It's (a very Mondayish) Monday. Also, Nelson Mandela International Day. What fragrance are you wearing?
I'm taking points early in Hermès Un Jardin Sur le Nil. Possibly I'll just wear it all week.
Reminder: on 7/22, for National Mango Day, wear a perfume (or a body product?) with a mango note, if you have one.
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 Mango Tree is in Flower! [cropped] by Kelly Hunter at flickr; some rights reserved.
Second-ing Robin’s ‘very Monday-ish Monday’, although it is raining here today, and I can’t remember when my geo-area had a nice good rain (probs like couple of months), we certainly need it.
Yesterday I wore Violette, which seemed a nice concept, but didn’t last an hour on me. Today I am going for Versace; I figure if a little glam doesn’t chase the Monday blah-ness away at least a little, then nothing will.
You can have our thunderstorms to add to your rain 🙂
We had a little here already but now it’s lighting up a bit. the garden outside really needed it. 😀
Hello!
It’s hot and humid here, and I’m wearing Eau de Guerlain. I first wore it in 1995, and when I put it on, it reminds me of that time, every time lol.
Hope everyone has a good week ahead of them 🙂
You smell fantastic carole! Such good stuff.
🙂
I am wearing Phi Une rose de Kandahar. I don’t think i have perfumes with the mango note.
A busy week ahead of me and not much energy.
Have a great week.
I don’t have much energy too..should of made a second coffee
I’m considering a third.
Seriously, where did all the energy go? I am near zombie.
I’ll add to the no energy group.
Good morning!
Sotd is Nightingale.
Slept so much this past weekend I am feeling good and ready. Hope this week goes by easy! Also, going to have lasagne tonight and I plan to have it extra cheesy. Definitely looking forward to that.
Lucky you — sleep and lasagne!
I think the only mango scent I own is Jardin Sur le Nil. Will save it for Friday. Today I’m going to wear Bottega Veneta, an old friend.
You smell so good!!!
Thanks Vee!
You smell lovely and I hope you’re feeling better today.
Having a nice lazy day in the sun. It’s been dull and gray for days, so happy to see the sun this morning.
You smell wonderful. Hopefully you are feeling better.
Symptoms are better, just tired and taking it easy.
Half twin! Began my day in BV Eau Sensuelle, its drydown is so clear and comfortable in humid weather. Hope this week will restore your good health.
Thanks, I’m taking my time to rest and recover without overdoing things.
Pleased to hear that you are feeling better and taking it easy.
SOTD is Jo Malone Fig and Lotus Flower, which was a sample I got in an order from Nordstrom right before vacation. Fig seemed like a good note for a dreary, rainy, jet lagged morning. It was worth a try — I haven’t tried any JMs for a long time — but it’s not a keeper, even as a sample. I have a ton of samples from my pre-vacation US shopping spree to get through, anyway, so on to the next as soon as this wears off.
I know most of the rest of the world doesn’t feel this way today, but here it feels more like winter than it did in Cape Town on Saturday. I think it’s supposed to warm up a bit later this week, though. Mr. Ockeghem will be sweltering in Germany this week, so I’m not complaining about PNW weather.
Good luck with the jet lag, ockeghem!!
What are some of your other samples?
Yeah my favorite scent I buy on repeat, lines up with SOTD!!! Will douse myself from head to toe.
Wait, what is the scent??
I woke up this morning with thunder, lighting and rain pounding against my window. Top of the morning to you too, Mother Nature.
Today I have a small event. I am going to put what I read in that etiquette book to use by trying to create small talk with strangers.
One small spritz of Shalimar
A perfect day for Shalimar (it can deal with every kind of weather). Hope your event is enjoyable and good luck with your experiment!
Please let us know how it goes. I am not good in small talk either and curious to know.
Hope it goes well – let us know. You smell wonderful!
In L’Artisan Fleur D’Oranger from a very adorable mini bottle. (Thanks to CobraRose).
Hot, cloudy day. The humidity is so oppressive that I can barely breathe.
Having an iced hibiscus tea and looking forward already for the week to be over.
Happy Monday! 🌞
I won’t take this as a complaint 🤣
LOL! I do not know what you are taking about! 😂🤣
Hey there pl67!
I was browsing fragrance net and saw FM Iris Poudre for a pretty decent price and thought of you. In case you hadn’t replenished yours yet.
Are you enabling? Naughty 😈!
I learned from the best!🤣
Thanks for the info! I will check tonight after work!
The humidity made my trips to the recycling bin short! I skipped walking to the mailbox today. Whatever is in there can wait for tomorrow.
It is still horribly muggy here. We will have a 7 day heat wave starting tomorrow. I don’t even want to think about it!
Monday, and the first day of really oppressive summer weather — it’s been so cool and rainy, but today it’s going up to 31C, humidex of 35: thank goodness I have air conditioning to go home to. It is the perfect day, though, for the bright, airy licorice of Lolita Lempicka.
It is oppressive but at least you weren’t in the UK, I guess?
Coming back from vacation and back to work today, reading NST this morning really cheered me up (and always cheers me up). Thank you!
For the CP, if only I owned Snoopy Fragrance Let’s Mango! Love Snoopy, love the name. Oh well.
According to Fragrantica, I have 2 mango fragrances – Timbuktu and Jardin Sur Nil so I’m joining the crowd in JSN today 🙂
Welcome back!
https://youtu.be/xZzEzDkeHzI
👍love this so much!
I was channeling you, lillyjo!
🙂
Timbuktu has mango? Never would have guessed that.
I know. If Fragrantica is to be believed….
I’m picking up new glasses today and chose Chanel 19 EDT for that … just in case there’s a problem and I need a spine. My last several pairs have all come from this place and I’ve never had the smallest complaint, but the pandemic wreaked havoc and my mom has had issues with them, so … you know. Just in case.
For Mango Day I plan on wearing Goodsir’s Or du Serail (weather permitting). Fragrantica doesn’t list it if you search “mango” under notes, but the page for OdS itself definitely includes mango. If it’s too humid on Friday, I have a little mini of Sur le Nil to serve as fallback.
I hope you like your new glasses frames, and that they fit well!
Turns out they’re perfect! Mr. G isn’t completely on board, but he’ll come around.
YAY for loving your new frames! 😍
Yes! The mirror shock is over!
Hope Monday’s not too bad for everyone. Looks like we have another hot day on tap here — we are in the heat layer above the fog. Toasty.
Had a fun (if smoky) (and hot) visit to Yosemite last week for our 30th wedding anniversary. On the way home we detoured past Mono Lake and thru Bodie (ghost town), fun.
Been working on house projects too — finally finished installing new closet doors in two rooms, which of course did not go smoothly at all, but yay, it’s done.
And now I’m popping on my walking shoes and heading off to feed a neighbor’s cats — it’ll be about a 2 mile walk. Best to get going before it gets too hot.
SOTD is 4711 Pink Pepper & Grapefruit. I bet it’ll be gone before I get to the neighbor’s house.
What a great anniversary setting! Hope it was not *too* hot.
Today I am wearing Goutal Nuit Etoilee and currently finishing a cup of hibiscus tea.
You smell wonderful.
Thank you 🙂
Like many here, probably the only scent with a mango note that I have is Sur le Nil, but I have to be in just the right mood to wear it; sometimes it seems just a little too high-pitched for me.
There’s a chance that I’ve found somebody to adopt one of the five kittens I’m fostering, which is very good news! Unfortunately this woman (a friend of one of my oldest friends) lives many hours away, so it will eventually mean a long car ride for my little Turtle — but I feel good about it, nonetheless. Turtle has been my favorite of the bunch, simply because she loved me big time from the very start, and after talking to this woman I feel confident that Turtle would be going to a very loving home where she will be adored and well cared for (and have a big brother, to boot). This summer of fostering has been absolutely splendid, despite (or perhaps because of) the fact that the pack has overtaken my life. At this moment I am meeting Easy-Peasy’s urgent need for head scritches, while he purrs madly and makes air biscuits.
You have given those kittens a running start to a very happy feline life. Will you foster again?
At this point, it probably depends upon if I can get the other four adopted. I’m getting very little adoption help from the shelter (they’ve ignored my last 5 emails with photos and descriptions of the kittens, which I was hoping they would post on their Petfinder and Facebook pages). I don’t do much social media (nor do I want to), and I thought that my role was to provide the kittens with a loving home and reduce the burden on the shelter, while they worked to get them adopted — clearly that’s not going to be the case. I think I have another potential adopter for Cashmere, but the three black kitties might be a little harder to find homes for. So, if I’m going to end up caring for those three long-term, I might not foster again. If I can find homes for them, I would definitely consider fostering again — it’s been a blast to have my world revolve around funny, furry little felines.
I’ve read that black cats are harder to place, I guess people are superstitious. It’s been fun to read about your fosters.
Yes, that is the ridiculous case. Both cats and dogs that are black are more difficult to find homes for. It’s so silly, and from an aesthetic standpoint, I really don’t get it; these three black kittens — Bully Idol, Easy-Peasy, and Braveheart — are simply gorgeous. Braveheart looks like an Egyptian cat statue (all sleek and willowy), Easy is super handsome, and the woolly Bully looks kinda like a dark Maine Coon.
Having kept black cats in the past, can also say that you have to be more careful if they are outside cats…weird people will do weird things. If I ever have one again I will keep it inside.
Funny Furry Felines should be the name of a band or a pet adoption center!
It’s wonderful what you did for these kittens, if we were on the same continent I would adopt one of the black furries, I haven’t replaced my long hair black Schnooky yet.
Well, if it comes down to it, I might have to airmail one of them to you! 🙂
😃
“Air biscuits” — perfect! 😘
It’s the cutest thing ever — he lays on his back, closes his eyes, and makes these slow, rhythmic clawing motions in the air.
Well, you can always try a note along the lines of, “When shall I return the kittens?” Perhaps that will get them going…?
I’m going to go visit the shelter in person tomorrow, since nobody appears to be reading my emails. I get that they’re probably overworked and understaffed, but even a “Hey, thanks for the photos, how are the kittens doing?” reply would be appreciated. There hasn’t been a single check-in on their part, and it’s been over two months since I brought the furballs home.
Some of the best cats I have had in my life were black cats! I like the superstition that some places in the Far East have about them: black cats are bringers of financial good fortune.
Wish I could help with your fosters, but I am tapped out at 2 cats currently.
You have done a wonderful thing by fostering those 5 babies and hope they all get adopted. soon. That is strange and unfortunate the shelter is helping to get them listed on their website for adoption. I am in San Diego and it seems like folks who foster here are easing the burden and taking care of them but all other efforts are done by the shelter or nonprofit,
The shelter is *not* helping rather
Good morning NST!
I’m wearing Timbuktu and inadvertently participating in this week’s CP.
I did not know this has a mango note (nor am I smelling any mango) until I saw allo’s comment above.
I have two other perfumes with a (discernible) mango note in my collection: Bombay Bling and Un Jardin sur le Nil.
I have a travel spray of Bombay Bling but it is quite old an methinks it may be too much for the office.
Ha! I know, sometimes it’s too much even for me alone in my house. I really have to be in the right mood for it but when the time is right it can put a smile on my face.
The mango note in Timbuktu is rather subtle to my nose. I couldn’t pick it out either.
To be honest, Jalapeno, I can’t pick out a lot of the listed notes in Timbuktu. It’s a strange one but I really like it.
Timbuktu is the only FB I have from L’Artisan. Got one of the 50mL bottles while the getting was good!
I need to do some mango research but I have SLN for Friday if nothing else. Today I am enjoying a successful blind buy of Balenciaga’s Florabotanica. I get mint + indistinct green notes + rose, which is very fun and good for the 90+F temps we are suppose to get this week. The black and white stripe detail on/in the bottle seems like a late 80s/early 90s design choice, so I was surprised to see this came out in 2012. It reminds me of Beetlejuice’s suit.
Tea this morning was Clippership’s Golden Monkey so that I had something delicious to savor on the commute to the office. For this afternoon I have my old standby of Twinings English Breakfast, which I will glam up with cinnamon if I can find some in the office kitchen.
I did not get along with Florabotanica but I bet you rocked it! I do have an emptyish bottle so I am set for the bottle p0rn 🤣
Wait, it didn’t play nice and you still managed to get the bottle down to emptyish!? 🤣
The SA gave me the almost empty tester.
Not sure I ‘ve ever tried my Florabotanica in summer weather. I do enjoy it as a spring perfume, though.
Almost 100% positive I have no mango. I’m such a CP ne’er-do-well…
But, I am big and bodacious in Montalé Arabians Tonka. One spray last night which is continuing to expand exponentially, just like the universe! Yee Haw, it is so BIG! This is not delicate mincing Arabian! No, more like a huge galloping draft horse that shakes the ground as it pounds towards you, mane and tail flying, hooves the size of a large dinner plates gouging and flinging up huge clods of earth, eyes white rimmed, nostrils dilated and whose broad mass displaces the air before it. In other words, monumental!
I like this kind of thing only very occasionally, but when it is that occasion, I enjoy it immensely!
Happy Monday!
I love that description and can just see that draft horse! Enjoy it.
Ha – this is great. I absolutely love Clydesdales and got to see the Budweiser crew in person once.
Arabians Tonka sure swings for the fences
I slept until 9:30 this morning which hasn’t happened in years, must have needed it. But it makes me feel a little groggy, even with extra coffee.
Wearing Zoologist Bee today. After much needed rain all weekend, it’s now sunny and hot and Bee just feels like everything summer to me. Time for another trip to the vegetable stands.
Sleep envy!
No mango this week. Today is Chanel Paris-Deauville. It is about the only thing that works in this heat. High 90’s this week.
I am off to North Carolina for the next few weeks so only a few scents coming with me and I probably won’t be posting. I will probably be lurking though to see any news in the perfume world.
Have a safe trip!
Bon voyage!
Enjoy your vacation!
I’m twinning with you in Paris-Deauville, the last few sprays from a sample. It is a great scent for the heat!
Have a great time!
Safe travels, and enjoy your time there!
Thanks everyone. My son is in the military and getting his last big promotion so going for the ceremony.
Oh how wonderful! Congratulations to him. You must be so proud!
Congrats, so glad you can be there to see it!
Hello perfume friends! Work is silly, the world is sad, and the weather is frightening – sudden extreme heat warnings here. Hope everyone is okay wherever you are reading this from. Wearing double Chanel for a fun comparison: Allure on one wrist and Allure Sensuelle on the other. They smell related but not close, and both are helping me to keep my temper this evening. Began the day in BV Eau Sensuelle in the hopes I would feel something other than irritated on a Monday morning at work…no luck there but what a lovely perfume it is! Haven’t worn it in aeons but put it on my summer shelf today (that is a new feature for me as my bottles usually live in boxes neatly stacked in cupboards, but some are worn so rarely that I wanted a temporary display) and it will get a little more attention now I know it’s wonderful!
Keep cool, we’ll see if tomorrow is even warmer as announced.
I’ve been thinking of you in London Aurora – it is much better here in the north – hope you are able to manage it with some degree of comfort.
Thank you, it wasn’t too bad after all, I think the forecast overestimated the heat today. My apartment has a balcony so I can get outside, my bedroom feels cool this evening.
Hope that you and Aurora can stay cool!
Thank you Jalapeno!
Work is silly, the world is sad, and the weather is frightening — that sums up everything, doesn’t it? Stay well, DolceVita.
❤️
Like several of you, I think all I have with a mango note is Jardin Sur le Nil. I’ll wear that today AND Friday. Like ockeghem, I’m not complaining, but it’s so cold in my living room that I’m wrapped in a blanket with lots of hot coffee at my work-from-home desk (PNW). Monday is not my favorite, but it’s smooth sailing at the moment with two bosses OOO today.
In other news, we get new carpet tomorrow and Wednesday (finally) and I’ve ordered a new vacuum to celebrate. For anyone interested, I ended up choosing the Shark Apex Duo-Clean and will post my thoughts once I’ve used it. (not an ad, I’m not affiliated) We’ve been planning to do this ever since we moved in in 2017 and were about get it installed before COVID hit back in 2020; and although I thought it best to hold off, the carpet store owner told me he’s never been busier than during 2020 and 2021!
Congratulations on the new carpet and vacuum cleaner.
😊 Sometimes it’s the little things, right?
I have new carpet-envy! Enjoy!
It’s amazing how much easier vacuuming became for me when I got my new one.
That’s what I’m hoping! I currently have a terrible old one from my mom. I think it spits out almost as much dust as it takes in.
My old one is still useful for vacuuming up the cardboard that the cats scratch up.
The heat 🔥 wave from the continent hit us today but now keeping cool in my north west bedroom, I chose the acidulated Addict Eau Délice for the day but this evening it’s Quartz de Molyneux, waving to Jalapeno. It’s like an easier Diorella at least from my vintage bottle (I knew it was oldish but it lists only perfume and water, so it’s proper vintage), it is a little gem I find.
I love that it just says perfume and water. Proper vintage is right!
Yes 😃 it makes the heart beat faster.
Also a fan of Quartz! You smell really good.
Thank you Gail, it certainly deserves more love.
I have my Quartz sample out in the summer sample stash!
Yay, it blooms in the heat.
So glad you are able to keep cool Aurora!
Thank you Robin, yes, the bedrooms have a good exposition for High temps. The problem with heat waves in the UK is that the infrastructure is not ready for such temperatures, so rails bend… etc. And folks don’t have AC either. But today forecast already sees a change in the weather.
I’m joining the club of those with a mango note in Un Jardin Sur La Nil, as far as I know, I need to check for notes in other scents.
Meanwhile, today is Bois de Violette.
Probably have a mini of that somewhere…
I wore mine the other day and it had become quite syrupy and smelled exactly like vanilla extract for baking!
A cool, grey day, so in VCA Orchidee Vanille. If it’s warm enough on Friday could put on some Biehl PC01.
It’s been awhile since I’ve seen that one mentioned. You smell great!
I’m in Chanel no 5 L’eau.
They said it was going to be hot today, they were not wrong but it’s not as bad as I though it would be because the humidity is just 48%. Still got a lunchtime walk in.😎
My college girl has time off from her camp job, so she’s spending a couple of nights with my parents. They sure are getting lots of visits with her this summer! I’ll remind them of that when they plan to put their house on the market next spring.😈 I got to FaceTime with her last night, she’s having a great summer. Makes me happy.
That’s so nice that she’s spending time with your parents! What is her degree going to be in?
It is, they love it!
If all goes according to plan🤞, she’ll graduate in December with a degree in Biomedical Sciences, minor in Chemistry.
Wow, commencement time is getting close for madtowncollegegirl!
I know! It’s gone so fast.🥹
Sneaky plan for next spring. I like it!
After a quick check on Fragrantica, I don’t appear to have any mango frags in my stash.
I’m in Paris-Deauville today, the last few sprays from a sample courtesy of a generous NST’er. It’s perfect for the heat we are having lately; I may have to track down a small bottle.
Eeek, I should do this too! I have Bombay Bling somewhere but it may not be suitable to be worn to the office on Friday!
SOTD = Jo Malone Salt & Amber
Just perfect for today! Got caught in the torrential downpour this morning. Thank God for umbrellas but the pants still got wet. It stopped about 3/5 of the way to the office but I can tell you for certain that the sections where there’s construction, there were 💧 💧.
Went to Starbucks this morning and said I wanted to pay for a “cheaper” sandwich because I got charged for a more expensive one last Friday. I got the more expensive sandwich for free because it was too much to handle it the way I suggested. Eh? It was nice though to her it for free, not that I am hard pressed for the difference – it was the principle.
Finally, I must have been mistaken for someone else because I got for free and without asking a sample of the newest offering plus a 7 or 9mL of a travel spray from an indie niche line. Both are very very good. I suppose I shouldn’t look a gift horse in the mouth and just thank the brand for it even if I don’t necessarily agree with its philosophy.
You are really digging that JM Salt & Amber!
It’s really refreshing. I thought I was going to smell danky with the no good humidity but surprisingly, the amber counteracted that.
Was it the same Starbucks you had the points issue with?
Also yay for free perfume! Did they ask you to feature it on your IG?
The one I had a problem with is near my house. This one is on my way to the office.
And no, I was not asked to feature it at all in IG. I will do a quick thank you story!
Mixed bag for me on the very muggy Monday. On the plus side, all the out-of-season blankets have been washed and put away. Whoo hoo! On the minus side, Spooky kitty threw up on the wood floor, then pooped there. Sometimes she has problems getting to the litterbox, and today was one of those times. Sigh. 💩
SOTD = Hermes Eau de Neroli Dore EdC. This one is really wowing me this summer. My manufacturer’s sample could very well lead to a FB. We shall see…
And that should read “THIS very muggy Monday”, not “the”!
Muggy as muggy gets! The rain did not even cool down the air – yuck!
That’s always true here in Houston!
I haven’t seen a drop of rain yet! Just ugly, menacing clouds glowering down at me.
Not enabling I promise but that Neroli Dore seems like a great deal on Fragrance net. No affiliation. Even though I keep recommending them 🤣
I did some lurking about on F.net over the weekend. I saw that bottle. But for now I am sticking to my “No Buy”.
Good for you sticking to your resolution! Why is it that the Good deals always show up during a no buy?!
The previous quarter was brutal! I thought I was on a No Buy then, too. 🙄
Oh dear, the joys of cats, you smell really Good, EdND is delicate and lovely.
Spooky had no problems chowing down at dinner time, so it seems that she is feeling better now.
Eau de Neroli Dore has what I perceive as a hint of citronella at the very beginning. It’s refreshing and cuts thru humidity so well.
I feel rather prone to swaggering about in my sample sprays of Wilhelm Mango Skin! It’s a scent I got in some sample grab bag and I have unexpectedly enjoyed it a lot. It’s juicy and fresh but classy. I even wore some sprays to physical therapy today. I did 20 minutes on the step machine! Very low level setting but still, I’m proud and can tell it’s going to help. I had my therapist before for both my hip and my knee, and felt happy to see her again. How she feels about it may be less clear! She warned me that it’s going to take hard work given that my injuries have meant more time has elapsed since my knee surgery. But still, it doesn’t sound hopeless.
Good job on the step machine today! Glad to hear that you are getting that much-needed PT.
Go you, that’s wonderful you managed 20 minutes!
I have a sample of Mango Skin too and liked it…kind of a fruity gourmand. And yay for your 20 minutes and getting PT! 🙂
Another nice picture today, Robin. I had no idea that mango flowers were so delicate and lovely.
Seriously, neither did I.
Flitting about today in Chanel Paris-Paris.
You’re like a butterfly!
Sampling Tropicalismo from PK Perfumes which has mango among its notes.
I sampled the new Viktor and Rolf Good Fortune. It’s definitely not a Good Smell! It doesn’t even smell like perfume. All I could smell was chemicals. I seriously dislike it. I am now copying madtowngirl and wearing No.5 L’eau.
Drat on the new Viktor & Rolf! Wasted a good bottle, it sounds like.
It’s awful! Lol
The bottle is cute though.
Yeah it smelled pretty non-descript and derivative to me too…like they mailed it in.
I’m rarely in the mood for rose, but I’ve been gravitating towards some the last few days. I think it’s because of sniffing some yellow tea roses last weekend. Today I finished off a sample of Les Indemodables Rose de Jamal. I prefer it to PoaL and Rose 31, neither of which agree with me, but I don’t need any more than the sample.