Happy Wednesday (and happy tax day, if you're in the US). What's your fragrance today?
I'm wearing Orto Parisi Viride.
Reminder: this Friday, 4/17, will be Dealer's Choice: propose a theme for a Friday community project, and wear a fragrance that fits your theme.
And for those of you who like to plan ahead, see Scent of the day ~ Friday community projects 2015, where I'll try to always have the next five or six weeks mapped out in advance.
Note: top image is There are Listed Buildings [cropped] by Basheer Tome at flickr; some rights reserved.
Once again I am wearing Chanel’s Misia…I really like the scent and it works for the office.
Misia is wonderful. I’ve been sampling many spring scents in the past few weeks. Whenever I come back to Misia I sigh with contentment.
I think this is the first time I had the first comment!
Congrats! And you smell great to boot.
SOTD is SJP Covet. Second day of the conference. Yesterday was check-in and I attended two sessions. Today is when it really get started. I’m doing at least four sessions and the huge exhibits today. David Baldacci is the guest speaker at th first general session.
Sounds interesting – what conference is this?
Texas Library Association Annual Conference.
Sonoma Scent Studio Rose Volupte is the scent I’m wearing today. I must be craving warm, spicy scents because its the third one I’ve picked in a row this week. Monday was Coty L’Origan, Tuesday was Bond No 9 Chinatown, now SSS Rose Volupte.
I really like my little sample of that one – definitely seems voluptuous.
Can’t resist bragging that I helped name it … 🙂
Great name for a great scent.
That’s fantastic! Well done.
A+ name and A+ brag, will take more of both any time! 🙂
Excellent name! So nice that you named the scent!
I love your choices, too!
I love Rose Volupte better than Vintage Rose (from where it originally came)…and Chinatown is great too!
SOTD: For Man (Gianfranco Ferre)
Have a great day!
Continuing my Aqua Allegoria week, I am wearing Mentafollia from a mini. This would be really, really good if it didn’t have a weird Febreeze “fresh air” accord that makes it smell too functional to me. If that could be removed and the cedar/vetiver drydown like that used in Guerlain Homme, this would be terrific.
Totally agree!
That perfume you chose today sounds interesting, Robin. And I really dig today’s photo.
The sun is back out and I’m wearing Wit. I was thinking about what my theme will be for Friday. I definitely won’t have time that day to chime in here, but I know what I’ll be wearing. I figured my theme would be: I Got This – all put together; calm, cool, and collected for the house closing so I’ll be wearing No 5 Eau Premiere. The reality will most likely be something HIGHLY laughable and chaotic instead. I’m sure I’ll just be a panicked mess. :p
Hope the rest of the moving goes smoothly. I’m thinking about Wit for today too but haven’t scented yet.
Thank you. I think it’s smooth sailing forwards. Most other little things are being shipped to the fiance’s parents, who are 20 minutes from the new house. Other furniture has been scheduled, so fingers crossed it goes somewhat according to plan.
Isn’t the photo gorgeous?
Yes! I really like the color contrasts and texture.
I love the photo too! Robin always finds the best graphics to match the fragrances she chooses, right?
Hey, all credit to flickr, which is a such a great place to shop for photos!
Viride is a fun green…will try to review soon.
Seems like it would be a great spring/summer scent. Looking forward to the review.
More rain here. We have turned that sudden corner of spring where all the grass becomes green overnight, after a good rain.
In honor of spring, I’m dipping into my sample of (1980s) Vacances, and counting the days until the rerelease bottle gets to the person handling the split I already signed up for…
Sniff…Three weeks ago turned off my lawn sprinklers altogether. I was doen to watering once a week, but even that started to feel like too much. Living in CA, it feels immoral to water my lawn… and I already miss the green. Large yellow patches and clover are spreading mosaic-like across the areas formerly known as lawn…
I felt sad for you but pleased as well. I used to live in the Bay Area and still feel it’s my true home. My daughter lives up in (affordable) Vallejo, and we’ve been talking about the water crisis a lot. What do you plan to do with your dirt? In any case, I salute you!
Xeriscaping with a display of native plants? A zen rock garden? A ginormous chess board with topiary chess pieces? Easier said than done, but might as well embrace the drought…
It must be dry there… I’m sorry. It looks like Ireland here at the moment. GREEEEEEEEEN. And damp. 🙂
I sometimes think that we’ve got way too much of what used to be pasture field enclosed by fence around the house, because we have to mow that. Occasionally I think about making part of it a cottage garden or something I wouldn’t have to mow, just because it is fairly wasteful to mow so much yard. At the same time… it’s So Much Yard. I can’t imagine how I’d maintain that on the two hours a week I spend mowing.
My nasty cold is winding down. Yay! I feel like a human being again…
SOTD = Scent of Hope, and it is indeed wonderful. I will wait until my nose is completely back in order to do a direct wrist to wrist comparison between this and Iris Poudre. I like Iris Poudre so much, I should just give up and buy some, in spite of the unappealing bottle….
I’m glad you are feeling better, and Iris Poudre is lovely!
Wearing Iris Poudre – and really understood the poudre part today. It felt like a powder puff explosion of iris
SOTD is Tauer’s Vanilla Flash. I have a liberal spray shared on my wrists and it’s wonderful. When it first arrived, I did a huge full spray on my chest and it smelled very different. I think it’s softer and I get more vanilla on the wrists. On the chest, I got a much more incense-y vibe. Plus, it makes some interesting swerves and turns as it develops- lots of character!
Happy hump day to all 🙂
That sounds really interesting. I may need to get a sample of this.
Totally enabling you to get a sample! Have you liked any of his other scents? Because this is a “classic” Tauer, and you do get the Tauer base that some love and some…not so much!
I haven’t actually tried any of the Tauer line yet. I’m still a bit of a newbie with some niche brands. I’ve heard of them, but just gotten around to testing any yet.
I haven’t tried any Tauers either but this one is extremely tempting!
I’m wearing Vanilla Flash, too (second day in a row for me), and it really is an interesting scent with lots of variability! I’m getting more patchouli today and a lot less of the PHI-like notes that stood out to me at first. Definitely an enjoyable ride!
I know! Wheeee! 😉
Continuing my amber week with Histoire de Parfums Ambre 114. It’s from an old dab sample and seems to have lost some of it’s intensity. It’s still nice though.
Me too… but my amber journey took a swing in the sweet fruit direction today with Euphoria. Hale the ambers!
Oops. Hail the ambers… Hale ambers well met… (now trying to thing of a way to bring in Haile Selassie…)
That would be great! I keep thinking of Life of Brian and Hail Wodewick!
Blessed are the cheese makers!
I think they mean all the producers of dairy products!
“think” not thing. Oy. 😡
Day three of Mystery (vintage) Caron and I am of course wearing The Third Man, which is SPECTACULAR. Herbal lavender fougere gone seriously off the rails with dirty jasmine and dirtier patchouli. Feels eighties: the very antithesis of a modern men’s scent.
Oh man oh man oh man that sounds great!
I second that! an herbal lavender fougere with dirty patch is right up my alley!
And I don’t even LIKE dirty patchouli, but this is so perfectly executed. I can’t believe how good it is. It smells like complete confidence.
Great choice! I love Caron’s Third Man. My husband, youngest son (just turned 15) and I all wear it well. Same for Une Homme, although Yatagan is more of a challenge.
Oh, I love Yatagan. I don’t know how it took me so long to try Third Man.
VC&A Bois d’Iris today. I am feeling and smelling like a boss. 🙂
I smelled some Orto Parisi scents this weekend at Twisted Lily, and was surprised to read on a display that stated that Stercus was Latin for…..something scatological…I of course didn’t smell it (in fact I quite liked it), but others did.
I love VC&A Bois d’Iris! You smell great!
Thank you!
it makes it sound… cleaner… in latin… 🙂
My thoughts exactly.
Boss! I can feel your confidence all the way over here!
I was projecting some your way 🙂
I love Bois d’Iris – iris and driftwood, genius. But it’s so faint on me that it frustrates me horribly.
Isn’t it lovely? Everything is always faint on me, so I apply more, and it works with this…or at least I think it does.
L’Eau d’Hiver today. Great work scent for me and my perfume hating office. Last night was Carnal Flower just for me 😀
Wow, reading that comment, I am way too self involved!! Me, me, me. Sorry :/
Maybe I need to navel gaze with Nombril Immense.
No worries! We should all love ourselves and be happy (while not offending people of course. But we all know that already 😉 )!
A little navel gazing is a good thing 🙂
I once did a speech in front of a 100+ captive audience entitled “It’s all about me”. It was quite memorable and people still remember it to this day, 8 years later.
Memo Latin Quarter..very sexy
Ah! I want to try that…love the bottle! What does very sexy perfume smell like to you?
SOTD: Amouage Memoir Woman.
Gotta use the last bit of cooler weather to the fullest so I have decided to use bigger perfumes until it gets too much.
That’s it! My theme of the week: BIG perfume Friday!
Thumbs up!
I love Memior woman- it’s very sweet on me- I think if you spray lightly you can rock it in the heat- don’t forget Amouage perfumes come from the Middle East- can’t get more hotter then there!!
Memoir is my fav Amouage. Gorgeous!
Somehow I managed to set up my exemptions this year such that when I did my taxes I was dead-on ($0) for federal and owed $1 for state, lol. Never had that happen before!
Wearing Tokyo Milk Waltz today. Crisp and clean and springy! I haven’t worn it since summer.
Beautiful magnolias blooming in the office courtyard, so I may have to sneak outside for lunch today and take a whiff. I’m sure they smell WAY better than the callery pear trees in bloom around town… YUCK.
Impressive accounting!
Wow – I never get federal right, but always dead on with local and state.
Just got my little bottle out of winter storage. So innocent and lovely!
Ah! I want to try that…love the bottle! What does very sexy perfume smell like to you?
So odd, don’t know how I got a duplicate of the last post I made. I meant to say, Good idea to get the Waltz out!
So far scent is just aftereffect of Fekkai Color Care Mask. I don’t color my hair, but it’s my fave conditioner & it smells really nice. Think I’ll opt for hyacinth today, either Bas de Soie or Silences. Tea was my old standby, Yorkshire Gold–need to fortify myself for my imminent trip to the CPA’s office 🙁
I say go for Silences…greeeeennnn!
Fekkai’s color care mask is great stuff, and the scent is very nice. I love the shine it gives my hair. You can’t go wrong with Bas de Soie or Silences, both are great. Pick the one which bolsters you for your meeting. You’ve got this 😀
Can’t go wrong with hyacinth in the spring…
All the “best of spring” lists last week reminded me I have a sample of En Passant. It’s been stashed away for a few years. This spring for the first time I’m “getting it”. Very beautiful. Still, I don’t know if I want to smell like this all day. I deeply appreciate the Malles but I’ve not yet found one that I adore without reservation.
SOTD is my beloved Caron Tabac Blond. Yummy.
Happy Hump day, all! Wearing a happy fragrance as I had a stressful morning so far….JM Peach Blossom &Honey paired with Harney and Son’s Midsummer Peach tea….both are really putting a smile on my face!
I am wearing Creed Spring Flower today. I like this one when the weather is warm but not too hot & humid.
I am testing CK Reveal again. Something keeps drawing me back to it. I was disgusted at first, but I just had to keep trying. I still can’t say I love it or even like it, but I definitely want to smell it every now and then. Weird?
Not weird. Or maybe I’m just weird, lol. That happens to me, too–that strange pull towards a perfume that initially repelled. It’s one of the things that makes this hobby interesting.
It is! I love the moment when things just click and it’s big love all of a sudden.
I sampled Reveal for the first time last week, and was pretty disgusted, myself. 🙂
I did find myself spending a lot of time trying to make sense of it, though, which makes me think I might want to smell it again. Obsession sometimes breed affection, right? Not weird at all!
The star magnolias and saucer magnolias in my neighborhood are all in bloom today, brightening a beautiful spring day with rheir pink and creamy white blossoms, My SOTD is EL’s Sensuous edt, a lighter, sparkling version of the original Sensuous, that softens the original core to a sheer veil and, at least on me, brings the magnolia note to the forefront. I don’t remember how I heard of this version but I think it was short-lived; I’ve had it just a few years and I don’t see it on the EL website. Although Sensuous Noir seems to be the favorite of most here, Sensuous edt is my favorite. I love the heightened magnolia note and although an edt it lasts a long time on my skin. one of my springtime favorites.
I’ve never been interested in that scent, but you make it sound lovely. Will try.
The magnolias in your neighborhood sound beautiful! I love those magnolias when they first bloom and always wish they last longer!
EL Sensuous Nude for me today. The light beachy-floral baby powder vibe worked for a long family car ride. I scored a small bottle of this at TJ Maxx in December and think I’ll enjoy this as an easy, no-brainer scent when the weather is warmer.
An oldie for me today: l’air de rien, I always like it best when the temperatures are on the rise. I do have the Feeling I’ve been missing out all the news, so I have Misia, the newest Bvlgari, Monsieur Li on my to-smell list.
L’air de rien would probably be my choice if I were held down and could only have ONE fragrance. It’s the only one for which I have a back up FB. I think you smell fantastic. (BTW, I’m behind, too, having not yet tried M. Li Misia or the Bvlgari)
I can still smell my Nostalgie from last night, but I added a little Coty Rose Jacqueminot — a friend gave me a little bottle and it’s soooo gorgeous.
LRJ is such a nice rose chypre. Smells sort of throwback 70s to me (in a good way).
It’s kind of like a softer, prettier version of L’Arte di Gucci.
SOTD is Bulgari Au Thé Rouge. Lovely!
I really like this and it’s on my “to buy” list…. It is so pretty and refreshing.
This one was a blind swap for me. I figured I couldn’t like it less than what I was swapping away, so why not. Turns out, it is one of my most-worn fragrances on a day-to-day basis!
Keeping on this week’s theme of Can Be Smelled Through Congestion, my SOTD is Lollia Relax
Hmmmm…maybe that explains my amber cravings… I too have been doing a CBSTC week. (Am tipping my hat to you!)
Aw, Goddess R, hope you’re feeling better soon.
Feel better soon honey!
SOTD is Chamade.
I’ve had an interesting experience with this one. I originally bought the vintage off evilbay and was smitten. However, it just faded away on me in an hour. I proceeded to buy different formulations, and even sprang for a partial extrait. All gorgeous, all fleeting. Now I have a more recent version in EDT, and it’s spectacular. I have no idea how close it comes to the original, but I have the feeling that perhaps the top notes are still present and are making the difference.
Huh. A little surprising maybe… I have some 70s edt and pdt from maybe the 80s (?) and they’re both pretty long-lasting, even on my scent-eating skin. But I suppose it may depend on how they were stored.
Glad you’ve got some that sticks around and makes you happy! Because Chamade is wonderful.
Very surprising to me, as I have never had that experience before. My skin amplifies everything. It could be that I was just ripped off!
Maybe… or maybe you just happened to get some that hadn’t aged well. That happens.
In any case, all’s well that ends well.
That is interesting. I have the edp, in a gold refillable cannister, purchased at Beauty Encounter in the last year or two. It lasts well, but I’ve always been curious about the other formulations, and particularly whether the edt is more “sparkling.”
“Sparkling” it is!
Ooh – and before I forget, Monsieur Guerlain is an excellent resource that I’ve found very helpful. Nod and thanks to nozknoz for that!
Congrats on finally getting it right with Chamade. I totally admire your tenacity! I am lucky that Chamade is always there for a long time on my skin. I’d say the edts are pretty sprarkling and that the extrait is more “lush”. They both get down to that awesome balsamic base that I love.
Thanks, AnnS. This was somewhat of a confession for me, a declaration that I can be an utter rube. I suspect more is to follow. 😉
Scent twins today, although I am testing a sample of (recent) EDP. It also fades pretty quickly for me–maybe 2 hours, 2 and a half. I’m still getting a distinct powdery period and then a generic floral period before that gorgeous hyacinth kicks in. It’s wonderful when it’s wonderful, but too much of its fleeting life is not-quite-wonderful on me.
Wearing CK’s Euphoria today. Not generally big on anything fruity but this one does have a nice pep to it for spring 🙂
Scent twin!
Keep It Simple Wednesday: Bas de Soie.
a simply sophisticated choice.
Barqs wearing of Chinatown recently inspired me to wear it and it was the perfect choice. Thanks Barqs! 🙂
You smell great! I was going to go with vintage Calandre perfume for tomorrow but with all this talk of Chinatown I might just change my mind! Time for me to stop staring at the pretty bottle on my dresser and just start spraying it on 🙂 !!
I keep hemming and hawing over replacing my vintage Calandre… I see them come up occasionally on eBay… a great fragrance…
Another fan of Calandre here. I stopped hemming and hawing. 🙂
Definitely replace it!!! But now you and Holly have made my choice for tomorrow that much more challenging …..Calandre or Chinatown?
Feel that wind? Its the sensation of my tax return blowing away into bottles of perfume….
Seville a l’Aube today. Apparently Duchaufour’s taste and style and mine are not similar. Fragrantica says he’s created 107 scents and the only one I’ve liked has been Ashoka.
Noticed same thing when it was Olivier Polge day–long list of creations, and I like almost none of them!
Even so, there’s almost something I like about that experience, whether you love all of a person’s work or none of it–it’s pleasing to think perfume creations arise at least partially from an artist’s coherent vision rather than strictly from focus groups!
Scent twins 😉
This is simply delicious to my nose.
I liked almost none of his early stuff. It’s WAY way too earthy/mildewy for my taste. I do tend to like some of his florals, however – I get on fine with Seville and Amaranthine. I don’t mind Traversee du Bosphore and I liked the first three Neela Vermeires, too. But that’s a relatively small portion of his compositions.
I tend to do great with Francis Kurkdjian for some reason.
SOTD = Oriza L. Legrand Heliotrope Blanc
It’s all about heliotrope, almonds, mimosa and fluffy and powdery clouds of iris and tonka bean. I split a bottle of this at the last Splitmeet and I’m thinking I should do another split since I’m going through MY 25 mL portion at a rather alarming rate!
OHH! that sounds lovely!
It was ch-ch-ch-chilly here today, so I suddenly decided a drop of Bois des Iles extrait was perfect to make me feel warm, even though it’s going to be warm, sunny and spring-like later. I’ll refresh later with something springlike.
Enjoy your eels! and you must be excited…isn’t next week AG week for the Friday comm project? You could probably do a month of AG 🙂 !
Oh, bring it on! I could do at least 1/2 a month with AG!!! I’ll make it AG week!!!
Oh, you smell swoon-worthy!! This is at the tippity-top of my buy list. I am just struggling something fierce whether to go with edt or extrait…
99 problems but Bois De Iles ain’t one! 😉
Oh, I share your struggle! 😉
🙂
Deva, I love the extrait so much more than the EdT. I have both and almost never wear the EdT. The extrait is so much spicier, richer, and has more depth and longevity on me.
Fox, AnnS was kind enough to send me a decant of the edt and a generous sample of the extrait in a recent swap, and I totally agree with you! That extrait is to die for, but there is *something* in me that just envisions me spritzing the edt with furious abandon! I want both…because I want everyone around me to smell how GOOD I smell!! I’m very generous that way 😉 I think everyone on the planet needs to really huff this one because it could possibly cause an outbreak of world peace!!
I wonder if they make shower gel and body butters in this scent?
They don’t make any body products for the Les Exclusifs, except this fragrance neutral body cream, that I can’t remember the name of. Why bother? And, wow, I can’t even imagine getting all spritzy with the edt! You’d definitely be in orbit! I only put on one, maybe two squirts and I’m good for many hours. But the idea of dousing oneself in BdI is also very appealing! True love?
when I bought the edt, I had the choice of getting that or the edc… (no extrait on this continent apparently :-/) It’s pretty light to me so I cant imagine how fleeting the edc is- but Ive never even heard it mentioned before!!
Peoneve by Penhaligon’s is proving to be a good choice for this warmish spring day. I even saw a crocus blooming by my driveway!
I’m wearing Vertigo Cuir by Perfumes by Terri today. Leather, green notes, fresh florals, caramel, vanilla, and musk – it is, like most of her line, a gourmand’s dream. I purchased some sample sets about a month ago, and it occurred to me while I was sampling that her Rose Confit might be good for all those lovers of the Lush Rose Jam line. I haven’t used any Rose Jam products myself, but I remember thinking, “Hmmm, I wonder if this gourmand rose thing is what has all those NSTers raving?” If you’re not into gourmands, stay away – this is some arm-licking stuff. But, if you have a sweet perfume tooth, I’d encourage you to sample – the Discovery Sets are nice, the price points for the perfumes are incredible, and it’s indie, so it makes me feel virtuous.
Is this perfume line under the same umbrella as the By Terry make-up line? It sounds great, but I’m not familiar with it…
I don’t think it’s the same company – which might be confusing, given the similar names. Of the 9 scents she (Terri) offers, I bought three: Vertigo Cuir, Oui Plus!, and Vanille Debauche. They’re terrifically affordable, and she offers them in both 15 ml and 30 ml, which I greatly appreciate.
Thanks for the info! I will look into them because who can ignore a name like Vanille Debauche?! 🙂
This morning I tried Tocca Colette from a sample. I really think I like it but will have to try it again. This afternoon I’ve spilled Vanille Galante all over myself. I had a “whoops!” with a sample vial. The generous 4ml sample vials from Hermes have a unique ball-topped plastic stopper. I pulled too hard on the stopper and broke it in half.
The bottom half of the stopper sank down into the perfume, so I used what remains of the stopper to seal the vial. I’m hoping it won’t leak or evaporate, but as a precaution I’ll use it up quickly. Happily, I like Vanille Galante a lot, so that’s an easy solution.
Anyone have an emergency sample vial stopper idea? (I don’t have decanting supplies or empty vials . . . I’m trying not to fall down that rabbit hole any time soon.)
Cut a piece of plastic like from a freezer baggie. Drape that over the partial top you have. Put a piece of tin foil over that and squish the tinfoil around the neck to make a seal. Wrap a rubber band around the neck to hold the tinfoil tightly in place. I’d store it in a cool place to reduce chances of evaporation. Won’t hold forever, but that should give you a chance to use it up.
Oh, thank you, meredifay. Freezer baggie and foil and a rubber band – got it!
Parafilm would work well. My husband is a biologist so he can bring a little home for me from his lab, but I believe it is also available commercially.
I have a perfume friend who wears fragrance by season. She likes to seal her “off-season” bottles and samples with parafilm. Gotta get some. Thank you for the good idea!
Yes, parafilm is one of those things you discover all sorts of uses you didn’t know you needed it for, once you have some! The Baggie/tinfoil/rubber band trick is definitely the short term emergency sealer-upper!
Forgot to say I love the photo at the top of today’s post. That’s the color (and texture) I think of as verdant green.
Trying “fatal vet über” today. OMG those spelling corrections! That would Vétiver Fatal. I hasn’t lasted well on me–too fatal for it’s own good–and the scent didn’t distinguish itself. I’m fond of vetiver, but not this one.
I likely won’t be on here Friday, but my theme is going to be homage to a favorite TV show.
I think Fatal Vet Uber would make a strong new entrance for Etat Libre d’Orange!
On vacation. Wore infusion d’Iris in the plane. Fully planning on dousing myself in bronze goddess tonight. Unless I decide to go for fresh with ninfe mio 🙂
Enjoy your vacay! I love all three of those scents you mentioned. Did you decant a wee bit of each? And, because I’m nosey, how many fragrances did you bring in total? 😉
I went with Une Rose de Kandahar (from a sample) today. Yum.
Also, it’s officially spring to me because I smelled my first star jasmine of the season a couple days ago. There has been a lot of privet in bloom around too, which is an interesting scent. Up close I think the flowers kind of smell like balloon rubber, but in the mornings and just after rain the scent is everywhere and is a bit different, kind of honeyed/linden-like but with that balloon note still there.