Happy Almost-Friday, plus happy 90th to Archbishop Desmond Tutu and happy 66th to Yo-Yo Ma. (And don't forget, the freebiemeet is still open!) What fragrance are you wearing?
I'm in Prada L’Eau Ambrée, which very much reminds me of another Robin who was a long time reader here (and before that, a regular on MakeupAlley) before she passed away.
Reminder: 10/8 will be Thinking of You Friday...wear a perfume that reminds you of someone else (a friend? a family member? another NST reader? a celebrity? anyone, really). Adapted from a suggestion by chocolatemarzipan.
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 Mushrooms and Ferns [cropped] by ~jar{} at flickr; some rights reserved.
In Jo Malone Pomegranate Noir. Another fall season favorite scent.
Glad to have encouraging news now in the morning, that my mother has shown significant improvement in the past two days and may be discharged from the hospital during the weekend.
On my second cup of coffee and ready to face my next meeting in a more cheerful mood!
Happy almost Friday! ??
Fantastic news on your mother! Keeping my fingers crossed.
Yay!!!!!
yay for good news. 🙂 hugs to you both!
I am on my second cuppa too! Cheers to caffeine
Cheers! ☕☕
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Great news! ???
Wonderful news!
That’s such great news!
That’s great news!
And here’s hoping she can stay out of the hospital!
Excellent news.
I adore JM’s Pom Noir, it was my trip down the wabbit hole with her line. Such a beautiful pom scent.
Have you tried the Pomegranate perfume oil by Perfectly Scentsable? It’s lovely, similar to JM’s Pomegranate Noir and currently 40% off because it’s being discontinued.
You have created a lemming! Checking the Perfectly Scentsable oil right away! Thanks for the tip!
Go Mom! ??
Yay for good news!
So glad to hear your mom is doing better! And you smell very nice today in PN.
That’s really great news!
Such encouraging news.
Great to hear that good news.
Wonderful news on your mother.
So happy for your wonderful news! Boy, do you deserve this. What a joyful day!
Very happy to hear this, wishing your mother a full recovery and peace to you.
Woo hoo! Great news about your mom!
Thank you all for your kind words! Hope mom continues her recovery smoothly at home!
Looking forward to a more relaxing holiday weekend!
Such awesome news! ???
They are! Thanks!
Glad for your good news, best wishes to your mother!!
Thank you, Jepster!
That’s wonderful news. Hooray!
Thank you, Sistine!
I’m wearing another fragrance worn by my mother, which I never appreciated until I started reading NST. I’m in Aromatics Elixir, and these days I love it.
I didn’t like AE when I first smelled it long ago, then a friend I worked with in my 30s wore it sometimes. I’ve liked it ever since.
I adore AE, such a glorious chypre.
It’s a chypre? I never knew that. I will try it tomorrow, thank you!
One of my favorites, great scent
When I first smelled AE after falling down the rabbit hole it was so familiar to me, but I know not why or when or where I smelled it before. I love it best on me the next day, and anytime when I smell it on others.
SotD = CdG Red Sequoia
Smells like expensive pencil shavings in a really good way. I would wear this all the time if I had a bottle.
A few weeks ago I read a David Sedaris piece, probably in the New Yorker? He shared thoughts about his father’s passing away and some of his memories of family life.
David mentioned his sister, Amy, and how she wears enough perfume to create a cloud that arrives before she does. He said she wears four or five perfumes at once, and smells of flowers and pencil shavings. I wonder how many bottles in her collection and what she wears most often. Her Instagram posts are fun.
Anyway, today I’m thinking of people who are no longer here, and of you fabulous NSTers, and hoping everyone has a wonderful day.
I am so behind with the New Yorker. Do you have the link to this piece ?
We are planning to see David Sedaris at a reading next week!
I wanted to wear some crazy japanesish avant garde outfit, but won’t be able to pull that off. 4 or 5 perfumes I could do, though ?
My husband and I went to the Outer Banks this summer and kept an eye out for him and his house, the Sea Section, everywhere we went – to no avail. No Jim Comey sightings either ?
Oh, I hope he will have a Q& A session afterward! If you could ask him anything, what would you ask?
It would be dangerous for me to go to a live reading. I once almost (I said almost) p – – d in my pants AND missed my train stop while reading Me Talk Pretty One Day.
I don’t know your SotD, but oh yes pencil shavings can be wonderful. Avon used to have a perfume call Persian Wood. I have a cologne bottle shaped like a rocking chair, the cap being a gold cat. 🙂 It smells like flowers and pencil shavings and that Avonaide that I am very fond of.
Red Sequoia sounds cool–I need to try it. I love Hinoki. And pleeeeasee someone from a fragrance blog or outfit needs to interview Amy Sedaris on her scent style!! I love everything she does.
Loved Sequoia, wish I had a bottle too.
Love DS too 🙂
This week’s CP has made me think a lot about my missed loved ones too, separated by geography, or time, or mortality. And lost friendships as well. I hope you have happy memories of all your loved ones today.
I saw a video about Amy’s apartment a while back. At one point there’s a delivery at the door and Amy says (I believe), “Ooh, it’s Le Labo!”
Red Sequoia sounds amazing. And I love Amy Sedaris! You wouldn’t believe how often Jerri Blank comments on something happening in our house. “Creme brule’! Meatball.”
SOTD Rose Prick (to match my mood)
pachouli and a drop of rose
Venting Post (feel free to skip)
A good friend of mine here is moving to SF next month and this weekend she is going away for a 2 week trip. We made plans a week ago to go out for coffee. I messaged her the day before to see if we were still on. She didn’t respond but came over (she is in our apt building) and asked to have coffee at my place instead of going out. So I agreed. Yesterday planning for her to arrive I made us cappuccino, grinding fresh coffee beans. Got her whole milk. Then you know the rest of the story of how that went. I think what upset me more is that I got ditched for grocery shopping. Like the text was a very passive..oh I need to go out and get this and that at Eli’s and I don’t want to keep you waiting with no follow up like-“be 20 min late” or anything. Of course I wrote back, its ok, don’t worry, another time. But today I am still angry. Mr L thinks this is her way of distancing herself because she is moving and we have been close friends for years. Female companionships (and all companionships) are quite complex.
I am so sorry you experienced that, relationships are complex, in recent times even more so. My feelings would be hurt also.
Sending you fragrant hugs. *squish*
Me and Mr. L agree entirely. Figure that she is going through a lot and is at a loss to settle down for a few minutes with an old friend to fill you in. I’d be annoyed and hurt as well, but I’m guessing that she is overwhelmed and just plowing ahead, friends be damned.
That’s sad, I’d be upset too. Sending you fragrant hugs.
I am so sorry. I would be annoyed and upset too xx
I’d be upset too, more so especially because she’s a good friend.
I hate it if people behave like this. Hugs!
Agree w/ your husband…it is a way to distance yourselves/create separation before the true physical separation occurs. It happened to me w/ couple who moved as well years ago…it took me some time to understand why we argued/fell into a weird spot in the friendship but then I realized later what really had happened. Big hugs to you.
Thanks all for the kind words. Relationships are very strange and complex. One could write a whole book about female friendships alone
Ach. This is painful, the more so as she’s a close friend. When the pain lessens a bit, would it help to consider if this is characteristic of her (therefore, has something been revealed about how she values you, which might need adjusting to/ entire friendship gets re-evaluated) or, is this way off for a good friend in a stressful time (therefore, do allowances need to be made)? A very close friend of 20 years’ standing did something peculiar to me last year which hurt so much, and it took me months to deal with, but now I see that it was all in character, which has changed those years of friendship in a way that also hurts…you’re right, there are volumes to write about female friendships. Sending a Shalimar hug.
As someone who’s moved 4 times in 5 years, crisscrossing the country, it seems to me entirely possible that she’s just overwhelmed and stressed out and doesn’t feel like she has time to do anything but deal with the move.
Maybe you can try again and ask if you can bring coffee and pastries to her apartment and hang out while she works on packing, etc., or offer to help her while you’re there?
I’m not quite sure I understand the ’emotional distancing’ theory, although I have to assume this is something people engage in considering the consensus here.
I’d chalk it up to moving stress. (And making a last dash to get favorite nyc food at the grocery store she won’t have access to in CA.)
Just my 2 cents.
I would be PO’ed too!
But I think some other commenters have made good points about the situation. Namely, is this typical behavior, or a one-off? That’s something to consider.
Clearly, she is unaware of how this is impacting you…none of us should take our friendships for granted.
Everyone else has already offered a lot of insight. I’ll offer my commiserations and a hug, because it stinks to be ditched no matter what the motivation.
My $0.10. Whatever real excuse she had is not acceptable; however, did it seem like she was in an emotionally fragile state? If she was, I suggest giving her space and 2-3 months to contact you and if she doesn’t, try contacting her and if no response, maybe it’s best to leave it alone, sadly.
Robin, I love today’s photo! Puts me in the mood for Black March or Wild Hunt, but today I’m in a judicious amount of Musc Ravageur to accompany a meeting-in-the-woods with a couple of professional associates, one of whom I’ve never met but need to forge a strong working relationship with, and the other of whom is crush-worthy and will likely let me ride in his truck and mess with his siren. 🙂 Going for gosh-she-smells-wonderful-but-not-like-she’s-wearing-perfume (which naturally will lead directly to she-might-not-work-for-a-state-agency-but-gosh-she-knows-her-stuff-about-fuel-management-and-we-really-should-respect-her).
This made me smile ? you certainly smell marvelous.
Ran this theory by my son, who gave me a big sniff and said that I “smell like love, and hope-ness, and everything that’s good in the world.” So, I’ve succeeded before I’ve even laced up my boots!
Aww, this is so sweet. What a great start to your day! ?
That is a biased perfume review for sure 🙂 I suspect the merit is not all Musc Ravageur’s
I may need to track down some Musc Ravageur if that’s what it smells like!
MR didn’t work for me, but now I want to give it another shot—just the idea of anyone for one second thinking about me, “she-might-not-work-for-a-state-agency-but-gosh-she-knows-her-stuff-about-fuel-management-and-we-really-should-respect-her” is sending me to my sample stash to look for it.
It doesn’t work for me either but I love it on my husband. Can’t say it makes me think he’s an expert in fuel management but it does make me want to snuggle up and cuddle ?
Well, I’m back from the field, and while no one snuggled me, they did treat me with more warmth and camaraderie than I typically see from this particular agency. Can we blame the perfume?
My main squeeze is five times the expert in fuel management that I’ll ever be and doesn’t wear fragrance, but if he put on MR, I think I’d faint.
I feel a surreptitious spritz in the horizon ?
😀
So glad…this photographer did all the pics this week, including the teapot. Whoever he is, he is good.
Les Parfums de Rosine Eloge du Vert from my sample purgatory bin. I’m not a fan of the opening, which smells like I crushed a green pepper with my bare hands…it’s one of the only vegetables I don’t love so it’s not what I want to smell like. I dunno why it escaped the giveaway bin so that will be its next home.
Have a good day everyone!!
Piment Brulant does a little back-and-forth dance on me, between ‘cocoa with chile’ and ‘hmmm, green bell peppers…’ When it veers towards the latter, I’m not pleased.
I love that one! I like chili but not green pepper haha. I don’t get the fresh-green-pepper from Piment Brulant at all…I don’t think. I’ll have to break out my decant when I get home.
ELdO Like This today — I finally grabbed the right bottle. Heading out for Thanksgiving weekend today…going down to the States, which I’m hoping will be the easy part. (Getting the test to get home on a weekend and getting back into the country before it expires is the hard part.) The land border’s still closed going South (except to US citizens), so I’m assuming there won’t be any lineups. It will be nice to see my family after 18 months.
Good luck with your trip! Ours went smoothly, and driving back into the US was the easiest border crossing ever. I’ve spent more time at red lights. But we crossed at Thousand Islands and I think the traffic there is pretty light in the general case.
The day we headed home, my sister and her kids, plus my mom, were driving to the Toronto area. We ran into each other at a rest stop a few miles from the border LOL. No one had any idea we were traversing the same highway except my sister, who failed to mention this, and was very casual about our chance encounter.
Best of luck – may it all go well for you!
Bon voyage! When my husband crossed from Vancouver he was the only car, aside from the commercial trucks, which were routed a different way. He had no issues.
Have a safe, smooth trip and enjoy the reunion with your family!!!
I still smell of yesterday’s Gris Clair and think I’ll wear it again today, it suits my mood and smells so good!
You do smell wonderful.
Love that Gris Clair!
One of the best scents ever, in my opinion.
Jo Malone English Pear & Freesia is my Sotd and I’m drinking a cup of spearmint tea.
I wore this a lot before I was a perfumista. You smell good
SotD EL Amber Mystique. I like the spicy amber, the fruity rose and I do get whiffs of “band-aide” oud. I have not worn it in a long time, and so far it’s like I am sitting next to someone wearing it; it does not seem to be me that smells so nice. I am going to stick with it today and try to pay more attention. Sometimes these strong perfumes are better understood the next day on clothes or pre-shower. Happy Friday-Eve!
Sometimes, the next day is when I fall in love!
Yes – and hopefully I remember what the perfume was 8/
Band aid is what I get with goud oud (or at least this is what I had been told).
another lovely picture, Robin.
SOTD is St. Rose Gypsy Cowboy. Which BG sent to me in a mailing envelope. Classy.
Repeating comment from above: So glad…this photographer did all the pics this week, including the teapot. Whoever he is, he is good.
When you mean BG you mean Bergdorf?
Yep
Bergdorf
Fragrance in a mailing envelope.
Oh noooo….
I looked for my samples of PoaL or Une Rose today, two of my OTHER sisters’ favorites, but no luck. I chose Perris Monte Carlo Rose d’Taif instead, one of the few roses that doesn’t go flat on me.
Funny, but right now I have POAL and Une Rose side by side on my dressing table…..big event this weekend and one of these beauties will be my “plus one”
Beautiful choices! Enjoy your event!
Ooh, wish I was going to events worthy of those two lovelies!
Hello everyone, still wearing Baccarat Rouge 540 (the stuff really clings to fabric) while sipping some oolong. I think I might wear BR 540 again today since it’s great in cold weather, or maybe some 1957 ??
I adored my sample of BR 540, what a gorgeous scent!
Morning everyone, SOTD is vintage Magie Noire, treated myself to Peet’s coffee out and got a two-mile walk in.
We’re having the plumbing worked on, have to put Smokey on lock down. He’s not a fan of new people.
If I remember right you live in SF…? Magie Noire seems perfect for this very crisp and moody, Halloween weather! ?
Hi Kleestof, we used to live in SF, right by Sutro Baths and the Cliff House at Balboa St. We moved this past Spring to Millbrae. While I love our old neighborhood, it’s warmer and sunnier, I miss SF.
I used to live at the top of Craigmont in the Sunset, where the fog was so thick it’d make my mascara run!
I would arrive to work looking like a raccoon! 😀
I’ll be in Millbrae on the 16th for a few days if you’d like to meet up. 🙂
Hahhhh that’s funny ? being someone of the non-makeup-wearing persuasion, I haven’t thought about moisture in that way. Sometimes just walking from Bart to work on Nob Hill gets me rather humid. I’m in the East Bay, recently moved to Richmond where it seems to be a nice mixture of marine and sunny.
I lived in Lafayette. I would drive home through the tunnel and turn the ac on right away in the car.
Sending perfumed high five for two mile walk!
I miss Peets! I had one down the block from me on Fillmore back when I lived in the Bay Area. Also it was right next to my book stores. A bad combination for my wallet ?
Last evening I “attended” an Instagram Live sniffing event, and today I have all the blotters from that lined up on my desk, since the samples were sent to me in advance of the event. It smells wonderful in here! Alas, most of them are too expensive for me to purchase, even with a $40 off coupon. Nishane Unutamam was the only one I really did not like, to me it smells like burning rubber.
Which are your favorites?
The ten we tested were L’Air du Desert Marocain which I love and already own, Arbole(Hiram Green) which I also love and already own, Parfums de Marly Akaster which I really liked, Goldfield and Banks Velvet Splendour, Ormonde Jayne Nawab of Oudh which i was surprised that I liked, despite the fact that I didn’t smell much oudh, Olfactive Studio Chypre Shot which I thought was kind of meh, Very Cherry Rose Chocolate Patchouli from Meleg which I could never wear because I would be craving chocolate all day, B683 Extrait which was amazing, Gallivant Tokyo which was lovely but not my favourite and the aforementioned Unutamam. I guess my favourites were the ones I own and Akaster or B683. I wouldn’t toss back most any of them except the Unutamam.
I love events like that! Who hosted this one?
A store in Montreal named Etiket.
Still noticeably wafting Bengale Rouge from yesterday before work. I’m just a whole lotta YUM-YUM!
Very overcast, cooler temps and we’ve gotten some rain the past day or so. Today, I’m noticing some serious changing of the leaves. Great sleeping weather, which I plan to do ASAP.
Happy Thursday, Perfume People!
I’ve been wanting to try this for a while. I enjoyed samples of Salome and Dryad, just to try, but they are probably not the kind of thing I’d wear regularly. I’m a cat person, though… ?
I imagine you are up now. Hope it was a good sleep.
Well, I did it again. In a frenzy of goodness knows what, I bought a bottle blind. It was very inexpensive, from a Canadian purveyor, and just one ounce, which wasn’t all that much more than a decant. It is ELDO’s Roland Mouret Une Amourette, and I love it. Sadly, either it fades very quickly, or I go anosmic–but it has very little staying power. On me it is iris and a dry-opposite-of-headshop patchouli, with a warm buzz of neroli and vanilla in the background. It is not sweet. Elegant. However, opinions are all over the place about it.
Oh wow, that sounds nice!
Never smelled this, but sounds good
It’s annoying when that happens! I have a few perfumes do that on me. I may love them but poof!.. they disappear. Or I cannot smell them at all but for a few vague notes. The last one this happened was Anamcara, just after spraying I smelled from up close and I couldn’t smell the notes properly, just a vague orange. But on subsequent tries this changed and now I can smell it. Very odd!
Cheers to your new bottle
I have that bottle! I can smell it quite clearly. Maybe you’re anosmic to part of it, or it makes you go nose-blind?
I suspect it is the latter, but I wonder why. I really like the perfume.
I have a sample of that and love it. It lasts for hours on me.
It must be my dumb nose!
This morning I’m in my first wearing of Armani Cuir Amethyste, bequeathed to me by the lovely and generous Lillyjo. It felt familiar from the start, reminding me vaguely of two or three other scents … and now that Robin mentions L’Eau Ambree, I’m thinking that Cuir Amethyste could be the love child of that particular Prada and BV Eau Legere, with Le Dix and Jolie Madame acting as fairy godmothers. I gather from some review sleuthing that men perceive Cuir Amethyste quite differently than women do, and that at one time Portia was (and maybe still is) completely smitten with it (hi Portia!). I will wait for a few hours of further development on my own skin before opining further, but so far I’m very grateful to whoever or whatever it was that caused Lillyjo to remove it from her rotation and think of me as adoptive owner (thanks again, Lillyjo!).
You are welcome!
Fwiw, I found it to be different in cold weather.
Spent time in Happy this morning and now in no 19. Had to throw out my mini of Happy since it went off but have a full bottle that I will really have to start to drain the bottle. I kind of forgot how fast Happy goes bad.
Love no. 19!
Cheapo coconut lime spray from Kohl’s clearance lol 1.69 a bottle
You put de lime in de coconut? That would be good@1.69 a bottle! I’d sniff it all up!
Hee hee.
Speziali Fiorentini Profumo Papavero e Fico (Fig and Poppy) thanks to the inspiration of an NSTer (I wish I remembered who!). I really enjoy this fragrance every time I wear it.
Fig and poppy sound interesting!
It’s a bright and cheerful combo 🙂
Agent Provocateur, but I don’t know who else wears this. But I like it in cool weather. Finally got on my bike this week, because the weather got better and biked to work. The way back it was really sunny and beautiful with all the turning leaves.
I love AP in cool weather, and it makes me think of Katie Puckrick, who once called it a “slutty rose.” 🙂
That’s a good description, lol
I’m with Isabella in enjoying AP when the weather cools down.
I am in B&BW Japanese Cherry blossom lotion + like 5 sprays of Bond no.9 Chinatown. Both of these remind me of… Me!! I first smelled them on me, tried them for myself for the first time, continue to love them for all those years.
B&BW JC is just a good scent! You guys are making a lemming for Chinatown, too. But I am influenced by the dear Non-Blonde, who had *issues* with Bond. I have overlooked that house ever since reading her thoughts. :{
BK Angels Share sample today for a quick COVID test and lots of work now. It’s very pretty. But too much $$$.
Sephora is going to be carrying Angel’s Share in a limited edition bottle for the holidays.
Same price though, so I am not being helpful. Just passing along info.
Thanks. Anything is possible, but doubt I can justify that one!
I couldn’t tell what’s special about it ??♀️.
The fall/winter sale is coming up in early November.
I’ve been house hunting, house buying, and now moving and haven’t had bandwidth to wear perfume for weeks now. Today I finally unpacked enough to wear a sample of Santal Noble from Maitre Parfeumer et Gantier, which I got from the wonderful store Fumerie, in Portland. It’s spicy and delicious right out of the gate. Perfect for this unusually cool fall weather in the bay area.
Ooo nice one. And happy new house and unpacking!
Thank you! ?
Wow, that’s a lot. I hope the new house is fabulous!
Cloudy and cool here so I’m wearing Box of Eels. Thinking about rearranging the furniture in the den. Just thinking for now, but it’s been in the same configuration for seven years and it’s probably time for a change.
Similar weather for me, you smell great.
Big thanks to such kind and warm comments. I bawled my eyes out, again, reading all the uplifting words of comfort.
My appointment yesterday was hard, but I was met with love. I can’t complain about that since I haven’t seen the same IRL.
I’m on a medication that is older and I forget the word, but interacts with the vaccines. There have been no legitimate studies in the US on my condition, but the studies out of Europe and India are frightening.
Their was one incredibly sloppy study done in the US. It was done with people of all ages, varying degrees of the condition, whether it was active or not. They did not include whether people were male, female, or identified as a different gender. No race, no pre-existing health conditions. My condition has not been under control. I get high fevers with it, there was no word about that.
Angry at the US for never giving a rat’s heiny about neurology.
Angry at people who think I am selfish for not getting the shot.
Angry at people who that tell me I am going to die if I get it.
Now, I am planning. I’ll end up getting it. To people please. Like. I said, I have to get my affairs in order. Hoping I can do that quickly. Even if I end up just having my disorder f’d up more, people need to be aware of their bully tactics.
Just updating, I shouldn’t be asking for consolation.
Thanks for the love.
I’m so sorry you are going through this. Really nobody should judge others for getting the vaccine or not, that is entirely your personal decision. Vaccines are beneficial at a population level but on some individual cases this may not be so. The only ones opining there should be you and your doctors. Sending you hugs xx
Thank you, Cicely. I do feel good for those who are excited to get the vaccine and keep my mouth shut, if they don’t. I don’t know their medical conditions.
I completely agree with these comments. You are completely within your rights to refuse. May all go well for you whatever you decide.
Thanks, Cazaubon. Your heart is big.?
Perfume is Snow Fairy. Buying a back up. Even though.
Sending great big hugs! I have not tried Snow Fairy but it looks good. I wonder about the bottle format as it reminds me of Windex. 😉 Does it spray easily/nicely like a regular bottle? Seems like it might come out heavier than a mist…
Are you referring to the body sprays? They spray quite nicely.
Will take the hugs, thanks. The sprays are great and easy. I think you’d love Snow Fairy, it is like cotton candy goodness. I spray all over and my bedroom smells like it all day.
Sending consolation. For what it is worth, my vaccine choice was a “people pleaser” too; but it worked out fine (Pfizer.) Continue thoughts and prayers for your safe journey through this.
Thank you, MossyBerry. I really appreciate the prayers and thoughts.
Biggest hugs to you. People can be absolute butts when they assume they know everyone’s circumstances.
Sistine, you just made my night! I wish I could send that message to everyone I’m dealing with.
No one should force you to do what you and your doctor feel may put you in more danger. The pressure in on everywhere.
Thanks, hajusuuri, I thought people understood that. I just can’t believe how hurtful people can be. Thank goodness, at least, I can still research myself.
And it stinks that I am not alone. I really wish I was.
You are so kind.
Today I wore French Kiss, as it’s getting colder. Sweet raspberry violet rose. It’s comforting, like a perfume hug ?
Raspberry and violet – that sounds wonderful.
It is! I wonder how Rose Cherie compares, which seems to be the revamped version.
You smell wonderful!
Thanks cazaubon!
I got a sample of Arquiste Anima Dulcis from a friend and I’m wearing it today.
I didn’t know this stuff is so nice! I know that I tried it years ago but it didn’t impress me as much as it did right now.
Same here! I tried it years back, it didn’t grab me, but tried it a few more times and last year I bought a FB.
Anima Dulcis is gorgeous, love it.
Agree. It was like at first sniff
I had a decant which unfortunately leaked.
Friday here already – these weeks are flying by. I’ve chosen Jovoy’s Remember Me, it makes me think of my brother (for convoluted reasons – I don’t think he wore anything scented in his life.)
Convoluted reasons are perfectly good reasons, especially for a CP.
I am burning a Bath & Body Works candle…Summer Boardwalk…quite pungent…supposed to be popcorn, apple toffee and salty/sweet cream maybe…suffice to say it’s sweet with vanilla detected. 😉
No perfume as I am doing the Beautyhabit Durga sniffalong later today…no affiliation…don’t think I’ve actually tried anything from Durga before either…
I’ll be there, too! I wasn’t shy with my perfume application today …
Yay!…my hero!???
Oh how fun, I like DS & Durga, looking forward to a report from you and hajusuuri!
No impressed today. I liked D.S. and Jazmin Yucatan and the rest were not memorable (I Don’t Know What, Rose Atlantic, Grapefruit Generation and Radio Bombay).
I’ll be at the Durga sniff along too! Got a jump start on it with Rose Atlantic today, but I think I’m anosmic to this one. 🙁
I can’t smell that one very much, but my husband thinks it’s amazing. He asked me to buy it.
I haven’t, because I can’t smell it. Is that terribly selfish?
No, unless he’s going to wear it ?
Lush Orange Blossom tonight.
Oh, I have been curious about this one! I only smelt it it once and I was completely saturated from smelling another ten lushes before! How are you liking it? I remember it being super potent, a bit like Lust.
Hi Cicely, I’ve loved it for years, discovered it when it was in the black bottles. It’s a sweet and orangey orange blossom.
That one is actually on my side of The Pond now.
Good news that you have access to it, It’s worth sampling, I’ve loved it for years and just got a BUB.
Hello everyone. Currently wearing a couple of sample sprays, should have paid more attention…two of the recent-ish Guerlain AA’s, maybe the neroli and the orange one, or something else entirely? Blah. One has vanished and one has lingered, something that goes on bright, stays bright, and goes nowhere (not even towards white musk). Hmm. I began the day in Paris-Edimbourg though, which reminds me of the Lancôme Aroma Tonic I wore by the gallon 20 years ago during a summer spent working in Rome. Dolce vita indeed!
I wore the orange aroma tonic. Best orange ever imo.
Oh I loved that one too! And there was a third one, a blue “nuit” tonic maybe, lavender I presume? I don’t remember it clearly but clearly I had them all ?
SOTD = Puredistance White
Mmmm good – sandalwood, rose, tonka and iris.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CUvJJMwr4xQ/?utm_medium=copy_link
I am getting credit for the CP because Puredistance reminds me of my scent twins Undina and Lucas!
And, the comment in a few places about using a banana for scale confounded me because bananas come in all shapes and sizes. For fun, I used a paperclip for scale (they’re not standard either as I found out).
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I don’t recall testing Predistance White, the notrs sound good. Those owls are teeny tiny!
They are indeed cute. I’ll include a sample.
I just pulled out my sample of White that you had given me earlier this week! What a cool coincidence!
That is cool!
Lol! At the sneaky owls.
Puredistance always makes me think of Petunia.
It was time to bring them out again! I see Petunia on IG.
Oh Puredistance White is lovely. Maybe I will wear that and think of you tomorrow.
I’m flattered ☺️
Wearing my sample of Anna Pliska for the first time. It’s super pretty on paper (literally, when I spray a test strip) but straight up Double Bubble gum on my skin. Also very intense, and I only dabbed the tiniest bit on. Sad – I didn’t expect this to be a scrubber for me!
Yikes. There’s always tomorrow!
How interesting! That one used to be such a huge cult favorite.
I don’t know this perfume, but Double Bubble is kind of a cult favorite. I remember when BubbleYum came out (I searched and that was 1973) and so many kids thought it was better: softer, sweeter. But I still preferred the often hard squares of slightly medicinal DB!
Is it weird I chose my flavored water based on my body spray scent? Lol..it’s a tropical theme all around. Coconut pineapple water, coconut lime spray. They pair well lol.
Nah, not weird in my book. I often choose my tea on whether it will enhance my SOTD. 🙂
Thanks to a lovely NST swapper I’m wearing McQueen parfum. Very pretty scent!
McQueen is very pretty indeed!
SOTD is D.S. Durga Rose Atlantic. My second time wearing it this week from a sample and I just cannot smell it. It is such a weird sensation! Not being able to pick up on one or two notes is not unusual for me, but I went full hajusuuri-level-sprays on this and I get nothing. I’m sad because rose + salt + linden blossoms is right up my alley. Mr. Vee ventured into the office today, so I can’t even force him to sniff to confirm whether I am anosmic to this or if it is just a super weak frag.
Drinking chocolate puer, so at least my tea smells yummy.
I’ve experienced that “can’t smell a thing” with a perfume. It IS weird! I could feel that something was there on my wrist, but not a single waft registered with my nose.
I get that with BR540. Totally anosmic. On me Rose Atlantic is light but it is definitely there.
That happened to me one day with vintage Obsession (which was very weird as it’s such a powerhouse and I’d basically drenched myself in it trying to smell… something) but never happened again. So maybe there’s still hope!
I have some chocolate puerh that also has coffee beans in it. A delicious wintry treat!
That sounds tasty. I add shredded coconut to mine every now and then for an ersatz Mounds Bar tea.
See my comment above. Rose Atlantic is exactly the same for me.
Ha! Saw you on the beautyhabit event! That’s too bad that you can’t smell Rose Atlantic. I was not very impressed with this set. The only 2 I liked remotely were Jazmin Yucatan and D.S.
Ha! Me and my messy home office. I just got a new camera and the angle on this one so much wider than my old one that I have no where to hide my piles of papers!
I like D.S. Durga perfumes, but not necessarily the ones that came in this set. You know I love forest frags, and they have several good ones.
I like Radio Bombay, Freetrapper, Rose Atlantic, and White Peacock Lily, of the ones I tried. Need to try my Jazmin Yucatan sample.
Some very welcome peeks of sun this afternoon, but not enough to make me or the cats happy. Ah well… at least another load of laundry is done.
SOTD = more Aedes de Venustas EdP. I’ve got a couple of things in mind for tomorrow’s CP.
I’m living the laundry nightmare now. I plan on tackling it tonight. It’s hard when doing bed linens though because I don’t want to overload the washer.
Ugh, sorry to hear that! But I know that you will cut your Mount Laundry down to size in a lot less time than it took me.
It actually turned out nice in these here parts and I even got in a walk. It was 77F when I walked out, had to come back because I got a text from a dear co-worker (need to pray for her), went back out and did 2.5 miles.
Spent the day in test sprays of Dusita Sillage Blanc. Those bitter greens were really a treat. I’d tested PdE Corsica Furiosa late this summer and loved the bitter green opening, and was heartbroken when it gave way to something akin to Muguet Porcelain, which has never been a favorite. It’s been (relatively) cool and muggy here today, which has made me wonder what the Dusita is like in other weather conditions.
Le Sillage Blanc is such an amazing sharp galbanum! I like it too but it’s almost a bit too green on me, I want a bit of a softer contrast after a while. But I can totally see the appeal, and I keep trying it from time to time.
SOTD is just a spritz of Hermes Hiris–wanted something classic and cool for this unusually warm day. Got a Covid booster shot today and so far so good on little to no reaction….we will see what tomorrow brings…..if I remember correctly, after the last shot I was tired and achy the next day. Just glad to keep up and try my best to take care.
Hope you continue to feel fine.
Good luck with booster side effects!
Good luck! I take it your family get-together went well?
I barely wore perfume today. Just a tiny spritz of Arianna Grande Thank you Next.
I stopped at TJ Maxx and spotted Nirvana Rose for $17 dollars. I grabbed it, went to the line and saw it was 2200 miles long! Well after 9 hours of work, I just didn’t have it in me to wait. I put it back in a semi- hidden spot and if I have time tomorrow on my day odd I will go back.
I hope that you get the bottle after all!
I hope so too. It makes me think of you!
You did it just like my nephew did. We went to a $5 and below. I promised him that I will get him one thing and of course he found several and he had a hard time deciding. So he finally selected one, hid the one he liked second in the general vicinity of where he found the item and put way way back – his reasoning was my dad will bring him to the store and buy him one thing. Smart kid and smart lillyjo!
??? love this
Hope you find your stashed perfume when you go back! 🙂
Escentric 2 today. It makes me think of my mother-in-law and my husband’s favorite cousin, because I bought it at Barney’s when we were in Scottsdale for his cousin’s wedding. Love this scent.
RIP Barneys. Great associations!