It's Tuesday and World Cocktail Day. Happy 75th birthday to Stevie Wonder! What fragrance are you wearing?
I'm wearing my newest bedtime favorite: Lush Posh Chocolate Body Lotion. Tea at the moment is Numi Golden Chai; my bedtime tea is always Upton organic ginger root.
Reminder: 5/16 will be Time for Bed Friday...wear a fragrance you normally put on to wear to bed. If you don't usually put on fragrance then, wear a fragrance you normally only wear in the evening or on special occasions? Suggested by NinaV.
And for those of you who like to plan ahead, see Scent of the day ~ Friday community projects 2025, where I'll try (but usually fail) to have the next five or six weeks mapped out in advance.
Note: top image is Evening Tea [cropped] by Michael Pardo at flickr; some rights reserved.
I’ll be pretty useless for this week’s challenge because my habit for quite a while now has been to 1) pick tomorrow’s scent some time in the evening and 2) spritz some on for a test run because why not. So my bedtime scent is always the one I’ll be wearing tomorrow.
SPEAKING OF WHICH. I said I’d gotten a couple of samples while on vacation: one of them was the acceptable-but-only-that Bleu de Chanel, and the other, which I tried on a few nights ago, was Kenzo Homme Indigo, which I should have known was trouble because the sample’s sleeve listed the notes as “Marine accord, iris, leather”, but hey, I’ll try anything, I’ve been surprised before. And I should have trusted my instincts! It actually made me gag. I couldn’t scrub it off fast enough. A huge blast of that melony, nostril-scraping Calone or one of its horrid offspring mated with a grim, garbagey iris. Obviously there are people who like this sort of thing, but I hope all of them stay well away from me.
Anyway. Today (and last night) I’m in YSL Yvresse because it’s such a sparkling burst of joy. It’s what happiness smells like.
Ugh. Your description of Homme Indigo turned my stomach a little.
I initially read “cabbagey iris” in your description. Did not make Homme Indigo sound any less unpleasant. Too bad they wasted such a cool bottle on it.
Hello.
Sotd is MFK Oud Satin Mood. I actually wear the scented body oil version to bed as I shower at night.
And perfectly named for evening wear!
I usually wear Oud Satin Mood when I go out in the evening.
We just got the call that my mother will be released from the hospital today. Still wearing yesterday’s Sarrasins but will switch over to Cheirosa 68 today since I will be at work.
You smell lovely, Dawn. And what great news about your mother.
You do smell great, and didn’t you have a lot of dental work done, too? Hope you’re feeling 100 percent, very soon 🙂
I did phase 1 of dental work. My next appointment is in June and that is getting more teeth yanked. If I went to a dental school, I would have had all the teeth that needed to be yanked in one sitting. The dentist I have now does that kind of stuff in 2 visits. Still waiting for one part to really fill in.
might be a bit better to pace the procedures. I feel for you for all the things you are going through.
Good news, hope your mother had a smooth transition.
Sarrasins – such a beauty, that one.
Sarrasins – such a beauty, that one.
Great CP which is leading me to deep pondering and analysis about what I reach for and why.
Bed scents are tricky for me as I want to wear something that I know I love and that will soothe and relax me and give me that aaah feeling of being enveloped in a caressing cradle as I drift off.
The danger for me would be testing something unknown, which if I did not like it would jar my senses and leave a bad taste wafting in my nose each time I stirred and perhaps even nightmares. My brain would be too busy dissecting the smell and reacting to it and it would give me unpleasant thoughts and feelings not conducive to sleep. For me it’s almost like activating a ‘fight or flight’ reflex. (What *IS* that smell? It is assaulting my nostrils and invading my person! My nerves are jangled. I must repel the assault, aka scrub it off.)
So…I never test anything new at night and I stick with tried and true beloveds — vanilla scents like Perfect Vanilla from Sarah Horowitz or her Perfect Veil, (soft blended almondy or vanillic musks are the perfect sleep vehicle for me), fragrances with well-blended non-sharp orange notes (Theorema, some older L’Occitanes); amber incensey spicy ones like Ambre Sultan and Frapin 1270 or soft blended musky myrrhs like the rose incensey Parfum Sacre, probably my #1 go to bed scent. “Soft” is a key word for me which I realize is in the eye of the beholder. But I want nothing too prickly, challenging, green, oakmossy, oudy, sharp, or pointy.
Lastly, I know that lavender is supposed to relax people to sleep, but it’s never worked its magic on me, (LesLiesse would fight me on this) I like it well-blended in a fragrance such as Seville A L’Aube, so it’s not something I seek out for bedtime.
I will be very interested to read the bedtime perfume rituals of others. Oh, and last night I wore the last of my AG Myrrh Ardente decant. The soft myrrh settled over me like a weighted blanket.
One or two new perfumes have actually woken me up! Obviously too “loud”.
Yes, I totally get that. I think our brains are so activated to think deeply about fragrance that a new scent can trigger that process and wake us up.
Wearing the wrong fragrance to bed is the worst! 😆
Soft is a key word for me too when it comes to bed scents. I think my top 5 are Gucci Mémoire d’une Odeur, Bulgari Eau Parfumée Thé Vert, Chloe Love, Jour d’Hermès & Le Jardin de Monsieur Li.
But sometimes on a hot summer night I wear something green like Diptyque L’ombre Dans L’ Eau.
I really like Love Chloe, but now that it is discontinued, it is almost impossible to find.
I don’t wear scent to bed, depending on what is left on my skin from the SOTD, or from my Scent Theory hand wash. So this week I’m just wearing things that I haven’t worn in a while. Today is Jicky edt. Jicky isn’t my favorite Guerlain, mostly because the vanilla note is amplified on my skin, and I dislike vanilla.
Vanilla can be a tough one. The only vanilla that I love is Havana Vanille.
Have you ever tried A ce soir by Pont des Arts? It’s another Duchaufour vanilla.
I’m in a drop of Rose Tonnerre, plus generous spritzes of Celine Cologne Celeste, which I really really love. I know it’s spring but it’s been really cold here-it’s our Victoria Day weekend coming up, and I hope it gets warmer before then.
Fingers crossed you get good weather for the bank holiday.
Oh, this will be an easy week for me then: Miss Balmain parfum, all day and all night.
Like the Kinks song!
😉
Tried out l’Attesa last night, and it was pleasant. It still strikes me as a day scent though. Wearing Douceur de Siam, which I have occasionally worn to bed.
Definitely a day scent. You smell great.
Happy Tuesday, everyone. I’m looking forward to celebrating World Cocktail Day this evening.
Heading to the studio today, so I’m keeping a low profile with a spritz of Kenzo Jungle Homme under my shirt. A warm, spicy, underrated gem from Olivier Cresp, which (thankfully) bears no resemblance to the Kenzo described by Pyramus above!
Prost! 🍷🍸🍹
Late to the party or cocktail hour I should say. So what did you quaff and did you match your evening scent to it?
I went with a (cold as the arctic) classic martini, made with Tanqueray 10 gin, a whisper of Dolin dry vermouth, and a twist of fresh lemon peel. Stirred with crushed ice, and served up in a Nick and Nora cocktail glass.
I was still in Kenzo Jungle Homme, which suited the moment just fine.😊
Your Jungle Homme scent a counterpoint to the classicism of your cocktail- well paired! I wore your Jasmine Attar yesterday and received multiple compliments in our elevators, going up & down all day between my place and my aunt’s hospice care. Definitely lifted my spirits!
I’m so glad you’re enjoying the jasmine attar! It’s really lovely.
Happy Tuesday! I’m wearing tom Ford soleil neige, which would be lovely to wear. Someones review said it was “7 up and vanilla ice cream in tablet form for astronauts” and I agree.
Right now its 50% off since they’re discontinuing it i guess, I’m not sure if I should buy a bottle. If I got the 100 ml it would probably be close to a lifetime supply…
I meant to say lovely to wear to bed. But its also good for sitting upright, walking, standing…
Lol.
You make this sound so appealing! I’m glad you’re enjoying it.
I wish I could claim credit for the review! Its some anonymous poet on…the site where they review fragrances
Ok, I’m very tempted by the travel spray at Sephora. But it would be a blind buy. Decisions, decisions…
I think it would be a safe blind buy if you like pretty white flowers. Its very soft and gentle 🙂
Thanks, that does help. I do enjoy but don’t love soft and pretty white florals. I think I’ll pass because I have some already that fit that description. Thanks!
Enabler pin for you, chibibrooklyn!
My first! I will wear it with pride
I managed to get a travel spray from Sephora in my shopping cart before they sold out last night. Thanks for the heads up!
Layering Roger & Gallet Neroli with Chanel’s 1957. I don’t like the Neroli on its own, if anyone layers this one please chime in
Chai tea and dal for lunch
That’s what lunch should be!
No help with the layering though.
I don’t think I seek out anything for bed.
I used to do lavender – but don’t bother anymore.
So, its mostly the dregs of the day on me and my bathrobe.
SOTD post shower will be St. Rose Gypsy Soul. I found this in the back of the Chanel section in my perfume cabinet and it was lovely on me yesterday.
I don’t do bed time scents either
Is there anything you wear pretty much only for special occasions?
I don’t wear anything to bed, I will have to think about what to wear on Friday. Today I am wearing Angel Iced Star, Lillyjo gets an overdue enabler pin for it.
She probably has a closet of them 🙂
I put on something in the morning and wear it all day, so I won’t be participating in the CP this week.
Very warm here today and won’t be cooling off until Thursday. Decided I would do citrus again with Eau des Merveilles. Used a citrus shower gel and body cream to bring out more of an orange scent.
this sounds lovely
I think it is😉
Beautiful!
Thank you!
Five degrees off the record here today, so I am sharing the very warm weather with you.
Supposed to get rain here on Thursday. We really need it!
Frozen mixed berries, frozen cherries and yogurt smoothie
Another gorgeous day, 23C, it looks like the same for the rest of the week but the lack of rain is starting to look worrying. EL Jasmine white moss today, and tonight Réminiscence Dragée, with its mix of candied citrus and almond it’s quite a good bedtime scent, although I have a few favorites I will wear later this week.
Fingers crossed that you get some rain soon.
Thank you Jalapeno, I know there is the same problem where you are, here it’s lovely to have good weather compared to last spring and especially last summer’s cool and humid temps but rain is needed for sure.
Last time I had an update, about 45 percent of Colorado was in drought. It was an improvement, though.
I saw some footage of the UK drought last night on the news.
SOTD = April Aromatics Calling All Angels
I don’t wear perfumes in the evening nor do I spray stuff on my bedding (there are very Tara exceptions). In lieu of following the CP, I’ll be wearing incense perfumes or at least the ones that I think has perfume as a note. Today’s perfume is Calling All Angels which I had included in one of my earlier splits. Still great and I enjoy wearing it!
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Calling All Angels is a good one!
When I go to bed, I tend to dab a little of a sample I’ve been trying. I usually read for a little while before going to sleep, and it gives me an opportunity to really think about a perfume. Like DeniseH, I wouldn’t wear anything I hadn’t tried before.
Last night, I wore a little of Hiram Green’s Tryst, it’s quite a nice orange blossom.
However, today I’m wearing SL’s Baptême du Feu, which arrived yesterday.
No, I would never test perfumes at night either, and I don’t vary my evening selection much.
I’m not one to wear any scent to bed, as I fear it would distract me or disrupt my sleep. There’s only one I’ve ever done this with, so I’ll save that until Friday. My SOTD is Nuit de Cellophane. I pulled out several of my Serge perfumes, thinking I hadn’t given them a try for quite some time, and this one seemed just right for a day that was predicted to be (and now is) very summer-like, hot and humid. I just feel it’s pleasantly light and a bit fresh, with the almondy aspects coming to the fore right now in a nice way.
It is funny you have experienced this. I have had some perfumes distract me from sleep also.
Not “ha ha” funny, but coincidentally funny.
Hermes Cedre Sambac is my SOTD. I have battling laryngitis and a bad cough for a week. When I saw my Dr last Tuesday, she said it was viral and to treat it with decongestants, antihistamine, cough drops and lots of tea with honey.
I called Dr’s office today. Started on antibiotics just now because it is just hanging around and I guess it has gone into something else now.
Today is the first day I dared put on perfume and so far, no coughing fits.
Oh, I’m sorry you’ve got some sort of nasty bug. I do hope the antibiotics help. It’s good you can at least wear some perfume today, to make the day a bit pleasanter.
Feel better soon! Coughing fits are truly annoying.
Hope you get better soon!
Oooooooooof, a lingering cough is Not Good. Hope those antibiotics work ASAP!
Drat, sorry Barqs!
Hope the meds will beat the sore throat and cough, it sounds indeed like a secondary infection by now.
The “fragrance” I usually wear to bed is L’Artisan Histoire d’Orangers lotion. It’s very soothing.
I’ve been wearing several fragrances already today but now I’m in a spritz of L’Ombre Dans L’Eau.
I was so close to picking L’ombre dans L’eau today too. Then my hand veered to the right.
Hi, Almost Twin!
Smelling great!
Love a good scented lotion or body butter!
Oh, maybe I should try that lotion!
I’m in Bronze Goddess today. I have worn this one at bedtime quite often, especially after a bath. It’s great layered with the body creme. Last night I was in SJP Lovely. I’ve also worn a few iris scents such as Chanel No. 19 Poudre or Heure Exquise.
Like a few others have already mentioned, for me it’s important not to wear anything too heavy. I’ve made that mistake before and have been woken up by it, unable to get back to sleep. And too tired or annoyed to have to get up to scrub it off!
You also smell great!
Thank you, NinaV! It can be an easy reach for warmer weather.
I rarely intentionally wear a scent to bed, but the few times I have I’ve chosen things that are soft, clean, and powdery…. along those lines. So today I’m sampling Puredistance White, and it’s not soft but does feel clean and powdery.
Perfect then!
I have two categories for bedtime scents — cheap thrills and cozy musks. Today I went for cozy musk with a sample of Les Indemodables Musc Des Sables. I get orris and fuffly musk. It smells like a watercolor version of a powder note, if that makes sense. It is lovely.
Tea today was a strong Pu’er in the morning to make me lively for an early meeting. And this afternoon I drank the office out of Earl Grey (my protest against unnecessary RTO requirements). I plan to celebrate cocktail day with a negroni later.
LOL about your “attack” on the office stash of Earl Grey tea! Enjoy your negroni.
Hope that was a delicious negroni!
Confession: many of my bedtime scents are perfumes I blind bought and didn’t like very much at first. Especially in my early stages of being “perfumista”, I would wear to bed a perfume that I don’t love but also don’t dislike. Well, some of them really grew on me over time and now are among my favorites. That was the case with Love, Chloe which I am wearing tonight 💗
By the time Love Chloe grew on me it was gone.
Love, Chloe was such a pretty scent.
Love, Chloe is a perfect bedtime scent
Still in my daytime scent, Musc Monoï.
I finished a sample of EL Tuberose Gardenia yesterday, gifted to me by someone from NST, though I can’t remember who it was. Very pretty scent, but a tad loud.
I tend to wear colognes to bed, Eau de Guerlain, Eau de Lalique, Eau parfumée au thé vert…
because they are light and undemanding.
Agree TG is a tad loud. I do like it though.
In my quest to try as many perfumes from Perfumer H as I can, I’m wearing their Lemon Tree today. Ooh this one is so nice. I wish I had more than a few ml. I’m not sure I’ll pay the price they’re asking for a bottle. Maybe if I find one on sale.
Oohh… is it super lemony?
Hmm maybe not super lemony but definitely lemon. It’s on the herbaceous and refreshing side but still has some sweetness.
How was the opera?
It was wonderful! I meant to report back the next day and got lazy. I ended up wearing vintage Tabac Blond extrait. The opera was gorgeous, both the singing and the extraordinary sets. We found out in a display in the lobby and in our programs that the sets were made in the 1950s in Milan, and the Seattle Opera purchased them in 1969. They’ve been rented out to other operas many times over the years and truly look like works of art.
There’s a lot of humidity here today. Last week I still had the heat on ( frost warnings) today the A/C is on.
I sometimes wear a perfume or body spray at night, just to get more perfume time in. I’m still at work atm and have been wearing Devotion all day. Bbw has a dupe of Devotion in a body cream which I picked up yesterday. I haven’t opened it yet though.
I had to keep the A/C on to sleep both Saturday night and last night. Glad that yours is working; I know you were concerned about it.
It’s early in the season so my fingers are still crossed 🤞lol.
Fingers crossed for the A/C, here we’re not A/C country as the weather doesn’t make it necessary.
Congrats on the body lotion.
Posting late! My brother was able to deal with my brakes today, so I spent most of the afternoon over at his place. Fortunately for me and my wallet, he didn’t need to replace any other parts besides the ones we had already purchased.
Teflon kitty has a vet appointment tomorrow. Wish us luck!
SOTD = back in Infusion d’Oeillet.
Glad he was able to fix the brakes.
Good luck tomorrow!
It wasn’t a question of him being able to repair, thankfully. It was “How complicated and/or annoying is the repair going to be? And are there any unpleasant surprises in store?”
Poor Teflon looks so miserable every time we go to the vet’s office.
Hope you can get Teflon his ear drops.
I might have to wear a long sleeved shirt to do so, but those drops are getting dosed one way or another! Tef kitty still has all those pointy bits…
Good luck at the vet. I hope they can figure it out finally. Glad your brother was able to fix the brakes.
I have a mini of your sotd in my stash. I’ll have to pull it out. I did wear Tatiana one night last week after you recently mentioned DvF. It was like meeting an “old friend”.
Oh my, Tatiana. How I loved that one.
I can look back and see how much I wore and feel bad for anyone near me. (cept ex-husband)
It’s such a wonderful scent! 🤭 on the ex-husband!
Would really like to get to the bottom of why Teflon is getting these @#$% ear infections.
Yay! on the brakes (and for your helpful bro)
Good luck with the vet tomorrow. I hope TK gets relief for her ears
Thanks! I did start Tef on her antiviral medication over the weekend.
It’s really cool having a trusted mechanic in the family. He used to do car repairs for Mom when she drove.
Very glad about your car, fingers crossed for Teflon.
Thanks Aurora!
I spent the day in Profumum Roma Alba. It’s another one that’s great at bedtime — it reminds me of marshmallows, without actually smelling like them. Just a soft haze of almondy sandalwood, with a hint of iris. Yummy.
That does sound really yummy!