It's Tuesday and International Polar Bear Day, Pokémon Day, World NGO Day and Anosmia Awareness Day. Birthdays: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Steinbeck, Mildred Bailey, Dexter Gordon and Elizabeth Taylor. What fragrance are you wearing?
I'm commando for an exercise class so I'll pick something later today. Tea at the moment is The Art of Tea Rose Black.
Reminder: On 3/1, Rabbit rabbit rabbit! It's March. Wear a fragrance that will bring you peace, happiness or good luck for the month.
And for those of you who like to plan ahead, see Scent of the day ~ Friday community projects 2024, where I'll try (but usually fail) to have the next five or six weeks mapped out in advance.
Note: top image is morning [cropped] by Tanya at flickr; some rights reserved.
I’m in Aedes Pelargonium today.
Hope it was a good day Lucasai!
Hello.
Sotd is JM Ginger Biscuit. Yum. I really wish they’d make a matching body cream or body oil.
Yes!! And a shower gel…
Today I’m in Mugler Angel Parfum de Cuir, which answers the interesting question, “What would it smell like if you poured a lot of Angel onto a well-worn black-leather jacket and then wrung it out?” Leather and an extra dose of really dirty patchouli render it almost unrecognizable, but it’s Angel all the same, one of the best flankers they ever did.
I am confident from your description that you smell wonderful!
Very happy I got a bottle of that one for the brief time it was around.
You are smelling fantastic!
I’m in Azemour today, which is possibly one of my favorite citrus fragrances. Yum!
Perfection!
Good for you, Robin, to get to an exercise class. I have my gym stuff for tonight.
I’m in SL Fleurs de Citronnier, which is really beautiful. I love delicate scents, sometimes, and this is delicate but has presence. The air still smells like snow but we’re having some warmth during the say and the snow is melting. It was a tough month so sun and warmth are gratefully received.
You smell fabulous, Carole. This one is so gorgeous and warming, and your post reminds me I need to wear it more often.
Denise, thank you! I have it in the small square bottle, and the back side of the bottle has textured glass. I love this format.
Then good for you too! I love the gym because sauna 🙂
Happy 92nd to my favorite classic screen queen, La Liz herself. I am still making my way thru her latest biography, I am taking my time with it.
I just read that Taylor’s estate just launched a fashion line with her image, with some proceeds going toward her Aids research foundation. Casual stuff, like tshirts and such.
Scent yesterday was Bon Bon.
I went to Christie’s for the pre-auction of her various collections back in early 20-teens. It was a fundraiser for New York University. The tickets were relatively inexpensive, $100 IIRC, and it was a once in a lifetime opportunity.
Was it for her jewelry collection? And did you bid on anything? If I recall, the auction house Julien’s carried out the sale of her estate items after her passing, everything from apparel to artwork, furniture, costume jewelry, etc. You can still view the catalog listing online.
It’s a lot of her “stuff”, including jewelry which came from her husbands. The collections were incredible!
I did not bid on anything – they were all $$$$$$$$s.
Oh I can imagine. Her jewel collection was infamous and priceless.
That *was* a once-in-a-lifetime event! How cool.
I am wearing Chanel Misia today. I stopped eating meat and i feel that the perfumes smell different on me.
I am back at work today and tomorrow after a hectic weekend.
Saturday was the day of a big event that I helped to organize and Sunday it was my birthday, I went to a brunch with my mom, sister, hubby and my lovely daughter.
I received the new Miss Dior as a gift from my sister.
Happy belated birthday! How is the Miss Dior?
Miss Dior is very nice, i tried it quickly once but i think it will be good for spring.
I loved mostly the dry down.
Happy Belated Birthday! Misia is a beautiful scent.
Happy Birthday!
I’m looking forward to trying the new Miss. Dior.
Happy birthday, Hera!
I continue to marvel at how different things can smell in a different day or season- I’ve found my nose/skin changing quite a lot recently too.
Happy birthday a few days late! 🎂
Happy birthday, Hera. I hope you have a good year.
Wishing you a belated Happy Birthday! 🥳
Happy Birthday Hera. Misia is beautiful. I wish I hadn’t gotten rid of my bottle, but it was so fleeting on me that I couldn’t bear it.
Happy birthday for Saturday!
Happy belated birthday, Hera! You smell wonderful!
Happy belated birthday, Hera! I’m fascinated about how perfumes smell differently on you now. I’m curious if you’ll perceive other scents (that you’re not wearing) differently as well.
Happy birthday, Hera! Very interesting about the change in scents. Enjoy the Miss Dior!
Happy birthday and also looking forward to trying the new Miss Dior.
I think hormones and the menstrual cycle affect sense of smell as well for my 2 cents.
Belated Happy Birthday, Hera!
Happy belated birthday!
Happy belated birthday!
Belated Happy Birthday wishes to you!
Happy birthday Hera!
Do perfumes smell better, or just different?
I find they smell better, some notes come out better if that makes sense!!
Makes sense to me, thanks!
Thank you for all your birthday wishes!!
Adding very late but heartfelt birthday wishes, Hera!
In Guerlain Encense Mythique D’Orient.
Happy Tuesday! 🌹
One of my all-time favourite Rich Lady scents
Like you, it is one of my favorite scents in my collection. Very special and beautiful!
Joining in the Encens Mythique love! Happy Tuesday to you, too.
Thank you, Tulipani!
Welcome to the Encense Mythique club! 😊
YES to incense!
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Although it went from in the 60’s yesterday to 20 some degrees today with snow, I still chose a spring scent that makes me happy. It would be Dustita Splendiris. So glad I have a BUB of this.
Splendiris is beautiful!
Yes, it is.
Geez, you really got clocked with that front!
It came through really fast, but we have another cold day tomorrow.
Wearing Estee Lauder Pleasures today. My phone call yesterday went well and the cost was much better than the other quote. Now it’s off to work.
I’m glad the call yesterday went well. Have a great day at work!
Craving tuberose today since I sprayed Carnal Flower in a counter last weekend – inspired by Robin’s choice of scent. I remember very much loving this one years ago at the start of my perfume journey but thinking it was a too loud for me, so I got En Passant instead. It turns out I continue to love it!
So until I come across a well priced small decant of second hand bottle, I am making due with Vamp a New York and Moon Bloom. VaNY is very bubblegum and playful, Moon Bloom is tuberose distilled, gorgeous in summer but in cold weather I find it too indolic at the opening.
The 10 ml bottle of Carnal Flower is $100!! That’s a huge price increase.
I could swear that I have a sample of Carnal Flower in the Sample Stash somewhere!
Rad a little late this morning and am in my office decant of the prada iris absolue.
Such a great thing to keep as an office decant.
I’m feeling happy to have been reunited with Diptyque L’Autre. I have smelled it before but was always more drawn to L’Eau, Eau Lente and L’Eau Trois. L’Autre is definitely “autre” but I’m really enjoying it this time around.
Those are all wonderful scents, allo, though for now I admire L’Autre more than I love it. I have a current bottle and am still trying to wrap my brain around those notes.
I know. It’s crazy, all that caraway. It also reminds me a little of their Vinaigre.
Those are all such underrated scents in the Diptyque line. If they ever offered them in the travel spray, I would be first in line!
Wouldn’t that be great?!
Wearing Phi today. As lovely as always- warm, cozy, with just a hint of spring in the floral notes.
Was up until 3am listening to another book by Daniel Mason, this one called The Winter Soldier. So good! So sad! So wonderful. So devastating.
It’s about a Austrian baby doctor (baby as in “new” not as in “tiny human”) who, during WWI is sent to a makeshift hospital in the Carpathian Mountains with the only “surgery” under his belt being an ear wax removal. The author is a physician so there’s no softening the blow of the reality of gangrene, louse infestations, typhus, amputations, etc. In a bombed out church, the nurse there teaches him how to do amputations. She has been doing them for the past two months because the previous surgeon went mad and disappeared, leaving no doctor to treat patients. It is (of course) a romance, and her fragrance of choice is the carbolic acid used to disinfect her hands. Lots of grim reality including the very beginnings of understanding the psychological impact of combat on the human psyche. Excellent but devastating.
Just when you think the ending will tidy things up, no. It’s chaos, disappointment, joy, love, forgiveness, and all the other human things all at once that make you feel off kilter, wondering how you survived to the end. But yes, very excellent!
Sounds a good book. I’m going to look for it.
That book sounds good. I need to look into it. Thanks.
That does sound like a good book. Sadly almost no Daniel Mason at my local library or on Libby.
Does your library have ‘inter-library loan?” That could be another option.
One of my dogs is getting senile and has decided that he would quite like his dinner around 2.30am, and gets quite restless and whines until I get up around 5am. He is getting quite food obsessed but seems to forget that he has eaten, so whines for more. He also whines to go outside but once outside turns around to come back in. He’s such a beautiful dog and wonderful friend, and has good physical health though a bit stiff. I can still distract him by talking to him and patting him until he settles down. The point is, I had broken sleep and need a bit of perfume zap this morning. CDG Peppermint might do the treat. Sprocket is snoring next to me, dear old thing.
Wow, CDG Peppermint sounds like a real wake-up call to me!
So sorry to hear about your dog’s state -so sad. Sending hugs to you both. A thought occurred to me; perhaps you could put a you-scented old t-shirt or something on his bed or wherever he likes to sleep? It might help to calm him.
I snuggle him up in bed with me and tell him stories about when he used to roam the hills chasing rabbits and what a good dog he is. He falls asleep before me.
Aww this is so sweet. 🥰
That’s the best! 💕
Doggie dementia is rough. Some people say that isn’t a thing but my vet says it’s very much a thing. Had that happen with one of my Labs when she did get old.
Sorry to hear about your dog’s decline. It’s wonderful that you have thought of ways to ease things for him.
Sending you lots of energy to get through today!
It’s a dull and wet day here, I much prefer bright and sunny, but we need some rain.
Work has been crazy over the last few weeks, but I’ve got a few days away coming up – we’re going to Sydney tomorrow. I’m looking forward to some serious perfume sniffing!
Meanwhile, I’m wearing Meraki, an osmanthus limited edition from Fort and Manle.
Have a happy trip and enjoy the good food and shopping.
Yay for serious perfume sniffing…please report back on your findings!
Have a lovely time Gaynor!
My yellow crocuses are blooming already and I’m thinking about the approaching spring and flowers. I’m wearing Jo Malone White Moss & Snowdrop from my 9 ml bottle from a Christmas perfume set. To me is more of a winter into spring transitional fragrance due to the snowdrop (a little pretty flower which blooms that time of year) aspect.
Oh yay!! Squirrels got a lot of my crocuses but hope I get a few this year.
Wow, that seems early for crocuses to be blooming.
I’m wearing Rahele as few things smell as uplifting as osmanthus. It’s lovely and worked really well on this sunny, crisp day.
Agree about osmanthus, such a happy scent.
I have a lots to report on the scent front, but have been busy with my parents visiting this week.
Thanks to a generous NSTer, I’ve been sampling Delta of Venus and Victoria (Frassai). I had quite high expectations for Delta of Venus, hoping that it would really remind me of Calyx which I wore in high school. And while it’s a fun perfume and I can detect a late ’80s/early ’90s vibe, it didn’t remind me much of Calyx and I won’t need more than a sample. On the other hand, I was unsure of Victoria since it has tuberose, which is hit or miss for me. Turns out, I like it quite a lot! It has an old school, heady perfume vibe with tropical white florals, but wearable and modernized with lychee. I would love a travel spray or decant of this.
I also managed to swing by a Lush store over the weekend. I tried the Sticky Dates body lotion. The lotion itself is quite nice, not oily and smells strong. BUT the scent is a bit much for me as a lotion, more cloying and sweet than the body wash. It reminds me of some old Laura Mercier body product, creme brulee something or another?
I did pick up the Posh White Chocolate and Rose body wash which is very nice! I think it was seasonal for Valentine’s. It smells heavenly and my only complaint is the price and it does not seem like the type of product that would go far.
SOTD is my second wearing of Victoria.
I wasn’t impressed with Delta of Venus either. As to price of the fragrant products and their longevity, I have the same complaint for food at the grocery. I could have sworn that some product prices have gone up despite the amount of food shrinkage in the same package!
I find even the body wash too sweet, but I do love it mixed with lighter things. Thinking I could do the same with the lotion, mix it with my regular unscented lotion? But we’ll see if I get to Lush before it’s gone.
Sticky Dates has some unfortunate associations with it for me now. So no lemming there.
Just reading this, and I’m happy you really like Victoria!
Thanks so much for sharing! Victoria is not one I would have sought out on my own.
Wearing Bake today compliments of an oh-so-generous NSTer. 🥰
Finishing up deliverables this week for two big audits at work next week and things are going surprisingly smoothly. Wish me continued success that the entropy does not increase. 😆 AP Chemistry and, to a lesser extent, Jurassic Park always make me think of chaos theory. 🦕 🦖
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Wishing you good luck!
Good luck! 🤞🏻
Fingers crossed!
Good luck. Hope you are enjoying Bake!
Good luck!
I’ve been drinking more tea lately. Today was Smith Tea Barrel Aged Breakfast tea. I find that I don’t notice much nuance in taste (just a good, fresh, tea flavor), but there is a bouquet of floral-fruitiness that hovers around my face. It makes me understand why tea drinkers get committed. I like Smith’s Jasmin Pearl green tea, too. I’ve always like jasmine tea, and this one is very fragrant. I’ve been wearing No. 19 Poudre for the last few days. It seems to suit the season. I pushed the envelope, garden-wise, and planted some lettuce and beets today. I was surprised how friable the soil was, because we’ve had wet weather.
“friable”! Another SAT word for me!
Ha – me, too!
I’ve only seen friable used in French, didn’t realize it was an English word as well!
I did not know that, but I did learn that word from my gardening friend who is also fluent in French! I will have to mention your comment to her. The word does pop up in gardening discussions from time to time.
Huh. I see the word “friable” and think of asbestos remediation.
Good luck with the lettuce and beets! There is nothing like fresh lettuce.
Thanks! Leaf lettuces grow quite well around here.
Too late for a smoothie tonight, had hummus for dinner. Chose Dazzling Gold this morning, still detectable faintly on my wrist. I discovered the two Dazzling scents via samples of their body creams which were incredible, it was around the early 2000s and twelve years ago I purchased mostly full bottles of each but the truth is I don’t wear them enough. Their scent is perfect, I tested Silver too but I feel I should wear them as they may not last forever. Tonight it’s Caron Fleurs de Rocaille.
I remember when they launched. I had my eyes set on Silver, but my nose fell in love with Gold. I might enjoy Silver more now though.
I feel Gold is warm and Silver cold, a good scent for spring I think.
SOTD = Comme des Garçons Series 2: Red Carnation
Carnations!
https://www.instagram.com/p/C33emIPxHZW/?igsh=dGJnMjJtYTFibzh3
I have to go back to yesterday’s SOTD post and thank everyone for their response! I am over the hump of wanting to take the training sessions to qualify to be a mediator. Other than being out the tuition, there’s no down-side for me, at least from what I can tell as of today. My lawyer friend who mentioned it to me said he will email me on Monday (yesterday). He didn’t and it’s probably because he forgot — he definitely sustained damage that affected his memory after he had a pretty serious bike accident 7-8 years ago.
You smell great today!
Thanks!
I hope he gets back with you. It really sounds like a good opportunity.
I’m grateful for his thoughts but don’t need him to tell me for or otherwise. He’s definitely a for.
CdG had a lot of great things in their perfume stable.
Another drippy, gray day but I am plastered with cats and reading, so I’m content. I’m wearing Salome.
Plastered with cats did make me laugh…glad they are helping you sit out the rain!
Salomé sounds like a good “reading and watching the rain” scent. Do your kitties purr when with you?
Oh yes. I have two who purr loudly and one softly.
Is Aubrey still with you?
It must be hard to stay awake with all that kitty warmth and purring going on.
Yes, Aubrey turned 8 in November, and a lot more mellow now. Thanks for asking!
After seeing a few mentions yesterday of Cuir Ottoman not working for some people, it got me wanting to wear it because I have a huge bottle and I love it. And it’s perfect for the chilly day we’re having.
I love it too. 😁
After so many people recommended it to Marta yesterday, I decided to give ELdO Rien another go, despite recalling that I did not like it one bit when I first sampled it. So many of the scents recommended yesterday are favourites that I thought I should give it another try.
I should not have. On me it is still Eau d’Ashtray. I think maybe it’s the suede note that smells overly artificial and plastic-y, combined with incense I’m not smelling as incense, just as cigarette smoke and ashes. Yep, same reaction as last time — it does not smell like Rien. It smells like something, all right…something awful. I’m trying to stick it out but it just does not work on me.
It was awful on me too.
Rien must be one of those perfumes that is heavily dependent on personal chemistry. IIRC, it was a great incense perfume with a bit of phenol and sun-warmed skin on me.
Yeah, I think so. I love a good incense and I’ve seen some people describing this as the inside of a church (for me, that’d be Avignon). I get no incense at all, just plastic cigarette (and not good cigarette — I don’t mind Jasmin et Cigarette). It finally died down, after a couple of hours, and it’s tolerable. At this point I’m just getting some faint vanilla. I’ve given it its two chances and it’s going into the giveaway bag.
Flew to SF this morning to visit dad for his 86th birthday. All I brought was a decant of Ambre Tibet so that’s the scent of the week. Nice and sunny here!
I hope that you and your Dad have a wonderful time.
Happy Birthday to your Dad!
I hope it’s a great visit.
Happy birthday to Mr. Cazaubon Senior! Glad you could be with him.
Enjoy the time with your dad!
Happy Birthday to your dad! I hope you have a lovely visit.
Happy Birthday to your dad!
Hope you have a great time with your dad!
Enjoy the time with your dad!
Not the best day of weather here this morning, with snow squalls in the area. However, the snow did clear itself out by lunchtime. Still rather nippy outside.
SOTD = EL Azuree Legacy EdP. No cumin in this to my nose. But I am not terribly sensitive to or offended by it in perfume. This is a pale reflection of the original, with none of the leather that I smell in the OG bottle that I have.
That snow is headed my way.
Too bad about Azuree. I can’t believe no leather.
Yeah, that front tore out of Colorado super quick!
The EL Legacy sample set was definitely worth the $30, even if some of the remakes were kind of “Meh”. Nothing in it was horrible or sickly sweet, so props for that.
The weather was iffy here as well, esp. in the late afternoon. We have showers right now and it will be on and off all day tomorrow.
Warmer weather will be returning here later on this week. It’s supposed to be 65 on Friday!
Thanks for reporting in on the Azuree. Like you, I’m so glad to have an original bottle.
You’re welcome!
It was 73 degrees here today. Storms are coming tonight and then a flash freeze and snow tomorrow. It will be 20 degrees in the morning!
My sotd was Cristalle edp because it felt like Spring.
Oy about the weather. We got to 61F here and there’s still some snow on the ground!
I will have similar cold temps here tomorrow morning. 🧊🥶🥶🥶
SoTD has been DK Black Cashmere, thanks to a wonderful NSTer. I enjoyed it all day long – this one has staying power!
Robin, I love the adorable teacup! You have a great talent at choosing the perfect photo. 🌟
Thank you … and you smelled fantastic yesterday! (And probably do today too but I have not gotten to today’s poll yet)
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Ditto praise for the cute tea cup, one of a long string of delightful Tuesday images!