It's Hump Day plus World Snake Day. Birthdays: Ida B. Wells, Ginger Rogers, Cal Tjader, Anita Brookner, Will Ferrell. What fragrance are you wearing?
I'm hitting the road today for some lake time up north...I'll be off the internet most of the day. I'm wearing my own cheap and cheerful DIY lotion with ylang and sweet orange.
Reminder: on 7/18, we're doing Cheap & Cheerful Friday. Suggested by ringthing.
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 chive flowers [cropped] by Conall at flickr; some rights reserved.
Today felt like an angry-roses sort of day so I’m in Atelier Cologne Rose Anonyme. (As soon as I wrote “angry roses” I realized that I have at least four scents that fit that description. It’s a whole category of its own!)
Angry roses sounds like a category worth exploring further! I’m positive we’d all love to know what other scents you feel fall into it.
SL La Fille de Berlin is absolutely an angry rose, and the queen of the category is ELdO Eau de Protection — so dark, so cruel! And Lush Rose Jam isn’t quite angry, but it’s getting there — sort of peevish, maybe? Certainly not light/airy/floral, at least not on my skin.
I have no problem with lovely roses: Patou Joy is one of the greatest scents ever, and Sophia Grojsman conjured up some wonders like YSL Paris and Lancôme Trésor. But mostly I like my roses with a bit of spite to them.
So, roses which have kept some of their thorns perhaps! I quite like the idea of a peevish rose. I may have to look into acquiring a fragrance to wear on my thornier days.
laughing at angry roses!
Lol 🌹😡
love this idea, pyramus!
Angry roses would make for a great perfumista video game!
My SOTD is possibly the ultimate “cheap and cheerful” scent – 4711 Original Cologne.
We’ve been a bit worried about Kora lately – she keeps throwing up from time to time, although she seems healthy otherwise. So yesterday I called the vet, and this morning we took her in for blood tests. The results should be ready in a few hours. I hope it’s nothing serious.
I’ll hold some good thoughts for your pet-nothing worse than when our furry friends aren’t feeling well, and cannot tell us why. Fingers crossed for her recovery.
Thinking good thoughts for Kora.
I have 4711 lined up for this week, too.
Hope the test results for Kora are good.
I hope she’s ok and just has a bug. My cat Tipper was not well recently, just not eating at all, but the tests showed nothing wrong. The vet said sometimes cats can just get a bug like humans do, and then they get better. Which she did! And I hope Kora will, too.
It’s possible, considering the bloodwork showed low leukocytes. But this has been going on for over a month – she’ll get better and have a normal week, then suddenly vomit again. She recently turned 11, which makes her a senior kitty, and she had never been tested before. So we decided it’s better to err on the side of caution.
You smell wonderful!!! And I hope everything is ok with your fur baby.
Good wishes to Kora. And to YOU, Glannys!
Sending good energy to you and Kora.
Sending good thoughts for Kora
Hope Kora is ok. Keep us updated.
Positive thoughts to Kora.
Sending more healing thoughts for sweet Kora Kitty💕
Thank you all! The results are in, and I discussed them with the vet. A few things are off, but nothing really alarming. The vet said that some of the results could be due to stress or even a technical error. She still recommended giving her some supplements like vitamins and immunity boosters and coming back in a month to repeat the tests.
Well good, glad it is nothing more alarming. Best wishes to Kora.
🤞for Kora.
Aw, poor Kora kitty! Teflon tends healing purrs her way.
FWIW, cats can get IBS just like humans.
So glad you reported back and kitteh is in an ok holding pattern.
I’m in a generous amount of Hermes Pamplemousse Rose-it’s such a cheerful summer scent, and I love the colour of the bottle.
Hope everyone’s day has at least one small cheerful thing. Sometimes we have to look for it, other times it falls in your lap. I’ll choose the linden bush at my place-I had a huge linden tree which cam down in a hurricane a few years ago. The stump was left, and the tree put down suckers. They are so thick and so tall, and they flower like the tree did. The whole thing is buzzing with the sound of bees and the air is so fragrant.
That tree sounds heavenly !
Wonderful! Wish I could smell it.
Hello.
Cheap but fun sotd is Moschino Toy 2 Bubble Gum! Smells exactly like pink Hubba Bubba (Is there any other kind? Pink is the ONLY flavour to go!) but also like a true bubble gum, the fun phase fades rather quickly.
Fun while it lasts 😉
Cheap and Cheerful Shiseido Zen
You can find it cheap at TJ Maxx and stores like that for under 30 bucks.
Cheap lippy Neutrogena Hydro lip gloss, under 10 bucks
Yesterday I did a roast chicken with thyme -I was happy to cut it back! It is growing like crazy!
Tea is Eros by MF. Flipping through the paper and listening to NPR BBC news.
Something cheerful my son said to me this morning. He mentioned that he really loved it when I was studying Italian! Even though we did our trip 2 years ago and I stopped my lessons, he asked me if I would go back so that he can learn and we can go to Italy one day in the future! That really made my day! So on my list is “studying Italian” lol
Aw, how sweet that he has that nice memory. And a family trip to Italy in the future sounds like a wonderful idea!!
Lovely!
Awesome of your Son!
How lovely!
That is very sweet and cheerful indeed! 🥰
Adorable!
Continuing my meandering through my Goutals, I’m wearing Gardenia Passion EDT from a teensy bottle purchased at Loehmanns years ago.
scaresbears, I have the body cream, and it’s gorgeous. Your SOTD is discontinued-I think you smell incredible. I wore this scent once in the heat of summer. There had been rain and I remember how good it smelled in that kind of weather. Thanks for the good memories 🙂
All the good Goutals are discontinued, except for a few beloved ones..
You smell amazing! Gardenia Passion is my favorite gardenia
I had one of those rough sleepless nights that ends in sleeping late, so my day is all discombobulated. But I smell great in Zoologist Bee, the travel size is comparatively cheap to a full bottle, and it’s definitely cheerful and delicious. And TCM is celebrating Barbara Stanwyck’s birthday with a day of her movies, so I can take things slowly today.
ringthing, I had a day like that yesterday.
Ms Stanwyck will definitely be a wonderful way to cope.
I love her movies-I hope you have a great day 🙂
Bee is very nice and I like their travel sprays.
Ugh, I hope you get a good night’s sleep tonight.
Cheap and cheerful with Fragonard Bel Oranger – 100ml for $77 plus they usually throw in some gift – tea towel, tote bag… you have to respray mid day but why not? I rarely buy 100ml of anything these days but don’t mind when it’s both inexpensive and light enough to go ham.
When I shopped at Fragonard in Nice they gifted me so many things! I got 2 tote bags, tons of samples and an elephant candle warmed essential oil diffuser.
I have only been to the Paris shop but came out with so much stuff compared to the $ spent. The floral prints are so joyful. The fragrances don’t last all that long on me but I do enjoy them.
I’m following the 4711 trend in AC Pink Pepper & Grapefruit. I was craving peppery and citrusy, so this was perfect.
That one sounds nice. I have never seen a single one of that series in the wild!
I love this topic. A friend gifted me with Spongelle Mystic Oud and Lily bodywash and I love it. They have lots of scents to choose from and it feels really luxorious.
I think those were a daily lemming once, but I have never tried them. Glad it is wonderful!
Woke up late today and after the past 3 days of not sleeping all that good, it felt great. Trying to finish up on the vacuuming while still in Cheirosa 62. After my shower, I will wear Number One Intense.
I have part of my Amazon order arriving today and the other half of it will be tomorrow. And the discovery set that I ordered from Luckyscent is arriving today. The Andy Tauer samples will be arriving on Monday.
Wow! You have a lot of packages coming your way. Enjoy!
Which discovery set did you order? I have some samples coming from Luckyscent too, can’t wait! Unfortunately I ordered right before the Tauer ones were announced.
White Linen. Back in the late 70s early 80s when it was a staple in my collection it certainly was inexpensive.
Yes it was.
White linen is such a good choice for summer.
It definitely hits the spot
The classic EL scents are quite reasonably priced still. But not like they were back in the day.
Agree!!!
Cheap and cheerful for me is Tocade by Rochas. Rose and vanilla and turning darker/ambery with some of the vintage Rochas animalic growl as it progresses. I never hear anyone talk about this one and I don’t wear it often but it really hits the spot when I do. Really cute bottle too. It was definitely cheap when I bought it and I just looked online and yup, still cheap. Buy the vintage version if you can, as people say it’s been reformulated. Not sure how you tell unless it’s listed that way on the resale sites. I think Luca Turin liked it too for what it’s worth.
I have Tocade in the parfum iteration and it’s A LOT in a very good way. Very fun to wear, other people notice it and like it, and yes, an adorable bottle. I’ve never worn it in hot weather but you’ve inspired me to give it a try. You smell really fabulous!
Someone got to have fun designing the Tocade and Tocadilly botles!
I’m in vintage Stetson, which I love. (It’s “for men,” but that shouldn’t deter anyone from wearing it.) It’s cheap, though “cheerful” isn’t a word I’d choose to describe it. I guess I’m halfway compliant, though the idea of a drugstore cheapie being so good does bring a smile to my face.
I’ve heard other posters mention that about Stetson.
Cheap and cheerful is a giant bottle of Philosophy Nude Rose that never seems to get any emptier.
Definitely not an angry rose.
I think I have a giant bottle of the lotion also, so that should do it for the day.
Nude Rose is very cheerful. You can sometimes find the travel sprays at TJ Maxx.
Cheap and Cheerful for me today is Zara’s Orange Nomad. It smells like shaving cream that is scented with oranges, orange blossom, and also some of wood from the tree. I don’t quite know how to describe the shaving cream aspect of it, but it is a sharp coolness and also foamy/creamy, if that makes sense.
Tea today is the last of my Margaret’s Hope Darjeeling from Clipper Ship. I’m not big on darjeeling generally, but I have enjoyed this one.
Glad to hear from you, Vee! Did you have any issues with the flooding in NJ recently? And how are your kittehs doing?
I went the opposite direction of pyramus too with a cheerful rose. SOTD is Guerlain AA Rosa Rossa. It can be found pretty cheap at some of the fragrance sites.
I got all my AAs cheap at discounters 🙂
Moschino Toy Boy for the CP. The cute miniature can be had for perfume math free.
And just the bottle is cheerful 🙂
Unsettled weather here today, with storms tonight.
My sotd is the super cheap Nicki Minaj Pink Friday. This is mostly a clean shampoo scent but is also a little perfumey. It’s pretty cheerful. I do not like the bottle. My daughter redecorated our bottle by using nail polish to give it a Jackson Pollock look. Lol.
Perfumey for the win.
You know it!
We are weather twins today. Yay??
I have a frozen mango and yogurt smoothie by my side but currently drinking coffee too late in the day. I wanted to finish the sample so it was Lanvin Éclat d’Arpège mon éclat but it fits the cp as Lanvin is an affordable house, tonight it’s Parfum d’empire Musc Tonkin, a different kind of beast altogether, very animalic.
I’m trying to thunk a few samples as well.
I got two wears of that one by spraying liberally on purpose.
Racing by to say that I’m wearing Baptême du Feu again, I don’t think it’s exactly cheerful, but I did get it for a very good price.
Which is better than paying more 🙂
I am in the cheap and cheerful Smell Bent San Tropez Dispenser. It’s 96F on my patio, supposed to reach 102F. I am staying inside. Ice cream may be in my future.
PSA: Jacques Fath fragrances are unbelievably cheap at Fragrancenet right now. I just bought three bottles for less than $60.
Which three? I took a look and those prices are insane! If they had the lilac one I would have made a purchase.
The Autumn one, the Rose one, and LÓree du Bois. All blind buys, but I have heard good things from others.
Let us know what those Jacques Fath scents are like, please!
Please report back when you get them! I’m very curious about the rose one.
I have a couple of samples from a swap awhile back. From my brief sampling notes for Tempete d’Automne, I wrote Egoiste + vetiver, and I think I quite liked it. For Le Loden, I wrote masculine-leaning, menthol-ish patchouli. I’ll have to try it again, I can’t remember if I liked it.
You enabler you!
My brand new bottle of Baiser Volé arrived yesterday, so that is what I am wearing today.
Congrats on your new bottle! It’s a great green lily scent.
Baiser Vole is definitely full bottle worthy.
sotd = Hiris + Eau de Guerlain
It’s a combo that works. I think of Hiris as a “cool” iris perfume and Eau de Guerlain has a cooling minty cologne feel. 💙💚
My new phone decided to autocorrect Hiris to Horus, which kind of fits since I think Horus was a protection figure, and Hiris feels like protection too.
I’ve decided today is my Let’s Not Take Things Too Seriously Day. That means dance party in the kitchen starting . . . NOW!!! 🪩
https://youtu.be/fam4ulIAI0g?si=wgBJCDoxxOH_xqKc
Yay for kitchen dance party!
Things have been a little busy lately so I’m a little behind on my NST reading, but I’m popping in to say hi and that I’m wearing 4711 Acqua Colonia Lemon and Ginger for the cp today. I keep that one and Guerlain Eau de Cologne Imperiale in the fridge for hot days, and today is one of those days! I’ve already refreshed myself with my SOTD multiple times and my SO put on the Guerlain to cool himself down.
Perfume in the fridge is so nice in summer!
Sweltering with you my PNW friend and reaching for the Eau Dynamisante I forgot in the fridge!
Thankfully, there is a good breeze this evening, and it’s starting to cool down in here. The cold colognes do help so much!
Spent the day in Jour d’Hermes. Definitely cheerful, but not so cheap. 🙂
At least at the discounters Jour d’H is nicely affordable.
It’s almost chilly here today! A cold front snuck thru last night, and temps were in the upper 50’s this morning. I’m not sure it made it to 80 this afternoon. Had unsettled weather with rain earlier, and might have more later on this evening. A good day to stay inside doing laundry.
SOTD = still in PMC Essence de Patchouli.
50!? That is chilly. It looks like anything severe will stay south of me. I’m getting rain though. We really need it here.
I think the low here was 57 or 58. These temps will be gone by tomorrow. But the unsettled weather will remain.
Your weather is entertaining for sure. That PMC is a good one.
My parents used to say that if you didn’t like the current weather in Colorado, just wait 5 minutes and it will change.
I have been enjoying Essence de Patchouli.