Rabbit rabbit rabbit! Happy New Year and sayonara to 2020. (It's also the eighth day of Christmas and the last day of Kwanzaa, plus, Public Domain Day, Euro Day, and of course, National Bloody Mary Day.) Our community project for today: wear a perfume that will bring you good luck in 2021.
What fragrance did you pick? As always, do chime in with your scent of the day even if you’re not participating in the community project.
I slept quite late, sorry! I'm in Fendi Theorema, again. If 2021 is half as good as Theorema I'll be satisfied.
Reminder: 1/8 is David Bowie's birthday. If you like, pick a favorite Bowie song and wear a perfume to match. Or, just wear a fragrance that you think fits with the occasion for whatever reason.
And for those of you who like to plan ahead, see Scent of the day ~ Friday community projects 2021, where I'll try to always have the next five or six weeks mapped out in advance.
Note: the Bunny Wall Clock ("Add some style to your child's room with our cute Bunny Wall Clock and make learning the time fun!") is $63.70 at Nest Accessories at Etsy.
Happy New Year everyone! My SOTD is Fendi’s Life Essence. I haven’t worn this in a while, time to give it some attention. 🙂
I’m headed out for my walk, yesterday’s walk and stairs were wonderful but there were lots of people out, hopefully, it’s less crowded.
Let’s hope 2021 is better, on all levels, for everyone.
Happy New Year, SmokeyToes!
Happy New Year smokeytoes! Enjoy the walking ?
Hi SmokeyToes,
Our rain held off and I got my first 4 mile walk of the year in. Felt so good!! Happy New Year!
Oops.
I don’t know how I did 3 of those. sorry.
one for each rabbit, springpansy!
No worries! Congrats on the first walk of the year! Mine was fantastic! We saw loads of hawks today. 🙂
FREEBIE ALERT!
On the eighth day of Christmas, I’m offering for free
8 Short Stories
This is the Imaginary Authors Short Stories collection, a boxed manufacturer’s sample set containing 2 ml spray vials of the following fragrances:
Cape Heartache
A City on Fire
Every Storm a Serenade
Memoirs of a Trespasser
O, Unknown
Saint Julep
Slow Explosion
Yesterday Haze
I purchased this set new from Lucky Scent a couple of years ago. I have sprayed each of these no more than a few times, so they are nearly full.
Also, still unclaimed from Tuesday
5 ml of Spring
This is a 5 ml decant of Dasein Spring purchased from Olfactif. It is in a very nice opaque metallic twist-up spray vial. Because it is opaque (and I have no idea how to take it apart) I cannot see the actual level of the perfume inside, but it should contain most of the original 5 ml, as I have only used a few sprays. It came without any label on it to indicate the fragrance, so I have placed a label on it. I do not know how well it will stick.
I’d love to give your short stories a home, if I may! I will email you.
Happy New Year to you, Robin and to our entire NST community for which I am so very grateful!
May 2021 bring us all peace, good health and prosperity.
My heart goes out to all of you facing health challenges, loss and difficulties of any sort. I’m hoping better days are ahead.
I’m wearing Bombay Bling, which is sunshine in a bottle on this rainy day.
You smell great!
Thank you!
Thank you, and to you adanst!
Happy New Year, NST! I got my rabbits in at 12:01 a.m. precisely (thank you, neighborhood firecracker aficionados), so I’m hoping they (the rabbits, not the NFAs) will be effective for a long time. My adorable, wee bottle of Paracelsus did indeed arrive yesterday (squeee!), so as soon as I drag myself out from under the covers (late-sleep twin with Robin here) that will be my choice for the CP. Woohooo, 2021!
OH MY, I did most certainly not remember at 12:01. And, for some reason there were tons of fireworks here around 11:30 but they must have used them all up early because total silence by midnight.
Glad someone else managed to sleep in 🙂
Nice, the fireworks here were still going at ~12:45am. As such, I slept in until 8:45 this morning 🙂
We went through Amsterdam on NYE a few years ago. I think fireworks were still going off when we woke up the next morning.
Starting 2021 on the right foot..
Drank my favorite tea Marco Polo
Thrift store find tunic https://images.app.goo.gl/19hxzFjaqLzDs7beA
I drained my Madagascar Shalimar flanker yesterday. I won’t thunk the bottle, decided to keep it empty and put it in my bathroom.
SOTD Shalimar from the limited edition bottle, I want this year to start out beautiful and I enjoyed so much this beautiful looking bottle.
I am so thankful to the NST community! Hope those that went missing this year from the SOTD thread make an appearance in 2021.
Agreeing that I would love to see those who went missing post again. And grateful for all the new participants.
That tunic looks cozy! Yes, I miss ElisaP and Deva….and I’m sure there are others I’m forgetting….
Echoing those sentiments… I hope they’re well and know they’re in our thoughts
Happy New Year, ltsg! For some reason, spellcheck wanted to use “haphazard” for “happy”. Yikes!
That’s a gorgeous, cozy sweater!
Haphazard for happy? New respect for spell check!
I know! It was so weird…
Spellcheck, you’re getting creepy…
Happy New Year LTSG!
I read your post about having read 43 books last year, kudos! How many hours a day do you read? I feel sad about how little reading I’m doing, I think I will copy your strategy of reading every evening before bed. Need to shut off the @#&! Ipad.
Thank you for reading that post.
In the evening when the kids are in bed I read a lot but also rotate watching TV with Mr L.
Besides my own books, I am reading out loud to my daughter the illustrated version of Harry Potter and The Witches
We leave our phones/pads in a different room before we start getting ready for bed! This helps us avoid all non-Kindle electronics at night, which should lead to better sleep and also makes sure I read at least a little every day 🙂
Happy New Yr. I went to go downtown last night for fireworks but then was informed the show was only for hotel guests this year. Totally lame lol.
Bowie fan here, sigh, gone much too soon. I was bummed for a while after I heard the news.
If you have not heard this Life on Mars cover/instrumental, you need to.
https://youtu.be/F4fQhHBuvc0
It’s beautiful.
I heard Bowie wore Silver Mt Water? Not sure. Or one by Paloma Picasso, Minotaure?
In a heavy dose of Le Lion.
PS lol just ordered some Minotaure because I am just too curious lol. Enabler pin to Robin haha.
So beautiful, it hurt my heart a little bit to listen to it….thanks for the link.
One of the composers of that song is also a big Bowie fan and was a close friend. One can hear the sense of loss but also admiration and respect. Maybe even a saying of goodbye. It sounds very spiritual to me. That’s what I get from it anyway lol.
Yes I would agree it sounds very spiritual.
I love Trent Reznor, his Austin City Limits show from 2014 is one of my favorite ACL’s ever. I’ve lost track how many times I’ve watched it.
Oh, I haven’t heard that one, I am going to check it out! Thanks!! ?
Sitting outside on a warm summer evening and the branches seem to be waving to that soundtrack!
Also a big Bowie fan here. I think I posted this link back in the fall but likely it was late in the day and maybe not seen? Has anyone managed to see this show in the UK? Here is an article for some context and at the end a link to the gallery. It’s on until June so maybe I might get to see it!
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/how-happy-he-was-candid-david-bowie-photographs-by-his-childhood-friend-geoff-1.4360424
I would definitely wanna see that if was in the area. I do photography and man, Bowie would have been a great subject to photograph! Dream gig lol.
Happy New Year everyone! May 2021 bring more peace, health and joy than we can anticipate!
I’m wearing Maitri by Provision Scents today. My husband got me two bottles of perfume for Christmas, so I saved the unboxing of this one for today – new perfume, new year. I also have a new mascara and a new lip gloss to use with no bad vibes from 2020 stuck in them. Maitri is a gorgeous earthy vetiver scent which really reminds me of the California desert for some reason.
I haven’t purchased any perfume since July and when I stopped buying a bottle or two per month I naively thought my collection would start shrinking at a quick rate. Nope. I’ve used up one 5 ml rollerball since July. So if I have a perfume related resolution for this year, it’s to spray with more abandon.
Now that’s a resolution I can get behind. Go forth and spritz (or follow hajusuuri’s lead and spritz, spritz, spritz, spritz, spritz, and spritz).
Happy New Year, Sistine! I shall be a bit delayed in getting your package out but will shoot by end of this month.
Oh, take your time! There’s absolutely no rush.
I read this article by Kevin near the beginning of my perfume journey. It’s sobering to reread – gulp!
https://freebox.it.com/2008/08/19/perfume-for-life-how-long-will-your-fragrance-collection-last/%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E
I finished ✔️ coco noir parfum, one bottle of Shalimar Edt and one Madagascar Shalimar flanker
If you have a large collection, and wear different things (not the same one or two perfumes over and over), you won’t see the collection shrink right away. A nearly empty bottle takes up as much space as a full one. What is likely to happen is that after quite a while you will empty several bottles in rapid succession.
My husband lines up his bottles on a shelf and uses them in strict rotation, so everything does get used up eventually, and it tends to happen this way. He will have the same bottles for months, then three or four will get emptied within a few weeks. Right now he has seven in use, one for each day of the week., and likes it that way. I gave him two new bottles for Christmas, and suggested he just keep them in reserve until he empties some of his current bottles. Probably two of them will be thunked within a few weeks, and two more within a couple of months after that.
Sometimes, when I’m close to finishing a bottle or decant, I get so excited that I wear nothing but that for days! And am inevitably shocked at how long that last 0.3 mL can last.
What you say! Even when I think I am lavishly spritzing, that last dab seems to stay in the bottle.
Yes! The sample or decant that refuses to be used up!
Happy New Year to all! We toasted the death of 2020 like most, but I have much to be thankful for, including my 93-yr-old grandmother recovering handily from Covid right now. She was back on her stepper yesterday; she’s amazing.
I’m in Jasmin et Cigarette today. May you all have a blessed, fragrant year!
That’s such good news about your gran, irisjasmine! Whoo-hoo!
Excellent news about your grandma!
Wow…yay for your grandma!?
That’s awesome. She’s an inspiration and you smell lovely!
Wow! I am so glad she is having a good recovery! Blessings!
What great news!!
Great news!
So happy to hear of her recovery!
Great news about your dear Grandmother!
Go Grandma!
Good news about your grandmother! ?
What good news! Our best gift of the season was my beloved 90 year-old FIL getting his first shot of the vaccine just before Christmas. He’s in assisted living and they’ve been in total lockdown since the start of March, but it has paid off in that they’ve had no cases at all among residents or staff. And now they’re getting vaccinated, what a relief. Happy New Year!
Happy New Year, everyone! Wishing you all health, peace, love, prosperity and happiness on this 2021!
I am wearing Iunx Talc from a very long decant that our super generous Hajusuuri sent me. THANK YOU! I am so very grateful for this! ?
It is the perfect scent for me to start the year. I love it! So beautiful, comfy, with a very peaceful vibe, the way I would like 2021 to be.
Relaxing at home today and for the rest of the weekend.
Happy Friday! ?
We all know who deserves the enabler pin for 2020 😉
No doubts about it! ?
Agreed!!
Happy Friday and happy new year!? I have a 3 day weekend too! Enjoy!
Weekend twins! Enjoy! ?
Happy to hear that you were snug at home, given today’s yucky weather.
Awful weather for sure with non-stop rain, but tomorrow is supposed to be warm and nice!
Here’s to a brand new – and I mean that in almost every sense of the phrase – year.
I wish everybody here a time filled with joy and prosperity, and let me not forget, wondrous scents.
Thank you for your kind thoughts and wishes ?
Rabbit, rabbit, rabbit & a very happy 2021 everyone! I’m sure it will finally get better in this new year.
I chose Prada Infusion d’Homme as my lucky charm today and on New Year’s Eve I wore Purple Rain, so it’s a Prada power 🙂
You smell great Lucasai, and let’s hope you are right about 2021!
Happy New Year, lucasai!
Happy New Year !
I am wearing Chanel No 19 Poudre and drinking a cup of Honey Bush tea.
I have not had honeybush in ages, I will have some after dinner 🙂
Happy New Year, everybody! Here’s to a fresh start as we head into 2021. As long as we take it one day at a time, I think we’ll be okay.
Didn’t get my rabbits in….first words out of my mouth were swear words when I dropped something in the kitchen. Not the most auspicious way to start the new day/month/year. ?
I’m in Rania J. Ambre Loup, which is rich, smooth, comforting and I love it from start to finish. If 2021 feels even a bit as good as this smells, I’ll be in good shape. ❤️
You smell wonderfully cozy. Happy New Year Nancy!
Thank you adanst! You smell bright and exuberant in Bombay Bling. ?
Happy New Year, all! Song for the day:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Mw62OP1FSw
Wishing the whole planet a lovely and loving 2021.
Great song!?
Thanks Pixel! Used to dance to this back in the day – always a happy moving vibe. Will add more dancing, if only in my living room (which may be the best kind!) to my 2021 agenda, as I haven’t done any in years and miss it : )
Living room dancing is great 🙂
I love that song! Another favorite musician from that era, for me, is Thomas Dolby (remember She Blinded Me With Science?).
Oh, nice memories
Thomas Dolby, yes!
Nice song share – thanks!!
I’m in vintage Obsession. It always brought me good luck in college?let’s see if it can work it’s magic for 2021.
I was in bed by 11, but I did remember to rabbit in the wee hours of the morning when I woke up briefly.
I never make New Years resolutions, but this year I made a couple of New Years intentions. That word just sounds less harsh to me and if I don’t stick to it, well, I can say I had the best intentions.
Agree – much easier to try out new habits and have intentions. Resolutions always sound so very “resolute” ? I fail at those before I even have a chance to start!
Happy New Year, NST! I’m up late (8:30 a.m. is late for me) and wearing POTL Luctor et Emergo. The name is apropos and it’s a fragrance that has always felt “holidayish” for me.
Last night the weather forecasters predicted a “river of rain” for us here in Seattle and gave a warning of potential landslides. Really? Gee, thanks, Mother Nature. However, I’m going to soldier on with my New Year’s resolution of looking for an element of happiness every day. Thankful for NST and all of you!
I will try to find happiness everyday too. Happy New Year and enjoy the Seattle rains
Great scent choice today!
You smell wonderful. LeE is officially on my full bottle list.
I can’t think of any better wishes for all here for 2021 than this Aaronic blessing: “The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make His face shine on you and be gracious to you; the Lord turn His face toward you and give you peace.”
In Ninfeo Mio, because it reminds me of sunshine, beautiful gardens, travels to Italy and better times.
Love that blessing. Thank you.
Thank you Amyitis and best wishes to you for 2021!
Amen!
Beautiful blessing! Thank you! Happy and blessed New Year Amyitis!
Amen to that !
You smell wonderful, and Ninfeo Mio is such a sunny, happy scent!
Amen; thanks for sharing 🙂
Amen. Thank you for sharing that.
Happy New Year, everyone! I’ve missed you all! and missed my perfumes, too – gosh, it’s been a long time.
I recently discovered my little decant of L’Artisan’s Oeillet Sauvage and have been enjoying it on the rare occasion I have the opportunity to give myself a spritz. It reminds me of an old-school soap in the same way that DSH’s Fleuriste does – I wonder if Camay had a carnation note? There’s something quietly comforting about it, perhaps a scent-memory from my childhood. For quite a while there, I was finding it difficult at times to allow comfort in, as I thought my heart just couldn’t expand enough any longer and I feared the tears might never stop and I’d turn to mush. Then, when searching for healing solfeggio music for my elderly cat, I found something beautiful which didn’t make me cry like all the other stuff I’d heard. Plus, my cat loves it too! If you wanna listen some day, here it is:
https://youtu.be/wAwZKak4_3E
Sending everyone best wishes for 2021, and many thanks for being here and providing such a loving, supportive community. Be well, my friends.
Hi Holly, lovely to see you. I hope you continue to find comfort maybe even in surprising places. ♥
Thank you, springpansy! It’s lovely to see you as well.
Welcome back, wishing you peace and joy!
Thank you, cazaubon! Wishing you the same.
Oeillet Sauvage reminds me of long ago soap too. 🙂
Hiya tiffanie! For some reason, that aspect is really working for me right now!
It’s so fun when a fragrance works in a pleasing way. I adore Oeillet Sauvage. It reminds me of the carnation scented soaps from Roger & Gallet, which I can no longer get muled to me from France.
Hi Holly, good to see you! Happy New Year!
Hi pixel! Good to hear from you! Thank you!
Happy New Year Holly! I sure am happy to see your post today!
Hi hi hi Jalapeno! I sure am happy to see your reply today!
Another Hello – and Happy New Year (though it’s already the 2nd ?)
Ooh, I love Oeillet Sauvage! I agree, there’s a vibe about it that reminds me of soap without being “soapy”, if that makes sense. I also like Lutens’ Vitriol d’Oeillet. Happy New Year!
Thanks for all the well wishes yesterday…really appreciate it. I feel a little better each day. No scent yet. I will shower today and it’s a bit nerve-wracking as I take off my regular neck collar and put on a shower one…it’s a stressful process.?
Yesterday I ordered some samples from Kyse and DSH…first time trying DSH and I am excited.
Happy New Year! Sending peace and love to all.?
That does sound stressful She-Ra! Enjoy DSH – as a US brand it’s difficult to get a hold of around these european parts and I hear good things about them so often.
Adding my well wishes for a speedy recovery and good health in the new year.
Happy new year!! DSH is fun to explore.
I missed your post yesterday She-ra. I hope you get better soon and have a speedy recovery!
Got my rabbits in after midnight, so that’s a good start to a new year. Grateful for this group, for family and friends, for the books that have distracted me from the mess of 2020. Hoping the vaccine becomes more widely available, that people stay healthy and vigilant, that we take extra care with each other.
SoTD is Fate, because it calms me. I need to stay calm and unstick myself from the hangover of last year.
Yesterday’s experiment was Mon Shalimar. Yuck, never again.
Looking forward to David Bowie day. We took our kids to see him in the 90s. The opening act was Nine Inch Nails; midshow, both bands came on and played Scary Monsters. What a great show, although the kids said, ‘Who is this Bowie guy?’ Kids, yikes. Just when you think you’ve brought them up well ….
So that’s Mon Guerlain + Shalimar that is a no no? Thank you for doing the science – your sacrifice is appreciated!
I tried Avocado Co-wash body spray with some O’de Lancôme and while it wasn’t a total abomination I wouldn’t bother repeating it.
I ‘stepped’ into the new year in Coco parfum which felt very luxurious. When things feel a bit off I dress up, scent up and make the best of it. Missed my friends and family at our isolated New Years. Even though I enjoyed the evening with my husband very much. Started the New Year in Bukhara.
Happy New Year everyone. Wishing you peace, health and joy ?
Coco..yes!
You smell wonderful! I am definitely on team dress up and make the best of it!
Happy New Year everyone!! Wishing you all a lovely scented year. And lots of trips to our favorite perfume shops that will reopen soon hopefully.
SOTD is Baccarat rouge 540. I’m guessing I will wear this a lot this year. Yummmm. #newlove
A new love for a new year, perfect!
Forgot about the rabbits again 🙂
SOTD is Mohur, the remains of the edp from a sample and some sprays from my bottle of extrait. I do smell rather fancy.
Happy New Year to all of you! Let’s hope 2021 will be better than 2020. Well it can hardly be worse 😉
Happy New Year Austenfan! You smell wonderful ?
I will be joining you in Mohur extrait after my workout and a shower.
Seriously, if it is worse I am taking to my bed.
Happy New Year!
I don’t know about luck, but I’m going bold and beautiful into 2021 with Epices d’Hiver, courtesy of a generous NTS commentor.
I’m also experiencing some teeth issues which is not how I want to start off 2021. But overall very grateful for my good health and looking forward to more time with family and friends especially the 2nd half of the year.
And thank you, Robin, for creating and continuing this space to regularly connect with like-minded, kind people, and to have a bit of a respite from our weary days.
Happy New Year, floragal. Hopefully your teeth issues resolve quickly and painlessly!
Thank you, dear hajusuuri!
Looking forward to more photos of perfume, owls and other curiosities in 2021 from you 🙂
So sorry about your teeth floragal!
Happy New Year All ?!
Like SheriG, I ??? at 12:01am, after a hearty Happy New Year, sip of champagne, stuffing in 12 blueberries. Hopefully, it’s a good sign for the year.
SOTD = DSH Scent of Hope
May this wearing be a symbol of what is to come in 2021.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CJgsnHehVv-/?igshid=1cxua2elquctz
I got in my Cousins’ Zoom last night. There were about 25 windows at our largest and it was so nice to see multiple generations and most of us stayed on for the entire time. My generation has many medical professionals while the next generation moved on to architecture…sign of the times? Regardless, someone suggested a once a year meet but I think it should be at least twice, if not 3x a year.
Later today will be dinner zoom with friends. I keep waffling on what to get from the Chinese food takeout place but I have my possible set!
That Zoom sounds really fun! Maybe family Zooms are a positive side effect of COVID; probably others have noticed this!
It is positive except it actually also created some not so pleasant encounters (with my brother…and it was not just me). We’re (the immediate family, no cousins) trying again tomorrow, after stopping in July.
Happy New Year H!
I don’t know your perfume but it seems aptly named for the occasion ?
Happy New Year, adanst. If you can, try to get a sample if you are ordering from DSH. With code bright20 you get 20% off through January 12. But I just realized Scent of Hope is specifically excluded. I normally would send people a sample but it’s a dabber and I’ve used it as a dabber.
Curious to hear what you eventually decided on for your lucky New Year’s Zoom dinner.
Hey hey. So I finally got enough food for 4 people ?:
The large size of:
– Chicken Corn Soup
– House Special Lo Mein
– Seafood With Mixed Vegetables
I also got mini egg custard from a store.
Dinner – voila (with leftovers for at least 4 more meals!)
Happy New Year everyone! Just stayed home last night and will be staying home today. Hopefully the new year will be better than last year. It’s starting out pretty good for me already. I was expecting a financial windfall next week(small one) but it arrived today. So I can pay off my Old Navy card, pay my cell phone bill and finish off another credit card in one swoop and that makes me happy. And have a little left over for fun stuff. I am wearing Memoir today.
Memoir is gorgeous, and a little extra $$ to splurge on something fun is a good thing!
A good choice,, Memoir is beautiful
Yay for your windfall! ?
Following Sistine’s example, I decided to go with a new bottle, Cire Trudon Mortel. This past year was a great lesson in impermanence, gratitude and living in the moment. In the spirit of gratitude, I’m embarking on a no-buy, so I can refocus on enjoying what I already have (and will never be able use up).
A new no-buy … we just won’t call it a resolution ?
No no, last year was a low-buy, not a no-buy. LOL. This year will be different! (famous last words)
That sounds reasonable. Best wishes for the new year!
Like SheriG, I was up at midnight thanks to neighbors who take every opportunity to set off fireworks. The family two houses down had those loud boomers and set off 12 to mark midnight, all the windows shook in my little house!
Wearing Coromandel today and yes, I smell great ? We are currently in the middle of an ice storm and I’m very grateful that we can stay in. Enjoy your weekend everyone! ?
You do smell great! I’ve been wearing that one a lot lately. But that I am merely a house twin in Le Lion.
Was in bed by 11…no rabbits for me. I’m only superstitious when it comes to sports…lucky scarves, bad luck hats, etc…
New year, new scent. Decided to wear Gabrielle Essence, since it was a Christmas gift and is new for me. Pleasant, light, easy-going…which is how I’d like the year to go.
The husband is having leftover chicken tortilla casserole as he watches his football team (Northwestern) play its bowl game. There’s a part of me that wants to open the bottle of sparkling wine that’s in the fridge, but it would just be me drinking it…a lot would be wasted…not sure you can reseal sparkling….
Go Cats! 🙂
You smell so good!
I loved that one more than the original
It’s definitely sweeter than I normally wear, but it’s peachy and pretty.
Yes, peachy and sweet. On me its very long lasting, I am still working my way through my small decant. Maybe tomorrow I will wear that one.
WORD FOR THE DAY
And suddenly you know: It’s time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings.
MEISTER ECKHART
I like this. Thank you.
Happy New Year to everyone! May it be a year of health, prosperity and togetherness.
SOTD Jorum Studio Nectary, the scent that is never wrong. I’m starting to ration the days when I’m willing to drain some of that 15ml bottle, but’s a special occasion to start the year off, after all!
Just polished off a monumental size Caesar salad with homemade dressing and croutons (hot dog buns make THE BEST fresh croutons, it’s practically criminal).
My official pandemic book toll is 75, and a grand total of 90 books read in 2020. Most were fairly fluffy fantasy/sci-fi so not life changing, but still a decent count!
Great idea for croutons — we never use up hotdog or slider buns when we have them, and I never manage to freeze them before they turn green.
My hero! I really want to read more books this year, as well as start tracking my perfume wears.
Love a home made Caesar salad. Thanks for the crouton tip.
Interesting tip for making croutons, thanks!
SOTD is Violet Ambrosia. I find this a very comforting scent, and hope it will bring good luck for 2021.
Later today I will make some black-eyed peas, rice, cabbage, and sausage. The rain is over, and the weather this morning was chilly but clear, mostly sunny, with a beautiful blue sky–my favorite type of winter weather.
Oooh that meal plan – scrumptious!
Team black eyed peas!
I made my BEPs today, too. Most are safely stashed in the freezer for later!
Pretending it’s summer, in Biehl PC01 on one arm and Guerlain Limone Verde on the other. No one I know makes NY resolutions, but I will continue my lackadaisical, semi-resolution of using up samples and possibly decants. Wishing everyone a happy and healthy 2021!
Thunking samples and decants sounds like a good idea to me! Better they get used and enjoyed rather than evaporating or going bad.
Chanel No. 5 parfum, which I opened yesterday. It is beautiful and lighter than I expected, but here’s a nice story: I was dropping off a meal for an elderly friend yesterday afternoon — I wear my mask, keep my distance, and try to be in and out in under five minutes, vs. pre-pandemic, when we would chat for an hour — and she said, “You are wearing a lovely perfume. It is so familiar but I cannot name it.” And then ensued a great but too-short chat about Chanel No. 5 and fragrance in general and her mother’s perfume favorites. So clearly, there is some projection if a 96-year-old can smell it from six+ feet away.
Only down side of No. 5 is that my husband doesn’t seem too excited about it. “Very floral,” he said, which is true but not an enthusiastic response.
May all the NST community find peace and healing in 2021, and many thanks to Robin for keeping it going and keeping it kind.
You smell beautiful- and you are giving such joy to people! Happy New Year!
My boyfriend says the same thing. “Very…floral” is his polite way of saying he doesn’t like it. ?
That’s a wonderful story about your elderly friend, and how wonderful of you to deliver food to her. Happy New Year!
My husband’s negative comment is, « That one is strong! »
Happy new year to everyone! Thank you, Robin and everyone here, for making this such a delightful community.
I’m in Amouage Gold today. Getting it was a stroke of luck — got it for 50% off years ago when Amouage did a bottle change and bought it unsniffed (though recommended to me). Lucky I liked it! 🙂
No resolutions here; I’ve never found making a change around an arbitrary date helpful for me, though I know it can be an impetus for others. I did start working out on my bike a bit more regularly two months ago — I’m 8 weeks into a “Back to Fitness” workout on Zwift that started easy and now is kicking my butt.
Best wishes for a happy and healthier 2021!
I’m impressed with your bike progress and wish you a happy and healthy 2021 right back!
Gold is so beautiful! You smell great.
Happy New Year, everyone! I spritzed before I checked in on the community project for the week, so I didn’t go for luck so much as for the idea of a fresh, elegant, as-yet-uncomplicated blank page — I’m trying out a sample of No. 5 l’Eau today. So far it’s fizzy fizzy fizzy lemons but I’m detecting some spiceness starting to well up towards the surface. My boots are muddy, my sweater is linty, my hair is mussy, but by golly I smell put together!
I’ve been in kitchen-and-garden production mode today and have knocked out a big pot of black-eyed peas for tonight’s good-luck dinner, a Moroccan lamb stew with prunes for upcoming work nights, a big batch of pesto, and a pan of roasted root veggies for making wholesome lunch salads out of. Various seeds and bulbs have been planted and the fruit trees are pruned, and if I can just remember to copper spray the peach and nectarine trees today I figure I’ll have earned another glass of champagne. 🙂
Wishing each and every one of you a new year filled with health, happiness, and peacefulness of heart!
You smell great and so does your kitchen! Happy New Year!
Your busy day of cooking makes me need a nap now!
You just did more in a day than I do in a good week!
Dang, I’ve been hankering for pesto with gnocchi. Searching the Shipt website for pesto now… Home made is far, far better but I’m out of practice.
Happy New Year, everyone!
1) SOTD is Joy (Jean Patou) because of course! Generous sprays! Rose-jasmine goodness, and damn I am gonna miss this when it is gone! This is along with scent of saging the house yesterday.
2) No bubbly last night- a bath, dryer warm pjs, Star Trek Discovery, rooibos tea, mj gummies and bed promptly at 1 am after making sure I survived the year.
3) Will be turning the office back into a bedroom for my friend- and will need to be relocated back downstairs. It’s about half way done; I have to take down the artwork and redo the closet.
Wow, you’ve already gotten started…is your friend due very soon? Or already there?
I need to start the latest season of Discovery soon.
Happy New Year!
1) She is gonna move in on Sunday, so I just hustled New Year’s afternoon and got stuff done. Desk and computer network is now relocated downstairs; artwork down and closet re-arranged, and twin bed, bedstand and lamp is now set up.
2) This season of Discovery is quite a ride, with a central mystery like last season! And a delightful Big Bad!
Dear NST friends, happy new year! I’m wearing Ambre Narguilé, which by some miracle my fiancé also likes. To be quite honest, 2020 wasn’t that bad for me. It took a lot away from me, but gave me things, too. For everyone who had a much harder 2020 (and I know that’s a lot of people, perhaps even most), but also for myself, I hope 2021 goes better.
As usual, I’ve performed some end-of-year perfume analytics. I’ve been doing this for three years, and the trend is that I’ve been wearing my favorites more. In 2018, my most-worn perfume was worn eight times. In 2019, it was 12 times.
In 2020, I wore my most-worn scent 25 times! And that scent is Ginger Piccante (so, thank you hajusuuri!). Mitzah, AG Vétiver, and Histoire d’Orangers tied for second place with 13 wears each.
My most-worn house was Guerlain (makes sense, given the 25 wears of GP), at 33 instances. Dior and l’Artisan Parfumeur come in second with 22 wears each, followed by Hermès at 20.
I was shocked to see how rarely I wore my self-proclaimed favorites: Ambre Narguilé only got six wears, and Mohur only got five! Meanwhile, le Lion, which I’ve finally decided I don’t ever need more of, got 10 wears. And Jour d’Hermès extrait, which got 12 wears last year, and which I loved so much I got an entire bottle of, got only a SINGLE application this year. Same with Camel, though that makes more sense because of its associations with my father’s passing. (No surprise, then, that the day I wore it this year was the anniversary of his death.)
Well, that’s the end of the 2020 perfume summary. Time for me to start a page for 2021. Where did 2020 even go? It felt both infinitely long and very short. Wishing you all a wonderful new year!
Good summary; I should drill down a little, too. I am sure Guerlain was my most worn house.
Nice! Which Guerlain scents do you keep wearing?
Insolence was my COVID shutdown/furlough theme. Edp first, then the flankers, with My Insolence being a lucky E**y find. Nahema was probably my favorite of the year, the modern edp. I also discovered Apres l’Ondee from a wonderful NST swap meet. I did a few wearings of Jardins de Bagatelle, which does not get a lot of love, but I love it. Shalimar Souffle Intense was also high on the most worn list.
love your stats! 😀 if I were to track my usage I can imagine Guerlain (then Hermes) would be my most worn perfumes. I’m wearing Jour today.
Good choice! I have to wear mine more, too. And sounds like we have some overlap in favorite houses 🙂 I would’ve guessed that Hermès would be my most-worn house, if I hadn’t been keeping track.
It’s interesting what you said about finding that you hadn’t worn some best-loved perfumes very often.
I guess a lot of perfumes that we perfumistas adore because they are ecstasy-inducingly fabulous are not actually wearable irl.
One of my favorites, Roja Dove Diaghilev would be a prime example. You’re not going to catch me in polite company with that one!
Hope you have a wonderful New Year, too!
Some wonderful perfumes are just too big to wear around other people. With so much scentphobia these days, I tend to select more restrained scents for work. I also can’t wear a really demanding scent at bedtime, as it can keep me from sleeping. Then there is the problem of a perfume taking too much of my attention away from whatever else I am supposed to be concentrating on.
Well said!
Oh that’s totally true; I know what you mean. Though I wouldn’t put Ambre Narguilé in that category. I suspect I just didn’t wear that one as much because it’s in the back of the cabinet, and I’d find something else nice before I’d get to it.
I always enjoy ambers at first sniff but don’t wear them often, but I’m also easily distracted and support this point.
I am going to track my wears this year so I can do stats too. It seems to me that I hardly wear any of my perfumes and yet I wear something every day. I need some data.
I want the stats but for someone else to do the tallying for me. Any takers? ?
Haha 🙂 Google Sheets does the work for me!
Hmm. Guessing Google Sheets doesn’t autofill with fragrance names. 🙂
I totally know what you mean!!! Hahaha. For me it’s just because I spread my wears out to too many bottles/decants; I suspect it is the same for you, given your vast and wonderful collection 🙂
Ginger Piccante is sooo good. And it smells “healthy” to me for some reason. I drink ginger when I want to feel better
I get that! I read it as “refreshing summer drink,” which makes sense because I often enjoy ginger beer with some lime and either rum or soda water as a pleasant warm season beverage 🙂
Wow! I’m impressed with your record keeping. I’d be very interested to know my stats, but don’t have the discipline to record my SOTD.
As always, impressed by your record keeping!
Woo hoo! I’ve always had good intentions but I end up stopping within the first month or so!
I so love the idea of tracking this. My one question is – do you think the fact that you record it makes any difference to what you select? This would be a question that would endlessly bug me ?
Nah, I’m pretty confident it doesn’t. Only I see the data, and it’s just perfume 🙂 The only way in which it affects my perfume usage is by reminding me to wear it every day; sometimes I forget until I realize I haven’t filled in my spreadsheet!
Again, a Happy New Year to all you fragrant friends, if I failed to comment elsewhere. (2020 lookback: what was that topic last year that got over 1,000 comments…I am blanking…some association game???) We had an almost-ice storm here. But now it has gotten above freezing and stopped raining so I really should go for a walk. SotD is from my Jubilation 25 body cream. At first I thought it was not going to be fragrant enough, but as the day goes on, it softly stays with me. I mentioned yesterday that I was wowed by the presentation box and the jar, almost overwhelmed in fact. 😉
Happy New Year! I don’t remember what the topic was, but we should do it again, lol!
Frangrance notes! List a note and then everyone lists their fave scents with that note. . .
Thanks, MR!! That was fun to see everyone glomming on! Happy New Year, too!!
House twins! You smell wonderful, and the body cream sounds like a great way to wear that scent without taking over a room (I can only wear the tiniest drop of Jubilation and it stays powerful all day).
Happy New Year! I am a fan of the big room-fillers, and I am trying to decide on an Amouage for 2021. Testing Lyric, Jubilation 25 and I have a sample of Opus VIII on the way.
I’ve tried Lyric and Jubilation 25, but not the Opus that you mentioned.
Happy New Year, dear NST friends! I’m wearing Lolita Lempicka. No rabbits here, I never remember, and no resolutions, either, just hopes for a calmer, saner, kinder 2021. This little oasis from the world’s nuttiness has helped me get through a trying twelve months. Thanks to all and especially Robin.
you smell wonderful
Yum, you smell great.
You smell great! I never had that one, but a dear friend did, back in the day. I just picked up a bottle. It’s a great (fairly) cheap thrill. Love that cherry note.
Finally remembered my rabbits this morning. Went to bed before midnight, because I was tired and fireworks were forbidden here. Had a nice walk with the boyfriend and made lentils for financial luck and Spätzle for dinner.
SOTD was L Air de Rien, which is the most of a signature scent, that I have. Even my perfume hating boyfriend thinks it’s not too bad.
Wishing all of you a better and happier new year 2021
You smell great, I love L’Air de Rien too.
Going with something warm and cozy, Indult’s Tihota. Vanilla, straight up. Maybe I am wishing for simplicity this year.
A lucky and happy 2021 to all of you!
And to you Dorsey!
SotD = Jour d’Hermes
Jour smells like happiness to me. 🙂
Wishing everyone
smiles for miles
today and every day.
Hiya!
Hey-o! 😀
House twins!
I only heard a few local fireworks last night–luckily. They had a big city plea to people asking them not to fire guns in the air, which is a Texas way to celebrate the New Year, ugh. I remembered rabbits when I woke up at around 5 p.m. and got up briefly. Slow day today and I’m wearing Amouage Opus VIII because it is deep, potent, and profound; perhaps I can add “protective” to all that as well. Good news from my brother, the nurse called and said Mom was tested again for Covid-19 this week and they just got her result, and this week it’s negative! Thank goodness!
Congratulations on the great news!
That is such good news!
Yay on the negative test!
I’m glad your mom is okay. I’m also glad I didn’t hear any celebration gunfire in my Texas neighborhood last night ?
Whew! What a relief about your mom!
Excellent news about your mom!
Oh, that’s great news about your mom!
A friend texted a shorter, cropped version of this to me exactly at midnight:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HA1A97gPZnM
Here’s hoping 2021 will both *seem* shorter than 2020 because more fun, and, at the same time, in far better ways more memorable.
Amen to that
Loved the video! Thanks for posting the link.
Happy New Year! I hope it doesn’t turn out quite so unexpected as 2020. I had a very lazy 1 January yesterday, and had to force myself out of the house for a short afternoon walk. I put on a dab of Amber Eccentrico from Armani Privé in the morning, and it accompanied me for the whole day. That seems to happen most often with things I don’t really like 🙂
This morning I’m testing Encens Satin from the same range and like it a lot more. I discovered I can buy this in New Zealand, so that has to be a positive sign for the coming year.
Encens Satin is a good one! I like it even better than Bois d’Encens.
Weather predicted for today includes rain, freezing rain, sleet, ice, and snow. Did I forget anything? Oh, yes – sun! But, unfortunately, that’s the only element missing from today’s forecast.
For today’s cp I’m wearing Dame Perfumery Black Flower Mexican Vanilla, mostly because it’s warm and comforting on this yucky day. But as this was Dame’s first fragrance and it appears to have brought success and good luck to Jeffrey’s perfumery, I’ll consider that my good luck charm for the day!
My Happy New Year wish for all includes a heavy dose of hope for the future and a light dose of whimsy to lessen the seriousness of it all. To that end, I’ll leave you with 2 songs from my favorite folk singer that I hope will make you smile:
One to say goodbye soon to life as we’ve known it for most of the year just past:
https://youtu.be/JHru8cGX0GM
And one to offer hope as the new one begins:
https://youtu.be/YwrVcH5NilA
You forgot ice pellets! We get those in Montréal. 🙂
If there is a difference between ice pellets and hail, I don’t even want to know.
Great New Year’s wishes!
Happy New Year.
I don’t have a bunny but I am in Lili again..
Happy New Year Dilana!
Happy New Year everyone. I haven’t been on here for ages… Great you guys are still active.
I’m wearing Christine Nagel’s **Cèdre Sambac** (from the generous sample they offer) and think it will go into my 4 x 15 ml Hermèssences set, a purchase of which I am pondering since the middle of the last decade. The others I chose will be Santal Massoïa, Iris Ukiyoé and … and … still can’t decide!!
Cèdre Sambac for me has the perfect balance of challenging and comforting, and I feel it suits this atmosphere of change and uncertainty.
Agar Ébène is quite nice as well.
Welcome back.
Hello!
While you were pondering I bought 2 or 3 of those sets!
New Years greetings, NST! SOTD Parfum Sacre, which always strikes me as pretty but mournful, so hopefully it doesn’t set the tone for the year! It suits me fine for the day, in any case.
Tomorrow you can come back with something cheerful, for balance!
Yes, perhaps so!
Happy New Year Marjorie Rose!
Thank you, Jalapeno! You too!
Happy New Year All! In Azemour les Orangers because I love citrus this time of year and it perks me up on rainy days.
Resolution is to spritz more and not hold back. I remember someone saying that at the end of her life she only regretted her “economies.” I’m sure she was talking about perfume…
Hi twin! Do you get cumin in this too?
Hi! Not sure about the cumin when I wear it but do I pick it up more from the perfume itself. Do you like the cumin?
No I don’t unfortunately. Les Azemours smells similar to me to Bigarade Concentree but the latter doesn’t have cumin.
Bigarade Concentree is so wonderful.
That is thought-provoking (only regretting the economies). I’m going to incorporate that – within reason – this year!
Ooo! Good one. I just ordered a decant of this to postpone the need for a full bottle.
Not sure I am going to have a resolution for 2021.
Late again today, NST! Happy New Year! There were quite a few ‘pops’ and ‘booms’ in my neighborhood last night, thanks to some amateur pyrotechnicians.
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Brussels sprouts and smoked pork for luck today at lunch.
SOTD = back in Azuree again today, since it smelled SO good yesterday. It warmed up today’s cool/cold, rainy weather.
Happy New Year Jalapeno! Your lunch was fancier than my dinner 😉
Happy New Year everyone! My perfume for good luck is Bloodline by Hans Hendley for the American Perfumer store. I smell like the most perfect bonfire with lots of charred wood, cedar particularly. I chose this one because I was lucky to have been able to buy a bottle. The re-release batch this year was of only 25 bottles, and they sold out within seconds. I used Google Pay, which makes check out so fast and came out successful with bottle 21/25. I had my boyfriend sniff me after I sprayed and he told me I smelled fancy haha. The smoke definitely deepens and intensifies as the perfume wears.
Having a nice, relaxing day while the rain comes down outside. Dinner will be our leftovers from last night, nasi goreng, which is a superb rice dish we get from a Malaysian restaurant down the street. We also had roti babi last night. I swear I could eat that meal every night, it’s that good.
I’ve never had Malaysian food. Would you mind describing it?
Here’s a nasi goreng recipe: https://www.recipetineats.com/nasi-goreng-indonesian-fried-rice/
It’s fried rice cooked with a sweet soy sauce that caramelizes the rice. Also cooked with delicious greens, bean sprouts, green onions, tofu, and a fried runny egg on top. It’s fairly spicy for me, as I have a low tolerance for spicy foods, but it has so much flavor.
Roti babi is egg battered bread stuffed with pork, mushrooms, spices, and Worcestershire with a spicy chili dipping sauce.
Today I’ve been enjoying Cuir de Russie, Le Lion and Les Indemodables Musv des Sables. Ordered a few decants today, including one of Musc des Sables (at a surprisingly reasonable price) to stave off the impulse to buy very expensive FBs. Musc des Sables is definitely on the buy list, though, if/when there’s a discount opportunity.
Managed to rabbit today, my first time ever. Not be a tradition I grew up with! But, heh, can’t hurt.
A lazy and unproductive New Year’s Day for me. Saw some relatives (safely distanced outside) who will be departing tomorrow.
My favorite New Year’s tradition is one shared by a friend (with a Japanese mother), which she described as a Japanese tradition: that you should live New Year’s Day as you want to live the rest of the year. So, you shouldn’t do chores or cleaning on that day, but your house should be clean and tidy. Your wallet should have money in it. And so on. I sadly didn’t achieve these goals today! But I like the idea.
I didn’t grow up with “rabbiting” either. I learned about it here.
So did I!! Someone used to rabbit in the comments here — possibly Mals?
Le Lion is a good one. 😉
I like that Japanese tradition. I try to get things around me in order and do chores at home on or before the 31st, then spend the first day of the new year doing things that I enjoy that are good for me. Mostly exercise and reading this year.
Happy New Year everyone!
I woke up a few times last night and rabbited. I chose 24 Faubourg for my Sotd. It’s my fanciest perfume, and is the opposite of me, so I thought it might bring good luck. Kind of like when George Castanza did the opposite of his instincts and good things happened, lol?, but if I remember correctly, it didn’t work out well for Elaine.
Good luck and health to us all.
Happy New Year lillyjo!
For the record, you are NOTHING like George Costanza!
My day was quiet, as I had hoped it would be. On Monday I’ll get back to running my errands and generally being out and about, if the weather isn’t bad. No scent yet for me for today, but probably something with lavender at bedtime. I wore Demeter Christmas Tree on Christmas Eve and Christmas day. That was rather nice, though of course it doesn’t last long. I’ve experimented with various other fragrances now and then over the past couple of weeks, but haven’t commented here on them, I don’t think.
Oh, I remember — I was experimenting with essential oils diluted into a carrier oil. On the Friday of the “wear something new” week, I did myrrh at bedtime. It would be difficult to get more old-school than that. lol. So that was doing the opposite of the project.
Then I diluted some balsam fir needle essential oil and put some on the artificial wreath on our door, and drops on various other things outside. That was a day when it rained very hard here, so I’m pretty sure that the oil washed off everything but the wreath. I couldn’t really smell the balsam fir oil on the wreath, but my fingers smelled strongly of evergreen for a little while. 😀
The next week after the actual myrrh oil, I put on a couple of dabs of SL La Myrrhe one day, which is much prettier than actual myrrh, at least to wear. lol. One evening I put on Rahat Loukoum (sp?), which for me is a love. I did several sprays of Bois de Vanille one night, but it softened enough to be all right to go to sleep with it on. I’ve completely missed whatever the last couple of weeks’ themes were, but just put on perfume or cologne or oils every so often. 🙂
I had the contrary experience the other day. I got some old Vetiver EO on my fingers and so decided to wear one of my (multiple) Vetiver scents only to realise the Vetiver EO smelled better than all of them ? It was more rounded and more perfectly poised between brightness/clarity and smokey warmth. Guess I should buy some more of the EO. Sure is more affordable!
Truth is though that I get bored…
It wasn’t that I didn’t like the smell of the actual myrrh, but I definitely didn’t feel like it worked for me as a scent to wear when I was trying to go to sleep. *shrugs*
Sometimes essential oils do strike me as nicer than the emulations of it in fine or functional fragrances. 🙂 It depends on the effect I’m looking for.
Here I am, commenting days late, but I did want to wish everyone here a very happy New Year, and share the hope that 2021 will go much better. I did my part to generate good luck by making black-eyed peas and greens for my family on New Year’s Day. I’ve been having fun trying out some scents I got for Christmas, including Jo Malone’s Christmas Cologne sampler and the discovery set for Zara’s Emotions collection, a collaboration with Jo Malone (the person, not the brand). Best wishes to all for a happy, healthy, safe 2021!