The Monday after Daylight Savings! Not surprisingly, it's also National Napping Day, and Sleep Awareness Week. What fragrance are you wearing?
I'm wearing a splitmeet acquisition, Ormonde Jayne Champaca.
Reminder: 3/15 will be Olivier Friday...wear a fragrance by Olivier Cresp or Olivier Gillotin, if you have one. Partial credit for any other Olivier connection you can devise.
And for those of you who like to plan ahead, see Scent of the day ~ Friday community projects 2019, where I'll try to always have the next five or six weeks mapped out in advance.
Note: top image is Mojo still sleeping [cropped] by Si B at flickr; some rights reserved.
Blanche Immortelle
I am busy these days as I am giving a small talk about Nowruz at my little ones school..I have no time to sprout anything so wheat grass it is..
Sun is out and I am very happy
Good luck and I’m sure you’ll do great! And enjoy the sun ?It’s making me ever so slightly more energetic today
Happy worst Monday morning of the year. I’ve already snapped at my boss… oops. Not A Morning Person.
I’m wearing Fresh Index Pomegranate Anise, which was one of my very first perfume purchases and of which I still have probably 90 out of 100 mls. I have occasionally thought of swapping or selling it but it has strong nostalgia value and I do like it. I need to use it as a room/bath/etc spray more.
I’m still a fan of some of those early Fresh Index frags, like Cannabis Santal and Fig Apricot (even though I don’t wear them or have bottles).
I loved Fig Apricot and never got a bottle – I regret it so much now!
haha wait they still make this one. I guess I don’t regret it as much as I thought because I am still not buying it
Best. Comment. Ever.
That’s exactly how I feel. I really liked this frag. But I don’t see myself ever buying it. I’m not sure why because it’s very nice.
Regret is free! 🙂
Hahaha <3
(Psst–consider turning the perfume into body products! Meh perfumes often turn into excellent dry oils, creams, bath salts, and body scrubs!)
Regret also comes in smaller sizes than 100ml
I am sure many fragrances I regret not buying I would still not buy if they were still for sale, so I back your sentiments 100%.
I am a morning person but the commute was rough, oof. The statistics showing a noticeable increase in accidents the first week of daylight savings make sense..
The Pom/Anise is a wonderful scent!
Also Not A Morning Person!
Wearing Bal d’Afrique from an old, old sample. If I could manage to score a decant or bottle that smelled like this old sample, I’d be truly blissed out. This is a lovely vetiver. But I’ve bought two decants that smells like a ton of fake bergamot and not like this floral-lemony-vetiver that the sample that I’m wearing.
I’m wearing Gap Spun Orange Blossom (rollerball). I’m all about citrus + orange blossom. Love it. It’s got a little bit of weirdness to it; I keep thinking the carrier oil has gone off a bit. Or maybe it always had a touch of indole…?
At any rate, it’s my sunshine today, since the weather isn’t providing any.
Robin, I love the sleeping striped cat photo!
citrus + orange blossom = love 😀
you smell fantastic!
We finally have sun, sorry you don’t!
Splitmeet twins! but I am wearing Esprit de Oscar.
It’s fun, I am enjoying it. I’m happy I also have a sample of Oscar to compare it to, as well as L’heure Bleu and Apree L’Ondee
I think if you enjoy blue/purple flowers and like cheap thrills you will be over the moon. I like the sparkly opening. It’s smooth enough and soft, feminine with a vintage vibe, but not over the top. After the lemony purple opening, I smell almond. The early dry down has a creamy cocoa buttery muskiness, the later dry down is most reminiscent of the spicy powderiness of the original (currently available) Oscar.
The split meet is fun!
I guess I must of glanced over this one on the split meet!
I am going to have to sniff it out. I like anything with a vintage vibe..
I got 2 things at the splitmeet and I’m pleased as punch with both of them 🙂
Oh man, I wish I could be home today to take a nap. The time change plus insomnia is a brutal combination. I am gonna be dragging by the end of the day. Also, I just love sleeping in general.?lol
Vanille Insensee.
Robin you smell great! My Champaca split should be waiting for me when I get home today, so at least I have that to look forward to.?
The time change is killing me too
And now it’s back to dark when I leave in the morning.☹️
That is the worst part! But I adore the extra daylight in the evening!
I am trying out my OJ Woman sample thanks to the splitmeet again today. This is beautiful, the violet was a nice surprise.
YOU smell great!
My 4 year old was MISERABLE and GRUMPY this morning before preschool. It was both terribly sad and adorably cute. Those poor preschool and elementary school teachers that take care of our kids this week. I appreciate their eternal optimism so much in the days following the spring time change.
I was thinking of my 5th grader’s teacher who is probably facing down a room of 32 zombies right now….
I teach music in a preschool and I had more kids flopping today than usual!
Thank you!
I remember those days when my kids were little, seemed like it threw off their sleep schedule for a good week.
We will be twins by the end of the day in more ways than one, since I am sure to be dragging by then too.
Today calls for afternoon tea or coffee for sure.
Have you considered a BUB of Vanille Insensee, madtowngirl?
SotD = Cologne du 68 + Eau des Merveilles
Weird combo, but it works. 😀
Laughing at myself because I was so sleepy this morning I put on EdM after getting dressed even though I had sprayed on Cd68 half an hour before. Perfume autopilot is a dangerous this. The world better be ready because I smell to high heaven.
I wish for naps and full bottles for all my perfume pals!
dangerous thing! 😀
Yes to Hermes! Maybe we can splice Guerlain and Hermes to Guermes!
hahaha ? Guermes is my jam!
I have more bottles and samples from those two houses than any other.
I want to be that cat
I overslept
Slathered my homemade vanilla bean and cardamom all natural body oil over my entire body and topped it off with the lilac goodness of Brigitte
Yep, overslept here too!
I am lemming that cat ?????????
and I am lemming that cat’s deep sleep LOL!
That looks like my cat! I’m sure she’s asleep right now.
I’m wearing Hiris today. Driving to work in the dark was so gloomy – I was really loving the early morning sunshine.
I’m with you. I love an early sunrise. I prefer it to a late sunset.
Me three. That little bit of daylight really got my day off to a good start.
Heeley Note de Yuzu to match the gloriously sunny morning and because I’ve been craving citrus scents lately. Trying to conjure summer…
Conjure spring too..
I skipped right over it!
Ha!?
You smell soooo good. Ever since I found out Heeley has travel sprays, I’ve been wanting a travel spray of this one. (I mean, what I want is a FB, but Heeley don’t come cheap.) Enjoy your little pocket of summer! I should pull out some of my citruses and join your efforts.
Wait, travel sprays?! Where are these alleged travel sprays? I do really like this one but it is pricey for basically a citrus cologne (a really good one, though!). A travel spray is tempting, but I seriously don’t think it would last beyond a handful of wears since it’s something that begs for lavish spraying. 30ml would be perfect…
Ack, I should’ve looked it up before saying anything. It seems that not all of the scents are available in travel format: https://www.jamesheeley.com/en/15ml-sets/94-discovery-set-5×15.html Note de Yuzu is not among them. What a bummer 🙁
Though you are quite right, a 30-mL spray that costs 0.3x of the 100-mL spray would really be ideal!
? maybe he’s reading this and will remedy
Haha. A girl can only hope!
Such a beautiful, relaxing picture!
Sadly wearing the last drops of Knize Ten. One of the few leather perfumes I can wear and I have always been in love with. I think a bub will be a priority some day.
Beautiful sunny, cool day. Spring is around the corner! ???????
Knize Ten is on my to try list. Spring is almost here!????
I hope you like it when you have the chance to try it. It is a great perfume! I hope your temperatures have started going up! ??????
34 today but with sun! Thursday is our big warm up in the sixties,but I think for just one day. I saw a rabbit the other day though!
Knize Ten is well worth sniffing! Enjoy your sunny weather.
Whoops, lost track of who the OP was here. My bad. ? I still stand by my comment about Knize Ten, though.
Guerlain Eau de Cologne.
I haven’t checked in on NST for over a week. I celebrated New Orleans Mardi Gras, then spent a few days in Orlando with my husband, son, daughter in law, daughter and her boyfriend. I think we may have overdid it, because three of us came home sick with upper respiratory stuff. I went to local Urgent Care last night, and I am on antibiotics and decongestants.
I bought Eau de Cologne Imperiale last week at the Disney Epcot Guerlain boutique, and it is one of the only scents I can wear right now without going into coughing fits.
I have missed coming on here, and I hope everyone here will have a lovely week.
Hope you’ll feel better soon!
Oof, feel better soon! And good for you for going to Urgent Care right away, and for not being like me and waiting two weeks before doing the sensible thing >.< (I'm still kicking myself for that.)
I hope you are back to normal 🙂
I am, thanks! It only took three days on antibiotics to be almost totally back to normal, after three weeks of misery and intermittent fevers. Ugh, I’m so dumb. I hope you heal equally fast!
Your course of antibiotics was for only 3 days?
I hope the meds kick in and you feel better soon. Enjoy your new bottle.
Ugh, that’s not a fun way to come back from vacation. Hope you feel better soon!
Thanks for the get well wishes 🙂 I am drinking lots of herbal tea, and just finished a bowl of chicken and rice soup.
Yuck on the post-travel crud! Get well soon!
That sounds like a fun trip, maybe even worth picking up an illness for…do get better!
Get better! That one is quite nasty, my hubby caught it in Florida-for the SECOND TIME!
I was traveling last week and missed the daily SOTD posts. I was at a conference in TX, where I expected it to be *much* warmer than it was. Still managed to get a sunburn on my face though! I cycled between Caron Pour Un Homme, Cap Neroli, and Agua de Colonia Concentrada all week.
Today I’m in Alyssa Ashley Musk. Had a chance to sniff The Body Shop White Musk at the airport and it was very similar.
welcome back
I think the AA has more depth to it.
Welcome back! I do love the AA Musk, very easy to wear. 🙂
I have good friend whose signature scent is TBS White Musk and she always smells so good.
I’ve been on a musk kick lately. I just got some Reminiscence Musc and it’s really nice. Have you ever tried it? Next on my list is Bruno Acampora.
I haven’t tried it! Musks are starting to become my favorite fragrance category, but I haven’t tried very many yet. I’m going to a “Modern Musks” workshop at Indigo Perfumery later this month and can’t wait!
They are one of my favorite categories too, along with “perfumes that smell like fancy soap.”
Your workshop sounds like fun! I hope you’ll report back!
Welcome back!
Happy Monday, everyone. It’s the first day since early October that it’s above freezing when it’s time for me to get to work, so happy for that. SOTD is DSH Cimabue. Don’t have any FB’s from either Olivier so I’m gonna play with some untested samples this week. I really like this, I might end up wanting more after this is drained. Reminds me of Thanksgiving.
I thought everyone has Angel. Regardless, I think those of us (thinking of) wearing may change the ozone layer.
I thunked a travel spray last year and haven’t repurchased. I think I’ve moved on to Angel Muse.
That is a milestone towards spring, yay!
I am wearing SL Sa Majeste la Rose because the sun is out and we’re supposed to have warmer temperatures here this week. It just felt like a good perfume to celebrate some better weather. I like the sleepy striped kitty, too.
I like that one. Like falling into a bed of fresh, dewy rose petals.
Oh no monday.
But SotD is Rahele, it helps 🙂
Whatever works!
Grumpy from Daylight Savings – that one hour turns me into a total zombie, which is odd because jet lag doesn’t make me feel half as grumpy. I have two Olivier scents – decants of Como Corso and Lavandes Trianon, but ironically, they are both slated for the swap meet! Off to apply lashings of my fils de dieu sample…
I thought the same thing about Daylight Savings versus jet lag!
I think it is because with jet lag, the travel across time zones usually causes the actual time of sunrise and sunset to change along with the clock. The morning light coming at the same time (by the clock) helps reset your brain. With DST, it is now dark in the morning when I am getting up and going to work whereas it was light last week. The darkness causes my brain to reject the idea that it is morning.
Monday! Daylight Savings…how?
1) Am in Prada Infusion Amande (tyhe dabber set)- pretty and soft!
2) Mother Nature is giving sunshine with frosty mornings- but spring is coming!
You smell lovely !
I want to be this cat today! Not the greatest Monday in term of weather and also sad news that one of my best friends is getting divorced… and she’s just my age, which is young…
Wearing Chanel Paris-Venise today.
Yes, I am jealous of that cat. That is what my life has come too 😉
sorry to hear about your friend’s trials.
You do smell great – Venise is my favorite from the 2018 cologne line
That is sad about the divorce but I say better now than just merely tolerating or even hating each other during a lifetime of marriage…
Sorry to hear that your Monday brought sad news with it.
I just read through the Olivier pages (wondering why Polge wasn’t included? His scents are much more to my taste! Too well known?), and it looks like this week will be spent in 10 Corso Como and TF Tobacco Vanille. I’ve also learned that Mercedes-Benz apparently has a suite of fragrances. Hm.
Anyway, I didn’t know what this week’s CP was this morning, so I’m in FM le Parfum de Therese because Regina said there was more to it. I mean…it’s fine…but there are probably a hundred perfumes I’d rather have a travel spray of, so I think it still has to go.
With my blessing 😉
Only because we already did Olivier Polge!
Just dropping in to say Mojo is adorable and I am wearing Misia in preparation for a challenging meeting. Happy Monday to all!
Good luck with the meeting
Just challenge that meeting right back!
Hope that your meeting went well today!
Back to work after a week of staycation. I’m wearing Rose Pivoine.
Hope the back-to-work transition was not too grueling!
SOTD Le Labo Tonka 25 from a sample. It is not especially remarkable but quite lovely, with a little spice to it. Probably not worth the high price tag, but if i ever find an errant 10ml..
Manguier Metisse for me today
Today I’m wearing (in the words of Mals) “that slut Tocade”. Not often in the mood but I wanted something today that would make me smile and last all day!
Lol.?
Happy Monday everyone – SOTD is Christian Dior’s Dune, I’m on cup #3 of coffee and still not awake. Really dislike the time change….
We had a lovely time on Saturday visiting the Kimono Revisited exhibit at the SF Asian Art Museum, I had hopes the exhibit was larger but it was still quite enjoyable. 🙂
Eeek and I missed the one at the Newark museum!
Hey, at least you knew that there was an exhibit in Newark!
llol, true! 😀
Hajusuuri – my favorite part of the museum is the Buddha statue, I just love being in that room, it’s so peaceful!
Sun! We have sun! There is no rain in the forecast for the whole week! Amazing! And it helps with the time change, though not enough, I just finished my morning cup of tea and think I need another one immediately.
With my usual impeccable timing, I had decided to do winter heavy hitters this week… just in time for the rain to finally give us a break. We’ll see how long my cunning plan lasts. SOTD is Couteau de Poche Fumabat.
Hm. *peeks out window at blanket of fog*
It hailed vigorously in San Jose yesterday! Afterwards, it looked like it had snowed; the streets were lined with what looked like powdery white! We were surrounded by a bunch of born-and-bred Californians during the storm, and every clap of thunder brought such shrieks. It boggles my mind that there are millions of people who’ve lived through as many thunderstorms in a lifetime as we used to see in Maryland in one summer.
My sister recently moved to California after growing up in the Midwest (where I still am). Earlier this winter, after I’d had a million of those “ugh, supposed to snow again tonight” chats with coworkers, etc., I finally had to ask her: What do people make small talk about when the weather is gorgeous every day??
Ha! The freeway (I’m from SoCal) ?
Mystery solved! 🙂
Exactly – as parodied on SNL:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt-tG6ufH90
That Snl skit made me LOL on my lunch!?
Hahaha. But I’m from northern CA! We have weather! Sometimes it rains! :-p
Also, kitty photo is adorable. My first pair of cats were brother & sister brown tabbies named Mocha and Espresso. Mocha loved sunbeam naps, and would not share a sunbeam with anyone, not even me (his personal human). Espresso was a winter heat hog; I’d wake up freezing in the middle of the night to find that she had meatloafed herself on top of the one heat vent in the bedroom. Clever girl 🙂
I love that cats story 🙂
So cute! Great memories.
Enjoy your week of dry weather!
This cat is the image of bliss. For those of you who struggle with sleep depravation due to the time change, all my compassion, ours is around the corner in 2 weeks time.
Vintage Miss Dior EDT today.
I meant sleep deprivation of course.
It could work either way?
🙂
Your scent is beautiful !
Thank you Barqs, I had neglected it lately and it’s one of those scents when wearing it you wonder why bother with any other perfumes, I have several vintage bottles of the EDT and some vintage extrait which out of this world.
Wow, quiet day on NST. I don’t think that I have anything for this cp. I used to have a decant of Kenzo Amour but I gave it to my niece.
SOTD is Gris Montaigne. I’m running true to form since I am craving rose fragrances as I always do when spring is close.
You know what’s funny? I never think of Gris Montaigne as a rose perfume until it’s mentioned. In my head, I’m not a rose person, but you smell like perfection, so maybe I am?
You smell great! I was craving rose today too, wearing Lancome Mille et Une Roses.
Everyone is still trying to recover from the time change, maybe? I know that I still feel out of sync.
On Saturday, my dad decided to rearrange my parents’ bedroom. Instead of having my mom help him, I got lassoed into helping him. He said that I pay attention better and get what he wants me to do when it came time to move the heavy furniture. Still sore and a little tired. Spent yesterday in Epic and spending the day in L’heure de Nuit. Yesterday, the puppy turned a year old. She and my other dog had a little bit of yellow cake and some fried chicken to celebrate.
Happy Birthday to your puppy!
L’heure de Nuit is gorgeous ! Happy birthday to your sweet puppy !
Happy puppy birthday!
SOTD is Volutes edt. Haven’t worn this in quite a long time but it’s hitting all the buttons today.
Woke at 730 this morning and decided it was a good time for a nap, which lasted til 1030. That cat at the top of the post is my spirit animal?
Your schedule sounds heavenly! I was okay this morning but am struggling as the day wears on. Who is in charge of these decisions? ?
Ha! You would not have envied me yesterday when my alarm went off at 5:30 (which of course was 4:30!) I was not a happy camper. Some bad words were uttered and I was a bit petulant when I arrived to find we were short staffed. Again! Grrr! Monday is my Recovery Day??
That was my morning today and I was not a happy camper to hear my alarm either!
Enjoy your day off!
You have my sympathy and support. 4:30 AM is brutal.
It sounds like you have earned every minute of that nap and then some, what with the time change and work craziness.
I gave up “guilty” for Lent one year and never looked back?
Between my mother and Catholic school, I used to feel guilty for being alive..!
I climbed to the top of the maple tree yesterday to saw off some branches that were close to the power lines and when I turned around to get down I realised I was stuck so I just stayed up in the tree looking at the view, which was right across the valley and down into the houses below. I was wearing Fiele Viola and it was lovely up in the leaves. I did get down eventually but wasn’t very graceful about it and tore my pants. Wearing willow and amber this morning and don’t even want to talk about it.
Happy to hear you got out of the tree with just some torn pants and nary a broken bone! Sorry that perfume is not a conversation piece…
Glad you made it out of the tree! yikes!
Well at least you got to enjoy the view!
Good to hear that the only damage from your tree climbing was your pants!
An adorable tale nontheless!!
Sotd is Cristalle. A coworker asked me if I was wearing J’adore, and then walked away before I could answer. I’ve always wanted to like J’adore, but I hate the bottle so much, that it gets in the way of me really trying it.
Does anyone have any advice on adjusting to bifocals? I’ve been wearing them for 3 days and not doing so well with them.
Why would s/he ask and then leave before getting the answer??
Heh, I always thought the bottle was really cute! But I’m not at ALL a fan of the juice inside. A colleague of mine in grad school used to wear it by the gallon, leaving chemtrails of J’Adore behind her, and I’ve loathed it even more ever since.
The J’Adore bottle always reminds me of those springy door stops, lol
Hahaha me too! But in a good way! 🙂
I think I’m one of the few to not like the bottle. Your college probably thought it made her look like Charlize Theron.
Hahaha 🙂 You may be right. (Who wouldn’t want to look like Charlize Theron?? I sure wouldn’t mind.)
Koyel, I am also not a fan of J’Adore. I tried it when it first came out, and it was an immediate scrubber! Made me want to hurl. ?
(Responding to your question above about my antibiotics) No, my course was for 10 days, but I started feeling just about normal after the first three days of it!
Sorry lillyjo, no advice on bifocals. Sometimes my single vision glasses feel a little weird when I initially get a new Rx, though. I tend to adjust after a week or two.
Adjusting to progessives was hard! My advice is to take them off if using stairs or escalators. Think it took probably 2 weeks to not feel as though I was going in & out of a funhouse.
Good to know! I’ve already fallen inside my car! I’m having alot of trouble running the register too, I hope I haven’t short changed anyone.
Yes I agree about stairs etc. Especially walking down . The other thing is that they can make you feel a bit nauseous, sea sick, at first especially if you do things like looking up and down at your computer screen from notes on the table and that probably happens with your cash register if you are looking from the customer to the register etc. It gets better although there are some things that never quite come right…
I have been a little sea sick, and wondering if that was why.
I used to wear J’adore all the time years ago. Haven’t worn it in a while, but I have fond memories of it. I guess its one of those scents that’s kindo of hit or miss.
I liked the absolute and In Joy, when I tested them. It’s really just the bottle design I don’t like, and I couldn’t even tell you why.
I ditched the bifocals after 2 weeks, hated them.
I’m trying to give them a chance, I have a month to change them. For the last 2 years, I’ve just bean putting my glasses on my head when I need to see up close.
Are they bifocals or progressives? It took me weeks to adjust to the progressives, in fact I tried to return them twice and the optometrist talked me into giving it more time. Now of course i am glad I did, but it was rough…headaches & nausea & dizziness and all of it.
1.) I got a sample of J’Adore, just a tiny sprayer, and tried it from that. It’s been a while, but I think I liked it all right. If you got a sample you wouldn’t need to look at a full-sized bottle to try it.
2.) I had progressive lenses for a time. I got used to looking through the top of the lenses for driving, and the middle section of the glasses for a computer screen, but never got used to looking through the bottom of the lenses for reading. I’m rough on glasses and broke the frames. I got glasses just for distance, and had to put them up on my head to read print. This meant holding what I was trying to read two inches in front of me. I just got reading glasses. I can see fine print with them, and can see a couple of feet in front of me clearly, and five or six feet in front of me well enough to recognize smallish objects. I’ve mostly been wearing my reading glasses in the house, and my distance glasses for driving. I love the reading glasses.
With bifocals I think I would try looking out the top part for driving and seeing long distances, and the bottom part for looking at a cash register and customers. Good luck!
After the DST change, now I’m nine hours out of synch instead of eight. Ugh. But I smell pretty, in Suede Osmanthe.
DST really messed with me this AM.
Wish I could blame it on the clocks, but today it was one of my cats running laps across the bed at far too early am. This particular cat likes to get up with the sun. ??
Oh, your cat must be related to T-Rex! ?
Decided to use some of my samples so blindly grabbed PG Cozé Verde, which was nearly a scrubber. After a nice opening with fig it dwindled down to a synthetic dry wood…
Now sampling Jolie Laide Cléo de 5 a 7 from a sample pack i won from Portia. I am not very much into BFW, but its not bad.
The boyfriend is in Budapest, sending me pics of the restaurant food and i was having some bread with cottage cheese. Bummer!
Ooo I just won a Jolie Laide from Portia of Australian Perfume Junkies too! I love those draws ?❤️ I just about tested all of mine in one evening because I couldn’t wait.?
There are very few things I wouldn’t do for a nap right about now…I am back in Shalimar again today just because. I don’t have anything from either of the perfumers for this week, so I may just enjoy my Shalimar all week.
NYC peeps, I’ll be there Saturday! I need suggestions! We obviously want to do the touristy stuff since none of us have ever been but if you have advice or suggestions, shoot them my way! Also, if you don’t want to comment here, you can always email me (my email can be found by clicking my gravatar).
Have a great time in NYC!
The Frick is my fave NYC museum (former home of an industrialist–nice inner plant-filled atrium too). May be crazy on weekends; usually try to hit those kinds of places on a weekday. Also the Guggenheim, though when I was there in the fall the swirl portion of the bldg was closed, so we passed.
It’s smaller, but the Neue Galerie is cool, and the restaurants are fab (not inexpensive). Have a wonderful trip!
and meant to include walking around Central Park. Endless fascinating people-watching and it’s a beautiful place.
I will second the Frick but I haven’t been there since the 1990s.
If you can, take a boat tour AROUND Manhattan Island. I did it back in either the late 1990’s, or the early 2000’s and enjoyed it very much. You get to ride past Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty, and get descriptions and a bit of history on all the bridges that you are going under.
Lovin’ a whole week celebrating sleep! A good nap can cure many ills…and ill tempers! 🙂
Today was a fresh/citrusy/spring scent day…..Wearing Penhaligon’s Orange Blossom Edt. I did have to reapply this afternoon, but it’s worth it to get that burst of fresh orange in the opening a 2nd time…
Sounds amazing! I love a good citrusy, orange fragrance.
Tried Esprit d’Oscar today. 🙂 (Thank you, Oakland Fresca!) It smells nice to me.
My scent of the evening is Annick Goutal Eau d’Hadrien EdP again. Perhaps light citrus will be a winner as far as not disturbing my folks. 🙂 Dad said he could smell the perfume, but he didn’t seem to have any allergic reaction to it. He said he’d let me know *right away* if a perfume I was wearing made him cough or sneeze or wheeze. Well, okay then. lol
So now you need to see how high you can raise the light citrus bar 😉
Late to the party, but better late than never. Hello to all my NST fragrance friends! I should be able to be consistent this week since we started Spring Break today. I have a lot of catching up to do. Hope everyone is well.
My SOTD is Intense Café by Montale. I like this line a lot and its a nice change from my usual Jo Malone scents.
I’m curious to hear everyone’s thoughts on FragranceNet. Has anyone ever wondered why their fragrances are at discounted prices? I’m not complaining….I just wonder if its the real deal or am I better off buying from regular retail stores. Thoughts please?
I LOVE FragranceNet! My birthday is this week, so just today I allowed myself a little birthday shopping! (I finally bought my long wished for Guerlain Vol de Nuit!). Everything is legit and my bottles are usually fresh…
Good to know. Thanks!
happy Birthday, Jada! Mine is the end of next month and I have already been shopping!
I can also vouch for Fragrancenet! So far, everything that I have gotten from them has been the real deal. Quite a few of the perfumes are either discontinued, have had packaging changes (see L’Artisan), or are prior formulations to what is currently being sold in stores at retail.
Thanks…..feeling really good about them more and more.
I’ve had good luck with Fragrancenet, as well.
Thanks!
I’ve had good experiences with them.
However, i have noticed with some designer perfume, that they have inflated the regular retail price, so then with their discount, it really isn’t much different in price. Every now and again, I notice it. The majority though, seems like correct pricing.
Ok. Thanks for that tip.
I’ve had no problems with them.
Thanks!
I’ve purchased without problems as well. Shipping time was kinda long for all of my purchases.
I have been using fragrancenet since 1998. No problems. In fact, like Jada, I also did some (more) birthday shopping this weekend. It’s hard not to with the massive discounts. See if you can find a 37 percent off coupon before you buy though.
Not a great day, a very long day at work with some very incompetent though well meaning people. I smelt great though, in Aromatics Elixir, 4 full sprays. I needed some spine strengthening.
I hope tomorrow is a better day!
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I wish you were sitting beside me today! I had that same crazy. Maybe it has something to do with the time change?
Hope it’s a better day tomorrow.
Incompetent and well meaning is the worst! God save us all! I hope Tuesday is better.
Believe it or not I’ve had no scent on all day. Just an indication of all the stress happening now. My mom has about six things physically wrong and has lost her insurance cared she. My aunt is here ostensibly to help but she keeps whining all about her own pains, losing things, our weather being too warm, etc. on top of this, my sink is backed up and I can’t do dishes or laundry unless the Drano works by later tonight. If it doesn’t I can expect a $$$ plumbing bill. Neither of them has ever had to take care of a house so it’s rough and I’m about to snap. Came in my bedroom with wine, cats, and iPad to de-stress. Thank you.
Oh Calypso, what a predicament, I’m sorry. Hope the wine works!
I’m sorry about your Monday. And I thought I had a bad day.
Hope that tomorrow is better for you.
Oh geez! That sounds like a horrible, no-good, very bad Monday for sure. I hope that the wine and your cats helped somewhat.
Oh dang, I would be totally ready to lose it. Hope you are able to relax. Good luck with the drano, too.
You’re welcome! I hope things get better. Tell you Aunt to quit whining, step up to the plate, and help the hell out! With a smile of course ?
What an adorable cat! That picture looks a lot like my Teflon kitty! ?
Joining the haters on Daylight Saving Time. I was pretty much useless yesterday, all tired and headache-y. At least today I am only tired. Pick one or the other, and quit messing with the clocks! ⏰
SOTD = Oriza L. Legrand Relique d’Amour, from the sample stash. The Monday after the time change calls for a calming incense scent, period.
I heard on the news that Michigan is looking to do away with the time change. If that’s true, I am really going to be confused. Right now it’s the same time for me and you, but if I didn’t spring forward then sometimes we would be different times? Or always different times? Ugh… to much math, lol
Michigan is in the same time zone as the East Coast? I did not know that. I figured it was the same as Chicago.
Yep, I’m eastern standard time.
Say it isn’t so. I remember Indianapolis did not do time changes and I went on a business trip with a number of people and we wondered why our ride from the airport to the company we were visiting did not show up! At least we were early instead of late!
The biggest confusion we have ever had from time zones was when we were in Pierre, SD a few years ago. Pierre is in the Central Time Zone, but Fort Pierre, which is across the Missouri River from Pierre is on Mountain Time. Both cities are quite small, and nowhere near any other towns, so why they drew the time zone demarcation between the two towns is a mystery to me.
Just got up from my post-work nap. I barely made it through the day, despite extra coffee. I even went to bed last night early enough to allow enough sleep, but my brain would not shut down. Add in sleep disruptions from hot flashes and my recent respiratory infections, and I didn’t have a chance today.
I’m late! SOTD = Rania J Ambre Loup
Fantastic spicy amber vanilla and what smells like tobacco but isn’t.
Another DST hater but it made for good light taking pics of the NYC skyline coming out of Starbucks. Today, I wrote one of those venemous emails where I started with manager x – you need to handle this situation. Your person lacks common courtesy, focus, blah blah and I am extremely disappointed at the lack of professionalism. I walked away, inadvertently had to deal with someone who couldn’t be bothered with figuring out the message on the printer (basically, add paper) and just walked away; when I asked her if she was done printing, she said yes but of course it was a big lie because when I added paper, her stuff printed. I was nice by walking the two batches over to her and parted with next time, just add paper. Back to my desk and I deleted the strong words I used and instead, asked the manager if person x was okay because I have not heard from her in over a week! I of course provided the sequence of communication which left no doubt as to the misbehavior.
Fast forward this evening I stopped by the mall to pick up something. I passed by Macy’s and saw an item I wanted and one thing led to another and I ended up with an Estée Lauder GWP plus a step up gift (which I had to remind the SA consisted of 2 items. After paying and walking away, I said self, look in the bag. Sure enough, the GWP I got was already ripped open and it was missing 1 of 5 items! I went back to the SA and pointed out this travesty and she reluctantly gave me a new one. The nerve! I was in a hurry so had no time to insist on speaking to a manager. I may still go back and do that this weekend because I am royally ?! I should check and make sure I did not get a used step up gift! I wouldn’t be surprised! Maybe it’s a full moon?
Anyway, with the CP, I could have sworn one of the Oliviers did Angel! Surely, 75% of NSTers have Angel? I fear for the ozone! ???
(Raises hand) Yep, I have Angel. Both EdP and EdT. Although the EdT is only one of those cute mini splash bottles.
I have to hunt for my bottle but I’m sure I can scrounge up a sample. I may just do Angel Muse and get partial credit.
I do NOT have Angel and do not permit it to enter my house! I don’t think I’ve ever encountered a perfume I hated at first sniff so much as that one.
Oops, I just remembered–there is one I hated more. It is Iris Silver Mist, which is one of the few perfumes that has ever made me physically ill.
Oh my! I love Iris Silver Mist.
Wow! That is quite a reaction to ISM. I’m sorry it did that to you.
Like hajusuuri, I happen to love it.
LOL. You’re one of the 25%.
Angel was an immediate scrubber for me. I mentioned recently here that I had no plans to learn to love it. I like Iris Silver Mist and most of the other iris perfumes I’ve tried lately.
Although I’ve also mentioned here that a perfume that smelled like Nag Champa incense gave me a really nasty coughing fit, I’ve been doing fine with perfumes that have frankincense in them. I don’t understand it offhand. At home, I just have to work around who’s allergic to what, and who has other objections. I haven’t had a dermatological or respiratory allergic reaction to any of the samples I’ve tried so far. (*knock on wood*)
It makes me think of how some people like the taste of cilantro and some people think it tastes like soap. IDK
There is no such thing as customer service these days, more’s the pity…