It's Tuesday! Also, happy Star Trek Day and happy International Literacy Day. What fragrance are you wearing?
I'm wearing 4160Tuesdays The Buddhawood Box. Tea at the moment is Yunnan Golden Monkey Organic from Upton.
Reminder: on 9/11, wear a perfume with cardamom, if you have one. (You can find several lists of fragrances with cardamom in the comments to the weekend poll.)
And for those of you who like to plan ahead, see Scent of the day ~ Friday community projects 2020, where I'll try to always have the next five or six weeks mapped out in advance.
Note: Think Geek used to sell the TNG Captain's Tea Set, but you've long since missed your chance to own one.
Sampling Sirocco from Solstice Scents for the project. I kind of like it’s combination of dirt and breezy warm spices
That sounds really nice. I need to do up a list of what I have with cardamom.
This tea set is cool, and I am not even a Star Trek fan!
My contributions to the CP:
Monday: Versace Versense. I cannot really smell cardamom in it, but there is a fresh, green, spicy note. It might be it.
Today: Teo Cabanel Oha on my left arm and Amouage Beloved on my right arm. They layer very well.
Two changes to the cardamom list I posted on Friday. First, I either lost or finished my sample of Jo Malone White Moss&Snowdrop, so it is off the list. On the other hand, I found that I still have a sample of Jul et Mad Fugit Amor, and it is a perfume with a strong cardamom note.
How do you like Oha?
I like it but do not love it. It is a striking spicy rose, which reminds me of rose chypres – beautiful, but hard to wear. I find smoother, balsamic spicy roses more ‘comfortable’. But I do want to finish the sample.
I have similar feelings about Oha. Very interestingly spicy and I enjoy the dry down. Will use up the sample but not purchase.
A “striking spicy rose” sounds right up my alley. Putting Oha on my “To Sample” list!
Ciao a tutti-
This week I am suppose to be busy preparing for our move, alas, stress or something else has aggravated my sciatica I haven’t had this pain since I was pregnant 5 years ago..
Anyways, I am managing at home with some gentle yoga, Advil and some a warm bath.
SOTD Shalimar, for comfort
Ouch! I hope you feel better soon sciatica is so uncomfortable! Those boxes can just wait. 🙂 Shalimar is perfect for comfort. Feel well soon!
Ouch. Sciatica pain is awful. I hope your home remedies work and you feel some relief soon!
So sorry you are in pain. I hope you feel better soon!
Feel better soon ltsg!
Sorry about your sciatica, it’s the worst!
Oh no. I hope you feel better soon. Especially hard with two little ones! Yay for gentle yoga, boo for moving. So much work. Hugs!
I think moving is right up there on the list of most stressful events.
Absolutely!
It really is — hope you start to feel better!
Moving definitely is up there on the list of stressful events!
Review for new Shalimar flanker on Fragrantica and it appears to be positive! 🙂
https://www.fragrantica.com/news/Review-Shalimar-Philtre-de-Parfum-de-Guerlain-14065.html
Welp, sounds like something I need haha
Plenty of vanilla…we both may need it! 🙂 I am hoping someone will do a split perhaps too.
I also read a review on IG that I was not so pleased about:
.. “In general, after the first use, I would say this fragrance is very pleasant, kind of a “younger” version of Shalimar”
I would something that smells “older” lol!
I *want* something
Me too, She-ra. It sounds lovely.
your photo! that dog! So cute
Wow! Sounds amazing. I need it too ?
Hope you feel better soon! And I know the Shalimar is giving you the comfort you need. 🙂
You changed your photo? that dogs face..omg! I want to kiss it.
Yes, that’s my Nacho and his “are you don’t working, ready to play?” face lol
Oh dear, you’re far too young to be suffering from sciatica! I’m so sorry. Moving is tough and I remember you were also dealing with some issues about your children’s schools. I hope you get some relief and rest soon.
I had a bit of it when I was pregnant with my last one. I find that gentle yoga and a bath before bed helps. My body always has this sort of reaction to stress, no matter how much I meditate.
We figured out the school. We decided to just keep my oldest in Montessori for now. She and my youngest won’t go everyday for now but I have two days when they are both there so I can have a break! Next year we will enroll in public school again and see how it goes..
Oh dear, not good timing. Healing vibes!
Mimosa & Cardamom for the cp.
Another warm and sunny beautiful end of summer day. I am taking an extra day off to take my doggie to the vet, take care of some other personal issues and relax for the rest of the afternoon.
Happy Tuesday! ?
Yay for the extra day off! Good luck at the vet.
Yes, good luck at the vet and enjoy your extra day off and good weather!
Enjoy the day off and good luck at the vet’s. 🙂
Mimosa & Cardamom will be a popular choice this week 🙂
I think so! ?
That’s my favorite JM I think.
That one is also one of my favorite JM. Beautiful and not so fleeting!
Enjoy the beautiful day and extra day off!
Thank you all! I am done for the day and relaxing at home now. I will get the results of my doggie tests tomorrow. Hope things with him are not so bad.
Healing vibes for your beloved doggie!
Thank you, Cazaubon!
Good call on taking today off! I think it was probably supposed to be the best day of the week, weather-wise. I hope that you get good news from the vet!
Thank you, Jalapeno! It was a very nice day despite the humidity being very high. Hoping for good news tomorrow! ?
Hello everyone!! Recently while browsing online, I had a couple of SaksFifth Avenue ads with some GO -RGEOUS!! large Guerlain Bee bottles with perfumes in them. They are like around $280 per bottle. I started to daydream immediately. So I have decided to re-visit the Aqua Allegoria once again and order something. I used to collect Aqua Allegorias years ago and loved my collection. So far I have made a blind purchase… I settled for Teazzurra. I was going to get Nerolia Blanca at first (because I could NEVER go wrong with Orange blossom or Neroli)… But after reading descriptions, and especially when someone mentioned that Teazzurra is so long lasting for an Aqua Allegoria… I decided on that one. It might not be the large, bee-incrusted Les perissienne bottle but I love the blue color of Teazzurra and I have really high hopes since tea is my number one favorite anyways. Thanks for reading!! P.S. I just can’t wait for my package with Teazzurra to arrive…
How exciting! Let us know how you like it!
Hope you will love it!
I love the anticipation of perfume coming in the mail!
By the way speaking of cardamom I wish I still had my old bottles of Anisia Bella (since I have been talking about Aqua Allegorias)… I got them so cheap back in the day and now they are so hard to find!!
I loved Anisia Bella and I found my bottle at TJMaxx many years ago, it’s long gone now 🙁
Does it have cardamom? I sure don’t smell it!
My bad, for some reason in my head I always thought that aniseed perfumes are usually accompanied by cardamom as well:) I have to get a cardamom essential oil or something so I can be more familiar with it. Even though I am SURE I smelled it before… Loving perfume I smelled so many I can’t even remember correctly now!!
I love Anisia Bella! One of my favorite discontinued Aqua Allegorias!
I’m in Vanille Insensee.
It’s been a busy few days! Got my daughter all moved in and set up in her college apartment and spent a lovely couple of nights in an Airbnb. We had the most perfect weather! I didn’t want to come home.
I’m off today and my interview is this afternoon.? I think I am well prepared. Ironically my daughter has a phone interview today too so I’m going to call her later and we can debrief together, lol. Headed out for a mani so my hands look nice.
Good luck on the interview!
Super good luck to you and your daughter!
Good luck on your interview! You smell great and you will do great. 🙂
Good luck on your interview! You smell wonderful and will be wonderful. 🙂
Congratulations on getting your daughter dropped off, and best of luck to both of you on the interviews!
Best of luck!!!!
Good luck to both of you! You smell wonderful- I wore than one a couple times this weekend.
Good luck to both you and your daughter!
So glad it went well, and sending more good luck wishes!
Good luck to you and your daughter, mtg! Fingers crossed. ??
Good luck to you both! ??
Good luck and you smell great! Perfect interview choice scent.
Thank you everyone for the good luck wishes!! I think it went well. My former coworker (my inside connection) said if it went over an hour I would know it was going well. It went 90 minutes….so?♀️, I should know by Friday.?
Best of luck to both of you!
Fingers crossed for you and your daughter! ?
Thanks for checking back in! And now the wait.
Happy Tuesday all. I hope everyone had a great holiday weekend. Our beach was packed! Lots of people watching to be had.
My SOTD is Halston Catalyst, it’s such a perfect honeyed (BIG) white floral. This is typical of the perfumes from the 80’s and 90’s. I can’t help but love the creamy gardenia, tuberose, orange blossom, narcissus. I’m hearing the end of my bottle and expect to ‘thunk’ it very soon.
Enjoying some Cuban Coffee but nothing else. I’m recuperating after a weekend of overeating. I made Cuban pork roast, black beans, fried plantains and rice. I’m still in a food coma. If anyone wants the recipe for the roast, please let me know!
I’m ‘nearing’ the end of my bottle. Oof.
Ha! I was just thinking that you must have a limited edition opaque bottle or something..
Everytime you mention Catalyst, I re-ad it to my always present cart.
Catalyst is one of those scents I never thought I’d like. I was more of a Fendi, Opium, and Coco kind of gal. Some scents from the good old days weren’t as enjoyable when I revisited them, such as Wings, Giorgio, and Giorgio Red. But this is such a stunner.
I think we all have a running perfume cart we add to. I’m trying not to click the ‘buy now’ button!
Oh my gosh- that sounds like one the Sunday dinners my mom used to make! That roast would be good for DAYS on end, for tortas and soups!
You smell fabulous!
Yes, we’re going to be eating pork with everything and then some!
I froze a good amount so we’d have something for another day when I’m too lazy to cook.
Oh I am so envious of your meal. It sounds delicious!
I LOVE Cuban food and your feast sounds amazing.
Here’s a snap of the plate. I still feel slightly over fed.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CE0NH0dhu0p/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet
Well, now I have to go get me some lunch.
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YUM.
Wow! That looks delicious, especially the plantains. I’d be grabbing all of that with a big flour tortilla and just go to town. ?
Don’t need recipe but please send leftovers!
Sure Robin! We have so many leftovers…. ??
Would you mind posting the recipe for your pork roast here?
Here it is. 😀
Cuban Pork Roast
15 lb bone-in pork butt
1/3 cup of olive oil
Cloves from 1 head of garlic, peeled (more if you like)
1/3 cup of sour orange juice
¼ cup of fresh squeezed orange juice (1 orange)
¾ cup of fresh squeezed lime juice ( about 8 limes)
½ teaspoon of cumin
½ teaspoon of black pepper
3-4 Tablespoons of salt
2 teaspoons of fresh oregano leaves
¼ cup of fresh packed cilantro leaves
1. Combine all of the ingredients (except pork) in a food processor and blend until completely liquified.
2. Line a roasting pan with foil and place the pork, skin side down on the pan.
3. Using a meat injector, inject all of the marinade into the meat, going into as many spots as you can. If you feel like you can’t inject more marinade, rub some onto the outside of the pork roast. **If you want to use left-over marinade as a dipping sauce, be sure to cook it thoroughly; it’s cross-contaminated with raw pork juice from dipping the needle into the roast.
4. Cover the pork with foil as tightly as you can to create a seal and refrigerate overnight or at least 6 hours.
5. Prior to roasting, take the roast out of the refrigerator to allow it to come to room temperature, approximately ½ hr to 1 hour. If you put a cold roast in the oven, it will drop the temperature and your roast will take longer to cook.
6. Place the roasting rack on the lower/middle level of the oven to allow enough room for the roast and preheat your oven to 275. When your roast has come to room temperature, place the roast in the oven, and roast at 275 for 6-7 hours, depending if your oven runs warm or on the cool side.
7. After cooking time is completed, uncover the pork, your roast should be falling off the bone.
8. If your roast needs browning on top, set the oven to broil and roast for 3-6 minutes or until it’s a nice golden brown color.
9. Remove roast from oven and let sit for 20 minutes before shredding.
Thank you!
Ooh, sounds good. 🙂
I love Cuban food and would love your recipe!
Hi Gail, it’s posted! 🙂
Oh thank you!! It sounds so delicious..
Me too but only the eating part ?
Such a fun tea set! Sorry to read it’s long gone but appreciate the reminder to find some new gift ideas for my Star Trek-loving husband.
SOTD: Dusita Le Pavillion D’Or
That is a very cute tea set, isn’t it? 🙂
What I have always wanted is for someone to come paint a trompe-l’œil replicator in my kitchen.
You’re in luck, Robin! My husband is quite gifted in painting trompe-l’oeils (slightly biased of course).
Wow, has he done any inside your house?
No, not on the walls. They’re paintings on canvas.
Welcome back NST after a longer weekend 🙂
#1 Cardamom yesterday was Jo Malone Mimosa & Cardamom.
#2 Cardamom today is Aedes Pelargonium.
I made some research and prepared suitable fragrances all the way until Friday. Bravo me! 🙂
Yes, bravo you! I have not even thought about it yet.
Thank you! It might not be cardamom-centric but there are actually quite many perfumes with this note.
Woke up in Ubar this morning and trying to figure out which perfume to pick out for this afternoon. Apres L’Ondee might work. I am looking for something undemanding that doesn’t last long. It’s just a case of dragging butt right now.
Sorry you are dragging, Dawn!
My 7 year-old started back w/ online school last week w/ a soft opening of sorts ? but this week begins the schedule in earnest w/ on/off Zooms and different subjects/groups etc. from 8 am to about 12 noon each day. ? The funny part is I am supposed to be working during this time too…oy vey. Sometimes you can’t keep all the balls in the air so you just must let some drop.
I tried BDK Rouge Smoking over the weekend and really loved it…makes me want to sample more from this house. Have to compare it to TF Lost Cherry which I just bought the travel spray of to see if they are similar.
I don’t understand how we are supposed to work and do the online school. For most of the week I’m not available for the time slot, so my daughter and I just do the homework when I get out of work. We don’t participate in the zoom classroom.
Also.. is the Rouge Smoking really smokey? Or is it tobacco?
I got cherry and tobacco even though tobacco isn’t listed as a note many on Fragrantica also say they get tobacco. Quite good. Have you tried TF Lost Cherry? I first tried that one a week or so ago and got cherry, tobacco, almond and spices. I am going to do a side by side of these two later this week to see how similar/different they are.
Yeah, my sister in the States just had to give up and send her kids to their afterschool care full time, since they’re now doing full day sessions where they’ll oversee kids in their schoolwork. With two kids at home, one now in middle school & with six different teachers, and both parents working, there was just no way to handle school on their own. Of course, it costs a fortune, so she’s only doing it 3 days a week.
I don’t know what we’re going to do if they close the schools here again, as I expect they will probably have to after the kids start back in-person this week. We don’t have after-school care any longer, so no priority to get into anything extended if they do it. Very curious to see what Dr. Bonnie’s report (our provincial health officer) is going to be this afternoon on numbers, coming out of the long weekend / vacation season.
Some new Memo fragrances out…they always have beautiful bottles and Sintra appears to be a gourmand judging by the somewhat over the top ad copy and notes. 🙂 The glow of absolute vanilla? Yes, please.
“Sintra evokes memories – a composition that features orange blossom, vanilla, marshmallow and musk as key notes. A sweet spiral.”
“Around the corner from a palace, an unexpected rainforest.
The heart of an absolute orange. The lace of an azulejo, the spiral of a hidden staircase, petitgrain after petitgrain after petitgrain… Welcoming visions everywhere. The glow of an absolute vanilla. A fountain whispers, a turret smiles, a garden greets you with its hands. A castle does a peacock wheel. A soft and colorful walk, a pause soon and the surprise of a sweet marshmallow confectionery. The present of childhood. Musks. Getting lost.””
https://www.fragrantica.com/news/Memo-Paris-Sintra-Odeon-and-Ocean-Leather-14061.html
That Sintra bottle is BEAUTIFUL!
It really is! 🙂
I visited Sintra 2 years ago – stunning!
Was just googling pics…really beautiful…must have a be a wonderful trip!
That ad copy is just ridiculously over the top. I don’t like the idea of a marshmallow scent either.
Hugs and good vibes for work/zoom school etc. All of the parents struggling to balance all of that right now are amazing.
My Indiescents package arrived and I am trying The Sexiest Scent on the Planet on one arm and Rhubarb & Custard on the other.
Both are quite good and I am sniffing my forearms compulsively as I debate what work to try to get done before my next Zoom meeting.
Sampling perfume is like happy hour for my nose, mind and heart! ?
Love the tea set!
Diving right back in at work this morning — early meetings for the next few days. Seems to be an occupational hazard of West Coast working — everyone forgets or doesn’t care that we’re 3 hours behind. Meanwhile my kid is trying to beg for full days of screen time, since she’s not in school until a half day on Thursday, and we’re both working. (She’s not getting it, but she’ll almost certainly get more than she should.)
Wearing La Curie Ossuary today, so not a part of the CP (need to check some lists to see what cardamom I own, other than the actual spice). My spouse replaced the soap with Tauer Solar Engineer, so I needed something that would work with that since it is quite lasting.
Screen time completely changed parenting, I thought about that alot when my son was young.
Had a yen for En Voyage Zelda today. Fragrantica says it opens with “spicy notes” so that could include cardamom, maybe?
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Tom Ford Cafe Rose,for a lovely undemanding day at work!
Times are tough,but I have soo much to still be grateful for.
Happy Week!
XO
Thanks for this positive note, Johanob! Good to be reminded of all the things to be grateful for.
If we want to keep a tiny bit of normal and sanity,there is no other mindset,I think!XO
Totally agree! And yay for undemanding days at work!
Totally agree,but sometimes I miss the adrenaline rush of a full-on,busy,chaotic day in the OR!
Ciao bello! Have a wonderful week ahead. big kiss
Hiiii my friend!
Hope you are feeling a bit better already!
Sending careful hugs!!
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I am..
But I do need a nurse, do you know of anyone? 🙂 😉
Preferably someone who smells TF cafe rose
Haha!
Let me just get the passport done,I’ll be there before next Summer.Will your new place also have a lovely balcony?Tea and a good convo about perfumes and books should be a great remedy.
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Yes to all those things
holding my breath until next summer.
Are you still off IG?
I have been on and off Instagram,currently not active there.Maybe I’ll change that,I so want to share some pics of my collection and “things I love”.You’ll be the first to know when I am back!
I hope your new place is fabulous(with a huge closet for those gorgeous clothes!)
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So true Johano, so true.
You smell great! We were so close to being scent twins, but I went a different direction at the last minute.
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Wanted to share this as I think you commented on new perfumes from Amouage in the weekend thread. 🙂
https://www.fragrantica.com/news/Amouage-Renaissance-Collection-Enclave-Crimson-Rocks-Ashore-and-Meander-14066.html
Yes!Thanks!!Will head there now!??
Lots of Cardamom feature in that collection,and I am in love with the bottles,esp Crimson Rocks!
Yes, beautiful bottles though I sadly saw no mention of vanilla. 😉
Haha!We always have Shalimar.
Wow, that’s a really beautiful announcement with such gorgeous photographs, of the scenery, bottles, and perfumers alike! I love the sound of the white one.
They all sound lovely,I’ll need to have a serious look at my budget….haha!
You smell marvelous.
Thanks Kelly,loving the profile pic!
You smelled wonderful today! I think Cafe Rose is rather underrated.
On my way to choose an April Aromatics sample rattling around—I grabbed my bottle of Unter den Linden… so that is what I am wearing. The day is cooler than the weekend, but there is a mustard colored haze over everything outside. Depressing.
We had hat haze up in Portland yesterday! UGH.
Super depressing, but isn’t it…also quite beautiful? (It is down here. My chest is constricting from the 10 min I spent outside this morning, though, which hampers my appreciation of the beauty.)
Soooo depressing. It almost feels otherworldly to me.
Kind of like the recent Blade Runner, I forget what year, 2049?
Yes!
Exactly
Ha! The local news just described it as the sky on Tatooine!
I’m so sorry! You do smell perfectly cheerful.
I’m in SL De Profundis which I am fairly certain contains not even a tiny bit of cardamom. Smoky air here in Seattle. I read that a small town in eastern Washington pretty much burned to the ground. So much pain around. Thank goodness for NST, a place of respite.
true..NST is a perfect place
Robin is a good Mayor of NST,if only the “real” world could follow suit…
Have a good day!
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🙂
Oh no, I didn’t realize there were fires up in WA too 🙁
There are fires in at least 9 different states out West.
Oof 🙁
Smoky air twins. Also super thankful for this corner of the world.
I love your new picture Kelly!
We are also socked in with smoke from all the Western fires.
Kevin was telling me this morning how bad the air was there. So sorry, hope it all moves on soon.
Just discovered we’re smoky air twins, likely from the same fires. Finally got outside and it’s very smoky over downtown Vancouver and the mountains. Apparently it’s coming up from Washington fires.
My best friend emailed me about that small town. She and I both went to college in Spokane, though at different places.
It’s so sad; it went up so quickly!
Day off and I’m very tired from the working weekend. I’m waiting for my son to get his haircut, then I’m going home and doing nothing! It’s cool and dreary out so the perfect excuse for my plan.
Sotd is Libuelle la Danza.. ugh, I can’t remember the full name. I’m wearing it over bbw champagne apple honey lotion. I smell great ?
Well I love your plan,and you smell spectacular for a day of doing nothing!
We should plan a twin-move for our SOTD,asap!Haha!
XO
You do smell great. Hang in there…big hugs to you!
Enjoy your do-nothing day!
Enjoy your do nothing day! The weather today really stinks. I miss summer already.?
Yay for a do-nothing day! I had one of those specifically planned over the holiday weekend. Otherwise, I would have done chores and errands.
Perfect! I bet you smell wonderful!
No CP, but tried Olympea today at the drugstore. Now wearing Coromandel, because it gets cooler.
I tried to bike on my recumbent for the first time yesterday and managed to drive straight. Sadly I tried to do a big I-turn and fell on the street. Was not bad at first, but in the night my knee started hurting and swelling, so I went to a surgeon for inspection. Seems I ruptured my meniscus again on the same knee I had a partial meniscus resection some years ago.
I will stay at home for some days and let the knee rest, at least it does not hurt much anymore. The good is, that I can recline on the sofa and watch Netflix!!!
Oh goodness! Hope you can rest that knee! Take it easy and enjoy Netflix.
Oh no! Will they need to operate? Be careful!
Oh no, I am so sorry 🙁 Hope you recuperate quickly!
Oh no! I am so sorry Tannina! I hope you feel better soon!
Oh no! I am so sorry about your knee! Hope you can rest and feel better.
Sorry about your accident, hope it heals quickly!
Ow ow ow ow ow ow! That makes my knees ache in sympathy reading about it. Hopefully you won’t need PT or surgery.
Oh no, I’m so sorry!
Rose Ikebana today just because. It’s pretty and I thunked the sample. I enjoy it but not as much as several of the other Hermessence offerings. I love Osmanthe Yunnan and Cedre Sambac.
Drove the 12 hours home from NM yesterday. A bit sad to come back to such smokey conditions and air quality. Also I’m exhausted but it was worth it to see friends and family. Three days of work then off to Alabama for my son’s 21st bday. Gonna need a serious rest and to stay at home after this weekend.
You smell lovely today! RI is on my perfume tray….it’s an easy one to wear just about anytime.
I just want to snuggle that cute little Nacho bug! I’d be helpless in the presence of that sweet, scrunchy face. I’ll stop gushing now.
Cute face on your gravatar!
Traveling is keeping you busy! I hope you enjoy your visit with your son. 🙂 I’m glad you got the chance to visit other friends and family, too. I agree that you’ll need time to rest up after all that traveling!
And your dog has a very cute face. 🙂
Smoke smoke smoke smoke smoke. The sun is a gorgeous and horrifyingly end-times-esque red. This on the back of a >100F weekend. So. Things are going well.
What a lovely teapot! My fiance would have loved it. Probably best that it’s no longer available, as we already have approximately three tea sets and use them each maybe five times per year.
I’m in AS Sunday. I keep wearing this recently. I need that milky, creamy comfort in these rotten times.
There’s a fire in eastern SD county now too. 🙁 The weather really does feel like end of days w/ the fires and heat. Big hugs to you.
I haven’t tried AS Sunday yet…would you say it’s a gourmand? Appears to be in that territory looking at the notes on Fragrantica…
Oh no 🙁 it sounds like the entire coast is on fire. How horrible.
I can see why other people would call Sunday a gourmand. It is very milky-matcha-raw rice-y. But it doesn’t FEEL gourmand. Does that make any sense? I never feel like it’s something I could eat or chew on, like other gourmands do. This one is just a security blanket. (But then, I find food to provide me with greater comfort than almost anything else.)
For what it’s worth, I agree. To read the notes, one would think it was a gourmand but it doesn’t really feel that way to me at all.
Agree 100% with your whole first paragraph. My asthma is really bothering me today. Hang in there.
I’m so sorry about your asthma 🙁 mine, too. I tried to work out this morning without taking a puff of my inhaler first and started choking and wheezing desperately until I got myself some sweet, sweet bronchodilator. I hope they are able to contain all these horrible fires soon.
I feel for the West Coast folks who are living with the effects of those big fires. I can’t really think of advice — “hang in there” is my thought, and keep the albuterol inhalers at hand. I also hope they’ll be able to contain the fires soon, and the weather cools down for you.
I cut back on news-watching again, but I have been hearing about the natural disasters of fire in one part of the country, and the flooding along with the hurricanes in the South a little while ago. With all that’s been going on, I’m kind of expecting a rain of locusts or toads or whatever next. (But I hope not!) I’m not particularly religious, but it does feel like sort of Biblical effects. Let me not even get into things going on more due to the acts of man rather than nature, because I cut back on the news to avoid what I could of that.
Anyway, take care.
Thank you, neyronrose 🙂 the albuterol is keeping me breathing.
My brother sent me some pictures last week of his work sites with an eerie, blood red sun barely poking thru lots of dark grey smoke. Creepy AF. I hope that soaking rains come soon for folks out West.
Oof. The sun really was quite beautiful and creepy this morning.
Not soaking rains! That might cause floods! A consistent, soft to medium rain for days!
Amending my rain request then as per yours! ☔
Tuesday!
1) Came back to Portland yesterday to winds and nasty, yucky smoke & haze! It smelled of forest fires all over, and soot blew in all over! The winds continue today- the haze and smoke has mostly been blown away but now there are downed trees and branches, fruit on the ground everywhere, even my tomato plants had damage!
Other than that, my much needed rural break was really good and much needed. Smoothies and roasting myself in the sun was much needed and appreciated.
2) SOTD is Red Apple, Peony and Cashmere Woods from Beauty Pie- very pretty, very casual, slightly too sweet, perfect for a very windy day!
So glad you got a break — that sounds distressing to come home to but would be worse to watch it happen.
SOTD = Scents of Wood L’Ame du Bois Scent #2
I mentioned getting a complimentary discovery set and I wore my favorite of the three – Scent #2 – with its woodsy, sweet myrrh, lightly boozy and amplified amber ?
https://www.instagram.com/p/CE4frorhAME/?igshid=12l77mgd8vkbn
I posted pics and wrote up what I thought of the set here:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CE2wEeZhJug/?igshid=1rig9g34b21gp
It is due to launch on September 22nd. Fabrice mentioned the model being subscription but I am hoping there will be opportunity for individual bottle purchase because I need a bottle of this!
In other news, the days are definitely getting shorter and I will need to adjust my walking schedule but I am limited by it not being before work and It is also not practical to go during the day … I’ll have to have a think about this!
Show of hands, if you had to pick being off on a Friday (plus the weekend) or being off the weekend plus Monday, which one do you prefer and why? I like being off on Mondays better because it feels like a longer extension of the weekend.
For those balancing work and monitoring school, best of everything. I read an article in the NY Times, and I may link to it, that made a comment that it is the responsibility of a company to help parents parent. I don’t agree with this as binary but Inam coming from the perspective of not needing it so I am also curious what you all think. Nothing political please as this is more philosophical and to a large extent economic, but is it an employer’s responsibility?
I’m not a parent but will weigh in. I think it’s a social responsibility not just a personal or employer responsibility. It benefits everyone in the society to have children well supported and well cared for. Finland is a good example.
Moving to Finland!
Taking note of social responsibility answer!
I don’t think it’s my companys responsibility to do anything but pay me for work well done. I do strive to be a valuable employee ( even though, my job is pretty much bottom level work) at my last job, when I was having childcare issues, my employer did work with me, but it was because they wanted to keep me. Also, I prefer to keep my work life and home life seperate, if I can help it. It’s nice if employers want to help, but it shouldn’t be expected.
Working with your manager is usually the way the go bu unfortunately, managers are not created equal so there’s risk in giving that advice (speaking genetically based on why policies are a mile long).
I meant generically, not genetically!
On your Fri/Mon question:We currently have shortened working hours,so I am only working 32 hours,instead of the normal 40.
Our hospital has always been CLOSED on a Friday,so I’ve had long weekends since I started there in 2007.But now there is the added bonus of every second thursday and monday being off,I had my LOOOOOOONG weekend just now.This week is the normal Friday off.
I can live with either,but a Monday off is really like SUPERWOW.Lol
Oh wow! That’s a lot of extra days off! Noting down your Monday preference but only because your workplace is normally closed on Fridays!
Seperate comment for the cute owls and mouse!
Thank you!
I worked a 4/10 schedule (four days a week, 10 hour days) for twenty years and always had Mondays off. It worked out great because when Monday was a holiday, the holiday was “banked” because Mondays were my day off. When the time came to retire, I had 20 years of Monday holidays that were worth a tidy pile of cash. I also liked it because lots of people have Fridays off or leave early on Fridays, so the stores and roads are less crowded on Mondays.
So you were able to choose and chose Monday and it sounds like it worked out very well for you!
On the one hand, I prefer having Fridays off because you get to start your weekends earlier! On the other, along the lines of what foxbins said, because many other people take off on Fridays, having a Monday off means being able to access things at a less busy time 🙂
As for the employer responsibility question: As Calypso said, it should be a social responsibility. For us, though, it isn’t. As such, perhaps it’s not the employer’s responsibility to help with childcare, but it would be the decent thing to do. It would also be the smart thing to do in order to attract the best talent, since many people might turn away from companies that don’t help out with childcare.
Did you make the owls and mouse?? Either way, they are SO CUTE!
Noting down what I would consider a Monday off preference.
On company “provided” childcare, I’m thinking more along the lines of access to childcare. And of course, the next question is how do you make it “fair” across the board as it’s not something that is not arranged everywhere.
As to the felted things, I wish I have the talent!
Not a parent either, but will offer my 2 cents. I prefer my Mondays off because, a) it’s generally the least busy day of the week in terms of retail and such, so, less crowds (even before covid); b) my weekends are almost always spent at work so it’s nice to have a day to chill out and recover from being on my feet all weekend; c) Mondays are also just plain quieter for some reason and more relaxing. Hope that helps!
Hey Gategirl! Noting down your preference for Mondays off!
Mondays off vs. Fridays off: personally, I prefer Fridays. Starting the work week on Tuesday seems more difficult than gritting my teeth on Monday morning. A bigger and longer climb out of an inertial well, so to speak.
🙂
So far, you’re the only Friday person!
Weird, and proud of it! ?
That’s why we love you! 🙂
Joining Jalapeno in being a weirdo. I’m voting for Friday!
Monday for sure so that I miss all my least favorite meetings!
Doing a sniff-off this morning: Heeley Menthe Fraiche on on arm and Covey on the other. So far the Covey has been more attention-getting, but waiting to check out their dry-downs.
I’m still commando and contemplating my options. But I am here to report in that my big toe is better. Still purple and sore but not as bad as it was.
Glad you are on the mend!??
Poor you! Speedy recovery
I’ve now made my selection for today,band it’s a winner. Agonist Nordic Noir. Very cardamom-forward.
Toes seem to take forever to heal up!
Oh good.
Glad your toe is feeling better!
Posting and running, back to read comments later – Dior Ambre Nuit after a wonderful bike ride up to the river today.
A ride to the river sounds great, hope it was!
It was a gorgeous ride. Trees are starting to turn red, the Canada geese are flying out for the winter, and it was a warm, windless day.
Lovely!
Oregon is sandwiched between Washington and California, so it gets their fire smoke, plus we have our own fires on the eastern side of the state. Last night it was so smoky the light was brownish-yellow. Gusty winds gave me a power outage last night but it’s back on now.
If I have a cardamom fragrance I am unaware of it, so I’ll be looking to you all for something I can copy. For now, I’m wearing Kilian Woman in Gold.
Ooh, I like that one – you smell great.
Ugh. I hope that your air clears up soon.
Have you heard about the new Amouage quartet?
https://www.fragrantica.com/news/Amouage-Renaissance-Collection-Enclave-Crimson-Rocks-Ashore-and-Meander-14066.html
The bottles have leming-worthy color patterns and I think at least 1-2 fragrances will be worth a sniff.
Ooh! Thank you for the link.
Persolaise did a very nice review of them on YouTube.
https://youtu.be/808zLQCDXWQ
I could do a whole week of cardamom perfumes, but I’m going to wear my new purchase, Jean Patou’s Chaldée from the 2013 heritage collection. I read a review on The Alembicated Genie, read some more reviews and someone compared it to Narcisse Noir. Then I found it cheap at a New Zealand online discounter, and I broke my absolute rule to never blind-buy.
I’m pleased to report that I like it, and it does remind me of Narcisse Noir.
Glad to hear it was a success!
Hooray for a successful blindbuy!
Late night mushy comment time(21:45pm)….
Although I go quiet for long stretches on NST sometimes,don’t answer comments and reply to questions as often as I used to do,NST will always be my first place to come and “just hang around”or have a decent catchup with my online besties here.And I thank Robin for still steering the ship in the right direction,So thank you for R,and thanks to all who your little bits of news and a good general catchup along!Safe happy place.!!XO
I heartily agree, johanob. NST’s comfort and consistency has helped keep my compass pointed north this year. ?
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As a recent “entlistee” (but lurked since around 2012), I too send big thanks to Robin. <3 Mushy is ok! Perfume is a happy hobby!
Hear hear! So nice to see you pop in again. 🙂
Mushy is good right now, I think. ??
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Love you ?
So glad if this is a safe happy place for anybody, and so glad you always pop back up after awhile Johanob!
Big hugs to those dealing with smoke and fires yet again. Hoping for a break from this very soon! ?
I’m in Le Lion this afternoon, from the split hosted by hajusuuri. I was comparing a couple of fig fragrances this morning, so I spritzed a tiny bit on my upper arm and started dusting the house. This is gorgeous! Lightly spiced amber and vanilla, with a soft leather showing up after an hour. It’s cuddly and comforting. Reminds me of a softer, gentler Coromandel at first, some Shalimar, then a warmer Cuir de Russie. Santa, we need to talk!
Aww, bummed I missed the split. Maybe there will be another one during the splitmeet!
I hope you get a chance to try it!
I’m not sure if hajusuuri filled the split. It can’t hurt to ask. Pretty sure she bought a big bottle.
I received my Le Lion decant this afternoon and I’ve been wearing it for about an hour now.
Just read Nancy’s mini review above and I agree with everything she said.
It’s got the Coromandel vibe and a bit of the Shalimar vibe with this gorgeous soft expensive leather note throughout. To me it’s definitely closer to Coromandel than to Shalimar (which is good news since I adore the former and dislike the later). It’s cuddly and elegant at the same time. To sum it up, it’s Coromandel with vanilla and leather and I love it. Thank you H!
Sounds wonderful! Same as you, I much prefer Coromandel.
Sounds like it is well worth skin time.
Just got my decant too but haven’t tried it yet. Looking forward to it.
SOTD is a new shirt from my favorite lady’s dress shop in Austin, Sue Patrick. I shopped there a lot when we lived there and started buying a few things there again when we visited last summer. She is about 80 years old and still goes into the store, though her son really manages it now. She is a dear lady who recognized me right off the bat last summer, even though I hadn’t been there for 18 years. We chatted like no time at all had passed. There is a certain fragrance that all the clothes from there that I just love. Can’t bear to wear perfume with her clothes until after I’ve washed them!
What a great story – places do have smells as fine as any we can buy or be gifted!
I once bought a fall jacket from a country store that sold all kinds of lovely smelling things. It retained that smell for weeks after I took it home.
Sending lots of rainy thoughts to everyone on the west side of North America with these dreadful fires…
CP points for Penhaligon’s Changing Constance, which has cardamom and pimiento in its opening before morphing into a cozy caramel vanilla with cashmeran.
I wasn’t feeling up for a big culinary challenge this week, so I convinced Mr. Teebear (and myself I suppose) that a pot of America’s Test Kitchen chili would go great with Kraft Dinner. That’s Kraft macaroni and cheese for you Americans.
I’ll no doubt feel like I’m about 8 years old when we sit down to eat this conceptual masterpiece of a dinner idea, but you know what, you only live once!
My kids have that meal at summer camp and they call it chili Mac. Sounds good to me!
Chili mac & cheese is winter comfort food! ?
And if you have any of either left, put it between two flour tortillas, drop it in a heated pan and call it a quesadilla.
This is PURE WIZARDRY and I am down for it!!!
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Seriously, something delicious out of easy things you have on hand — that is a conceptual masterpiece.
Laundry and kitty snuggles on the docket for today. The weather is still nice, but not the spectacular stuff we had over the long weekend. It could be much worse, though… it’s snowing in Colorado right now, and my brother is out working in it tonight.
SOTD = back in Fat Electrician.
I hope your brother is safe! Enjoy those kitty snuggles. I am getting my kitty snuggles at this very moment.
Thanks! He’s been working in the elements for ages, so he knows how to dress for it and how to drive in it.
Such weird weather going on in Colorado, from 70s down to snow temps and snow in < 24 hours, if I am not mistaken. We’re looking at 2 weather disturbances in these here parts – ugh!
Snow in September is not that weird for long term residents of the Centennial State. But that temperature drop was one for the record books… it was 101 over the holiday weekend, in the 90’s yesterday, and dropped almost 60 degrees.
Some of the mountains down by New Mexico are looking to get between 18 and 24 inches of snow out of this storm.
Hi everyone, it’s a beautiful day here right now, and will be out for my walk in a little bit. Feeling sympathy and sending good vibes/hopes/prayers for those on here that are on the West Coast right now, I did not realize it was that bad out there (my policy of avoiding the news as much as possible sometimes backfires). SOTD is Tocca Gia; I like the rose note that is hidden in the composition, not too strong but just enough to make it really pretty.
GateGirl, same here…I have been doing my best to limit my news consumption so if it were not for people here mentioning the smoke, I wouldn’t have known.
It’s warmer and more humid today, but I really did get out there and enjoy the nicer weather of the weekend. Scent is 4711 Acqua Colonia Mandarine & Cardamom. I swapped away a bottle that was at least half full, and I still have a couple of decants of it that are ~30 ml each. lol. Pixel gave me the inspiration for sharing 4711 AC scents, from back when she got the big bottles and split them. 🙂
It’s a refreshing scent, so it’s good for today. I spritzed on a little after a cool shower. 😀
Pretty soon we will be bringing out our cozy perfumes instead of our refreshing ones…
I can’t wait!
I remember that Robin commented a few months ago about how we had two days of spring, and then it was summer. That’s typical of this part of Pennsylvania. Soon we’ll have a few days of autumn, then it will be winter, and we’ll be going for cozy perfumes and cozy clothes. It will be time to get my hoodies back out of the storage box. 🙂
Usually my mood has an upswing when the weather gets cooler, like in the 60s and low 70s. But then I get tired of really cold weather very quickly. I guess I’m hard to please that way. lol.
Have a good rest of the week! 😀
The book I’m reading today is Bulbs for All Seasons. The author is based in Montreal. The book was written in French and then translated into English for the U.S. market. Some of the translation is a little odd. One sort of crocus is named ‘Jeanne d’Arc,’ and it was translated into ‘Joan of Arc.’ That’s an example of a name that would have been correct kept in the original French. I guess some flower bulb names are confusing, though, given that some are in French, some in German, some in Dutch, etc.
Today my Poet’s Jasmine Jasminium grandiflorum is blooming. Boy, that smells really good! And I’m still enjoying the scent of a heliotrope, too.
Good night! 🙂
Just arrived home after a 11 hour work day which is why I haven’t been posting much lately. SOTD was Beige. It’s sort of perfect for the changeable weather we’ve been having lately. I also recieved a sample of Santal Du Pacifique by Perris Monte Carlo today. So far, it’s a thumbs up. Time to make some dinner. I’ll try to read comments later if I can stay awake. ?
Wow, that’s a long day. I hope that you have time to relax and unwind tonight.
Thanks Jalapeno! I will relax when I am sleeping., probably in an hour from now. I hope you and Mr. Jalapeno are well!
We’re doing our best to keep the crazy to a minimum. Sometimes it even works!
Wow, 11 hour day; that’s crazy! I hope you get some good rest tonight!
TY Gail!
SOTD: Chanel No. 5 edp, modern. I hardly ever wear it; but it made me happy all day. Mulling over why it would never be a top 10, though.
I think I have lots of fragrances like that: enjoy them when I wear them, don’t want to wear them often enough to count them as besties 🙂
Sprayed myself with Iris 39 tonight. I will have to check for CP compliant scents in my stash.
Yesterday I made a batch of lentil soup for the week. It’s that season; so nice to come home to supper that just needs to be heated up!
Nice! Love it. One of my favorite Iris scents.
Perfect time of the year for a batch of lentil soup! Pita chips optional. ??
I have a question for Robin. Robin, do You still love Your Ormonde Jayne Champaca as one of Your favorites? Or truly a very curious question to You: which perfume is Your most favorite?