Happy Almost-Friday and happy National Lighthouse Day! Birthdays: Mata Hari, Louis Leakey, Ralph Bunche. What fragrance are you wearing?
I'm in Annick Goutal Mandragore. Even the purple bottle makes me happy.
Reminder: 8/8 is National Happiness Happens Day. Wear what you want, and if you can think of any recent moment of joy or anything that made you happy in the past week, share it with us!
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 Go Bright! [cropped] by tdlucas5000 at flickr; some rights reserved.
Today I’m in Carthusia Mediterraneo. It’s not an exuberantly happy scent — it’s happy in a calm, serene way.
It is very cheerful!
Hello.
Sotd is Atelier des Ors Blue Madeleine. I love gourmands but unfortunately this is a meh for me. It reminds me of sweetened milk tea and maybe a small bite of madeleine but they are all somewhat synthetic and sharp. It does soften up after 15-20 mins. The sillage is arms length at most.
For some reason nothing from this house has resonated with me,and I would love to add at least one of the pretties to my collection!
I’m in Bitter Peach, because i found a decant. I’ve had it for years but not worn it much. Not a happy scent.
I never did smell that one.
It was OK. But Tom Ford has done better.
Good Morning. I am wearing Chanel Chance Eau Fraiche EDP and drinking a cup of Earl Grey tea.
Hope all is good in your neck of the woods Barqs!
Follow up to AnnieA and austenfan’s conversation yesterday about Osmanthus fragrances – AnnieA, Have you ever tried Lotusland x Heretic Osmanthus, a collaboration between the gardens in Santa Barbara and Heretic? I’m not an aficionado of Osmanthus but I think it’s beautiful.
Today, Diptyque’s Essences Insensées Rose de Mai (the fragrance and the beautiful black bottle with a bulb atomizer) is making me happy. Our local rose garden also makes me very happy this time of year. And rain today makes me happy because like many of you, we need it!
Oh, sounds gorgeous. Have to find out whether they’d ship to Canada…
Fingers crossed!😊
That Diptyque Essences Insensees line wasn’t around for very long. Glad you got something while the getting was good.
Definitely. I sniffed it when it first came out but didn’t jump on it. I was lucky to find a partial in the last couple of years.
My happy fragrance today is Gabrielle.
I am happy to be having supper with an old coworker tonight. I haven’t seen him for about a year and we live in the same town.
Enjoy!
Thoughts on Gabrielle L’Eau?
I don’t care for it. There is some note in it that doesn’t agree with my skin, but lillyjo loves it. I like the original and Gabrielle Essence plus I love the body cream.
It’s my favorite Gabrielle. I think it reminds me a bit of Chance eau Vive.
How nice! Have a great visit!
We did thank you.
I hope you have a great time reconnecting😊
We always do. He works somewhere else and I am retired, but we have a lot of the same friends as we worked together for 20 years.
Have a great dinner!
It was nice. Kind of disappointed that the Mexican restaurant we were going to was remodeling so we had to go to somewhere else.
My entire perfume collection makes me happy. Yesterday’s selections were Agar Ébène in the morning, followed by Eau Sauvage for a lunchtime meeting, and Agar Ébène again at bedtime. This morning I’m in Omnia Ambra — there is something in it that blends exceptionally well with coffee, but I can’t quite figure out what it is. There’s something that hints of cinnamon, but whatever it is isn’t that strong, and cinnamon isn’t listed among its notes anyway. Maybe the vanilla/amber combo?
That is so nice that your collection makes you happy!
Switched from Nuda to Feminite du Bois. I was digging around one of my big tubs of perfume thinking I wanted to wear some Andy Tauer but not today. When I found Feminite du Bois, it was an immediate yes since I haven’t worn it in forever. It was my first Serge Lutens that I bought in the beginning stages of my perfume journey.
And a perfect place to start with Serge.
Happiness is Shalimar, from my favorite version, the Ode a la vanille flanker- I have the Madagascar one.
I have one of those beautiful Shalimar bottles a friend brought me from an antique store -( it was empty) I sometimes spray some of my Shalimar inside the bottle and dab it- this also brings me happiness and looks beautiful on display.
Guerlain terracotta bronzer and Kiss Kiss lippy
I like your idea with the vintage Shalimar bottle!
Thank you.
The label is gone on the bottle, but it’s so beautiful I don’t care. I just feel elegant and happy when I dab my wrist or behind the ears with the stopper.
I’m cleaning my house for a meeting today for my daughter. It’s amazing how much hair gets vacuumed up. I can’t believe the dog and I aren’t bald. Lol.
I want to smell more put together than I am, so I am wearing Libre Platine.
It’s the last normal summer day before the humidity comes back this weekend. We really need rain.
Happy Thursday and I hope your meeting goes well!
Thanks you! It went well.
You’re smelling absolutely wonderful!
Thanks friend!
Good luck with the meeting 🤞, hope you can soon relax.
Thanks. It went well, and now I relax in a clean house.
Happy to hear that your meeting went well. I hear you on the pet hair! With all the shedding Teflon does, I wonder why I never see a bald cat.
Wearing CSP Vanille Banane.
I strongly suspect it god “Wheee!” when you spray it on
I was thinking about that one for tomorrow!
I am wearing a big and beautiful perfume today, DelRae’s Amoureuse. It’s sheer exuberance and volume make me happy.
I remember smelling this and NOT buying it at the time.which I totally regret now!You smell great!
It truly is a stunning fragrance, such a shame Parfums DelRae no longer exists.
I feel so grateful to have a bottle of Amoureuse from a long ago tester sale at my local perfume boutique. It definitely puts a smile on my face with its audacious beauty.
Everytime Parfums DelRae is mentioned here, there’s a collective sigh that it went away.
I can hear that sigh down in L.A. & add to it.
We had a supercold rainy winters’day today,so I took a personal day as there was not much happening at work anyways!
Spent the day mostly in bed wafting remnants from yesterday’s delicious Lush Let the good times roll body spray.A little goes a very very long way and it always makes me happy!Glad I bought a backup of this as it’s so delicious and sold out fast!
Happy Thursday everyone!
XO’s
Enjoy your personal day!
What fun, enjoy playing hooky!
I’d love to send some of my summer heat your way!
Chanel sniff-off 2: Cristalle and No. 5 l’Eau. the latter was pretty fleeting…
Cristalle for the win 🙂
There might be a final round – oh, and there’s Paris-Venise too…
Happy Almost Friday!
Sotd Happy Heart. Basking and basking.
Nice!
Yay!🌸
Do you ever think of a certain Pharrell song when you wear that perfume?
Would you believe I have never made that connection? Will do so from now on, even play it as I put it on!
It would have been great marketing, for sure!
Been really into Profumum Confetto recently. It’s been my nighttime scent for a while, and i think it might be better in the heat? But i am not certain about that yet.
I adore the dry down. And it gets onto my cat’s head – probably when i am petting him – and smells so good for days.
The scent of second-hand perfume on cat fur is one of life’s greatest joys
It’s so good! I also love his stinky old man breath. His and his brother’s. We call it tuna fish dumpster breath.
This probably sounds nuts to non cat people, but that is not my problem 😀
Love the smell of Teflon kitty’s fur, especially on her head between her ears.
Yes! The head between the ears! It’s the greatest smell on earth!
I tend to avoid perfume when I have appointments – too close quarters. But my hairstylist likes perfume, so I try to wear something that she would enjoy. Today it was Chergui. Not really in season but it fits with her aesthetic. Girding for another hot day tomorrow and I have the high school football media day right at midday, so peak sun. But happy to be moving back into photography season.
That is so fun! I bet she gets great wafts when she uses the hair dryer. Love it.
Started with Eau Sauvage (the original 1960s one) to beat the heat and have extended the cool-me-down vibe with Estee Lauder Tom Ford Bronze Goddess Eau Fraiche because just thinking and smelling beachy makes me happy and also it’s not too coconutty, which I like as that note can go haywire on me. My bottle has only dregs but I’ve got a big ole backup for the slam-you-down heat that I know is coming our way later this month & next in Los Angeles.
Bronze Goddess definitely makes me happy every time I wear it! I need to get another jar of the cream.
Two white peaches. Jardins de Bagatelle this morning, still very detectable and Magie this evening, I wear this one more than Magie Noire, it’s more versatile.
I picked up some local Colorado peaches at the grocery store this afternoon! Yum!
Enjoy! Nothing beats local fruit.
I’m enjoying my day off so far! It’s horrible weather, but that’s to be expected in winter. We went out for breakfast to a café nearby and we’re back home thawing out. I wore a little Vol de Nuit, and now I’m thinking about Ambre Eccentrico from the Armani Privé line. It’s a hefty thing that can fight back against cold weather 🙂 .
Breakfast out is so nice in winter…so glad you’re having a good day off!
Two non-tropical beach scents today: Oriza Legrand’s Villa Lympia and Profumum Roma’s Acqua di Sale. I find them very similar. Ocean water, a living-fresh-healthy-vegetal note from seaweed, and a just-swam-in-the-ocean musky skin note. The AdS is mellower and rounder — like it is 4pm on the beach and everything is still sun-warmed. The VL is a notch brisker — like 8pm on the same beach and also someone has given me a spring of lavender.
Tea today is a London Fog.
A iced London Fog would have been a great idea for me today. Maybe tomorrow?
As expected, heat and humidity on the rise today along with the never-ending Air Quality Alert from the Canadian wildfires and ozone. A/C going full blast. Grocery shopping this morning then I’ve been tucked inside doing miscellaneous. No desire to go out.
For my SOTD I took the blackberry note from yesterday’s FIL Summer (my favorite berry note) and added it to magnolia (trying to wear more white florals in August) and enjoyed L’Occitane Magnolia & Mure from a few years ago. I used to have the matching shower gel and body lotion but, unfortunately, they are both long gone.
Happy almost-weekend to all! 🫐💮
Sorry to hear about your yucky air quality.
Our air quality is not good but it’s not terrible either. Sorry yours is so bad.
Yesterday they said NYC and Chicago had the worst air quality in the entire US.
It’s anticipated the air quality alert will not be extended into tomorrow, but that’s what they’ve said every day for awhile now. We shall see.🤞
The day has flown by, mostly on the phone. I had to argue with the internet provider after my bill went up 30%, Finnair is still screwing with my flights so I had to talk to them, and my PCP referred me to a specialist whose first available appointment is 2026, in September. I asked about a wait list and was added, but there are 100 people on it ahead of me. Good thing I’m not dying. But today’s perfume was very nice, Fath’s Essentials Tempête d’Automne. There is some spice in it, cinnamon I think, and some flowers and woods. I can’t believe it cost $20.
Egads, that waiting list for the specialist is ungodly!
It’s unbelievable how cheap some of the Faths are. Doesn’t bode well for the brand but good for us perfumistas😎
What a day! Hope that perfume kept you calm.
It’s another hot one here today. I think it might have actually hit 100 after teasing that mark for a few days. Getting a break in the weather over the weekend, though. Temps in the 80’s will feel great after this.
Struck out with yet another hairball remedy for Teflon kitty. She hates every one that I have tried. Any NSTers in CONUS need stuff for their kitties?
SOTD = Demeter Jasmine. It’s perfect for the weather, and that makes me happy. Pyramus gets an Enabler Pin for this one!
I vaguely remember the thread on Demeter Jasmine but is it anything like IA Fox in the Flowerbed or is it more indolic?
I’ve never tried Fox in the Flowerbed, so I have no idea how the 2 perfumes compare. The Demeter Jasmine lasts a surprisingly long time, FWIW.
Glad you are getting a break on the hot weather and that the Demeter is a success.