It's Wednesday, World UFO Day, and the second day of National Ice Cream Month. Donatella will be stopping by tomorrow! Birthdays: Thurgood Marshall, Larry David, Jerry Hall. What fragrance are you wearing?
I'm in the answer to at least 68 community projects, including this week's: Guerlain Cologne du 68.
Reminder: on 7/4, wear a fragrance with a basil note, if you have one.
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 Droplet on Thai Basil [cropped] by John Verive at flickr; some rights reserved.
Up early, Robin?
I’m wearing Acqua di Parma Blu Mediterraneo Mirto de Panarea and Penhaligon’s Lavandula. Both are supposed to have basil, but I’d never noticed it before. Today I really tried, and I can detect it in the AdP – though it’s far from a strong note. As for Lavandula, it still smells mostly like lavender, with just a hint of something herbal.
Partial credit, I suppose.
I am up early too! LOL
Mirto is my favourite of this line, Glannys-you smell great!
Up at usual time but posting early because heading to beach for a few days 🙂
Enjoy the beach!
So glad for your beach break🏊, safe travels.
Nice!
Enjoy Robin!!!
Have fun! Are you going down the Shore?
Rehoboth! Which is the beach, if you’re from DC 🙂
I never heard anybody say “down the shore” til I moved near Philly, and then it always meant Jersey. Apologies if I am repeating a conversation we’ve already had.
I went to Reheboth a couple of times for the outlet shopping, LOL. It was a fun trip on the Cape May – Lewes ferry to get there.
And I never make it to the outlets…once I am in town I tend to park my car and not go anywhere I can’t get on foot 🙂
Thanks all, so far so good! Even managed to buy a new bathing suit, which I needed.
Often in our picture collection at NYPL patrons want to see UFO pictures (as well as witchcraft) -so happy UFO day to those you are celebrating.
All the talk about Omnia yesterday I am in the OG Omnia. I would love to smell the new crystalline (new bottle!) and the amethyst mentioned yesterday.
Double espresso this morning.
Love Omnia 🙂
I wore Omnia Crystalline quite a bit in the day it was popular. I don’t hear about it much anymore. I didn’t know there was a new bottle.
There is, I think maybe it came out last year.
I wish they didn’t discontinue Omnia!
I really liked the Crystalline flanker that came out around 2012 – 2013. It was an EdP that was really pretty on my skin, while the original Omnia Crystalline EdT was sharp and stabby.
I am CP compliant in Basilico & Fellini from my discovery set.
Excellent!
I plan to wear it on Friday!
Wearing Nasomatto Nuda today since I was strongly craving it. If i wasn’t craving Nuda, I would have gone either the Lyric route or vintage Shalimar.
Glad the cravings got met 🙂
I’m wearing Philosophy Pure Grace that someone included in a swap package, if it was you, thanks! It goes to a skin musk drydown pretty quickly but I keep catching whiffs of it and it does smell nice.
The vegetable garden is going strong, the tomatoes, zucchini and peppers all have enjoyed the heat wave. Eggplants have lots of flowers. But the cilantro I planted isn’t doing anything. Parsley, though, we have tons! I need to freeze some.
Oh lovely, Pure Grace is the cleanest scent I know.
Hello.
Sotd is LV eLVes.
I just watched Jurrasic Park Rebirth, and in 3D too! The previous 3 or 4 films got progressively meh but this one’s a huge improvement and had that good old JP feel. The dinosaurs are finally the main foucs of the film and they are majestic (and one super adorable).
Super adorable dino? Sounds miraculous! 🦖😍
SOTM, and possibly SOTES (scent of the entire summer), is Eau d’Hadrien EDT. I just went outside to water a few things and it’s absolutely the most glorious morning in a long time — sunny, dewy, cool but not chilly … in a word, perfect.
SheriG, that’s one of my all time favourite scents, and I love the EDT the most:) If you ever get a chance to try the shower gel it’s fantastic-true to the scent and helps it last longer, plus it’s just such a good product.
Oh, good to know — thank you!
I’m in Guerlain cologne Imperial. I love this scent, and make sure to get some in my hair and on my shirt to help it last. I do use it on my face, if I have a headache or it’s really hot, but today it’s just for enjoyment.
Never thought of doing that, despite reading about it in novels.
Perfect cologne! If ever I manage to use up enough of the cologne I have, and feel I need a new bottle, it would be so easy to choose Cologne Imperial. When I had a decant I liked to pair it with Vol de Nuit edt. 🙂
Wearing Eau de Rochas for another warm day and basil. It’s so fun to do some “note” research and uncover the complexity of fragrances like this.
Eau de Rochas is such a brilliant cologne, and quite long lasting too for the genre.
You smell wonderful, allo. I’ve always loved EdR and it has such a cool bottle.
You smell wonderful, I had lined it up to wear for the CP but probably won’t come around to wearing.
You smell magnifique! I caught whiffs of Eau de Rochas on the street in Paris one day long ago. 🙂 For me it has a delicious edge that feels so French.
I think of Aurora whenever someone here mentions Rochas.
I’m in fabulous company!
😀🙏
For the CP I’m wearing Basil & Neroli by Jo Malone, which is a fragrance I like wearing in hot weather. I have a feeling it might be on the soon to be discontinued list since it is only available in the 100 ml size anymore.
Interesting. Maybe lime basil mandarin outsells it.
I love Basil & Neroli and wore it on Tuesday!
Oh! For once I’m compliant with the CP! That rarely happens.
My SOTD is Guerlain’s AA Mandarine Basilic. I wish this came in an EDP, it lasts most of the day but it’s low sillage. I would happily buy a vat of the stuff. 🙂
Guerlain house twins today. 💕 AA MB is so pretty.
Thanks! I do love it when I have a twin!
I’m wearing Mure et Musc Extreme from L’Artisan. Oddly, the regular version lists basil but the Extreme does not. I’m assuming it might be in here anyway but I’m not detecting it. Now I want to go somewhere to compare the two side by side. Anyway, I smell rather sweetly fruity and delicious! Bracing for another hot day. It’s frustrating to stay home all the time but venturing outdoors is a struggle.
I love blackberry in fragrance this time of year. DSH Muresque, a blackberry chypre is also perfect for summer.
I empathize with your frustration – I’m an ‘outside’ person but can’t stand to be outside when it’s so hot and humid. We had another brief respite the last two days, I sat out on the screened porch last night and listened to the ballgame and this morning I enjoyed my morning coffee and newspaper on our little deck by the waterfall, something I usually do a lot in summer but not this one! But now it’s gotten hot again and the next few days will be very hot and humid so it’s back to indoors again and a/c. My garden is suffering from lack of attention but I just can’t do it.
No basil, but I was in the mood for Bulgari Black, which, as it turns out, works really well on a hot muggy day — the sharpness of the rubber/leather cuts through the vanilla beautifully.
you smell fabulous!
House twins
One of my favourites!
Iconic! 🛞🖤🥰
Eau du Sud, struggling to focus on my work while it’s hot!
But you smell chic!
No basil today. I have to wear that on Friday since there is only one in my collection.
SOTD is Dame Cassis, Rose and Sandalwood. Of course, for layering I used the BBW Rose body wash and lotion.
Did you get anything from the Semi annual sale?
Didn’t even know there was one. Is it over now? Darn. Although, I really don’t wear anything other than this by him and it is discontinued.
Oh no I meant the BBW sale.
I keep hoping DP will do another sale on the Artist collection or the gourmand collection. Strawberry Fool has grown on me.
Yes, I did go to the BBW sale, but didn’t get much this year.
I was wondering about DP Strawberry Fool. I never did try it. I love strawberry scents but had heard such mixed reviews on this.
Going with Bois Imperial today. Love the Thai basil note.
I adore Thai basil in food. I’m imagining you smell delicious. 🙂
yummmmmmm:)
Thai basil is one of my favorite things as a ramen topping. Yummy!
I scented some bath salts with 4160’s Who Knew? and letting it sit to see how it turns out. While I was at it I scented myself too.
Is that the strawberry one? Very pretty! 🍓♥️
Hello NST! Had a great vacation on the Big Island and am slowly adjusting back to the realities of work. 😅
I bought some Arquiste samples a few weeks ago and today I am trying Indigo Smoke…a semi-sweet, woody incense to my nose so far…quite nice.
Yesterday I sampled L’Or de Louis and loved it…may need a FB or at least a travel spray. Some NSTers had mentioned it in the last couple months and I sought out a sample. It’s a great mix of orange blossom, jasmine and musk w/ an interesting, animalic undercurrent that’s really good. I have lots of orange blossom/jasmine forward scents but the dry down/animalic base is pretty alluring. 😌
Also curious if anyone has bought decants from Nectar Atelier. There are a few Dries Van Noten perfumes I want to try that aren’t in their discovery set…le sigh.
Welcome back, She-ra!
Thanks, Jalapeno!
Welcome home, and so glad it was a great vacation!
Definitely starting to get L’Or fomo, will have to try it.
Thanks, Robin!
Not CP compliant today, though I do have some basil in my collection. But…the postwoman came today with my Spoturno sample set, so I’ll be wearing those over the next few days. First up is 1921, which I am enjoying greatly. I loved the citrus in the top notes, which has faded now into a beautiful perfume — a big, beautiful, old-time but not old-timey PERFUME. With a big price to match…holy moley! I will likely have to content myself with the sample.
Digging a bit, I see it’s showing the price in CAD, rather than USD as I’d thought. Still expensive, though — especially the extrait.
Just peeked, yep, that’s not cheap!
Apples and yogurt smoothie
The hot weather broke as it was expected, some rain this morning but not enough and it’s 73F, I made the conversion.
To celebrate cooler temperatures I chose Mystère this morning and tonight for the CP, it’s Crazy Krizia, a very opulent perfume and early Dominique Ropion according to Fragrantica.
*Krazy
silly autocorrect! 🙂 You smell opulent indeed, and beautiful.
😀Thank you very much Tiffanie, it’s a commitment to wear it but it does smell wonderful.
Glad to hear your weather has cooled off! You were wilting over there.
Thank you very much, the hottest day was Tuesday, 93.2 in Fahrenheit but it really is the continent which suffered. It hasn’t rained enough yesterday though.
I hear you on not enough rain. Same situation across the American West.
I’ve checked Fragrantica’s list of perfumes with basil notes, and I don’t have any of those, so I’m continuing with my theme of spices, being adjacent as they are to herbs.
I’m wearing Majda Bekkali Mon Nom est Rouge for its wonderful ginger note.
I started off with that list as well, but the odd thing is it does not contain all of the perfumes that contain basil and are included in their database.
For instance Eau Sauvage is not on that list but if I check its notes on Fragrantica, it lists basil.
Still, that will not make green herbs in perfume more palatable to you
sotd = Apres l’Ondee + Eau de Fleurs de Cedrat
Soft and delicate meets light and sunny, and I like these two together.
Didn’t actually spray one on top of the other – put the first on wrists and the second on inner elbows.
Robin, you smell fantastic in the best kitchen sink cologne that ever lived. Cd68 is now on my bureau so it gets some wear in the coming weeks. I have a sample of Parfum du 68 that I adore as well. So pretty, so well-built, so interesting to sniff. 🙂
Hey there! I forgot if you sent me my bottle of Cd68 or if I won it at a BDJ giveaway!
Hiya! It wasn’t me who shared Cdu68.😁 isn’t it a beauty?
That’s an interesting combo, I’m definitely more adventurous with my layering experiments in summer, in winter I just want one comforting, heavier perfume.
same for me, in summer almost anything goes! Everything dissipates so quickly. And I really enjoy using many different light scents throughout a warm day. Accidental layering can be a winner. 🌟
Too bad Eau de Fleurs de Cedrat is so stinking hard to find.
😳 really! fleurs de cedrat is hard to find? I got my tester bottle super cheap from a discounter years ago. Sigh… I will continue to spray with abandon even so. ☺️🍋
SOTD = Frederic Malle Synthetic Jungle
Woot! It has basil! 🌿
https://www.instagram.com/p/DLnzioMxgNq/?igsh=MzY0OXE2MmZhNjl6
In other news, I haven’t had a margarita in a while … not planning to have one either unless I’m at a location that serves it. Anyway, one could get a margarita burn but I believe it’s due to the lime 🍋🟩 it’s usually served with. Fair warning! (NB: Not sure if you can read the article.)
https://nypost.com/2025/06/28/health/this-common-summer-ailment-can-leave-you-howling-in-pain/?utm_campaign=iphone_nyp&utm_source=mail_app
I was able to read that article no problem. I’ve never had any issues dealing with citrus fruits in the summer. Just made sure to wash my hands immediately after handling said fruit.
Some of my favorite marinades have a healthy slug of citrus juice in them.
Yikes! That lime and sunshine reaction happened to a friend. She had to see a dermatologist for help.
Doing some loads of laundry this evening so I don’t have to do it over the Fourth. I wasn’t sure if I would be hanging out with my brother this year. But his 7 days off start tomorrow morning. And he texted me yesterday that he had taken some steaks out of the freezer to thaw for us.
SOTD = Cartier Baiser Vole EdP. It stopped spraying after the application today, but there’s a little bit left in the bottom. And I have pliers handy!
Glad you will be spending the holiday with your brother.
I hope you have good grilling weather!
Should be just fine, thanks!
What a nice bro you have! As an only child, I’m envious.
We worked together to get those steaks, since they came in a 10-pound pack. Much easier to afford half of it.
I got lucky with my sibling. Some of my friends fought horribly with theirs. 🍀🍀🍀
Enjoy those steaks!
I did three loads of laundry today. Just felt in the mood. I really mind laundry least of all the household chores. Folding and putting away clean things is a happifying activity for me.
You smell wonderful! If I recall correctly your scent is in that cool flip top bottle. I love that so much. I need to wear mine soon. I gave it a timeout because it seemed like a few spritzes would stick to my skin for days, something I’m not fond of in winter.
I’ve been lousy at keeping up with comments the past week or so, wanted to reply to your query … when I lived in the NE US my zip code was 07060. 😉
Ah! Your former ZIP code was on the other end of NJ from where I was. Mine was 08054.
I was pleasantly surprised at how good Baiser Vole smelled today in Colorado’s dry heat. It was usually too much for me in more humid climes.
So glad your brother will have some time off and that you will be together for the 4th. Your brother and mine sound quite similar.
Is your brother mechanically inclined too?
I’m figuring I will get a short phone call from mine tonight. He usually is wiped out at the end of a hitch.
Another busy day at work. The Fall and back to school merchandise is coming in like crazy now.
My sotd is LM Vanilla Coconut. It matches all of my summer body products.
Fall merch already?!?
Yuck.
Seriously.
😆
The last of our brief respite from the extreme weather ends today with a return to hot and sticky for the weekend. No pool for me today, though, just numerous household chores and preparing for tomorrow’s grocery shopping. We did get out for a yoga class at the library this afternoon and we finally got the houseplants arranged around our little waterfall for their summer vacation.
I’ve been enjoying philosophy Falling in Love Summer all day; the blackberry note is a little softer and joined by some florals. It was a nice accompaniment to my miscellany of chores today.
Looking forward to our community fireworks celebration tomorrow night 🧨🎇🎆!
I like the idea of the houseplants getting a summer vacation! I am not that nice to mine 🙂
But I also get a summer vacation from them, too – I don’t have to care for them, Mother Nature does! With only an occasional bit of help from us if it gets too dry. Much easier just hosing them down outside than it is to water each and every one separately inside. And they really thrive outside and come back in the house in mid-September lush and green!
Late reply, but I have too many plants…I should try this method and have a vacation from their care!
Don’t mind hot, but I do NOT miss sticky weather!
Enjoy your fireworks tomorrow.
I don’t mind hot but can’t handle the humidity like you.