It's Hump Day, plus International Plastic Bag Free Day. Author birthdays today: Franz Kafka, MFK Fisher, Tom Stoppard, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Rohinton Mistry, Dave Barry. What fragrance are you wearing?
I'm in vintage Dior Eau Sauvage.
Reminder: on 7/5, we're doing Cologne part 1: wear a classic citrus-based cologne. (If it helps start you off, see 5 perfumes: (great) old school summer colognes. Next week we'll be doing modern citrus-based cologne.)
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 Oberlin Fall - Yuzu [cropped] by Edsel Little at flickr; some rights reserved.
Hello.
Sotd is Lush Goddess. Smells really good and not too heavy in the heat. Doesn’t last long though and I did a good 8 spritz!
Foodies alert! I just saw this in one of those news feeds on my phone: Heinz just released a limited edition sauce in the UK called Every Sauce, because it contains 14! sauces in one. Everything indeed. https://everysauce.heinz.co.uk/
Sounds tasty!
I would try it.
I don’t have an old school cologne so I’m wearing whatever this week. Today is an at home day so of course I’m wearing a cloud of perfume, this time it’s Chaldee.
ringthing, I have Chaldee too, and it’s perfect in the summer. I don’t associate it with any sunscreen I’ve ever smelt. You smell great!
Thanks carole! I love opoponax and it’s almost always in a cold weather heavy-hitter perfume, so it’s lovely to find it in a lighter form.
I am with you this week. I am wearing whatever too.
Chaldee is lovely stuff!
Is 2001 old-school yet? If so, I get cp points for Mugler cologne.
Mugler Cologne is on my “modern cologne” list for the next week. Not because of the year but because of its style. An excellent cologne anyway.
2nd that…
I think of it as modern, but really what’s the difference…there are no rules, take all the points you like 🙂
Yay! A cool cloudy day! Thank you everyone for sympathy yesterday.
I am wearing Penhaligon’s Castile. Maybe it is not quite a classic cologne in the strictest sense, but it is definitely modelled after a classic neroli cologne. Soapy orange blossom for that “just out of shower” feel. And there’s a funny review of Castile on NST, written by Kevin.
Today I stumbled across this post on reddit (r/fragrance) – https://www.reddit.com/r/fragrance/comments/1drw8e5/is_it_rude_to_only_buy_samples_and_not_full_size/
Basically, a perfume store owner wrote (and then apparently posted on Instagram) an email to a customer telling them they should not buy samples only and need to buy full bottles. What do you think?
I, for one, do not intend to buy full bottles of perfume in the near future (maybe ever), but I still want to try something new now and then. If the store does not want to sell samples only, they can easily change their store policy or simply raise prices of samples. Emailing a customer trying to shame them for not buying full bottles seems such a bad move to me.
Glannys, you smell great. And I’ve purchased full bottles when I cannot get a sample. Sometimes it works, sometimes not. Now I’m absolutely in favour of sampling first. If it’s a problem to make the samples then either increase the cost, to cover the time and inconvenience, or stop selling samples, and see if it affects retail sales.
I would never buy from the seller again.
My first thought.
Me neither. The nerve!
Me neither! And I would be sorely tempted to tell them to get bent.
I found a decant of Eau de Cologne du Coq (1894), so I am CP compliant. Also, I am really enjoying the scent, although I should have sprayed more, or brought the decant with me.
Not only are you compliant, you win, unless someone comes along wearing 4711 or Jean Marie Farina.
Hello!
Hope everyone is doing well! Not in the best of moods today. But it is the 4th soon, so yay, fireworks:).
Really craving spice..I blame the Spicebomb ad lol but spritzed some Rousse.
Have a great day everyone! 🌹
I hope some early fireworks cheer you up! You smell great.
Thank you:)
Yes, that ad does offer some strong persuasion. 😉
Lol 🙂
Enjoy those fireworks! 🎆🎇✨
I’m in Eau de Patou, in the cylindrical bottle. I love this scent. I really love it in winter. The spiciness of the nasturtiums is what I love.
Perfect!
You smell lovely! I should wear this more often🌸
Still wafting Cologne pour le Soir from last night. While it may have “cologne” in the name there’s no resemblance to any kind of citrus cologne ever concocted. Deep, warm honey, amber, and some incense thrown in makes a refined animalic scent. I have a keg sized bottle and have no idea why. I could live three lifetimes and still have 3/4 bottle left over. Still wish I had gotten APLA instead. Also, Liz Moores is sharing her perfume collection over on IG stories. Love seeing what perfumers like for themselves vs what they design for others. I’m leaning towards Corsica Furiosa for today’s perfume.
T-Rex the Terminator pounced on a mouse yesterday as we were headed into work. One minute she’s walking sedately by my side and the next she’s airborne, diving nose first into some grass and then popping up with a squeaking, wriggling mouse. It’s a bit disconcerting. 🫤
T-Rex must be feeling better if she is back in hunting mode!
It’s in the mid 80’s today with some thunderstorms in the afternoon. The only thing Cologne like that I have is Jicky. I am wearing Jicky edp today.
And you smell great!
MFK Fisher, my favorite author! I’ll have to re- (re-re-re-re-) read some of The Gastronomical Me today in her honor.
Thanks to Boyfriend, I have AC!!! He helped me wrangle a window unit into my non-window-unit-compatible window and engineer an insert to make it all work, and now we can laugh at the weather. Another 110-degree day today, but Biscuit and I are off to the pool for swim lessons (him) and lap swimming (me). Smells-wise, I’m in Vacation sunscreen, which feels like the perfect scent for a hot hot summer day with pool time involved.
HUZZAH for having A/C!!
Oh that’s wonderful!
I am in one of my favourite colognes, Annick Goutal Eau d’Hadrien. I have several old bottles and planning to finish at least one this summer. This should be easy since colognes are fleeting most of the time and I will spray generously and repeat during the day.
It’s a nice sunny day but working inside!!
A classic 🙂
I’m wearing the Lilli Bermuda Frangipani fragrance today, and it’s really blossoming beautifully in the heat off my skin.
I was feeling so wobbly before having an uncomfortable conversation, but now that it’s finished, I feel a huge sense of relief. I hate confrontation but realize I have no one to blame but myself in the end if I can’t confront the problem head on.
Reading books is so much easier than talking…lol
Hope you’re having a fragrant day!
Good for you. I agree, that can be very tough.
Now I can exhale and drown myself in ice cream lol
You bet! Tell us which flavors!
Sometimes reading is upsetting too! But yes, confrontational conversations are worse.
I should be joining Robin in vintage Eau Sauvage, but I left my newly- gifted decant at home, and I’m not there. Drat!
However, I did come across a bottle of Florida Qater that I had forgotten about, so I’m sporting that today. I can hardly believe that this one has been around since 1808!
The cinnamon note in it always struck me as a bit odd in an Eau de Cologne, and I’ll see if it wears a little better on me today. If not, back on the giveaway shelf it goes!
Um, make that Water.
Did the Florida Water do the trick for you today?
It did, actually! Since it did t last long enough to get annoying. 😂
Just caught up with comments – praying for rain for you! 🌧️
I had a bottle in my fridge for ages but it is gone now. Fun stuff!
Yes! I’ve come to quite like it.
I was also checking prices for the original 4711 online; still a cheap thrill!
Frozen raspberries and yogurt smoothie
A little bit of sun today but some rain and still cool. I chose Jersey EDP today so I’m waving to ltsg and tonight it’s TM A*men Pure Malt.
Glad you got to see some sun today. I take it your summer has been kind of gloomy?
Thank you, yes, not much of a summer so far.
PSA: if you’re into Korean skin care and makeup, yesstyle is having a HUGE sale with 30-50% off many brands and free shipping. They also have perfume, if you’re interested in exploring Korean perfumes. 💸💸💸
Uh-Oh, I feel you have some enabler pins coming your way soon!
Oof, you made me look! I’ve heard great things about Korean skin care.
What are your favorites???
I´m in Tryst. It has just arrived, my 5ml sample. Very nice and indeed a happy scent. Lots of orange and honey.
Hi Gabriela, I’m curious how would you compare Tryst to other orange blossom fragrances you’ve tried. I have a sample coming too and can’t wait to try it.
I love this fragrance because it reminds me of the smell of orange flowers here in my neighbourhood in the summer. The difference with other scents I have tried is the orange skin smell together with the honeyed resin.
I would love to hear your thoughts. Have you tried Dilettante?
It’s about 2.5 degrees so I’m mulling over the cologne CP. I quite like cologne on cold, clear frosty days ( the chill combined with the brightness of the winter sun adds to the zing of cologne)but not so much in cold, gloomy days. It’s still pitch black anyway so may just go for a warmer citrus like Gabrielle. The witch hazel is in flower now in the graveyard, which adds a bit of colour, though the rosehips and holly berries are still looking beautiful.
OK if it is 2.5 degrees I feel like you should reverse the CP entirely and wear your heaviest spicy amber! Then wait and do this project in January.
I tried the original and new versions of IA Whiff of Waffle Cone side by side last night* and they hadn’t completely faded this morning, so I popped some Nanadebary Bronze over that. Post shower I plan to acquire CP points with Eau Sauvage — not vintage, sadly, but still lovely.
* They are very different versions initially — lots more burnt sugar in the new version — but by this morning it was hard to discern a difference.
Do you like the new version of Whiff of Waffle Cone?
I do, but then I do like the aroma of burnt sugar. Probably most people would find the original formula to be closer to the smell of actual, unburnt waffle cones. 😁
I’m wearing Cologne Impériale by Guerlain. One of my favourite colognes. Crisp, bracing and not very long lasting.
Love this one, you smell great!!
You smell great – I may copycat you tomorrow!
I am with ringthing this week and wearing whatever. Today it is Fox in the Flowerbed. I always like a good jasmine, and this fits the bill.
I put on some Fox in the Flowerbed this afternoon. It’s a beauty and we smell fabulous!
Yes, we do!!!
A pretty jasmine perfume is a wonderful summertime pick.
BTW, the far drydown of Parfait d’Orchidee is pretty nice. Something woodsy and faintly smoky/incense-y joins the boozy vanilla. Still not something to wear in hot weather, though!
Hmmm. Sounds pretty nice.
One perfume I’ve heard it compared to is Diptyque’s Eau Duelle. Dunno if you have sampled that.
I haven’t, so I don’t know how accurate that comparison is.
I may have to get it. The price is right.
It’s a cold day here, and that calls for some warming ginger, I’m wearing Majda Bekkali’s Mon Nom est Rouge.
Hope that did the trick Gaynor!
I’m in Hiram Green Arcadia today
Happy Wednesday Lucasai.
Shalimar eau de cologne,my favorite version of it!Lemony goodness,and work-safe too!
Happy Wednesday!
I liked that one when I had some! Now I just have Jicky.
Happy Wednesday to you JB!
SOTD = Eris Parfums Mxxx.
Why don’t I wear this more often? So good 😍
https://www.instagram.com/p/C8-RDAUx7ec/?igsh=NDZ4MG9kNmlvcHFu
I am looking forward to a Fourth of July get-together tomorrow. Now to decide what perfume to wear, subtly of course 😇.
Will your “fragrance sensitive” BIL be there?
Yep! It’s my sister though who thinks she can sniff me. I may just foil her and be commando to keep her guessing as to what I am wearing.
Bwahahahaha!
Enjoy the get- together!
I’m wearing vintage Tatiana today, a gift from a perfumista at one of the Portland Sniffathons, maybe 2017? At Shelly Waddington’s house. I love this scent so much, I wore it exclusively in my early 20’s.
I had a look through my cabinet and I have no colognes, old or modern, at all. Like Deva I have Cologne pour le Soir but it’s not a really a cologne. The closest I have is Mediterraneo or Fresh Hesperides, but what I’m wishing I had was Jean Nate. I used to splash that on by the handful in hot weather.
Tatiana is fantastic! You smell great, of course! I think I went through a couple bottles back in the day. Great memories with that scent.
This morning I started with Eau d’Hadrian on one wrist and Eau de Sud on the other (to make up for lost time since I didn’t read the fine print to see that this week is Eau with citrus🍋)
What did you think? I’ve tried neither. Most of the Goutals were too sweet for me, but these might work!
Neither of them are sweet to my nose. I think you’d like them.
Thanks! They’re on my list now. 😉
I dithered for years over Sud, but in the end never bought it because I had a big decant. Now that’s gone off so I have none!
I found 30 ml bottles on evilbay for cheap. Just sayin…
Aha, will take a peek!
I have hardly any old school colognes, even in my vast sample stash. So instead I’m wearing a tiny spritz of Shalimar Cologne, it’s working well in the 100 degree heat. We’ve been blasting the AC (I feel so fortunate to have AC), will worry about the energy bill later!
I’m with you on the AC. My June electric bill was pretty high and I try to keep it at 75. It’s definitely up from last year.
I got sticker shock from my latest utility bill. Been keeping my thermostat at 76 during the day.
I have nothing, Zip, for this week, so am just going vaguely in the neighborhood. My SOTD is Jour d’Hermès, which is nicely citrusy. It has very very little staying power, alas.
Our weather continues to be just brutal, but now it sounds like parts of the country in the West are going to be hit really hard soon. I feel for all of you and send prayer messages to Heaven not to let any bad fires start.
I am adding my prayers.
Hoping for rain here, too. Fingers crossed we both get some!
I had a hectic time before work tonight. Everywhere I went has been crazy busy. It is still busy here at the store. I was hoping more people would have left town for the holiday.
I’m wearing TF Orchid Soliel. I have it layered with bbw Coco Paradise.
I bet that the grocery stores, liquor stores, and Costco/Wal-Mart have been crazy busy here, too.
I decided that I can get things on Friday. I stayed away from everything!
Smart!
Go Friday morning while everyone is still hungover. Lol.
This made me laugh!
I was in Chanel Paris-Venise today. With the expected heat cranking up in the next few days, I have a few choices lined up for extra spritzing.
Yep, looks like the temps are going to be inching up!
Yesterday marked 6 months since I arrived in back in Colorado after 28 years of living in New Jersey. Time flies!
No old school colognes in either The Sample Stash or my full bottles that I know of. Got a few neo-colognes and modern ones, though. We shall see what I decide on for Friday.
SOTD = commando, but wearing Josie Maran TT body butter in the usual spots. I did a head-to-head (nose-to-nose) test of it and the Bliss Grapefruit and Aloe body butter this morning. They are similar, but the Josie Maran is sweeter and warmer, while the Bliss is fresher. I enjoy both of them.
I need a lime and a grapefruit emoji! 🍊🍋
BTW, has anyone heard from springpansy? It’s been a while since she’s posted.
I’m looking for she-ra as well …
Maybe Allo has. They live in the same city so get together occasionally.
She’s good and has been traveling.
Wow, time flew! Hope you’re content!
I have good days and not so good days. But that’s more due to the personal situation I am in. I feel at home in Colorado.
In some ways, it seems like you’ve been there a long time! I was wondering about Springpansy, too. Hi, Springpansy, hope you are traveling and have all kinds of Summer fun!
I’m shocked at how quickly time has passed!
I still can’t believe you drove all that way in the winter!
Heh, I got lucky and had a multi-day break in the weather. The only crappy weather I dealt with was in NJ.
Something to celebrate and Teflon likes it too. Also, you are near your brother now.
Wafting Santal 33 for a very humid day. I get a cologne vibe from it, from the clean woody smell, so maybe I’ll get a CP point or two. I like Santal 33, though it is a bit out of my usual style, and I am surprised it is so popular. I think it’s challenging. Our neighborhood had our annual 4th of July parade, complete with firetruck, and a John Deere tractor for good measure! It was well attended with *lots* of kids on decorated bikes and several parents pulling wagons with little toddlers. I met one new neighbor and talked to several I don’t see often. A nice afternoon that ended with ice cream for all.
I remember being a kid at parades like that. I loved decorating my bike with the red white and blue streamers.
Those kind of parades are what I associate with small towns. It’s always fun hearing about them.