Happy Friday! It’s also National Vietnam War Veterans Day. Birthdays: Pearl Bailey, Astrud Gilberto, Eric Idle. Our community project for today: celebrate Astrud Gilberto's birthday by wearing Robert Piguet Fracas (her favorite), or wear a fragrance that fits her music, or ?
What fragrance did you pick? As always, do chime in with your scent of the day even if you’re not participating in the community project.
I'm in vintage Fracas. I expect I'll hear Astrud Gilberto on the radio before the day is out.
Reminder: on 4/5 we're doing salt & pepper...wear a fragrance with salty notes, pepper notes, or both. (I think this was suggested by Calypso, please correct me if I am wrong!)
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 Hanami [cropped] by nosha at flickr; some rights reserved.
I’m still commando but plan on wearing Amouage Love Tuberose as my substitute for Fracas, which I don’t own. And yes, I did suggest that CP and am glad we’re doing it! I did so after realizing how much I love pepper notes in perfumes. (Salt ones I’m not so familiar with, but I am sure they exist.)
We are off early to go to the hospital where my brother has several appointments today. Wish us luck–we’ll learn more what his latest tests show and meet with his oncologist to discuss plans for how to resume his chemo treatments now that he has recovered fully from pneumonia.
Sending hospital mojo, hope all goes smoothly.
Need to try Love Tuberose.
I hope your brother gets the treatment that will work well!
So sorry you and your brother are going through this.
I hope everything goes well!
I hope it goes well today and the test results provide some hope
Wishing you and your brother all the best today and in the days ahead.
Sending good health vibes to your brother!
🍀💚
Wishing you 🤞 and sending positive vibes and 🤗 🤗.
wishing you all the very best.
Very good luck to you both!
🍀🍀🌈🌈🍀🍀
Hope that you and your brother got a bit of good news today at the appointment.
I hope the hospital visit went as well as it could have. Looking forward to participating in your CP next week!
Not participating in the cp. Day 7 of incense in CdG Avignon.
On my way out to have a long walk in the park. Back home, I will continue with the declutering. I’m looking forward to the weekend. It will be sunny and in the upper 50s.
Happy Friday! 🌻
Incense! I had probably smelled this one but chose Kyoto way back when.
Here’s a gift article regarding decluttering, not that you need it but someone may!
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/23/well/family/organization-mess-relationships.html?unlocked_article_code=1.gU0.-3ri.9033WZi4uwbI&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Thanks for the link, Hajusuuri. Any advice on decluttering is always helpful. In my case, it is not only throwing things away but organizing them right and in a very nice way. That’s the toughest part.
I chose Mediterraneo for the CP, partly because the name sounds like it could be the name of a song sung by Astrud Gilberto, and partly because it’s soft and smooth and just a little bit sweet/tart. There’s a line in The Girl From Ipanema (currently stuck in my head, btw) that goes “… and when she passes, each one she passes goes, ‘ahhh’”, and that seems fitting for the perfumed world.
So true, ahhhh
Great interpretation!
Not sure if it ties in, back in Vivacious–it is springy & cheerful.
Just had Kerrygold Irish butter on my toast, trying to wean myself from my Brummel & Brown habit–it’s tasty and spreadable, but contains the dreaded palm oil.
If Irish butter doesn’t do the trick, I’m not sure what will. 😉
Hello and tgif!
I have arrived in KL safe and sound! Had a simple dinner (Malaysian Nasi Lemak or Curry chicken and coconut rice) and just finished unpacking. I want a shower, stat.
Sotd is Petit Fracas but only 2 humble spritz under my shirt because a heavy perfume cloud in a small air cabin feels like a very bad idea.
Nasi Lemak! I can eat it for any meal!
Glad you made it and now get to enjoy your holiday
Have a great evening, your meal sounds delicious.
Enjoy your holiday!
What fun!
Jealous of your travels. Enjoy!
Commando but will almost certainly end up in Prada Infusion d’Iris again — will be spending lots of time in meetings today and I do not have the energy to choose another “I like it and it won’t offend people” fragrance.
My employer is holding a big eclipse event on the 8th. And I just registered Mr. Skal and myself — only to find that the commemorative t-shirts are already sold out (registration opened W, and I’ve been flat out with work all week, so this was my first open minute to register)! True that one of the last things I “need” is a printed t shirt, but I am bummed.
I was in charge of distributing 1100 eclipse glasses to my building this week. What a nightmare LOL!
Warby Parker boutiques are giving away eclipse glasses, while supplies last, starting April 1. I may go just to get one and give it to my sister who has an irrational fear of getting her eyes damaged even though she will not be looking at it!
Well if you don’t look at it, that fear definitely is irrational. 😂
That said, possibly more people who look at it should be worried. Can’t remember what publication, might have been NYT, but I recently read an article about people who sustained permanent eye damage.
I’ve decided I won’t look either 😵💫
I’m hoping to get a pair of eclipse glasses before April 8 even though I won’t be anywhere close to totality.
No Fracas for me, but “The Girl from Ipanema” calls to mind beaches and seventies tanning oil, and I’m wearing Nuxe Huile Prodigieuse, so lushly scented it’s a fragrance all its own.
Oh that’s perfect!
Fracas – according to the theme.
I have just returned from a mine safety training, and I am still a little shaken. We were shown replicas of different explosive devices (mostly landmines) and told some terrifying stories involving people losing limbs and lives. Just the thought that these things are lying around in forests and fields makes me sick. And they look so ordinary… However, I learned important things – like what to do if you are in a minefield, for example.
Yikes! What are the top 3 things to do if you see one?
The short version – do not touch it, call the police. Which, I guess, most people know already.
The bad news is that some landmines can be triggered by a change in electromagnetic field. So you get your phone from a pocket or purse and start calling, the mine explodes under you and you lose a leg or worse.
If you are in a minefield and you came there by a beaten path, you should backtrack. Mark the spot with something like a scarf, get at least 200 meters away from the spot and then use your phone. However, if it is not a beaten path (say you left a road in a forest), backtracking is not safe, because you may step on another mine while backtracking. Stay where you are, wait till you see other people approaching, warn them, and then they should call the police from a safe distance. If no one comes (hours, days), you can call the police yourself, hoping you are lucky and that this is not one of those electromagnetically triggered mines.
Oh boy! Thanks for this.
No problem, hajusuuri. It helped me to remember it myself.
And correction/clarification: if you stepped on a mine, it will explode anyway (if it is an anti-personnel mine). The instructor told us that in films you can sometimes see a person stepping on a mine and other people trying to put stuff under that person’s feet to prevent the explosion. And based on his experience in reality mines do not work like that (at least the ones he is familiar with). So all these safety instructions I wrote above are for situations when you see several mines nearby, that is you did not step on a mine but are surrounded by them.
Had no idea about change in electromagnetic field trigger. Scary, I’m glad it was helpful, I have memories as a child of hearing on the radio of landmines exploding on the Normandy beaches, remnants of D Day landing.
Thank you Glannys! I am going to try to remember. You never know.
I spent a day with HALO in Cambodia, learning how they removed land mines planted and left behind by the Khmer Rouge.
Better to know what to do and look for.
Wishing you safety every day, Glannys.
I cannot imagine what it’s like to be living in your situation. Trying to get on with things and then getting this brush with reality, like a training in dealing with landmines.
Thinking of you, while also wearing Fracas.
Ackh. That is dreadful. I am terribly sorry that your world has come to this. Please be safe, and I hope there are days when you aren’t thinking about war.
I hope you never have to make use of that information though it’s good to have it.
My sentiment exactly.
Wow. That’s a really emotionally heavy training session. I hope you can treat yourself gently this weekend.
The first time I learned about mines like this was when I was a teenager on a WWII reading bender and came across the term “Bouncing Betty.” Had to go look it up and that was the first time I truly realized human beings are absolutely crazy. What kind of mind could think this 💩 up? Insanity! I hope you’re staying as safe as possible given the circumstances. Sending mom and Kora Kitty good vibes, too.
I’m so sorry you have to go thru this. Glad you had that training but hope you never have to use it!🤗
I’m so sorry this is your reality. I remember visiting Vietnam 25 years ago, and seeing the very, very real effects they were still dealing with (due to landmines), decades later. No words.
Yep.
D@mn. How horrible you have to know information like that.
Be safe.
Good morning! In my trusty No 5 Eau Premiere today. Funny thing about this perfume is that I always attract bugs and bees when I wear it out — which is flattering but a slight nuisance. Sunny day today. I’m working this Easter Friday but will be meeting friends for KBBQ dinner later. Happy spring!
On a vacation in the San Juan Islands a few years ago I discovered that vintage Silences attracts bees. So much that I had to scrub it.
too irresistible!
I would never have guessed that Eau Premiere attracts bugs.
YSL Y came out the same year as “Girl from Ipanema”.
I’m smelling good to go to my much-needed haircut today.
Twins one day apart.
Oh, nice match with Y! I used to wear that one ‘back in the day.’ Haven’t smelled it in ages.
Hope your haircut turns out great!
I’m wearing EL Knowing today. It has tuberose so I am taking points. It also made my dog sneeze so maybe I should deduct points. Lol.
My store has new late hours now, so I am working until 12:30 a.m! It’s ridiculous. Luckily I have tomorrow off.
What the what? Who shops so late at night? Glad you have a day off tomorrow!
Weirdos and thieves.
We don’t sell anything essential. Nobody is having a shopping emergency.
You smell fabulous!
Sorry to hear that you have to work so late. 😫 Ridiculous indeed!
Thank you!
The new or the old one? I luuurv classic Knowing, but the revised version leaves me cold.
The old one. I haven’t tried the new one yet.
I have you to thank, Oakland Fresca, for nabbing a couple of older Knowing minis awhile back. Thank you!
There is absolutely no reason a retail store should be open that late! Anyone who is shopping at that time should automatically be charged an addition 50% on every purchase.
Hear hear!
I wish.
At least I hope it will be very quiet. Knowing, another timeless Chypre.
Yes. I do love it. I wish I had the parfum.
That’s terrible. I hope you don’t get that shift too often.
Twice a week since I am full time. Ugh.
Knowing has tuberose in it??
Could have fooled me. All I smelled in the older version was loads of green and some oakmoss. I didn’t even get rose.
Sorry to hear that you have the ugly shift twice a week now.
I thought the exact same thing about Knowing! I looked on Fragrantica, and there it is! Your scent experience does sound just like mine.
I always thought it had tuberose but double checked today. I think my bottle is around 10 years old. I have trouble picking out oakmoss.
I picked up a bottle around 2010 or thereabouts. I ended up rehoming it, though. It was just too TOO.
Knowing is so good! I was completely unaware of tuberose in it though.
Sorry to hear about those new hours. There is something completely wrong with that! Hopefully it doesn’t last too long.
It’s supposed to last all summer. Which is stupid since After that we will be going into Christmas hours!
Hello all!
I slept in this morning after getting home from the concert at around 1:30am. Haven’t done that for a concert in a long time. It was a fabulous show, and we managed to get upgraded to much better tickets that I suppose didn’t sell? It was a really fun night. I wore the Madame X perfume that was released a few years ago, with a fruity rose, spice, and incense, to match my pink outfit.
Today I’m in Vamp a NY, one of my preferred tuberose. I do have a mini of vintage Fracas but I rarely feel like wearing it.
Have a great day everyone!
You smell wonderful, I really, really love Vamp. I mean I like and admire Fracas, but I much prefer wearing Vamp.
Tuberose is really one of the only notes I don’t really enjoy wearing (in a soliflore context) , so Vamp is one of the rare exceptions.
So glad it was fun!
Thank you! Better than expected even.
I’m wearing Fracas, as I forgot to listen to Astrud Gilberto’s music and couldn’t think of anything else. So Fracas it is, both extrait and edp.
Points!
I am sure that if Moon Bloom had been around when Astrud was wearing Fracas she would have switched perfumes; I chose it for the CP today. It dries down to a tropical coconut, the way I imagine Brazil’s beaches smell.
Sunny today (yay!) so I am going outside while it lasts.
After your description, I will revisit my sample of Moon Bloom. I have only tried it once before.
Moon Bloom is one of my all-time favorites, and the one that hooked me on Hiram Green’s fragrances. You smell heavenly!
SOTD = Memo Paris Sintra
Love it! Smells just like Love, by Kilian, Don’t be Shy Extreme!
https://www.instagram.com/p/C5GopsMucx9/?igsh=MTBraWJ2eHhtd25lNg==
jalapeño – perfume surfaces are just the tops of dresser drawers. I really should put away my perfumes although I probably need more perfume dressers.
HSBC rant – I know I shouldn’t call them out be eh 🤷🏻♀️, I have legitimate concerns! I had a largish CD which matured last week. Having no more branches in NJ and the sad state of checking account interest (true of other banks as well), I decided to close my account. I was told it will take 3-5 business days for me to get a check. On the 6th day, I called to find out the status for me to discover that nothing was done! I was seriously ticked off! It will take another 3-5 days before I get my check. Incidentally, it was my HSBC card which I never activated that was compromised and I had to deal with that while I was on vacation. It happened a second time with another HSBC card about a year later. I hope to never have to deal with them again after I get my check although who am I kidding because they will mess up the closing of my checking account.
Wow! That is a lot of incompetence! I hope the account closing goes smoother than anticipated.
I give it a 39% chance of them doing it right. We’ll see.
I told the CSR to please make sure the previous CSR gets “disciplined” although I probably should have used the word “coached” instead.
Actually, if the U.S. is like Canada, the word you should have used was “complaint.” In Canada, if you tell branch staff that you want to file a complaint, it goes into a an established and monitored process because we have to report it to the government. And they take it a LOT more seriously. A manager will get involved, trying to resolve it in the 14 days we have before it has to get reported.
I believe the U.S. is similar, though it’s been a decade since I last had to think about dual regulation.
Thanks for the suggestion. I probably could have used complaint but I was speaking to another CSR. If I wanted to pursue further, I will speak to a manager.
Fortunately they’ve just left the Canadian market, selling all their branches to Royal Bank. (Not that the service will be that much better with RBC…)
We had something similar recently with another Big 5 Canadian bank credit card; Mr. Ockeghem closed it and asked to have a cheque sent because we had a credit. A month later, no cheque had arrived. And of course when he closed the account they shut down our online access, so we couldn’t see if the cheque had been sent. So he had to call again, only to find out that they’d never issued a cheque. We finally got it last week.
Seriously, where is the training? I once went to a branch to close my account. Wouldn’t you know it about a month later I got a statement showing that I owed $12 because I had a zero balance and the minimum to not get charged was $100!
Branch staff, especially the most junior, can turn over quickly. But they shouldn’t be out on the floor if they can’t handle the basics, like closing an account.
That really sucks about HSBC. But it seems that banks are rewarded for incompetence. Otherwise, you wouldn’t hear so many horror stories.
I’m looking to get a perfume dresser as well. Right now I have some clear plastic drawers, but they get a little unhappy if several 100mL bottles are hanging out in them. But they work great for samples and decants.
Accidentally CP compliant, I think!, in HG’s Shangri La. Sort of fits Gilberto’s vibe. I hadn’t realized that she passed away last year. Ah well.
In other news, The Strategist (which is basically a product
catalog written in long form!) compiled their info on 58 famous people’s perfumes. For the record, I only recognized a handful of names of said famous people. I am waaaay too old! Apologies that these are basically sales pitches wrapped up as info, but it was fun to see what the youth are wearing these days (yes, I know some are not so young!): https://nymag.com/strategist/article/celebrities-favorite-perfume.html?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Strategist%20Thursday%20Digest%20-%2003282024%20-%20Thu%20Mar%2028%202024&utm_term=Subscription%20List%20-%20Strategist%20%28MASTER%29
I read that article and was tickled that Amy Sedaris has 13 bottles of Avignon.
If my calculations are correct, 13 bottles = 1 vat
I was shocked by that. She is not familiar with shelf life, I’m thinking.
Either that or both of the Sedaris (celebrity) siblings are taken to hyperbole.
Very possible!!
I was happy to see that Agent Provocateur made the list!
I’m glad to see Perfume Genius loving Fzotic. That seems perfect for him!
CP-compliant, as I dug out the sample of Fracas that I’ve had for, what, almost 20 years? It’s not my favourite tuberose (I’m not generally a tuberose person, anyway), but I’ve kept the little bit I have as a reference.
I’m about to head out to the butcher, which may be a mistake. I didn’t order anything for the holiday; I just need some stuff for tonight and then to make Roman Easter soup broth. But the hordes are probably lined up for their holiday pickup. Oh well.
Good luck at the butcher!
What is Roman Easter soup broth like?
It’s made with both beef and lamb. It’s the only way I can work lamb into my Easter meal as no one in the house likes lamb. https://www.seriouseats.com/snapshots-from-italy-roman-easter-soup
Thank you!
http://www.astrudgilberto.com/interview.htm
A long interview with Astrud Gilberto in which she identifies daisies and gardenia as her favourite flowers.
I’m wearing Tauer Sotto La Luna Tuberose, for the dreamy “ beneath the moon” tuberose vibe. I’m heading south today, to the bottom of the country where the beaches are exposed the south, bracing winds. Ambergris country. Maybe this time I’ll find some.
Fingers crossed that you come across a huge hunk of ambergris worth a gajillion dollars, Kanuka.
Trip sounds very fun – I love beach combing!
Staying inside my apartment this morning, partly to let my tiny tiny spritz of Dusita Oudh Infini calm down a bit. The cherry blossoms are out, as well as magnolias!
That’s a wild one! So you must smell wonderfully wild!💃
As of yesterday, I appear to have turned a corner in my healing process, away from feeling like a car crash victim and towards a new readiness for pleasure. I couldn’t be gladder, and one of the main manifestations of this is a sense of eagerness to smell good things, and to smell good. So last night’s shower was a luxuriance of Lush things, and today I started off in a few spritzes of Safran Troublant for its always-welcome sweet lovely cuddlesomeness. Fracas, or any tuberose, would be a natural transition as this fades, so I’ll be joining the CP a bit later!
Hooray for healing progress! You smell amazing in Safran Troublant. House twins!
Glad to hear things are getting better for you!
Yay for feeling better!
That’s wonderful!
Awesome update!
And thanks to Foxbins, I went with Moon Bloom in lieu of Fracas, and am putting this one back in rotation! So good!
Yay for healing and smelling gorgeous!
Yay!
Taking a yard work break. There is an enormous leaf pile in the backyard mostly comprised of the leaves I raked from the front yard. I know the pike will sink nicely as the leaves decompose and that is better than sending them to the landfill.
Even before reading that Fracas was Astrud Gilberto’s favorite, I imagine her as a white floral wearer. I am wearing Tom Ford Black Orchid Voile de Fleur.
Perfect! Plus perfect for yard work.
You smell fabulous – BOVdF is probably in my top 25. I remember so well sniffing it with zero expectations and it was instant wow. Leaf raking was on my agenda this week, too. I have a lot of oak leaves, and they need some encouragement to break down. I blend them with some maple and tulip leaves from the neighbors.
Good job, composting those leaves instead of tossing them!
I dug through a couple boxes to find my vintage Fracas mini parfum and have a dab on each wrist. This fits the mild, sunny spring day well. We’ll be going out to a movie later, and I am so happy it’s warmed up a little and the sun is going to be with us for at least a few days.
Yesterday I didn’t get around to posting because it was my Friday so I was taking care of work and then we went out for dinner and a concert. I wore Reglisse Noire during the day and an older, discontinued DS & Durga, Sir, for the night out. Sir was a gorgeous, rich masculine chypre with depth and a touch of funk. I have about 3ml left in a decent and am a little regretful I didn’t buy a bottle. It’s one of those rare masculine perfumes that straddles the line of almost being too manly for my personal comfort but luckily doesn’t cross that line.
Also, for World Theater Day on Wednesday, one of our local theaters had an amazing deal on tickets to Spring Awakening, which will be in June. We got 6th row right side tickets for $27 each instead of $99 for the opening weekend Saturday show! I’ve never heard any music from the show so hopefully we like it. We had such a good experience at this theater earlier this month at a production of an Agatha Christie spoof musical that it was worth taking a chance on this great deal for tickets.
Spring Awakening is a wonderful show…..and good on you for supporting your local theatre. Hope you enjoy the production. It will not be a mystery spoof musical, more a like a drama with music. I think it’s a great show!
Thank you! I’m looking forward to it.
My decant of Fracas evaporated and wasn’t feeling Narcotic V, so I am in Nuda today.
Nuda is so good, and I’m sad I didn’t buy a bottle while it was still around.
Burberry Goddess this morning from my new travel spray. I got a new sitting/standing desk and one of the drawers is the perfect size to keep all my samples and a few travel size bottles in, so I’ve mostly been wearing scents from the drawer lately.
I’ve also been on a bit of a Sephora/Nordstrom scent trip lately, and spending some time in the fragrance subreddits, and they are really into designer frags.
Anyway, I really enjoy Burberry Goddess. It is sort of a less syrupy, less floral Mon Guerlain, and I really like the vanilla. It is pleasant and has good lasting power on my skin.
In other news, the top notes of my old bottle of Prada Infusion d’Iris have gone off. I have a backup bottle that I might open and use, or I may quest ebay for an old formulation that could still be fresh.
Does anyone find the new Infusion d’Iris formulation to be disappointing, or are the rumors just a red herring?
All I have heard are rumors about Infusion d’Iris. I haven’t seen any bottles yet to sniff.
I was planning to wear Do Son today but it doesn’t suit the vibe of a chilly, blustery day. I chose Bois Farine instead.
I hope everyone has the weekend they want, whether it’s restful or super exciting!
You smell great, I acquired BF this quarter and yet to wear it.
Chilly and wet here. Thankful that the wind hasn’t picked up!
Very late to the party today. I slept like the dead for over 10 hours and I have no idea why. I’m feeling frisky this morning! Well, as frisky as an old lady can feel, which is basically a moderate shuffle instead of an all out waltz. For the first day in I don’t know how long, it’s not raining and the sun is out! Eating breakfast for lunch then will take doggo for a walk about.
I’m familiar with the song, but not the singer for today’s CP so I time traveled back to last weeks spring scents, since the weather is actually springlike today. Wearing two small spritzes of BF Au Adela Narcisse which is about as floral and springlike as can be. I love the soft smooth dry down of this one more than the very floral opening.
Drinking my second cuppa and watching everyone walk by giving my rig a sneer and serious side eye. I’m living in the “No RV Parking” zone again, so we’ll see if I get a visit from the keepers of the peace. “This aggression will not stand, man!” ☮️
I hope you stay visit free!
🍀that you don’t get disturbed.
When is the day of the dude?
March 6.
Au Dela Narcisse is gorgeous! I have both a decant and a travel spray, so I’m set for quite a while.
I hope you get left in peace!
I’ve loved all the photos of blossoms this week, Robin!
I’m wearing Frassai Victoria, for the tuberose. It’s not idolic, yet still a bit heady, I love it. My Luckyscent purchase will arrive later today, I’m so excited for a sniffathon this weekend.
So glad!
Today’s cp was difficult for me. Although I’m a fan of Astrud, nothing in my collection spoke to me either of her music or Brazil. And, except for an occasional summer wearing of vintage Sand & Sable, I must admit that tuberose is my #1 most disliked fragrance note and one I avoid, so not a Fracas fan.
But I found a never-tried sample of YR Plein Soleil – tuberose, ylang-ylang, sandalwood, and cardamom – and that is my SOTD. I think that tuberose lovers might find this a nice, light daytime scent. For me it’s just ok, as the tuberose note lasts all the way to the bottom and that’s all my nose can smell.
‘Plein soleil’ translates to ‘full sun” and nicely matched our weather this morning, but clouds will be increasing all day and we’re in for rain thru Tuesday at least. Got all my Easter grocery shopping done yesterday so I can slowly get ready for Sunday. Looking forward to seeing my teenage grandkids; I miss those days when they were little and spent overnight visits with Grandma. I keep Easter pretty simple and, thanks to Honey-Baked Ham and a new awesome Polish deli near me, this is the easiest holiday for me to prep for. Wishing everyone a wonderful weekend ahead and whichever holiday you celebrate! 🐰 🐥 🌷
Your Easter plans sound lovely! Enjoy the family time and the good eats.
Thank you!
Been on the run all day and finally got the chance to check in. Wasn’t keeping track of the CP due to the busy week so I’m out of sync in Puente Iris Doux. It was a beautiful sunny day here, just a bit windy.
It is quite windy here too. Are you now all settled, other than the time change?
Beautiful but windy day twins!
I think my weather tends to match yours in Montreal.
You smell fantastic! I really like that one…considering a FB.
Mango, spinash and yogurt smoothie
As a rule tuberose and I are not the best of friends but it is mild in Historiae Bouquet du Trianon, so that’s what I wore today. Tonight it’s vintage Halston as we spoke of chypres yesterday. Excited to get chocolate tomorrow when grocery shopping, I haven’t had any in so long.
Just like my comment that everyone should have Chanel No.19 EDP at home, I always have chocolate in my pantry …
😃
Now *that’s* living large!
Enjoy the chocolate!
I love chocolate so much. I’ve never really tried to give it up.
Thank you. Really looking forward to eating some Sunday to celebrate Easter.
Yay for replenishing your “Chocolate Stash”!
I will wait for Sunday to eat it as a proper celebration of Easter.
Vintage Halston! You smell amazing! I can remember the day I bought my bottle all those years ago. I don’t have it anymore but I do have a more recent version now.
Enjoy your chocolate!
I find it reassuring to find someone else for whom tuberose doesn’t work well. I, too, changed my scent tonight to Balmain Vent Vert, an early Spring favorite of mine.
Happy Friday Everyone!💐
I’m in my favorite tuberose, Tubéreuse Criminelle. Of course I have no idea how Astrud would have felt about the prominent menthol note but I like to think she’d appreciate this daring take on tuberose.
Making a huge batch of chicken soup today from several partial rotisserie chickens I’ve had in the freezer. It’s quite an undertaking but it always tastes so good when it’s done😋
Do you add anything to the soup other than the partial rotisserie chickens?
I have to confess that I dislike touching chicken, especially raw. I saw on Instagram that one can buy a whole rotisserie chicken, place the whole thing in a thick plastic bag, pound it with a tool that is strong enough but not too strong (maybe the flat edge of a meat pounder?) and voila, a much easier way to debone a chicken.
I would worry about bone shards and fragments in the chicken meat using that method.
I am also not a big fan of handling chicken, but I do like the rotisserie chickens. When I buy one, I take off the legs, thighs, breasts, and wings, then toss the rest into the freezer. When I have two or three, I put them in a pot to make chicken soup–add water, onion/carrot/celery/garlic/herb bundle, cover with water and simmer for an hour or two. Good stuff
That’s what I do too. It’s so good! Occasionally, I cook udon noodles separately and add them to the soup (when I serve it, so they don’t get mushy)
Well, one of the two places for final interviews turned me down last night.
Black Cashmere for the day.
This is NOT how I planned out this year so far.
Sorry to hear that… Good luck with the second place!
Thank you Glannys
Ugh, I’m so sorry to hear that. Still keeping fingers crossed for the other position! 🤞
me too Deva!
I hope you get a positive soon for the other one!!
Different positions for sure but we had a silver medalist program where the company had already interviewed you and would leverage that interview for another position. Would you be able to see if there is another position that may come up?
The best of luck for the other job!
Drat. Sorry to hear it.
Hope the other job comes thru!
I’m so sorry, you seemed quite confident about it. Here’s hoping the other one works out.
I’ll keep my fingers crossed for you, that the other job or another opportunity will materialize!
Some good positions will come your way, sending 🍀
Fingers crossed for job #2!
Hoping #2 comes thru for you 🤞.
My money is on #2 for the win!
Fracas edp today, and once again as I wear it it just seems pleasant. I have the Fashion Fragrances and Cosmetics version, so Fracas lovers shout out if that is a failed reformulation. I do have an older mini of the parfum that I like more. I could see that having that magic some feel as they sniff.
I do not even know what the current Piguet version smells like, so no help here.
I am wearing Laboratorio Olfattivo Til. It’s gorgeous and reminds me of spring, summer.
That’s the linden one, I think…I need to smell it.
It’s been raining on and off today, plus it’s chilly outside. Neither Teflon kitty nor I are fans.
SOTD = Guerlain Terracotta Le Parfum. Very happy to have this in The Perfume Stash, thanks to NancyLeandros! It has loads of white flowers plus feels tropical, which is what I think of when I hear “The Girl From Ipanema”.
Oh dear, early spring has some challenging weather. I no longer get along with Terracotta for some reason, I’m all about Nuxe Prodgieux now but glad you are enjoying it.
Spring is usually volatile, no matter where you are in the States. Does that hold true in the UK?
I shouldn’t grumble too much about the rain. Every drop of moisture gets this part of Colorado further away from drought conditions. The only area that is now considered abnormally dry is the southwestern corner.
Smelling great Jalapeno!
I’m getting rain tomorrow.
Thanks lillyjo! I can’t really smell the Terracotta, though. I don’t think that perfume likes this weather either…
Sun is supposed to return tomorrow, which will help motivate me to get more things done.
No perfume for me today since my husband got us reservations at a Michelin starred restaurant and they recommend no strong scents. I feel a little naked.
We were in the Dallas area this weekend so I managed to get in a couple of hours at The Scent Room. I miss being able to go to a niche perfume store and do lots of sniffing. Bought Sensual Dreams and thought about getting Wabi Sabi
Oooh, have a wonderful dinner!
Bon appétit!
Hunting for my Fracas sample revealed that the Robert Piguet sample set I ordered in January went missing in the mail in February. 😞 That I didn’t keep track of it tells you I’d been ordering too many samples!
So I’m not CP compliant in Floranilla from Maison Tahiti, a recent gift with purchase sample. If you like vanilla that isn’t straight up bakery vibes, this one is very interesting. Floral notes, osmanthus, a touch of myrrh.
Craving some Thai food tonight, so I will venture into the rain.
Oops…hope they will send it again!
I was CP adjacent wearing Bain de Soleil orange gelee (just for the scent since it was mentioned earlier this week) and Bronze Goddess body creme. Wishing that the weather co-operated.
I remember the old ads for Bain de Soleil. Never used it, though. Coppertone was more my speed.