It's Friday, plus National Pickle Day and World Diabetes Day. Our community project for today: for Claude Monet's birthday, wear a fragrance that reflects the spirit of Impressionism (Wikipedia: "characterized by visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage of time), ordinary subject matter, unusual visual angles, and inclusion of movement as a crucial element of human perception and experience") or scent a favorite Impressionist painting, or do something else creative with the theme.
What fragrance did you pick? As always, do chime in with your scent of the day even if you’re not participating in the community project.
I'm jumping on the iris train, in Honoré des Prés I Love Les Carottes.
Reminder: on 11/21, wear a favorite vintage fragrance and tell us why you love it (and if you like, tell us about any memories it might conjure up for you). If you don't have a favorite vintage fragrance, wear something you think you'd still love 20 years from now. (Adapted from a suggestion by DeniseH.)
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 detail from Iris jaunes au nuage rose, Claude Monet, 1924-1925, via Wikimedia Commons, public domain.
As soon as I get out of the shower, I will be wearing Iris Silver Mist from a very large decant.
I made an order for a DNA kit from Ancestry. I would like to know where I came from and if I am related to anyone famous. Ancestry is having a sale on their DNA kits through 12/31. I flirted with doing it off and on for a couple years. My guy friend did it last year and he found out that he was a cousin of Princess Diana and probably related to Vlad the Impaler.
Well that sounds exciting!
You smell wonderful-I would have been a copy cat if I’d stopped by earlier!
We did that years ago and turned out to be related to nobody famous, ha…but it was fun anyway and we did find some relatives.
I am scenting Garden at Sainte-Adresse I think 1867 with Vacation Grand Cuvee. I think sitting in that gorgeous sunshine, watching the boats and drinking a glass of wine sounds idyllic.
Such a gorgeous and idyllic painting! Now I want to come along and quaff some nice white burgundy with you in the French sunshine as we watch the colorful boats sail past.
And now the Beach Boy’s Wouldn’t it be Nice is stuck in my head!
Perfect soundtrack to a glorious day!
That is a very peaceful and comforting painting. I am pairing it with Bvlgari Au the Bleu.
Almost on my way out to the airport to pick up a very good friend of mine who is coming for vacation. She will be in NY for a week, so we have plans for the weekend to go to a couple of museums and meet friends in common. I am looking forward to a very nice and relaxing time.
On my second cup of coffee and two coffee raisin cookies.
Happy Friday! 🌻
Sounds like a great weekend ahead for you and your friend, perfumelover67. Enjoy your time with her in the great city.
Thank you, DeniseH!
Have a happy weekend catching up with your friend.
Thank you, Kanuka!
Have a great time with your friend pl67!
Thank you, Kris!
That’s very thoughtful of you to pick your friend up from the airport. Have a great weekend, and tell us more about the coffee raisin cookies!
Thank you, Tulipani!
The coffee raisin cookies were baked by one of my coworkers. They are chewy coffee flavored cookies with cardamom and raisins. Delish! I will ask her for the recipe and share it here.
Enjoy your visit!
Are you taking extra time off?
Thank you, Lillyjo!
I am not taking any time off. We will meet only during the weekend for the museums and Christmas markets. She has a very busy schedule with others friends and her boyfriend.
Have a great visit with your friend!
Thank you, Gail!
What a wonderful weekend! We’ll need a full adventure report. And Kanuka put in a link responding to me about how visiting museums to look at art is good for your health. Enjoy reconnecting with your friend!
Thank you, LesLiesse! I will report back.
What lovely plans, enjoy pl67! 🌹
Thank you, Ringthing!
So pleased for you about that outing with your friend, enjoy.
Thank you Aurora!
Do tell: does your friend have a favorite perfume and/or share our trip down the rabbit hole?🤓
She only wears Estée Lauder Beautiful and Chanel No. 19 EdT.
Nothing wrong with that!
Glad to hear you are spending time with a good friend! Hope that your weather cooperates.
Thank you, Jalapeno! Not the best weather here for the weekend. Cloudy, windy and chilly in the low 50s. I wish I could have your 70s!
Hello and tgif!
My impressionist pick is Sisley Eau du Soir. The bottle cap is a sculpture that ticks many impressionist boxes (unusual angles, movements, play of light), then there is the juice itself, a green scent that is reminiscent of the nature that is often the subject of impressionism.
I love the sisley scents, especially eau de soir and soir d’orient. I think you smell great and love how you linked it with the beautiful bottle 🙂
I love your bottle insight! Now I want to swing by the Sisley counter to smell your Sotd and admire the bottle.
I think it’s worth your tie, LesLiesse-the Sisley line is great! Let me now your thoughts on Sopir d’Orient, too 🙂
You smell so elegant, I tried Eau du Soir at the duty-free and really enjoyed it.
*recently
When I think of impressionist paintings I think of the quality of the light, so I’m wearing the essence of captured sunlight, Clinique Wrappings. It’s bright green, with an explosion of aldehydes at the top, like a Camille Pissarro painting in a bottle.
That line would be a beguiling logline for an ad for this scent: the essence of captured sunlight!
Yes!
🤗
There is a gentle whispering rain (for now at least) pattering down in Los Angeles this morning so I reached for a sample vial of Rahasya Cutting Rain, which is more caressing than cutting. My first impression was water lilies (hello Monet!) and watery green violets, but it also has notes of strawberry, black tea, saffron, cashmeran, rose, honey, and supposedly Mysore sandalwood, which I can’t smell. The soft aqueous diffusion of this fragrance evoking watery color and light amidst fog, mist, and rain matches with any number of Impressionist paintings and their aesthetic. Rahasya is an indie brand started by three Indian expats, according to their website. The scent is pretty but doesn’t hit me over the head or create cravings for a bottle. It reminds me a bit of some earthy Coty scents I wore in high school, but is less earthy, more diffuse, and sweeter.
Have you ever tried Fiele Viola? It’s an earthy violet and quite nice; I like it. Have a good weekend!
Thanks for the tip, Kanuka. I have not even heard of that brand!
And they are based here in California, DeniseH.
Caressing Rain would be a more apt name to me, DeniseH, given the notes. And I’m loving the rain so far, just praying g there’s no flooding in the burn areas. If it weren’t cp day, I would be in Angeliques Sous La Pluie.
I’m usually very bad at pairing scent with visual media, but the moment I saw the painting chosen for today I knew I’d be wearing Le Galion Iris. I always forget how rich an iris fragrance it is — just enough root to give it heft, not enough to go carroty.
And to answer AnnE’s question late yesterday, Boswellia Scotia wasn’t properly part of Forest Quest (although I admit the word Scotia had me hoping). It does have hemlock and fir balsam notes so it came to be included in the Quest discussion, but the description of it dwelled most heavily on its incense notes — that and the fact that there are few bottles of it remaining were the primary reasons for my hasty impulse-buy. No regrets!
Enabler pin awarded to you! After reading Boswellia Scotia’s notes in your first mention of it, I couldn’t blind buy it fast enough and like you, I don’t regret it one bit. After receiving it I read that they have made it part of their Mainline collection; I think I’ll wear it today to celebrate.
Oh yay, I love hearing that I’ve enabled! So glad you love it too.
Perks up ears of mention that Boswellia Scotia is NOT limited edition!
I too was moved by Robin’s selection. I rarely think of yellow irises, usually blue or purple. These were so striking I almost switched to Iris Poudre. When my Doe in the Snow wears off perhaps, as I plinked my sample.
Sort of by accident, I’m compliant in Courtesan by Worth. I found a decant of it while looking for something else. It’s impressionistic to me in that it’s soft, fluffy, and diffuse.
Vintage week is every week for me (and for DeniseH!), so this will be easy 😉
What a great choice. Looking forward to reading next week’s selections.
Courtesan is a lovely perfume but the spray part isn’t all that well designed for the bottle.
Ha! So true.
You smell great! I need to revisit Courtesan soon.
Seem to be on a post-impressionist kick with the cp, in L’Attesa and pairing with The Blue Window by Matisse.
Shalimar fans: did you see the new shower oil? If I ever feel like spending $70 on a shower product, this is tempting:
https://www.guerlain.com/us/en-us/p/shalimar-satin-shower-oil-P014917.html
I love the ad line “Voluptuousness as a ritual” but not the price 😆 for the Shalimar oil.
New Zealand’s first art schools opened in the 1880s and though the teaching was formal ( drawing from antique busts etc) some of the teachers, who were newly arrived from Europe, introduced concepts related to Impressionism which caused a shift in the way some younger painters approached landscape: painting outdoors, looser brushstrokes, attention to shifting light, and painting local landscapes ( rather than Romanticised, sublime landscapes). This is a painting by a watercolourist ( Olivia Spencer Bower) who was really in the second wave of painters (I.e. not as influenced by Impressionism as a few before) but it’s a good representation of plein air painting and the subject is the crime writer Ngaio Marsh, who also went to art school and painted. Wearing Cra-yon Art Life.
https://christchurchartgallery.org.nz/collection/93-65/olivia-spencer-bower/ngaio-marsh-painting
I love that style of watercolor painting, and the name of your scent choice is perfect.
I love learning nuggety bits about NZ through you, Kanuka.
Same here!
Gosh, Kanuka, are we allowed to give cp points or just Robin? If I could I would give you major ones for creative interpretation, highly informative, unusual scenting (I was not familiar with Swedish brand Cra-Yon), and a watercolor of a painter painting for a CP-in-motion take! Is Cra-Yon an abbreviation of two Swedish words, or an unusual spelling of crayon?
I don’t know anything about Cra-yon really. I just happened across their perfumes in a clothes store and liked a couple esp. the ( subtle) figgy Art Life. A similar vibe to Abel but stronger with more lasting power.
Similar to Abel but stronger? *ears and nose perk up*. May need a discovery set there.
I think that they sometimes use a perfumer who makes Penhaligon scents (but that would need fact checking!)
https://freebox.it.com/2024/12/12/cra-yon-art-life-snif-natural-talent-maison-millais-new-york-nostalgia-short-fragrance-reviews/%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E
One Enabler pin to Kanuka as I just ordered the discovery set for Cra-Yon!
Anybody can award points, and Kanuka in general might have more cp points for creativity than anybody 🙂
Here is a polished version with your preferred en dashes:
Such lovely yellow irises, Robin. And thank you all for wishing me a nice vacation.
I am pairing The Pink Dress by Frédéric Bazille (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pink_Dress) with Diptyque Eau Capitale.
Both the painting and the perfume are built on contrasts:
Rose – the dress itself
Bergamot – the brighter, sunny parts of the picture
Patchouli – the darkness created by the trees.
I love Eau Capitale and the dress in that painting is fabulous. Great pairing! And more wishes for a lovely vacation!
Wonderful interpretation of CP Glannys! And the ChatGPT issue was quite amusing.
Excellent.
Ha! Asked ChatGPT to proofread me and forgot to remove the first line of the response. Classic! 😂
I was wondering! 😆
That’s what happens when you are exhausted! It only removed a typo or two and replaced “Rose = the dress itself” with “Rose – the dress itself” etc., but now nobody will believe me I write my messages myself. You got me! 😈
I say extra points for taking the extra care with your comment!
I will use the painting Robin selected and go with Hiris today. I had planned on wearing something to be paired with the haystacks, but it is going to be too warm today.
Isn’t that the most perfect painting for Hiris? I’m twins with you today; we smell great! 🙂
Perfect!
You smell fantastic Kris!
Thank you❤️
After all this Iris talk I’m in Iris Poudre this evening.
LOL
I thought about wearing Le Cri for the importance of light in Impressionist paintings, but ultimately went very literal: Lilyphea for Monet’s Water Lilies.
I loved all the links to beautiful paintings this week. I sometimes find that the Impressionists are victims of their own popularity. So over exposed and monetized (all those museum store merchandise), but this CP has reminded me that there’s a reason they are so popular, the paintings are amazing. And there are many hidden gems!
Well -said tulipani! This was an illuminating CP with much under-exposed artwork. So much to inspire and enjoy!
It’s true. It’s funny that the style was originally scoffed at when now they seem the easiest to appreciate.
Happy Friday from rainy LA!
Sotd: 4160!Tuesdays Doe in the Snow.
CP: Boulevard des Capucines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boulevard_des_Capucines_(Monet)?wprov=sfti1#
Totally under if you TL;DR this: I loved this painting when I first encountered it in Art History in college. It’s an Effet de neige piece, and winter was my favorite season growing up back east in Pittsburgh. I had a copy of this torn piece taped on my computer for a long time. Given it’s owned by a Kansas City art museum, I doubted I would ever see it. Then serendipity took hold. I was in Washington DC for a conference and decided to spend the weekend. There was an exhibit at The Phillips Collection on Effet de Neige, 60+ works. No way was I missing that! Pre-internet I had no idea which works were included, but there was my beloved BdC right in front of me. I wept standing in front of it at my luck.
Why did I love it so much? Something spoke to me in a darkened auditorium when this first came up on a slide for the professor to discuss. I find snow magical. I know some equate snow= snow storm, but to me it was enchanting. The air changes, even sounds transform into a soft range. If you ever watched your mother sift flour for cake or cookies, I felt like snow wafting and swirling down would portend happy memories. The city would be full of lights, decorations, music in the streets with carolers. In ways that defy explanation or direct attribution, I felt BdC evoked that. And to be able finally to see the painting from an angle to observe the brush strokes and color layerings- The Man himself touched this canvas! Well I was overtaken with joy. Being in the actual company of the canvas is transformative to me, even if the exhibit isn’t one’s personal favorites. Thank you for letting me share this with you all if you read down this far!
A beautiful, art & fragrance-filled Friday to all!
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/oct/28/picture-of-health-going-to-art-galleries-can-improve-wellbeing-study-reveals?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Great story and memory, and observation about seeing original art . You might like this article.
That’s an amazing finding that museums visits benefit your health Kanuka! Thank you for sharing it. I’ve forwarded it to my volunteer boss for wider dissemination.
That’s a really lovely memory, LesLiesse.
Thank you Springpansy!
What a lovely story!
Thank you taking the time to read my TL;DR post!
I can definitely appreciate your comment about seeing a work of art in person that you thought you would NEVER see. It shifts your way of thinking.
And such a moving memory for me to cherish all these years later!
Lots of great smelling people, and such interesting responses! I am wearing FM Leau d’Hiver, because reminds me of how the impressionists painting makes me feel. Seemingly delicate but really makes an impression.
Years ago I saw a travelling exhibition of Impressionistic paintings, and it was so beautiful. I can’t remember their names off the top of my head but what would it be like to create something like that.
Carole, if I still had my sample I would have worn this scent and twinned with you. You smell most marvelous!
Great choice for the CP!
Ah, you smell great, I miss that one.
I usually wear this in spring but it’s a little warmer and kind of damp; so I’m wearing Apres l’Ondee. (It will be gone in a few hours anyway…) Tomorrow is my son’s last football game ever… lots of mixed feelings. Have a great weekend, all!
Oh gosh his last game! Will you and your hubby be invited down on the field when the team honors its seniors?
Yes, before the game. Amazing how fast it has all gone.
What a terrific memory you’ll all be making together!
Enjoy every moment and may his team win!
Have a wonderful time. I remember going down to stand on the field with our youngest son for his senior year football game. But somehow that was now 11 years ago already.
Twins 👯♀️
Best of luck to your son’s team in his big milestone game!
I pondered many options but am very pleased with my decision to wear (a lot, slathered on!) L’Heure Bleue, which of course could be paired with any number of Monet paintings. I nominate this one: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/16564/branch-of-the-seine-near-giverny-mist. I really love his works that are very “atmospheric” like this one, and although I suspect this is an early morning picture, whereas probably the “blue hour” is more like dusk, it still works.
Our museum in Houston had a huge show a few years ago of Monet paintings done along the Seine at various times of his life and in various seasons, and a lot of them were loose and atmospheric like this. The texts said he would work on several canvases at once and shift them out as the sunlight and time of day changed, so he could be better able to render the light and air or weather effects.
And I’m with LesLiesses above, I do also really love his snow paintings!
Beautiful painting and a great perfume match!
A moving CP interpretation calypso! The atmospheric paintings really are their own inward journey as you’re unmoored from typical landscape landmarks. They really anticipate abstract expressionism in many ways. Enjoy your slathering & slathering in L’Heure Bleue as no one will feel blue if they’re lucky enough to catch scent of you today!
LOL! I have two versions. One is a small bottle that is relatively modern, i.e., maybe 20-25 years old. The other is a vintage one of indeterminate age, in an old-fashioned bottle. It’s EDT and I bought it in an antique mall for not much money. It’s about half full and has the glass stoppered cap. So I put it on both using the cap and using my fingers. Several hours later, it is less spicy but more rich. I am amazed at how it is bringing back a memory of SOME older woman from my childhood, but darned if I can say who. I know I had a bunch of bosomy great-aunts and they all wore (nice) perfumes along with (sometimes) fur boas and big sparkly brooches and earrings. So this is a pleasant memory even though I can’t pin down who it is exactly. (By the way, this perfume is REALLY SPICY. I didn’t remember that about it.)
And yes you’re so right about how the dissociated spaces of some Monet paintings prefigure later art developments! Looking at “my” blue one here, I feel as if it is painted from lying down in the bottom of the boat and looking up at the branches and sky overhead. 🙂
I never thought about that perspective change, but that is a fascinating take. Looking up (and not just at the Sistine Chapel ceiling) can yield unexpected riches outside as well as in!
Twins! Perfect match, if you ask me 😉
My Fitbit says I am overtraining so I will take it easy with a nice Yoga With Adrienne video this morning.
For today’s CP I’ve gone literal, pairing Monet’s “Branch of Lemons” https://www.wikiart.org/en/claude-monet/branch-of-lemons with what I think is the best lemon fragrance ever: Profumum Roma Acqua Viva. I love lemons, lemon cake, lemon cookies, lemonade, lemon tart. Everything is improved with a little lemon!
Love the lemons. Have a happy, relaxing weekend!
Just don’t buy a car thats a lemon, foxbins!
And, you smell great.
Yes, lemon cars are bad! I am thankful that my 12-year-old Honda is still doing great.
Have you tried lemon curd mixed into vanilla Greek yoghurt or on top of ice cream? I just adore lemons too but haven’t found any readymade lemon yoghurt or ic that I like. Also nothing like a bowl of fresh lemons out on the counter- it’s so cheery! And I put this scent on my try list Miss Enabler!
Great painting! I’m with you and love lemons in everything. At fancy restaurants I always go for the lemon desserts, not the chocolate ones. My neighbors’ Meyer Lemon tree has about 2 dozen of them hanging there getting ripe (yellow) right now. It’s a small tree, maybe 4 feet high) and this is the most it’s produced. I give them a sly glance each time I go past on the way to the mailboxes, thinking they surely would not miss one or two!
I’ve got saved a Meyer Lemon cake recipe from Gourmet magazine’s Paris issue years back if you’re ever interested.
HA, my fitbit has NEVER said that to me, nor has the Apple watch. Go you!
One of my favorite items from Krispy Kreme was their lemon-filled bismarck. Which was just recently discontinued, alas.
Happy Friday!
Totally non compliant in Silky Woods. Perfect for the rainy day we have.
Finally started to watch Broadchurch, wow I am totally invested in these people.
Broadchurch is highly addictive I’ve found!
Happy Friday!
Totally non compliant in Silky Woods. Perfect for the rainy day we have.
Finally started to watch Broadchurch, wow I am totally invested in these people.
Broadchurch is so well done.
Wearing Hiris to match today’s painting. It’s definitely an impressionist scent to me, especially with colder weather. Hiris was on my list (in my head) to be worn this week plus I just love the blue bottle.
You smell fantastic, Robin!
Scent twins!!!
Hi there twin! 👋
And so do you!
I’m in Serge Lutens A La Nuit, for the colors and feel of the gorgeous Monet painting that Kanuka referenced yesterday:
https://collection.dunedin.art.museum/objects/5256/la-debacle
Nice!
Very nice!
Smelling wonderful today!
A La Nuit is one of SL’s best and you smell lovely in it 😊
I’m in Un Jardin sur le Nil, it’s very light and green, and I think suits Monet’s waterlily paintings.
We’re heading off for our Saturday morning walk, it’s still cool, but the sun is shining.
You smell wonderful.
Excellent match.
Serge Lutens Rahat Loukoum from a tiny decant. I decided to collect a bunch of the older Serge scents. Of course I am dabbing them on, so maybe it is not a skin scent if you spray. But i like this as a skin scent.
I wore Chergui the other day and realized it is not for me. So well made and I can see why it is so loved. But there was something in it that did not mesh with my vibe. I do love Diptyque Volutes, and it is similar to that but Volutes has a sweetness to it that I prefer.
Happy Friday all!
I agree with that comparison and your judgements!
Yum, you smell great today!
Chergui is just not an easy to wear scent, but I do love to smell it sometimes.
Copious amounts of rain this morning, sending rainy wishes to Jalapeno. This morning Miss Dior Chérie edp, my beloved elegant second version, the first one I find charming but not very elegant and tonight Floris Stéphanotis which I’m pairing with a Monet in London, sunset with our Parliament https://share.google/images/tN0UFtZS4xAGx2gZQ
Now what an inspired pairing! Bravo Aurora!
Thank you, Monet also painted a number of factories in London infusing these prosaic scenes with an otherworldly quality but somehow with the recent environmental summit in Brazil they are too much of a painful actuality.
Snow might be coming by the end of November!
SOTD = Guerlain Millisime Iris
So wonderful. It could just be me but everytime I wear it, I am smelling more and more iris. I am on theme because of whatever Robin meant 😇🤣.
In other news, it took me too long to express the reason why I needed to get a refund from Whole Foods when I couldn’t stop myself have just cut it short and said I never got the item. Sometimes though I think context helps which was what I did. Maybe I’m turning into my mom? 🤦🏻♀️
I read The New York Post and in one of today’s articles, there’s mention of caffeine-free ways to stimulate memory or memory-like functions! There are 3 essential oils but one doesn’t have to smell all 3: lemongrass, peppermint, and rosemary. Here’s the article which I hope you can read:
https://nypost.com/2025/11/14/health/3-scents-can-give-you-an-energy-boost-without-caffeine/?utm_campaign=iphone_nyp&utm_source=mail_app
Thank you for the informative post, I’ve felt quite zombie -like since I returned from my French holiday.
Oh no! Couldn’t blame it on jet lag! I hope you take a few more days,to adjust.
Fascinating hajusuuri!
It is indeed!
Hmmmmm. Some other NSTers have mentioned that the jasmine notes in Shalimar MJ get stronger over time. Maybe the iris notes in Shalimar MI are getting stronger as well and you aren’t imagining it?
PS. “Rosemary, that’s for remembrance!”
Shakespeare was on to something.
That’s what I am thinking. I thought that too the other day when I accidentally sprayed it on. The iris does seem to be coming out more.
So true! I’ve never experienced this before (with other perfumes) although I may have and just don’t recall.
Possibly!
I got nothin’ for the CP, but would have done an iris if I’d not revisited SJP Stash due to other NST’ers recent mentions. It is Mr. Mossy’s favorite-he is quite honest 😬 about perfumes and he always remembers Stash. **NOT** what I would have expected but his delight made me hit repeat for the rest of the week! He finds it calming. I have not tried the current edp, but am using up the last of the OG body oil which I too find cozy and calming.
I really wish I could have been able to smell SJP Stash. All I got was this weird sense of “something’s there, but I can’t sense a thing”.
Et voila, your link to Impressionism:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_raboteurs_de_parquet
I love that painting.
I decided to go with the oldest vintage and most French perfume I can think of that I have, L’Heure Bleue, I see that I am not the only one to think of the connection between its shifting, iris tinged blue melancholy and Robin’s image of Monet’s iris for this post. The bottle I have is a tear shaped bottle of EdT from 1940s but it has weathered the passage of time quite well, much like the impressionist paintings.
Oh wow. Your vintage bottle sounds quite lovely!
And yes, I get melancholy from L’Heure Bleue as well.
How lovely, now I wonder what is the oldest bottle of LHB anybody here has? You might just have it!
I will add that even the paper wrapper of my bottle’s box is the right color: https://flic.kr/p/2rFnGMP
A work of art!
Isn’t that just gorgeous?? Thanks for sharing the picture!
So beautiful! A work of art!
I’m swooning over your bottle!
Like pyramus, it’s the quality of the light that speaks to me the most about Impressionism, especially, as Wikipedia says, the ‘accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities.’ Thinking about today’s cp as I was driving through my neighborhood this morning, I was inspired to look at everything from this ‘changing light’ perspective and it was so cool as I looked at my town as though it were an Impressionist painting!
So my choice of SOTD for today’s cp is L’Occitane Terre de Lumiere (land of light), which is intended to celebrate that special time of day in Provence known as the Golden Hour, those precious moments when the sun meets the dusk and the sky is filled with spectacular color. It’s a warm honeyed lavender scent, balanced with other notes, very nuanced like the gently shifting light and as enveloping as immersion in an Impressionist painting. I love it!
And it was another Golden Day here with sun and blue sky, some trees still hanging on to their colorful leaves, and with temps going up to 66! I know it won’t last much longer so I’m treasuring every moment!
Wishing everyone a golden weekend ahead!⭐️☀️🌅🍁🍂
Golden Hour + Golden Weekend ! Mother Nature’s gifts to us! You must smell gorgeous in your Terre de Lumière !
Thank you, I’ve enjoyed it all day, and I also enjoyed the Golden Hour today for much longer than an hour.
Plenty of golden sunlight here as well. Teflon kitty was sunbathing in one of her favorite spots this afternoon.
My three sunned themselves for a long time on the screened porch. When it was so cold earlier this week, they could only stand to be out there for 5 minutes, so they were happy kitties today. 😼😼😼
I’m joining the L’Heure Bleue crowd (from a vintage mini) in honor of Camille Pissaro’s Les Boulevards Extérieurs, Effet de Neige
I love the energy of this painting, the light of course, and especially that little black pup sprinkled with snow flakes.
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier:Camille_Pissarro_-_Les_boulevards_ext%C3%A9rieurs,_effet_de_neige_-_Mus%C3%A9e_Marmottan-Monet.jpg
I’m Twinning with your effet de neige! Who could resist a snow-dusted pup?
Personne!
Very surprised at the depth of Monet’s subjects. I’d always considered him a landscape painter and nothing else.
I really wanted to finally wear Venice Rococo from the cute 30ml bottle I bought a couple weeks ago so I found a Monet painting to pair with it: Flowers in a Pot, 1878.
https://www.wikiart.org/en/claude-monet/flowers-in-a-pot
He could sure make flowers in a pot look good💐
I know, isn’t this one beautiful!
Beautiful picture and scent!
Thanks! I went through a LOT of Monet ‘s paintings before this one, and it immediately felt like the right match for the scent when I saw it.
“Etretat, la Manneporte, reflets sur l’eau” is my excuse to use my new bottle of Aprèe L’Ondée: https://www.musee-orsay.fr/fr/oeuvres/etretat-la-manneporte-reflets-sur-leau-69346un
https://www.musee-orsay.fr/fr/oeuvres/etretat-la-manneporte-reflets-sur-leau-69346
Beautiful and beautiful. The perfect match💕
2nd that!
SOTD is FM Heaven can wait, because JC Ellena seems an impressionist perfumer to me, and it’s got iris! Also it’s a warm scent and here in northern Sweden winter(and snow) has arrived.
This is a great match!
He strikes me that way too.
Superb insight Eva S! Bravo!
My desert island perfume! You smell lovely.
78 degrees F and brilliant sunshine here today. It’s definitely weird running around in a T-shirt this late in November. But perfect weather for getting a haircut!
Picture of the Day = “The Cliff at Sainte-Adresse”. There could be some everlasting flowers in the background of that picture. Which leads to…
SOTD = Annick Goutal Nuit Etoilee EdT. Getting more immortelle from this than what I usually do. The pine notes were secondary this time around.
I had initially chosen Hermes’ Eau des Merveilles Bleue for a seaside picture, but then didn’t feel like wearing EdM Bleue. Hermes perfumes as a whole seem to fit in with impressionist art very well. My $0.02 worth.
Jalapeno, I am so jealous of your temperature.
I’d love to send it your way!
You smell great! And the painting is a great match as well!
Thank you!
Happy Haircut Day!
We’ll walk over from the terrace to meet you at the cliff!
Enjoy your weather!
Sounds good! Who’s packing a picnic lunch?
Definitely felt good to get rid of 3 inches off my length. My hair has been growing like crazy the past couple of years. Not sure why.
Wow, you were really warm today! I get more pine than anything from the Nuit Etoilee, and I agree with you about the Hermes scents, especially the Merveilles line.
One of my brother’s weather apps said it was 80! Temperatures like this are absolutely nutso.
I’m wearing Mugler Wonder Bouquet today. I’m sure someone could match it for me, I am just not up to it.
I went and bought a space heater because Sunday is supposed to get pretty cold. I opened the box and it was already damaged. Now I have to get up early and return it. I don’t know yet if I will get another one, because it’s already too much of a hassle.
How about “Flowers on the Riverbank at Argenteuil”?
What an utter PITA about the space heater!!
A pity about the damaged space heater, but at least you smell good!
Drat, so sorry!
Is your furnace getting fixed on Monday? We have a space heater. DWP costs are so high so it’s good to have one to heat up just a small space at a time sometimes. Please feel free to ROFL at someone from Los Angeles talking about cold weather heating.😆