It’s Hump Day! Plus, happy solstice and enjoy the longest day of the year (if you’re in the Northern Hemisphere, that is). Also on the docket, World Music Day and the International Day of Yoga. What fragrance are you wearing?
Right now I'm trying to let go of my anger after a 1 hour call with the customer service people at my internet service provider. The fragrance to keep me from blowing my top: Aftelier Candide. (Seriously, as soon as I sprayed it on I felt better.)
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: top image is Summer solstice [cropped] by Nick Kenrick at flickr; some rights reserved.
I’m now in the warm embrace of 24 Faubourg after spending the morning in Eau de néroli doré.
I love these “golden” scents from Hermès, with L’Ambre des Merveilles making up the trio.
I bet you smell awesome! Love this combination-might have to try it, too 🙂
Eau de Neroli Dore is a wonderful summertime scent.
Having another Tom Ford morning
Robin-how did your dinner turn out last night?
SOTD Noir de Noir
A little spicy for todays first day of summer but its wearing nice in the cool morning we are having
Anyone have a favorite TF fragrance?
Some TF makeup too
I loved my sample of NdN. Think my favourite is Neroli Portofino-I even have a tube of the body cream, and the scented oil, and it lasts forever on me. You smell great!
I love Neroli Portofino as well-perfect summer scent. I also love Rose Prick
NdN is wearing on me like a very dark rose..
I definitely have a favorite — Violet Blonde.
So many good one’s. Fleur de Chine and Sahara Noir are on my unicorn list, but I do love Tobacco Vanille and Violet Blonde and Soliel Blanc.
It was just fine. We are eating through the trunk freezer in order to get rid of it (we currently have 2 refrigerators and a trunk freezer for 2 people, ha) and so last night was roast turkey thighs in dijon mustard & thyme. It was not a Tom Ford sort of dinner so I’m glad you are keeping standards up here 🙂
Hmm, I once read an interview with Tom Ford wherein he assured the reporter that the donut and coffee he was having for breakfast were not just so he’d look all “regular guy!” Also I am twins in needing to keep looking to our freezer for meals!
I told myself I wouldn’t buy anything that must go in the freezer. You can tell I failed miserably.
Good news though! It’s garbage day tomorrow so you may have just given me the motivation to get rid of some stuff!
I exercise my best self-control with fresh seafood. If I don’t *know* I will cook it the same or next day after I buy it, I don’t buy it. But chicken and pork tend to hand around in the freezer, as does fresh fruit. :/
I can’t picture him eating a donut! lol
Yes, my favorite Tom Ford is Black Orchid
Mine too. I prefer his signature collection to the Private Blends.
TF Shanghai Lily. BUB hidden away.
🙂
Orchid Soleil, Noir pour Femme (or words to that effect,) and Cafe Rose are the only TFs I’ve ever worn with any regularity but it looks like all have been discontinued? A peek at the TF website & sephora would seem to indicate that the line’s been more or less rehauled, which I also recall happening 6 or 7 years ago. Out with the old; in with the new.
… and newer eye-popping wallet-clearing prices …
Several: Rose Prick, Lost Cherry, Tobacco Vanille, Sahara Noir and Violet Blonde.
I remember Sahara Noir-its smelled good on clothing not on my skin so much
My favorites are Café Rose and Violet Blonde.
I’d love to get a travel spray of TF Noir de Noir.
I have a 30mL bottle of Black Orchid but rarely wear it. That one is almost masculine on me. No flowers at all.
Some are too masculine leaning for me..
Happy solstice!
Today I wanted something with rose, so I thunked my sample of Lancome Peut-Etre. It is a sweet powdery rose on me, with a bit of lipstick iris at some point. It smells innocent and peaceful, so I think it works as an anti-negativity perfume too.
It is a soft skin scent with zero sillage (at least not that I noticed ). I sprayed it about four hours ago, and now it is almost gone. So I probably will add another scent soon.
I have now thunked my sample of Ambre Fetiche as well.
Oooooooh, Ambre Fetiche is a great one!
Happy Solstice Glannys, hope you will have a quiet night.
Thank you!
That was a nice one, along with some others from the same line. They seemed to appear then disappear pretty quickly here in the states, though. I considered buying a smaller bottle of Peut-Etre but could never find one to buy so gave up.
You smell(ed) delightful and charming! 🙂
It is charming, but it needs to project more.
I found Peut-Être here in Montréal and was excited to try it, but it was pretty meh and I could hardly smell it. Money saved!
I think the scent itself is lovely, but I had to bury my nose in my arm to smell it – it sits too close to the skin for my liking. But it is for the best – I have too many perfumes, so at least I am not tempted to get this one. 😁
First day of summer! I wanted to wear something breezy and fresh, and I don’t have too many of those — they’re sort of the exact opposite of what I love most — but there’s always the infinite foliage of Yves Rocher Homme Nature (which I have had for so long that the printing is starting to wear off the bottle). It’s so green!
It does not feel like the first day of summer here and we are looking at 10 days of rain, so I’m pouting just a wee bit. Maybe tomorrow I will think of a let-it-go green.
It’s looking more or less the same where I am. It’s actually uncharacteristically rainy today. Like, not dramatic or stormy summer rain – just drizzly, wet, and unseasonably cool.
Yep. It is currently 57 here.
Robin, if it’s any help, the 10-day forecasts here are so often wrong that I don’t pay much attention to them anymore. For instance, last week’s forecast for tomorrow was 90. Now it says 79. So it might very well be sunny for you! ☀️
Happy Solstice!
That is true too!
I’m wearing the last of a sample of Eau du Sud, so CP points for me. I really ought to wear this more often in the summer.
I love all the Goutal fragrances-eau de Sud is so beautiful 🙂
My favorite!
Hello!
I will be working on thunking my decants this week and Letting Go of my desire to purchase full bottles of them. SOTD is Chanel No. 22 EDP. I already have a vintage bottle of the EDT so I really don’t need a bottle of this, but I still enjoy it in a slightly different way! The EDP is sweeter and more full bodied than the EDT but both are lovely still the same.
That is a worthwhile & money-saving way to do the project!
I am wearing YSL Paris and planning a trip to Paris in May 2024 with friends.
At the office where there is always renovations and construction, lots of noise and dust, on top of that, it is cold like crazy, apparently they can’t adjust the level of air conditioning.
You smell beautiful.
2nd that!
I’d be tempted to head back home 🙁 Good luck with trip planning! That sounds more fun than being at the office 🙂
Ugh, your office environment sounds incredibly unpleasant.
Robin, you smell Zen and cheerful. Tend to forget about Candide, since it’s stored in the fridge along with Heure Exquise, two that I heard tend to turn. And I’ve been putting off contacting the cable/internet provider for the very reason you mention, ugh.
In L’eau d’Hiver today.
OMG they are AWFUL, just AWFUL. I always try very hard to be polite because after all, it’s just a job for somebody, and I know the incompetence is not their fault, but still.
I wish you peace in your endeavors 🙂
It seems that all ISPs suck lately. There used to be some fairly good local ones, but they are long gone.
I think the low fogs that have kept us cool during May and June are gone and summer is indeed here in SoCal.
Usually the agapanthus bloom on my birthday in early May, but the just popped open this weekend in all their purple glory.
SOTD will be Chanel Paris -Paris to greet the sunshine.
no more foggy June gloom
When I lived in SF the fog was unbearable some summers..I would leave the city any chance I got
I love it. I love the natural airconditioning it provides and miss it when I am not here. I have such topophilia, love of place.
Thanks for teaching me a new word today!
We had the cool and the fog this morning in Seattle, but it’s burning off now.
You smell lovely 💕
Happy Summer! 🌞
Wearing PdE Le Cri for the CP. Sample thunked! Another nice scent that didn’t make it to the full bottle “to buy list”. Money saved!
Happy Wednesday! 🌻
Happy Summer!🌻🌞
👋🏻🌞
I agree with you. I found this nice too, but did not feel the need for a FB.
Hurray for more money saved! 🤑
Lots of gorgeous scents mentioned already. I’m in a sample of Carnal Flower, which smells really pretty. I have a massage after work and then I want to go for a bike ride, and then do some yoga- all my favourite things on the Summer Solstice. I find both solstices so special-for no particular reason lol I just really enjoy them.
Hope everyone’s day is decent-and maybe something special will happen, who knows 🙂
You smell wonderful! I just received a decant of that yesterday. I love it!
I feel the same about solstices. I think it’s because they make me think about what the earth and sun are actually doing, how things work and how amazing it all is.
Shalimar Eau de Cologne, after a number of days wearing various Nicolai summer scents. This Shalimar version managed to wipe away my fear of Shalimar that developed after a unfortunate over-spraying incident. The fear was real.
Heading out to our backyard to transfer some flowers to some pots. Then I’ll start my remote work around noon or so.
I keep wishing I could take notes at the market about customer interactions. In most cases, people are really good natured. But they can be very amusing. (I was recently quite thrilled to handle the checkout for one of the Packers football players.)
I can well imagine, given the fervor of all the GB football fans I have in my family (sister-in-law is from northern Wisconsin)!
All it takes is for one particularly bad case of overspraying to make someone averse to a given perfume.
I’m celebrating the solstice in Le Temps d’Une Fête — it seemed fitting.
I wore that on Sunday and thought of you, SheriG.
A fabulous perfume!
Yes, indeed!
I’m wearing a lively green rose scent for the summer solstice, Diptyque Eau Rose eau de parfum. I look forward to summer partly because the following season is autumn which is my favorite.
Aha, and I love the greener cousin, L’Ombre dans L’Eau. I will see if I can come up with a way to make it fit the cp.
The edp version of Eau Rose is my preference over the edt version. I love L’Ombre dans L’Eau also.
Thanks for the reminder to wear Eau Rose, need to get that out. And autumn is my favorite season too!
What?!.. it’s my Birthday? I almost forgot. Lol🤣
First day of Summer! It’s going to be around 90 degrees today. Not complaining! Right now I am doing laundry and light(!) House cleaning. Later, the kids and I are going to my sister’s to have cake( please be chocolate) tomorrow is my daughter’s birthday and we will do some birthday shopping for her.
My sotd is Alien eau Sublime with regular Alien hair mist in my hair. This is a great smelling and long lasting hair mist. I really didn’t even have to add a perfume.
Happy birthday to you & your daughter! May your chocolate dreams come true.
Happy birthday!
Happy Summer Birthday for you and your daughter! Have a wonderful time! 🌞🎂🎉🎁
Happy Birthday my dear. Yay for perfume hair mist, and very best hopes that your chocolate-cake wishes are indulged!!!
Wishing you a very happy birthday!
Happy Birthday! May it be as great as you smell!
Happy Birthday! 🎂
Happy birthday!
Chocolate cake!
Happy birthday, lillyjo!
Happy Bday!!!
Happy Birthday, lillyjo! I hope you have a beautiful day!
Have a fantastic birthday and a happy year and lots of fun, less stress and great music videos and perfume!
All best wishes for your birthday, enjoy that cake, have a wonderful time.
Happy birthday to both of you!
You were so smart to both be born in June! Hope all the festivities are perfect.
Happiest of birthdays to you, lillyjo! This little corner of the world would not be the same without you! 🤗
Happy birthday babes!Hope your day is full of sunshine,fabulous perfume and chocolate cake!
XO’s❣️❣️🤗🌹
Happy birthday to you and your daughter, hope the cake was chocolate!
Sending you wishes for the happiest of birthdays and all the chocolate cake you can eat!
Have a happy, Happy Birthday! Alien is a great birthday scent; it’s one of my very favorites.
Happy birthday!
Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday, lillyjo! 🎉🎂❤️ I hope it’s chocolate, too. Then you can save me some leftovers.
Happy, happy and more happy birthday to you!
Happiest of birthdays to you and your daughter! I hope it was a chocolate-y one!
Happy birthday, lillyjo!
Happy Scented Birthday, lillyjo! 🎂🎁🎉🌹
No wonder you love Summer so much. You’re a Solstice baby!
Happy Birthday! 🍰🍰🍰
I hope you had a wonderful birthday yesterday, lillyjo! And have fun with your daughter today for her birthday!
I am envious of all you living through warm weather. Outside it is a sunny and crisp 57!
Perfume this morning is Miller Harris Scherzo hair mist. Love it!
And in my effort to let go of perfumes that I feel ambivalent about, I am offering, CONUS only (sorry!), a freebie to anyone who comments on NST:
BDK’s Wood Jasmin, 100 ml bottle, about 85% full.
Please let me know here if you would like it, and then email me at ann dottie eisenberg attagirl comcast dottie net.
Can I place dibs on it? Thank you!
Yes! My pleasure. Please email me your coordinates etc. I know I must have them somewhere, but I may not be able to lay my hands on them.
Hair mist twins!
I was just watching a video that featured Scherzo. Apparently it is a love it or hate it perfume. ( at least in the youtube fragrance community. )
I get that. I am definitely in the love camp. Weirdly, I might not wear it as much if I had the perfume iteration. With my thick curly hair, I love getting a whiff whenever I turn my head.
I hear you are coming to H-Town soon, where we will be more than happy to supply you with LOTS of warm weather!
In fact we will even let you take our warm weather back home with you (please!)!
I am! Looking forward to seeing you!!!! They say being forewarned is forearmed, but honestly, I cannot remember the last time I breathed air over 85 degrees. It’ll be interesting.
Haha, just pop down to the South Bay in a month if you want to remember what 85+ feels like. Much easier to get to!
In sample of Oriza Legrand Reve d’Ossian today. I was excited about the International Day of Yoga so I did a nice challenging one this morning–talk about learning to let go. Yoga has been amazing for me and I highly recommend it if you are interested.
Good for you springpansy!
Reve d’Ossian is on my FB wishlist.
It’s pretty great!
I think my pre-shower CP scent will be Calyx — and if it makes me sneeze/gives me a headache (it was my signature scent in my early 20s, then started causing me problems), it will be time to Let it Go.
Robin, sorry about the ISP woes. We need to switch and it’s one of those things I keep not getting done because it’s always so stressful — but it’s costing us money to stay with $pectrum.
Love Calyx, such a fruity green optimistic scent
I hope it does neither & you can keep it — I love Calyx. It also reminds me of my early 20s, but more because I always wanted a bottle then. I didn’t get a bottle until MUCH later.
Calyx is such a fun, summery scent! I hope you enjoy it today.
Love Calyx! I think I lucked into one of the last Prescriptives bottles before Clinique took over. But I would have to double check the manufacturing code to be sure.
Ugh. And it is such a pain to switch companies.
I am letting go by finishing a sample of Hermes Eau Des Merveilles. I love it, but I feel like I have to reapply every 3-4 hours with this scent? Is this normal or is it just me? My skin doesn’t usually eat up perfume. I have bought full bottles before of this and then later think that it I can’t smell it.
All the Merveilles I have are very fleeting on me. That’s why I always need to reapply several times during the day to enjoy them properly.
Then maybe it isn’t just me. Thanks.
Nope. I’m pretty sure I went through an entire sample of the pillar in one wearing trying to get it to project on my skin.
Good to know!
The Elixir one lasts very well on me. Moreso than the Eau.
Eau des Merveilles Bleue is the only one that last 4-5 hours as a scent skin on me.
Interesting. Maybe I need to try that one.
Yes, Eau doesn’t perform very well on me but the elixir lasts 8 hours or so.
Thanks. I may need to try it.
The Eau de Merveilles Bleue lasts all day on me. But I also have scent glue skin. YMMV.
I have not tried Bleue either. Need to check these others out.
I have called the EdM Bleue “an aquatic perfume for people who hate aquatic perfumes”. I rather liked it, and aquatics usually make me run for the hills.
Scent: trying out Matiere Premiere’s Neroli Oranger. No verdict, should probably pour sample into a spray.
Let it go: a loaded topic! Perfume-wise, I have bottles that really should find new homes. I would prefer for them to arrange this for themselves, but they aren’t taking the proper initiative.
On a life front, I should probably be letting go of some Jalapeno Lime corn chips that are both joyous and calorific. I’m opting for joy at the moment
Observation: I’m grateful that there are good decant services out there. I only buy 5ml once I’m pretty sure I really want to dig in on a fragrance, and I’ve kept it under control so far. (I can easily see how this could go sideways, though)
Have a great day!
I’ve felt *exactly* the same way about all the bottles I need to let go of!
You’d think they’d get so disgusted with their lot they’d up and leave of their own accord 😉
😂
I can see it now!
Happy summer! It’s been in the high 80s low 90sF but so dry that it drops into the low 60s at night. We’re trying to live without AC and just have the windows open with fans. It’s inexplicably windy outside so this arrangement is working so far. I’m wearing Harvest Mouse from a sample that will probably be thunked this week. It smells kind of fruity today.
That is impressive, to live without the a/c at high 80s, even if it’s dry! I salute you and fear I’m a wimp.
SOTD = Les Exclusifs de Chanel Le Lion
Thunk! Or should I say THUNK? This was (!) the 200 mL bottle from which I did a split three (!) years ago and had some left over. Of course I thought I would be all done with the bottle 2 years ago but one thing led to another and I neglected this bottle. No worries as I do have a personal 75 mL which I had already dipped into because I just have no discipline!
I may need to go out of my way to stop by While Foods today as I have to pick up 3 items. No complaints but Saturday may be challenging…
I believe I have some from your split, in fact!
Me too! Can’t believe it was THREE years ago already?!!
I know!
I had to go back to my IG post to check. I lied inadvertently on Reddit…
Yes you do!
Wow, you did a Mega-Thunk today!
The winter solstice happened at 2.57am today so the days will soon gain a minute although the coldest temperatures are always July and August. I sometimes notice bumble bees lying inert on the fort paths and garden. They look dead but often they are just cold and if you pick them up and hold them for a bit they revive with the heat. Kind of a miracle really, letting them go and watching them fly away. Wearing smoked ambergris, three hours till sunrise!
Where on earth does smoked ambergris come from?
Nice story about the bees.
https://www.clarkart.edu/ArtPiece/Detail/Fumee-d-ambre-gris-(Smoke-of-Ambergris)-(2)
I’m not completely convinced that this ( image in painting ) would be ambergris. I would expect it to be frankincense or another resin. So I will investigate!
Mine is Smell Bent
Wow, what a gorgeous painting! Sargent! I love all those whites! Thank you. Also, I didn’t know about that perfume, and must investigate.
I did a bit of research on ambergris at one point mainly to find out if it’s legal in Canada (I was reading up after trying Squid, which uses synthetic ambergris). Apparently it is. Actually treatment of it differs a lot by countries: https://us.whales.org/2015/09/10/ambergris-lucky-lucrative-and-legal/
This reminds me that when I was trying perfumes yesterday one was described as including a note called “vegan musk.” There’s a new one on me! (I would not have put these two words together, for fairly obvious reasons!)
You can sell ambergris here, it’s not illegal ( like USA and Australia). Thanks for your article. One of the interesting / sad things about ambergris is the change in its composition. It used to form around squid beaks ( that were coughed up rather than digested) but now quite a bit of ambergris forms around plastic and plastic ropes.
Vegan musk…on the shelf next to vegan beeswax and ambergris
I did not know that about the plastic! That’s terribly sad.
Happy solstice.
Love Smoked Ambergris! ❤️
Happy Solstice Kanuka!
Enjoy your day’s getting longer!
I will stay up as late as possible tonight.
Yay for the solstice!Counting the days till Spring!(haha!)
Happy solstice!
My West Virginia farm girl Mother-in-Law told me that her family used to say: “when the days start to lengthen, the cold starts to strengthen.” Sounds like it works in the Southern Hemisphere, too!
That’s so true!
I finally thunked a decant of Chanel 28 La Pausa edt from a lovely NST’er. After trying this, I was only able to get my hands on a full bottle of the edp since the edt was already discontinued.
Instead of being sad about the edt not being available any longer, I’m so happy that I was able to try it and enjoy the beauty that is.
I also thunked a 75ml sometime last year(edt),and although I thoroughly enjoyed wearing it,the fleeting longevity was a frustration to me….always wanting more more more!!
Isn’t that the truth! It’s barely a whisper now.
This one sounds nice to me.
It really is; just too bad it doesn’t last. Hope you get a chance to smell either one.
I am wearing Memoire d une Odeur the second time this week, because it was so hot and humid, that nothing else would fit. And i really went to the gym, because it was too wet to commute by bike, so i drove there after a loong workday… Just tomorrow, then i have the friday off!
Good for you for going to the gym!
Boo on the ISP. They NEVER make it easy, do they?
I’m letting it go by proxy today in Tauer Les Années 25 from one of the mini bottles. I should use this up because I know there have been reports of these bottles evaporating quickly, but thankfully I haven’t had that issue with this one. I did, however, blow through Bis (may have had evaporation issues), so I am remembering it with the original.
Summer solstice? What summer solstice? I wore a fleece for my jog this morning. It’s that dark, moody overcast outside. But…this is typical, really. Vancouver rarely gets the memo that it’s summer until the beginning of July. And I’ll take this over the heat wave two years ago at this time when we had to move to a hotel for air conditioning.
Keep warm, hopefully you will get summer weather soon.
Sounds like you and I are weather twins today.
Robin, sorry about your angering phone call 🙁 Ugh. Glad the perfume is helping.
I also needed some cheering up, so I’m wearing Bollywood or Bust. It’s also fitting because I’m currently reading The Perfumer of Paris, whose main character is an Indian person (sure, ok, it’s a tenuous connection).
Well, anyway, happy first day of summer! Enjoy the long day! (Very northern hemispherocentric of me, I know.)
Happy solstice Koyel.
Thank you! And a very happy solstice to you!
Is that book any good?
I really likes the first book of the trilogy (The Henna Artist), and liked the second book fine. I’ve only just started this third book, so we will see how it goes 🙂
Happy first day of summer to you, Koyel! It’s cool and rainy here, with temps right around 60 degrees F. More like Spring.
Thank you! But what a strange summer, right??
Yeah. But Spring was weird here as well… several high temperatures that broke records and felt like Summer, especially in April. 🤔
Looks like there might be a persistent stormy pattern in my area for the next 7 to 10 days.
Here’s hoping tomorrow is a better day for both of us.
Wearing the smallest spritz of NV Trayee because I’m just today getting over the nasty crud I caught last week. Spent the last few days wallowing around in bed simultaneously throwing a one person pity party and berating myself for being a wimpy mess. Fun times!
First perfume wearing in a few days so I really wanted something light. Wanting to go with my Egyptian Goddess Perfume Oil but couldn’t find it after re-organinzing my collection a while back. 🙄
As far as letting go and the CP, the only thing I’m letting go is the pathogens that have dared to invade my body. Every exhalation, I’m chanting “Out damn pathogen, out I say!!” I think it might be working! 🙃
Wishing all wellness and happiness! For those caught in the rip tide of grief and pain, go with the flow, don’t swim against the current, let it take you out into the endless blue sea, eventually you will be gently deposited on sunny, calm shores. 🏝️
Glad you’re feeling better, it must have been a nasty bug.
It was a very humbling bug. I haven’t been this sick since the winter of 2019/2020 when I’m 99.9% sure I had Covid before Covid was named “Covid.” 🤧
Feel better soon, Deva! Sending healing vibes!
Thank you! Only the good die young so I’ll live to a ripe old age I’m sure! 😉
Feel better soon!
Thanks JB! Enjoy the process of changing, upgrading, and updating your abode. Paint (and flooring!) makes a world of difference in setting a room’s personality. 🏠
I think I had that bug too. It wasn’t Covid (I took a test) but it lingered and lingered. Finally I went to my doctor and was diagnosed with a sinus infection. After a Z-Pack I was very much improved. Hope yours is about done with now!
Thanks, just trying get some energy back is the difficult part. Gets harder the older I get…😅
Yay for feeling better!
Strawberries and yogurt smoothie
We’re having good weather 25C and breezy so I chose a summery scent I Profumi Di Firenze Agrumi Di Sicilia, debating if I like it better than Mediterraneo, maybe. Tonight it’s Berdoues Vanira Moorea, a citrussy vanilla I got because Dulcis in Fundo was too expensive. I find VM a very good summer vanilla.
I had the same smoothie today and yesterday. I came across some strawberries at a farm market monday and figured I’d best buy them as they’re very likely the last of the season.
Yay, twins, we’re so lucky to be at the time stawberries are in season.
Looking forward to stone fruit and melons next! (And tomatoes and peppers and eggplant)
Yes to all of those😀
Yum to all of the fresh farmers market goodies!
I’m in a few spritzes of MFK Aqua Media Cologne Forte, the new one. I applied this morning, and it’s nearly gone. Rather green, with a little fennel and citrusy tea. I like it a lot, but the price and longevity has me “letting go” of the idea of a full bottle purchase. 😉
Robin, the bottle is indeed plastic. Hopefully this isn’t a harbinger of things to come.
As Calypso posted yesterday, we went on a super sniffa yesterday! I was surprised to see SMN at Saks! I tried a few on paper, but none of them made it onto skin. They are carrying By Kilian, and had a Dark Lord tester out. I mooned over it and it got skin time. I begged a sample cuz I’m shameless. 😆
Delina La Rosee was gorgeous – it’s Delina for sure, but with a more citrusy note in it. Valaya, also Parfums de Marly, was nice at the start, but went a little sweet into the wear. I think this was a hit for Calypso, though.
Tried Amouage Opus XII Rose Incense, but accidentally sprayed it over something else, so I’ll have to try it again. The paper tester smells divine, though.
We both tried Nishane B-612 and liked it, but The only real estate I had left was the palm of my right hand. Did I mention it was a super-sniffa?!? 🤣 I’ll have to try this one again too, since what I was smelling was quite different than the notes listed on fragrantica.
Lastly, I tried Liquides Imaginaires Dom Rosa Millisime, a grapefruity fresh rose. This one made Calypso recoil, but she was nice enough to sniff it twice. I can still pick up a whiff of it on my arm. I begged a sample of this one too, so I’ll see what it’s like when I’m not wearing 3,597 other smellies.
Sad news: I tried Neroli Outrenoir on skin, and it’s definitely been reformulated, and not very well. The SA actually volunteered this information when he sprayed it on me. I was very surprised he was so candid about it! As always, YMMV.
Calypso shared some lovely samples with me, and I can’t wait to try them, especially Harvest Mouse, which many are smitten with. Fun times! 🤩
Good report! It was indeed fun. Sorry for my reaction to the Dom Rosa, but grapefruit in scents nearly always smells like cat pee to me! I know that’s not true for everyone. (Just as, for some people like you, sandalwood can smell like pickles.)
I’m pouting because the sample of the new MFK the kind saleslady made for me simply will not spray at all!
However I’m comforting myself with the luscious sample of Shalimar Tonka that you brought me yesterday. 🙂
I am really just kerflummoxed that MFK is using plastic bottles at those prices.
Winter solstice down south,and I’m looking forward to days getting longer and brighter.Really this fall/winter has not been too bad,especially the nights are much milder than what I expected.
SOTD!
Kayali Lovefest Burning Cherry.I wanted something sweet and cheerful this morning because I dreaded to go to work.Turned out to ALSO not be too bad.Expect the worst and then nothing really happens?Lol!
Happy Wednesday summer folk(most of you anyway!)
XO’s
Happy solstice!
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I know that pre-work dread well. Sorry you’re having to experience it, too. Hoping you have a long weekend coming up soon! 🏝️🍹
Enjoy the longer days!!!!
Happy Solstice!
I bought some Profumum Roma samples earlier in spring, I guess in hopes of finding something beachy and summery, but I’ve been quite remiss in my sampling and can’t remember which ones are which and if I liked them or wanted to try again or if I’ve even tested them all. This is not because I’m overrun with samples so much as that the names don’t really stick in my head with any kind of association so I forget what I’ve put on almost immediately., much less remembering it later.
I thought Acqua Viva might be a fun one for the first day of summer but it wasn’t doing it for me. I feel like I should like it more than I do – a (lemon) citrus that really lasts – but it’s a bit austere. A couple of hours in I topped it with Dulcis in Fundo, which really is fun and yum! It reminds me of another lemon meringue/candy floss confection that one of you gals supplied me with many years ago but I can’t remember what it was called or who I got it from (sorry!)
On another note, my soybeans have been soaking and today was to be my inaugural tofu-making day but I took a muscle relaxant in the middle of the night when I couldn’t get back to sleep due to back pain and am too groggy to do anything challenging. Am instead watching tofu-making videos in preparation.
Wow, I didn’t know you could make your own tofu. I hope you’ll let us know when you’re better and do try it, how it came out.
After I started making bread, something I always thought I’d have to buy from a store or bakery, it started to dawn on me that there are lots of things one can make oneself. It led to making ricotta and cream cheese, and I figured tofu is probably similar. And freshly made tofu sounds too delicious not to try.
Ricotta is totally easy. It’s like paneer in that respect.
Good luck with the tofu. We make ours and it’s pretty easy
Thanks! I bought a soymilk maker as that part didn’t look too fun, but the coagulation of the milk is hopefully not too challenging. Do you make silken or firmer tofu? I was hardcore lemming cold silken tofu salads (hiyayakko) for the summer when the project got rolling, but I think my first foray will be into the firm territory as I’ve got a craving for sheet pan tofu + veggies & noodles.
It’s a beautiful sunny breezy day, had a nice shopping jaunt with a friend this morning, but soon will have to deal with the intense unpleasantness of taking the dog for a nail trim. I have to pin her under my arm in a vise grip while the tech does the dirty deed because she screams and thrashes (and that’s *with* a heavy tranquilizer, which the vet requested). She is definitely the worst dog I’ve ever had for nail trims.
Scritches to your dear pup for nail trim anxiety! I relate, because I *cannot stand* the idea of someone else trimming my toenails. Fingernails don’t bother me, though I have yet to ever have a professional manicure.
Me too, I would never go for a pedicure, I do all that myself.
Oh, no, poor doggie. I am well aware that this procedure is regarded as a hideous violation by almost all cats and you risk your life if you try it at home. I have to do stealth trimming, one nail at a time, when a kitty is sleeping in my lap. After that one snip the cat is instantly out of my lap!
Amazingly, my cats would just lie there sleeping while I did the whole job.
Good luck with the nail trimming. One of my dogs is the same, so stressed and yelping. By chance I found that if I put a soft muzzle ( made of nylon, and for a bigger dog) on her, but upside down so the longer section actually covers her eyes ( so she can’t see) she is much calmer.
https://www.vetforpet.co.nz/product/x_sku/49581M.html
Something like this worn upside down
Interesting! I tried putting a muzzle on her once (one her size, in the correct way) because she is constantly trying to eat stuff off the ground, and complete revolt ensued. She is opinionated and hates being restrained.
I sympathize. My cat has gotten more resistant to claw clipping over time…the last time nearly breaking the skin with her bites, and being VERY deliberate about telegraphing that to me, that she knew she could break the skin but had held back. She is very much her own cat…well, she’s a cat.
I don’t even try to trim my cats’ nails. They get it done once a year at their vet appointments.
Going for CP points with Alien Goddess edp. I have a sample from Mugler, and a kind NST’er send me a sample, too. I think I can let this one go emotionally, and maybe too one of the samples by the end of the day. I know M. Mugler has passed on, so his vision or at least his waiver will never again be on a Mugler fragrance. Alien Goddess is nice, and I won’t waste time fussing about the fact that it is not a bit like Alien. I will enjoy its polite floral profile and be glad when all is spritzed away.
I’ve heard the Intense version has some original Alien DNA. It’s not sold in my area though, so I haven’t tried it.
I tried the Intense but it had something in it ( Ambroxan?) that really put me off
Good to know!
Pretty sure I never tried that one.
But wishing I would have grabbed a bottle of Alien Fusion while the getting was good. 😉
Keep your eyes peeled – I could see it popping up at TJX or maybe in a forgotten drawer at a department store.
Happy solstice everyone! Although our coldest weather is yet to come, as Kanuka said, I am so much happier knowing that the days will start to get longer.
I’m wearing Meraki from Fort and Manle.
Same here in Canada, but it is a comfort to know you’re on the upswing!
SotM was vintage Empreient, which I received from a perfumista friend, and with which I immediately fell in love. It’s truly a “comfortable” scent for me, and I feel right at home in it. I bought a BuB when it was still cheap. Unfortunately, the small decant I have with me has gone off. I’ll have to check the big bottles. Fingers crossed that they are still ok!
Now it’s L’Artisan Fleur d’Oranger. Although it didn’t exist yet, this always reminds me of my wedding, which was a very low-key (and therefore happy) event! We got married in the Bay Area, and I hadn’t lived there for long. I’ll never forget the gorgeousness of the orange blossoms blooming in the garden where we were. They were heavenly, and definitely a new experience.
Oops, that should have been Empreinte. From Courrèges.
What a lovely wedding memory!
Thank you. 😊
Day 3 of Paintapaloooza. The painters are now working on the master bedroom and bath. They told me earlier they won’t be finished today, so I am not sleeping in my own bed tonight. Ugh. But I knew this was going to happen sometime during the project. Fortunately I won’t be sleeping on the floor; there are better options available.
With the CP today! I used the Korres Guava shower gel this morning. It’s low enough that I have to turn it upside down to get what is left out, but not in thunking territory yet.
SOTD = Korres Guava lotion.
I’m with you on renos. We’re on day 3 of washroom demolition. (Fortunately we have 2.)
Yikes! I’d much rather take painting over demolition and renovation. Dealt with some of that in the past.
Cheers to not having to sleep on the floor!
I may have a renovation in my future. Are they as awful as everyone says?
The worst thing I have dealt with is a restoration, after about $29K worth of damage caused by a second story washing machine that malfunctioned. That took several months.
Water damage SUCKS!
Oy vey! 😫
It will be over soon! How are the kittehs handling the painter invasion?
Teflon kitty has been extremely freaked out, and spending most of the time under our bed while the painters are here. But that is not an option for tonight.
Spooky has been better behaved than usual. Much less pooping outside of the litterbox. But she still spent a hair amount of time under the bed as well.
OK, that should be “But she still spend a FAIR amount of time under the bed as well.”
How did I not see that when I posted?
Same thing for me. I had it for two months. My doctor vacillated between virus, allergies and sinus infection. Steroids, antibiotics and antihistamines. Still not sure what it was.
Oh, darn. This was supposed to go under Deva and Calypso. Sorry.
Had two more midterms today and am so far doing well. My sample today, Jade Phoenix, is definitely one that I can let go–the wintergreen opening, while it fades fast, doesn’t do anything for me