It's Hump Day and Hug Your Cat Day, plus the International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression. Birthdays: Elizabeth Jolley, Ruth Westheimer, Val McDermid. What fragrance are you wearing?
I'm in Eau de Givenchy, which I wore for some years, almost but not quite monogamously, in the 1980s into the 1990s.
Reminder: 6/6 will be Signature Friday...wear a fragrance that was your signature in the past, or that you could live with as a signature now, or that you'd like people to remember you by? From suggestions by madtowngirl and chocolatemarzipan8.
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 Unfolding [cropped] by Sheila Sund at flickr; some rights reserved.
Good morning! Hug your cat day-fantastic! altho my cat snuggled on Mon night and gave me a present-a tick. Right to the torso. I found it Tues morning.
My SOTD is in keeping with the CP-Eau d’Hadrien EDT, and one spritz of Passion to the wrists. I think lovestosmellgood mentioned the discontinuation of a few AG, including Passion, Heure Exquise, Ce Soir ou Jamais and Gardenia Passion. I think Passion is beautiful. From memory of over 25 years ago I thought it had more orange blossom but recollections may vary, right?
Ack, a deer tick or another kind? So sorry!
Deer tick, unfortunately. But not engorged, and I got it all. Pharmacist said I’d probably be fine but to watch for symptoms and of course the red rings. I go back if I have those symptoms but they now offer a medication that should work as long as the bull’s eye is less than 5 cm in diameter. Ticks are bad this year-I’ve never encountered one in all my years of mtn biking. Funny I got it on my own chesterfield, and not out in the great outdoors 🙂
Fingers crossed for you! The one time I had a deer tick, I had been pulling weeds from my brick patio, so they really can be anywhere.
Eek! A tick! Please be careful. Did you get blood work done? You might think on that. I’ve had just about every tick disease out there and they blood work identified which ticks. You don’t always get the rings.
Keep updates. 🙏
That is true, I had lyme (and almost certainly a co infection, based on my symptoms) and never had the bulls eye.
I didn’t get a blood test, but I really appreciate the advice. I have no fever, so symptoms, and since it came in with the cat (I think) maybe her vet meds killed it? I’m really not sure. I read everyone’s advice and I appreciate it. I’ll watch for symptoms and if I think anything is wrong I’ll get myself to outpatients.
Yikes!
After yesterday’s Eau d’Hadrien (waves at carole), the chilly drizzle here this morning led the hand to Bel Ami, another “if I weren’t so fond of variety I could live with this as a signature” scent in my collection. My newly planted tree welcomes the rain, but it’s washing off all the black spot spray that I just applied to my roses yesterday. Actually, one of the rose bushes seemed to have cured itself, one had to be cut completely back because even the stems had spots, and one (my perpetual problem child) was not exactly healthy but not completely hopeless. I’ve moved their pots around so they’re not quite so closely grouped to keep them from re-infecting each other.
Well shoot. Good luck with the roses.
Hi, everyone. I’m wearing White Linen today, just because. I liked it in the late 70s but I never had a bottle until now and I like it more now than I did then, my nose has matured.
Waiting for rain any time today, there’s a cool front moving in and that’s fine with me. The temperature reached 88 here yesterday and I’m just not ready for that yet. And my climbing roses are in full bloom and I love sitting on my porch smelling the scent wafting in the window. Enjoy your day, everyone.
I always wanted to be like the Women in the White Linen ads. The kind of Woman that could wear white and not drip food on herself. Lol.
Enjoy your Rose’s!
Lol!!
I can’t wear white either, for that same reason!
Beautiful fragrance!
Good morning 🙂
I am wearing Cartier Rivieres Luxuriance and drinking a cup of green tea.
Today I am picking my daughter up for lunch. This will be the first time she is leaving the house to eat out since giving birth to my sweet granddaughter. It was a difficult childbirth for and finally ended up with an emergency C section. She is taking it slow.
Happy to see her and be with my new granddaughter today.
Have a wonderful visit Barqs!
Lovely, enjoy the lunch and hope your daughter enjoys her outing!
How nice – have a wonderful time.
That sounds wonderful!
Enjoy your lunch!
How nice, enjoy!
I hope you have a lovely time and can relax together.
Oh, how sweet! May this be the first of many wonderful 3-generation visits!
Enjoy your special time.💗
Hope you had a wonderful lunch with your daughter, Barqs.
I love this fragrant trip down memory lane and today I grabbed one of my longtime signatures, L’Artisan Santal. This was one of their early discontued fragrances, not sure why because shouldn’t I have a say in these decisions???
Exactly! They should have consulted you.
Second this!
That’s a gorgeous scent.
Discontinuing the best ones seems their thing.
Hello.
One of my signature, totally unbeknownst to me is LVEB. I will admit I do like it and it’s flankers very much but I try to be restraint with it because it’s nuclear. One colleague said to me once “I smelled a trail of perfume in the corridor and I knew it was you!” I hope she liked the scent because I dare not ask. 😅
888 sprays!
They loved it.
Yep, a little LVEB goes a LONG way!
Eris Parfums Mx. today which is definitely a contender for a cool weather signature (and the weather today is cooperating). And also enjoying coffee and carrot cake for breakfast (thanks to my lovely daughter-in-law).
Spent all day yesterday with two of our grandkids (2 year old and 5 1/2 month old) and boy did I sleep well last night! 😀
I can imagine! There’s a reason young women have the children, they have more energy. Bet you had fun 🙂
I’m curious about this one. We have similar tastes, sometimes.😉
Oh my, we had thunder and lightning and rain yesterday and a piece of my front roof landed in the bushes!
Gotta deal with the HOA now.
Post shower will be Indochine.
I need a new laptop. Have all my stuff printed out and heading to Best Buy.
Going to The Getty later today.
Hug your kittehs, everyone!
Hope the roof is an easy fix and you get a good deal on your computer.
I got a great deal, Kanuka!!
Good luck with HOA!
Oh no! Bad enough your roof needs fixing, but having to deal with the HOA to get it done? Yuck, and yuck.
My goodness, that’s an impressive storm.
Sorry about your roof, I hope there’s no hassle involved in getting it taken care of. And hug your cat day is everyday he’ll let me!
thanks, ringthing.
the homeowners association has to get it fixed.
good luck with cat!
Oh no, hug your cat day! My cat will be hiding as soon as Ockeghem Teen gets home. She’s a companionate cat, but not a hugger.
SOTD is vintage Poison, which was what I felt was my first “grown up” signature perfume when I got it at the Base Exchange in Germany when I was 20. It’s a good thing I work from home!
Same with Poison. So sultry.
I think my nose sometimes goes off and becomes an unreliable narrator. Sotd IA How to Say Bicycle in French again, and it smells completely different. Like it much more but not FB worthy unlike Fox in the Flowerbed.
Btw I went to re-spritz some more Every Storm a Serenade yesterday but instead switch to FM Angeliques Sous la Pluie. It was a good layering- I’m going to try it again.
Well, now I’m going to have to FB the IA HTSBIF because my aunt told me I smelled good when I hugged her this afternoon. I’ve hugged her at least once a day every day since 1/1 (easy because she lives next door and I see her all the time) when I joined NST and vowed to wear fragrance everyday this year. So that’s like 150 opportunities to remark on my scent, but no comment until today.
It’s always so nice to get a compliment. And how lovely that you give her a hug every day.
Drs say 5 hugs per day for optimal health 🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗
Wow, that’s such an endorsement of HTSBIF!
It is and I confess to enjoying calling it HTSBIF!
Lots of compliments will be on track!
My skin really absorbs the scent, so unless they get close enough to hug me I’m not so sure 😆
Does IA offer travel sizes? Maybe that’s an option for Bicycle?
Great idea – I didn’t even consider that!
Yes, and if they don’t have it yet, they probably will eventually.
Wearing Lost Alice, Masque Milano. Nice enough, but not love.
I really like that one.
I’m so out of touch. I’d love a review.
I just ordered a sample of that and a few other Masque Milanos I’ve been curious to try.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jun/04/where-to-start-with-edmund-white?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
I see Edmund White has died, sad news. I’m currently reading Jacinda Ardern’s memoir which came out this week. It’s written for a USA market so has less mention of local politics/ Covid response etc. than I would like but it’s interesting all the same, and she is an engaging writer. An emphasis on kindness etc. gives it an almost-‘inspirational/ uplifting’ tone. I’m enjoying it. Wearing Maggie Noire, a perfume I wore often as a late teen , alongside Opium, Boucheron, etc. it was quite easy having a signature scent when you didn’t have much money, or access to a lot of choice. Perfume here was restricted to the main cosmetic brands, really.
Curses, autocorrect! “Maggie” sure is a blast from the past
It wasn’t that bad having a signature or two, at that time. I can remember how special they were to me.
Your reading seems like a watered down version of reality.
Why would it be written for an American market? (Serious question, I can’t imagine why it would be, but my own comment policy hampers a full explanation of why that confuses me. Ha.)
It’s a much bigger market. Sales in the US would exceed those in NZ quite easily, especially with good marketing and an emphasis on female leadership, kindness and empowerment rather than local politics.
Bigger market for sure, just would not think she would necessarily gear her writing for the US…there is the whole rest of the world, much of it more welcoming I would have thought. At any rate I wish her luck!
We’ve had wild weather here, my walk across town last night to my hair appointment was a wrestle with umbrella and bags, and repeated failure to avoid stepping in overflowing gutters.
It’s a bit calmer this morning and I’m wearing 31 Rue Cambon. I will smell well put together even if I arrive at work looking like a wind-blown mess.
31 will cure it all.
Well, I’ve been absent from commenting (and caught up reading NST on Monday) because my partner broke his ankle skateboarding (!!!) home from work on Friday afternoon. He just decided to pick up skateboarding as an in-shape 41 year old a few months ago and has been practicing in our apartment. This was only his second time skateboarding partway home from work. The break was a
displaced trimalleolar fracture so all three bones in the ankle were broken and basically dislocated. Friday was a very intense night in the ER of our busiest trauma hospital. Funny enough, this hospital was the basis for the hospital in Gray’s Anatomy. Anyway, the medical care there was amazing. They reset his ankle back into place right there in the ER that night, then he was admitted and had surgery Saturday morning to get his bones put back together with metal plates. He was released from hospital on Sunday early afternoon.
Needless to say it’s been a whirlwind around here and a tiring weekend. I was able to get a knee scooter for him from my manager, and he’s been doing ok on that and his crutches. His manager dropped off his laptop so he can work from home. I took a sick day Monday to have time to sleep in then get groceries, do laundry, get the plaster washed out of his pants from the splint they made in the ER, get dishes done, etc. He normally does so much around here, including pretty much all of our meals, so it’s been a lot to adjust to. But we’re getting there!
Perfume wise I’m in Ariose by Fūm, which I love so much, and would be happy to be remembered by.
well, crap.
Oh, gee, hoping things get better each day for both of you! Take it slow. 🤗
Thanks, Laila! Today definitely feels better than yesterday.
Oh wow. Easy meals and try not to worry about housework right now. It’s so nice that you can help him.
Yes to easy meals! I foresee a little more takeout than usual for us over the next 6 weeks or so. 😉
Skateboarding at 41?
Hope both of you have and easier time ahead.
Yes, he’s a pretty cool guy except that he got injured doing it. We’ve definitely had a bit of “I told you so” since I was concerned about injury or breaking something when he first got it.
Thanks, just glad to be done with the hospital part of it!
Good luck getting through this, therabbitsflower!! In the past few months, my husband has slowly but surely turned part of our living room into a gym. I’m really keeping my fingers cross he doesn’t injure himself; I’ve definitely heard some dropped barbells and moans and groans.
Eek, hope there are no injuries at your house!
Oy vey! A broken ankle takes quite a while to recover from. Good luck to you both!
Thank you!
I am so sorry, not least because I love the idea of taking up skateboarding as a way to commute to work.
Hope he is better soon!
It does sound fun, and he was excited not to be trapped on a warm, smelly bus on the way home this summer… Alas, it wasn’t meant to be.
I’m glad he’s out the hospital and recovering at home. It’s as difficult, if not more difficult for the caretaker to adjust to the changes in routines, household tasks, etc. I agree with springpansy about lowering the bar on household maintenance. All the best to you both!💕
Thanks, allo! We’ll just do our best over here, and that will be good enough. 😉
Wow that must have been so painful! I’m glad the surgery part is done with. Will be thinking of you in the days ahead, be sure to take care of yourself too.
Yes, it looked very painful, but he was really a trooper. He has a pretty high pain threshold and everyone in the hospital commented on how cool, collected, easy, and undemanding he was. I think his nurses really liked him.
Thank you for the well wishes!
Rainy and much cooler today, a good day for a cozy and warm scent. My choice is Vanille Divine Des Tropiques from La Maison de La Vanille’s ‘ All Vanillas of the World’ collection, a sweet and warm combo of vanilla and white flowers. Four of these fragrances from this collection were gifted to me by a generous perfumista from another fragrance website years ago who said they were too sweet and powdery for her but she knew I would enjoy them. And she was so right!👍
It’s also a perfect scent to celebrate the female half of my grandtwins’ graduation tonight. She is a very sweet, warm and caring person, and I know she will definitely make the world a better place and am so proud to call her my granddaughter!🥰
Off to hug 😻😻😻!
Hope your grandkitties let you hug them!
Wearing Cristalle, my first grown-up perfume. My 100 ml bottle is slowly being used, and it might be the last bottle of it that I buy.
Cristalle is my plan for tomorrow 🙂
I am wearing CSP Aloha Tiare today. I will be doing some intense stretches later because everything feels tight and I have no idea why.
Hope the stretching helped foxbins! I hate that feeling.
I can’t remember, but its Lush, ha!
I’m trying to decide the best avenue to sell off the majority of my collection, because I am pretty much a loyal Lush fiend. And I need dough to justify the vintage formulas and the newer bottles.
We should be getting that shower gel in soon, Robin.
If anyone likes Mr. Wallet Body Spray, the Father’s Day SG is the same scent. Tramp lovers, Botomancy scrub is the same scent as SuperTramp.
Lots I can’t tell, but wow! I love working there. Even the garbage smells good, lol.
https://youtu.be/vmezIIrFQmY
You killing me! 😂
So happy you are loving your job, that’s fantastic!
Thank you. I’ll try to give the head’s up, for Lush lovers.
I’ve been too tired from work this week to post, but finally catching some air now. SOTD is Amouage Imitation. It’s been getting rather warm but my attempts at wearing some summer freshies have left me totally unsatisfied. I’m still craving heavier stuff, just at very light doses.
House twins! Glad to hear that you were able to get a bit of a break today.
I managed to hug Teflon kitty right before posting this. Wasn’t sure she would let me do that, since I have been putting drops in her ears recently and she isn’t too sure about my motives for getting close.
Got a break from chilly, rainy weather today. But more unsettled weather is in the forecast until this weekend. Nice timing, huh?
I remember thunking at least 3 bottles of Love’s Baby Soft back in the day. I also had rollerballs of Love’s Rain and Love’s Jasmine. That last one might have been the start of my fondness for jasmine.
SOTD = back in Amouage Bracken Woman. It smells better to me in cool, wet weather.
Today my daughter and I met a Cat and it’s owner in a store. ( an emotional support animal) the owner was super nice but the Cat was super protective and kept hissing at us when we got to close.
I’ve seen some store cats before. They were usually rather shy.
Very interesting, I’d never heard of a cat used as an emotional support animal.
What do you think of Bracken woman? I’m SO fascinated by it, it’s like nothing I’ve sniffed. It’s got clashing notes that keeps me mentally interested. Very glad I got a sample.
I like it a lot. I’m getting incense and patchouli in about equal proportions. But it is definitely a cooler weather perfume for me. It loses something when the temperatures rise.
Aw, Teflon kitty knows you love her 😽!
She sure hates those ear drops, though. I think she’d rather get a shot.
Aww. Teflon. Your intentions are good.
And perfume choice is classic. I can sniff it by memory. I’m gonna hop to my vintage stash to see which ones I have.
Teflon eventually decides that I am OK. It’s just a bummer that she is wary of me in the first place.
I can still remember what Love’s Rain smells like.
I wore Devotion today because I love it. I think it’s pretty close to be a signature at this time. I wear it a few times a week.
I have to be to work at 5am tomorrow for the dreaded inventory. Ugh.
I’m hoping to be sleeping shortly 🤞
Ew, good luck with inventory!
Wow, seems like you just did inventory. Ugh.
Yuck, sorry about inventory, hope it passes quickly.