It’s Hump Day and Global Beatles Day. Birthdays: George Orwell, James Meredith, Carly Simon, Anthony Bourdain. What fragrance are you wearing?
I'm matching the heat (and wearing a bit of orange blossom) in Hermès Brin de Réglisse.
Reminder: 6/27 is National Orange Blossom Day...you know what to do! (This is another repeat.)
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 Orange [cropped] by Tom Bech at flickr; some rights reserved.
Happy hump day!
Today I am wearing Jean Patou Chaldee which yes, has orange blossom. Jalapeño said it smells great in the heat and I agree, it blooms beautifully.
I agree – it smell gorgeous in the heat! I’ll dig out my bottle for this week, too. So sophisticated and unusual.
I pulled mine out after reading your comment!
I’m CP adjacent in Bigarade Concentre. I love this scent-it’s just happiness in a bottle. I love the hay dry down, and the rose, and I cannot smell cumin at all.
We had one hot day here yesterday, and I have so much respect for all of you have been suffering under excessive heat. It’s much cooler today and there’s a breeze.
Bigarade Concentrée has been one of my most successful blind buys. I got it when a Dutch etailer was getting rid of old stock and selling a bunch of Malles at a discount.
I find it very bracing.
We are on day 3. Heading to pool shortly! Tomorrow will only be 86, which will be glorious.
Hello.
Commando as I was out early for a pharmacy run and forgot perfume.
The strangest thing happened when I got into the Uber. The car smelled beautifully of iris, equal parts floral and rooty. As I was contemplating on commenting on her great choice of air freshener (also where I could get my hands on one!), she spoke first “What perfume are you wearing? It smells so good!” But guys, I was commando! I told her such and then said it was not me but her car that smelled really good. Then she laughed and said there was NO air freshener nor perfume on her! Either both our noses were out of whack or some mystical perfume magic happened.
What a strange experience–it sounds like the beginning of a mysterious short story, perhaps one with a nice-smelling ghost!
Yes!
I would definitely read a story like that!!
Fragrance serendipity!
Magic!
Previous Uber passenger was one of us and left her village behind?
Omg sillage not village
A village seems a bit over the top 🙃
I like village 🤣
Me too . It’s a tiny elf village!
I thought village made perfect sense. 😉
I just got this decant and thought it sounded interesting. I’m wearing Acqua di Parma Luce di Rosa. It started off with a blast of pepper when I applied it, but is now featuring the rose. I would have liked more pepper past the first few moments.
Ah, forgot that one but it is recent I think.
Pepper never lasts long enough for my taste.
Got Guerlain Shalimar Parfum Initial in a recent swap (hi, Gail!) and it is SPECTACULAR. The first iris I’ve ever genuinely liked — it’s there but it doesn’t take over, just sort of drifts among all the other notes. (I find it usually dominates and often has a sharp, kind of garbagey quality. I know there are some real iris fans here and I’ve never gotten it, but now I think I sort of do.)
Shalimar PI used to be my signature for years (well, “signature” as in wore it at least once per week) so imagine how gutted I was when Guerlain axed it. I only have half a bottle left and I would take it out every now and then to look at it and reminisce.
I love your SOTD!
Oh I’m glad you like it! I had to go get my bottle out and spray myself as a reminder. Iris can be a slippery slope, just ask me how I know!
How do you know?
Simple orange blossom and musk in this Chopard Orange Mauresque. These Chopards actually come in 10 ml size! I have the Rose Seljuke also.
Lovely, yay for 10 ml!
Happy Cat World Domination Day (either today or yesterday, depending on the source)! Long live our furry overlords and overladies!
Robin, we’re house twins. I had one of those work meetings that make me nervous, so I went with a wine-colored T-shirt and Hermes 24 Faubourg for a boost of confidence – golden orange blossom with boss vibes.
You smell very elegant Glannys!
Did it help at all?
I like to use Aromatics Élixir or Rien for those occasions.
A little.
And Aromatics Elixir is my anxiety perfume – there is something so comforting in it.
Yes, I agree, it’s just a truly wonderful perfume
Rien offers to beat up anyone who is attempting to bully its wearer.
Precisely!
🤣😂
I think it threatened to beat up me when I tried it. Things did not work between us!
Rien does calm down, but not perhaps in time for you…
Once read that cats were worshipped as gods in ancient Egypt and they have never forgotten it 😆😆
Boss vibes! Love it!
House twins!
I need to smell your SOTD-it’s been a really long time.
I just recently purchased Eau de Mervielles so I should probably stay away from the Hermes counter…
Yay, glad it helped even a little!
Thank you. By the way, I had no idea there’s orange blossom in Brin de Reglisse. I guess I could add it to my OB list too then.
Cat World Domination Day! My kitty missed her chance!
Speaking of Cat World Domination Day, how is Kora kitty doing?
She is doing fine – purring, cuddling, napping and demanding attention and treats. She scared us about a month ago by vomiting, so I put her on a stricter diet, which she does not appreciate, but she’s stopped throwing up (apart from hairballs) since then. Thank you!
How is Teflon kitty?
house triplets! 🙂 🙂 🙂
I’m wearing L’Esprit libre by Divine. It is mostly gone now so I will spray something else after my shower.
I never smelled it but I am sure it is lovely if it’s by Divine.
Commando for a doctor appointment shortly, but afterwards I’ll be wearing something wonderful. Despite orange blossom being a somewhat challenging note for me, it appears I own many fragrances that include it. Hard to choose a favorite among them, but 24 Faubourg and Azemour Les Oranges are two contenders.
Hope the appt went well!
Spending the day in vintage BaV since it has orange blossom in it. It’s slightly cooler today after last night’s thunderstorm. My mother has a doctor’s appointment today but I am just going to chill at home today.
It’s gonna be my Friday wear! Vintage Bal á Versailles is thoroughly animalic to the point of being filthy (which is why I can’t wear it to work tomorrow), but the orange-flower note somehow stands out — I always notice it. That’s perfume alchemy is what it is.
It is and that is why I am wearing it today. It will probably be Narciso Rodriguez for Her on Friday.
I love BaV! My father gave it to me years ago. Pyramus it is definitely animalistic and filthy.
Dawn, I chose Narisco for her last week for the Cp. Love that you both are enjoying these.
It’s been rainy and cool this morning, although it is supposed to warm up by the end of the day and be hot over the weekend. I am in the always-suitable L’Attesa.
My L’Attesa is coming Friday. I can hardly wait.
Enjoy!
Gorgeous. I hope I’m not repeating myself . . . When I ordered a sample set from Masque Milano I had such a hard time deciding between L’Atessa and Luci ed Ombre as my favorite, but I could only justify buying one. I do love them both though!
That sounds like a good one too. I love tuberose!
It’s Hell’s front porch in my neck of the woods.
Eau de Merveilles, several sprays, maybe 5, so I don’t smell like satan’s armpits.
I noticed my local library branch has been closed the last two days-my guess is that the air-conditioning is probably out.
Also house twins with Robin -hiya twin~
🙂
You smell marvelous! That is one fragrance I could have for a signature scent.
You are right it could be a nice signature scent!
Have you tried any of the flankers? Or body products for this one?
I did try the Elixir and L’ambre years ago, but I don’t remember if I liked them.
I have tried the body lotion a long time ago.
I’m the odd woman out who prefers the elixir to the others.
How is the elixir? I have heard it’s more masculine leaning?
Heat Metaphor Goddess! We’ve got a marvelous local library, and I think I well-designed one (eps w working a/c) is a crown jewelfor a neighborhood. The children’s library, utterly enchanting. And the small coffee shop has an outdoor area with umbrellas where you can read, sip iced tea, catch a breeze. Whenever I need to do long-range planning, I go there for uninterrupted, relaxing concentration time. The nearby Jasmine wafting perfume doesn’t hurt 😉. Long live our libraries!
You are preach’n to the choir 📚
Yay for Eau des Merveilles! Just imagining it makes me smile. 🙂
Are you a fan of the OG or flankers?
OG Eau des Merveilles is the best one for me. I also like L’ambre but Bleue was a big no go. 🙂
Have your tried the Elixir
I’m in SL Fleurs d’oranger, just 2 sprays. I had to check a few of my fragrances on Fragrantica since I was sure that I had more with ob in them. Sure enough, I have quite a few; maybe it’s because it’s a note, not a star player in the scent? Otherwise it could be an endless list.
I love your SOTD, Gail. I might wear some later this week-I love orange blossoms. I wish someone would wear something this beautiful around me-would be a treat to smell something so good 🙂
I am twins with Dawn today in vintage Bal a Versailles. Just the thing to wear to repaint the backyard gate.
Haha, that’s an incongruous image, since I’m envisioning you as a kind of glamorous older woman, a la Joan Crawford, in her gown and feathers outside painting the gate!
The gown is at the cleaners so I’m wearing an ancient flannel shirt and stretchy yoga pants. The cats have put claw holes in the pants so I don’t care if I get paint on them.
Vintage glamour is always appropriate. 🙂 You smell divine, dahling.
Frozen summer fruits and yogurt smoothie
The heatwave finished with the weekend, we Brits are wimps when it comes to temperatures as it never was above the lower thirties Celsius, what was more noticeable is that it happened in June which is rare. It still reached 27C today and I sprayed Eau Ressourçante liberally and when that faded Aromafit and tonight for the CP it’s Nuxe Prodigieux le Parfum, my back up bottle as I finished my first bottle some time ago, it’s very pretty-smelling and I like it better than Terracotta.
Glad that you are done with your heatwave. But there might be more headed across the Atlantic…
Yes, summer is just starting after all.
Non cp compliant again with Victoria Beckham San Ysidro Drive.
Got a sample along with a mascara order (no smudging, no flaking winner)
There are no orange notes, but it does feel summery and beautiful.
Thank you all for the nice comments on getting out and to the gym.
Glad to hear it is beautiful!
I pulled out Smell Bent 1999 for the CP today. The grapefruit still comes off as household cleaner to my nose, but fortunately that’s mostly faded and I’m just smelling orange creamsicle.
Very much looking forward to a long weekend away, if not very far away. Ockeghem Teen started summer today, though it feels nothing like summer and she’s spent the morning burrowed into her bed. She can lounge while she can — she starts school back up next week, to finish the two courses that were a disaster online.
Hope she enjoys her week off 🙂
Having a lomo day— low motivation. Wearing Boucheron’s Santal de Kandy, which fits perfectly.
I thought of you today as I was listening to LBR podcast. I have not been a podcast person since you recommended the one on Renualt
I’ve fallen down the Wondery rabbit hole these days. It’s all a bit trashy, but soooo fun. Perfect for long drives.
“Lomo”: I am stealing that!
I want a big, boxy, cropped lavender t-shirt that says “LOMO!” 🙂
Inspired by Calypso’s mention of it yesterday, I’m wearing Arquiste L’Or de Louis.
I nabbed it when it first came out, it was a toss up between it and Indigo Smoke, but I realised that my local perfumery was selling L’Or de Louis for the same price as the rest of the range and I thought that mightn’t last!
Oh boo! I had that same opportunity and passed it up! To my lasting chagrin! Isn’t just gorgeous? I thought the gold bit was stupid so I turned up my nose.
Sotd John Varvatos Artisan. Love that woven bottle. It’s a men’s fragrance but normally I layer something on top to make it smell more feminine.
Haven’t been in gym since November, but all this gym talk is inspiring me. Once I get out of my sleep deficit, I hope to emulate apsara and Robin, and anyone else pursuing that excellent habit!
Artisan is CP compliant I’m pleased to say.
And smells great 🙂
Nothing wrong with acquiring something from the “other side” of the perfume aisle!
Agree! Scent knows no gender.
Scent is an equal opportunity entrancer!
The woven bottle is art. Were I to have one I would keep it long after it was empty.
I think I’m going to use it as a base for one posey after I’m done.
Sophie Matisse Art Edition Good Girl Gone Bad Splash of Neroli
What! A! Tremendous! Perfume! Name! 🙂
Beautiful bottle!
I’m wearing lots of sprays of MFK APOM, the original one for Femmes. I’m lucky I bought a bottle since it’s inexplicably discontinued. :-(. I have not had the opportunity yet to try the new 2024 unisex re-release. I’m someone for whom a little orange blossom goes a long, long way—like a bridge too far kind of distance. I find Seville de L’Aube a scary scrubber. Eek! But I guess the ylang ylang in this one just makes it less cloying and more swoon worthy.
Gosh, I love ylang ylang. I hope it makes APOM a winner for you.
I can only wear small amounts of orange blossom. I get headaches if I over spray.
I’m headed back to Bloom Perfumery in London tomorrow to see if I can find the perfect Orange Blossom. I haven’t yet been able to find the right floral/indolic ratio!
Report back
The chase continues! Good luck.
A noble cause, indeed!
Have fun. 🙂
Bouquets of luck on your search!
Did you see the list that Glannys had of orange blossom scents the other day? I thought of you right away.
I must say everything on my list is older releases. I still haven’t tried Dipytque Eau de Sens, for example. Maybe allo will find some exciting new orange blossom and report back.
Thank you! I’m buoyed by my fragrant compatriots!🌸
Robin, am I imagining that I saw you link to article by Dr Jessica? I think she alluded to drinking peach tea is a garden full of jasmine as a fragrance description?
Yes, it’s on page 2 now but it’s still there
https://freebox.it.com/2025/06/25/in-really-hot-weather/%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E
Thank you Robin. From the description of L’Ete 67 (sipping peach tea in a garden full of jasmine) I was surprised at the notes listed. But, so inspired, I’m making peach iced tea with fresh peach puree and going to drink it near the jasmine on the property.
Feeling very sorry for everyone who is broiling under that Heat Dome. I saw news footage of roads buckling in Baltimore last night. And some of my friends in the Princeton, NJ, area lost power an hour ago. Their service provider said it might be back on by 8:30 tonight. Fortunately for them, they went out to dinner.
Nothing like that here, thank God. Today will be the last of the days right around 80 degrees. Gonna start heating up once again.
SOTD = Dior Pure Poison. Glannys’ orange blossom list reminded me that I do have it, and I can definitely smell the orange blossom in it.
I love that Pure Poison bottle. So fab.
So sorry about the heat and the troubles it’s causing for so many. Very glad you are ok, Jalapeño!
One of my toughest memories from life in NJ was two days of — massive thunderstorms, downed trees, no power, no AC, temps in the 90s and 90% humidity, and a two month old baby to boot!
You lived in NJ, too? Where at?
I remember losing power after Superstorm Sandy rolled thru. We were some of the lucky ones, with only 17 hours of outage. Some people didn’t have power for a month.
I lived in Somerset county. 🙂
I overheard a guy mention that his was one of three houses in his neighborhood that lost power yesterday.
As to orange blossom, I really do not have much in my collection but have 1 that I will definitely wear tomorrow or Friday.
You haven’t had to deal with any infrastructure issues? Good!
I saw that the temperatures will be more average in July.
Have had some crazy temperature fluctuations here for summer. First it was way above, now it’s below average.
sotd = Jour d’Hermes (am) + White Shoulders (pm) + 4711 Original (all day long)
It’s finally hot here! I can now commiserate with everyone who’s been riding the recent heatwaves.
But I’m almost always cold (cold hands, warm heart!) so it will be a few days before I tire of sweating it out.
In silly tech-y news I am learning use my first ever iPhone. It’s a bit of a learning curve for me for certain. I think I will love it eventually.
Favorite thing at the moment is that I can pair my magic keyboard to my phone! No more trying to type with two fingers on the tiny keys on the screen.
I may start writing massive love letters to perfume and to all of you fabulously fragrant folks. Time will tell. 🙂
It’s almost always fun to learn “new” technology!
Predictions: first, you will feel immensely accomplished after you get the hang of it, second, it will make your life much easier. Good luck!
One of my friends got her first iPhone not long ago as well. She’s enjoyed discovering emojis and texting.
Enjoy the summer weather while you can, hehe!
SOTD = Eris Parfum Green Spell
CP-fail but oh so good!
In other news, at my cousin-in-law’s retirement party, I sat close to someone whom I thought was a church friend but ended up being a pickleball friend. You couldn’t blame me because I heard “temple” sometime during our conversation. She asked me now that I am retired, what do I do ALL DAY? I provided my usual declutter, etc. She appeared not to understand my response so I asked how she spends her days (she’s not retired). So she rattled off her entire day x5 from the time she wakes up the time she goes to bed and Saturday + Sunday. This took all of 5 minutes and then she asked me again. My response is the same except I can’t wake up any time I want to … no pressure. WTH did she want me to say. 🤦🏻♀️
I think the pickleball friend has bad manners. She should have said “Good for you! I hope to be in your shoe’s someday ”
You earned your retirement. I hope you enjoy every minute, hajusuuri. 🙂
After she went through her diatribe and I answered, she finally acknowledged and said good for you!
Oh good!
Someone who doesn’t understand about decluttering has never done it. My $0.02 worth.
The orange blossom note seems to be in a lot of fragrances, so I was accidentally compliant in l’Eau d’Hiver yesterday. Yet today, I’m surprisingly not compliant in Chanel no 5 EDT. I thought for sure orange blossom would be one of the MANY floral notes in No 5! But wait, it does have neroli. I always get confused about the difference between OB and neroli.
Neroli is just another way of processing orange blossoms. IMO there is no reason not to count it for the cp.
Today I am wearing Elie Saab L’eau Couture.
I narrowly avoided getting hit by a bunch of wood falling off the truck ahead of me today. I uncharacteristically passed him probably 10 seconds before it all fell. It was very scary but I was more shocked than anything. I guess my real sotd was Angel.
Oh boy, glad you are OK!
Wow, glad you’re safe. What a scare!
OMG! So glad to hear that you are all right. Your guardian angel was riding with you today.
Glad to hear you’re OK, lillyjo!
Wow, that’s so scary! That’s a real shock. Glad you came through it ok, lillyjo.
Very glad you escaped the falling wood.
What an escape! Glad you are ok.
Oops, that was meant for lillyjo.