen sink with my bonus check from work this year, but I ended up having to get a new transmission for my car instead.
Oh, sorry! But figures.
Never let any of your vehicles or appliances know that you have extra money. They will find a way to use it up!
I like soaps (mistral is one of my favorite brands). How are the R&Gs?
I haven’t had any in years, but I recall them as being very long-lasting and richly scented. Their fragrances are nice too.
I’d choose Prada amber pour homme intense, which is unofrtunately not available in my country.
In addition to that I’d pick a nice chocolate-cinnamon or orange-mint candle.
I love chocolate eggs with a small “toy” from kinder.
Oh, I’d love a chocolate cinnamon candle! I wonder who makes one?
Robin, here in Poland you can find one if you search for it carefully. I saw a chocolate, white chocolate and cinnamon, not so long ago. I’m sure that a mix of choco and cinnamon is also available. They’re not very expensive, we don’t have any famous candle-makers here.
And we have too many “famous” candle makers!
I guess it’s harder to choose one when you can pick from many different options. I think our candles are quite good, too bad you can’t check it on your own. Maybe you’d find something special
1) Bulgari Black
2) Cire Trudon candle in Carmelite (Easter appropriate!)
3) A giant box of Neuhaus chocolates
4) IPad, although that trip to Venice looks good too 🙂
Good call on the Neuhaus! Get it straight from Belgium so you can have some fresh cream chocolates, too.
“Fresh cream chocolates” made me salivate!
1) Vintage Miss Dior parfum
2) bath powder in same scent
3) dark chocolate Bordeaux egg from See’s
4) winning lottery ticket
HA…winning lottery ticket is not a bad idea either 🙂
What’s in a Bordeaux Egg?
I don’t know but I want one.
Brown sugar buttercream filling, dark chocolate coating with dark chocolate sprinkles. So rich, I can only eat one – slowly.
And by “one”, I mean one regular-sized piece. The bigger egg-shaped Easter version must be refrigerated, then sliced and eaten bit by bit over a few days.
ooh fun!!!
1) a full bottle of L’Ombre dans L’eau
2) a bunch of candles from Root Candles – their Ginger Patchouli is to die for!
3) Love dark chocolate anything
4) Wish the Easter Bunny would bring my husband a job
dark chocolate is the best choice I think. This one is the most healthy, If I can say that chocolate can be healthy 😀
crossing my fingers for that new job part. come on, Easter Bunny!!
Anything to get him out of the house, huh?
Kidding. Kiddingkidding. I do hope he finds something soon.
Hope #4 works out for you – I know how that is…
My desires are very simple, really:
1) L’Heure Bleue extrait (vintage)
2) OJ Tolu Body Lotion (or the sold out bathing gift pack)
3) Malted milk balls from Jacques Torres in New York (half dark and half milk)
4) Large fresh water pearl earrings
Only the malted milk balls (at last someone has figured out how to make gourmet malted milk balls) will actually be coming my way (it’s always good to be your own Easter Bunny, right?).
Ooh, yummy! Those malted milk balls sound fabulous!
LOVE malted milk balls!
You got me intrigued by gourmet malted milk balls! I will have to check that out.
And I love Tolu too, thought about that one as well.
These are the malt balls:
http://www.mrchocolate.com/proddetail.php?prod=maltballs
Put me on the malted milk ball bandwagon. Yum!
1. Guerlain Idylle (can’t get enough of it lately!)
2. The peony candle that Slatkin and IFF made via headspace technology for Martha Stewart, from her own peony garden. It was featured on her show, and given away to the audience. Oh, how I want one!
3. Cadbury Creme Eggs.
4. This Hermes scarf in pink, please!: http://usa.hermes.com/p_nuees-imaginaires_pink_women_81030_10712_10707_127531_127524_10202_10052_-1__0
Nice scarf!
That pink is VERY pretty!
I could wear that black and silver version every other day.
Very pretty!
I’d go with the pale blue. Thanks for posting this. Makes my perfume cravings seem relatively modest, when I see things like this.
I had the same thought! Thank goodness I don’t collect bags, boots or other high-end accessories!
You are so right about that scarf! I looked carefully at all the colors but the pink is best!
Dear Robin,
this is my first comment on this blog (not on Twitter)+I’m absolutely thrilled about your question 🙂
1. Chloe (the 1975 original) >> bc everyone keeps insisting it will disappear soon, I’ll love it til t very last day.
2. Like t song says: ‘How can I live w/o you’ … body milk? A coconut-beachy scented milk will make my day (+ take me 2 another place)
3. Lindt Chocolate
4. Well, the 3 listed things above would make a perfect Easter Basket for me, I can tell U 😉
Happy Easter everyone!
Then welcome!
Really, are they finally going to d/c Chloe? I did not know. That’s a shame, it’s a classic.
Luckily, you can still find old Chloe on ebay for not-very-expensive. I wore it for years, and bought a small bottle for nostalgia’s sake recently.
1. Vintage Shalimar, extrait or PDT
2. A piece of original mysore sandalwood
3. Vosges dark chocolate bacon bar
4. A cap on gasoline prices
Oh, wouldn’t that be nice, a real piece of sandalwood? I’d like that too.
ACK! I was afraid someone would mention the dreaded b***n candy bar! 😉
I like the one that has wasabi in it… MMmmm….
1) Daphne by Lord’s Jester.
2) The new Dans l’Atelier de Cézanne candle by Olivia G.
3) Sanchis Mira Turron de Jijona.
4) A good night’s sleep.
You are making me want to sample the Lord’s Jester line, which I haven’t tried yet. Do you like any of the others too?
Daphne’s the only LJ fragrance I’ve tried, and it is SO beautiful it leaves me breathless. I’m almost intimidated to try the others– if they’re all as beautiful, I may pass out! 😀
I hear you on a good nights sleep. The bags currently under my eyes are going to have to pay a check-fee if I leave the house…
Ha!
Love it! (I always count mine as carry-on luggage…)
Olenska: Glad to see another turrón lover! I listed it even before I read your comment!
Turrón lovers of the world unite! The jijona variety I like is creamy and almost tastes like halva made of cashews, but the snow-white fruit-studded version depicted in your link is equally addictive. I long to learn how to make it myself, but it looks pretty labor-intensive…..
http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Pistachio-Torrone-240938
Hoppy East! everyone!
1. Diaghilev or…Jube 25, I think.
2. Carnal Flower body butter
2a. 1er Mai Malle Candle (it really is glorious and doesn’t shut down my sinuses)
3. Recchiuti Fleur de Sel caramels, please
4. Continued financial growth for my company and (since I’ve got these wishes here) for people to not be quite so hateful. We’ve only got this one world – let’s at least TRY to live peaceably!
xo
I’m so bummed that Diaghalev sold out before ever being available in the US!!!!
How is the throw on that candle? Or have you just sniffed it unlit?
(I am still shopping for my next candle splurge)
Robin –
The throw is impressive – but what’s more impressive is its scent; it smells PERSACKLY like a bouquet of spring flowers – so much so that I thought the bouquet of silk flowers next to it was what I was smelling (I wasn’t yet paying attention – go figure). It’s gorgeous, totally non-candle smelling. Had I disposable simoleans I would buy one for every room in the house!
xo
Sigh. That is very tempting. And I had almost decided on a Cire Trudon. Now I will have to think.
Thank you!
Oooh! What a great poll, Robin!
1) Profumi del Forte’s Roma Imperiale
2) FK’s incense papers or a candle
3) Dark chocolate almonds
4) Trip to Paris
Oh, I like Roma Imperiale too!
Robin, your pictures are just incredible!!!
Oh, but they’re not mine!
But you have such a good taste in choosing them…
Thank you! There are so many great photographers on Flickr, it’s really a great resource.
1. Amouage Memoir Man
2. Comme Des Garcons Incense Sticks
3. Chocolate truffles
4. Custom Lucasi pool cue
Can I come over and sniff, eat, and play with you? 🙂
Sorry, that sounds more lascivious than I meant it!
Anytime sweetheart
🙂
This is a magical Easter bunny, right?
1. I’m not greedy – I don’t really need an FB – I just want samples of mint condition first edition Iris Gris, Parfums de Rosine, Cotys, and classic Guerlains 🙂
2. A Japanese Heian period incense named Blackness reproduced according to the recipe in Liza Dalby’s wonderful Tale of Murasaki.
3. As much as I love chocolate, bacon would be the real treat – and please make the calories and cholesterol disappear while you’re at it. 😉
4. A Xerjoff in the semi-precious stone bottle.
nozknoz, I like the way you think!!
Really! Go big or go home! 😀
What’s a fantasy without no-cal bacon? 🙂 I guess I would be willing to trade the amethyst bottle of Xerjoff Irisss for would be world peace, though.
I’d like to smell those Heian incenses, too. Dalby’s Tale of Murasaki is a good reading recommendation for the scent-lover.
I am enjoying that book on so much! And all those Heian court contests (poetry, incense, even iris roots) sort of remind me of a Lazy Weekend Poll!
1. Guerlain Angelique Noire
2. Frederic Malle candle in Russian Nights
3. Malted milk mini Robin eggs
4. A beach vacation
Oh dear, everyone is mentioning Malle candles.
I’m not a candle person but did have a chance to sniff the Malle candles at Barneys. They have them on display with glass domes covering each of the candles. You lift the glass dome and sniff inside the glass – all the beautiful fragrance is captured in the dome and it’s wonderful! It reminded me of giant brandy snifters and how the rounded glass captures the scent so well that you taste it before even taking a sip! I wish I had sniffed them all, but was on fragrance overload from a day of perfume shopping.
The candles themselves are perfect white wax poured into classic ‘Malle Orange’ glass votives. The ones on display were rather large – perhaps 6″ and, based on the amount of fragrance captured under glass, I’m sure would scent a room lit or unlit!
Thanks!
1. Musc Ravageur
2. Philosykos lotion, several travel sizes
3. some dark chocolate truffles
4. an iPhone, if the Easter bunny will pay the monthly bill!
Ditto on the iPhone!
1. Frapin 1697
2. Ormonde Jayne bath oil in Tolu
3. Peeps!
4. iPad!
Those OJ bath oils are AMAZING.
Ditto on the Frapin!
1. You can pick one perfume, new or old: what is it? Attrape Coeur (only because it’s been discontinued and is $$$).
2. And you can have one other scented product (a candle, a body lotion, anything): what is it? Candles, please. Lot’s of ’em
3. Your favorite candy? Jordan Almonds and peanut butter M&M’s and Reeces Peanut Butter Cup
4. And any random present you’d like the Easter bunny to bring you. I would be so happy if the bunny brought me the stone that fell off my earring the other day. Lost forever, I’m afraid, and I’ve been wearing this perfect pair of “drops” for almost three years now.
Oh, so sorry!
Thanks Robin. There are certainly bigger problems in the world – but it’s sad when something that’s become a part of you decides it no longer wants to be a part of you 🙂
Oh, so sorry about your earrings! I have a favorite pair – pearls, garnet beads and gold beads on leverback wires, that The CEO ordered for me out of the Metropolitan Museum catalog, when I was pregnant with Kid No. 2 – and lost one of the pair for about two weeks. I was so sad, because I wear them all the time. (I did actually find it eventually. In my CAR.)
I’ve checked the car, the bed, the parking lot at the post office, the post office itself, the parking lot at the hardware store, the hardware store. Maybe it will show up in some random place — one can only hope!
Hi Robin! Happy Easter weekend to you. Fun poll.
1. Since it’s easter, I’d pick my favorite springy hyacinth scent: Annick Goutal Grand Amour.
2. For fun, unsniffed, how about the Frederic Malle “Fleur Mecanique” red box diffuser in the 1er Mai (LoTV) scent? Sounds good to me right now, and seasonal!
3. Not chocolate (the horror!), but rather a really nice Spanish turrón/nougat — a semi-soft kind made with ground almonds & honey, embedded with preserved fruit (see http://bit.ly/hRbwfw).
4. Since we’re fantasizing, how about I channel Eartha Kitt and say “fill my basket with a duplex”…
Hey Joe – that candy looks amazing. Do you know if I can order these somewhere in the US?
I haven’t had it since I brought some (from a different maker) back from Spain years ago. There are online sellers of Spanish food, but I don’t know the quality of anything or the level of service of any of them personally. Here’s one: http://www.amigofoods.com/cadejitumafr.html
Hi, luckily turrón here is nowadays available all during the year even if it is a treat that everyone eats during the Christmas season. Here’s a site that sells ‘1880’ one of the most prestigious brands for turrón http://www.turron1880shop.com/Marca.aspx?IDMarca=6&lang=EN for US exports http://www.tienda.com/food/turron_1880.html?cnsw=1 It’s worth it!
I checked tienda.com first, but I was sad they didn’t have the ‘mazapan con frutas’ variety. 🙁
Yes, I checked tienda.com right away, too. Thanks for above info!
LOL…the first thing I thought of when I saw the nougat was “I wonder how that would taste encased in chocolate”?
And aha:
http://www.torronsroig.com/torrons-artesans/torro_f1/xocolata_sf6.html
I think it’s OK to gild the lily for an Easter basket!
Hi, Robin. Fun poll.
1. I think I should like some Chanel 28 La Pausa for springtime.
2. A whole closet full of Frédéric Malle’s Saint des Saints candles.
3. Rowntree blackcurrant fruit pastilles, please!
4. One of those lovely Hermès losange scarves in robin’s egg blue would be nice.
Ack, more FM candles! This is starting to seem like a conspiracy.
hey robin, i have never had a malle candle…but ciur trudon …i used and love abd kadur (would repurchase) i prefer the container to the malle container…we have a limited edition in Hk which is a yellow murano glass….verrry flowerlike.. i would have to go and refresh my memory to tell you exactly…the yellow is not bright!
I prefer the Cire Trudon container too, it’s much more to my taste.
Happy Easter!
1. Guerlain Aroma Allegoria Exalting! Sadly discontinued…….
2. Diptyque Galliano candle – blame the man not the frag
3. Godiva dark chocolates with vodka
4. Weekend in Paris!
Agree — and that was too great a candle to give up. But betcha Diptyque will d/c it .
1. The best Spring perfume ever made, IMHO, Jean Patou Vacances. In the original vintage parfum of course!
2. Amouage body creme in Gold Woman.
3. Anything that combines peanut butter and chocolate works for me!
4. An interior decorator for my house, maybe Thom Felicia, and the budget for a complete makeover. I just had the bathroom painted and new curtains put up and now I want the rest of the house to looks as good, with lots of fresh colors and art and all new furniture, including a new bedroom set. This IS a fantasy gift, right? 😀
Ooooh, a decorator with a budget, I like it! I know the draw of one clean room too well!
Ohhhhh, Vacances… lovely fantasy.
Agreed!
1. Tauer’s Zeta
2. Cire Trudon candle in Balmoral
3. At Easter, I’m with Mals and it has to be Peeps. Any other time of year, Vosges Barcelona bar, with the smoked almonds and sea salt.
4. More tutoring students
I want that candle too!
Hmm, that bar sounds good! My favorite bar now is the Chocolove Dark Chocolate with almonds and sea salt, but the smoked aspect is intriguing!
That’s a darned good bar. Ate one last week.
I’m always paralyzed by this type of question: “You can pick one perfume…” I’ll think, “maybe finally PG Bois Blond or no, wait, how about Byredo Gypsy Water (based on the irrational feeling that since this perfume is “free,” I’d better choose something more expensive… ) or no, what about something new?” Enough waffling – here goes:
1) Bois Blond because it’s a favorite and I’ve been living off tiny decants for years
2) Atelier Grand Neroli soap
3) Hmmm. I love dark chocolate, but really I’d prefer a small piece of key lime pie (which I am making for tomorrow) or strawberry-rhubarb pie (which I will make for my upcoming birthday!).
4) An iPad. Or an iPhone.
Happy Easter to those who celebrate it!
Oh my gosh! You just named my two very favorite pies! (along with banana cream)
Yum!! ;D
How’s that soap? I’ve been thinking about buying it for at least 6 months. I just can’t bring myself to spend $15 on something that isn’t perfume, but I do love soap (and Atelier)….
well, I have the Vanille Insensee soap and it’s wonderful. Since I love the Grand Neroli fragrance, I think I’d also love that soap. Hope that helps!
1. Vtg No 19 EDT
2. Gilchrist and Soames Spa Theraphy Soap
3. Pistachio ice-cream (been a hot couple of days in England)
4. An uncut emerald ring (Have just read Auntie Mame, thanks to the fine folks here, and I came away with a craving for that. Now to mention that to DH…..)
Yum, I haven’t had pistachio ice cream in ages! Hope it gets hot here soon, we’ve had the lousiest spring so far.
Yes, dark chocolate IS healthy! 😉
1) The as yet unreleased/unfinished classic scent from SSS
2) Roger & Gallet Blue Carnation soap for my mother for Mother’s Day
3) homemade penuche
4) world peace (see my comment to Ann E, above)
Fun poll! Have a great weekend everyone!
P. S. I’m testing Zeta right now, and it’s reminding me of a little girl’s scent from the late 50’s/early 60’s. It is a real time warp!
Oh, I had to Google penuche, which brought up a recipe on a blog called Baking with Dynamite – what a great name! Penuche sounds YUMMY!
Waaaay back in the day, when my allowance was 50c a week, my Dad would pay me the unheard of sum of $2.00 to make a batch. Mom wouldn’t do it (the poor woman had six kids!) as it had to be stirred until soft ball stage, about 20 minutes. The original recipe doesn’t call for peanut butter, but Dad always liked a couple of tablespoons added. Holler if you’d like the recipe!
Now, those were the days when people had to expend significant calories to get a treat! I can remember big hand-cranked ice cream makers, too.
Hi Rapple –
I hope you’ll be checking back. I would LOVE to have this recipe. I remember when this was my mom’s favorite candy. I’ve been searching for it for years!
I’m spring_pansy on mua. Thanks!
Penuche is delicious.
I can’t wait to smell the new SSS scent(s).
YEA another penuche fan!
Mals, I think you’ll love the classic scent when she finally gets it finished, but she’s going to finish the white floral one first, and I know that will be up your alley!
Yes, that’ll be great. I hope it’s not too jasminey for me!
No, I don’t *think* that’s the direction she’s going in. Myself, I’d prefer a big, indolic jasmine!
I don’t know why I love tuberose and don’t love jasmine… I just don’t.
1. Amouage Homage
2. Frédéric Malle Santal Cardamom Candle
3. I’ll pick dessert instead of candy, Tiramisu!
4. Simone Cosac Gold Pendant, even without the perfume cream.
Cheers
Safran
Santal Cardamom! This *is* a conspiracy.
Either that or all of the FM employees have signed up here to assist with marketing!
LOL!
1. Nassomatto Black Afgano (I want a backup bottle)
2. Illume Black Amber Lavender Candel
3. White chocolate truffles
4. A husband.
2. Oops misspelled candle.. also I should add Frederic Malle Coffee Society as well 🙂
That FM candle really intrigues me! And the Black Amber Lavender sounds like Jicky.
LOL at “a husband”!
Yep, me too!
1. Cuir Ottoman
2. I’m not really interested in scented products besides perfume, so I’m just going to fill this slot with macarons.
3. Niederegger marzipan shaped like seals
4. Helmut Lang asymmetrical frequency print dress
Macarons are an excellent choice.
Wow – there is a video of the dress on the Saks Fifth Avenue website – VERY cute!
1. Vintage Diorissimo – I’ve only sniffed once from a new bottle. I really liked it, but I’d like to experience the greatness that everyone remembers so fondly.
2. Bloom bath salts (I can’t remember the name of the fragrance I loved so much, but I remember energizing citrus and Rosemary). This was an old line of Margot Elena’s that was discontinued when she started Lollia and Tokyo Milk. I was given a bottle as a gift while I was in the hospital several years ago with a very serious health scare. I still have the empty bottle to inhale every once in awhile when I need a reminder to live every day as if it could be my last.
3. Vosges Wink of the Rabbit Caramels. Actually anything by Vosges. Or any caramels. With sea salt.
4. A vacation to Europe, complete with spending money. There’s no use going if I can’t by a few bottles of perfume in France.
you just reminded me that I want to try the Tokyo Milk lipbalms.
The easter bunny can put them in my basket with the macarons if it wants to.
Definitely not instead of macarons
“Wink of the Rabbit” is a great name!
Hello everyone! Hope you are all having a great weekend!
1. FM Iris Poudre
2. OJ Woman candle
3. Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups
4. A silver hamsah necklace… I went to Prague last year and bought my mom and I matching ones. Mine got lost at a hotel 🙁
Oh, what a shame! Did your mom like hers?
Yeah she loves it. She actually keeps offering me hers because she knows I’m upset about it… Of course I can’t accept!
Yeah, it’s true, you can’t. What a shame.
Happy Easter!
1. By Kilian LIaisons Dangereuses *sigh*
2. Mario Badescu Special Hand Cream w/ vitamin E
3. Leonidas chocolate truffles from Belgium
4. David Austin rose Eglantyne and a 1/2 whiskey barrel… instead of a basket!
Too bad you’re not in my neck of the woods – we’re overrun with whiskey barrels, half and otherwise!
I’ll take a full one too!!
😀
David Austin roses are wonderful – great pick!
Happy weekend, everyone – celebrating or no.
1. HdP I Love Les Carottes – Easter bunny approved!
2. A Cire Trudon candle, I guess: Abd El Kader or Chandernagar.
3. Vosges Rap truffle or Madagascar chocolate anything.
4. Fluevog boots.
Ha ha – love your Carottes choice! 🙂
How fun! Happy Easter, everyone!
1. a bottle of First from the original launch.
2. DSH Mahjoun body lotion
3. An assortment of dark chocolate truffles from Moonstruck chocolate: how about French silk, it’s one of my favorite ones, and Pure Gold, and the one with cinnamon, and the malted ice cream cone… this truffles are as pretty as they are tasty!
4. a pretty Daytimer calendar set with all fixin’s.
I smelled First a few weeks ago. Did not smell as I remembered in even about three years ago. Could have been just me, I guess.
I remember shopping for a bottle of First in the 80s to take back to a friend overseas – it really did smell good then and not like what I encountered later. Of course, at the time I thought Chloe smelled fabulous, so my nose may have changed as much as First, LOL!
Moonstruck chocolates are great!
Good poll!
1. Carthusia IO Capri. I’ve gone through 3 decants; it’s time for a FB.
2. A bottle of mint-scented shampoo (Garden Botanika makes a nice one). It’s sheer bliss to wash your hair with this after a long, hot, and humid day. Incredibly refreshing.
3. Dark chocolate orange sticks. Love ’em.
4. Good health for all of us. Surely the Easter Bunny could bring that, right?
Oh! Seconding the dark chocolate orange sticks! Raspberry too.
And your wish of health, Aparatchick!
I’m in on the dark chocolate orange sticks AND the good health!
1. Ce soir ou jamais; my latest infatuation!
2. Diptyque candle Baies
3. Rococo chocolates in violet, jasmine, rose and sea salt milk bars
4. Just love!
Had to look up Rococo – wow. The chocolate bar combinations sound so interesting!
Oh, yes! They got quite many awards for their creations!
Actually, I am changing no2 for Opium YSL candles; not sure if they do them any more, but they are divine!
1 Portrait of a Lady. I wore it to work yesterday and I couldn’t believe how long it lasted on my skin.
2 I would like to burn candles, but my cats would probably knock them over and burn down our apartment.
3 Anyone remember Bonkers? Chewy two tone candies that came in chocolate, watermelon, and strawberry? I wish they still made those.
4 A note from my landlord saying that I don’t have to pay rent this month.
I don’t remember that candy!
Lovely idea for a poll!
1) Top on my list lately is Bond’s Eau de Noho….mmmm, linden blossom!
2)FM’s Eau d’Hiver Beurre Exquise, please!
3) Vosges anything
4)All the above 🙂
Happy Easter!
What is this Beurre Exquise? I love L’Eau d’Hiver…
You know, Nancy, I thought the Eau d’Hiver came in Beurre Exquise too (body butter), but it’s only in scented lotion form….so I’ll take that, please!
Fun to read Robin! Happy Easter.
1. A bottle of Cepes and Tuberose EdP
2. FM En Passant Body Lotion…sigh
3. I will agree with the Cadbury Mini-Eggs. Wouldn’t be Easter w/o!
4. A $1000 OJ gift certificate would be sweet 🙂
I just tried Cepes and Tuberose today, Helenviolette – it really is lovely!
It is lovely- I have only ordered samples twice and am considering a third sample order to tide me over 🙂
1. Aftelier Candide
2. Diptyque Rose
3. Haribo Tangfastic – so fabulously sour and moreish
4. A 60 second trolley dash round Harrods perfumery.
Fun poll!
The Easter Bunny said to tell you that he only has 60 *minute* dashes in stock! 😉
That would be perfectly acceptable – please pass my thanks to Mr Bunny… I could put something for every poster on NST in my trolley!
1. A bottle of Guerlain Djedi or Hermes Doblis.
2. Diptyque Feu de Bois candle
3. L’Atelier du Chocolat’s Chokaria (dark chocolate and salted caramel–it is insanely good)
4. Two completed research papers.
I’ll take two research papers as well!
That does sound insanely good…
Great poll!
1) Traversee du Bosophore – it made me swoon when I tried my little sample. My poor husband has been patiently sniffing my preoffered wrist for months– that’s the other side of the coin when the one you love finds a new love- perfume of course! When he smelled TdB he said, Now THAT one I like.
2) Jo Malone bath oil – would love Black Vetyver Cafe or Blue Agava & Cacao for layering
3) Sees’ scotchmallows- yum
4) Peace & freedom from tyranny for all
Oh, how I miss Sees! Their raspberry creams were to die for. Not to be found in Florida, unfortunately.
You can order from See’s website. . .
Sees comes to Daytona Beach at Christmas. We fell in love with our first sample several years ago and can’t wait for it to open each season. Maybe you could squeeze in a trip to D.B. next fall? I’m just saying . . .
1. Diorella in large quantities. Vintage for preference, but modern would be okay too. (See, I’m not picky.)
2. I’m well supplied for other scented stuff, but I’d be intrigued to try the Niki de Saint Phalle bath oil I spotted at an online discounter last night. Could be great. Those Roger and Gallet soaps sound great too.
3. I’m not fussed by chocolates and stuff. For my kids I keep up a tradition my mother established with my bothers and me, of buying less chocolate than other kids probably get, and buying them a book each. They never complain!
4. A home cooked meal NOT cooked by myself. As a single parent, I long for that.
Happy Easter everyone.
That bath oil sounds wonderful.
I hear you on the meal!
1. vintage Mitsouko extrait
2. the 16.5 oz jar of Creme de la Mer (it does have a scent to it!) or Malle’s Lipstick Rose Beurre Exquise
3. marrons glacés, calissons, or Sienese Panforte – I love them all!
4. a garden make-over complete with patio and conservatory.
Thank you for the fun poll Robin. Happy Easter to everyone who celebrates.
Ooh, calissons! Love those!
1) Grossmith’s Hasu-No-Hana
2) Elixir des Merveilles
3) Just one huge Reese’s peanut butter cup Easter egg!
4) A new air conditioner
Should have said
2) Elixir des Merveilles BODY LOTION
I love the Hermes body lotions but have still not tried that one, I should do that…
1. L’Heure Bleue vintage extrait, been wanting some for ages.
2. A garden centre voucher so I can enjoy some fragrant plants in the garden.
3. I’m not really a fan of candy but I’d love to try musk flavoured anything.
4. A beautiful but solid bed base. I sleep in fear that our old one will collapse with us in it!
This is a well-appointed Easter basket, lilybug – and Vintage L’Heure Bleue is well worth lying in wait for on ebay!
1. Hermes Hiris – I tried this yesterday and at bedtime my 5 year old said “Mommy, you smell so pretty, can you please wear that perfume again tomorrow?”
2. OJ Champaca Bath Oil or Body Cream
3. Chocolate covered strawberries
4. Peace
Your 5 year old has great taste – you must be raising a perfumista!
Awwww. So sweet.
What a fun poll, Robin! So what are your choices?
1. Hmm, since we’re wishing here, I suppose I should make it worth it. By Kilian Back to Black or Hermes Osmanthe Yunnan – I have a decant so it would be nice to spray a bit more lavishly! But I would make do with some Jo Malone Assam & Grapefruit.
2. I’m not big on body products or candles – my poor husband is sensitive to smells due to migraines, so if I were scenting the house, he’d think I was trying to kill him! But maybe he wouldn’t mind that Fireside candle they had at B&BW around Christmas – Slatkin maybe? It was very nice.
3. Since it’s Easter, I’ll go with malted milk eggs, Reeses peanut butter eggs and buttered popcorn Jelly Bellies.
4. Paid off credit cards would be nice!
I love those buttered popcorn Jelly Bellies! The only flavor I love more than that one is pear.
I JUST discovered the pear ones yesterday! I get Jelly Bellies for the husband and I just dig out the popcorn ones. I tried a pear and was astounded how realistic it was!
Late reply, but I’d take some vintage Joy, a Cire Trudon or Frederic Malle candle (can’t decide!!), some weird chocolate bar, preferably one of the Dolfins that I have not tried yet, and then a perfect bathing suit (been trying them on, would give anything to just have the perfect one and not have to try any more on, what a chore!).
Happy Easter weekend, Robin–it coincides so neatly with Passover this year, and I’m still trying to make up for the over-indulgences of all the yummy, rich food at our Seder. I started to say thank you for this so wonderfully fun poll, except that all these fantastic wishes have just made my own wish list and try-list multiply several times! I have to try those FM and Cire Trudon candles, and the OJ line–bought a perfume in London about 10 years ago, but haven’t seen them here, even though I live in NY and frequent all the “B” stores. And I’m craving sweets now, having read to the bottom of this list–I’ve never tried those Cadbury minis, but they sound irresistible!
1. Tubereuse Criminelle–doesn’t last long, but just blends so deliciously with my skin, it almost becomes part of me;
2. FM Musc Ravageur Oil (to go with or w/out the fragrance, which I love);
3. Dark chocolate with caramel and sea salt–I love the Knipperschmidt ones with different salts, but I’d love to taste the Chokaria ones that Monkeytoe mentioned above; alternatively, dark chocolate-covered grapefruit rinds–I had it once several years ago, and can still taste it, more piquant than orange–and I love the scent of grapefruit;
4. Fantasy time: a single man as endearingly loveable, good-natured, snuggly, and tractable, as our mini Australian Labradoodle (and who is also self-supporting), OR: Next year’s elections bring legislators to Washington who care more about their constituents’ well-being than about their own egos or being re-elected. Alternative fantasy wish: ALL fragrance reformulations would disappear, and ALL perfumes would instantly revert to original, vintage formulations!
GREAT wishes! Love your #4’s!
Gracious, I have never had chocolate covered grapefruit rinds and now I want some!!
Hi all and Happy Easter if you celebrate!
1. I’d choose Ruffles by Oscar de la Renta, it reminds me of my dearly departed Grandmother.
2. My scented product would be a Manuel Canova candle, Empire Celeste is my favorite, it has wallflower, rose, violets, it’s an amazing candle!
3. I’m more of a savory person, I adore salty/garlicky/vinegary stuff (fried pickles are da bomb!)… but I really love CocoaBela Chocolates, my faves are the sea salt dark chocolate coated caramels, balsamic with raspberry truffles, their mango cremes are fabby too!
4. My gift would be to keep my job, we’re looking at layoffs this new fiscal year. It’s quite scary.
Best wished for your #4 to come true.
All my best wishes about your job. 😉
1)Clive Christian C
2)Dont have a candle in mind, so will go with Iris Silver Mist (still not yet sampled)
3)Right now I don’t want to think of chocolate and candies until Passover is over so, vetiver pour elle would be a great alternative!
4)People learn to be as good as they can, so that all pain and suffering will be removed form the world, and if it isn’t on this weeks agenda, I wish for all of you, all that u wish for yourselves!(as long as it is good)
Thank you, HKmom, and wishing the same for you!
Fun, fun, fun! I’ll go with the following:
1) En Passant
2) En Passant Body Lotion
3) See’s Dark Chocolate Marzipan
4a) Serious: Cures for cancer and Alzheimer’s
4b) Frivolous: The ability to fly
4a)’s request is beautiful, Haunani
Great Easter basket, Haunani – I’ll join you and lovethescents in wishing for 4a!
Smokytoes, I have to find the Cocoabella chocs that you describe, especially the sea salt/caramel ones, my fave! I love savory, too, and often add sea salt to flavorful sweets like dark chocolate and mustard to almost anything.
Thank you, Hongkongmom, for your generous wish for all of us–and your global wish as well. I hope you have a sweet Pesach (with or without chocolate and candies)!
I don’t think wishing for the ability to fly is frivolous: it is mythic and universal, and as deeply imbedded in our subconscious as almost anything. To escape, to transcend, to be free–thank you for reminding me of it–a great wish.
Esmerelda-I adore CocoaBella’s lavender creams too, their chocolates are heavenly! I’m glad they are downtown SF and not easy to get to, otherwise I’d be down there every other minute!
Oooh. Fantasy fun.
1. Iris Poudre. I found another sample yesterday (I’d drained my first) and fell in love with its joyful prettiness all over again. It’s especially nice in warm weather, I think.
2. OJ Frangipani bath oil, to go with my EDP.
3. A really good eclair, I think!
4. Thesis.
Love Iris Poudre – it is joyful, isn’t it?
Yes! I don’t get comments about it being hyper-girly – it’s womanly, but classic and not too sweet, and has a lovely soft radiance. I really do think it blooms well in the sunshine.
MMmm pastry. I love a good eclair too! My husband and I got some lovely Napoleons and gourmet mini cheesecakes for the weekend!
Great questions, thank You, Robin!
1. Mimosa pour moi from L’Artisan Parfumeur Paris.
2. Brioche from Fragonard.
3. Jean Paul Hévins Chocolate Energy Bar with Ginger, Tonka beans, Sechouan and Paradise Pepper. Georgious!
4. Dear Easter-Bunny, please bring me some leasure time along to enjoy 1., 2. and 3.
Parfumista
Number four belongs in every Easter basket!
Yes, leisure time is a precious gift. We all deserve more!
Thanks for this poll, Robin / now I have a lot of new chocolates to try. Hope all have a happy one today…
1. Ormande Jayne Woman. Tried to order some the other day but got caught up in ‘international credit card validation’ purgatory.
2. FM L’Eau D’Hiver perfume oil.
3. Sees candy! I only find this at Christmas time. Their key lime truffles are a favorite!
4. The most perfect sofa. I finally found it but it was too expensive. After a bit of saving and lots of hemming and hawing (OMG it was expensive!), I finally went back to purchase: Only, it was gone and the manufacturer has discontinued that style.
Very frustrating: I hope the Easter bunny leads you to another perfect AND less expensive sofa, CM!
Thank you, Rappleyea–and I am also salivating at so many of these descriptions of fave candies/treats. I love penuche, and like your Dad (I love that he paid you a lot to make it for him, too–so sweet!), think it’s much better with peanut butter, which is one of my five favorite foods–I’ve been noshing on it for almost half a century! My Dad used to have a sandwich every Saturday composed of rye toast and scrambled eggs with lettuce, tomato, and bacon–and peanut butter! So, I come by it honestly, I guess.
Also, I am a little embarrassed, but I don’t know who/what “SSS” is. I’m intrigued by the white floral you mentioned when it’s ready–nothing could be too jasminey for me, especially a big, heady, indolic jasmine!
Happy Easter–the weather here in NY is finally cooperating!
No need for embarrassment! SSS = Sonoma Scent Studio.
I can’t believe there are so many penuche lovers on here! Great!! Your dad’s sandwich sounds interesting – wonderful memories.
Go to sonomascentstudio.com to see a complete listing and description of her scents. She sells on-line through her site and also through indiescents.com. She may be in one or two brick and mortar stores in Ca., but I’m not sure.
Thanks, Odonata9! I’ve seen some reviews, but never tried any, or seen them at my “B”s–Barneys, Bendels, or Bergdorfs, where I do most of my initial perfume-trying–(but no longer buying, thanks to learning about decants from this blog!). Do you recommend any for a lover of jasmine/gardenia/tuberose/honeysuckle (or amber)?
Yeah, you pretty much have to order from her site. I’ve only tried a few, but most of her stuff seems to be woods, resins, incense, etc. Hopefully some others will chime in. There was just a review here of her newest one. I love Tabac Aurea, a tobacco-y amber – you may like that one!
SmokeyToes, I know exactly what you mean–I feel the same way about Jacques Torres hot chocolate (practically spoonable, and the “wicked” and coffee ones are addictive) and MarieBelle aztec/maya dark chocolate–one 70% unsweetened but with milk of some sort, and the other 75% cocoa but sweetened with a flavorful cane sugar–and Jer’s incredibly yummy peanut butter bars in both milk and dark. Is Cocoabella local to the SF area?
Robin, I second Odonata9’s question: at some point, will you tell us what your EB wishes are? (Maybe some FM candles, after all?)
I posted above, but will repeat because you’ll never find it:
Late reply, but I’d take some vintage Joy, a Cire Trudon or Frederic Malle candle (can’t decide!!), some weird chocolate bar, preferably one of the Dolfins that I have not tried yet, and then a perfect bathing suit (been trying them on, would give anything to just have the perfect one and not have to try any more on, what a chore!).
I would take a bottle of Chanel Sycamore, Lush Potion Lotion (thanks Tama), coconut M&M’s, and a 24 track home recording station or a really expensive Nikon camera! Happy Easter.
Wow, given the company those coconut M&Ms are in, I should really try them – hope the Easter bunny treats you right, Carlos!
I was thinking the same thing about those coconut M&M’s – high praise indeed!
Carlos, that lotion is pretty darned good!
1. One perfume: Vintage Diorella, so I can stock up.
2. Even though I don’t wear Chanel No. 5, I remember the old body lotion smelling amazing.
3. Your favorite candy? ZOTZ: hard candy on the outside, “fizzy” sour candy that oozes out once you get to it.
4. $5,000K gift certificate for any vintage perfume purchases I’d like to make on eBay? 😉
Not sure about the No 5 lotion, but the body creme is fabulous. A very good and long-lasting version of No 5, leaning in the direction of the EDP rather than the EDT. The glass jar it comes in is film-star gorgeous too.
Robin, for what it’s worth, I don’t think you’ll be sorry if you buy the Cire Trudon candle that you finally decided on. You can enjoy it for a good while as you are deciding which FM candle to choose for as a future treat – the FMs all sound so enticing that I’ve never been able to pick one for myself even though I’m convinced they must be exceptionally excellent. I’m sure one of the reasons I ordered the Atelier Cezanne candle is that there is only ONE – although Kevin and Denyse get credit, too.
Thank you! And I’m tempted by that Cezanne candle too. I am so indecisive. But will stick with my Cire Trudon, and maybe finally get around to ordering next month.
A Vintage Bottle of Chanel No. 46 or 21
A Jo Malone Dark Amber and Ginger Lily Candle
TONS OF Heath Crunch bars (MY FAVORITE CANDY! OR… Godiva Milk Chocolate Pecan Turtles
A pair of Last Resort Seasons’ Chanel Lorgnette Sunglasses!
Oh, did not know JM made that candle! I will have to investigate.
1. Champaca !!! I adore this one!
2. Difficult…..probably Champaca bath oil !!!!!!
3. Simple tastes…..Green and Blacks milk chocolate bar.
4. A new acbook Pro. The keys arent typing certain letters and pnctation arks, and there are approx 4 letters that wont work on y keyboard…..can yo gess what they are?!?
LOL…and my laptop is inserting random letters sometimes. What a pain. Hope we both get new ones.
Thank you, both, Rappleyea and Odonata9; I will go to her site. The Tabac Aurea sounds lovely–hope I can get a sample somewhere.
Right now I am going to Duane Reade to look for Cadbury minis and coconut M&Ms–I’ve never seen the coconut before, and they sound yummy.
Parfumista, where do you get the Jean Paul Hevins Chocolate Energy Bar? With all those delectable ingredients, it sounds aromatic! I’d love to try one.
1. A bottle of Balenciaga Paris
2. A Byredo candle, Palermo, if it comes in that form.
3. Marzipan.
4. A Odd Molly Tootsie coat. Green, please.
1. Joy parfum
2. L’Heure Bleue body lotion
3. A new discovery, Mast chocolate bars – expensive, but the best chocolate I’ve ever had. Really cool graphics on the wrappers too.
4. My garage to be renovated into a yoga studio, at a snap of my fingers.
In my easter basket:
Perfume: My new, biggest love: Bond no.9 Coney Island!!
Other scented product: Bond no.9 Andy Warhol Lexington Avenue body cream.
Favorite candy: bond no.9 bon-bons!!
1. Vintage Diorissimo
2. A kind, handsome, literate, witty, animal-loving gentleman wearing Jicky
3. Dagoba Lemon and Ginger chocolate
4. A shortcut to fluency in Japanese