It's Hump Day, Waterloo Day, International Sushi Day and Autistic Pride Day. Happy 83rd birthday to Paul McCartney! What fragrance are you wearing?
My song pick today is the pop masterpiece Wouldn't It Be Nice, from the 1966 Beach Boys album Pet Sounds. Pure joy, and I'm wearing Aftelier Candide to match.
Reminder: 6/20 is Brian Wilson's birthday (and the summer solstice). Scent a Beach Boys song, or honor Brian Williams with your fragrance in any other way you see fit. (For lillyjo, who asked for another music cp.)
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 shows Brian Wilson at 20, during the recording sessions for The Beach Boys’ 1962 debut album, Surfing’ Safari, and is via Brian Wilson at Facebook.
Bonus listen: the isolated vocals from Wouldn't It Be Nice. (You can find the band's official video of Wouldn't It Be Nice here.)
Bonus unrelated cover: They Might Be Giants doing Caroline, No.
Hi everyone 😊
I’m enlisting my husband’s help with the CP, he was a musician in the 60s. Today I’m wearing Chanel L’Eau with a blue striped shirt and he said both reminded him of Surfing USA.
My favorite Beach Boys song is Good Vibrations, I just haven’t found the right perfume to pair it with. Maybe I’ll figure it out by Friday.
Thanks for the videos, Robin!
I am planning on Good Vibrations for tomorrow and I have not thought of the right perfume either!
Good Vibrations Friday triplets.
I may wear L’Eau tomorrow as I, along with many others here, get to take a trip to the dentist. I don’t want to blast them with anything too strong.
Wishing you an uneventful visit.
Thanks Aurora.
Hope your wallet is happy after your dentist appointment.
I think it will eventually be costly as I am pretty sure I need a crown replaced. Our dentist is a friend of ours and super nice but still expensive.
I am wearing 1740 Marquis de Sade for Heroes and Villians. I thoguht about Breath of God for God Only Knows, but I was not feeling it today.
Excellent pair monkeytoe!
I love 1740, it has one of the best amber drydowns
1740 was my favorite from that house.
I seem to be fixated on beach/sunshine scents for the theme, and today I’m in Clinique Wrappings, the brightest gold scent I ever smelled. Starts with a lens flare of aldehydes and quickly settles into a sunlight-golden green-floral chypre.
I love Wrappings! also love Aromatica Elixir, especially in their sugar body scrub. Estee Lauder got a lot of things right. You smell gorgeous, pyramus.
Wrappings is fantastic! I bet it’s got a great sillage in warm weather.
They usually positioned it as a Christmas scent, with a gift set available only at the holidays, but I was out and about today (23ºC) and it worked perfectly. Not too strong, bright and gleaming, lasts for hours and hours — I can still smell it.
Yes to Wrappings!
Still in Number One Intense and washing sheets. My mother is being released from the hospital tomorrow and we are picking up the house a little bit. After my shower, I am going to wear no 5 because it feels like a no 5 day.
So glad she will be home soon Dawn!
Good news about your mother.
Glad to hear that your Mom is headed home.
I’m in a lot of Jardin Apres La Mousson. I love this scent-I have no issues with melon when it’s used correctly. This scent smells so good in the heat.
After work it’s a spot of tame mountain biking, and then more yoga practice. The first week of July I have a week long Pose and Repose session. I know I’ll be a hurting unit physically but it will get me out of my comfort zone. thanks for the kind comments on my headstand-I really appreciate it. I’m trying to be more active. Yoga is funny: sometimes you think-that’s not a pose for me but you cannot know that until you try it. Then you try it and it feels fine, or you can find some ease in it, or maybe you’re just naturally good at it. But you can’t know until you try 🙂
You smell great, I agree about La Mousson and the heat, that’s why my bottle is in Provence
I sprayed Love Tuberose after learning here that it’s Paul McCartney’s birthday. I’m pairing it with his song “Silly Love Songs” – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ap87QgZKTNw
It also feels like a good match for the Beach Boys, since it smells like suntan lotion. But I plan to scent two Beach Boys songs tomorrow and on Friday.
Great song! 🎶 Thank you for the link, made me so happy. 😁
It probably says something about me that my two favorite Beach Boys recordings are Sloop John B (not written by any of The Beach Boys) and Sail On, Sailor (written in part by Brian Wilson but with lead vocals by a guy named Blondie Chaplin). This morning I’m in Maison Crivelli Rose Saltifolia for Sail On, Sailor, a song that Wilson reportedly did not like at all but nevertheless chose for inclusion on “Classics Chosen by Brian Wilson”. Go figure. 🙄
I remember singing Sloop John B in 7th grade choir. It was really difficult for us.
I was a choir kid too, and really close harmonies ARE difficult. I sang alto, but I remember doing something from Handel in high school where we were short on tenors so they switched me to tenor for that, and that was super hard too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nv4wLVeHVgk
Here’s a fantastic cover version of Sloop John B from an Australian music show called Rockwiz. The singers are Norman Blake from Teenage Fanclub and Hailey Cramer ( well known Australian singer) who just blows it away with her harmonising. Will cheer up any grey day.
Happy Wednesday, everyone. (And Happy Birthday to Paul McCartney – half of the greatest songwriting team ever.😎)
My vetiver week continues. I’ve worn some great ones: Guerlain Vetiver, Malle’s Vetiver Extraordinaire, Encre Noire from Lalique, Sel de Vetiver from The Different Company, and Dior’s Vetiver. All quite different, and all really compelling. (The Dior is discontinued, and prices on eBay are nuts, so I cherish the generous sample from our very own AnnE.)
Today I’m in Red Vetiver from Montale, which features a combo of rose and vetiver. In the dry down, the rose fades a bit, and the scent starts to resemble Terre d’Hermes. Good stuff.
ooh, niiice! I like Terre d’Hermes very much, so your sotd sounds good.
Happy Wednesday back atcha, Daniel!
Barenia from a sample with a Hermes lippy also
Picked up the Frozen River book that everyone has been telling me to read.
Has anyone else tried Barenia?
Haven’t tried Barenia, but The Frozen River is a great book!
I ended up buying Eau de Mervielles
I went back and tried Galop and EdM and my friends liked EdM- they said I already have TF Russie and that is a nice leather/rose and Galop fell flat on me. So I guess my horse in the paddock is EdM!
Well, you will love Edm.
Yep, I like it and have a 20ml If you spray a ton of it it begins to remind me of some of the aspects of Feu d’Issey. If you spray a little, it’s not so interesting.
I tried Barenia when I was in Germany. I liked it in general but it wasn’t a love. But I went with a light spray (was at the drugstore); maybe I should try more based on Kanuka’s thoughts.
I am not a fan of Barenia – it doesn’t last on me
Paul McCartneys’ birthday was tantamount to a national public holiday when my sister and I were teenagers.
It’s also National Picnic Day, so one can eat their sushi outside and conquer two holidays in one.
Keeping it apolitical, some of my favorite memories of Teheran were the hot, no a/c days of summer, especially Fridays when families would take their carpets, samovars, and food and head up to the mountains outside the city. Food placed in the icy rivers and brooks to chill, everyone napping after lunch on their carpets before heading back to the city at dusk.
SOTD post shower will be Passage d’ Enfer.
Those picnics sound so idyllic! I”ll bet the food was delicious, too!
It was lovely, Calypso. And I was young.
That sounds amazing , so peaceful.
I love thinking about that, Apsara! Sounds wonderful.
I was fortunate enough to find a Persian restaurant in northern NJ at least a decade ago. Wonderful stuff! It was a once or twice a year treat.
I chose Moschino I Love Love for today and the song I had in mind is Good Vibrations–looks like I’m not alone with that song!
It’s another beautiful day in Seattle and I am meeting some friends at a park this morning before other friends arrive to stay for a few days. They leave Saturday morning and still other friends in town from far away come for dinner Saturday night, then relatives arrive Sunday for a long stay. I can barely keep up with all the logistics. There are different guests in July and August and September. I really need Mr. SP to stop telling everyone to visit us in the summer.
Wow! You are certainly keeping busy, but it sounds like fun!
Yes, fun, but also a little too busy.
Holy smoke! Your summer is going to be packed with guests! Hope you get a bit of down time to decompress.
That is a lot of hosting! Hope it all turns out relatively trouble free 🙂
Smelly “beachy” today in BBW At the Beach body wash and Kai body butter and perfume.
Been lemming the Kai body butter for ages…may have to add to cart the next time Nordstrom has a 15% off beauty event.
It is one of my favorite body butters. I highly recommend it!
I’m wearing CDG Ganja, which has become one of my all-time favourite perfumes. It’s a rounder version of Chypre de Mousse, equally potent but with a faint sweetness that just makes it so incredibly wearable. I think it’s in my top 5 and I’m almost finished my bottle. I don’t get marijuana from it ( but I’m no expert on what it smells like). I guess it could fit the CP, in a roundabout way.
oh, goodness, a lemming is born! I hadn’t heard of CDG Ganja before now, and I’ve enjoyed every perfume I’ve sampled from that line.
I’d say that’s a direct link to the cp — and probably the best match for Good Vibrations.
I’m in Initio Power Self today, because it came in my monthly sample bag from Scentrique. According to the description card, it’s “bold & empowering”, also “confident, sensual, and magnetic”. Musk and white flowers don’t really say any of that to me, especially in this incarnation. I’ve done the monthly sample program for 6 months to try some new (to me) lines and I just cancelled; nothing has grabbed me other than the PdN Pavlova, which I already owned.
No CP link at all. Oh well. Happy hump day, all!
Money saved!
Blueberries, strawberries and yoghurt smoothie
Eau de Rochas today as it’s quite warm, 27C
This may be my favorite version of this well-known song, another unique singer, sadly departed too soon
https://youtu.be/9pQMb2niOO8?feature=shared
Forgot to scent it, the obvious was a patchouli perfume but I chose Traversée du Bosphore.
Another great song Aurora!
“So glad you enjoyed it, she puts so much soul in the song and her band is fantastic.
i spotted the first Rainier cherries of the season this afternoon at the grocery store. Had to get some! 😋🍒
Cherries, wonderful.
She was so good! I listen to her more than the Beach Boys for sure.
Same here, Janis was so original.
Hermes Osmanthe Yunnan
A thing of beauty and a joy forever!
I’m still lacking any clever thoughts about the CP, I’m wearing Amber Absolutely from Fort and Manle.
Clever thoughts not required 🙂
I’m in CB At the Beach 1966. This is pretty much old-school Coppertone sun tan lotion (not spf back then). It definitely reminds me of my carefree summers as a kid.
Gosh how I miss those summers!
Me, too.
Me three! When a cherry popsicle after running through the sprinklers on a hot afternoon is the best thing ever.
Nice choice!
That is one great summer scent. ☀️
It’s been a pet-oriented morning. Bertie has a vet appointment and needed urine collected, so he was stuck in the shower enclosure for six hours and was not happy about it. Dapper has a stomach upset and so I was cleaning liquid poop out of his butt fur. There really is only one house suitable to scent these events, so I am wearing Chanel. I think the Chanel woman rises above such mundane chores as butt fur cleaning and pretends there are no such things as poop or butts. I am wearing Box of Eels and pretending I am that Chanel woman.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0rf3_viTxk
Sending calming thoughts to all three of you! The Chanel’s perfect.
Yes to “The Things We Do For Love.” Pets!
I love your description of the Chanel woman. If only!
aye aye aye, I’m sorry! Your fur friends are sure lucky to have you. 🐾
House twins! 🥰
Aw, those unhappy kittehs! 😿😾
Excellent.
Even though I am familiar with a number of Beach Boys songs, I can’t seem to think of fragrances matching their songs.
I will just wear beachy scents, and today is a mix of Azurée Soleil and Number One. They work well together!
Beachy perfume is excellent thinking ! I’m musing over my beloved guerlain terracotta for Friday. 🌞
SOTD = Imaginary Authors Soft Lawn
Softly floral, no tennis ball 🎾 smell although I suppose the soft floral gives one the impression of tennis? I have a travel spray, just enough to last me a while!
RIP Anne Burrell. I have to admit to NOT liking her the first time I encountered her in Worst Cooks. Over time, I ended up liking her. Let’s see what the autopsy shows because I can’t imagine this young death.
I would like to smell tennis ball perfume. Maybe Demeter will get on it. 🤔
I was sad when I heard about Anne. She made a mark for sure.
I was shocked to hear about Anne Burrell. I thought I heard something about cardiac arrest?
Oh, you smell great. A travel spray of TSL is on my wishlist.
Today I am wearing Laura Mercier Almond Coconut. I layered it with Tree Hut Pineapple shower gel and Tree Hut Coconut body butter. All that layering and the humidity still ate it up.
I walked by a woman today who was wearing Aromatics Elixer. I walked by twice just to be sure. It was just the right amount. Not overpowering at all.
I have a travel spray of that LM, I like it. Lucky to smell AE in the wild and impressive you recognised it.
AE at the right volume is gorgeous! Lucky you. 😀
That sounds like some good layering!
Sounds like you are all set for the scorching summer temps that are on the way for both of us. 🔥🔥🔥
Sounds like you smell wonderful! And it’s so cool to recognize perfume in the wild.
My SOTD is MDCI La Ravissante, just because I love it and it makes me feel pretty. It’s sweet but has a juicy pomegranate note too. After doing a couple of brief errands in the 90+ degree heat and glaring sun, I kind of collapsed at home with a bottle of cold water and the AC turned extra low. Ugh. On the plus side, I found a little container of Tillamook Peanut Butter-Chocolate Ice Cream at the grocery store and have a fun snack to look forward to!
I like La Ravissante. I ordered a sample many months ago after I saw you post about it. Sweet, pretty, classy.
Never tried any ice cream from Tillamook. Love their cheeses, though.
I have been listening to a lot of The Beach Boys these last couple weeks, RIP Brian. I never heard their vocals isolated. It showcases what talented vocalists they were and how great with singing in harmony together. I am wearing Jo Malone Sweet Pea and English Pear from a 9 ml free sample bottle. It isn’t a big favorite, but it has grown on me and it is young and reminds me of a sunny warm day like, a lot of TBB 1960’s music does.
There is some kind of magic to TTB’s sunny happy psychedelic pop sound. So uplifting.
Your scent sounds beautiful. The sweet peas growing in my neighborhood were very fragrant this year. I love them. 😍
The Beach Boys captured lightning in a bottle.
In Chanel Bel Respiro.
I just got home from working at the office today and I collapsed on my couch exhausted. A heat wave is arriving tomorrow and it will stay until the end of next week. Temps will be in the upper 90s with heat index in the 100s. Welcome summer! am glad I won’t be back to the office until next Monday. I am not going outside at all, except for Saturday.
Happy Wednesday! 🌞
house twins! 💞
You smell wonderful. 😊
Hope you stay cool. 🧊
Thank you, twin! 🌞
You had a very long day!
My weather will be the same as yours for the coming week.
Stay cool! The extreme heat is going to be brutal!
The temperature is going to get bad here too so a good time to stay inside. That will give you time to make that loooooooooooong list of iris scents to share with us😉
You will definitely get that list either tomorrow or Friday. I will look for the file in my laptop and update it after checking my perfume cabinet. 😀
I was kidding. No hurry 😊
I do not miss the humidity of NJ summers at all! Yuck!
Stay cool, and maybe get some tasty gelato?
I may run to Trader Joe’s tomorrow morning to get the new pistachio gelato.
👍👍
sotd = Chanel No. 5 esp
Because why not? Oddly, it’s a very grounding scent for me. I guess Old School perfumes are comforting in some way.☺️
I did a random deep dive into The Beach Boys and came up with a beautiful ballad about a love that never dies. The fifth song from their fifth album is called The Warmth of the Sun. ☀️ 🎶
https://youtube.com/watch?v=uoDm_flnwxc&si=WPWb41pBF1eQgiKL
I agree old school perfumes are comforting. They feel solid like a good heavy piece of furniture to me.
Did not know this version til this week, but…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_68IhghlCFc
It’s International Sushi Day?!? I could have grabbed some at the grocery store if I’d have known. ☹️
Late post due to afternoon errands. It’s a beautiful day in my neighborhood with sun and temps in the low to mid 80’s. Yesterday’s stormy weather is a distant memory. I took advantage of nice weather to get groceries, especially perishables. Supposed to have seriously hot weather for the next 4 days.
SOTD = back in Baiser Vole EdP. This sample is getting low, so a thunk could happen sometime soon.
It looks like Summer will be arriving right on time this year. I’m dreading the A/C bill.
My brother has a makeshift “sun shade” over the sliding doors to his deck. It really helps with the sun load.
I’ve been thinking of putting a reflective film on my bedroom windows, since they face East.
Getting groceries before the temps rise here is my plan for tomorrow 🙂