It's Hump Day and Banana Split Day. RIP Charlie Watts. (A quick PSA: I am at the beach this week, and so the blog will be even lazier than usual.) What fragrance are you wearing?
I'm commando, again, and not likely to accrue any points at all this week. (If we were giving out points for ice cream intake, though, I'm sure I'd be in the lead.)
Reminder: on 8/27 we're doing People change... wear something you never would have worn in your pre-perfumista days.
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: top image is 20181115 Torrey Pines [cropped] by Steve Harlow at flickr; some rights reserved.
RIP Charlie Watts.?
It’s a beautiful morning here and I was up early and down to my favorite coffee shop to get a Chai. I didn’t watch the news last night or this morning (I have been avoiding it more and more lately) and as I was waiting for my drink I pulled up nst on my phone and saw the news. I instantly felt very overcome with emotions and had to fight to maintain my composure while standing there. I don’t want to be labeled that weirdo who bursts into tears while waiting for her tea. I can’t even really put into words why it hit me, so instead I’ll post a link to my favorite from the Rolling Stones:
https://youtu.be/nVrdXUHvsF0
I’m in Not A Perfume.?
Yes, Charlie Watts and Neil Peart (from Rush) were two of my favorite drummers. Such a sad loss. ?
I still can’t believe Neil is gone…
SaraN – a work colleague and I are both huge Rush fans. He was fortunate to attend Rush’s induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of fame a few years back. I think he’s seen them over 15 times in concert, me, only five.
We were both crying when we heard of Neil’s passing. He was an extraordinary talent.
Yes, so sad.
Young Lillyjo used to ride around the neighborhood on her 10 speed blasting this song on her cassette player. I am crying with you my friend. ?
I knew you would be.? Such a great song. I think part of why the news hit me so hard is that, the Stones were formed before I was born so they have just always *been there* My childhood, my adolescence, my college years, and my adult years, and now…..
Like I said, hard for me to accurately put into words, but hopefully you get me.
I do. ?
Me too, lillyjo, that and Gimmie Shelter were played over and over on my record player.
The Stones…… *sigh*. RIP Mr. Watts. I wonder how this will impact their upcoming tour this fall? And I’ve never seen them in person but I had watched a docu-concert of theirs on PBS and their performance was mesmerizing. To have that kind of chemistry after all these decades and with all the things that they have been thru, both singly and as a group, well that’s the stuff that legends are made of.
From what I understand, they have been playing with a substitute drummer while Charlie was sick. ( I can’t remember his name atm)
I think they will try and go on with the tour.
Yes, YES !! To all of the above! Individual and group challenges and longevity is extraordinary.
Saw them at a Madison Square Garden about 15 years ago and was amazed. I remember watching them as a little kid on American Bandstand or some such show and loving them. My mother disapproved mightily.
I feel like rock stars shouldn’t die. They shouldn’t really even age like the rest of us.
True, very true.
RIP, Mr. Watts. I am more of a folkie/classical music person. I read his biography and was impressed with his family life and seeming sense of avoiding the celebrity lifestyle even though he was in show business.
I love the Rolling Stones. This is a very sad time.
Paint it Black will always be a $&@“$ killer song.
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Not unbearably hot but SO humid, 100%, nothing evaporates and everything is damp. Ugh. Two more days of this and then actual bearable weather, they say. I’m wearing Dior Eau Sauvage, which at least doesn’t weigh me down.
Eau Sauvage is perfect for oppressive weather!
Great pick for heat and humidity!
Banana Split Day sounds good to me! I wonder where I’d get one of those? Probably a diner would still make these.
SOTD: Lys Mediterranee, a lily bomb on me, and hoping it settles down very soon.
Doing 10-12 hr days right and dreaming of Oct. 7 when I can cut back a bit.
Those are long days, I used to work 12 hour shifts and don’t miss them at all! Hang in there!
Come visit, and we will head to Wilson’s. They have banana splits….
https://wilsonsicecream.com/menu/
Whoa! Classic! Booking ticket now ?
If that is only half as good as it looks, I’m adding it to the road trip agenda! We recently got a Culver’s, and I did not think it was anything special. But I always give eateries 2nd and 3rd chances.
I can only testify to the BLT, cherry shake and cherry phosphate. All good. My husband loves Culver’s. I will try again…didn’t impress me. (Although I had their vanilla custard, which was very good.).
Charlie Watts.
Another soundtrack to my and so many other lives.
Gallivant Bukhara today.
Yep.?
In perfume news, any favorites from the Le Labo set?
I saw the Stones last in 67?
Geez.
le labo…mousse de chene very lovely, elegant. but nothing that says take me home tonight.
Vanille 44
Tabac 28
Decision time almost upon me.
SOTM is a dab of Sicilian Leather. It’s beautiful, but I’ve about decided that it’s just over the edge of “too masculine” for me. Just as well, as I do not need another leather scent to lust after. Post shower I might go with Prada L’Eau Ambree since someone here mentioned it recently and I tend to forget I have it.
I tend to forget to wear L’Eau Ambree too, and then when I do put it on, I can’t imagine why I don’t wear it more often. But Infusion d’Iris gets all the attention.
RIP Charlie Watts. ?
My SOTD is Cool Tropic Palm, by Comptoir Sud Pacifique. Light and aquatic, with a Mahogany and Teak base. Allergies are flaring up.
Met up with an old family friend last night for dinner at our favorite local sushi place. It was a lovely visit and so much fun. He is from an old Italian family who lived in Brooklyn back in the day. I loved hearing his stories. At times he would get so carried away, he’d throw in a smattering of Yiddish or Italian.
Sushi bars are so much fun with good friends!
SotD is A la nuit by Serge Lutens
Such an uplifting scent!
It’s been ages since I’ve smelled that one — I’ll have to rustle around and that in the sample drawer!
“….and FIND that in the sample drawer.”
And, you smell great.
I’ve been enjoying VC&A Oud Blanc today.
Off to a training soon.
Hope the training went well Lucasai!
Enjoy the ice cream, Robin! Definitely something to get points for. 🙂
SOTD is Narciso EDP. Sample thunked. I have to say I rather like this one, and it looks like I could get a mini, so…hmm.
Cool and sunny here — starting to feel like fall, especially with all the planning for back to school on both Mr. Ockeghem’s and Little Ockeghem’s parts.
Good news of the day is that apparently someone is going to come and do work in my kitchen today — that hasn’t happened for 2 weeks, since the electrician came in and screwed up a whole bunch of stuff. I’d like to believe that we’ll have most of the appliances installed today…though at this point I would have to see it to believe it.
I love Narciso EDP (White Cube as I like to call it), and yes, those 10 ml travel sprays are perfect. I have one in the Narciso edt.
I just ordered the travel size from Sephora. 🙂 Enabler pin!
Awesome!?
Ooh, hope the kitchen work went well!
Good, because I did accrue more points today 🙂
Hope you have appliances now??
Sadly, no. They are installed, mostly. They just don’t work. More electrician incompetence.
Well drat.
Dryad, which I would have thought was much too fusty in olden times. Now I can appreciate it for the beauty that it is.
Good choice for the CP!
You smell great!
It’s a cool, dreary morning here and I’ll be on an interview panel via Zoom all day for a new manager position we’re hiring for at work. Almost reached for No. 19 for the professionalism that’s in it, but then thought, why? I’m not the one being interviewed! So, I’m in Cumming, for the unprofessionalism that’s in it, and because it’s cuddlesome. I probably always would have loved Cumming, even in my pre-perfumista days, since it’s so far outside of the standard scent-palette of conventional fragrances.
I’m sad that I missed Cumming; it sounds lovely, and seems like such a great human anyway that I’d want to try it. It’s just something that wasn’t on my radar when it came out. Now, of course, it seems that I’m way late to the party, and of course it’s discontinued.
But I love the idea of a bit of unprofessionalism on a full day of Zoom interviews. 🙂
I can send you a sample if you’d like — hit me up at c a l i n d a 4 at the mail that is hot. Also, CB I Hate Perfume’s After Party is a good approximation of the original — a bit less warm and buttery but still very nice and earthy. Apparently one of the original ingredients became unavailable, so he had to reformulate.
Thanks for the offer! I’m in Canada, though, so that always complicates things. If After Party is still very close, I’ll see if I can get one of his small bottles of that. 🙂
SotD = Ashoka. Chose this as I am teaching myself to cook:) I am making a baby bok choy/chili/garlic chicken soup. The easiest possible way too… Just boil and let simmer LOL. Was in a mood for hot spicy soup. Ashoka is somewhat herbal with it’s parsley note and just I enjoy this perfume on my skin while in the kitchen.
Your soup sounds delicious…
Oh thank You!! I made it extra spicy hot ?
Memoir Woman, just because…
You smell fantastic.
Aerin Lauder Lilac Path
This one, like all the Aerin Lauders I’ve tried, was pleasant but very shy on me – how’s your sillage?
Rose de Petra by Stephanie Humbert 777 (odd name for a company, isn’t it?) This is a light, initially tangy sort of rose that glides to incense over time. An appropriate scent for Petra, a place I find fascinating and would love to visit someday, if pestilence and war fade enough to make it safe to travel to that area of the world.
Closer to home, fighting donut cravings with more fresh grapefruit, and watermelon, and the occasional small dose of organic dark chocolate and what not….
Maybe you can make your own air-fried donuts? So far, although I haven’t done much research yet, the main ingredient is still pre-made biscuits. If there are gluten-free biscuits …
My dear, donuts is just shorthand for any carb-rich sweet thing, and I am trying to avoid them all. When I splurge on homemade carbs, I tend to go for my Welsh grandma’s easy peasey shortbread recipe – 1/2 cup excellent butter, salted or not, 1/2 cup brown sugar, or cane sugar, or baker’s very fine sugar, whatever you have on hand, 1 cup almond flour, 1 cup fine unbleached wheat flour, 2 tsp cornstarch or tapioca flour, a splash of almond extract. Keep the butter as cool as possible and still be workable. Mash this all together with your hands until it is mixed, it will still be crumbly, pat it into a 1/2 inch thick round wafer on a sturdy cookie sheet, chill for half an hour in the frig, then bake at 325 for about 25 minutes, until the bottom edge is just starting to brown and the top looks slightly puffy (Your oven may vary – watch it like a hawk, since the almond flour goes from uncooked to burnt in a matter of minutes – remove from oven when you see hints of browning). Let cool a few minutes, slice into little squares with a sharp knife. Butter, sugar, just enough flour to make it stick together. So yum, but so bad. Fabulous still warm with a nice glass of cold milk, or once cooled, with a nice strong cup of tea….Grandma appreciated the simple things in life. But she had Type 2 diabetes and had a horrible stroke, so I am trying to not appreciate some of those simple things so much. 🙂
I thought I was going to participate in Pandemic baking and got all the ingredients. FWIW, I haven’t turned on the oven in years and will probably need to get rid of the pandemic stuff. With this said, the recipe can probably be modified to work on an air fryer. I would skip the butter and the sugar and substitute with apple sauce and some avocado oil.
I just screenshot this recipe. Just so you know. Yum…
Nice description. I have one bottle from 777(name escapes me) and that is a perfect summer citrus.
As I’ve said before, SHL777 sounds like an airliner.
Rose de Petra is lovely nonetheless.
Testing a sample of Gallop to see if I want to keep a bottle I snagged on discount. This is perfectly named because it really does give the impression of buttoned up blue blood who rides horses. Can absolutely imagine this as the perfume of an equestrian who grew up in an english manor house (and now lives in a slightly large one), wears competition style dress every time she rides, and has grooms to take care of her horses and stable (and the muck). To her, riding smells like the smooth leather of her saddle and boots, roses and fresh air from the garden she trots by, and fresh hay in the stable. I was never into horses, but I am an unapologetic anglophile, and I can see wearing this when I want to project an air of composure and confidence, but not necessarily the authority of No.19.
Drinking english breakfast, steeped with some shredded coconut for kicks.
Galop, not Gallop. Ugh.
Hehe, my brain didn’t even catch that.?
My poor brain definitely does not catch spelling errors! 😐
I love your description! And if I hadn’t have already tried Galop and found it didn’t work for me, I would be all over a sample. lol
I’m intrigued by your tea–is the coconut the pre-sweetened kind? Not sweetened at all? Freshly grated? Tea with coconut sounds like a winning combination.
I’m using unsweetened, pre-shredded coconut that was left over from my sister’s macaroon baking experiment. I got the idea from Georgia Tea Co.’s Snowflake tea, which is black tea mixed with shredded coconut and almonds. It is quite tasty.
I am intrigued by the tea but also by your sister’s “macaroon baking experiment.” 😀 I can’t imagine anything close to a macaroon not being delicious, but is there a story there?
? My sis is perpetually trying to make baked desserts “healthier” by doing things like substituting applesauce for eggs, pumpkin purée for butter, yogurt for cream, etc. I will be generous and call her results “mixed.” There is a joke from The Good Place about how humans take something good and make it a little worse so they can have a little more of it, and that about sums it up. In fairness tho, the macaroons had the right look and mouthfeel, they just had almost no sugar. Savory macaroons.
I have had that Snowflake tea, and I can confirm that it is delish!
Yes, now I’m thinking I should try this! Sounds great!
If you decide to let your bottle of Galop go, I’d happily buy it off you! My decant is rapidly dwindling and this one is on my FB list — I just love it.
Thanks for the offer. I’m going to hold on to it. Off 5th has it for a decent discount, so I recommend checking there once your decant is thunked.
Isabella – I would love to sell you my bottle. You can contact me by clicking on my username.
Hey, Torrey Pines, that’s not far from my place in San Diego! So looking forward to my winter down there. Wearing Tonka Imperiale today.
Nice. I love SD..last time I was there..lots of cutey surfers :). I prefer La Jolla(why do I have to have expensive taste? Lol)..and they had a nice perfume shop when I visited last time.
Sadly the perfume shop is long gone.
Torrey Pines is dreamy. Perhaps I knew too many bad boys who lived relatively near there in my 20s? …. Gorgeous though.
Am I remembering correctly that you get to go back to San Diego in September?
Yes!! Sep. 14th. Counting the days.
Yes, and very near where lived when I went to grad school at UCSD.
Wearing L’Interdit…the 2018 version which I didn’t try until this year…I quite like it…sweet and spicy bubblegum floral.
Mmm spicy bubblegum. Sounds good
My eyes landed on my decant of Providence Perfume Co. Tabac Citron, so that’s what I went with today. I think I overdid it on sprays, but hopefully it calms down soon. Thanks again to a lovely NSTer for sharing this with me!
Overdid it? Nonsense! enjoy it.
For me..there is no try..there is only over do or do not when it comes to perfume lol.
Terracotta because it’s humid here, and I’m heading out to one of the state parks for a thing on gardening for pollinators. Which is somewhat amusing since I’ve never gardened. But, I likely will, so keeping pollinators in mind makes sense. I have to return a book to the library that I, unfortunately, didn’t read and can’t renew…. Oh well.
LizzieB,
Our pollinators group has verrry strict rules. I’m so curious what your experience is like since my town’s group is so unfriendly.
Unfortunately, I got up there, and it had been cancelled. Oh well….
SOTD = Slumberhouse Ore
Spicy, smoky, chocolate, amber – woo and I used 8 sprays but I am inside chez moi. We’ll see how it goes when I go out for a walk later, assuming I do!
At some point, I’ll have a photo up on IG as the bottle is just perfectly perfect perfection. Did I say it was perfect? ?
That Slumberous is fabulous!
Oh it is so! I must have pulled it out some time ago and the box was sitting on top of other perfumes and I was like, hmmm, why not? I am simulating the artic inside anyway. Didn’t go walking – too humid and still working.
Slumberhouse bottles are gorgeous.
You smell great! I love Ore.
It’s cool, damp, and overcast here, so I’m in SL Chergui.
https://instagram.com/stories/vantasticviews/2648212180373243618?utm_source=ig_story_item_share&utm_medium=copy_link
RIP Charlie Watts, and all the other greats that have gone before him and the many that will surely follow in their own time.
Hi Deva, you smell great! Rubs to T-rex.
I remember when I was young and my mom heard over the news that Nelson Eddy had died.
She mourned him – loved his records and movies so much. My sister and I didnt fully appreciate what it means. Well, we do after we make the life journey.
Howdy, waving back at ya! ?? I remember being young and not thinking of anything much other that my immediate circle of family/friends/fun. While it seems a bit superficial and shallow now, I’m so happy for those worry free times, because I look back at them with great fondness. I think people equate being young with being selfish, but I think it’s more being innocent of the complexities and tragedies of life. Getting older removes those blinders for sure. Every age has its own gifts and curses, I guess. Hope you are well!
Hmm, this reminds me that I seem to recall enjoying Chergui in hot weather. I should give it a try again.
I considered wearing Chergui today!
Wearing Philosykos today. I think maybe I get CP points for this. I don’t much care for fresh figs, although they are sometimes OK. I hate dried figs (and fig newtons, ugh!) with the passion of a thousand fiery suns. So fig perfume was definitely not an intuitive choice. 🙂
However, I love it, and it’s great in the summer heat.
Nice. I recently unearthed a brand new bottle from way back.
Thank you for the reminder to wear it!
Ha! I love (LOVE) dried figs but am not at all a fan of them fresh, and fig in perfumes is one of those notes that I Do Not Do. ;p
I spent the day in Clean Reserve Skin and am now in Molton Brown Mahina which is citrus and tropical flowers.
SOTD: Hummingbird
Its the blind buy that arrived the other day. I doused myself in it prior to bed last night as a first time try (not recommended). Hummingbird definitely has Bee’s DNA in it and I find it very pretty. I might try layering it with Bee to see what happens.
Chipmunk is coming!
Always been a perfumista. I can safely say I wouldn’t have tried iris fragrances, as an adult. I couldn’t identify the note and read every description as powdery. Friends here taught me a lot this year. Iris/violet=win! I had no idea the frequent pairing and I adore violet.
Have a beautiful day! It can be great!
Wearing the Gris Charnel you split with me, and smelling gorgeous!
Well then, you smell great! I think you’d love Chipmunk. Just saying.
I need to try Hummingbird and Chipmunk!
You really do! They are both gems.
I’m wearing TF Fleur de Chine this morning.
Lovely choice.
Sounds like a better start to your day than the Dapper Crapper you had yesterday
It’s a better-smelling day for sure!
R.I.P Charlie Watts.
I am at work with a splitting headache. Heat index is around 100 today. I put just a tiny bit of Nest Sunkissed Hibiscus on. Amazingly I can still smell it after 8 hours.
Hope the headache will fade.
Ugh for work + headache! I’ve not explored Nest much, but I’ve never found one that turned me off.
Sorry about your headache, what a drag to have both work and a headache.
I hope you are feeling better!!!
Ugh, headaches! Hope you can get rid of it.
The sun is shining, always a good start 🙂
More sample testing today – I’m always looking for the next irresistible thing, but also relieved when I don’t find it. The urge to keep looking continues.
I’m enjoying the Encens Satin. It doesn’t project very far but I enjoy the scent.
A thunk to report – my first in many years – Stash body oil. I have been using it over the last week or so as I work readying my new vegetable garden. I put lots of it on my hair, which I normally don’t do, and on my limbs to see if its cedar and patchouli would keep bugs off: I did not want to evoke jokes about bug spray scents, but why couldn’t something smell wonderful and be practical? It certainly made my hair nice and soft, and I did not get any bites. Post shower, the scent did not linger, even in my hair, which surprised me. No CP points, as I have always like this style of fragrance and patchouli is my life-long love.
Hey, that’s great! Maybe insect repellents will become more attractive.
Unintentionally participating in CdG Kyoto. I got samples of the whole incense series after asking here for recommendations for non-summer summer perfumes. I’ve worn very few incense-forward perfumes and have no point of reference for incense IRL, so it’s a genre that’s totally foreign to me.
Am I enjoying it? I think I might *appreciate* it more than I enjoy wearing it. If it lasted 1 hour it would be perfect. I found the same with Zagorsk when I wore it the other day. Wore me down a bit once I got past the first hour.
If you need an incense that fades away quickly, you want Passage L’Enfer 🙂
After watching and waiting and watching as my neighbour’s clump of daffodils slowly opened and feeling so cheered by their appearance I was a bit glum when less than 24 hours later the family came outside and picked them all! Not a single daffodil left …baha.
Still two amazing things. The first is that I saw a skink – one that has been around for several years by some stones near the washing line – yesterday. It must be spring and warming up. The second is that I managed to walk a few hundred metres down the road to a spot where a large mimosa tree hangs over the pavement. I buried my nose in the flowers and breathed deeply , what a wonderful reward for a walk. I have no muscle strength at the moment, it’s amazing how 3 months of couch lounging can deplete your strength. We’re still in level 4 lockdown so it is almost spooky quiet around here, apart from the birds which are all calling in spring. Wearing SL Couche de Diable. I like it. A bit similar to Bapteme du Feu and Rousse (combined).
Skinks are so amazing. I feel like they’re time travelers from the past, and they’re very desperately trying to tell us to be better stewards.
Aww, that’s such a shame about the daffodils. :-(. Speaking of no muscles, I tried to go for a bike ride today and barely made it 8km, feeling like I was going to collapse at any moment. A far cry from the 100kms I was able to do 5 years ago. So glad you were able to enjoy the mimosa tree! Hopefully you will be able to build your strength back up to walk the dogs, I loved reading the tales of your walks.
Oh no!! I am guilty of often decimating the first batch of daffodils for a vase inside, but now I will always try to leave a couple in case someone else needs to see one.
Tam Dao, slightly smoked wood..that goes ironically with the smoke haze in the area. Lol..I wouldn’t wanna clash I guess..lol.
Ack…
Sampling Eau de Mystique today which started out as spiced fruit and is now being a lovely honey.
Today I’m wearing Pacifico by Snif. Blind buy based on notes and the graphic design (yes, I am that sucker) and it’s just great. So happy about this scent. Before my perfumista days I would have never even considered a blind buy.
Our dog had a face to face encounter with a copperhead today. Thank heavens she wasn’t hurt, but dang, stress levels plus one billion. It’s funny how I got into protective mama mode and would have picked up the snake and tossed it far if I had to. Thank goodness that wasn’t necessary. Still coming down from the adrenaline.
Yikes! The worst I’ve had to encounter so far was a skunk. :-0 Stinky but not lethal. Glad you and pup are okay!
Eek! Thank goodness you had your mama mode kicking.
Oh my goodness!! That is scary… We have two dogs and I don’t know what I would have done… Probably had a heart attack seeing my pooch close to a snake…
Latest Sotd is Lancome Climat from a generous NST Swapper. It’s such a beautiful bottle and fragrance.