It's Tuesday, Ada Lovelace Day and Freethought Day. What fragrance are you wearing?
I'm in Guerlain Vetiver, which would suit Jeeves just fine.
Reminder: 10/15 is Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse's birthday. Wear a perfume for Jeeves OR Wooster. If you have never seen or read anything about Jeeves and Wooster, pick a favorite comic character from any medium, and scent that character.
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.
Oops…tea at the moment is Upton Dikom Estate Assam with a dash of cacao husk and a tiny piece of cinnamon bark.
Today would have been my mothers’ 99th birthday. She lived to be 95. And while I would not have wished her one more day, we had her for a long time and the day is bittersweet.
Armani Bois D’ Encense for another chilly -ish day.
Sending hugs on your mother’s birthday, Apsara. ?
Sending hugs to you on your mother’s Birthday…
More hugs for you apsara.
More hugs here. What a beautiful perfume for this day.
Thank you for the hugs, fragrant friends.
She wore Youth Dew, Shalimar, Arpege, Halston and White Linen.
And, I can remember a bottle of Windsong, too.
Great collection of perfumes! Also, I remember buying my mom a bottle of Windsong for mother’s day when I was little. Hugs, apsara, how nice that you had a long time with her.
95!! A good long life. Wishing you happy memories today ❤
Adding my hugs.
Special thoughts for you on this day, hope happy memories will bring you comfort.
Wishing you well today.
Blessings on your Mom’s birthday.
Sending hugs on this bittersweet day.
Sending hugs and wishes for happy (and maybe even forgotten) memories to provide extra sweetness on this bittersweet day.
Almost a century at this stage. Happy heavenly birthday to your mom!
Warmest thoughts to you and your sister today.
Adding more hugs to the hug pile, and hopes that your day is filled with sweet memories over all else.
Hug pile, so many!
My sister and I remember both our parents well.
Hugs, and sending you well wishes as you remember your Mom.
I’m wearing Paris – Édimbourg, from a decant. I really like it so far. I am not a big Chanel fan, but this one is right up my alley.
You smell great! I love it, also.
I got a couple samples of it recently and agree with Apsara! It’s lovely. You smell great!
I indulged myself recently at STC, and this morning am in tiny spritzes of vintage Diorling EDC. What a gorgeous scent — and it might suit Jeeves as well.
And a hearty shout out to Kanuka for her reading rec over the weekend! I’m well into the Montaigne biography already, after downloading a sample and getting hooked five pages in. Thanks again!
Yep, you smell great!
And ditto to Kanuka, she always has wonderful reading lists.
Lucky you – I smelled it once and have it on the “faint hope” section of my wish list.
Thanks matey! I really enjoyed it too.
Ooh Kanuka, if you like Montaigne, have you read Stefan Zweig’s short study of him? It was the last thing Zweig wrote, possibly unfinished, and is as wonderful (and as poignant) as the rest of his work.
Brilliant. Thank you.
Diorling is so freaking good!
Using up an ancient commercial sample of Ormonde Jayne Isfarkand, which is merely okay, nothing to get excited about, but at least it’s not actively bad.
I probably like it better than you do, but agree it is not necessarily something to get excited about 🙂
Hello everyone. Wearing a bright red jumper today and wanted a bottle (and bright perfume) to match so I am in rhubarbe écarlate. Delightful! And for once, the rhubarb note has lasted well.
Such a great fragrance and bottle!
Nice combination
Have you tried the Aura line for its rhubarb? I think rhubarb is what caught me with Aura. Mugler’s pre-L’Oreal scents are my elephant in the room: I don’t want that kind of perfume when I contemplate my favorite notes, but when I wear Aura (or Alien), I want to take them to my desert island. Go figure.
No I haven’t – thank you for this suggestion!
In IUNX No.2 Eau Sento and having my second cup of coffee. Crazy, busy day at work. I will survive!
Happy Tuesday! ?
You WILL survive!?And then tomorrow is Wednesday/Humpday!?
Thank you for your encouraging words! Almost Friday! ?
You smell fabulous! Hang in there 🙂
Thank you, Allo! ?
For as long as you know how to love, I know you’ll stay alive!
Good one!
So sweet! Thank you, Robin! ?
LOL
Happy Wednesday! You can do it!
Thank you, Kanuka! Happy Wednesday to you too! ?
Morning all, my SOTD is the discontinued Minuit Enchante by Laura Mercier. Very cool morning but I’m headed out to the gym.
I had a great night’s sleep, asleep by 9:30, up at 6:30. I need more nights like this! 😀
Great night of sleep twin!? Have fun at the gym!
As do I 🙁 Lately mine have been asleep at 9:30 up at 4:30
I am in bed at 9pm every night and up at 5am every week day.
Another reason at 68 yo I enjoy my 12 hour sleeps with magic pillow on the weekends.
Ordered a sample of Byredo Mumbai Noise. Too bad for me they are not owned by the house of many fragrances.
I definitely need to get a better sleep schedule in my life! Last night, I spent a few hours reading before bed instead of watching tv, it really helped!
Magic Pillow has been in my shopping cart for weeks. If something could even grant me 9 hours of sleep, I’d fall down on my knees and worship it!
I understand.
If I don’t sleep, nothing works, especially me!
Wow, is Magic Pillow really that good?
I’m in Molton Milk Musk. Dumped the last of my sample on and now it is wafting nicely. I think I need to get the EDP and compare them side by side.
Never sniffed it but milk musk sounds yummy!
It is! It comes in a lotion too, really tempting.
I didn’t get a chance to comment yesterday, congratulations on the new job!
Same here!
From me, too! YAY weekends off! Life changing!
Thanks! I know! ??
Thank you!
Thanks!
I’m in Angelique Noire which is just fantastic, but I’m bundled up in a coat and gloves in my very cold office so it’s not projecting and keeping me cozy the way it should. Surely this means I need to get a decant with a spray instead of this little dabber sample.
Most definitely Yes!
Surely it means you need a warmer office!
Ha?
I thought you just joined us in “the lower 48.” 😀 But now you’re in a “coat and gloves” office -do tell! Is your company saving energy or…”
My office is also the computer room, which has to be kept cool so that they don’t overheat ?
Sampling DSH New Hope which is a bouncy happy spring (as in the season) scent. I may get some next year
Or when she has a 20% off sale in December / January!
Wafting Slow Explosions again. When I’m working in an office I might have to retrain myself not to just sniff my wrists all day when I wear this ?
I wore SE all weekend, you smell great ?
Thank you!
Wearing Clinique Happy again. Between the perfume and lipstick, I reached Diamond status at Ulta. I think I need a meeting.
This here may not be the meeting you are thinking of!
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too funny!
hehehe 🙂
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This.
Despite spending time yesterday refreshing my perfume wardrobe with winter wonders that had been stowed away (and re-watching episodes of the saccharine but satisfying–sort of Little House on the Prairie in the UK–Larkrise to Candleford) I ignored all my more niche winter pickings this AM and went straight for Knowing. I must have some buried happy memory associated with this one, as it always makes me feel happy and nostalgic for goodness knows what.
I watched all of Larkrise to Candleford earlier this year! I so enjoyed the goody-goody escapism, somehow the saccharine didn’t get annoying. But I did find myself yelling at Thomas Brown a few times! ?
Totally goody goody, and an excellent escape. I completely agree ?
I liked Larkwise too…should have saved it for Covid!
Wearing Rogue Perfumery Tuberose and Moss on this chilly Southern California day…
Love that one! I can never decide if I prefer it or Champs Lunaire.
I have a blanket covering me while at my desk. Quite chilly, yes.
I’m wearing Narciso EDP (white cube) today. Back to the grind after a 5-day weekend. Fortunately, no problems getting back across the border in time yesterday, so all in all it was a good trip. I’m still wary of planning something for the holidays, though…so much testing and coordination if we visit family in multiple places. I guess that’s my project for tonight! Happy Tuesday, everyone.
After visiting my family in Canada, my feeling is that they are now obligated to come visit me, which they have agreed to do at Christmas. Fingers crossed that it actually happens.
That seems fair! My family in the States is either older or disorganized, so they rarely came up even before COVID. Now I think it’s probably not going to happen ever. We’ve always been the ones who had to travel.
Could you order a few of the at-home test kits and deploy them as needed to suit your travel schedule? They won’t suffice if you need PCR tests, but if rapid tests are accepted, it could save you some logistical hassles.
Glad to hear that your trip back was uneventful!
I’m trying out Nicolai Poudre de Musc Intense, and I quite like it, but it’s too similar to Musc Intense, which I have one of those cute 30 ml bottles of, for me to want more. I have to be in the mood for them, but sometimes these fluffy musks are just the thing. When I tried JHaG Musc Invisible with a friend, I exclaimed, “Oh, how squishy!” Good for a sweater, a couch, and a book.
Off to the condo for a week so I’m doing last minute chores here. I don’t like coming back to an unordered house. I’m wearing Un Bois Vanille, just perfect on a chilly overcast morning.
It’s always nice to come back to a clean home – almost as if someone else had cleaned for you…
Yes! It’s like I’ve forgotten I did it before I left.
Have a good week. Smellin good. I saw the movie Pig on the weekend and thought of you, NOT because of the pig but because of the Portland setting.
😀
Have a good week off! You are smellin fabby!! I need to dig out my bottle of UBV for a spritz… maybe for bed time.
I’m with you, I like coming home to a clean house, less to worry about.
I often try to do the dishes (if nothing else) before I leave since that will make it much nicer to return to…
Have fun. I do the dishes and change the bed linens but I leave laundry because I will have more to add to it when I come back!
Safe travels, and have fun!
Beautiful fall weather today, went to the west end for a dentist appointment in two discreet sprays of I Profumi di Firenze Agrumi di Sicilia but went all out this evening with Badgley Mischka, my fruit salad perfume in its luxurious silver spray – ims it was £10 for 2x30ml -on one arm, and Insomnia rediscovered during the coffee CP is really more a complex chocolate ? scent, a good thing in my book.
A song for you
https://youtu.be/p3j2NYZ8FKs
Thank you Lilkyjo, so appropriate, such a good song too.
Excuse the typo Lillyjo.
Hope that your dentist appointment went well today! Seems that a lot of NSTers have done that recently…
Thank you Jalapeno, I was overdue for a check-up, thankfully only one minor filling. Yes it seems several of us did the same thing.
In a single spritz of ELO’s Bendelirious, for some discreet exuberance.
Yesterday night I watched the last two episodes of the 2020 Great British Baking Show, and that was very soothing.
I have seen the first two episodes of 2021, and likewise, extremely soothing!!
Tam Dao today. Not feeling calm, so I thought this might help. Contemplating life changes (retirement, moving…) and feeling rather discontented…oh well, this too shall pass…
I hope you find some peace today and your weeksettles
I hope Tam Dao offers you the serenity of walking through a beautiful forest! Those are some big changes to be facing!
Those are big questions to ponder! I know several folks in our dept retired early and had no regrets.
I hope Tam Dao offers you the serenity and peace you need.
I hope you find a peaceful place for your mind soon.
Those are definitely Major Life Changes, so it makes perfect sense to be unsettled by them.
Tested a bit of Elie Saab Essences Gardenia this a.m. on one hand and EL Tuberose & Gardenia on the other. Am about to shower both off. The Elie Saab had that signature honeyed powder that I’ve come to associate with ES, and was nice for a warm, rainy morning.
Forgot all about those ES scents…and never see them mentioned here!
Blimmin cold here again. Winter seems to be hanging on. Yesterday I went down to the harbour entrance to see if I could see any albatrosses on the opposite headland where they nest. I saw one so it must still be a bit early in the season. The white fronted terns were plentiful, though. Also spoonbills, which are wonderful birds…their bills are like spoons (surprise!) and they do a strange figure of eight trawl through the shallows for food. No godwits.
Drinking cocoa in bed with two damp dogs snuggled up. Wearing a beanie on my head and pohadka on my wrist.
https://nzbirdsonline.org.nz/species/royal-spoonbill
For the bird people…you know who you are!
I’ve never seen a spoonbill – hope I do, they look amazing. My beloved and I have been excited to see a shag diving in the harbour on a couple of occasions recently. Shags are also known as cormorants, for some of you overseas folk 🙂
Thank you! Spoonbills are wonderful – I have only seen the Roseate in the Salt Lake City Zoo. I don’t know what a pohadka is – but I am glad your head and your pets and your mug are warm and snuggled! Fall is pushing in here in the Midwestern US, so hopefully your Spring is feeling the pressure. 😉
Pohadka is a perfume by Ys-Uzac.
https://www.fragrantica.com/perfume/Ys-Uzac/Pohadka-13234.html
I was camping over the weekend and heard (although did not see any) woodpeckers!
I’ve seen lots of sculptures of spoonbills, but never one in the flesh.
I love that sound. Not in the same league but I saw lots of Californian quails at the weekend. Beautiful colours
https://nzbirdsonline.org.nz/species/california-quail
They’re so cute in person. I used to see them all the time when I lived in SF.
Oh my gosh that bird!
Spoonbills are a trip to see! I’m in the same boat as MossyBerry… only seen the Roseate type in a zoo.
Your summer is hanging on up here…we are expecting something like 80 for the next 3 days. I need to rethink when I change out my summer and fall clothing, I seem to be doing it too early lately.
Adam Levine for a cold drizzly day. I dont wear it offen, because i am Not a huge fan of sandalwood, but sometimes i like it. of it only had More saffron…
Sounds like a layering opportunity!
In faint leftover wifts of Hiris–I was really knocked out by the Covid booster shot (the first two barely affected me at all)–tired and achy all weekend. Good session this morning at the acupuncturist and then a great check up at the dentist (see you in six months, yeah!). the week is improving……
I see the dentist tomorrow – crossing my fingers for the same result!
Glad to hear that you got your booster shot and are feeling better now.
SOTD is Lubin Akkad. It’s definitely feeling like Fall and I’m eyeing all my ambery bottles and samples!
Tea is cardamom black tea.
Sharing Kanuka’s winter resurgence here, not a nice day. I’ll warm myself with Tobacco Vanille.
I am adding Letter to Commando to my reading list, thanks.
When you get to it, you’ll have to let me know what you think! I’m a slow reader and less than halfway through.
Robin, today’s picture immediately made me think of Jeeves making Bertie’s morning more comfortable after an especially lively (and late) evening at the Drones! SotD Shalimar Souffle Intense – so companionable! Off to read comments – confident that all NST’ers are smelling wonderful!
Ohhh Shalimar SI, what a delight. Think I’ll apply a discreet spritz of that now before bed ?
Although in that case, it is that prairie oyster concoction served on a tray in his bedroom 🙂
Apparently it’s Caligna week here — it goes so perfectly with dry offshore winds, sunny skies, and fragrant leaves going crunch-swish underfoot! I’m taking a group of conservation agency and non-profit reps out into the woods today to check out the pre-work conditions in a portion of my beloved preserve that we’re about to do some fuel reduction work in, so I picked up a big box of various fruit croissants and brioches from the local, wonderful French bakery because it’s not a party out in the woods if you don’t bring treats.
Hooray that you have a French bakery! Our small town had one for about 2 years (minus a few months for COVID rejiggering) and then the chef’s husband finished graduate school and they had to move for his job. But I’ll always have Paris…
My small town has a wonderful French bakery but they’re only open 3 afternoons weekly. I hope they stay around because I’m hooked!
I was thinking the same! I am my own french bakery these days. No croissants or laminated doughs but I did make some insanely delicious chocolate babka au brioche this spring.
My mom worked for a French baker for a while when I was little, when she was in-between jobs, and she went through a wonderful phase of making chocolate croissants at home. Of course, we had to be glad for her when she was able to get back to her ‘real’ career, but there was some mourning…
I love reading about your work/ environment, and perfumes too of course. Have been meaning to re-try Musc Ravageur since your story about it last week!
Hey, if it can tame Cal Fire, it can do anything!
Now I’m craving french pastry….
Do you need an unpaid intern for a week or two? I’m a trained ecologist. (Behavioral, but still…)
By all means! 🙂 We’ll be doing a follow-up visit once the work is done and I’ve promised everyone hot toddies since it’ll likely be during the chilly months.
Both the baked treats and your weather sound wonderful. ?
It was all pretty splendid! The treats were a hit, and we had a great hike.
I’m staying with my mother for a few days while my husband does some quick remodeling on our house. I was in a hurry and just grabbed a travel spray of By the Fireplace to bring along. It smells great but I will definitely be ready for a change by the end of the week.
Such an evocative scent! We don’t have one in my house and I often wish we did. You smell great!
Another gloomy and grey day here. But at least it isn’t raining. Spooky kitty has been especially petulant today, whining about how she isn’t being fed enough (ha! Good one, cat).
SOTD = Atelier Cologne Silver Iris, from the sample stash and Lisa D. Oddly enough, I am finding this to be labdanum heavy, and reminding me of TM’s Womanity. Not really noticing any iris until about 4 hours of wearing it. It’s a good pick for the current weather situation.
You smell wonderful! Silver Iris is one of my favorites!
Thanks Mossy Berry!
The other day you said you think there is an Iris for everyone..
SI is the one for me.
Funny too that I do not like Womanity at all.
I think that my iris is No. 19 EdT.
It’s weird that I find those 2 perfumes similar (Womanity and SI).
Did you ever get that bottle of Nirvana Rose?
I didn’t. I will check back later in the week when I get the chance to go again.
I recently discovered that my bottle of the original version of Givenchy Very Irresistible smells similar to the Nirvana Rose. They are perfume cousins to my sniffer.
Where’s cazaubon? Silver Iris is her wedding scent. I love it too! You smell good!
Thank you! Silver Iris is a great pick for a wedding perfume.
SOTD is BDK Gris Charnel. We never forget our Mothers…mine died fairly young a long while ago, but a day doesn’t go by without me thinking of her.
That is sweet, Filomena.
Oh NST, I missed you over the weekend. I was out camping with a bunch of girl scouts and their families. I am not that much of a camping person, so having all the comforts of civilization (like internet! And a bed! And perfume!) were so great when I got back.
Wearing Fils de Dieu because I needed the comfort on this weird transitional day.
Welcome back to the land of perfume!
Nothing like camping to make you appreciate civilization!
In Ormonde Woman and enjoying the cozy cardamom.
Btw – tried Ormonde Man yesterday and was very pleased that it isn’t “Ozonic” (my new favorite word, thanks to Oakland Fresca, to describe a men’s cologne smell I dislike).
Glad it did not offend 🙂
🙂
Sampling Nicolai’s Vie de Chateau. I find it particularly difficult to identify individual notes in her perfumes, which to me indicates a great creation, but is not helpful for my nose exercises! Hay, some rose, a light touch of honey, but also so much more going on. It is quite pretty. Would love to have this in a linen spray or diffuser. I like the way hay smells but I don’t necessarily want to smell like it myself.
Drinking Earl Grey today.
I love that one! Have not smelled the newer version though.
SOTD = Sonoma Scent Studio Forest Walk
I would normally go to the office today but decided I needed more sleep! It’s been a crazy day! Anyway, this allowed me to pick whatever I wanted to wear and at what dosage so I did my usual 8!
https://www.instagram.com/p/CU8TEEIJmGf/?utm_medium=copy_link
Off to take a quick walk!
Yay for more sleep!
I almost overslept!
Yes to more sleep! Not sure why, but I haven’t been feeling very rested in the morning for the past couple of days.
I have no issues being alert and being “top of game” but it is indeed exhausting.
Escentric 2 today. Our dog is home – yay! Now we just have to figure out how to keep a 3 year old German Shepherd from running or jumping for two weeks…. ?
So happy your dog is back with you! I lived in fear of bloat for years, all my dogs were big and susceptible.
Glad to hear that your furry family member is back home!
Glad your dog is home!
Hooray for your doggie being home!
I’m wearing a tiny spritz of No.5 edp. Just the heck of it.
I went to the local grocery store today with my daughter. We were in the canned aisle when I hear her say “why is there a robot here?” I look and sure enough there is a very tall robot slowly making its way towards us. Another customer said that it takes inventory. My daughter tried to hug it! I got us out of its way. I didn’t like it, I tell you, not one bit!
Awww, hugging the robot is adorable!
LOL! Welcome to our new robot overlords!
I have never seen one of those! I think that might freak me out a little bit.
My local store has had one of those for a couple years now. I have never seen it accomplish anything that seemed necessary (and the explanation at my store is that it is looking for spills & hazards & whatnot). It is just often in my way in the produce section.
Wait, no selfie with the robot? I would have FREAKED out (in a bad way).
Very late posting here. Had a hard day working. After shower was Golden Needle Tea. It is an eau de cologne but performs like a parfum. Like I smell it 6 hours later as if I had just applied it. Loooovely tea & sandalwood.