It's William Shakespeare Friday! (Also, the World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought.) Our community project for today: wear a fragrance that matches a favorite line from a Shakespeare sonnet or play, or do something else creative with the theme. Thanks go to allo for the suggestion!
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'm in Parfum d'Empire Azemour Les Orangers for the scene in Much Ado About Nothing in which Beatrice says that Count Claudio is “...is neither sad, nor sick, nor merry, nor well; but civil // count, civil as an orange, and something of that jealous complexion” (the pun refers to the bitter Seville orange).
Reminder: on 6/24 we'll celebrate Midsummer 2022. (The solstice is on the 21st, but traditional Midsummer, in some countries, anyway, will be celebrated on the 24th.) Wear what you'd wear to dance around a Maypole or light a bonfire on the beach, or whatever you think fits.
And for those of you who like to plan ahead, see Scent of the day ~ Friday community projects 2022, where I'll try (but obviously sometimes fail) to always have the next five or six weeks mapped out in advance.
Note: shown at top is a promotional image from Kenneth Branagh's 1993 movie version of Much Ado About Nothing.
SOTD is Box of Eels. It’s been a while since I’ve worn this and it’s just as lovely as I remember.
The nurse who was an hour late to relieve me yesterday was up all night because some dude tried to break into her apartment after she refused to let him in because he had “a work order to fix the toilet.” She said when she refused, he started putting in codes on her front door lock and she saw he had gloves on (the medical kind- latex or nitrile). She called the police and told him she was on the phone with the PD and he kept trying to get in. Long story short, after that was over, she left and went and stayed in a hotel for the night because they didn’t catch him. I told her she should have called off after all that for pity’s sake. Talk about needing a mental health day..!
Holy Cow. That would be enough to make me move apartments.
She is. She’s at a hotel until she can find a new apartment. She picked this (very expensive) place because it was a “very safe area.” 🤷🏻♀️
Good lord! How scary. Hope you got some sleep after all. You smell great today!
This is so unfair to you unless it’s in your contract and get double time and a half.
I hope she’s okay though because my mind had a vision of a serial killer.
2nd all of this.
That’s terrifying. I’m glad she’s ok!
What a nightmare! I’m glad she is safe. A few months ago another tenant in my Mom’s building had some kind of mental health event and started trying to break into her apartment at one in the morning. She called the cops but they never showed up so she grabbed a pipe wrench, threw open the door, bellowed “GO!” at him and chased him back into his apartment. This is just who she is and none of us have ever been able to make her stop.
I hope your coworker finds a new place soon.
Good for your mom! (And yes, I totally get that having a parent who responded in this way would cause a LOT of anxiety in you.)
Wow, that’s incredible! Not everyone has that in them. (I doubt I do.)
Your mother is a brave soul!
Oh dear. I can imagine she’d want to move. I’ve never wanted one of those Ring doorbells, but I can see where they’d be helpful in a situation like this…at least you’d get the guy on video.
Yikes. What a scary story. Glad she’s okay. And you smell beautiful, by the way.
What a horrific story! Glad she escaped harm.
Yikes!
That is so messed up.
Last night for my event I changed my mind and wore Coco. I felt more elegant and festive in that one. I am still smelling Coco on me this morning , so I think that will be my SOTD.
Coco is so good, agree it’s very elegant.
It’s so beautiful.
I felt that I had better manners with this perfume. Also 31 RC makes me feel this way too
31RC makes me feel elegantly rebellious.
YESSSSS
Better manners? Hmmmm… Wonder if a little spritz would work on the general public? Subway riders? Drivers? 😉
🤣
I need to wear this in front of my mil.
Classy choice! Love Coco.
I love the way Coco smells during the long drydown!
Me too!
You looked gorgeous in your red dress!
Thank you 🙏
SOTD is Le Labo Rose 31
“The rose looks fair, but fairer we deem it
For that sweet odor, which doth in it live”
Sonnet 54
Nice pairing!🌹
Beautiful!
Two lovely picks!
So I’m probably the odd person out here, but I wasn’t much of a Shakespeare fan. I do remember reading Romeo and Juliet in high school and liking it, but I doubt I’ve read anything since then. My loose interpretation of this cp is to match the color of my juice to the beautiful pink dress Gwyneth wore to the oscars in ‘99 when she won for her role in Shakespeare in Love. I’m in Prada Un Chant d’ Amour. The dress was by Ralph Lauren and I wish I had some vintage Lauren on hand because I would have worn that.
It’s another gorgeous day here! The kind of day we midwesterners live for. Well I do anyway. Even though it’s my day off, I set my alarm to get up early and make the most of it. My son and I were already downtown to get breakfast on the capitol square.🌞
Happy Friday!
We are ” I only read Romeo and Juliet” twins!
I was up at 5:30 and it was already getting light out. I thought oh no! Only a few more days before it starts going the other way! Let’s enjoy it!
Have a great day🌞
What light thru yonder window broke! 🙂
Ahhhh nooooo why did you say that??? 🙁 🙁 I had forgotten the turning point was just a few day away!
Sorry!
Yes, enjoy it, this weather is perfect!🌞
Midwest triplet, loving the weather and only read Romeo and Juliet.
👍🌞🌻
🙌🌞😎
I am jealous you weren’t forced to read Julius Caesar. I might like it now, but I found it absolute torture in school.
🤣
Hmm…maybe I did and found it absolute torture too and have blocked it from my memory.😂
Oh gosh. Nobody should be forced to read that before college.
Oooooof. I don’t remember having to deal with that one.
Only Romeo and Juliet quadruplet! And thanks for the vintage Lauren idea! That will be my sotd, and I will add a few extra sprays for you.
Have a wonderful Friday!
Oh perfect Gail! It really would have been on point for me, as it was my signature scent in HS when I read Shakespeare.
I started reading Shakespeare when I was ten. My oldest brother was living in Germany, and had left a footlocker with stuff that he had in college, including the best annotated Shakespeare anthology I have ever seen. The annotations were so clear, and helped me to understand the language. Unfortunately, he took it back when he came home from Germany and I have never found another copy. In any case, I’ve been a lover of Shakespeare since then. So, today I’m in Myrrhe Eglantine, for the many references to eglantine in the plays.
I have the Riverside Shakespeare, and it does have text notes and useful essays introducing each play but it is not fully annotated — that would be nice to have.
You smell fantastic!
Do you remember the name of that edition? Maybe I could help you find it – my neighbor has his own book business.
“The fairest flowers o’ the season are our carnations and streak’d gillyvors”. The Winter’s Tale, act IV, scene 4.
I mean, gillyvors *are* carnations, as far as I know: French “girofle” means “clove”, and carnations smell like cloves, because they’re both loaded with eugenol, and so English speakers as they will do turned “girofle” into “gillyvor”, why not (and then, for obvious reasons, “gillyflower”.) “Carnation” probably comes from Latin “carnationem”, “fleshiness” (the same “carn-” as in “carnal” and “carne asada”), because the original carnations were pinkish-skin coloured.
Anyway! Enough with the etymology lesson! I’m wearing the carnationiest thing ever, Comme des Garçons Carnation, from the Red series, and boy howdy is it ever — shockingly red in tooth and claw. Some days I want the relatively composed carnations of Old Spice or Guerlain Terracotta Voile d’Ete, but some days I want this kind of violence.
Does it last long on you? I love the smell and have a bottle. If I wore it often and top up, I may already have thunked it.
The red-hot spiciness at the beginning doesn’t last even a half hour before it settles down into a rosy glow — fire into embers — but the scent overall is reasonably durable on my skin: it’s good for half a day at least. It’s not classically constructed, that’s for sure: it’s very front-loaded. But I love it so much! That first jolt is so shocking.
I think stocks and wallflowers are known as gillyvors
Carnation is very underrated. Although, I could hit people super hard with hajusuuri levels of spritzes.
Thanks for the etymology lesson 🙂 I haven’t smelled that one, but I bet you smell wonderful!
Good morning.
From A Midsummer Nights Dream: So we grew together, like to a double cherry, seeming parted, but yet an union in partition, two lovely berries moulded on one stem.
Sotd is TF Lost Cherry.
Perfect!
Great choice!
What an amazing quote!
Exquisite!
Lovely pairing
Perfection.
I have been loving all these beautiful quotations this week that I’ve completely forgotten since my high school Shakespeare-reading days.
Wow, I hadn’t even heard this one before!
Wearing Tom Ford White Patchouli on the basis that Gwyneth Paltrow was in Shakespeare in Love, and Tom Ford dresses her frequently. It’s the best I can do.
You smell amazing again!
And it is fine! Points for any creative use of the theme.
Points !
Nice. White Patch is a gem.
It really is! I need to wear it, felt like the bottle is almost empty.
Wearing Jubilation 25 for Lady Macbeth’s line “all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand”. Some Shakespeare scholars interpret this line as being a reference to frankincense and myrrh, and there’s myrrh in J25. It certainly does smell ancient, and beautiful.
Oh, nicely done.
Perfect
I decided to wear Chanel 31 RC after LTSG mentioned it. You can never go wrong with this. I believe it is probably my favorite scent, but I don’t wear it often as I don’t want my bottle to ever run out. A little spendy, but so worth it 💕
I alternate between saving precious scents and thinking “use it or lose it”.
I waffle, too.
Still can’t picture you purchasing, Robin.
If I never buy another bottle, it won’t matter…my collection is so ridiculously large!
You smell elegant ⭐️
“The sweetest nut hath sourest rind,” from As You Like It. So I am wearing Chipmunk, a very nice nut without any sourness. Also it’s day 7 of being sick with whatever non-Covid thing I have. I am getting better but it’s taking a while.
Hopefully you will feel much better by day 8!
Hope you feel much better soon
Wishing your covid yuck to just go away.
Chipmunk is delightful.
Hope you get better soon!
Hopefully you will start feeling better soon!
I’m wearing Heretic’s Dirty Violet, to pair with Ophelia’s flower speech from Hamlet:
I would give you some violets, but they wither’d all when my father died. They say he made a good end.
It’s one of the few scenes from Shakespeare that I remember with any detail.
Perfect!
I chose Chanel 19 for Iris, the goddess of the rainbow who comes to the betrothal masque in The Tempest. We haven’t had rainbows here lately, but we most certainly have had rain! But I chose Iris only because I love iris in perfumery; the tie-in to rain is handy but coincidental.
Handy but coincidental works just fine for any cp 🙂
#19 is glorious! Probably my favorite Chanel.
Me, too…..I love so many of them, but go back to #19 every time.
No. 19 smells wonderful in the rain! And when it snows. And on bright sunny days. Etc, etc, etc.
Bulgari Black today, more inspired by the witches in Macbeth (my daughter loves the “double, double toil & trouble” line), but there’s also “Stars, hide your fires; let not light see my black and deep desires.”
Fortunately my kid’s done Shakespeare in Theatre Club twice now (Twelfth Night, Macbeth), so she was game to go see the Macbeth movie when it came out. (Then she tried to argue for “The Northman” because she likes Iceland. That was a no go.)
I can’t wait to see Macbeth…
I am wearing Carnal Flower. The weather is so unpredictable, sometimes it feels like summer and then back to fall again ! I had to cancel the literary picnic I was organizing tomorrow because they are announcing a cold and rainy day !!
Oh drat, that’s too bad! Hope you can reschedule.
From Romeo and Juliet:
Away with the joint-stools, remove the court-cupboard, look to the plate.
Good thou, save me a piece of marchpane; and, as thou lovest me,
let the porter let in Susan Grindstone and Nell.
Jasmins Marzipane (marchpane) it is then!
I should read Shakespeare again. I read plays in HS simply because I liked the language. We saw Glenda Jackson play Lear on Broadway a few years ago. She was wonderful, but the play itself was meh. Overstaged in a way that intruded and irritated. We also saw Ralph Fiennes do Hamlet. I liked it, but my husband didn’t care for the portrayal (he studied a fair amount of Shakespeare histories in college.)
I think one of the reasons I liked the modern staging of a Much Ado was I found the language very easy to understand and follow.
Jasmine and marzipan are two of my favorite things to sniff. 🙂 You smell wonderful.
Ooooh, Glenda Jackson, I would have loved to see that. The last theater production (of Shakespeare) I attended (long ago) was King Lear with F. Murray Abraham. He was completely unhinged, got lots of applause. I was almost frightened by his increasingly crazed appearance then complete lack of clothing in the end.
It took no time at all to accept her as Lear. She was biting and acerbic. The production itself was not good. Unfortunate…a wasted opportunity. I bet F. Murray was great. (I have a soft spot for him…our former upstairs neighbor was/is a close friend of his.)
SOTD = Prada Infusion d’Iris Absolue
Another golden child for sure. On theme if I count the iris in Shakespeare’s garden and if I misspell Absolue to Absolute 🤣.
https://www.instagram.com/p/Ce6XE3kuTFP/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
I’ve been to the Globe Theater in London but only as a tour-guide led educational session.
In other news, I stopped by the nearest Starbucks to my house yesterday to see if I can redeem my star rewards since I’ve accumulated a good number. No go, which was the same answer a week ago! I then called Starbucks to ask if that particular store is not participating – they were supposed to. What I got out of the call was an escalation to the store manager AND $10 added to my balance. I wasn’t looking for the $10 but that’s a nice bonus for lodging a complaint. I’m glad I asked for a copy of a receipt as the store number I was given was missing a digit. What would you do?
I would redeem all my points at once and never go back… at least until there was a turnover in employee/management. It probably won’t take long.
I’ve been using them when I purchase something over $5 (although not always). I stop by the one on my way to the office everytime I’m in the office. This was going to be an indulgence at the end of a week.
I have decided not to accumulate too many stats because I lost a ton in 2020 / 2021 even though Starbucks extended the expiration.
I usually let mine add up then cash in for a pound of coffee……
Smelling absolutely stunning! That’s a beautiful iris for sure. 🙂
Sounds like that Starbucks is trying to lose your business.
Complain more!
How does the Prada rank in your Iris collection?
I’m wearing Bois de Paradis which I thought of as perhaps how Caliban might smell there on Prospero’s Island—or maybe his mother.
Perhaps it’s tenuous, but I don’t need much of an excuse to wear this fabulous scent!
You smell absolutely beautiful!
You smell amazing!
I can’t really reference Shakespeare without sounding ignorant. I went with Poison for well.. the Poison lol.
It’s vintage and it’s spectacular!
Do I get points for that reference? 🤣 I Crack me up!
Happy Friday!
I think poison features in Shakespeare so good call!
LOL!
Triple points if you wear the Poision by the ear a la Hamlet
Romeo drinks poison after he hears that Juliet has died, and doesn’t get the message that she is only in a deep sleep. Then Juliet stabs herself to death with Romeo’s dagger after she wakes up and sees in dead.
Stupid Autocorrect fail! “… sees he IS dead.”
Not the brightest bulb, that Romeo.
In his defense, Romeo was exiled from Verona at the time Juliet hatched her plan. And the Friar’s note did not reach Romeo in time.
I blame the Friar. Why didn’t he just stay by the crypt and give R the deets about the plan when R got there?
Moral of the story: Never send timely mail on a donkey.
😂
Totally forgot it was Shakespeare day and sprayed on Scents of Wood Cypress in Oak. Maybe I’ll spray on some Rose Prick later, that sounds Shakespearean. 😉
Here’s one for you from Twelfth Night:
“Come away, come away, death,
And in sad cypress let me be laid;
Fly away, fly away breath;
I am slain by a fair cruel maid.”
Not exactly a pick-me-up, but hey, you can’t have everything. 😃
Thanks!
Nice!
Happy Friday, Fairest NSTers!
I’m in L’Artisan Ofresia for A Midsummer Night’s Dream
I played Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons in our high school production and was none too happy that the guy who played Theseus (my husband to be who had won me in a battle and with whom I shared zero chemistry) was directed to move toward me and start to kiss me at the end of my lines (below). Meanwhile, my best friend played Hermia. Her cue to enter was my line “…strange and admirable” but she loved to torture me by delaying her entrance.
“But all the story of the night told over,
And all their minds transfigured so together,
More witnesseth than fancy’s images,
And grows to something of great constancy,
But howsoever strange and admirable.”
Act 5, Scene 1
Is that L’Artisan or Diptyque? I only know Diptyque Ofresia, which is lovely.
You’re right, it’s Diptyque. I must have been in the middle of a Theseus flashback!
I love this memory! Ahhhh high school days.
so funny! thank you for sharing.
Shakespeare’s drama takes me right back to high school drama. 😉
You smell beautiful!
I enjoyed your Lady Macbeth quote earlier in the week. However, it seems that “Out, damn’d spot! out I say!” has been my laundry mantra far too often. 😉
When I first heard that line and didn’t know the context, I thought she was shooing a dog named Spot 🙂
🤣🤣🤣!
Hot Mints,lavender savory. Marjoram, the marigold that goes to bed w’th th’
Sun and with him rises weeping. These are flowers of middle summer and I think they are given to men of middle age.
From A Winters Tale
Wearing Geranium For. Monsieur
Lovely! 🙂 Shakespeare’s seasons and flowers, such a beautiful use of language and imagery.
Another Romeo. I didn’t even remember that was Shakespeare and can’t remember whether I actually read it (cliff notes) or not.
But…Taylor Swift. “Love Story” has R&J in it and my love story includes Goutal’s Hadrien.😍
In other news. Instagram had a privacy policy change that popped up for me a few weeks ago. It is set to start July 1st, where they have access to all of your contacts and their information. I’m sure I must be mistaken, but can anyone clarify?
Happy Friday!
Oh no, I haven’t seen that. If true, that will be the end of me using Instagram. I have nothing to hide but that exceeds data use standards.
Me too!
Oh I love that song so much!
I’m in DSH Muresque and using Robin’s painting from yesterday (Millais – Ophelia) for my link to Shakespeare. My first thought when I saw it yesterday was Muresque for its blackberry brambly greenness!
Today is get-er-done Friday — I have a long list. Back later to read everyone’s posts. Happy weekend, all!
Blackberry is a perfect match for that Millais – so dark and so green all at once. 🙂
You smell brambly good!
Happy Friday!!
Having a superlong weekend as yesterday was Youth Day(public holiday) in South Africa.
Smelling delightful in Olfactive Studio Flashback.Probably more suited to Spring weather,but I enjoy the tart crispness of it.
It’s been a cold week!South Africans are not Winter people,let me tell you…haha!
XO’s
Stay warm
The older I get the less I enjoy cold weather. Last night I dreamed I was living in a tropical climate. I was so happy. 🙂 Take good care, JB!
Happy weekend to you!
sotd = L’heure Bleue EdT
This is the only perfume I have bottles of both EdT and EdP. They were cheap as chips years ago. I couldn’t resist, love them both. I’m a florals fan on Team Guerlain for sure. 🙂
Shakespeare so often speaks of flowers. These are my favorite lines from Love’s Labour’s Lost.
Spring –
When daisies pied, and violets blue,
And lady-smocks all silver-white,
And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue
Do paint the meadows with delight
My Literature teacher suggested that “cuckoo-buds” may be a mistake made in early copies of the play. “Crocus-buds” makes more sense for Spring, while the cuckoo bird is referenced later in the same passage.
Have a fantastically fragrant Friday, dear NST friends.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00393277708587668
This suggests that cuckoo buds could be buttercups, because yellow.
Interesting!
Has anyone else seen Julie Taymor’s version of Titus Andronicus, with Anthony Hopkins in the starring role? It’s creative and excessive and mind-boggling. I had not known the play at all before seeing the movie. It’s just extraordinarily violent. There’s a famous scene involving meat pies. I won’t go into it here. I played around with the thought of finding a perfume for it but, no, just could not go there.
I have memories of the feast scene, the pie and the neck . Enough to make you vegetarian.
Urgh. I have seen it, and it is a well-made film, with some excellent performances, but I had to teach students both the film and the play on an Eng Lit course for a relentless few years (I was young and in a very insecure employment situation so I never complained about anything…the college students did but I couldn’t) so I know it far too well. I used to discuss the early scenes in class and always avoided the rest of it, to the point where I had forgotten a lot (wilfully repressing those memories now!). Shudder.
Ewwwwwwwwwww. I’d heard rumors about the content of Titus Andronicus and pretty much figured on skipping it entirely.
I have seen it, and wish I had not. I’ve also seen a stage performance (at the wonderful Shakespeare Theatre of NJ), which I found much easier to, ahem, digest. With the film, you see graphic, realistic details up close, whereas a staged play gives you more physical separation; for me that separation, and the less graphic depiction, made it easier to deal with the horrifying aspects of the plot. The film gave me nightmares.
Hahaha! I saw the trailer and avoided the movie.
Well, I was going to go with yesterday’s scent again, vintage YSL Paris (for the rose in R&J, plus the eponymous character,) but it’s just not a Paris day. Very warm and threatening thunderstorms. So, I’ve decided on SL de Profundis. I love this fragrance, and it does not make me sad at all! I get beautiful chrysanthemum, Violet, and green notes. Love at first sniff. Although it didn’t register for me at all, I guess a lot of people get some dirt in there.
And how do I get CP points for this? By tying it in with one of my most-loved quotes, from Macbeth, of all places. Malcom speaks:
“Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.”
But it’s the weekend, so don’t let that make you sad! Have a good one, all!
Wise words and devastatingly beautiful fragrance.
Wonderful quote. Thanks!
Your description makes this SL sound beautiful! I’ve added it to my list of perfumes to try this summer, thank you.
What a cool theme! And as it happens, last night I was rewatching an episode from the first season of Barry, where Sally does the Macbeth speech and I was struck by the last words of it – “Sound and fury / signifying nothing”, and how they matched my mood. However, this morning my mood has shifted and it’s a very hot and humid day, so the scents I would select for the sound and fury theme are not fitting any more. I decided instead to go for double points, with Fair Verona by Strange Invisible Perfumes. Company named after a quote from Shakespeare ‘s Antony & Cleopatra, and a perfume named after a quote from Romeo and Juliet. This phrase, “in fair Verona”, opens a description of a beautiful Italian city that quickly delves into high drama, and the whole thing matches the perfume perfectly. I sprayed it on earlier today and I am now enjoying the rich, resinous, languid and somewhat unsettling drydown right now.
Well-played!
I second that!
Ha, I commented below without reading this, and we basically said the same thing but you said it more eloquently. I think we smelled great today! It made me think I should wear Fair Verona more often.
Each month I have a personal fragrance theme that usually reflects what’s growing/blooming or happening outside my window. For June it’s ‘roses, peonies, and strawberries.’ So for this week’s cp, it was an easy choice to go with ‘A 🌹 by any other name would smell as sweet.’ The ‘sweet’ is accented with a bit of spice and the delightful lemon of Pacifica’s Persian Rose. Really enjoying this one today!
Like many of you earlier this week, we were in the designated Tornado Warning zone, so we took ourselves (and 3 cats, each in their own carrier) down to the basement for an hour and, fortunately, escaped nothing worse than some heavy rain. The cats, who are not allowed in the basement, curled up peacefully and went to sleep the entire time, not a peep out of them. It was very strange!
Continuing this week on the concert bandwagon: Last Saturday’s banjo concert was so much more than that! Max Allard, who’s just 20 and completed his first year at Oberlin as a composition major, uses his piano expertise to bring a new contemporary, classical dimension to the banjo; it’s not just bluegrass anymore! He is phenomenal! Any Journey fans out there? Last night’s Rockin’ in the Park featured an Atlanta GA tribute band, Departure, and I swear Journey itself couldn’t have done it better – awesome! Tonight is the first of our own community concerts featuring a local country band Ginger Road and bbq, and then tomorrow night it’s my favorite cellist/musician/composer Ian Maksin, who’s finally returned to his home base in Chicago after approximately 30+ concerts nationwide on his Cello for Peace tour to help raise funds to assist Ukraine charities. I can’t wait!❤️🎶. If you can see of these talented musicians, I guarantee you will not be disappointed.
Wishing everyone a wonderful weekend ahead!
Pacifica’s Persian Rose is a beauty! At least they haven’t discontinued that one (yet).
And it is rather amazing that your cats were so mellow during their tornado evacuation!
Thank you for the concert run down, all of that sounds so fun!
Love comforteth like sunshine after rain,
But Lust’s effect is tempest after sun;
Love’s gentle spring doth always fresh remain,
Lust’s winter comes ere summer half be done;
Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies;
Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.
Venus and Adonis 799-804, Adonis
Wearing Fils de Joie ( prostitute) which is more of a love than a lust
Bravo!
Beautiful!
Excellent choice.
Hello everyone! Boy am I glad it is Friday evening here, glad glad glad. This week was harder than I had expected. But my roses were beautiful, and thank you all again for the inspiration on here for a rose week. And Donatella is smiling at me: not only did I bag a bottle of Etro Manrose at 20% off earlier this week (it’s today’s rose) but I went back to the same department store today and found Etro Udaipur for £19. Yes, 100mls for £19 rather than £120! It’s a lovely jasmine that reminds me of my Guerlain AA Jasminora – clear and beautiful. For UK residents, you might find some good things in the Fenwick sale online or in-store – Atelier Cologne also on massive mark-down in my local store as they are no longer stocking the brand (yes I have a new little bottle of AC Jasmin Angelique as well, how did you guess?). Good wishes to you all. Off to read the comments from yesterday and today and I will recite whatever Shakespeare lines come to mind once I have poured myself a stiff drink!
Congrats on your great buys! Etro is a nice line; I’ve always liked them. Jasmin Angelique is such a pretty one, too.
It is very pretty isn’t it? I had tried it a few times already, as I have 10mls of FM Angelique sous la pluie so another angelica was appealing. Very pleased with today’s bargains!
And so you should be.
Very nice deals on those Etros! 🤑
Thank you! Yes it is such a pleasant and wearable line, the Etro. I’m sorry it’s being withdrawn from my local store but on the other hand, I now own all my favourites!
Lucky break for you! It’s almost impossible to find Etro even at the discounters for me.
What fantastic buys! And hope by now you’ve had a nice cocktail 🙂
I read a few Shakespeare plays at school and university, including Macbeth. I always think of the speech that starts with “To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow…”. Very dark, and I don’t think I want a perfume that lights the way to dusty death!
My clothes still smell of Rouge Sarây, from Atelier des Ors, and I’m off to vacuum the floors, a different kind of dust 🙂
Those words revolve in my mind very often, along with “returning were as tedious as go o’er”. I learned that play by heart when I was 15 (at the peak of my learning powers!). Odd how what you’re given to read in your youth sets you up for later years…
“Our revels are now ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits, and
Are melted into air, into thin air….” The Tempest
Sounds like perfume to me. However, at the time The Tempest was written, discoveries about the New World we the talk of Elizabethan England. Bermuda is sometimes mentioned as a possible inspiration for Prospero’s island.
SOTD = Smell Bent St. Tropez Dispenser Gold EdT. Why not smell like a beach to match said island?
Scoop from the garage sale?
And why not? Islandy sounds fun.
It’s from a travel size/sample I got before the Garage Sale. But I am waiting for a FB from said sale.
Woo-hoo for the new bottle!!
I feel this way about most perfumes (into thin air, thin skin, thin something)
A fie on poor sillage, projection and longevity!
You smell beachy great, by the way 🙂
Thanks!
This one is quietly purring along on my skin, which is perfect for today’s hot & sticky weather. Anything bigger could be potentially headache inducing.
And I missed yet another typo. “were the talk”, not we the talk!
I don’t know how that smells but I scooped up buy 3 get one free in the sale just today…although I have not received true confirmation yet …
It’s got what I consider a lovely jasmine top note, so you might want to give St. Tropez Dispenser and St. Tropez Dispenser Gold a pass. IIRC, you aren’t a fan of BWFs.
How well you know me! I selected Scorch, s-e-x and the Patchouli and asked for a 2nd Patchouli for the freebie.
I, um, may have picked up a bottle of s-e-x earlier this week too. Kinda went hog wild there.
Love your parallel there! I have never been to Bermuda, in spite of it being so close. Would love to see it some day.
Thank you!
Sadly, I am also part of the “never been to Bermuda” club.
Eau d’éte for the opening lines of the Bard’s most famous sonnet.
Also it was the only perfume I brought where I could think of a link with Shakespeare.
On a side note, my bottle if this brilliant fragrance us all but empty, in a few sprays I will have actually finished a bottle of perfume.
I remember watching Much Ado about Nothing just after it came out. I practically drooled all the way through 😉
I still watch it every so often if I need cheering — such a happy movie.
Nice match, and congrats on your upcoming perfume thunk!
Ha! I also loved that version of Much ado about nothing and have watched it multiple times. All the actors were great, but particularly Emma Thompson and Kenneth Branagh.
I wore Chanel 22 today- it always makes me feel elegant and love the incense dry down at the end of the day. Coming in here now and reading on the CP, I have reached for my Hera sample. It has magical forest associations, maybe because of it coming in a packaging of beautiful golden leaves. So thinking of Midsummer’s night dream, and that in turn makes me think of one my favourite movies, Dead Poet’s Society.
And I have not seen Dead Poet’s Society in ages, I should watch it again this summer.
Done lot’s of Shakespeare (acted/directed/produced) seen even more (Broadway/Stratford–Canada & England)….so I went with a sonnet instead…classic…Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day…
Particularly given today’s weather: “…Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, and summer’s lease hath all too short a date….”
I hope it’s a short date, I am not a big fan of this summer heat–so I went to my happy place, the French sea side with Fragonard’s Riviera Riviera. I smell like lemon and mimosa and air!!
The muggies sure were out in force today, weren’t they?
I keep reminding myself that at least I am not in the Desert Southwest and broiling! 🔥🔥🔥
Damn, it was toasty today, and windy…crazy
You smell lovely!
I remember going to Stratford with my high school Thespian society. Such fun times! And the plays were fantastic.
I loved the shows, but the best times were after…pub crawling with the cast!!
Summer’s lease will surely be extended as long as you’re wafting lemon and mimosa!
I so love a good lemony smell….
I’m in Caswell-Massey’s Elixir of Love for the love potion in a Mid-Summer Night’s Dream. I have always assumed that the name came before the notes with this one, and I like that they went with a lavender/herbal approach rather than a rose or heady white floral approach. It worked well for me today because it is hot out.
The 1996 Romeo + Juliet will forever be my favorite film version (I was 16, the exact right age for me and all my friends to obsess over both the movie and the soundtrack), but I can’t actually *recommend* it. However, the recent National Theater version with Jessie Buckley is delightful and I absolutely recommend that one.
Drinking Clippership’s Cinnamon Ceylon today.
The Franco Zeffirelli version is the only one I have seen. Kind of racy, if my memory serves.
So late like usual lately when I have been posting. But, I participated most of the week by wearing Strange Invisible Perfumes. The brand’s name is taken directly from Antony and Cleopatra and includes the quote on the boxes (the boxes of the old packaging anyway): “From the barge, a strange invisible perfume hits the sense of the adjacent wharfs.”
So today I went with their Fair Verona, based on this opening passage and the setting of Verona in general in Romeo and Juliet:
Two households, both alike in dignity
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life
Whose misadventured piteous overthrows
Do with their death bury their parents’ strife.
Still reading although thr following day! Great pairing!
Parfait de Roses for “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet”
Nice pairing!