It's Tuesday and and the last full day of spring, plus World Refugee Day and Ice Cream Soda Day. Happy 81st to Brian Wilson! What fragrance are you wearing?
I'm indecisive this morning, and I'm going to pick something from what you all are wearing. Tea at the moment is Kusmi Anastasia.
Reminder: 6/23 is National Let It Go Day. Wear a perfume that works in the way the day is intended...that is, that helps you let go of negative feelings from the past. OR, wear a perfume you've been hoarding, OR, thunk (use up) a bottle or sample, OR, come up with some other creative take on the theme of letting go.
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: the Aquazzura Secret Garden Tea & Coffee Pot ("Aquazzura's Secret Garden collection is inspired by the whimsical world of chinoiserie reinterpreting these 18th-century designs and layering them, print-on-print, for maximal visual impact referencing birds, butterflies, and rich florals. The Secret Garden tea and coffee pot is made of high-quality porcelain adorned with a garden motif and finished with gleaming gold details") is $410 at Saks Fifth Avenue.
Another pretty teapot!
I’m no help to you, Robin, as I’m commando at the moment for a doctor’s appointment that I am looking forward to! Going in for my biannual earwax removal as I have all my life. Apparently the only skinny part of my anatomy are my ear canals and they plug up to the point that I not only can’t hear but have roaring tinnitus. The relief at getting it taken care of is wonderful, how often do you go to the doctor and get instant relief? I’ll be wearing Diptique Tempo this afternoon.
Yeesh. I have skinny ear canals too, which resulted in three ear infections and one surgery before the age of five. It also means I have a lot of trouble with airplanes, skydiving, and, more dramatically, scuba diving. (I still do them, though; I just have a lot of pain afterwards.) But I don’t get my earwax professionally removed; sounds like your case is much more serious than mine! I’m so glad you feel instant relief after the appointments 🙂
Hope you can hear + ringing is gone!
ANOTHER cool, dreary day! Summer starts tomorrow and if the last few months are any indication (no reason they should be, I guess), we are in for a sunless summer.
But I’m wearing the bright, sunshiny Eau de Courrèges, my favourite citrus cologne ever: a genuinely exhilarating top, with hidden depths and a soft chypre base. It always puts me in a cheerful mood. In the seventies, even a mere cologne could be a work of art.
I am far, far south of you and summer is slow to arrive here as well. In my case it’s a bit of a relief, but it’d be nice for it to at least be hot enough for a trip to the (unheated) pool. I scanned a headline a couple of months ago that said “expect cooler temps this summer.” I didn’t read it but wondered what “cooler” meant. I’m now learning 😉
Agree!! The simple perfumes, even drugstore bought, from the 70s and even 80s were highly affordable works of art.
Good Morning!
I went and “thunked” a bottle yesterday, an old Gap fragrance that I have had for years. I think the upcoming community project inspired me to finally do away with it; it was only not even a quarter full, after all. I had already thunked a, decant, I think? a while ago and plan on using up another Victoria’s Secret FB that is not at all full some point soon.
I kinda like this ‘letting go’ thing; I have been looking around the basement after the water heater fiasco and finding stuff that I can bring to the GoodWill. I don’t need this stuff anymore, so why do I still have it? *shrugs*
Have a great week!
Love a good thunk! My friend was just mentioning to me that Gap had reissued some of the classic Gap scents including her highschool scent, Om. We’re very curious to go try them.
I still have 5 different ones left from the original issuing.
Never heard of Om.
I honestly don’t remember Gap fragrances but I’m curious to try. Om sounds great, judging by the fragrantica page.
I had and finished two bottles of Om. If that’s a reissue I need to get to a Gap ASAP. Was Heaven also reissued?
You have five??? Which ones??
Lol! Spun Orange Blossom, Smooth Sandalwood, Mandarin Jasmine, Coconut Tuberose, and Heaven, of course.
I bought all these AGES ago, and I still have them, blimey! But they still smell nice.
The one I thunked was Crepe Gardenia. She was a good gal.
Oh wow!! How I wish I had held on to my old Gaps!!
I finished a sample of Vetiverissimo, so I’m taking CP points. I found that I had fewer almost finished samples than I thought, but I found enough for the rest of the week. I may make this an ongoing project, to finish samples, decants, and minis.
That’s a great way to tip one’s toe into the “letting go” mindset. I’m seriously thinking of following your example. I have a bunch of samples in little trays, and honestly, and there are some I’ve been looking at for years, sheesh. Why? 🤷🏼♀️
I am having a Tom Ford morning
SOTD Rose de Chine
Lippy Paradiso ( a nice pinky coral color-great for summer when you add some bronzer to your face)
I had the most non-Tom-Ford morning you could have, and did not manage a lippie all day, much less a fragrance. But I did finally get some dinner in the oven 🙂
Wearing DSH Perfumes Menthe Modern for the CP. I had completely forgot about having this sample and I am thunking it today. Nice, refreshing scent, but I do not need to keep it in my collection anymore.
Happy Tuesday! ☕️
Points for you!
Wow, what a great set! Love the colors and the birds.
We had a long air alert (4 hours) and several warnings last night, but nothing reached our town. Not a sound from outside.
I keep finishing decants. Today I could not choose between Prada infusion d’Iris and Molinard Muguet, and then suddenly my hand reached for Odori Spigo. Thunk! It was a pretty lavender.
I hope you managed some sleep with all that stress, and that it was otherwise a quiet night for your friends and family.
I hope you, and your town, stay safe!
Stay safe, Glannys!
Four hour is really long, wishing you a calm night.
*hours
What is a long air alert?
I meant the period of time between the point when they announce air alert (meaning there is a potential danger – missiles, drones etc. – and everyone should take cover) and the point when they give us the “all clear” signal. I’d say average air alert time is between 40 minutes and 2 hours, but last night (or should say early in the morning?) the alert signal was given at around 2 a.m. and all clear at around 6 a.m. So it was longer than average.
Wow. Just wow. I hope you are holding up Glannys, and that your mother is too.
Thanks, friends. We are holding up.
I can’t even imagine what it is like going thru all those air alerts. Be safe!
Hello all!
Woke up to my test grade from Friday being released. Got a B but I was the highest in the class. For how quick I’m going with both classes, I’ll take it. I was tearing out my hair with the online homework which makes me think I know it better than I expected.
I’m in the thinnest veil of Coromandel EdP (6 sprays). I have a feeling you won’t be copying this one, Robin!
Have a great day everyone!
You sell wonderful
Thank you!
zomg @ “thinnest veil” (!) I used to apply similarly, but now 1 shared spray (of just about anything) will almost always do the trick. I moved from a dry to humid climate, which I suppose explains the difference. It’s a matter of how much my skin projects, not some kind of olfactory issue afaict.
Enjoy your glorious Coromandel!
Ah, did you move again? Clearly I haven’t kept up with you in the past few years :-/ Where to?
Yes, to the Hampton Roads region of Virginia (where the Chesapeake Bay meets the Atlantic.) I haven’t kept up with anyone either! Just the occasionally pop-in, and usually during the summer when I need ideas for non-boring warm weather perfumes. I did see your wedding photos somewhere around here a while back – congrats!
Oh how lovely; I hope you are enjoying your new home!
And thank you 🙂
I live in high humidity but I like to be able to smell a bit through my mask. These five sprays are just the right level: no bombs!
Ha, I will not be copying you! Or anybody, it’s 6:30 and I’ve been going going going all day, no time for perfume and now I’m too tired to care 🙂
Congrats on getting the highest grade in the class, that’s lovely!
Fair enough! Thank you!
Wow, nice job!
Thank you!
I’m wearing MFK Petit Matin today, because I wanted something radiant and fresh today for the last day of spring.
Perfect choice, I should have worn that today.
In the spirit of letting go, I used up a decant of Elie Saab’s Le Parfum Essentiel. It was too small an amount to pass on the decant to someone else, and I like it just enough that it wasn’t dump-worthy. So, thunk-worthy, I lavished on myself the dregs this morning.
“Lavish” is the perfect word
I’m liking the phrase “thunk-worthy”!
I started out in Dior Rouge Trafalgar, but after a bike ride and a shower, felt like switching to Fox in the Flowerbed. Ahhh!
Biking..shower…You have done more this morning than me.
Trying to let go of my stress by wearing my comfort scent –Milk of Flowers. I have a week of midterms and since I’m trying to do an accelerated program, that’s 2 today, 2 tomorrow, 2 Thursday and 1 Friday
Yikes! I hope the comfort scent helps.
Oof! Good luck with all the exams!
Goodness! Best of luck with the exams!
Good luck! You’ll feel great when they are finished.
An intensive schedule, good luck.
Oh my goodness, that’s intense! Best of luck!
You’re gonna rock ’em
Ouch! Good luck with all of them!
I’m still doing the “letting go of negative vibes” project, and today’s entry is one of my all-time favorites: Vetiver Oriental. It’s cool enough to wear it today, so I’m taking advantage of that. It’s so comforting and so “me.”
Good for you AnnE.
Thanks, Robin. 🤗
Hello fragrant friends, I am in Tauer LADDM because we are going through a pleasantly cool week here in the Bay Area. I am grumpy about work because I am having computer issues but our IT appears to have disappeared. LADDM is helping assuage my grumpitude, thereby rendering it semi-CP-compliant.
Thanks to all who said kind things about my anniversary getaway with my husband last last weekend 🙂 It was wonderful!
I like your word “grumpitude” and plan to borrow it.
Also wish I could borrow some of your cool weather!
Thank you, I rather like the word 🙂 Sending you cooling vibes!
Another fan of grumpitude. I too will need to borrow it at some point!
Hope you are done being grumpy by now Koyel.
(Personally I am just getting started, ha!)
Hehe, thanks Robin. I’m no longer grumpy about my computer, but other issues have arisen in the meantime. Luckily, I’m having cheese for dinner (because I’m an ADULT and no one can STOP me), so I think that will help.
An issue-laden day here too. I just polished off half a pint of chocolate ice cream with a lot of salted peanuts dumped on top 🙂
I’m sorry for your issue-laden day 🙁 but I commend your method of dealing with it!
Koyel, I might have missed your anniversary so happy anniversary! If I didn’t miss it then double happy anniversary!!
🌞
🤣 Thank you…possibly for the second time!
Wearing Eau Premiere today. I see that Fragrancenet now has a points system. Not like it will make me shop there more but why wait years yo get one?
Oh I will check it out.
Missed the weekend poll but will belatedly chime in that Chanel No 5 soap is my best 2023 discovery. It smells gorgeous – creamy aldehydes and roses – but not at all like No 5. It makes me want a perfume that smells like it, and a soap that actually smells like No 5 lol.
And speaking of, No 5 is my SOTD, and easily my most worn fragrance of the year. I’m wearing a new-ish EdT from a cute little spray bottle I bought for the summer season. For a while I couldn’t (or at least thought I couldn’t) wear vintage No 5 because the animalic notes were too overpowering, but that phase has passed so I’ve been wearing many iterations, both vintage and not, for the past many months.
I also noticed, when shopping for the soap, that Chanel has the Exclusifs suitcase of minis back. I’ve only smelled a few of the EdPs and it’s awfully tempting. Since I make so few perfume purchases these days, it’s much easier to justify a major splurge like that. But since I’ve made splurges in other shopping categories… not so easy to drop the cash.
I did buy a bottle of Fidji this morning, though. I’d never smelled it until very recently. Fun! And perfumemath free 😉
Hope this finds all of you well —
Yes! Totally agree on the Chanel 5 soap–I want a perfume like that!!
Adding: Nice to see you here!
Nice to see you, too!
Just bought a bar of No. 5 soap for my cousin’s birthday. She won’t buy it for herself, but is so happy when she receives one. Chanel does really nice bath products, it must be said.
I almost talked myself into a $50+ cake of vintage 19 soap… After a long series of really disappointing soap purchases I decided splurging on my pricey faves is just fine (I also like to pretend they’re all birthday gifts from me to me.) Thus far the other qualifier is the Tauer Gardenia soap, which is also gorgeous. And the Oriza Legrand Violet bar, which is currently scenting my bed linens.
NIce gift to your cousin!
What a thoughtful gift. Perfume-lovers who manage to stay out of the rabbit hole do have a different idea of what “expensive” means…
I am wearing last drops of vintage Chanel no. 19 edc. I love the idea of letting go even though it’s not easy, planning to empty the bottle this week.
At home and making rose jam, the whole house smells like roses.
That sounds amazing, fragrant, and delicious!
Ooh I can’t imagine what your house smells like but I am swooning!
Vintage EdC is my 19 of choice. You smell gorgeous!
You smell amazing, Hera!
In Encense Mythique today. Getting near the end of the bottle, but it’ll take a while to empty, no matter how lavish I am.
You smell fabulous!
I am wearing Kai for “letting go” today. I have the perfume and the body cream and though I like it, I am a little tired of it and thinking about letting it go. Of course, about when I say that I will change my mind. Better keep it for a while just in case. LOL
Ha, the “keep it” project should be next.
I could do a month of keep it.
Lettin’ it all go in a VC&A Orchidee Vanille sample. It’s really pretty and I don’t generally have much trouble with fragrances lasting on me, but this one is very light …and sadly, my skin is “letting it go.”
🙂
I finished my bottle of Parfums de Nicolaï Eau d’été today, and started on my back-up bottle.
It’s the first bottle of perfume that I have finished in a looong time.
Congratulations! Plus, that’s a good one.
On the road again….
Left the UP, tearing across Wisconsin, almost to Minnesota, hoping to sleep in South Dakota tonight. I have several scents in the trailer, but the only one in my purse this morning was Snowy Owl, via a lovely split!
The little trailer is great! The smoke in the air, not so great. Wearing a mask all the time helps with that. Masks are great! Who knew? Hope everyone is having a pleasant, or at least educational, day!
I have a lot of fantasies about a little trailer. Maybe some day! Safe travels to you!
What kind of little trailer do you have? Having just retired last year, we’re in the market for something like that.
Safe travels!
Safe travels, and I hope the air clears up for you at your destination!
Smoothie is strawberries and yogurt
I was in the mood for flowery green so it was Ma Griffe parfum de toilette, favorite, so unique green gardenia and tonight I’m not sure yet, maybe I’ll reapply Ma Griffe, I also have the extrait and may apply some of that.
I think I will be twins with you tonight 🌞
Oh, wonderful Lillyjo, Ma Griffe is heavenly, so original.
I polished off my strawberries yesterday.
Get more today, maybe, I did, it’s so wonderful in season.
Waiting for the farmers markets, which only operate on the weekends in my area. They have the BEST berries. So much better than the supermarkets.
I’m wearing Harvest Mouse today from the Zoologist split. It is so nice. Despite having SO MUCH perfume, I might buy a whole bottle of this when the travel spray is gone.
I bought Harvest Mouse and then sold it because the longevity and projection were nonexistent on me. I’m happy it is working better on you. The smell was wonderful.
So many people have been talking about this, and I regret not filling your second split. Did you ever get it?
Yes, it filled pretty quickly.
Good!
Philosophy Living Grace
Now I’m off to research the Gap reissues!! If anyone knows what they are please chime in!!
Yesterday I let go of the last dregs of my Borneo 1834 decant, and I’m continuing patchouli today with Coromandel EDT in an effort to let go of hoarding the discontinued/rare stuff.
Glad this has inspired people to use it up!
Inspiring – and nice to think about enjoying every drop of our favorites.
After an earlier ‘I just sprayed this thing, where is it?’ event on my arm, I have applied copious amounts of lotion and am trying again with Perris Monte Carlo Mandarino di Sicilia. I just sprayed it, so it’s too early to evaluate how long it will last. OJ Frangipani on the other arm, which probably would have benefited from the same generous lotion preparation. There’s always tomorrow to mend my slacker ways.
I’m waiting on a packet of samples in the mail, which is always a dangerous thing to hang your attention on. It might show up, it might not: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
Turns out, I just finished the above vote of diminished trust in the post office when I heard the mail drop. The packet came! YAY!
I got a sample set awhile back that included several Perris de Monte Carlo scents and really loved one of them, but now cannot remember which one. I”m so frustrated! It was either Mandarino di Sicilia or or Arancia di Sicilia, and I truly wish I could remember which, because I really want to buy some! Maybe I should order new samples?
If it helps, Mandarino is a citrus situation, and Arancia involves some orange what I perceive as a HUGE pour of coffee
Happy Teapot Tuesday!(I’m loving the set on that picture!)
SOTD!
Mancera Tonka Cola.Delicious.
“champagne” was the clear winner for the color of my walls,I did testers on a couple of walls in both natural and lamplights.The “dove” one is really pretty but way too dark with too much of a blue undertone.Champagne has the slightest of peachy/apricot tones on a light greyscale and I love it.
XO’s
You smell delicious and your paint color sounds gorgeous. It can really change your space to have a beautiful new color on the walls.
That sounds like the perfect color. Hope you love it when it’s done!
I love the sound of that one and hope you’ll enjoy it when all is complete!
We are winning paint color choice twins! I saw my choices for both guest bedrooms go up this afternoon. VERY pleased with the results!
What did you choose? Finding the just-right paint colors is so difficult.
Both colors were from Behr: Monet and Ocean Boulevard. Money is a lavender blue, while Ocean Boulevard is greenish turquoise.
Nice picks! And perfect for bedrooms.
Ack, Spellcheck strikes again. “Monet”, not “Money”!
I’ve gotten 3 compliments on Ocean Boulevard from 3 different people already.
So glad you love your new colors! It is such a nice feeling.
Very pleased with these picks!
Picking paint color sounds like the most stressful thing to me, but it sounds like you’ve got a winner there. Hooray!
So glad champagne won, it is just a better name than dove anyway.
Great CP! I’m wearing Lanvin My Sin from a long-ago decant I got through STC. I have probably 2 more sprays, then thunk. I didn’t want to overapply at first, since it can be a musk bomb. The weather is cool and rainy again, so the scent isn’t overwhelming (at least to me).
2 more sprays is not many!
Not on the CP today because I met up with nancyleandros for lunch at the Houston Galleria today and we did SO MUCH SNIFFING! My nose is broken! and every square inch of available skin space is wafting something or other! Plus, now I have lemmings to GET rather than plans to LET GO.
Some winners from today (I did not buy anything but one day soon hope to):
Parfums de Marly Safanad. I seem to lean these days toward sweet-ish florals with a nice tart counter element, which here is orange. Quite rich and luscious.
Nishane: Ani and B612. My nose was too taxed to decide.
MFK: The new citrusy one in the strange (but appealing) turquoise plastic bottle is WONDERFUL. I thought it would be kind of dull and bland but it has an absolutely juicy fresh bergamot note that I love, and it seems to stay that way.
Tiziana Terenzi Draco: The list of notes makes it sound like a mess (all kinds of florals, fruits, tonka, heliotrope, etc.), but it’s gorgeous! However, the SA for this line at Neiman’s was very pushy and they are very expensive, in part because of heavy jewelry embellishments–which I just don’t need.
By Kilian Woman in Gold: This is the one most likely to come home to me before too long. I’m really behind on the BK offerings. I just sort of lost interest at some point in the past. However this is GORGEOUS. Another example of florals, citrus, patchouli, but somehow so beautifully blended.
Amouage: Lineage, a brand new one in a pale turquoise bottle, 2023. Ginger, patchouli, and myrrh are the main notes and it’s a gorgeous, unusual (to me) blend, where the ginger isn’t too pungent. I loved this one.
We also smelled several of the Amouage Opus scents and both loved Rose Incense, which is Opus #12. Another pricey one! Other lines have this combination of notes but this version seemed more delicate to me.
And we sniffed several of the Amouage attars. Wow they are so potent! The one with rose in it made Nancy’s eyes roll back in her head (lol). Nancy liked one but every time I sniffed her arm I had to confess that all I could smell was CAT PEEEEEE! EEEEE! I hope she’ll forgive me. 😉
Fortunately, the a/c in the Galleria was working just fine, which is more than I can say for mine at home. This heat wave is so intense. I’ve managed to get an appointment for a repairman to come tomorrow and will make do for now with fans (I have two units and one is still working, thank goodness).
BK Woman in Gold is fantastic!
I’ll second what hajusuuri said about BK Woman in Gold!
What a fun sniffathon!! And third-ing the enthusiasm for Woman in Gold.
I love Rose Incense so much too. Now you’re making me curious to try the others you liked.
Hope you can manage to stay cool tonight!
Woman in Gold is fantastic, reminds me of vintage Tocade. I need to try Lineage.
Wait, the new MFK is in PLASTIC?
My exact first thought when I read above! 😆
Could it be a shell around an inner glass bottle? Otherwise, no way I’d get that. I still dislike getting rubbing alcohol, nail polish remover and several other such things in plastic.
That sniffathon sounds like mad fun!! I love it when perfumistas get together and report back to those of us in the wilderness! 🙂
We had so much flipping fun yesterday! I’d almost forgotten about the rose attar. Was afraid to ask the price. I’ll have to re-forget about it!
Does the new MFK wear longer on you? I like it a lot, but it doesn’t last long enough on my skin.
You were such a good sport about the expensive cat pee! I’ll keep that one away from you, and you keep the tuberose monstrosities away from me. It’s all good. 👍🏻
SOTD = 4160 Tuesdays Waft from the Loft Parfum
Pretty much whenever I wear a parfum, my tendency is to hold back but no more!
I am convinced someone at work has a hearing problem. Whenever she’s in the office and we overlap at least twice a week, there’s always some kind of commotion and it really stems from her being LOUD. It doesn’t matter what the topic is, she just needs to let the whole world know something’s up. Grrrr 😖
I have a loud coworker. She couldn’t whisper to save her life.
You smell super fantastic. 🙂
Maybe that person has tinnitus?
I started the morning in ONE spray of Caleche EDT, distributed among two wrists and behind two ears, and I’ve just realized it’s still quite noticeable. So much for thinking it was short-lived! Seems it’s one of those that are better with light application than otherwise.
I’ve found that with some perfumes too. A little can go a long way.
Day 2 of painting crazy. It’s looking like the painters will be here until at least Thursday. They are welcome to take all the time they need to get it done right. It doesn’t help that I inadvertently touched some wet paint earlier this afternoon. I fessed up immediately and apologized. They were nice about it.
SOTD = more drying paint and sweat. The painters had several windows open this afternoon, so the A/C was off until after they had left. It’s still a little muggy in here… 🥵🥵
I’m glad they were nice. Sorry you weren’t able to use the air conditioner. It got pretty hot here today.
I think it got up to 79 or thereabouts here. Not bad, really. But definitely muggy by late afternoon.
The next 2 days are supposed to be more like Spring than Summer here. Only around 70 degrees F (21 degrees C). And some much needed precip is on the way.
Nice. I am in a moderate drought right now. Which is pretty rare here. Crazy weather.
Wearing my not-yet-thunk sample of Le Cri, maybe because I only do one spritz each time. This one is definitely on the FB list now; it seems to work well in all weather.
I’m making a Uyghur lamb rice dish for my husband tonight. He requested it for Father’s day, but we never got around to buying the meat this weekend. Hope it turns out well, it’s been a couple years since I last made it.
I luuuuv Le Cri AND I am now heading to your Father’s Day celebration for Uyghur lamb and rice. Hear that knocking? That’s me!
Gorgeous teapot! Wearing BK Angels’ Share. Had ordered a little sample ages ago. Wasn’t sure about it, but re-sniffed at the local Sephora (which has suddenly really improved in selection) and now contemplating the travel spray. Glad it comes in that size.
I love the teapot, but as usual, not the price.
I was just outbid again. This time on a bottle of vintage Diorissomo. I have a set limit that I will bid though especially on old bottles, in case they’ve turned bad.
My sotd was surprisingly Oud Bouquet. I normally wouldn’t wear something so sweet in this humidity, but it called my name this morning.
Rats on being outbid! I know there’s always a limit, but it still stings.
How did your scent work out today?
I really enjoyed my sotd. I sprayed under my clothes so I was able to get wafts here and there.
Great idea!
Argh on getting outbid! It’s frustrating. But it also means money saved in one of the most annoying ways I can think of.
😅
😀
I’ve had some bad luck on perfumes that had turned so I agree with your strategy. You smell lovely!
I have been outbid many times on vintage Diorissimo. The spray bottles especially. I eventually got a full splash (houndstooth) and it was a little faded, TBH.