It's Friday, plus World Hello Day and World Television Day. Birthdays: Voltaire, René Magritte, Coleman Hawkins, Elizabeth George Speare, Marilyn French. Our community project for today: 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.)
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.
No surprises here: I'm in vintage Diorissimo. It's no longer quite pristine but it still smells like springtime. I have worn it for so many years it's hard to say what memories it conjures up, but I can still remember how pleased I was as a young teen to have that houndstooth bottle on my dresser. I always bought the splash bottle and dabbed it behind my ears and on my wrists.
Reminder: on 11/28, pick your Black Friday poison: wear the last fragrance you bought, wear a cheap thrill, or wear a fragrance you love but refuse to buy in a full size because it's too expensive. (We've done this project several times.)
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 vintage car [cropped] by Sven Graeme at flickr; some rights reserved.
I am in vintage Calvin Klein Obsession. The first perfume that I bought with my savings from my first job. I don’t reach for it anymore, but I still love it and treasure my bottle.
Happy Friday! 🌻
Oh my word, Obsession brings back memories of the late 80s/early 90s, working with a colleague who wore it – she always smelled gorgeous (her other favourite was Shalimar). When I complimented her she obviously caught a whiff of what I was wearing (no doubt Goutal’s Eau de Camille) & that got us chatting & becoming friends, which we are to this day. Thank you, perfumelover67 – happy memories.
The first time that I wore Obsession was in the late 80s for a friend’s wedding. One of my cousins, who had a bottle, let me spray from it and I immediately fell in love with it. Years later, when I finally could afford it I bought my bottle, the first perfume I ever owned. I am glad you have happy memories from Obsession. Shalimar and Eau de Camille are amazing scents and I also have beautiful memories of both scents.
How nice of your cousin to let you try it, especially when you discovered you absolutely loved it, & the occasion of it being for a friend’s wedding is just the icing on the cake.
This is a wonderful story, Carolyn. Two friends brought together by perfume!
Thank you, Denise.
A good friend of mine in high school wore this, and she was so glam to me-you smell great 🙂
Thank you, Carole! Wonderful memories! 🌻
You smell great pl67! We were almost twins today.👯♀️
Thank you, Madtowngirl! 🌞
Obsession is perfect for the chilly weather you are experiencing out there in NYC.
It is indeed a great option!
We will be in the 50s until Wednesday, so that’s a big relief for the cold, windy weather we have been experiencing lately.
I recently acquired some vintage Obsession and look forward to getting to know it.
I hope you like it. The modern version is pale compared to the vintage one.
I know I have mentioned this on here before, Robin, but when you mentioned vintage Diorissimo I couldn’t help myself! My much loved late aunt, who emigrated from Scotland to New York State in the early 1960s was back here visiting her parents in the 70s – I was already interested in perfume but not that knowledgeable, & didn’t have much money to explore the subject either. I became aware she was wearing Diorissimo & she left the bottle with a little in it at my grandparents’ house for me to have after she’d gone back. Needless to say I absolutely loved it & that started me on my perfume path, for which I am forever grateful, & whenever I saw her again we always discussed what we were wearing, new ones we’d found (the original Oscar de la Renta which we were both wearing on one visit I made to her but about which we’d had no prior discussion), ones which were the ‘new thing’ but we disliked & so on.
Perfume people are the kindest-what a beautiful memory you have to associate with this elegant fragrance.
Thank you for your lovely comment, Carole.
Thanks for sharing such a beautiful memory, Carolyn.
Glad you enjoyed it, Ann, & thank you too.
Aww, what a sweet aunt.☺️
She was fabulous! Thank you for your kind comment.
You and Robin both smell truly divine! And that houndstooth pattern! I love reading your aunt’s story- it always brings my closest aunt to the forefront of my mind. Never stop sharing it Carolyn please.
Apparently my aunt was fiercely independent even as a child, a trait I apparently inherited! When my grandmother, my aunt’s mother, was exasperated with me for saying “I can manage (whatever it was) by myself” she would say “Oh you’re just like your Aunt Norma” – I must say I always took that as a compliment! So glad my tale reminded you of a dear aunt, LesLiesse, & thank you for commenting.
That is so lovely 🙂
Seems to have evoked nice memories for people, Robin. It’s such a pleasure to see so many like-minded people on here, all thanks to your hard work with NST, of course.
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Your story is so touching, and Diorissimo has special meaning for me, too.
Thank you, & it’s lovely Diorissimo means a lot to you too.
Good morning. I am wearing Chanel Coco EDT, and drinking a cup of Orange Spice tea.
Happy Friday Barqs!
I am wearing Mitsouko edt, whatever the most recent reformulation is, since I bought the bottle a few years ago.
Mitsouko always works 🙂
I’m in vintage Goutal-Heure Exquise, from a member of this community. It’s gorgeous sandalwood and iris and I can’t believe I have this. It’s so soft and stays close to the skin-it is a special fragrance and the person who gave it to me wrote the nicest note-just adds to my love for this house and this fragrance in particular.
Looking forward to reading everyone else’s responses to this evocative CP 🙂
You smell fantastic! I love Heure Exquise! Now, I need to unbury my bottle from the back of my cabinet.
Yes, you do! 😉
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I’m curious — is it the edp or the edt? I find them quite different from one another, and much prefer the edt.
SheriG, I am not sure-the sticker is gone from the bottle. I thought from the colour (deep gold) and the fact it stays close to the skin it might be EDP, but I could be wrong. I might have a sample of EDT to compare it to.
Another fun fact-the third bottle she gave me had no tag. I thought I’d know for sure which fragrance it is but I had to use process of elimination. I think it’s Gardenia Passion, cause I know it’s not Passion or EQ or Grand Amour. It’s beautiful and very subtle and GP is the closest thing in my mind.
Those tags! I have always liked them but thought they might be a bit easy to lose.
Can you tell us why you prefer EDT? I’m curious as I only have the EDP.
I’m curious about this, too!
It’s hard to describe. The nearest I can come is that the EDP on my skin has a vegetal quality that oogies me out. It happens often when a fragrance has sage as a strong contributing note. The EDT has a greener galbanum note, to my nose.
Thanks SheriG. I wonder what that note is that you don’t care for. And hmmm. I get a strong galbanum note from my EdP, which has darkened over time to a dark gold. I read somewhere that the EdP had more sandalwood, but it’s never been that prominent to me. It also has iris I think.
Heure Exquise is indeed exquise. I should get out my partial bottle tomorrow It is buried behind a lot of others.
I considered many options — a lot of my collection is vintage — but in the end it could only be Parfum d’Hermès extrait, one of the great orientals of the mid-eighties, a time that was awash in them, and to my mind one of the greatest fragrances ever bottled. You can tell it was made with high-quality ingredients, and it smells plush and sophisticated. I’m so lucky to have a half ounce of it, enough to last me for the rest of my days.
You smell perfect.
Plush is a great word for Parfum d’Hermes. And the extrait is the plush-est no doubt. (I’ve not tried it, I find the EdT or EdP – can’t remember which I’ve sniffed – strong already). You smell marvelous, pyramus.
I don’t think I’ve ever smelled your sold, pyramus, but I do remember reading about it extensively on Kafkaesque’s blog, in case this is of interest to you:)
Commando so far, but later on I will indulge in one of my Top 10 (or 5) vintages: Jolie Madame extrait. I came to this fragrance late, only after I had fallen down the rabbit hole, but it’s had a place in my heart ever since.
That is true of many of my vintage loves…Fracas, just to name one, would have horrified me when I was younger!
It still horrifies me sometimes. But I keep trying.
Ha, you are not the only one!
You smell so good! Vintage Jolie Madame was my mother’s signature scent for decades (although I made sure she was always well supplied with other things to wear, but this was her go-to). I bought her a new bottle every year, until one year the packaging and the formulation were changed and it was literally no longer the same scent at all. She was a little bit heartbroken that she would’t be able to wear her scent any more: she kept the last empty bottle of the real thing so she could smell it and remember.
Thanks for the lovely memory, pyramus. It’s too bad that your mom had her heart broken over a reformulation. Unfortunately, most of us have been there and know how she felt. 💔
I think I recall when that change happened. And I felt the same way. So sad for the people who love the scent. Jolie Madame is wonderful and you were a lovely daughter to buy her a bottle each year.
I’m wearing vintage no 5, which in spite of its flapper origins seems like the smell of the fifties to me.
Scent twin! 👋👋
Add me in! I have no idea how long I have had this bottle.
Quadruplets–I’m in the edt from around the 70s, judging from the looks of the bottle. Sandalwoody goodness.
Me too! I think mine is from the 1980s or 90s: https://scentsandsensibilities.co/2016/04/16/my-mothers-perfume/
I could have predictably gone with Obsession (because if you know me, you know me😉) but instead I’m in Adrienne Vittadini from a vintage mini. Does anyone remember this one? Fragrantica says it was launched in 1999. Makes sense, I first sniffed this one at a perfume counter in the spring of 2000 when my mom and I met for a ladies shopping trip. I was pregnant with gradtowngirl and this perfume was love at first sniff for me. I bought a bottle and wore it all through my pregnancy. I don’t think they make it anymore. Wearing it now makes me think of both my daughter and my mom.🥰
mtg – I remember this, I owned this and AV was a big deal then. Her clothes and handbags, I loved at that time.
Mom, you, daughter – excellent memories linking there.
Somebody else here loves this one, I recall. I need to track this one down. I too used to love the AV clothes.
MTG, love this story! AV was immensely talented- I just adored everything she put out and recall cutting photos out of magazines to try and emulate her style and hair!
I checked -she’s still alive in her 80’s. She’s been redoing houses. Here’s some photos of different projects.
https://hydrangeahillcottage.blogspot.com/2013/09/adrienne-vittadini-in-florida.html?m=1
What a beautiful comment:) I still have some of my mom’s and my own AV clothes. My mom looked beautiful in hers.
I totally thought you were going to wear Obsession!
Great story! And yeah, I’m with lillyjo and figured you’d be wearing Obsession.
I’ll root among my vintage minis-I think I may have some AV!
I chose Gucci Eau de Parfum for the CP. It’s almost 25 years old now (the release, not my particular bottle) so I say it’s vintage, and it feels vintage in the best way. I would have made this a daily wear if I hadn’t fallen down the rabbit hole and discovered about a thousand equally gorgeous things.
Daniel, if you and/or your daughter haven’t discovered this one yet, I think she might really like it. Fragrantica doesn’t list cumin as one of its notes, but Surrender to Chance does, and from comments here at NST and my own nose I’m convinced it’s in there. There are a couple of Gucci EDPs sharing the same name, so this is the brown juice in the clear glass square bottle. STC says “It features notes of heliotrope, orange blossom, orris, vanilla, citrus, cumin, musk and thyme. Cumin makes it naughty, the thyme-orange blossom opening makes you take notice, and that lovely musky vanilla heliotrope smooths it all over so you don’t really care.” Spot on. It is getting a little harder to find but it’s still out there on evil bay here and there.
I missed out on this one. I think I had the edt, which is totally different. I remember the heavy bottle.
Your SOTD was a contender for me today. I don’t have the big Murder Bottle though, just a little 1oz one.
You smelled amazing in your Gucci EDP yesterday. I bought a bottle off eBay probably 8 years ago now, and the sprayer is broken. 🙄 I didn’t realize until I’d already rated the seller. If I turn it upside down I can get little drops of it. I think it’s about time for me to figure out how to break into the bottle and decant the juice that’s left. But these bottles are so thick and substantial, I’m curious if it’s possible and have been nervous about it. Thankfully, I still have a few ml of a decant I’ve had a long time so I can still wear the perfume for the time being.
Hello and tgif!
Sotd is vintage No.5.
I am going to watch Wicked: For Good and I am sooooo excited! I loved the Broadway show, know the words to all the songs and enjoyed last year’s Part 1 so it’s an understatement to say I have expectations!
I too loved the show! I’ve been waiting until both films stream together to watch. My resolve is weakening.
SOTD is Shalimar but not vintage. I am in L’Essence today.
I feel that all the Shalimars, regardless of release, qualify as honorary vintage because the original was so potent and has been around for so long and that DNA persists in all the newer offerings. I kindof feel the same about all the Chanel No. 5 variations.
Totally in agreement with you, DeniseH.
Agreed.
Kris, I agree with Denis that the heart and soul of Shalimar is vintage! You smell gorgeous and CP-compliant!
Glad you all feel I am compliant😉
Such a gorgeous scent, you smell great! I was given a bottle this fall by my dear husband and I love it so much, I just got a backup bottle for him to give me for Christmas, lol.
I participated in the CP earlier this week, although I didn’t report everything. My vintages were Reichenbach Golden Drop, Givenchy Organza Indécence, and Guerlain Un Air de Samsara.
I didn’t take any vintage perfumes on my Lviv trip. I brought a sample of JHAG Not a Perfume and a decant of Safran Troublant. I wore both today (morning and afternoon respectively) and did some perfume testing at a local perfume shop. Nothing wowed me enough for an immediate purchase.
I hope things are fairly safe and comfortable there in Lviv. I spend time there long ago and loved it–what a beautiful city, and so many delicious bakeries, mmm!
Hope you are having a wonderful break, Glannys!
Happy Friday! She-ra Mini and I are visiting She-ra Brother in SF! 🌉
Will be hitting up ZGO today and report back later…he lives in the Castro and is only a couple blocks away…I can feel the Fragrance is close! 🤣
Have a wonderful visit!!
Oooo envious – have so much fun!
Sounds like a great trip, hope you have fun!
Have a great visit and don’t forget Ministry of Scent if you have time!
Have fun!
I’m so missing SF this week in particular! Have a fantastic time She-Ra with Bro-Ra! And do report back with lots of deets!
Thanks, LesLiesse! eheheh love Bro-Ra! 😍
Awesome! Smell ALL the perfumes!
Oh, fun! Please report back.
I wore Je Reviens yesterday which was really what I’d been saving for today…but I wanted it yesterday instead. So today I am wearing kinda sorta vintage inspired by pl67: CK Obsession Sheer, introduced in 2002, and now discontinued. Mine is an early bottle but not sure what year. Obsession was another favorite during college (and so different from my signature Je Reviens!!). I just spoke with a college chum yesterday and this seemed like the right time to bring back more of those memories. I find Obsession Sheer very similar to original Obsession, just a bit toned down which is perfect.
spring pansy, my mom wore Je Reviens, and it’s beautiful. I remember her buying it in 1983 when we went on vacation to St Pierre and Michelin-the French islands off the coast of Newfoundland. I remember the beautiful food and the fog, and the perfume and cosmetic ads everywhere.Hope you continue to enjoy both Je Reivens and your Obsession in the best of health for many years to come:)
Thank you! That’s a great memory from the French islands off of Newfoundland.
I’m wearing vintage Bal a Versaille; I think Dawn sent it to me after I said I had never smelled it. One of the great “kitchen sink” scents of all time.
Oh gosh, I’m dying to know what a kitchen sink fragrance is?
“Everything but the kitchen sink” – it’s a useful old saying that can be applied to many things 🙂 .
So that means a scent with many different notes?
Yes, and I for one associate this style with vintage scents. I’ve come to appreciate sheer and simple scents, but I love the room-fillers.
I’m in vintage Joy and guessing it’s a 70’s iteration. What a beauty!
That’s 50 yrs allo! Truly you smell Golden like a sun-drenched garden!
A sun drenched garden with a civet cat lurking somewhere nearby.. I do love the drop of civet to be found in many a vintage perfume.
Me too! When I smelled a (re-created) original Eau Sauvage and Miss Dior at the Osmothèque, the civet suddenly made the “sauvage” make sense.
How can that be!?!
I know ! When I realize that the 70’s were 50 yrs ago, I’m shocked !
Joy was still lovely when I got to smell it in the 2010s. But probably a mere scented echo of what you have.
Love it!
That’s the version I remember. You smell wonderful!
Gorgeousness 🙂
Happy Friday from soggy, thunderstormy SoCal!
Sotd Mom’s 1992 Mugler Angel. She bought it for herself. And I can still remember coming over for a weekend lunch date with her and how she smelled divine! The juice is not in great shape, but I’m grateful there’s still some in there. Mom and I are good at scrimping & scrimping, although I am working on my basking alter ego!
haha I love that, LesLiesse. The alter ego!
Wanted to clarify the army that Mom bought it for herself. She’s of a time when fragrance was an extravagance that someone else gave to you- you would never buy it for yourself. I think this is the first bottle she may have purchased on her own.
I have a customer that wear Angel beautifully, Lesliesse-you smell great!
Funny to think go having to wait for someone to buy you something so personal, isn’t it?
That’s cool she still has that bottle. A real keepsake now.
Yes and we keep it next to the 1956 Shalimar bottle! Opposites attract 😉
https://youtu.be/xweiQukBM_k?si=eNfKiCleIez_60F7
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Too bad Mugler has changed the Angel bottles. They aren’t as pretty as they used to be.
I know – the bottle is a work of art!
Smelling good!
Mom and I are twinning today!
My Rochas week continues. Last night, I wore “Globe,” a fascinating (and discontinued) Jean-Claude Ellena creation from 1990. Leather, spices, flowers… compelling stuff. If only it lasted longer on my skin.
Today, for the first time, I’m in vintage “Madame Rochas Eau de Cologne.” (1960, originally by Guy Robert.) I don’t know how old my bottle is, but there’s no bar code, and no ingredient list save for “oils imported from France – compounded in U.S.A.” And I don’t know when Rochas last made it in Eau de Cologne strength. 1970s?
Anyway, it’s a beautiful, bright, white floral – tuberose, lily-of-the-valley, jasmine – with a musky dry down, which suits this man just fine.
Happy Friday, everyone!
Daniel, I think you are in the running for the Vintage-iest vintage today. 1970’s wow! Not that art & creativity should ever be a competition. How did you come to have the bottle? You provenance story are sooo interesting.
LesLiesse! Nice to have a break in the rain, right?
I don’t know for sure it’s 70s. Could be 80s, I suppose. I just don’t see any record of Rochas making an Eau de Cologne later than that.
I forget what prompted me to get it – probably an article or review I read. This was an eBay purchase from a few years ago, and the scent is in great shape. (A parfum version I bought wasn’t successful – it had lost everything pleasant to smell, and had turned – an eBay hazard, to be sure. But the box is pretty!)
Oh gosh the thunder last night was magnified by all the highrises near by. I thought a bomb exploded with the first one- very scary, then just deafening. But our lil city sure is lovely post-shower with the San Gabriel’s rising up in the distance.
OMG I forgot about the thunder until you just mentioned it. The lightning actually woke me up, or maybe I was only half-asleep, then that thunder, quite menacing.
Globe’s top notes are a bit too strong, or Too Dude, on me, but the dry-down is terrific.
Hello NST. I’m basking and basking as LesLiesse says, or wallowing and wallowing as is more the case with me, in En Avion from Caron. This is a honeyed leather floral with animalics and maybe a bit of galbanum and one of my all-time favorite perfumes ever. Years ago on MakeUpAlley, I used to swap with a wonderful lady in Europe and in one of our exchanges she sent me a precious 1/4 oz. stopper bottle. The bottle’s contents have dwindled over the years but I do wear it for special occasions and when the mood just strikes me and it’s putting on a sheer gauzy wrap of scent and stepping into an F. Scott Fitzgerald jazz age novel. I think it was Caron’s answer to Vol de Nuit (or vice versa) but it speaks to me much more. I have no idea how old my bottle is, not ancient.
I still have an ounce left-a kind MUA-er helped me with a purchase. It’s still a special scent for me, 20 years later -you smell exquisite and unusual in En Avion, DeniseH .
Thank you Carole. It certainly isn’t for everyone but it also inspires deep love. I’m glad you have some stashed away. MUA was my gateway to the online perfume community.
DH, I cannot take creative credit for basking & basking. That notoriety belongs to another NSTer who used to engage in that with her beloved sister at the perfume counters. Please do step forward and take credit Miss B&B!
That said there’s something undulating where you the scent moves in waves sensuously around you – you become one with the scent when you’re so profligate with it! At least that’s how it is for me.
Yes!! Agree!
I think allo might have come up with “basking and basking”. Or springpansy?
Thanks jalapeño! We have to ask so the rightful author gets credit!
It was me🥰 My best friend, who is like a sister to me would endure hours at the Barney’s perfume counter while I drenched and drenched from tester bottles. Those were the days!
https://youtu.be/RDcaYbeXeUI?si=8O01zajZGHN3BlBi
I did a song match for my vintage cp sotd. I’m wearing Elizabeth Taylor Passion. I’ve only ever had this in a mini. I think the spray might be too much for me. I would love to have this in a shower gel.
I keep seeing weather reports of the dreaded polar vortex coming early this winter. I’m enjoying the pleasant weather while I can.
Don’t know the scent lillyjo but I know the song and I can just imagine how gorgeous you smell!
It’s big like Rods hair! Lol.
Sigh, I do wish body products weren’t generally offered only in holiday gift sets.
Back in the day, you could pick out the scent of Passion even at a 1980s perfume counter!
Great choice, lillyjo-Passion is fun and delightful.
In my case, it’s not a question of what but how: I will wear vintage Mitsouko, I just had to decide from which bottle. I went with a little parapluie extrait bottle. It’s little faded and dusty in the opening but still delivers all the vintage Mitsy goodness I need.
You smell divine!
I’m wearing the latest version of Cabochard, which I’ve been wearing for decades. It’s not the same as the version I bought back in the mid-90s, but after 30 years it probably wasn’t the same as when it was new either 🙂 .
Last night, I wore one of my few actual vintages – a miniature of Soir de Paris, which Kanuka so kindly gave me.
I almost chose Cabochard for today.
Hello Fragrant Friends–I am wearing some very vintage (70’s) Cristalle and still loving it. It was a choice between this and also vintage No 19. I was so lucky, my sister’s college job was behind the Chanel counter at Bloomingdale’s in King of Prussia PA. Testers, samples and all sorts of goodies found their way onto my vanity. I never warmed to No 5, but No 19 and Cristalle have become lifelong faves…..and still smell amazing all these 50 years later.
I love them too!
Your sister had quite the plum job in college!
70s Cristalle…lovely! I have some of the EdT somewhere but it is not that old.
You smell wonderful and I’m thinking this could be a good PT job for me after I retire…
Love your scent
I love and own all of those! I’m in vintage No.5 edt today, in memory of my late mother. It was her go-to scent. I probably love Cristalle, No. 19 and No.22 more, but today I’m thinking of her.
Hi everyone, I am wafting little scent-breezes of Theorema, from a cherished mini bottle of EdP. Golly this is a wonderful scent–so juicy and so rich, joyous! I need it because I seem to have a headache… weird sleep and too much reading. It’s still ridiculously warm here, in the mid-80’s, waaaah.
Hope your headache goes away soon.
Do you get them from changes in the weather?
To be honest, I was using a wood repair ointment on my dining table and it does warn you to keep your windows open due to fumes. I had one door open but suspect it wasn’t enough. And thank you, my headache eventually passed.
I join you in too much reading! Hope we both get good non-weird sleep tonight.
SOTD = Guerlain Samsara EDT
I rarely wear it and it is quite good. I got my little bottle from another NSTer as she was getting rid of perfumes that reminded her of a painful past. I don’t believe it is vintage, I assume it is though so I am awarding myself points for the CP!
I am still waiting for the proceeds from my sale of 58 shares of stock. I hope to get it tomorrow. I am wondering if I can get a Roth 401(k) 🤔?
In other news, there’s an article from The Wall Street Journal (I have to double-check) regarding when you can subtly know if it’s time to retire:
1) Arrive at work feeling numb
2) Shrink from learning new technology tools
3) Avoid promotions
4) Catch the Sunday scaries (BTW, I’ve had this I started working so not sure how true this is)
5) Constantly check your 401(k)
6) Wish you could volunteer more
7) Notice your peers are gone
8) Feel left out of retirement
9) Hate your boss (someone once told me you leave your boss, not your job)
10) Get achy knees
I checked 7 out of the 10.
Yes to Samsara!
Thankful that list didn’t have “Hoping you get into a minor car accident so you don’t have to go to work.”
You smell wonderful. I cherish my red “shoulder” bottle.
Ha, pretty sure I would get 8/10 on every job I ever had 😉
Actually happiest job I maybe ever had was working in a bead store during graduate school. Should have stayed there.
I had several of these before I retired. It didn’t help that I kept getting a new boss almost every year though my job was mostly the same, and that I knew much more about my field than they did. Predictably, my little unit’s performance collapsed after I left, which provided a bit of schadenfreude!
I’ve had a very successful week of smelling amazing in vintage perfumes. I’m so glad you suggested this cp, DeniseH!
Today I’m in gorgeous Vol de Nuit parfum received from the lovely AnnE.
Here’s what I wore this week, all vintage, some much more so than others. 😉
Monday: Givenchy Organza Indecence
Tuesday: Dior Poison EDT from a batch code that appears to be the original release year 1985
Wednesday: Dior Dioressence EDT that seems to be from 2002, though it smells more rich and “vintage” than I imagine 2002 perfumes to be hehe.
Thursday: Shalimar parfum spray from a mini that has a copyright 1967 on the back of the box. So rich and intense, and I probably sprayed too much. But it took a lot of pressing down on the sprayer to get the juice to come out so I blame that for my over-application.
Wow vintage-iest to the max trf !
Wow, the OG Poison! I remember wishing I could afford a bottle of it when it first came out.
I actually received this bottle as a freebie here on NST back in 2018 from flopper! I had to search my emails to figure this out, but I remember it was either a freebie or generous swapper.
I don’t really have any specific memories of Poison because I was born just a couple years earlier than its release, but I sure appreciate it now.
I was a broke college student taking a gap break when Poison came out. So it’s connected to a very interesting and crazy time in my life.
I love Dioressence and rarely see it mentioned anymore. I think 2002 was still pretty good juice.
I agree it’s very good and under mentioned. This 2002 stuff I have smells amazing.
Wow, you’ve smelled great all week!!
My 2 favorite vintage fragrances are HR Heaven Sent and Houbigant Chantilly, both of which I’ve worn starting as a young teen through the present day. Since I believe I used Heaven Sent for a previous cp, my choice for today is Chantilly.
As a young teen with a romantic soul, Chantilly said so many things to me – pink, lace, ballet (I was serious about dance at that time) – and I wore it for many memorable moments in my life, including on my wedding day. Later I learned it debuted in 1941, the year my parents were married before he was drafted and went to fight in WWII and were separated for more than 3 years. So many memories for me! Soft, powdery, lemony, oak mossy, it still smells beautiful to me.
Happy weekend ahead to all!🍁🍂🦃
Très romantique ! What marvelous & meaningful memories !
Merci beaucoup 🙏!
FWIW, you still have a romantic soul.
Aww,🥰
Great choices and Heaven Sent is one of my happy memory scents, too.
And my Heaven Sent vintage bottles still smell great!
My SOTD is Je Reviens parfum from a teeny little bottle that dates back to 1969. At 16 it was the most grownup fragrance I’d ever worn and brought me my first ever perfume compliment from an adult: one of my aunts (there were many, and my mother was trying to teach them to paint) approached me and asked what it was and if I would mind if she were to also acquire and wear it. She was so polite and I was so flattered that she asked; it was a lovely moment. Of course I said I’d be delighted if she wore it! She was only about 16 years older than I, and it was probably much more suitable for her than for me, but I loved and wore it for years.
Is that the tiny little blue disc-like flat bottle? My M-I-L brought one back for me from a cruise and I completely fell in love with it and I still have it and wear its previous few drops sparingly. Have added other bottles of it in different formulations to my collection but the tiny little blue bottle will always be the most special one.
It is indeed! The juice has held up remarkably well, especially considering how careless I was about storing it for too many years.
I have smelled your SOTD but I just finished a book and the main protagonist wore this perfume
Cool vintage car pic, Robin!
Finally feels like November in my neck of the woods. It’s been gloomy and in the 40’s today. Had some light rain late last night, but it wasn’t nearly enough to make a dent in the dry conditions. I think maybe my area got half an inch? At most?
SOTD = Opium EdP, pre-2009 formulation. My bottle has the burnt orange plastic casing around it. Happy that the weather cooperated with my wearing it. 😉
Oohh I love that bottle version!
I found it on the bottom shelf of an ULTA rack when they were starting to switch over to the current bottle. Grabbed it when I saw it!
It is VERY November here but much warmer in PA than in Mass, for which I am grateful. But GREY. I am not a fan.
Wish I could send you some of the sun I had Saturday.
I’m looking around for deals on wool socks now.
It’s been gloomy and in the mid40’s for 4 days in a row this week, and I finally woke up to a couple of glimpses of the sun this morning, but by the afternoon it was fully cloudy for the 5th day in a row. Warming up to the mid50’s with some 🌞 this weekend-can’t wait! But then the rain returns on Monday.
Got some sun today (Saturday) and had temps in the upper 50s. Lovely weather, but it’s not going to stick around. Clouds are coming back tomorrow.
This mightn’t count as truly vintage, but I was feeling nostalgic and am wearing Anais Anais.
Oh I think it counts. It came out in 1978!! This was my sig scent for many years. I was doing a semester abroad and traveling and two Swedish girls were staying at the same hostel my friend and I were in Amsterdam and they both smelled amazing and the scent I liked best was called Anais Anais, the girl told me, so when we hit Paris I bought it and felt very romantic and glamorous and all my scarves smelled of it and I ended up wearing it on and off for years. Still love it but rarely wear it these days. Thank you, mystery Swedish girl who turned me on to this one so long ago.
A lovely perfume memory/origin story to tell us!
Hey, we have no rules! If you say it counts it counts 🙂
For the CP win, Estee Lauder Estee, from a 2007 bottle that belonged to a dear extended family member. I love the story of Estee Lauder’s life and I see Estee as an expression of the familial and maternal side of her. I have all versions of Estee and wear any with equal enjoyment.
Have you ever counted up all the scents from Estee Lauder that you have?
If I listed them correctly, Fragrantica shows I have 39! If you include Aramis and Tom Ford, I have 48. There are a few, for example Pleasures and some Beautiful flankers, that I only have samples or minis of. I will admit that I succumbed to bottle-love and purchased several just to have the original bottle, namely Aliage and Private Collection. I appreciate both but they are not “me.” I’m most at home in Estee, Tuscany per Donna, Spellbound, Azuree, Modern Muse (MM has some excellent flankers), and…well I guess just call me a fangirl🤩🤩
Ooh, Azurée is gorgeous! And bottle love is totally walks when it comes to older Estée Lauder scents. I don’t like the new, boring ones.
VALID, not “walks”!
The best thing I can say about them is that the perfumes are still good. I think the only one of those I have is for Cinnabar. The vintage bottle I had was a bit past it. 😸
I should check my bottle of Cinnabar, then. I have the old style.
It has to be vintage Chanel No. 5 edt for me, which I wrote about here in the last months of my mother’s life: https://scentsandsensibilities.co/2016/04/16/my-mothers-perfume/. I still have a tiny bit left!
lol, totally VALID, not “walks”