Happy Thursday! What's your fragrance today?
I'm wearing Frédéric Malle En Passant (perfumer Olivia Giacobetti, 2000) and wishing the weather matched my fragrance.
Reminder: tomorrow, 13 March, we're doing Old School Niche: wear a perfume from L'Artisan Parfumeur, Diptyque or Frederic Malle. Double bonus points if the fragrance was released before 2010!
And for those of you who like to plan ahead, see Scent of the day ~ Friday community projects 2015, where I'll try to always have the next five or six weeks mapped out in advance.
Note: top image is lilac [cropped] by Matthias Rhomberg at flickr; some rights reserved.
The happy, sugared almond confection of Jour de Fete today (Giacobetti AGAIN!). It’s grey and cold here in the UK. I wish the weather would match my fragrance too…
The sun is actually out here so I shouldn’t complain. But I so want the temps to finally go over 60….
At least it’s not snowing!
And hope I don’t see any more snow until 2016…
Surely you mean 2038.
Or later!
🙂
Such a great scent! You smell great.
They should just bring it back permanently, though personally I have enough now to last me a good few years to come (thanks TK Maxx!)…
Lucky! I had the chance to buy JdF dirt cheap, and didn’t. Wah waaaah… (that’s the sound of sad trumpet)
Rosa Sur Reuse is my SOTD and I smell fabulous
Liz Zorn?
Yes under her Soivohle brand
Good one!
Something about it reminds me vaguely of Une Rose Chypree.
It works so much better on me than the Tauer
After yesterday’s conversation about affordable old fragrances and Angela’s post on chypres I was feeling nostalgic this morning so I grabbed my sample of vintage Emeraude…my skin amplifies the resins and amber.
Perfect!
I’ve been wearing mostly L’Artisan and Diptyque this week in honor of Friday’s scent of the day (I don’t have much Malle). Yesterday it was Diptyque Olene, and today LAP Mure et Musc. These seem like spring/summer fragrances to me, and I’m so glad its finally warm enough for them here in Virginia!
I should come to Virginia 🙂
Yes! You should! But hold that thought and wait to come to the opening of Ari’s shop. I hope we get an update from her soon. I can’t wait!
SOTD Agent Provocateur edp.
A classic, by now!
SOTD is L’Artisan Traversee du Bosphore. Delicious!
I need to try this one!
On my sample list. Enjoy!
I’m joining you in Giacobetti with Passage d’Enfer.
That might be my sotd tomorrow…
That is one Giacobetti scent I wish I owned :).
Diptyque’s weird and wonderful Eau d’Elide. I had to include a Diptyque this week and their first offerings are just wonderful.
SOTD is Dzing! smoky paper…like an old paperback book – just as Luca says
Carnal Flower–hey, the sun is out & it’s supposed to be in the 50s. Stopped in at the orchid show yesterday at the Botanic Garden. I’d forgotten that vanilla is an orchid variety. Shalimar was featured on a chart tracing vanilla’s history, plus they had a scent table set up of various orchid essences (plus the Shalimar). The essences were under glass domes, connected to those darned bulb atomizers (you squeeze to sniff)–I couldn’t get them to work!
If you scroll down thru NST’s Lazy Weekend poll, https://nstperfume.com/2015/02/21/lazy-weekend-poll-open-thread-late-february-2015/ you will see I had the exact same experience as you (except I got the bulbs to work) several weeks ago!
Guessing they don’t refresh the essences through the course of the show. Will try to go closer to the opening next time.
I’m testing Misia again from my sample but trying it side by side with Histoires de Parfums Moulin Rouge, which I think of as being another sort of powderey makeup-like scent. There is a little similarity, but Moulin Rouge is just bigger and has a good dose of patchouli that hasn’t seemed as prominent when I’ve worn it before.
I must try Moulin Rouge now. I have recently taken a liking to HDP and have always had a weak spot for ‘makeup’ scents.
I sampled Chanel Misia, and I immediately noticed the similarity to HDP Moulin Rouge. I’m still sampling, but so far I like Moulin Rouge better. Misia is very beautiful, but I love the earthiness of Moulin Rouge.
It’s finally raining again here in the Pacific Northwest, and I wanted something to blend with the smell of ozone and new growth in the air. So I’m in the lovely Bel Respiro, layered over Crabtree and Evelyn’s Iris body lotion. I’m green and iris-y!
I love Bel Respiro. I haven’t had it after I went through my decant and am now craving it. I guess I need another decant.
No e!
Gosh, I meant “Nice!”
Someone on here wore Mitsouko yesterday and that put it into my head so I wore it today. The weird thing is that I can see how people might hate its aggressive oddness but it’s gorgeous to me. It’s not Nefertiti, it’s Dora Maar.
I wore Mitsouko yesterday! I almost wore it again today. Whenever I have it on, I feel more like me. 🙂 It made me think I need to get a new bottle and wear it a lot!
My vet called me about Sunny. It seems that he had Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy, which is heart condition some indoor cats develop. the vet said that often there is no warning, the cat simply dies. I just wish he had been at home when it happened. I needed something comforting today, so I chose Cabaret, for the rose notes.
So sorry to hear this, but I’m glad at least that the vet was able to give you an answer. Our 9-year-old cat was diagnosed with this a few months ago almost by accident (they were doing an ultrasound for a completely different problem) but he has had no symptoms at all, so it’s something we wouldn’t have known about.
I’m glad you at least have some answers as to what happened, and now know it was nothing you could have known or done anything about. I know it doesn’t stop the grieving – nothing but time diminishes that – so take as much comfort and care for yourself as possible. Cabaret is a terrific rose!
Oh, Priscilla, that is so sad. It’s very interesting to me though, b/c the beloved cat I had years ago just up and died right in front of me for no reason (also an inside cat, about 3 years old). It was horrible and heartbreaking. I never knew what happened and didn’t have the money or heart to generate an autopsy for him. But this is very helpful information. I wonder if this is what was wrong with him. Best wishes to get over your loss.
Apparently this condition often occurs in quite young cats, often between 1 and 5 years of age. The vet said that the only thing that would have been of help in diagnosis would have been an ultrasound, and being a small town vet, this isn’t something he could have provided. I am so sorry you have lost a cat so suddenly too.
It happened about 15 years ago, but it was very hard for me then. But now at least I have an idea what it probably was.
I’m so sorry about your cat. Though it obviously doesn’t make things easier, I hope knowing the cause provides some solace.
Oh honey…I am so sorry for the loss of your kitty boy. Do remember what a good life you gave him. I’m sure he knew how much he was loved, and you can give a kitty no better gift.
My condolences on your loss, and sending a big hug.
I, too, am glad you received an answer that, hopefully, will set your mind at rest, that there was nothng you could’ve done to prevent this. Take time to grieve, wishing you comfort, Sunny will always be with you in your heart.
Priscilla, I’m so sorry for your loss. At least you know that it was something you were powerless over. Hugs to you.
I’m still very sorry for your loss but I hope the vet has given you some comfort in knowing that it wasn’t anything you did or didn’t do.
Volutes edt today. It’s nice, but maybe just a bit too much for today.
Almost twins – I’m in the EDP since the EDT was not where I thought it was.
Those sneaky Volutes, going off on their own for some nefarious perfume-y deeds. 🙂
I haven’t gotten that far to pick out my SOTD because I just did my taxes and now I am waiting for my refund. Wish they didn’t take 3 weeks to dump it in my account. But I think I will wear either Bal a Versailles (vintage PdT) or Shalimar Ode a la Vanille.
SOTD: Petit Fracas.
Another from my happy fragrance stash 🙂
I’m trying Oyedo on the back of my hand again (tried it last night). It would be FB-worthy, except that I don’t like thyme in perfume. Thyme makes perfume smell like disinfectant — thymol is the key ingredient in those foul-smelling disinfectant wipes from Seventh Generation and other disinfecting products.
LOL! I love the smell of those wipes (and the fact that they have much less of chemical ingredients than the Clorox wipes do). But then again I love thyme in everything…I even make a “tea” with thyme and honey 🙂 !
Hee, hee. My house is full of Seventh Generation products, but not the wipes. They gave a tub of the wipes at work and whenever someone uses them, the smell lingers forever.
I like thyme in seasonings like Herbes de Provence.
I love the smell of those wipes! For some strange reason, the stores now only have the lemongrass scent. I liked the orange better.
The ones in our office are “Lemongrass Citrus Scent,” which I would be OK with, but I mostly smell thymol.
I agree, hajusuuri, the orange was a bit better and I also cannot find it anymore….wonder if it was discontinued? OM goodness…here I am lamenting about discontinued disinfectant wipes! It was equally as bad when I experienced disappointment that my health food store only had one bottle of Meyers Limited Edition Cranberry Dish soap (which I really wanted to stock up on b/c it smelled exactly like an old Escada I really loved). Has anyone else ever bought cleaning products only b/c it reminded them of a favorite perfume or am I the only crazy one who does this?
I’ve purchased cleaning products that I don’t need (meaning I already have a bottle of something that accomplishes the same thing) because they smelled good. How many countertop sprays do I need?
Perhaps that Cranberry soap will return in the winter?
Target and Wegmans are all out the last time I went (just last week). I do tend to stockpile since this is the only kind of disinfecting wipe I’m comfortable using bare-handed.
I do it, too! I buy the Dawn Orchid Eucalyptus dish soap because it smells nice when I wear Chanel #19!
I don’t like those either – they don’t smell “clean” to me. I have a bunch of hand sanitizer (Cleanwell, I think?) that I need to give away because I can’t stand it – it smells like food to me.
Yeah, there’s thymol in Cleanwell, too.
Wearing Passage d’Enfer again today. Needed something close to the skin for a physical therapy session I have this afternoon for a pinched nerve in my neck.
Ouch, hope the pt helps!
Rubj extrait. I’m getting the very faintest of occasional wisps of spice, but if there’s anything dirty or musky here, it’s totally lost on me–certainly nothing that makes this feel inappropriate for work. Still, I applied very lightly just in case everyone else is smelling something I can’t.
I find that the EDP is dirtier than the other versions of Rubj.
I agree.
SL Bois de Violettes today for me. I wish this one lasted longer one me, but it fades so quickly.
Well, yesterday’s review of Misia prompted me to wear ELDO Putain des Palaces today. I haven’t worn this in quite a while and I don’t know why- it’s perfect for this transitional time of year and fits into the “cosmetic” type fragrance category.
I really need to wear this more often 🙂
Hotel Slut is really nice.
😉 Aren’t they always?
That one is really nice … I was deciding between that and Traversee du bosphore today and went with TdB, but just might have to wear Putain des palaces tomorrow 😉
SOTD: Cannabis Santal (Fresh) 🙂
Love that one! I really should try to wear it more often. Somehow I only reach for it in late spring.
One of my favorite comfort scents! Now I’m thinking it should get some more wear before summer. 🙂
I have a small but totally annoying head cold and am just dragging. I wanted some comfort and cheer, so I picked Diptyque Eau Duelle edt. I know it’s not pre 2010, but it’s my fav Diptyque and one of my fav vanillas.
Love Eau Duelle and agree that it is a great comfort scent. Feel better!
Hope you feel better soon!
I almost wore this today!
Yuck, get better!
Hope you feel better soon!
Eau Duelle is a lovely vanilla. Hope you feel better soon.
SOTD for me is MH Geranium Bourbon. I wear it all year long, but it’s definitely nice in spring.
GB is so nice! It is unusual for being both crisp and warm.
Wearing an older niche brand, but one of their newer scent: Annick Goutal’s Nuit Étoilée. Absolutely gorgeous!
You smell fabulous!
Today I’m wearing Frédérik Malle Iris Poudre, which was created by Pierre Bourdon in 2000. I have a 5 ml. manufacturer’s decant from a generous NST swapper, but it’s on my FB list once the decant is gone. (I love the short squat shape of the Malle 5 ml. decants! Just right for tucking into a purse.)
I love Iris Poudre… drained one 10ml decant and made inroads on another… finally sprang for a bottle.
Springlike today, so SOTD Delrae Wit.
You smell great!
Thanks! 🙂
Scent twins!
Yep
Bois d’Iris by VC&A…..I’m drenched in it. Soooooo happy. This one is still my precious.
Have a lovely one dears.
You have really sold me on this one! It’s going on my to try list since I love iris.
Robin, the iris queen, loves it too if I recall correctly. Personally I don’t think you can go wrong with it.
I do! It’s heavier and sweeter than my usual and I don’t find it an everyday scent, but when I’m in the mood for it, it’s perfect.
See SunnyDay? Now you have no choice. 🙂 (Enable enable enable)
Bois d’Iris is in my top 3 or 4 favorites! I just bought another sample, but a FB of this is in my near future, I think.
I have a full bottle and I regret NOTHING.
Needed something calming and centering today, so I went with Dzongkha.
Good choice!
I just finished scrubbing one off, and now I’m wearing Clair de musc.
SOTD is Balenciaga Le Dix. Today i’m wearing the edt I’ve had a few years (I’m not sure if it’s vintage or even what ‘vintage’ is for a scent that dates back to 1947?) but its violet/aldehydes/woods loveliness reminds me of falling in love with it the first time I smelled it and falling in love with violet, which has become a favorite fragrance note for me. Le Dix was one the long-forgotten perfume minis I wrote about some time ago finding accidentally while cleaning out a closet shelf. I still have some of the vintage perfume remaining, which I will treat myself to for Classic Film night tonight. And, luckily, I have another perfume mini as backup, now that Le Dix is officially d/c and getting difficult to find.
I loved Le Dix! I had a large spray bottle of EDT that I got in a discount store for under ten dollars in the late 80s….by then it wasn’t so popular….as a young girl I always loved violet notes but could never find a violet perfume, until Le Dix. If you really like violet as a fragrance note Sonoma Scent Studio has some wonderful violet fragrances (To Dream, Wood Violet, Voil De Violettes, Lieu de Reves) that I would highly recommend.
bardot, I suspect you and I are of the same ‘vintage.’ :-). I do love SSS Wood Violet (wore it yesterday) as wee as the Voile. Have samples of the Dream and Lieu but have not tried them yet. I have many violet scents stemming from my love of Le Dix, including AG La Violette and Guerlain’s Les Meteorites, two of my favorites. Also, vintage Worth Je Reviens is a dreamy kind of violet to me, one of my 5 favorite scents of all time.
‘as well as the Voile’. 🙂
Yes I am definitely vintage-LOL! I also remember Je Reviens but never had a bottle….if you decide you love SSS Lieu de Reve get a FB soon b/c it is in the “archives” now (probably b/c it s so similar to To Dream….I also wanted to mention another violet love of mine (although there are other florals in this one my nose smells the violet) -1000 Flowers Love is Sweet. Based on your loves above this one might very well appeal to you.
That’s a pretty one!
SOTD is Youth Dew Amber Nude. I don’t wear it much, I prefer the original Youth Dew, but I thought today I’d give it a whirl.
SOTD = Diptyque Volutes EDP
This perfume was launched in 2012, along with an EDT. I love both equally. The EDP is sweeter and more irisy and woodier than the EDT.
Happy Friday Eve Everyone! The weather here in Houston is very gloomy and wet. It has rained most of this week. It is supposed to clear up and be sunny by this weekend! I want to have a nice Spring Break next week and not be stuck in the house due to all this rain.
My SOTD is Oeillet Bengalle by Ades de Venustas. It’s “spicy-goodness”. 🙂
Continuing my ELO week, it’s Eau de Protection/Rossy de Palma.
I should try that one again – I love the name.
Wearing Rose Ikebana today. Such a happy scent.
Have to share a fragrant experience from yesterday. We got an Ulta flyer in the mail, with several perfume paper strips inside. They were in the house for a few hours and I threw them away when I got home (my husband gets migraines from scent, so I just wear scent at work). One of the samples was Angel AND Alien on the same piece (2 flaps). The scent was so overpowering in the house, even with it in the trash can, that my husband got a headache and I had to take the trash out! My husband likened it to “chemical warfare” and said he would rather smell dirty diapers than perfume (and we are very familiar with that scent, having 19 month old twins)!
OH DEAR. Angel on paper strip in my house… yeah, it’d get taken to the outside trashcan ASAP.
And it wasn’t even opened! I know better than that 😉 Seriously powerful stuff. The pages of the flyer were also ingrained with the scent. I get these Ulta things all the time with perfume strips, but never this fragrant.
Congratulations on your twins! Mine are now 4, so we are past the dirty diaper haze of toxic green vapours. I think my interest in perfumes was sparked precisely as a way of bringing solace during that time.
Thanks! They are so crazy and exhausting now, but in a better way than the crazy exhausting days of being up all night in the first year. Looking forward to no diapers, but not the potty training part, which I guess we should be starting soon!
I had different ones in my flyer. I’m getting a bit sick of them sending me the Daisy one every time.
SOTD is Jo Malone Orange Blossom. Inspired by some of your comments about your ”sampling methodology”, I spent the week testing orange blossom fragrances. I started with l’AP Séville à l’Aube (which I thought was too sweet the first time I wore it, but found perfect this time), followed by Ormonde Jayne Tiare (greener than what I wanted) and Frangipani Absolue. Frangipani had that plasticky touch to it that a lot of orange blossom/neroli fragrances have on my skin (or in my nose). For example, I can’t stand Elie Saab Le Parfum for that reason, same for l’Occitane Neroli & Orchidée. Anyone knows what causes that? (Since it doesn’t seem to be present in every orange blossom fragrances). My favourite, to date, is AC Grand Neroli.
Orange Blossom is my favorite in the Jo Malone line up…last year when winter segued into spring I was practically bathing in it every day!
Felt incense-y this morning, so sampling Heeley Cardinal.
Yesterday I tried SL De Profundis… oh my. Violets in the forest after the rain. Calm, cool, elegant. And I am not even a violet fan. But I liked this one from start to finish. I may have to spring for my first SL bell jar.
But what’s the deal with US pricing being so much greater than European pricing?? arg! Any suggestions on how to get around this, other than a trip to Paris, which is of course a fabulous idea, but *ahem* as a perfume cost-saving measure, it doesn’t exactly work out…
pixel, there is an ebay seller, Shop France, Inc. (shopfranceinc), who also has a shopping service. I’ve purchased Frederic Malle travel vials and other samples from her on ebay – you can see she has great feedback there – and used the shopping service once in the last year. I would use it again. The exchange rate is very favorable now – just sayin’. 🙂
Outstanding, thanks! just what I wanted to know.
FYI there’s an ebay seller who sells Harrod’s teas. With reasonable shipping rates, as opposed to Harrod’s ludicrous L25. I was hoping there’d be an enterprising soul doing the same for SL European exclusives 🙂
That’s good to know – I wouldn’t have thought to look for Harrod’s teas. I can spend days on ebay…
I second nozknoz’s recommendation! I’ve bought a couple of things from Shop France, Inc., and they will also email you to find out if you have any requests when they’re planning a trip.
Today I found and sampled Nuxe Prodigieux (never thought it would make it to Sweden). It started out way too sweet for me, but when it settled down it became quite delicious with a perfect balance between the floral accord and the dry vanilla in the base (didn’t get much coconut at all). Maybe it is the “pebbles” in the basenotes making their grounding magic :)?
“Pebbles” – I had to look the perfume up in Fragrantica to make sure I wasn’t misundertanding. How about lava? That would be an excellent base note for a smouldering hot date perfume. 😉
Celebrating spring today in Kerosene Pretty Machine from a sample – what a lovely scent!
It is so fabulously springlike to me
It’s been rainy and/or gray all week, so I’m wearing Delrae Wit today.
SOTD is Union’s Quince Mint & Moss, which turned out to be a good match for my pink, orange, and green liberty print shirt.
That sounds perfect for spring!
Yes, it has been. Today has a warm, almost coastal breeze, but it’s cloudy and grey and damp. This scent captures both elements, the moss bringing continually damp coastal rock and trees to mind, but with the herbal and bright fruity elements that keep it in spring rather than fall, to me at least.
Speaking of OLD school niche, I’m wearing a sample of Paul Poiret’s Parfums de Rosine Nuit de Chine, created in 1913. It is reminding me a lot of La Via del Profumo Sharif. Sharif is bold; Nuit de Chine is smoother and softer, and does not last very long. Both are wonderful. Nuit de Chine is perfect for a bright and beautiful almost spring day, when the bare landscape merits a soft, warm scent.
I read your post twice and kept wondering what was so old school about 1913….. ‘Til it dawned on me the 19…. Oy yoy yoy yoy!!
🙂 Thank God it’s Thursday!
Going commando today. Woke up feeling anxious for no particular reason and picking a fragrance just seemed more anxiety inducing and we never want to feel like that about it! Started frantically making appointments for pets and vehicles, the violets need to be watered, there are two loads of laundry that need to be folded on the couch and now it is time to feed the dogs again and I am just sounding dull……and my Eclectus parrot, sensing my anxiety is yelling as loud and piercingly as she possibly can! Hallelujah!
Anxiety is running high in our house, too. No particular reason, just the way it is. I suspect that changing the clocks last weekend and the changing weather (it’s hot here today) is making things tense. I skip fragrance and other little details, too, when I need to give myself extra space to calm down.
One of our family projects is hand-feeding, hand-taming, and hand-training companion birds for a nearby bird shop. A few weeks ago we took a baby Eclectus back to the shop after having him for 5 weeks. He was adorable. Very mellow and calm, but he let us know when he wanted attention. Talk about loud! His squawk really got our attention.
I think the weather has affected some parrots this winter. My conure has plucked almost all his feathers out. I’ve tried everything to get him to stop and was feeling like an awful birdie momma. The person I take him to for his nail and wing trims said that she’s seen a lot of birds lately who have done exactly the same thing and the only thing she can think of is the bad winter with so many storms. Birds can sense bad weather and she’s thing that perhaps some of them have gotten stressed over it and reacted by plucking.
Anyway, Ecelctus are adorable and I’m not sure I’d be able to give one back after having it for over a month. What a fun family project.
Sophie is an awesome bird and I am very accepting of how loud parrots can be and that as a bird owner one is likely to get bitten, just not today! She likes dogs and small children and is normally very calm and sweet. Thank you for chiming in today Tiffanie and Poodle! Sometimes just having someone else acknowledge my less than stellar day makes it feel calmer and better……
It was a high anxiety day for me too, especially at work. Wearing iris and/or incense scents calms me so I wore Dzongkha, although even that couldn’t keep my heart from pounding today. Hope we both have a better day tomorrow!
SOTD = Iris Poudre. Lovely, but I think I still like Bois d’Iris more. Tomorrow, I am going to wear the oldest L’Artisan I own, Dzongkha, from 2007. Saturday, I will do a wrist to wrist comparison of these two Irises.
It’s nice to have a plan…
Always good to have a plan!
I only tried Bois d’Iris once, but I don’t remember a lot of congruence between it and IP. Actually, IP isn’t all that irisy in my opinion, it seems to me to be more about the aldehydes and that wonderful fluffy drydown, where Bd’Iris seemed much drier, more irisy, and focused on wood. I’m looking forward to hearing how they strike you in a direct comparison.
I do love doing those – sometimes trying similar fragrances will point up some element or other I had missed before. It’s fun.
Totally off topic, but does anyone know why I don’t get NST emails until late afternoon? I feel my comments are always too late to be relevant. But anyway, SOTD is from another sample, Hermes’ Merveilles (forgot name). Came on like a powerhouse but has mellowed and softened. Lasting all day.
Hi Karen, we don’t send emails for new post notifications anymore — are you using an Rss email service?
(or if you like, just forward one of the emails to me — robin at nstperfume dot com)
No way to forward what I received. On March 12 it contained 2-3 different entries–new fragrances, SOTD, etc. ???
Karen, any email you received (and it did not come from us directly) is using our RSS feed (that’s basically the way it works). But I do not know what service you are using, or if the service has options for what time they send, etc. I did make suggestions for RSS email services when we stopped doing our own emails, so maybe you picked one of those:
https://nstperfume.com/2014/01/11/if-you-are-receiving-the-daily-now-smell-this-newsletter-via-email/
If it is any help at all, the SOTD is usually posted between 9 and 10 am, eastern time USA. Very rarely I will be a little later, but I think it’s never past 11 am.
No RSS feed. I would be happy to do whatever works, but I’ve never understood how to do RSS. I guess I need to educate myself. I will forward an email to you, also. Thanks very much, Robin.
Oh the frustrating workings of the Internet! I do not know why that is happening but a comment posted on this wonderful blog is always relevant! I know these particular Hermes have quite a lot of fans. I have the Ambre one but I find it quite fleeting on me so will probably trade it during the next swap meet. I wear Jardin Sur La Nil and Terre d’Hermes in the parfum strength and I find the fragrances from this house interesting and well made.
L’artisan Havana Vanille. Took a break from emptying vials that also corresponded to the week’s theme to wear something comfortable and likeable. (perhaps in juxtaposition to my current spirit ;-p )