It's Almost-Friday and Almost-August, plus World Ranger Day. What fragrance are you wearing?
I'm in Berdoues Assam of India.
Reminder: on 8/1, rabbit rabbit rabbit! It's August. Wear a fragrance that will bring you peace, happiness or good luck for the month.
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 Upside Down Can Can [cropped] by Audrey at flickr; some rights reserved.
Good morning, one and all! SOTD = Mon Precieux Nectar, not sure this hits the CP goal at all, but this is one of my prettiest scents, and always dependable. Today in the heat it seems pretty sweet, but it is soooo pretty, sweet is ok!
I made my cornbread this morning with cornmeal, agave syrup, sorghum flour and real butter, and it is very very tasty, if I do say so myself. It is good to get up and bake at 5:30 in the morning. It makes that second cup of tea at 9:30 very satisfying!
Have a good good day!
I wish I could get up at 5:30 and bake! I cannot get up at 5:30 for anything really. But that does sound delicious.
I come from a long line of semi-nomadic sheep herders, need to get up when the stock decides to leave the bed ground. Now, at 3:00 pm I am ready for a nappie.
I would have to have at least 4 ☕️☕️☕️☕️of coffee in order to do what you did pre-dawn!
Your cornbread sounds delicious!
It is a very simple and easy recipe.
1 cup cornmeal
1 cup sorghum flour
1/2 cup butter (one stick)
1/4 cup sugar or agave syrup or honey
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
2 eggs
1 cup buttermilk or 1 c milk with 1 tsp lemon juice added right before mixing.
Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
Melt butter in 8 or 9 inch square pan, let cool.
Mix all dry ingredients together in big bowl.
In small bowl, whip wet ingredients (not including butter) until eggs , milk and liquid sweetener if using, are combined.
Pour wet ingredients into big bowl. Pour melted butter on and stir until just combined.
Pour into baking pan. Smooth top. Bake for 20 minutes. Yum yum. If you like savory, halve the sweetener and stir in some bacon crumbles and finely chopped onion instead.
Thank you!
The cool front has arrived! It’s 60F and raining and very refreshing. Heads up for those in the eastern US, relief from the heat is on the way.
Sotd is Seville l’Aube.
My husband brought home the first eggplant from the garden we have at my mom’s house. It is absolutely beautiful, like a picture. I will roast it and make a dip out of it later today, since I can finally use the oven.
Your SOTD is my “the one that got away”. I have a decant but wish I had bought a bottle.
You smell wonderful!
We are 80 and raining, hoping for cool soon…
When we visited with Mr. Laila’s nephew last week, he gave me a zucchini from his garden that was the size of a small club or baseball bat! I could hardly fit it in my fridge. Not sure what I will do with it yet.
I like them about 6″. In my experience, the big ones are great in zucchini bread.
Fresh fresh eggplant! How delightful!
Grilled eggplant is delicious, too! Just saying. 😉😋
I’m wearing Toy Boy today, one of the fragrances that turned me on to pepper in perfumery. It warranted a big full bottle, which I’ve just opened. This is wearable all year round for me.
Congrats on cracking open a new bottle! Plus, love that bottle design 🙂
Another random eye catcher, Scent Trunk Salt. Inspired by the Utah Salt Flats. Fairly weird, salt/aquatic/floral. I have a few of the 5ml travel sprays and that’s just about the right amount. Finally cooler today!
Huh, that could be fun? It it terribly salty?
I don’t find it super salty, although I feel like the salt does persist to the drydown. But that could also be sweat 🤣
Ha!
Sounds nice! I like salty scents.
After yesterday’s vintage Shalimar, I am in Chanel no 5 body products with a tiny spray of the edt. Still on for Jicky tomorrow.
Three big hitters in a row! Hope your August will match.
The heat wave is finally gone. We will be in the mid 80s now, but the humidity is so high that it still feels very uncomfortable. We are expecting thunderstorms this afternoon. I am sure it will be too muggy after that.
Wearing Guerlain Vetiver, airy and refreshing for the summer season!
Happy Thursday! 🌞
That’s a great fragrance choice! I sampled it in an airport several years ago; ended up with a bottle not too long afterwards.
I don’t see it mentioned here anymore. It is an amazing classic. I treasure my old bottle a lot!
You smell fantastic pl67!
Thank you, Robin!
Hope your thunderstorms aren’t nasty ones. That can happen when a heat wave breaks.
It rained cats and dogs here this afternoon. A local state of emergency was declared until tomorrow morning due to flash flooding in some areas. At least the temperatures have dropped to the low 70s, which is a great relief!
Yesterday I was in Tauerville Incense Flash from a generous NSTer swap. This fragrance makes me feel like everything is going to be okay.
And today, I’m going to wear AA Pamplelune. The name and the spritzy citrus are so joyful🍋 (no grapefruit emoji😊)
You smell delightful!
🥰
I was pretty bummed out that Incense Flash disappeared as quickly as it did.
Doesn’t make sense to me. It’s so good!
Replying very late that I’m so glad you like Incense Flash! 💖
I’m copying Robin in Hermès Jardin Sur Le Nil.
It’s a beautiful summer day — after the rain we had, it’s finally sunny again, but not too warm.
I think my scent of the day fits the CP perfectly 🙂
It does fit perfectly, I’m tempted to wear it again tomorrow. Might do Osmanthe Yunnan though.
That’s a great choice too!
Was someone asking about summery Jo Malones? A friend swears by Lime Basil and Mandarin. The flower scents would also be good to try, i.e peach or nectarine blossom, mimosa, honeysuckle…
Today I’m wearing miami shake. When I first sprayed it on i wanted to walk away from it! I’ve literally never had that reaction before! Like, “get me away from this smell! Oh wait its on my own body”. After the drydown though it smells pretty nice 🙂
That’s strange and interesting. Can you say more about what it was at first that put you off so strongly? Did that note just disappear, or what?
I have no idea! It was just like an animal reaction, FLEE NOW. But it smells very “normal”, so I don’t know what i was responding to!
That really is interesting!
Oy vey! I wouldn’t want to experience that reaction when trying a new perfume.
I’m wearing the very pretty and summery EL Tuberose Gardenia.
Love this scent!
Happy Almost Thursday!
Sotd (a brief departure from Mimosa Adoration & Reverie Week) IA’s How to Say Bicycle in French in for the special day we’re having in honor of 50th day since my beloved aunt, the Duchess of Whimsey, left us. She commented on how much she liked this new scent HTSBIF during one of her last time’s hugging me before she became unresponsive.
I’m sure she would appreciate the gesture!
You’re absolutely right !
SOTD is New York by Parfums de Nicolaï a perfume that feels incredibly right on any occasion, one of my favourite Nicolaïs and one of my favourite perfumes, full stop.
You smell wonderful, that one is on my short list for tomorrow.
SOTD is Chanel Gabrielle body cream and perfume. I think it smells like happiness in a bottle.
Gabrielle really is a mood booster.
What a lyrical description Kris!
Rabbit rabbit rabbit, August has arrived cold and dark but at least July has passed. The Chinese Witch Hazel is now blooming brightly in the graveyard, one of the first trees to bloom though I noticed a bright pink camellia yesterday. It’s so nice to see these flashes of colour when everywhere is grey and forlorn. I watched Paul Schrader’s Master Gardener last night, and enjoyed seeing the garden itself. Not as good as First Reformed but a good watch. Wearing Marrakech Intense today which is a nice basic perfume for a chilly day.
Happy August Kanuka!
Witch hazel is such a nice sign of things to come.
Wearing Love les carottes. It’s been awhile since I’ve pulled this out but it I’m enjoying it immensely.
You smell wonderful!
Thank you! I’m so thankful you mentioned how good it is!
I’m wearing a winter favourite, Olfactive Studio’s Chambre Noire.
Boy, been a long time since they have put out a new scent I think.
On a trip with husband, in the desert. Wearing Ella K Musc K from sample. Seems to be a good choice for the heat. Pretty similar to Glossier You
When it gets to high summer like this, I start reaching for my minimalist and clean scents. Some of my incense are very “clean” to me too, especially in the AC.
A “clean” incense? 🤔
Joy may be too strong a word to describe my emotion when I turned off the a/c this morning and opened all the windows, but I don’t think so, after what seemed like the heat and humidity would never end. But it did! Finally, a beautiful 🌞, warm, but non-sticky day🙏. I know those of you on the East coast are having a difficult weather day, but I hope my weather is coming your way soon.🤞
After a few errands this morning, grocery and cat food shopping, I’ve been enjoying this day in the last of my July seaside scents, JM Wood Sage and Sea Salt 🌊. I’ve failed miserably on my commitment to weed the garden, so am going to renew my vow once again and head outside now and for a good part of the weekend.
Happy Thursday! 👩🌾
This morning I ran to open my windows like I was watching Santa and his reindeer fly through the sky. Lol.
It was about 60 and no humidity!
Glad to hear you are out of the summer sauna!
I feel like I have had my windows open for maybe 1 hour in the past month. I can’t wait for fresh air.
Yesterday I visited our wonderful niche perfume store Kuhl-Linscomb (which is actually one of those sprawling “lifestyle” shops with lots of stuff for the home, clothes, jewelry, toys, books, watches, kitchenware, furniture, linens, stationery, you-name-it), and sprayed on a giant blast of Arquiste Almond Suede. It’s something I keep wanting but can’t make up my mind about. Yesterday was the same, it’s somehow addictive but just so thick and kind of heavy, really is like putting on some soft gloves or something. I can still smell it on my arm 24 hours later! It’s got giant staying power and I love the dry down. I looked up reviews on Fragrantica and they are all over the place. Too much almond, can’t smell the almond. Not sweet, too sweet. Just like a marzipan, can’t smell any marzipan. Smells like concrete, smells like gasoline, smells like citrus, smells like honey. Smells like suede, smells like a dentist’s chair, smells like old leather boots. Crazy. It’s definitely not a safe blind buy. One thing people do seem to agree on is that it’s thick, which was my impression yesterday. I am not sure what it could be in a perfume that makes it smell thick, but there you have it.
K-L which used to be very open and permissive and fun to visit has, since my last visit, become highly policed, in the sense of posting signs that say “Spray only on cards, ask for one, numbers are strictly limited.” Also, “no photography permitted.” “No making of decants.” I didn’t talk to any of the SA’s but it made me think some people must have really been misbehaving in there, which is a shame. We had something unique and precious there.
Too bad when someone takes advantage and spoils it for everyone!
If just one person says a perfume smells like gasoline, it will squash my lemming.
“And that’s why we can’t have nice things.” 😠🤬
Exactly! I say this all the time at work.
Nodding in complete agreement!
I’m in Profumum Roma Arso, layered with Barkeeper’s Friend and Murphy’s Oil Soap. Cleaning elegantly. 😂
Lol! I’m sure you smell great!
Robin, if you need any CP ideas for next week, I was thinking about “wear your favorite summer citrus scent, or if you’re in the Southern hemisphere, your favorite winter citrus scent.” Or could be wear something with a bergamot or lemon or orange note (pick one of those or have them all as options).
Today I’m in Aedes de Venustas Signature just because I felt like wearing it.
Ha, thank you for reminding me that I need to replenish the Friday projects! And thanks for the idea 🙂
I was trying to go to bed early last night when I heard my daughter in the kitchen. I got up to find her trying to make a homemade lip scrub. I let her finish it and it turned out pretty gross. “Total fail” she said. Lol.
My sotd is Fidji. One more month to wear my summer scents. It seems like it’s going by quickly this year. ( I say this every year)
This summer IS going by fast! I feel like Memorial Day was just last week…
Hopefully second time is the charm? At least she’s trying DIY!
Quite the weird looking sunrise here this morning, with a bright red sun in a grey sky. Most of the smoke is from wildfires in Utah and Arizona. But some fires are burning on the other side of Colorado as well.
SOTD = back in Patou Heritage College Colony. At least I smell good!
We have hazy smoke here too. I think it’s coming from Canada.
Yeah, points East are getting smoke from the Great White North. I would hope that you aren’t getting smoke from Colorado!
Yep, as nice as our day was, some parts of the city were very hazy from the Canadian wildfires; it was only a little hazy where I’m at. Nevertheless, various reports said Chicago had the worst air quality today anywhere, rated in the unhealthy zone but nearing very unhealthy.