It’s Tuesday, the International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer and B.B. King’s birthday. Update: RIP Robert Redford. What fragrance are you wearing?
I'm in a dab of Guerlain Vetiver. Tea at the moment is Art of Tea Rose Black.
Reminder: 9/19 is International Talk Like a Pirate Day. Get as creative as you like with the theme! Wear a fragrance inspired by a pirate or piracy, wear something you bought so cheap it was a steal, steal an idea from someone else, whatever!
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: the Camille Pale Jade Teapot by Aynsley ("Crafted from fine china, this set features a sleek, modern shape adorned with a stunning pale jade colour and delicately painted flowers") is £35 at Belleek.
Sotd Gucci Envy. Less than 1ml in my old full bottle. I might thunk it this week.
Early start of the day today. I arrived in the office at 6am. It was still dark outside, but we have a deadline for one of our projects this week and want to finish it before Friday.
On my second cup of coffee and a slice of apple bacon bread from the farmer’s market. Delicious!
Happy Tuesday! ☕️
That is early! Hope you get to leave early as a result!
Your flavors of bread sound so delicious.
I like to start early, because with very few people around at that time I can focus better. I don’t know yet at what time I will leave. Coffee to the rescue!
I am really enjoying the breads. They are delish!
I love your SOTD so much-I bought and re bought Envy, and my friends gave it to me for Christmas. I bought one box when I saw it at Shoppers, super inexpensive-but my mom needed an emergency gift so I gave it to her. Regret, big time 🙂
Envy is such a special, beautiful scent! One of my favorites. So sad it was discontinued.
What an idyllic start to a fall day pl67! Hope it’s a productive one with your early focused start!
Thank you, LesLiesse! The day is going good so far!
Good luck with your deadline this week. Your apple bacon bread sounds very delicious!
Thank you, Tulipani! 🌞
Apple bacon bread, what a treat!
Good luck with getting the project wrapped up on time!
Thank you, Meredifay!
It is indeed a treat!
In the office by 6am?!? Yowza!
And already in the office today. Having my second cup of coffee right now.
Had a doctor’s appointment in the morning, so I decided to wear something discreet: Jo Malone Wood Sage & Sea Salt, with the sea as my connection to the pirate theme.
Back home in the afternoon – Naomi Goodsir Cuir Velours, chosen for its rum note.
Sea and rum, mateys!
Jalapeno, you asked about my Friday visit to the doctor. It’s nothing too serious – just chronic joint pain from an old injury. It bothers me from time to time. I’m following the treatment plan he gave me on Friday, and today he also gave me a shot. So now I’m resting after the injection.
I hope your treatment is working and that the shop offers you relief.
Thank you! Fingers crossed.
Smelling very nice and discreet😉
In the morning, yes, not as discreet in the afternoon. 😂
🤣
Ugh, chronic pain can be awful. Hope your treatment plans works.
I am wearing Chanel Beige extrait.
Back at work, looking forward to retirement soon.
ooh, extrait, I bet that’s really pretty.
How much longer do you have?
I have till December for retirement .Looking forward to it since I love to do volunteer work.
Hello.
Sotd is TF Soleil Neige, only because it’s the first bottle I saw today. It’s been a while since I had been this random with my sotd, I usually think for a little bit.
BBW will have a birthday collection for its 35th this year. It’s birthday cake scented. I am more excited about this than the usual fall stuff! https://www.bbwinc.com/media/stories/the-sweetest-collab-of-the-year-bath-body-works-milk-bar-debut-birthday-cake-fragrance
love all TF scents
Yesterday and today have been absolutely perfect mornings. 62 degrees and sunny when I stepped out of the house. I wish this weather would never leave.
I broke my no buy recently and bought a travel spray of Anthropologie’s store brand Pilcro’s Barely There, which was as the name suggests barely there. A more watered down version of Not a Perfume, but I am a sucker for a good skin scent. Anyway, it is my sotd and I thunked it this morning.
COngratulations on your thunking
I’m in a generous amount of Galop. I had one of those mornings when I couldn’t get out of my own way-so I stood there, and felt the nice bottle in my hand, and thought about what to wear and what I had t do for the day. And I just pressed the spray button absent mindedly over and over and over again. The scent of the quince brought me back to reality lol.
Might watch Out of Africa tonight-I love that movie and I’m sorry Robert Redford has died.
I love Out of Africa-and the soundtrack…
I am jealous of your SOTD! I think that maybe my next bottle purchase…
oh..and House Twins
I think I will join you in a rewatch of Out of Africa. Maybe I need to add a spritz of Safari while watching!
We’re scent twins!
Eau de Merveilles -salty air -Pirates would like open seas and salty winds…so there is my connection
Watching the girlfriend second episode on amazon
Mmm salty air!
Are you enjoying The Girlfriend? Looks like a fun watch but I am wondering if it offers anything different from the usual mother-in-law vs wife/girlfriend tropes.
Can’t say it is. But you see it from both perspectives- half the episode is from the mum, then the girlfriend. So you the same scene 🎬 but different
Sounds fun!
It is juicy
I do love your SOTD-I might make that my SOTD too, later this week:) I know Hermes doesn’t often discontinue scents but Galop does seem to be a bit harder to find. If the cost doesn’t make your head hurt it might be time to go for it.
I am going to wait for maybe a beauty card event for Galop. I keep checking discounters too
Bear in mind that when they run out of something they remove it from their website, then 6 months later it might reappear.
I wore that yesterday and thought that I might wear it again later this week.
It is beautiful scent for this time of year
It is. I notice I wear it almost anytime of the year.
Today I had a desperate need for a big slug of oakmoss so I’m in Jacomo Parfum Rare, one of those ’80s kitchen-sink floral/oriental/chypre fragrances. Really dark and sophisticated. I have a line on a quarter ounce of the extrait and I am severely tempted to order it, plus probably a few other vintage chypres while I’m at it.
That’s a beautiful scent pyramus. This time of year makes me want to wear chypres-I have Mitsuko, Miss Dior original, and Givenchy III. Oh and Rochas Mystere-the oakmoss-iest fragrance I’ve ever smelled.
Happy Teapot Tuesday!
Tea is Assam tea from the office pantry. SOTD is Shalimar L’Essence. I’ve decided that it still doesn’t capture my heart but it is a very nice and easy vanillic amber. I did have a moment of “oh something smells nice here” followed by a “oh it’s me!” realization. That counts for something!
Ate a kiwi berry for the first time today. It’s like a tiny kiwi with a thicker, non-fuzzy skin. Very tart and juicy. I’ve never seen it at grocery stores but I would eat more if they were available!
You smell fabulous. I like it and it is an easy vanilla for me to wear.
Kiwi berries are awesome! I used to find them at the farmer’s markets in South Jersey around this time of year. Every so often Whole Foods has them, too (at least on the East Coast).
Gorgeous teapot!
My tea of the afternoon is MF Vert Provence with some MF Sweet Shanghai.
SOTD is a very old sample of Ormonde Jayne Tiaré, which is distinctly unmemorable.
I finished it in one go. Mind you, I have had it for years so it might have list most of its oomph.
Sorry about Robert Redfotd, still 89 is a great age.
I like that teapot too!
Robert Redford was 11 days older than my mom — she pointed this out to me right away when I told her he had died. So she would not agree with you 🙂
Ah, Robert Redford! What a life. What a giant. A terrific actor, who was also in some of my favorite films – The Sting, All The President’s Men, Three Days of the Condor, The Candidate… Environmentalist, champion of independent films, and a guy with more star power than just about anyone EVER.
His beauty was effortless, extraordinary, and, (to my generation,) iconic. I remember how people, when talking of a man’s looks, would say, “Well, he’s no Robert Redford.” He was IT. When paired with Paul Newman, their combined beauty was almost overwhelming.
I’m wearing an effortless beauty – Comête, from Chanel. Did anyone see Victoria’s review the other day on Bois de Jasmin? She articulated my feelings about it so well, and also made me think about the fragrance in a different way. How valuable high quality criticism can be!
Daniel you must have the most amazing collection-how is Comete on you? My skin really amps up the sweetness:)
Carole, yes, there’s a beautiful almond-y sweetness that I just love. I admit that the first time I tried it I thought, “Lovely, but not terribly exciting.” But it’s really grown on me, and I’m appreciating its charms more and more.
Did you ever see Sneakers? Underrated, imo. Redford, Ackroyd, Strathairn … Poitier! River Phoenix. Ben Kingsley as the villain! What a cast.
Such an entertaining movie!
Yes, I saw Victoria’s review and felt it was quite accurate. I liked the scent very much, however, did not find it ground-breaking. I have Zara Romance d’Iris which is a cheap dupe to it. For me, that works. I do love many of the Exclusifs by Chanel and have a few.
Just FYI, several of the young men at my son’s place of work were not sure who Robert Redford was. I found this amazing, but IT fades 🙂
Thank you all for the birthday wishes. On my way to the Natural history museum. I wanted to give it a fair shot since the last time I went it seemed like every school was doing 1 last field trip before summer break. Wearing PHI from a travel spray back when Andy Tauer still did travel sprays.
Happy belated birthday, Dawn! Hope it was a good one.
Hope this trip to the Natural History Museum was better than the previous one.
RIP Robert Redford. What a full life!
I’m pondering the Pirate theme. Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum. So any fragrance with a rum note would work. And those with a Caribbean theme. Creed’s Virgin Island Water and all the salty beachy fragrances like Lauder’s Bronze Goddess Eau Fraiche and beachy and/or ozonic florals. Some of the Antonia’s Flowers qualify. Also Davidoff’s Cool Water for the name alone for Northern pirates.
Also, present-day Morocco was the base of the Barbary corsair pirates that raided the coasts and river towns of France, England, Italy, and Spain (mainly for slaves). A fascinating history of this recounted in White Gold by Giles Milton, about the 1 million Europeans captured and sold in these markets. (A relatively small number compared to enslaved Africans but this was all new to me). Anyway, so anything Moroccan (hello Uncle Serge) would work for the pirate theme. And Tauer’s L’Air du Desert Marocain and Au Coeur du Desert.
I’m opting for the rum note today in the sadly discontinued Comme des Garcons Sequoia in the “Red” series. (Notes are red rum, karo-karunde, oud, mahogany, redwood). With all those woody notes, it also makes me think of walking a (wood) plank.
Wow! You have a lot of great ideas.
I agree – great ideas! I also thought of rum (and tobacco, too), and I would definitely wear Creed’s Virgin Island Water this week if I still had it.
I did look up regions associated with pirates, and read a bit about Barbary pirates, but somehow did not make a connection with Morocco. Duh. Chergui should be perfect: tobacco + Morocco.
Thanks for all the good ideas DeniseH!
The hand wanted Eau d’Hadrien this morning, and the only pirate-y tie-in I can come up with is that citrus prevents scurvy. 🙄
works for me, SheriG
You know I’ll chime in to tell you how good you smell-still me desert island scent 🙂
Aye, matey! 🏴☠️
LOL!
Good enough!
Great teapot!
Sorry to read Robert Redford has passed. I used to buy the occasional thing from his overpriced but cutely curated Sundance catalog, but that website went bye bye sometime this last spring, so I figured he must be getting sick or something. He was a cutie-patootie back in the day. I liked the movies he made with Paul Newman, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and The Sting, and some of his wilderness movies, Jeremiah Johnson, and what not.
My SOTD = Killian’s Amber Oud, which I just read doesn’t actually have any oud in it! But it is a pretty fall gateway scent, rich but not too dense and heavy…
Afraid it has nothing to do with pirates, that I can think of, tho, so I am not CP compliant!
Redford sold the Sundance Catalog in 2004, and it just went into chap.7 bankruptcy this past year. It’s too bad, too, that catalog had the cutest stuff (too pricey for my wallet tho!).
Ah thanks for the update. Yes, cute things, mostly pretty high quality, but the prices got aspirational to the point where I looked but did not buy…
SOTD is Shalimar MI and for the first time I am not really liking it. That is strange for me as I loved it for two years. Maybe the weather is just too warm for it. Oh, well.
I’ve found that MI is very temperature sensitive for me. In the warm, I get a lot of caramel and sweetness, and can barely detect the iris. I much prefer it when it’s cooler out.
I think that’s what I am running into.
Continuing my week off and in the spirit of organizing and culling, I am going through some samples that have been waiting for a tryout. (Never mind that I just ordered a bunch more.) Today it is Atelier Materi Santal Blond which I find ok but nothing fantastic and the sample will go into my alphabetized sample bin.
Weird, I feel so much better on my time off, I think because I get sleep every night and I eat better. Having some marinated collard greens salad for lunch.
RIP Robert Redford. I very much admire people who can be great in one aspect of their field and then transition to some other role – and still be great.
I’m wearing Pelagos today. It’s inspired by the Aegean Sea, which has a long history of pirates.
My son Is back to school today after an extended weekend recovering from his minor surgery. Everything went well with the surgery but he came down with a cold immediately after, so he’s been in much discomfort and pretty whiny. Poor guy. Should be up and up from here, I hope!
Poor kiddo! He’s had a rough stretch.
Happy Tuesday NST!
Sad about Redford, only 89!
Sotd Shalimar L’Essence to go see Downton Abbey w cousins.
No very pirate-y. Arrrrrgh!
Have fun!
Movie was excellent. I cried at the end (the only one in the theater I think) because I remembered when Mom threw a premiere party for the first episode. Just she and me are left. Happy for the memories. (As Colin Hughes would counsel Richard Montlaur on Ted Lasso!)
Hope you enjoy it as much as I did. Still on the fence about a blind buy of L’Essence.
Very much. After seeing the trailer I want to see the satire called Fackham Hall. The red band trailer appeared exclusively at Spinal Tap The Ens Continues showings. I couldn’t find one to post or I would.
I love the news Shalimar!
My mom was such a huge Robert Redford fan. Great actor, and so handsome. We recently watched the Natural (we sometimes go on sports movie binges during the different sports seasons). No perfume today; feeling vaguely yucky after a difficult weekend and probably slightly tired after my double-red blood donation yesterday. I can’t really think of anything pirate-y, but I still have a few days.
I haven’t donated in a while but double-red blood 🩸 donation seems like a gift to others!
The Natural was fabulous imo. I took along my bestie who dislikes baseball and even she liked it.
Feel better! Make that… feel bettearrrrgh!
Good job donating blood!
I am wearing Diptyque Eau Rose and drinking a cup of English Breakfast tea.
Just a tiny chime in to let you know I didn’t get the job at Givaudan… Whole summer of interviews for nothing.
Now I need holidays. Badly…
Oh no! I’m sorry to hear that. Holidays are definitely in order!
So sorry to hear this, lucasai. Especially after having to jump through so many hoops. I hope that something better awaits you.
So sorry to hear that. I will hope that even a better opportunity is just around the corner for you. Take a break if you can.
So sorry to hear this, but have a feeling a great opportunity will come your way.
I’m sorry lucasai.
Oh no! When one door closes, another one opens. Good luck!
So sorry to hear that. The right position is out there. Sometimes things come along when you aren’t even looking.
I’m sorry to hear that, that’s disappointing after so much effort. As others have said, I’m sure something will come along when you aren’t expecting it.
I hope you find something better soon!
That sucks. Their loss.
Very sorry to read this news lucasai. A whole summer! Givaudan’s loss, I say.
Wearing Chanel Paris-Riviera. I definitely oversprayed myself and clothes. I like the scurvy prevention aspect, thanks to SheriG mentioning this!
I was saddened to hear about Robert Redford. I know as kids, we saw alot of his movies in theaters. Plus he seemed larger than life.
Scurvy-protection aspect! 😆😆😆 🏴☠️
Zara Vapeur Blanche for me today — in the “so cheap it’s a steal” category, with cheap Olivia Giacobetti. May end up in Zara most of the week. I got it because it was cheap and wasn’t that taken with it when it first arrived, but the few times I’ve pulled it out lately, I’ve liked it more.
Maybe Vapeur Blanche is weather dependent, and prefers Fall?
No scent today–flu shot instead! My one and only encounter with Robert Redford was a French bakery on the upper East Side of Manhattan in the early 80’s. I think he lived in the neighborhood. I would stop in occasionally for a croissant. That particular day, we were the only two customers in there…he arrived just before me. So in typical New York fashion, I gave a little nod to indicate that he should order first. With that big, beautiful grin, he said “you go, I’m still looking” And I thought to myself, so am I, Mr. Redford, so am I !! Got my croissant and left….with stars in my eyes.
love this story, jepster.
Great story!
Love this 🌹
wow! love this story!
Swoon!
That’s a great story!
Oh, nice story, glad to hear someone that beautiful and famous could be a nice guy!
Love it! 🩷
Awesome story!
Wow, Sundance smiled at you and what a killer smile that was!
Busy day. I keep thinking I forgot perfume this morning – I did yesterday – but then I remember that I spritzed some CK One and it lasts a nanosecond. So now I’m in Bronze Goddess for the beachiness.
I have been sick the last few day’s. I missed work last night but am here today. I am wearing CD Dolce Vita because I wanted something pretty.
Oy! Glad you are feeling better.
Coincidentally, I just read a Dear Abby article (which I hardly ever do) about how a person keeps getting sick due to having to now go into the office 4x per week. The answer: ask the manager to let everyone know that if they are sick, do not go into the office! Makes sense but how many people do that?
Amen.
I think most people get pressured to come in. I was nervous yesterday because I had to call in to my new boss. He looked up to see if I had sick pay and then just said ok.
This. Or some people try to “tough it out” because they are not THAT sick.
Glad you’re feeling better! Love Dolce Vita, but somehow the weather has to be just right for it.
I have to be in the right mood for it as well.
Sorry to hear that you have been under the weather lately. Feel better soon!
Thanks Jalapeno.
So sorry you’ve been unwell lillyjo! Feel better!
SOTD = Hermes Galop
SAY YES TO HERMES ™️ by our very own tiffanie! I am pretty sure I have the refill bottle (because cheaper back then). More please!
I’m doing some “money” movements today: closing an account at HSBC and selling a mutual fund at Provident. Let’s talk HSBC – today is Tuesday, right? Right? I called to close my account because I have no need to have this account. After blah blah blah, I was told that the check will go out this Friday. What the —? It’s not like they have to sell anything! So because I wanted to get my $s, I said let me finish this transaction first before I ask HTH did they come up with mail only gets picked up once a week? The SA knew I would not let it go so she put me on hold. When she came back she said she was mistaken and that mail will be picked up daily. We’ll see…
In other news, I never knew there was a thing as cereal box records! This was from a while back (the records, as they are no longer being made). Here’s a gift article from The NY Times. Happy reading!
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/arts/music/cereal-box-records.html?unlocked_article_code=1.mE8.Z3eM.8UJgpH5mHWsa&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
I remember cereal box records! I feel like I had the Boo Berry one.
Thanks for the article!
A little bit of nostalgia!
I work at a financial institution, and it is true that we have cut our mail / courier pickups. Because mail is handled from a central office at HQ, the branches have to send it in to HQ to be sent, and with COVID, so little mail these days, etc., we have cut our branch courier to a day or two a week.
This is not the U.S., of course, and we’re not as reliant on cheques. But yeah, mail and paper are anathema these days.
(We’re also A LOT smaller than HSBC. But they didn’t survive up here — recently pulled out of Canada.)
HSBC did not survive here either! In any case, I can understand the inability to send mail out everyday that the post office is open; however, does the company also wait one to two days a week to receive mail?
I remember those cereal box records! They were usually on the sugary sweet ones my Mom refused to buy. She was actually doing us a favor back then, but my brother and I didn’t see it that way at the time.
LOL 😆!
Still no SOTD yet. Not inspired yet, but might go with one of the Shalimar Millesimes. Can’t quite wrap myself around the pirate theme.
There just isn’t anyone to match Robert Redford.
Good morning, I’m commenting mid-flight. It’s a new experience, Air New Zealand is trialling free wifi on domestic flights 🙂 .
I’m wearing Diorling, I’m a very refined pirate.
Safe travels, Gaynor. You smell amazing!
Love the free wifi! More should do that, but of course they see it as a profit centre.
A refined pirate indeed!
Posting late today!
Back in the 1950’s, Robert Redford had a job at a dive bar/restaurant in Boulder, Colorado, called The Sink. I was at The Sink once in the early 1990’s. IIRC the burgers and pizza were pretty good there.
Changeable skies here. Had at least one round of rain this afternoon.
Got more good news yesterday after I posted. My brother called me while he was at work, which is highly unusual. First he asked a couple of questions about PDFs. Then he told me that he got an offer letter from the company he interviewed with last month! Exciting times.
SOTD = commando, but wearing Josie Maran Vanilla Vibezzz body butter in the usual spots. And wearing Vacation Classic Whip SPF30 Sunscreen Mousse on my arms.
Good luck to your Brother!
Thanks lillyjo!
That’s great news for your brother.
Thank you Gail!
Congratulations to your brother jalapeño! Great news!
Thanks LesLiesse!
Great news! Good luck to him!
Thank you PL67!
Good luck to your brother! Will he have to move?
Thanks! He won’t have to move. Instead of being a contractor, he would be a direct employee of a household name corporation.