It's Monday again already. Also, World Goth Day and Sherlock Holmes Day. RIP Martin Amis. What fragrance are you wearing?
I'm starting the week off with community project points (cheating, since I did not announce the project until this morning so nobody else had a chance), in Imaginary Authors An Air of Despair.
Reminder: on 5/26, we're celebrating National Paper Airplane Day. Wear a fragrance inspired by air travel, or with "air" in the name, or do whatever you like with the theme, the sillier the better.
And for those of you who like to plan ahead, see Scent of the day ~ Friday community projects 2023, where I'll try (but usually fail) to have the next five or six weeks mapped out in advance.
Note: top image is Purple Airplanes [cropped] by SashaW at flickr; some rights reserved.
Here in Canada it’s Victoria Day: probably best not to even get into the whole monarchy thing (I have opinions), but a holiday is a holiday. Chores to do today — laundry, organizing, deep-clean of the bathroom — because when you’re a grownup, is there any such a thing as a day off, really? But then for supper we’re getting out the electric grill for the first barbecue of the season, so that’s something to look forward to.
Today I’m in SL Gris clair…, an imperious lavender with an unmistakeable blast of steam-iron at the top and a warm incensey base. I should wear this a lot more often.
You smell wonderful!
Enjoy your holiday, and your barbecue!
Yay for BBQ season!!🙌🏻🙌🏻🌹🤗
Being non-monarchists, here in Quebec it is Patriot’s Day. 🙂
Yay for getting some grilling in for dinner! 😋
Something with “voyage” in the name would be perfect. This CP’s giving me an opportunity to revisit an old estate sale purchase of L’Air du Temps. Wishing I had Un Air de Samsara too.
Envoyage Zelda??
Thanks for the idea, JB! I have a few En Voyage perfumes.
Robin, your sotd and CP points made me lol.
I’ll have to think about this CP. I don’t think I have any perfumes with air in the title, I will have to get creative and today is not that day, even with two strong cups of coffee. White Cube it is, again.
I now realize that An Air of Despair is about the air in the name, but I took it as despair over air travel these days!
That would work better but smell worse 😉
I’ve decided to do a week of L’Artisan. First up is The Pour Un Ete, from a decant. Pretty, less green than floral.
You smell wonderful! It’s not hot enough here yet for this one, but it’s always in heavy rotation for me during the summer.
First thing that came to my mind for the CP was Vol de Nuit, but I might have a sample of An Air of Despair around here somewhere — I’ll hunt around. Commando at the moment, hunkered down in bed still, and not sure what I feel like wearing today. Coffee might help me decide, but that would mean unhunkering. 🤪
Yes, Vol de Nuit is perfect! I know there are others inspired by flight but can’t think of them right now.
Commando twins, sorta kinda.
Happy Monday! SSOTD is Lubin Kismet, which I discovered thanks to NST swap friends!
Hmmm… air themed you say? I could do a whole ‘nother week of aldehydes since it is supposed to inspire the breath of cold arctic air!
I think I’m gonna steal MossyBerry’s theme last week and do perfumes I learned about through NST friends! After all the perfumes traveled by ‘air’ to get to me 🙂
(shush I know perfumes are supposed to be sent via ground :P)
I think I might just go with your idea and steal from MossyBerry’s theme too. Most of my fragrances I have learned about from NST friends. I am going to go with Splendiris today. I heard about this through a few people, but I know JB for sure.
Claiming my enabler badge!!Splendiris is really pretty,what are your thoughts?
I love it, but wish it lasted longer.
Splendiris is lovely!! Looking forward to your week of discoveries, as you noticed we have similar tastes so I shall have to take note of other perfumes you love 😉
I have noticed😊
Today is my mom’s birthday today. She got so excited about the Dolce and gabbana garden perfume I got her and the Bath and Body Works aromatherapy body wash that she had to hop in the shower immediately. It’s just so funny. We are going to the free day at our local zoo today and I will be wearing Au Couer du Desert for the occasion.
Happy Birthday to your Mom!
Garden is really good. Have fun at the Zoo! I went last week and they have raised the price to $20.00 per adult!
Dang! The zoo used to be the one place you could go, have fun and not have to empty your wallet. I hope you and your mom had a great time! 🎂
Happy birthday to your mom!🎉 That sounds like a great day.
Happy Birthday to your Mom!And enjoy the day!🌹
Have a fantastic time at the zoo both of you.
That sounds like such a lovely day! And your mom is cute.
Was the wedding nice?
Happy Birthday to your Mom! Enjoy!
I’m in Molecule 01 for back to work Monday. I’m going to have to think about this cp.
My older daughter left for her summer camp job yesterday so now the house will be quiet again. She is my extrovert, effervescent personality kid who is always smiling and laughing. My teenager is an introvert who can usually be found with her nose in a book. She perks up when her sister is around though, like peas and carrots those two.
I didn’t take her this year, so I stood at the door and waved goodbye. My eyes got watery, but they did not spill. That’s progress for me!😆
That time of year already? Hang in there, mama!
That is indeed progress!
Awwwwwwwwww.
Good job Mom!🌞
I’m wearing Ummagumma from last night and it’s still very present. It’s cooled down here, which is a big relief. I love this one so much- the incense is prominent on me in the far dry down and it’s just dang delicious. If BF did a line of matching body products in this flavor, I’d be ALL over it! 😍
I did submit to a hospital in Santa Fe for the summer, which of course positions me right where I want to be. The only hitch in the giddy up is that I’m not sure they’re willing to wait until the end of June, which is when my contract here is completed. Whatever will be, will be but I’ve got my 🤞🏼!!
On a note of dang good service, over the weekend I purchased the New Mexico annual state park pass (such a great camping deal!). Got the transaction receipt in email and realized my old address was still active on that site. Yikes! So I emailed them STAT because I wanted to make sure it went to my mailing service address and not the old address because I’d never get the pass. Didn’t expect anything considering it was the weekend and the offices are closed but lo and behold! Later that day, I got a text, an email, AND a phone call from a live person to help me figure this conundrum out. Amaze balls!
Robin, I don’t know whether to laugh or cry at your fragrance choice today. I hope you’re able to keep on keeping on and finding a little bit of joy here and there as you wade through rough seas.
Fingers crossed for the contract 🤞
🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻❣️
Hoping you will get the assignment you want, Deva.
I love a good customer support story, thanks for sharing! And keeping my fingers crossed that the assignment comes through!
I did not pick the fragrance for the despair part, really!
And yes, there are little bits of joy. When I am with my sister or my mother I laugh. My son and I together alone, we are laughing a little less, but we did watch Monty Python last night so we are trying 🙂
A bit of excellent customer service can truly make your day.
Just in case you are still contemplating a bottle of Angels Share — I saw it is back in stock online at Costco.
I am wearing Chanel Coco EDT today and drinking a large cup of black tea.
This past Saturday, my Dad passed away, after a long battle with dementia. I am so sad and I can’t imagine a world without him in it. Today, I am going with my Mom, one of my sisters and my husband to make the funeral arrangements.
We all knew the day was coming and he is out of his pain, but there immense sadness. I am okay when I am around my Mom because I am staying strong for her. They had been married for 58 years. When I am by myself, I cry a lot.
Sorry to go on so long with this post, but this is helping me as I write it. I was originally just coming on here to post what perfume I was wearing.
My condolences.
So sorry for your loss.
I am so deeply sorry, Barqs. Sending love and comforting hugs 🌻.
So sorry, Barqs.
Barqs, I’m so sorry. Hugging you from afar.
I’m thinking of you today, Barqs. Hugs.
I am very sorry for your loss Barqs.
I’m so sorry. Sending love and wishing you and your family much gentleness.
I’m so sorry Barqs, such a huge loss from all your lives. Sending you love.
So sorry for your loss. I can certainly empathize with you as my mother died from this a few years ago. Hugs to you and your mother.
So sorry for your loss!
There is comfort in the memories of a life well lived,full of love and LIFE.
BIG HUGS TO YOU!
🌹🌹🌹🤗🤗🤗
I’m so sorry for your loss. I still miss my dad a lot. Almost more now than when he first passed away,
So sorry Barqs, it’s hard, no matter the circumstances.
I am so sorry Barqs.
I’m so sorry, Barqs. Write it out all you need to. Cry all you need to. You can here, its a safe haven.
Your world just changed. When my parents were sick, that just became my routine. That was part of me, even in the last few days, knowing the inevitable. Their deaths still felt like shocks.
My heart goes out to you.
Sending you my deepest condolences and many hugs.
I’m so sorry to hear about your father.
Oh Barqs, I’m so sorry. 58 years! That’s astonishing. Hugs to you and your mom.
I’m very sorry for your loss.
I’m so sorry. Big hugs to you.
I’m so sorry about your profound loss.
So no sorry to hear this. My condolences.
My deepest sympathies Barqs. That’s a difficult path to walk. Hugs.
Hugs to you! I just met up with my cousin last night (hadn’t seen him in…23 years?) and we talked about our much loved grandfather going downhill with dementia, and his funeral, which was 10 years ago now (hard to believe). I’m glad you are all together, helping out through this difficult time.
Oh Barqs, I am so sorry. My parents were married for 58 years also when my beloved Dad died from Lewy Body Dementia. I miss him every day but would not have wished him one more day. His picture sits right above me at my desk and as the years go I remember him clearly as he was… handsome, funny, smart, kind, Aramis wearing, pizza loving, giver of great hugs.
I am sending you and your family my biggest virtual hug. Please write more about him when you are ready.
Barqs, I’m so sorry to hear about your father. Sending hugs to you and your family.
So sorry for your loss.
Sending my deepest condolences to you and your mom. May your love for each other and warm family memories comfort you in your pain.
Sending you my sympathy, as I miss my parents after almost 4 years. They too were a loving and long-married couple. I hope you will have all the space you need to grieve. Oh, and strong black tea and Coco are a good start to a day.
Hello all!
Fun theme, though of course most of my perfume archive is in storage. I’ll do my best!
Today is Rouge from CdG, the smell of the air after a summer rain. I love the ginger note, which is really doing some heavy lifting. Interesting and beautiful.
Have a great day everyone.
Maybe that is its own theme: what I did not put into storage 😉
I am wearing comforting, calming Guerlain SDV. It is Victoria Day so most of everything is closed. I will go to a funeral this afternoon.
Wishing you a little light for your somber day.
Hugs. Funerals are a difficult ritual sometimes.
Hope the SDV helped with the calm and comfort you needed, Hera.
Wheeee! I swapped my winter and summer frags over the weekend so now I have a whole new perfume shop in my house, lol. SOTD is Demeter Honeysuckle which is the most realistic honeysuckle ever. Might not have been the best choice since I will be doing yardwork soon — hope the bugs don’t like honeysuckle! Ah well, it’s Demeter so it won’t last long anyway.
The honeysuckle? Nice rec, unless the bugs get ya!
Took a while for temperate weather to get to you this year, didn’t it?
I am in CdG Zargorsk.
Beautiful day outside! I am stepping out now for lunch and a walk. I need some fresh air!
Happy Monday! ☕️
You smell perfect.
Hope all is well!
💜
Thank you, Annie! 🌻
Today was a pretty good day for a walk outside, except for the hazy sky. Looked weird here.
No hazy skies here. It was a gorgeous day, until mid-afternoon when it became cloudy.
Its like summer today: 24 degrees and sunny! ☀️☀️☀️
This morning: Shaal Nur
Lots of online meetings
I had the afternoon off, still had to compensate for some overtime, and I booked a private horse riding lesson. 🐴 it was awesome.
Now after a shower, I feel energised and I am wearing Concentré d’Orange Verte 🍊🌱
Tonight: pub quiz!
I love all your “little pleasures” that makes the day just that much better!🌹✌🏻
Hope you slayed in the pub quiz!
My Zoologist split still has slots open at the Splitmeet!
I had a look at my perfume wardrobe this morning and it looks distinctly un-airy, though I might have a contender for Friday. Today I am wearing DSH Mata Hari. It has an animalic growl as you might expect and I’m enjoying it very much.
Well you are travelling by air to the jungle,so there’s that….🙌🏻🙌🏻
Hi friends! It’s been a while — this past year I had to deal with PTSD and a major injury, which I very recently had surgery to fix. Now much more pain-free without and within, I’m re-discovering gladness along with my perfume collection. Today I’m in my very vintage Lush solid Imogen Rose, which has gotten (weirdly) so much better with age. At this point, it’s all luscious pink damask rose with a spoonful of carnation adding warmth and depth and coziness. In my world of many fragrance loves, rose has to be my most favorite note, and I think I have a rose fragrance for every mood or setting, but Imogen Rose and Rose Flash are the two I reach for when I just want to feel happy, light, sweet, and girlish.
Hi Isabella, welcome back. I hope life becomes easier this year
Another beauty from Lush!Love Imogen Rose!
So glad you overcame the health issues, welcome back.
and you smell lovely, I treasure my Imogen Rose.
I have thought of you, often and maybe I missed your posts. Imogene Rose is delightful, another Lush winner.
Hello hello! It’s wonderful to hear from you!
Welcome back, Isabella!
Welcome back! Glad things are better for you.
Welcome back! I was wondering how you were doing, and how your precocious son is.
Wonderful to see you posting again!
Welcome back, Isabella!
Wearing CDG Chalayan Airborne which is a lemon, juniper, mastic scent. Quite a dry ( rather than lush) scent, based on the air-smells of Cyprus. A good gym scent. Our hot water cylinder is broken so I am bracing myself for a cold shower ( not a huge fan, especially on dark, cold frosty mornings), then off to the dentist ( ugh) and later rehab/ gym ( zzz) , plus all the other stuff. Hopefully someone will turn up and fix the cylinder today, or tomorrow, or the next day….
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/may/22/jude-law-wore-blood-poo-and-sweat-perfume-to-play-henry-viii-firebrand?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
A piece about Jude Law wearing scent to create the smell of Henry VIII in his latest movie
Cold showers, ugh. Brings back bad memories of PE in junior high school. One was required to shower after class, and the showers were always cold.
In Guerlain’s Apres L’Ondée today. It’s mostly gone now but every now and again, I catch a gentle whiff of its remnants. (New edt)
So fleeting but soooo pretty!
Worth it while it lasts!
One journey that is on my bucket list is to go to Madagascar.As I’ll probably be travelling by air,I’ll link my SOTD! with the vanilla from the island in Vanillary….yup,still on the thunk-mission!I have a couple of the oldschool black lush bottles I’d like to finish up this year,there is still left:
Breath of God(good for the cp as well!)
Karma
25:43
And I “think” another Dirty lurking
….lol(I stocked up when a friend was in the UK,way back when before Lush landed on our shores).
I need to vent:Artists announcing a “World Tour” with NO dates or venues on the african continent.DON’T call it a World Tour then,please and thank you.Just mentioning this because a favorote artist is currently on WORLD TOUR and guess where he/she/it is NOT touring??Lol.
Clearly it was one hell of a Monday.
I feel better.
Kisses!
🤣🤣🌹✌🏻🤗
Lush! Hopping in to get another Lush Vanillary this week. I’ll copy you and wear out the bottle.
A definite fail on cartography!
That’s as bad as calling something a “World Tour” that only takes place in one hemisphere.
I’m with you on favourite artists NEVER coming to where I live on their world tours (they always come to my continent, but never where I live). However, this year that has bitten me twice. I’m currently on the substitute vacation for the one I had originally planned to go see an artist perform in Munich, because I assumed he’d never come to my city (and there was a weird symmetry to the Munich thing that I won’t get into). And then, lo and behold, the day I bought the insanely expensive flight to Munich, he announced his North American tour and apparently he has an expansive view of North America so he’ll be in town, so I cancelled the crazy Munich ticket. And then even Depeche Mode is coming to town…who knew?
That said, I want to go to Madagascar, too!
If you plan on Madagascar, go a bit further out and visit the Seychelles. It’s worth it, especially the smaller islands, Praslin and Le Digue if you’ve not been.
Oohh.. what artist are you unhappy with?
I know, the suspense!
Sorry for the disappointment, I agree shouldn’t be called world tour.
Smoothie is Gala apples and mandarins and yogurt
I started the day in I Profumi Di Firenze Osmanto which I really enjoyed today, this was sent as a freebie with an order, 10ml, quite generous, I wasn’t impressed at first but it has grown on me, it is a pretty floral, I detect an anis or artemisia note as well as the osmanthus, it’s not on Fragrantica catalogue. I applied liberally as it is a light scent. Tonight I am in BdI EDP, rather sweet today in a moderately warmer weather, 15C.
I’d like that smoothie, Aurora.😊
😀 Come and share it,
Aurora, the other night at work, my boss bought everyone smoothies. I have never had a smoothie before and didn’t know what to pick. I ended up choosing an orange/banana one. I can’t say that I liked it. It had so much banana it was all I could taste. Maybe next time I will choose one with apples.
Hi Lillyjo, I only choose banana when I want my smoothie to be especially substantial, usually with strawberries, yes apple and orange or mandarin smoothies are very good imo. Does your daughter still want to make smoothies at home?
Happy Monday, all.
This week’s CP is very interesting, thank you Robin! At first I didn’t think I would have anything except for the Vol de Nuit suggestion from SheriG, but now I just came up with an idea. Will save it for Friday!
I’m wearing Issara today. My nose is still not 100%.
Feel better, tulipani! I think we are all copying others.😊
Thank you AnniePerfumes!
If anyone needs ideas, I am planning on wearing Alaia because Luca Turin said it smells like the interior of a Concorde plane.
I also suddenly thought of L’Air de Rien, which I don’t have, but I think many NSTers might have it.
I’m counting on your help! 😊
I’ll have a think about the CP, Vol de Nuit came to mind for me too, but more inspiration may be just around the corner. Today I’m wearing Taklamakan from SHL777.
Cartier L’Envol also, Caron En Avion. L’Artisan Un Air de Bretagne. Demeter Salt Air.
Hi all,
Vanillary. Lush is founded in the U.K. and the parcels come from Canada to the U.S.
Do I begin with the aggressive man across my house? I have a cackle of stories this week.
*If anyone wants a bottle split of a Lush perfume, let me know! I am getting at least a bottle of Vanillary this week and have others that are frightening low.
Oh no. I am sorry about the aggressive man…you mean across the street, I guess? Wherever, nobody wants aggressive man.
Still laid low, wearing a bit of Coquillette Mirabilis to get me through.
Sorry cazaubon! Hope you beat that cold soon.
Been a busy day today. Surprised that I got most of the tasks done that I had set for myself. Hopefully I can get one more finished tonight. If not, it’s OK that I do it tomorrow.
SOTD = Korres Guava scented lotion on my shins and sweat. Moving boxes is dirty work!
LAdDM might be an option for Friday’s CP… 🤔
Thank you for the great idea!
You’re welcome!
Hope you are resting by now.
I have an idea for this week’s CP…and purchases from today will play in. 🙂 Just have to see if I can make it work when I get home.
Yay ✈️
Finally sitting down to post.
My sotd is Clive Christian X. I always thought this was almost identical to Gucci Rush. Wearing for a full day, I see they are only really similar in the opening. After about 2 hours at work I kept wondering why I was smelling cereal. It turns out it was me! I looked up the notes to both perfumes and the only note I thought might smell like cereal ( unsweetened) is perhaps ceder, which is only listed for X.
Yesterday I took a few unloved celebrity perfumes and body sprays to work for 2 of the ladies there. It felt good to give them new homes.
Interesting. I remember many moons ago, X was my favorite of the Clive Christians, but do not remember it well now.
I’m traveling this week so my choices are limited (and my timing is skewed), but my SOTD was Vilhelm’s Moon Carnival, thanks to a split Melisand61 hosted.