Happy Almost-Friday, and happy National Milk Chocolate Day! What fragrance are you wearing?
I'm testing La Femme Prada. I don't usually eat milk chocolate but I happen to have a Sicilian Pistachio & Rose Petal bar by Sucré in my stash, so I will be sure to polish that off later.
Reminder: on 7/29, we're doing Huesday on Friday — wear a fragrance inspired by Limpet Shell and/or Peach Echo, colors from Pantone's Spring/Summer 2016 collection. You can find the image and color descriptions here.
And for those of you who like to plan ahead, see Scent of the day ~ Friday community projects 2016, where I'll try to always have the next five or six weeks mapped out in advance.
SOTD: APOM Pour Homme (MFK). 🙂
Nice pick, have a great day!
And now for something completely different……
Parfum d’Ete Kenzo.
Green, hyacinth, iris, oakmoss.
In the original bottle, Kenzo does some of the best.
Hoping the new Kenzo World will be as good as their old stuff!
That sounds very good.
You inspired me to put on some of this too. So good. It reminds me in style of Gucci Envy.
Yum, that sounds great!
Love that one!
That’s a nice one.
You rascal! I was planning on being your Hypnotic Poison scent twin today and now I’ll have to come up with a Plan B
LOL!
I am only predictable in my unpredictability.
Even to myself. LOL
😉
Thanks for the Parfum d’Ete love, everyone!
It is fantastic!
😀
SOTD Cuir de Lancome. It’s been a while since I wore it and I’m really enjoying it. It would go excellently with some milk chocolate.
Ah, they would go nicely together!
Everything goes nicely with Lancôme Cuir.
Yes!
Agreed!
Beautiful!
Good Morning Beautiful smelling people..
In Aftelier’s Lumiere -so light and beautiful. And when I mean light, I mean it will be gone in an hour or so 😉 But I enjoy every minute..
Yesterday I spent the morning in Central Park with the babies and then we are going there again this afternoon. Trying to find some shade, and not be stuck in AC all day. Hope everyone has a good day ahead! Take care
The park is so lush right now. Sounds like a wonderful day. Have fun!
Finding a nice spot under the tree is really great..
Hope you are staying cool!
L’Artisan Safran Troublant again. I’m getting a lot of wear out of it this steamy summer: it glows in the heat and humidity without feeling heavy.
Milk Chocolate Day, eh? Well, like the complete philistine that I secretly am, I’m going to have a Cadbury Jelly Popping Candy bar, which is milk chocolate loaded with tiny gummi jelly beans, wee little candy-shell-covered chocolates (we call ’em Smarties, Americans call ’em M&Ms), and Pop Rocks. It is SUBLIME. Chocolate SHOULD explode in your mouth!
That chocolate bar sounds like a riotous party!
I had an argument about M&Ms with some French people recently (I’m an American living in France). They said that M&Ms necessarily contained a peanut, while I said that that was just peanut M&Ms, and that plain M&Ms had no peanuts in them. They said I was confusing them for Smarties, which I said were little sugar wafers (I don’t if those are still even made!). Until I bring a bag of plain M&Ms to France from the US, though, I don’t think they’ll believe me.
I grew up in Canada, where Smarties are delicious chocolate discs wrapped in a candy shell (a lot like plain M&Ms). When I moved to the USA a coworker offered me some “Smarties”, and I was crushed to receive what I had grown up calling “candy pills”.
I miss Canadian Smarties!!!!
I’ve had the discussion about M&Ms and Smarties with overseas friends, too. The sugar wafer Smarties are easy to find in the US. Chocolate button Smarties are delicious, but to me they are nothing like plain chocolate M&Ms. Chocolate Smarties are a more crunchy robust candy while M&Ms have a much more delicate shell.
Oddly, I have a vague memory of buying chocolate Smarties in Canada years ago and found they had a faint orange flavor. I don’t think this was true of chocolate Smarties I tasted in Europe.
Plain chocolate M&Ms are currently labeled “may contain peanuts” as an allergy warning, but of course they do not contain whole peanuts like the peanut M&Ms candy. How would a peanut fit in the red M&M’s tummy? Besides it’s obvious the yellow M&M already swallowed the peanut. Just look at their picture. 😉
http://mms.wikia.com/wiki/M%26M%27S_Wiki
To add to the confusion, many years ago the plain chocolate M&Ms ingredient label included “peanut mass”. This lead to the rumor/urban legend that “all M&Ms contain peanuts.” Per my friend who was an executive at candy manufacturer Mars, peanut mass was used as a cost-saving extender ingredient to reduce the amount of chocolate in candy without affecting the flavor. Due to the increase in concern for peanut allergies over the past few decades, candy manufacturers have largely abandoned the peanut mass ingredient.
TMI? lol. I love candy from all over the world.
This is all so interesting! I’ll be sure to pass this information onto my French friends. They might be less excited to hear about all this, though.
“Less excited.” Ha! Agree.
This is cobbled together from various Internet sources, but: once upon a time, in the UK, orange-coloured Smarties also contained orange-flavoured chocolate (and light-brown ones were coffee-flavoured chocolate). The coffee ones were discontinued ages ago but the orange ones were manufactured for decades: I can’t tell if that’s still true. It’s never been the case in Canada, as far as I know — every colour just contains regular milk chocolate — but there were limited-edition Orange Smarties once that were definitely orange-flavoured.
I do have to say that the chocolate in Smarties is much, much better than that in M&Ms. America does a great many things superlatively well but the manufacture of commercial chocolate is not one of them. Your chocolate tastes of sour milk.
And finally, American Smarties are Canadian Rockets, which we see in great profusion around Hallowe’en but rarely at any other time of the year.
How dare you say it tastes of sour milk when it so clearly tastes of wax?!?!
(Seriously–what IS Hershey’s even?!?! The only reason I like it at ALL is because it reminds me of my childhood.)
(To clarify: I’m with you 100 % about American mass-produced chocolate being shockingly gross.)
Yes! I knew I’d had orange-scented chocolate Smarties at some point in time. Thank you for reassuring me that I’m not losing my mind and/or not overwhelmed with memories of chocolate and citrus at the moment. I really could go for some Elixir des Merveilles right now. Mmmmm, candy and oranges. 😀
Hershey’s milk chocolate contains butyric acid, which accounts for the sour milk taste.
Sounds like a Canadian candy bar. Don’t see those varieties of Cadbury in the states. Too bad, sounds right up my ally.
You smell wonderful, and that Cadbury Jelly Popping Candy bar sounds fabulous.
For a few years here in the US we had a supermarket chain called Fresh & Easy. It was a subsidiary of Tesco. They were my source for Cadbury and Nestle bars which are popular across the ocean. I love Lion bars and can sometimes find them here in the US, always a fun surprise.
When I travel outside the US my first stop*** in an overseas airport or food market is always the candy bars. I love to see what’s the same and what’s different in the world of sweets.
***First stop AFTER the perfume counter and duty free shop of course. My perfume-lover ID card doubles as a chocolate-lover ID card. 😀
I do this, too, but the only place outside of the US I travel to regularly is Canada, where my sister and her family live. I bring her kids American candy and bring Canadian candy home with me.
Ahh, what a nice aunt you are!
Yay! I love to bring home unfamiliar candy from a trip to share with friends and family. It’s the perfect souvenir.
I’m envious of your Cadbury selection. Dairy Milk is one of my favorite milk chocolates and with Smarties it would be divine. They certainly used to sell Smarties in the US, at least in South Texas. Do they not anymore? I always preferred them to m&ms because the texture was less waxy (a huge problem with American chocolates), and they had a thinner shell. Also, they were cheaper so Dad was more inclined to buy a larger packet and the other kids thought they were weird and didn’t try to make me share 🙂
*thicker shell. I obviously need coffee and chocolate.
Oof! I just looked again and my sentence is completely bass-ackward. Sorry. Smarties were better. The shell is crunchier and they aren’t filled with American chocolate-flavored wax.
I just asked my mom if she remembered them and she doesn’t, but suspects that he bought them from the huge salvage center he frequented for obscure machinery bits. They apparently carried tons of odd import candy and sodas.
Definitely agree the chocolate inside Smarties has a nicer flavor than the chocolate inside M&Ms. It’s like the difference between a Dairy Milk bar and a Hershey bar. And the candy shells are very different.
But as for me and my tastes, I will happily eat ALL the chocolate things. 😀
I’m with you, Tiffanie, I will eat all chocolate things. Maybe I should set up a taste test between Smarties and M&M’s today… that would require eating both bags in the name of science. When I’m in the UK, I love Galaxy bars.
Don’t get me wrong. I will totally eat m&ms or any other chocolate thing set within reach, but I prefer the texture of the import stuff.
As usual, Amazon has them.
Yum, me too! My favourite milk chocolate confection is Cadbury fruit and nut bars. That gummy bear one sounds interesting, haven’t seen it here in Montreal. I did find a Milka bar yesterday that has m&m type candies in it.
I used to love how Smarties came in a cardboard tube. They were such a treat. In NZ we have jaffas, too…which are spherical milk chocolate in a bright orange candy shell…they taste like orange and smell exactly like Olympic Orchids Seattle Chocolate perfume. I live above the world’s steepest street (Baldwin St. Dunedin) and during our chocolate festival they have a jaffa race where they roll jaffas down the street ( we have a bug cadburys factory in town). And, we also,have exploding jelly chocolate!!!! L’artisan, sadly, not so much.
I want to see candy races! Where’s that darned bucket list?
I’m glad you mentioned Smarties in cardboard tubes because that is how I remember them as well!
Yes..and they had a raised letter on the inside of the lid
You have emboldened me to go down to London Drugs and buy this one, and probably wear that one when I do it :-p
Have to get my hands on a sample, or wear Theo Fennel Scent instead, which is my resident saffron…
I thought about packing this one, but since its cold where I am, it doesn’t really fit. I’m saving it for when I get home.
I have to look for this when I’m in Vancouver next July as long as my cruise to Alaska plan doesn’t change! All this talk of chocolate got me itchy because I am one of those poor souls with a chocolate allergy. I still eat chocolate in moderation to build tolerance 🙂
I’m not a great chocolate fan, milk or no, which is a good thing as I like plenty of other things full of calories.
SOTD is Musc Nomade.
It is best to leave all the chocolate for me anyway 🙂
That’s a deal then!
Maybe I should have asked first what I am leaving for you in this deal! What sweets (or other things with calories) do you like?
Liquorice, the very salty kind that only crazy Dutch and Scandinavian people seem to love. And cakes, and cheese, loads of cheese!
Morning! Spent a lovely evening listening to Tullis yesterday….just sat gazing out of the window at the hills and clouds with the music. Thank you so much.
Stunning isn’t it? I would love to hear it performed live in a large cathedral.
Wearing French Kiss because the lipstick I put on this morning smelled so good that I wanted more.
If I had known it was Milk Chocolate Day, though, I’d have worn Musc Maori. Oh well, I guess I’ll just have to participate through food instead of perfume. 🙂
Oh, I should have worn Musc Maori too!
What lipstick was it? I love the scent of a lot of cosmetics, but I can’t say I recall a lipstick scent that I’ve been crazy about.
I like the smell of all of the Guerlain lipsticks, but this one was the Rouge G
I love French Kiss bc I adore the scent of Guerlain cosmetics!
I love milk chocolate!
Wearing Mugler Cologne on this hot day.
You smell fabulous! : )
Spritz of vintage Dior Dolce Vita followed the morning shower. Sitting here at work in a warm, close halo of sunshine and spice.
Nice way to start a day!
Dolce Vita is so good. (I can only wear it in cold weather, though.)
Every day should be Milk Chocolate Day !
Today, I am wearing Prada Infusion de Fleur d’Oranger.
I get a slightly naughty note in this that not many seem to smell on their skin, so maybe I just amplify skank 🙂
I love that one in summer but it smells more like orange flower soap on me, so refreshing and good for work. There seems to be a bit of tuberose at some point, will have to search for skank next time!
I’m in Dior Gris Montaigne today, and wondering what I own clothing-wise that will simultaneously match GM and be cool enough on a 90+ degree day. Hmmmm.
I saw a gorgeous light gray lace pencil skirt in jcrew this week. With some heals and a super pale pink tee, that would be my outfit for this scent.
Oh, perfect! In the end I went with a pencil skirt in a very tiny black and white check pattern, a white shell and pale aqua cardigan. Layers required because, of course, it’s arctic in the office and blazing outside.
So miserable! Why are offices COLDER in summer than they are in winter? I always carry a sweater and scarf in my purse in summer – grocery stores, restaurants, doctors’ offices – it’s like being in a walk-in freezer. I hate A/C and am glad I’ve never lived anywhere where I needed it.
Second this!! I used to like summers (and this was when I lived in much warmer climates) but I am starting to really dislike it, and it is only because of all this A/C. And the noise … Argh!
Light gray linen. I am now obsessed with finding some linen shirts I can wear to work. I have to work out how I can get away with not ironing them (the ones for work only).
Can chocolate ice cream count as milk chocolate?
I have been in a heat-related perfume rut for several days, but now I have a packet of samples from Posh Peasant’s going-out-of-business sale to inspire me. Today I’m sampling Eau de Tarocco. So far I like the ambery bitter-orange and am waiting for an evolution to happen in the dry-down.
Surely it must count?
Encre Noir pour Elle today, not much loved generally but pretty and summer appropriate if you just take it as it is. Wish I had realised it was milk chocolate day as I have just had some very nice very dark chocolate a colleague brought for the office.
I have ENpE that I bought early on in my journey. I still think it’s pretty but don’t wear it often, probably for the same reasons that you noted.
There was a perfumista on Fragrantica who had tons of perfume, some very expensive. She had ENpE listed as one of her top five frags. So really it’s just what we like.
You smell lovely today! 🙂
Thank you!
Byredo Oliver Peoples again today. I have fallen hard for this one and it has zipped to the top of my “To Buy” list.
I love this scent! It’s a summer favorite. Have you decided which bottle color you want?
I thought of that, and decided I want the one that’s in stock. Have you tried it in cooler weather? How does it work?
When I tried it at about 70 degrees, it was nice but not inspiring. But below 40 degrees and especially above 80 degrees, it’s really gorgeous. The juniper/ herbal aspect was more prominent when it was cold, and the sand/ dry climate/ lemon notes really shine when it’s hot.
Oh that just reinforces that I NEED a FB.
How’s Prada La Femme–would you describe it as beachy?
Not in the overt sense, like Bronze Goddess. But maybe in the “pale exotic florals” sense, like Guerlain Terracotta, although even that one is more beachy than this. So maybe only vaguely and by association.
Reveling today in Sycomore from the amazing hajusuuri. It was overcast and cool this morning, so the scent fit perfectly; I really love its wet peatiness. Tying up loose ends in lab this afternoon before I head off to VACATION tomorrow!!!!!! A week with my parents, a week with the boyfriend in Yosemite, then a week seeing friends and a quick overnight trip up to Napa for an exceedingly extravagant meal. The question, of course, is how much time it’ll take me to slide back into work mode when I come back in late Aust.
August, of course, is what I meant!
Don’t think about August -live in the present! Enjoy your vacation!
If your dinner is at the French Laundry, it’s a great meal, especially with the wine pairing option.
It is! It looks magnificent. I wonder what perfume I will wear to the meal.
Oh, wow! What a treat. Enjoy your time back in the states! I’m not an outdoorsy/nature type, but I saw a documentary about the National Parks a while back and it made me want to see Yosemite. And Napa is always beautiful, of course.
I would wear something very subtle, don’t want to interfere with all that extravagant food. 🙂
Sounds wonderful. Have a great time!
Sycomore is gorgeous – have a great holiday.
I haven’t been to Napa in ages! You smell gorgeous!
Have a great time! The region around Yosemite has natural hot springs scattered here and there, and I enjoyed hunting them down in the car while my husband & friends rode motorcycles during the day. At night we all went soaking. Please report on the dinner!
I’m in Byredo Flowerhead. It’s ok, but I’m being particular today since I went to bed at 3 am and somehow managed to get myself up for work. I require a constant IV drip of coffee and tea today.
Radiohead concert was awesome last night. It’s the fourth time I’ve seen them and a first for the husband, so he was quite thrilled. We were about 25 feet or so from the stage.
Holy cow was it freaking hot yesterday in NY. I was dripping with sweat the entire day – up until we were in the stadium, which was very well air conditioned. I don’t know how people can be out and about like that in the city. It’s just a radiating brick oven of heat – even in the shade. Despite constantly drinking from a large water bottle I still needed to go inside a shop and sit down so I didn’t faint from heat stroke.
I feel you! I stay inside with the kiddos for the most part-but then head out later on in the afternoon
So glad it was a great concert!
Glad you had fun. Yes, it does feel like a kiln here. Makes me very unmotivated.
Glad it was fun! Yeah, that concrete does radiate the heat.
Did they play House of Cards? Glad you had fun. Fun is good!
No, they didn’t play that one. But they did play My Iron Lunch and Planet Telex, which I loved. The Bends has always been my favorite album by them.
Lung – not lunch – i’m not awake yet.
Go away heat! So glad you enjoyed the concert. Where did you eat?
We went to Terakawa (ramen), which was a bit of a hike away. There’s one in Philly we really like eating at so we wanted to compare them. I think the NY one was the original, but I’m not sure.
I am wearing Penhaligon’s Juniper Sling which lasts only slightly longer than a gin and tonic placed in front of me (the drydown is a perfectly peasant not excessively clean, but dull musk).
I am drinking mineral water with some key lime squeezed in it.
I’m a fan of Juniper Sling. I like to wear it while I workout to get maximum impact durIng it’s short life!
Continuing a week of perfumes inspired by the Pantone colours. Today I am back in Limpet Shell; SOTD is “Aqua Motu” from Comptoir Sud Pacifique. Immortelle and salt water with some watery flowers in there somewhere (maybe the listed LOTV note?). Everything I like about this perfume, I like better somewhere else, like in Acqua di Sale from Profumum Roma or in Sables from Annick Goutal. Whereas everything I don’t like about this perfume, well, I don’t like it and wouldn’t like it any better from a different house.
I abbor LOTV.
That would be ABHOR
I was originally going to wear one of the Un Jardins, but I decided on Eau des Merveilles instead.
I wore Eau des Merveilles yesterday. If I had to, I could live just with this one.
It doesn’t last long on my skin, but while it lasts I’m very happy.
Hi twin, and Yay for Eau des Merveilles!
Hiram Green’s Moon Bloom for me today, and it sure blooms in this weather. But I have to remind myself not to buy any more WFs, big or not.
You smell fantastic!
Began my day in Hilde Solianni’s Fraaagola Saalaaata. Salted sweet strawberries. I liked it more the first few times that I tried it. Maybe it’s the heat but it was just too sweet for me today. Trying to use up samples. It poofed after 3 hours so now I’m wearing Cristalle. Ahh, that’s better.
The combo of the 2 sounds pretty good, too!
It actually is pretty good. Stay cool! 🙂
I am always intrigued by the strawberry one but have not tried too hard to try it because I feared it would be too sweet, Cristalle sounds perfect though.
Prada for me too – Candy. Great scent, in my opinion 🙂
I like that one too.
For the third time this week my SotD = Eau des Merveilles. I’ve got EdM on the right arm and a bonus dab of Eau Claire des Merveilles on the left. Yes to Hermès!
With thanks to SheriG for her scent of the day combo yesterday, I will try layering these scents later this afternoon when I need a fragrance boost.
And SheriG, I’m SO very very glad I tried Eau Claire again! When I sampled it several years ago I could barely smell anything except the alcohol and very faint flowers, perhaps due to lingering medication-induced anosmia. But today I am really enjoying it. I keep doing the perfumista salute. If I’m not careful my wrist may get stuck under my nose. 😀
“the perfumista salute”. Love it.
I think we have hajusuuri to thank for naming the perfumista salute . . .
Credit for perfumista salute goes to someone else! I’ll take credit for perfumath 🙂
We need a wikia or lexicon or something to give credit where credit is due . . . so perhaps it was mals? . . . will go digging . . .
LOL! I am forever doing the perfumista salute in public. It never occurred to me how it might look to others until just now, but it’s probably pretty strange – especially since I wear fragrance on the upside rather than underside of my wrists 😉
I’m definitely aware of how strange I must look after I’ve gone sniffing, and I’m smelling each finger as I sit in the subway ???? Just another weirdo in the train.
bahaha!
I like seeing and smelling a pleasantly fragrant weirdo on the train. 😀
I just pretend I’m nearsightedly looking at my watch. 🙂
That is brilliant!
Now I need to start wearing a watch again.
Tiffanie, I’m so glad you gave ECdM another try, AND that it’s working better for you now. Yes to Hermes! We need t-shirts or campaign buttons or something with that slogan emblazoned on them. 🙂
Isn’t it funny how another try can pay off sometimes? I didn’t discard my ECdM sample because it’s Hermes, and I’m loyal to a fault.
+1, Like, and Love for a “Yes to Hermes!” campaign. I would wear the t-shirt and the button. Let me get right on that . . .
Thanks for referring to the “perfumista salute”! I do it so often and wonder if anyone notices and thinks me bizarre for it. In the winter, I also pull forward my sweaters and stick my nose into the space between the sweater and my skin.
I do the sweater thing, too. Sometimes I pretend I’m stifling a sneeze so people won’t wonder what I’m doing. 😀
Yes, the sweater thing! Oh, I am so relieved to know I’m not the only one who does that!
I like your new avatar. Looks like you are racking up points for Huesday!
🙂 That avatar has a story I’ll share tomorrow.
Une rose de Kandahar over Caudalie dry oil. I ordered some Tauer rose samples together with the Rose Delight body oil. Kandahar is truely lovely, I would consider a FB at some point if the drydown wouldn’t remind me so much of MK Ciel de Gum which I have and love.
I didn’t notice the same dry down – interesting!
I love milk chocolate! But I think it’s too hot today to have any other than in ice cream form.
This morning I’m wearing Profumum Acqua Viva.
You smell amazingly refreshing.
Eau de Magnolia today…
…almost Friday!!!
Having fun with the Goutal samples sent to me by the most generous fairy. Today it is Passion. So good it’s a bit heartbreaking. Hopefully, its beauty will do wonders on my co workers’ souls, and our upcoming meeting will not be as dreadful as I’m antecipating.
Those old Goutals are something else. I hope the magic worked!
Shalimar EDP. Very citrusy on me today.
Heavenly!
SOTD Dita von Teese with a small spritz of Poudre de Riz.
My Auphorie samples finally arrived, so I’m looking forward to some sampling tonight.
Can’t wait to hear!
Me too. I liked them better at first spray. There was something in the dry down that bothered me.
Which ones did you sample?
Miyako, Eternal Voyage and Elfen Spring.
I’ll report back tomorrow.
I’m so intrigued by Poudre de Riz. I just put it on my *to try* list. It sounds like something I’d enjoy more in fall/winter?
It’s in the same vein as Putain de Palaces but less dense and a little sweeter and cleaner, or just clean, really. So far, it hasn’t suffocated me in the heat. It’s just one of those easy to wear comfort perfumes.
Fun!
I’m wearing Atelier Jasmin Angelique today, and drinking a cup of Douglas Fir Spring Tips tea.
I’m wearing Je t’Aime by Des Filles a la Vanille. It’s a lovely scent, but I kind of wish I’d bought a bottle of Garcon Manqué instead. Does anyone know if DFalV is still around?
I forgot to mention that I recently discovered an amazing line of chocolate bars by a company called Compartes. The packaging is gorgeous (not that you can eat the packaging, of course!) and the bars inside are also beautiful and as good as they look! I’ve tried two of them, Cereal Bowl (white chocolate with Lucky Charms) and Coney Island (milk chocolate with caramelized waffle cone pieces). They are WAY too expensive ($11/bar) but an indulgent treat every once in a while.
Woke up uber late today and have been lounging around. Yeah, I haven’t even showered yet and wearing the dry down of Theorema. I’m thinking of just continuing on with Theorema but thinking about trying Fate Woman.
I was feeling a little uneasy this morning so wanted something comforting. So I went with Cuir Ottoman layered with a bit of Vanille Insensee.
I don’t usually eat milk chocolate either, but I’d definitely make an exception for pistachio and rose chocolate. That sounds yummy.
I haven’t tried Cuir Ottoman layered with Vanille Insensee, but I have a feeling you smell wonderful!
SOTD = dior addict
Inspired by Bear, I did the baby bear version (2 spritzes) of vtg. Addict from a decant gifted to me by a perfume fairy. I could probably survive with 1 more spritz which I will do next time.
Catching up with some unanswered questions —
WendySue – Vacation perfumes – I got a 50 mL bottle of Yves Rocher Cuir de Vetiver and the other one is still a holy secret. I still have $350 of guilt-free spending to do 🙂
Koenigsberg – CSP Amour de Cacao fits squarely in the “I want to smell like a chocolate and/or vanilla cake / cupcake / muffin” fun category, just like Tokyo Milk Dark Bittersweet, Philosophy Fresh Cream, the Nobile 1942 Le Petit Chocolatier set…
Cuir de Vetiver sounds interesting….
I had been trying to order this but it is not on the website so the moment I saw a YR store, in Barcelona I went straight to the perfume section and scooped one up. I’ll bring some to our next get-together.
May I ask why it is a holy secret?
Certainly – The holy is a clue as to which brand I got and the secret will be revealed some other time. I may write a post about my vacation.
I see a contest opportunity here ????
If I can get organized – absolutely!
Sounds divine!
I see what you did there!
You smell lovely. Can’t wait to read your trip report and find out the holy secret!
Thank you dear 😉
Thanks Hajusuuri! I think you have to be under a certain age or over a certain age to find the answer “just because” satisfying. (I am definitely over a certain age) :^)
I’m in the “over a certain age category” and enjoying it 🙂
I’ve been negligent commenting lately, so I’m finally saying welcome back! Enjoy that guilt-free perfume spending!
Good morning all! I just spritzed on some MOR Dal – something I’ve never seen mentioned anywhere. It looks to be long discontinued – I got it on super duper sale at Anthropologie many years ago. It’s probably the only perfume I bought purely for the packaging. The bottle has a cute little wooden horse cutout on it, kind of Ikea-ish. Scent isn’t bad, a very fresh rose.
Usually don’t have milk chocolate in the house as we eat mostly dark chocolate. But I just found some M&Ms and had some in honor of milk chocolate day! We just finished potty training the twins and used M&M as rewards! Chocolate works wonders!
Congrats on finishing potty training! That calls for a new bottle of perfume.
Yay for potty training twins. My children were 18 months apart in age, so I can (almost) imagine your relief that diapers are finished. I used m&m’s and Skittles to motivate my kids in that direction.
In Ivoire this morning. This evening I will rebelliously eat some dark chocolate.
I like that- having accidentally done the same too.
I was in a non-perfume mood this morning after a tiring night and the memory of yesterday’s migraine, so I went with a tiny dab of No. 19, a tonic in all weathers internal and external. It’s already long faded, and just as well; I just found out that my 19-year-old cat, one of the great loves of my life, passed away. She’s been living with my dad since pets aren’t allowed where I live. So, don’t really want to ruin a perfume by creating a scent association on this sad day.
Awwh, so sorry about your cat.
I’m so sorry about your cat. It’s always so hard to lose them.
Oh no! So sorry about your beloved kitty. We had a cat that lived til 19. It was really hard when she died. Hugs to you.
So sorry about your cat 🙁
Sending you a hug. Losing a pet is losing a member of the family.
I’m so sorry about your kitty. I hope there’s some comfort in the fact that she had a good, long life
So sorry that you lost a beloved pet.
So sorry about your cat. Pets can truly be such soul mates.
I’m so sorry to hear about your loss. She was as lucky to know you as you were to know her.
I’m so sorry about your cat and hope you can take comfort that she had a long life.
So very sorry.
Sorry to hear about your cat!
I am so sorry about your kitty. 🙁
Thanks, everyone, for your kind words! I’ve had a number of cats over the years, but this one was a very special animal with an old and wonderful soul. She did indeed have a long and fabulous life, and I know 19 is about 100 in cat years, but I just wish she could have gone on forever. And mixed in with the ache is the sense that she was a link back to a gentler time in my life — before all the horse caca of adulthood crowded in, before I lost my mom. Life just gets more and more bittersweet, eh? I’d better get me one of those jellies-and-pop-rocks chocolate bars and cheer up. 😉
I am so sorry Isabella. Sending you warm thoughts.
Very sorry to hear about your furry buddy. Our last calico cat lived to 19 years as well. We still miss her, but I’ve told my family I’m finished with litter boxes.
When my children are adults, I will spoil THEIR cats.
Have some treats in your kitty’s honor today.
=^..^=
Sorry to hear you lost a friend. But I’m sure she’d want you to have that awesome candy bar. 🙂
So sorry to hear that you had a furry friend pass. 19 years is a long time…
I’m sorry to hear about your cat. I hope you can find some comfort in happy memories of her.
I’m sorry for your loss.
I’m very sorry you lost your cat. Losing an old and much loved pet is very painful.
I had a depressing incident with my beloved Chanel No. 19 today. This morning I was attending the funeral of one of my co-worker’s father. When I hugged her to give her my condolences she told me that the smell of my perfume would always remind her of that very sad moment. I was shocked, depressed and confused. I only had one spray in the back of my neck earlier in the morning (I needed a little comfort for the long day ahead that I am having). I don’t know how I am going to shake away that comment and keep enjoying one of my favorite perfumes. No more perfume wear for a funeral….
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That was a hurtful comment, but keep in mind that she is “under the influence” of her grief, and will probably say and do any number of things that she wouldn’t if she were thinking more clearly. I think she is wrong, but if she makes the choice to connect the scent with sadness, that is her issue, not yours. Send her good thoughts and don’t absorb the negativity. I’m sending you positive thoughts, too.
ScentSpirit, thanks a lot for your positive thoughts. In fact I was feeling embarrassed for wearing perfume and contributing to such association, considering that she loves No.19. I will just be careful not to wear this perfume for at least while in the office. I cannot be without No. 19 for too long.
My motto is “I will help you with your suitcase, but I won’t carry your baggage’. That said, I know I have said some really stupid things in funeral homes, on both sides of the line.
I never know if what I say is really appropriate. I like your motto. Thanks!
I think that when you are distraught with grief, and nothing makes sense, your mind latches onto anything tangible…perfume, a piece of music….and that maybe what happened with your friend. I think that you can still wear No.19 ( and you might not be close enough, or hugging again) but if she mentions it just acknowledge her grief ( yes that was a terribly sad day and you wore that perfume at the funeral ) but also help her by adding that No.19 also reminds YOU of how beautiful life is, of how pleasure can be gained from ‘small things’ ( but don’t overdo it…with the how great life is stuff). Give her a hug and then physically give her space. I couldn’t listen to Beethoven’s Emperor Suite for years after my father died (20 years this week). Some things just make me sad. Kindness is good.
Kanuka, thanks a lot for your kind words. I will definitely follow your advice.
I am so sorry this happened to you. You shouldn’t feel guilty, as you could not know what her or anyone else’s response would be. She may come to be glad to remember that moment and its sadness. A little sadness, and letting it in, is good for the soul.
I agree with you Amy. I am pretty sure she will eventually realize that No. 19 can keep bringing her enjoyment, beauty and comfort.
I don’t think that anyone can ever do the right thing at a funeral because there’s nothing “right” about the situation – it’s just raw and too much. You didn’t do anything with deliberate malice. Maybe she’ll look back on this day and remember more that you were there to support her than the perfume incident. Big hugs to you.
Thanks a lot Sistine. Cheering up with all your encoraging words.
If you can stand to, please keep wearing your perfume for your sake.
I will, after some time. Thanks!
Lots of good advice and insight from everyone above. I agree that it would be kind and probably advisable to give the No. 19 a brief break around your coworker. But please don’t stop wearing a perfume you love because of this particular incident!!
I will definitely give it a break. I cannot be without No. 19 for too long. Ii is one of my favorites. Thanks Creosote.
At a conference today, therefore bad food day 🙁
No milk chocolate but lovely cannoli for dessert after the dinner-like lunch. I expect they’ll feed us again in an hour or so.
Can still lightly smell my SOTD which is Iris Nobile edt.
Good luck staying awake! I always want to pass out after those dinner lunches. And you smell lovely.
I am the worst conference perfume participant, respraying away to keep myself awake and happy, worrying too little about those locked in the room with me!
🙂
I’d be glad to be at your conference table! It’s the *drabness* of those events that gets to me…
Woke up way too early on a hot sunny day and spritzed myself with Guerlain Herba Fresca, which lasted less than an hour. Followed with Lalique Encre Noir.
I can’t do vetiver in any other season but summer. I love it in the heat but really dislike having it on my skin if it’s under 75 degrees outside.
Wearing fragrances that I enjoyed through winter and spring in hot weather over the past couple of weeks and having them respond totally differently has made me wonder about the effect of warm air on perfume.
I work from home so 90% of my perfume-wearing takes place in my apartment. It’s warm in here year-round (75-80F) and is actually generally cooler inside in the summer. So why does one perfume smell and develop differently in 80 degree heat that comes from a radiator compared to the same temperature provided by the sun?
I wonder about this too. Some perfumes just grow in the sun, I think, and it isn’t clear to me that indoor heating has anything like the same effect. Perhaps it’s the smell of outdoors mixed with sun and the perfume?
I think there is usually more humidity outside than inside, and humidity affects how perfumes smell on me. I also think the sun warms our skin differently than artificial heating and causes more oiliness on the skin, which affects perfume as well. When I wear perfume outside on a hot summer day it does smell different – it dissipates faster as well.
These sound like good explanations. I’ve never noticed whether scents last longer on me in cold vs hot. I’m one of those people on whom scent dissipates really quickly so nothing lasts very long on me. My current theory is that it’s because I’m also one of those people who’s always cold. I *think* perfume lasts longer on me in warm weather. I’ll have to start paying attention, though – it might be the other way around.
Tried to come up with something to fit Peach Echo. Ended up going with Terracotta just because the color of the juice. But…I decided to combine with OJ Frangipani because I wanted to lighten it a bit – cut the Terracotta lushness. Best combo seems to be OJ then Terracotta then OJ again.
I’m now officially craving milk chocolate. I have no control when it is milk chocolate… I’ll just eat it till I get happily sick. Dark chocolate is different. Too much, and I get a headache. So, I tend to limit it to one small piece.
I layered OJ Frangipani over Bronze Goddess recently and it was a good combo. Sometimes Bronze Goddess is a bit too “umbrella drink” for me and the Frangipani helped cut it.
I’ll have to try that. I have layerd BG with a plumeria floral mist at times.
Been too much going on, especially for such a hot July where I am. Today wearing the cheering Pichola.
Hope things slow down soon for you! Have you tried Penhaligon’s Ostara? I was considering that one for today as it is very cheering, and is somewhat related to Pichola.
Yes I even have some! It feels like spring to me, but I should try it in the heat.
Iunx Eau Frappe. So perfect!
SOTD is D&G Dolce, a light floral to accommodate the weather (humidity is 40% and forecasted high is 108!).
Milk chocolate, eh? Well, then I will have a KitKat or something today for ‘medicine’ as I care for my poor earlobes. It’s been at least a year (maybe close to 2?) since I had earrings in my 2nd and 3rd piercings, so I had to pretty much re-pierce my ears yesterday. Ow.
I think I answered a post you had too late earlier this week, but I have some vintage cabochard I was going to put up in the swap meet later this year, so email me if you want to do some trades…
Yep, I missed that. That sounds fabulous, but I don’t know that I have anything to swap. Will have a think.
Hi, all. I’m under house arrest today until some people come to talk to me about installing ultra -fast broadband. Why do businesses these days think it’s acceptable customer focus to say that their “experts” will call between 8.00 a.m. and 2 p.m.? It must be possible to estimate their likely arrival time more accurately than a 6-hour time span! Oh dear–there I go again, exercising my Grumpy Old Woman muscles! To sweeten my mood, I’m wearing Rahat Loukoum, which doesn’t match the colour for the Friday project, but is at least sorta kinda in the right intensity band.
Robin, I hereby bequeath my entire share of milk chocolate, and all other chocolate for that matter, to you. There’s a local brand called Whittaker’s (very different from the sampler box I’ve seen in the States) that seems to excite American visitors. I wish I could give you some to see if you like it. I use it for the dear man’s chocolate chippie biscuits, and when I was at the supermarket the other day, some young tourists were reaching for the last block at the same time I did, which is how we got talking about it. I let them have it: their need seemed to be greater, and the dear one is perfectly happy with white chocolate and macadamia nuts for flavouring.
You are very kind but mostly just give me the dark 😉
I bought this bar of Sucre by accident…I was so blinded by the lovely pistachios and crystallized rose petals that I did not notice it was milk chocolate. It is quite delicious but mostly I keep thinking how much MORE delicious it would be if it were dark chocolate instead.
But what are chocolate chippie biscuits??
I think chocolate chip cookies…
Ah. I think I might be creating cultural confusion, because you might read “biscuits” as what I call “scones”. Chocolate chippie biscuits are butter-rich, very crisp, vanilla-flavoured cookies with large chips of chocolate in them. My husband has a quite unseemly devotion to them, and I make them for him far more often than I should.
I want one!
Scones was my first guess, but scones here are biscuits, although on the dry side of biscuits. So you mean what we would call cookies but not biscuits 🙂
Should I wear Seattle Chocolate today? Yeah….nah.
Inspired by the ‘nap under the desk’ brigade i spent a couple of hours yesterday working from my bed. Hadn’t done that since my student days living in a cold damp Wellington flat where the only possibility of warmth was from being under a duvet. Expecting snow today and feeling somewhat chilled due to listening to Austenfan’s Tullis last night ( though I did eat Lamington flavoured chocolate…raspberry and coconut, limited edition. Apple crumble chocolate next).
Going for Cristalle…serene.
I love to work in bed. Love it.
Once the standing desk and walking desk trend is over we can introduce the bed desk…Superking size, big down pillows, cashmere blankets and duvets. However, I draw the line at the bath desk (I saw the film Trumbo – where he worked in the bath and all I could think of was how that wouldn’t be so good with a computer)
I’m sure you can think of one or two people who should be encouraged to work in the bath, with many poorly-earthed peripherals stacked on a wobbly desk…
But – to music now – who or what is Tullis? I misread as Tallis first, now not so sure.
Ba ha ha – It is Tallis not Tullis.
A bath with gold faucets and a hairdryer nearby?
The heat has come to our town so what was I to do but throw on some Coromandel? I haven’t pulled this one out in a while but it is glorious.
I’m wearing Demeter’s Honey since I don’t have any milk chocolate, it’s sweet, and I need comfort after getting new glasses and being able to suddenly see … a lot of things that have gone downhill since my last prescription.
I remember when I first had to get glasses (I had been working in Germany, and realised that hitting the brakes on unrestricted-speed Autobahns so I could read the road signs probably wasn’t a great idea). Anyway, the point is, a little of the magic and mystery of the world died for for me when I realised that lights didn’t actually have soft hazy aureoles around them. Now I’m older and have the joy of both long- and short-sightedness to remind me that whatever glasses I am wearing, they are wrong. :^)
I thought I was adjusting until I realized the mirror I was using has also deteriorated with age. 😉
Aha, ha, ha, ha. You made me laugh out loud Holly. ????
😀
This reminds me of the following:
Man to Woman wearing eyeglasses: I didn’t know you wore glasses! You look better without them.
Woman to Man as she removes glasses and wears them again: That’s funny! You look better without my glasses!
Wow Robin, that chocolate bar sounds divine!
It’s very good for milk chocolate, which I do not love, and would not have bought it if I’d noticed. Going to see what other bars this company makes.
Made a BIG mistake by checking out their website. Gosh darn it Robin! I’m going to blame any weight gain on you!????
They are darned pretty bars. Sorry!
Robin, if you like dark chocolate with all your hearth, and if you haven’t tried it yet, I recommend “Nibble Chocolate”. It is local here so I can find it in stores, but I think they also sell it on-line. Not affiliated.
I will look them up, thanks!
Sous le Vent, twice in one week, there is a cinnamon-bark quality to this one that I just love. Maybe my little decant won’t last forever!
SOTD was Puredistance White, which is becoming a favorite. Plus it was comforting for this rainy day!
You smell gorgeous. This was a contender for today but I felt the pull of Addict.
Copal Azur… Thinking about being on the Pacific coast.
I love how all your posts add to my perfume education. Every day I look up your scents and then I sort of go…oh, so Cazaubon’s having that sort of a day.
A sand blowing in your eyes, huge swell, spindrift and back-to-the-wind day here on the pacific!
Posting very late today… where did the time go? SOTD is the same as yesterday’s, Studio Red Rose. It’s a shame that it does not match either of the Huesday colors in the slightest.
Just a spritz of Fou d’Absinthe on my clothes today – still hacking away. Learned from a neighbor last night that our house was owned by a smoker for decades (I am highly sensitive). Initiate nicotine abatement plan.
Oh, I understand tomorrow is also National Cheesecake Day. Match *that* to Peach Echo and Blue Whatever…
Oy! I feel for you. I hope the abatement plan works!