Monday again! It’s also Free Slurpee from 7-Eleven day and World Population Day (that would be almost 8 billion). Birthdays: James Abbott McNeill Whistler, EB White, Jhumpa Lahiri. What fragrance are you wearing?
I'm starting off my shopping list with Blackbird Y06-S.
Reminder: 7/15 will be FBW Friday...wear a full-bottle-worthy perfume that you have not yet bought, but would like to. (This is probably a repeat.)
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: top image is Blackbirds [cropped] by Kevin Dooley at flickr; some rights reserved.
I’m in Eau des Merveilles.
It’s Monday, and it’s overcast, so it has me feeling in a bit of a slump. This too shall pass. Will try and get out for a lunch time walk, which should help.
I had a pretty nice weekend with a good balance of getting stuff done and relaxing. Plus the weather was perfect. We started getting my daughters stuff together for camp yesterday. She leaves in 2 weeks and is getting so excited! The packing list is pretty long so I don’t want to leave it til the last minute.
You smell great, and do hope the walk kills the slump!
Thanks Robin!
Sorry for the sadness.
Hope it passes through and sunshine falls on you quickly enough.
Thanks AnniePerfumes! I went for a walk at lunch and it started to sprinkle just as I was done, then, the sun came out!🌞
Ooo you smell great – and the two weeks will be here and gone before you know it. And she will have so many adventures to tell you about afterwards!
Thanks! She will! I hope she has the best time.☺️
Another Monday. Ho-hum. I’ll be wearing Vanilla Lavender later on today.
It *feels* like a Monday too.
Wearing Imaginary Authors A Whiff of Waffle Cone, I’m really enjoying my sample. We had perfect weather all weekend and I got so much done! I love being domestic with all the windows open and the music on, then having a cold beer on the patio.
Glad you like A Whiff of Waffle Cone. I ended up getting a FB as it is really reasonably priced.
Yay for perfume, music and beer! 🎶🍺
Yes!!
Components of a perfect weekend!
Ciao a tutti (hello everyone)
I am in an Italian state of mind after watching F1 racing yesterday and my heart throb for Ferrari won. We are a big F1 watching family.
I think I will participate in the CP all week since I dream of Full Bottles of almost all the samples I have 🙂
SOTD is Iris Torrefie
Also fits well with the book I am reading, Madam Bovary.
Also, I forgot to mention today one of my girlfriends is letting me watch The Gilded Age on HBO. I don’t have a subscription to this show and I have been told by many people I would love it..
Also started Peaky Blinders-and I am addicted
Hope you like The Gilded Age!
We both watched the first episode and were both smitten
🙂
Hey, fellow F1 fan here!
My heart broke for Sainz yesterday. And my husband is a huge Checo fan, so he was quite upset right from the get go. I’m happy for you that your heart throb finally won, it was a great race!
My kids love Red Bull (they are 7 and 6) and know the names of all the drivers.
I think Sainz and LeClerc are great drivers and excellent poster boys for Ferrari 😉
When the car kept rolling on Sainz everyone was shouting at the TV-get him out! As if they could hear us in Austria …
My brother and I were huge F1 fans back in the late 70s. I went to an exhibition of F1 cars a few years back, amazing!
I recorded the race…will have to go back and watch. I too like the Ferrari drivers, but I admit to cheering for Verstappen and Red Bull.
You would fit right In with my kids 🙂
Sorry if I spoiled the race for you
Oh not at all!
You smell wonderful. And I must read Madame Bovary again, though I fear it will depress me…
Then skip it! News is always depressing enough.
I am enjoying Madam Bovary
Monday, Monday. I’m still behind at work from last week. We get new carpet soon (badly needed) and spent a lot of time this weekend preparing by packing up stuff to make furniture easier to move.
I’m wearing a Profumum Confetto sample. Would I like a bottle? Yes! Will I buy one? Unlikely. But I might spring for the lotion.
sometimes the lotion is more potent than the fragrance..
Very potent.
You have my email, right? I can send you a decant.
Thanks, Annie!
Carpet replacement is a PITA when it is happening, but so nice when it is finished.
Exactly. Can’t wait!
I just grabbed the first thing that I saw, Wood Sage & Sea Salt. I like it well enough, but I don’t think its FBW.
Money saved.
Etat Libre d’Orange Charogne, which is *so* strange. It smells vintage and modern at the same time, it’s incense and leather but it really isn’t, it’s sort of a floral but not exactly. I can never tell if I like it or not, but I wear it every once in a while, just in case.
ELDOs can be so strange. I haven’t heard of your Sotd but I bought a couple of bottles (Afternoon of the Faun and Archives 69) at a discounter and wanted to like them based on reviews but just can’t manage it. If my nose doesn’t change its mind by the next splitmeet, I am going to see if I can find a nose(s) that enjoys them more.
If you had Ghost in a Shell, allo, I’d be knocking down your door.😁
Still under the weather, probably just scented lotion today, if I can work up the energy to shower.
Ghost in a Shell.
Sampling and looking at Luckyscent. I fit cp.
Sorry, wrong place!
Meant to tell you to skip the shower.
Hope you get well fast.
Get well soon, i hope everything will work out as you wish !
I am sure you will sell your house soon .
I hope that just the right buyer comes your way, soon!
Hope you will feel better as the day progresses, mornings are tougher I always feel.
Ugh, I’ve had those days where a shower is just beyond me. Sending you thoughts of strength and hope! 🌈🌞🌞🌞
I’m in the last whiff of Tauer’s Vanilla Flash. I bought a full bottle unsniffed and was disappointed in it on arrival. When I started traveling in 2017 I left it in my refrigerator because it didn’t make the cut. Fast forward two and half years, I sold my house and packed up the perfumes in my fridge. Two and half more years go by and I’m finding every time I wear it, I like it more. I don’t know if “aging” is a thing in perfume like it is in wine but I swear it’s gotten deeper, more complex, smoother, and a tad bit sweet over the years. Glad I didn’t give up on it.
In other news, I was talking to a fellow traveler last night and heard that some hospitals in Canada are intermittently closing their ER’s due to lack of staff, both nurses and physicians. People and EMS are then having to travel much further to get emergent medical care, which literally makes a life and death difference. I’m predicting the US may follow suit soon after already seeing the closing of so many smaller hospitals that haven’t been gobbled up by huge healthcare corporations because they’re not lucrative enough. Scary times on so many fronts these days. It behooves us all to continue to spritz and waft in a brave attempt to defeat the oncoming tide of woe and hard times…
That’s my Monday Pick Me Up Spiel! 😃
Definitely vanilla perfumes improve with age, some others too. As for the health care situation, sadly I am not surprised, it’s all about money and the Canadian provinces in particular have been cutting and underfunding health care for the past 30+ years. I would not bother going to a hospital unless I had a broken leg/arm, stroke or heart attack, and only in an ambulance. A friend had an extreme hypertensive episode and sat for 7 hours in an urgent care waiting room before giving up and go8ng home. Same when my husband was hit by a car on his bike and had broken ribs. If you don’t show up in an ambulance you are given no attention.
Definitely think aging works with perfume, particularly any natural ingredients. Nice that you have this in your happy stash.
The best hospital in my area is the only one not monopolized by the other two healthcare giant corporations of the state.
Some perfumes I have smell better now than when I first got them, so I would say Yes, perfume aging in situ is a Thing!
I have a few perfumes that have aged really well.
Ghost in a Shell.
Looking for real to purchase. CP points.
I am unloading one bottle of another to someone else. Justification?
That’s perfect justification! OIOO, one in one out. 👍🏻
O, Nancyleandros. One bottle by the end if this week and this may be it.
Another taker on another bottle, too.
Enabler 📌 might be yours!
Yes – justified!
💜
Ruh-roh.
MossyBerry. I sniff a bottle.
Really feeling the Monday slump as well and going to have a second cup of coffee.
One of my coworkers and her family have Covid and then already had it previously. Then the women leading the meeting I was just on said she was back from vacation and also recovering from it. Mr. She-ra continues to improve but tested positive via a home test today still. He initially tested positive on 7/2.
Just doused myself in the new Prada Infusion d’Ylang. Lots of ylang, citrus and spices so far.
Sending big hugs to all NSTers this Monday morning of blech. ♥️
I’m with you on the blach. Covid, the gift that keeps on giving.
The Prado sound wonderful – hugs back, and glad to know that Mr. She-ra is feeling better!
Lots of healing vibes for your family and co-workers. It really makes me wonder when people get it multiple times 🤔. Are some people just more vulnerable? Did they not truly recover from their initial bout? Is the home test (and assuming this is what they’ve used) accurate?
As we get new variants, people who have already had covid don’t always have immunity to the new variant. That’s why you can get Omicron multiple times…it’s not exactly the same Omicron 🙂
Yeeck! Sorry about the Monday COVID blues.
Sending you a scented, gentle hug, She-ra.
My son and my sister both took 11-12 days to test negative.
Glad Mr. She-ra feeling better !
For the moment I’m twins with PriscillaE in Wood Sage & Sea Salt. I do (did, in fact) find it FBW — am on my second small bottle. There are several things that I’m pining to own in more than mere decant proportions, one of which is Bel Ami. Can’t think why I haven’t sprung for one yet, unless it’s the current-formula vs. vintage conundrum. I have two decants, and sadly don’t know what vintage either is. There are differences, but I love them both so I’m kind of thinking it doesn’t really matter whether I track down that lovely cocktail shaker bottle version or just get the current version. Any advice?
Wish I could help with the Bel Ami, sorry.
I definitely have the Monday blues after being away for a week.
My STOD is cheering me up though, Atelier’s Iris Silver. I got it during the splitmeet, thanks to the wonderful AnniePerfumes, and I’ve been loving it so much. Definitely FBW!
Aww. Sorry you have the blues, tulipani. Hopefully, you’ll pick a ray of sunshine soon.
And shoot me an email, anytime you want more Silver Iris. You won’t need a full bottle.😊
I hope you get a Terrific Tuesday! You do smell lovely.
You smell fabulous. Iris Silver Mist is one of my “happy” perfumes, too!
I’m wearing Clementine California today. Not FBW, but a nice citrus for summer. I really don’t have anything on my “to buy” list other than things you can’t get anymore. I’ve wanted a bottle of Josef Statkus for years.
Do please post if you have wants. I am looking to donate to those who love, especially if they are discontinued.
You smell pretty, btw.
There is nothing new I want to buy either. I just want ” old” perfume.
And I just want “old times” which I guess officially makes me an Old Timer…🤨
I’m with you on the Josef Statkus front — what a fantastic incense that was!
I had a small dabber sample of Josef Statkus and found that it smelled a lot like the original Boyfriend perfume to me.
Wow, that’s nice. I have a very long to buy list. Some of it is discontinued, almost none of it is available in sizes I am willing to purchase or at prices I will pay.
Balmain Ivoire, the recent version. I smell like a bar of soap and I love it.
You smell great, that’s a good one.
One of my all time favorites.
Good project! Here’s a list for this week (subject to change, of course)
P. Guillaume Arabian Horse
P. d’Empire Yuzu Fou
Fazzolari Au Dela Narcisse
Masque Hemingway
Guerlain Neroli Outrenoir
Nice list SarahN! I have a PdN on my buy list too — the Osmanthus.
With so many prices going up, I feel like I should grab it now!
We have lots of overlap on our wishlist. I know I’ve chimed in before to tell you Arabian Horse is on my list, and it still is. I could also go for a travel size of Hemingway and some Neroli Outrenoir. I love the Au Dela Narcisse and have an older bottle. I don’t think you’d regret getting that one. And I used to have Yuzu Fou and swapped it away but now wish I still had some. It seems our noses and preferences are very aligned!
Hello, everyone. I’m wearing Memo Marfa. Not really for the CP but because I found my (small) bottle and wanted to wear it. There’s something addictive about it! I’m still having a lot of joint pains (wrist, knee, shoulders….)–ugh. Hope when my PT comes this afternoon she can help me stretch or iron things out a bit. Yesterday a friend arrived here all the way from Athens–she is good company and likes cats. She’s here for a conference at Rice U. Too bad they picked a week of record heat–it’s triple digits all week! I hope we don’t lose power. I haven’t seen this friend for literally 30 years (except on Facebook), but am glad to know we can still enjoy talking away a mile a minute. She brought me a sort of herbal drink from Greece called mastiha. I’d never heard of it but we had some last night. It’s a clear spirit and is rare and expensive, made from a kind of gum resin. It’s kind of mint + pine. I love the smell! it would make a neat perfume, I’d think.
We might have rolling blackouts, per an email I received this morning. The Ercot website shows the daily alerts: Ercot dot com. Spellcheck thinks I’m talking about Epcot – wish I was there!
That’s great to have a long time friend visit! It sounds like you’re already have a great time. I hope your PT can help ease your discomfort.
PS: Robin, I really love the image you’ve chosen for today! I don’t know how the photographer processed it but it came out so well. Thanks!
I don’t know what he did either!
So glad you are having fun with your friend.
There are perfumes with mastic! (Same resin used to flavor your liqueur. And sometimes it is listed as lentisque) A few: PdE Corsica, Cinq Mondes Eau Egyptienne, Aesop Mystra, AG Ninfeo Mio, L’Artisan Caligna
https://freebox.it.com/2012/01/19/sisley-eau-dikar-fragrance-review/%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E
Yay for a visit from a long-time friend! It sounds like it’s doing you loads of good.
I was in The 7 Virtues Grapefruit Lime and Orange Blossom for my workout earlier. After shower, I’m collecting a cp point with Shay & Blue Blood Oranges. I’d love a full bottle of this one. It’s definitely orange, but with some gentle musk in the drydown, and it’s not laundry musk either.
Now the T7V’s…I’m not sure I’d need a full bottle of either, but I’d definitely swap for them. Maybe that would be a good community project: wear something that you like a lot, but aren’t sure you’d splash out for a full bottle…but you’d certainly swap for it. Why Buy When You Can Swap.
Got an email from my electric company saying Ercot may have rolling blackouts. Thanks Blerrgh-Cot. 🥵
I love that cp idea!
You enjoy orange scents?
Sorry about the blackouts. One more thing.
Yes! Big fan of orange over here, spritzy and not sweet. I like Orange Sanguine, but I also like options. 😂
Ugh, I’m so concerned about this. Also I’m concerned about what my next electric bill is going to cost! I have both upstairs and downstairs AC and am leaving the upstairs one off during the day…. Also trying to cut way back on all other household electric use.
I’m dreading my bill too. I’ve unplugged everything I can, and I toggle the thermostat between 77 and 78. The ceiling fan is always running, needless to say. There’s only so much we can do.
We were threatened with rolling blackouts here in the spring. It was the first time ever that it was even brought up. I hope you don’t have them.
Blackouts in the spring? Was there something amiss with your grid?
Oh they were warning us in the spring. We have never had to use rolling blackouts here and I think they were trying to super prepare us. Apparently so many people were upset by the this. ( including me) then later the electric company came out and said they no longer thought it to be an option for our state.
We had rolling black outs one year in the winter in Florida back in the 80’s. Totally opposite problem, of course, but I remember it so well because the black out happened to us right when the Christmas turkey was about halfway done. We had no warning ahead of time, just BOOM! no power for about 4 hours. We huddled around the unlit Christmas tree wrapped in blankets with the fireplace just roaring. It was the only warm room in the house. When the power came back on, the news “updated” us on “imminent rolling blackouts.” Better late than never I guess…
Were you able to salvage the turkey? I suppose you could have left it outside and it would not have gone bad.
If I remember right we were, but it wasn’t done until very late. It was one of the rare
Christmas days we didn’t have anyone over other than family. Unlike my antisocial self, my parents were quite gregarious and liked to entertain and have a big to do on the holidays, with all the accompanying drama! My mother was weeping and moaning and cursing Florida Power to the depths of Hell all afternoon. 😃
Yuck on the possible rolling blackouts!
It’s hot – for the UK – 30C and have listened to the advice and drank water all day but I’m taking it with a grain of salt as I’ve lived through twelve New York summers.
Was in the ever affordable Yves Rocher Monoi Eau des Vahinés, more suitable for a beach vacation I’m unlikely to take this year, there is real tiaré in it if I understand Gardenia Tahitensis extract correctly. Tonight it’s Shalimar Philtre, I think from 2 quarters ago, so that want was fulfilled, it’s my second wearing, it’s an easy-going, light Shalimar, I find it suedy and irissy and more floral, but then that’s what I remember from Shalimar Initial too, so was it necessary?…
I think Phitre definitely smells more modern than Initial ( from my recollection)
I should revisit Initial, I have a sample of it, drydown of Philtre now and it is very good I must say. Do you know Initial l’Eau? I love the grapefruty citrus of that one, perfect for summer.
I only tried it once when it first came out. That was when you could still find Guerlain around here.
Oh, sorry to hear you can’t access more Guerlains where you are.
You and I were summer weather twins today! But it has been cooler and wetter than usual here in southern NJ this year. We’ve had pops of hot weather but only 1 heat wave so far.
And yes, you were correct about my summer Opium flanker earlier this summer. It’s still hanging out as part of the summer perfume selection.
Glad you don’t have too many heatwaves this summer so far, here people overreact.
The Fleur Impériale flanker of Opium is a really good alternative to the heavier original, glad we are twin users.
Spent an anticlimactic morning at the doctor’s. Apparently the pain that is keeping me up at night and causing me gasp at awkward times is degenerative scoliosis. Doc says I’ve had it for a while as my spine’s a mess. What are we going to do about it you ask? Schedule an MRI. That’s it. That and some medication for seizures. Go figure. I am ever so slightly curious about the meds as Medline explains that it works by “decreasing abnormal excitement in the brain.” Oh my goodness!
Anyway, home, I am now happily wafting copious amounts of Chamade parfum.
Are they suggesting gabapentin? It’s used off-label for pain.
Exactly. But I am all in for reducing my “abnormal excitement” as well!
Sorry to hear this, OF. I have not had any problems in a while, but I remember all too well the “gasp” from pain with a pinched nerve. Physical therapy helped me and it seems insurers are reluctant to pay for much of it. “Abnormal excitement in the brain” sounds like a diagnosis on par with “the vapors” or the “epizudics.”
I am hoping that PT will resolve or at least make manageable the pain. It is just taking me forever to get in with the therapist I want.
Oy! Both my sister-in-law and my niece had scoliosis and they got surgery. Now their spine is too straight and they can’t really bend due to the metal rod. I hope your excitement-stifling meds work for you.
I am ter-ri-fied of back surgery for pain. Pain is wile! I am going all in with my excitement stifling and PT first. And perfume. It helps.
Sorry to hear the news.
I’d read up on the seizure meds. You are always welcome to email me for my own experiences, though each patient is unique.
I’m being prescribed it off label for pain. But I fully believe that seizure medicine should be a discipline in itself. I’ve been fortunate that my son’s various brain illnesses have not led to seizures, but many with his conditions and symptoms are constantly evaluating and adjusting seizure medicine. I take my hat off to you!
I’m sorry you have been in so much pain OF. I hope the medication will help.
Thanks lillyjo.
I found out I had scoliosis when I started cycling. After half an hour bent over on the bike, the muscles tightened up so much I couldn’t breathe. However, continued cycling eventually loosened things up or strengthened the muscles and the spasms stopped. I wonder if there is any PT that can help you?
I am too fragile just now for the jolting and bumps on a bike, but I have the same pattern with walking—hurts at first and then after about a mile and a half the spasms stop and I feel the best I feel all day. I’m waiting for my first PT appt, which is a week from Wed. I was using a stationary bike for a while too.
I will second AnniePerfume’s comment about getting familiar with seizure medications. Hope that things get better for you.
Thank you. Fortunately, the meds are for pain only, off label.
I think I’ve used up the samples of the things I’d like to buy. I still have a drop of Bengal Rouge, but that doesn’t count towards the CP, I already have a FB on its way to me from Luckyscent 🙂
My sense of smell is coming and going, but seems to be improving. At least I’m not suffocating any colleagues with over-applied perfume, I’m working from home and doing half days as I get over Covid. I feel mostly fine, except that I’m easily tired, my morning shower was hard work and commuting to the lounge feels daunting. I will focus my mind with Tobacco Vanille.
Happy to hear you are slowly but surely feeling better. And 🙌 on the bottle of Bengale Rouge winging it’s way to you! Such an excellent perfume, but I’m a bit biased. Covid is a straight up bi*ch! I’m Just found out the post heart catch patient I got the other night tested positive. While I was leaned over him auscultating his heart and lung, he kept coughing right in my face. The fact that I’m not dead yet after 2 and half years of this crap will continues to stun me. 😬
You must surely be immune by now.
Oh, I’m sure I do, but with new variants popping up every 10 minutes, who knows? I’m especially ticked because this unit is considered “clean,” meaning no Covid+ patients. They placed the patient on the wrong unit because the “rapid” Covid test hadn’t resulted yet. The rule of thumb for admissions is to test and place accordingly to admission diagnosis and Covid result. This was an emergent cath for a patient having an MI, so they took him to cath lab immediately. BUT, he should not have been assigned to a unit until the Covid test resulted. Just poor patient management, imo. 🤷🏻♀️
Yeah I work in healthcare also and when people make negative comments about having to wear masks, I think of situations like the one you describe. And I wear my mask at work so at least if half the patients have their mask pulled under their chin I know I have something between their breath and me.
My mother had hip surgery this morning, and said her post-op nurse kept her mask underneath her chin the whole time she was there, and said to my mom “I’m just done with covid, aren’t you?” (to which my mom of course said no, not really)
Glad to hear that your sense of smell hasn’t been completely knocked out, Gaynor.
Yay for your sense of smell coming back!
Covid is hard. Showers are tiring, that FB is a win for you!
Hope you continue to feel better.
SotD Chameleon, but in the midst of a massive laundry project, I decided I needed a spritz or two of Clair de Musc. I thought they played nicely together! Off to read comments. I was lurking this weekend, but will be making notes of the many promising reading recommendations!
Good luck with the massive mountains of laundry!
Thanks, Jalepeno! It was time to wash the giant Bates bedspread, which weighs about (it seems LOL) 50 pounds when wet and take two hours to dry! Plus I was behind on jeans, towels and socks. Sigh.
I have a couple of out-of-season things to wash, too. But I am currently caught up on the “usual stuff” in my laundry hampers and very thankful for that!
Gabrielle Essence is my SOTD, so no CP points since I have a bottle, albeit a small one.
No 7-11 near me, so no free Slurpee. I used to get the Coolattas from Dunkin’ sometimes, and they were delicious on a hot day.
I have not had a slurpee in YEARS, and actually can’t think of the last time I saw a 7-11!
SOTD = Chanel Les Eax de Chanel Paris Edimbourg
From a split decant – the green juice is very on the eyes and it smells fantastic: fresh, spicy, woody, musky and vanillic! I was tempted to buy a smaller bottle but Nordstrom did not have it. In time, I will.
I swear my phone is watching what I do. I got a freebie Paula’s Choice something or other from my Nordie’s purchase. It was in the bag and I took it out to resettle it inside the shopping bag. I did not talk to anyone about it nor did I search for it. Guess what? It showed up as an ad on my Insta. 🙄. And Ruggables. My sister mentioned it to me … and it showed up in many many ads.
I was walking down an escalator to my train track. A woman ahead of me was on her phone and gesticulating (gesturing?) that SHE. REALLY.REALLY.REALLY.NEEDED.THE.THERAPY.SESSION! But their hours and her hours don’t match. I got all these listening to her for 3 seconds. I dare not ask her to excuse me but seriously, no concern about other people!
Also noticed today on NJ Transit – a good 90% of the people were wearing their mask! In the last few weeks, mask-wearing was down to barely 1/3.
My phone knows what I have been doing on my computer. I keep seeing ads for Sephora and Chewy.com on it.
Paris-Edimbourg sounds great!
I hate that the phone’s know so much. Sometimes I put electric tape on the camera ( I rarely take pictures) but it always falls off after awhile and I get lazy to do it again.
Yup. My phone gives me ads for local places, too.
A perfect summer day, weather-wise, for me. It could not be improved upon. It wouldn’t hurt my feelings to have a couple of weeks of it. Not going to happen, though.
Went grocery shopping at 2 stores today. Plenty of polite people at the Wegman’s near me. But almost nobody is masking up besides me. I’m going to keep on doing it, especially since 2 friends of mine had a near-miss with COVID recently.
SOTD = Wrappings EdP for Monday. Spent all weekend in it, too. But I did take a quick sniff of my sample of Dame Soliflore Narcissus perfume oil this morning. Ohhhhhhhhh, I like! That one might well be worth the 10mL rollerball format it comes in.
You are having my yesterday. It was beautiful! On and off rain here today.
Tomorrow the dreaded summer muggies return with a vengeance. So glad I did the shopping today! 🥵
Covid is heating up around here, too. I wonder if things will start to get shut down, again.
I think Robin is getting the enabler crown for this week. It won’t be just me. 😁
Nice to have company in the enabler’s club, eh? 😉👑
Seeing almost no masks in DE or SE PA lately.
More in DC suburbs than in SE PA, but even in DC, not all that many.
I’m in Eau d’Italie Easy to Love today and got a compliment on it, which is always nice. I like this one a lot and am considering a FB after draining multiple samples of it. I have enough left for at least one wearing and I want to use that to compare it to Jardin en Mediterranee; I have a sneaking suspicion they may be too similar to justify a bottle of each.
Tea today is Chocolate Puer.
I snuck up to my inlaw’s house in northern PA for a long weekend with a friend, and what a difference a 10-degree drop in temperature makes!
10 degrees is a lot, yes!
I used to think southern PA was too cold, but that was a long time ago…now I think all of PA is getting too hot. I wonder how much longer PA will have an apple industry.
Well, Lake Como (PA) still has nice summer weather. Winter, not so much. But summer and fall… *chef’s kiss*
Sweltering here but not (yet) any rolling blackouts. Depressing to look at 100 degree days for the next week. I feel bad for the plants and animals. We have a few buckets of water in the yard for the deer and her fawn who stop by daily. We were watching the fawn run around in the evening.
I wore Estée Lauder Private Collection Tuberose Gardenia. This stuff has great lasting power, I must say.
Glad you had electricity all day!
Just read that some of the bitcoin mining groups agreed to knock it off for a bit to avoid blackouts.
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/texas-grid-operator-asks-users-conserve-energy-amid-scorching-heat-2022-07-11/
Jhumpa Lahiri is one of my all-time favorite authors! She also happens to be Bengali American, so I can relate really well to her upbringing. Our parents also have mutual friends 🙂 that good old Bengali connection.
I got my Wright No. 100 in the mail today and immediately put it on! For those of you who don’t remember it, see here: https://freebox.it.com/2022/06/24/wright-no-100-new-fragrance/%3C/a%3E I ordered it because I was really excited about a bacon fragrance…though I don’t really smell much (any?) bacon. It mostly smells like a warm leather oriental. Nice dose of vanilla and patchouli. The first couple minutes of it are pretty masculine (nice hit of bergamot), but then the citrus disappears and all the warm notes rush in. It reminds me a bit of MFK Cologne pour le soir, actually.
Anyway, since I don’t get any bacon from it, I really don’t need this bottle. **Freebie alert** Would anyone like to try this? The bottle is actually quite nice, wooden cap and a velvety matte finish to the bottle itself. CONUS only.