Say goodbye to March! And do tell us what fragrance you're wearing today.
I'm wearing Viktor & Rolf Spicebomb.
Reminder: this Friday, 3 April, is Chanel TNG: wear something by perfumer Olivier Polge. If you don't have anything by Olivier Polge, do feel free to wear an older Chanel fragrance, or skip it altogether.
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.
Amouage Gold
Day dreaming of a FB of this one day..
Ha, save those pennies! You smell great.
One of my most beloved scents and yes, I do own a full bottle.
Jealous
I have only tried a few Amouage..Gold not being one of them. I need to get more samples from them. Would like to try Fate at some point.
I love Fate! I am always asking if someone knows a similar less expensive version of Fate but nobody knows..
Today I am wearing Lancome Mille et Une Roses. Going for ladylike spring florals this week. Yesterday I wore Iris Poudre. Iris, Rose, what flower comes next?
Violets maybe? 🙂
Yes! Thanks for the suggestion, that is a perfect spring flower 🙂
I’m with you in AG La Violette.
Hallelujah, goodbye, March! Eau Premiere to add some sparkle to this foggy, dreary day.
(did you all see the email from Saks about an in-store appearance by Kilian Hennessy in Apr? I wonder if those things are typically mobbed or what).
You smell fantastic today!
Not sure – I think Best Things in Beauty did a post on his appearance at a Tysons, Virginia, store last year. It would be cool to see him, wouldn’t it?
SOTD: Second day in a row! I must be a little.. Spellbound.
A quarter of 2015 is gone! I can’t quite believe it.
LOL! I do remember this one from a long time ago (I think I drained a FB of it) but I cannot recollect what it smelled like…next time I am near an EL counter I will have to make me a sample!
Spellbound is great!
My older sister used to wear Spellbound, so when I smell it, I think of her!
Ocean Blue by Escada (1995)….another LE described as “green marine floral with fresh fruits and woods”…I am picking up a “salty” quality as well…..
Never tried that one!
Starting in 1993 Escada began their limited edition yearly spring scents…same bottles but different colors/juices…they continue with this today but the older ones seem to have more depth to them and a more interesting drydown due to the notes (oakmoss, cedar, amber, etc)…the current ones seem very “light musk” to me in the drydown.
And as an aside the original Escada (anyone remember that one?) was gorgeous!!!! peachy, coconut,vanilla,amber……not overly sweet…just rich and lush! same bottle as the limited editions but it was clear instead of colored…..
Was that the Chiffon Sorbet one? I don’t remember it, but I’ve heard people talk about it.
I’ve got a bottle of Margaretha Ley that’s really nice – a BWF with a touch of coconut and vanilla, very tropical.
no I am talking about the one you have…don’t you just love it? Chiffon Sorbet, on the other hand, was the first of the limited editions that began in 1993…it had the same bottle as the clear Margareth Ley but it was a frosted bluish purple color……
Oh! The ML is sooooo jasminey, I wasn’t sure. But yes, it does have coconut and vanilla. It’s so nice.
I love Summer in Provence, which was the second or third in the series. It has a great strawberry note!
SOTD is Guerlain Terracotta. There is something about this that intrigues me. The more I wear it, the more I like it but the fact that I can’t remember what it reminds me of is driving me crazy.
Happy Tuesday! 🙂
You smell pretty, at any rate!
Scent twins! I realized the other day that it is a pretty good dupe for the late lamented (by me at any rate) Kate Spade. I keep meaning do a wrist to wrist comparison at some point.
I am wearing Poivre Samarkand, or I should say, was wearing. It barely lasts an hour on me. It is a nice enough hour, I guess.
It needs its own wearable diffuser 🙂
It’s a grey day but I’m wearing sunshine – Jour d’Hermes. A shout out to the wonderful manager of the perfume department at Bloomies Old Orchard. When I was buying my bottle of Narcisco there, I asked for samples of Jour and Voyage, and she gave me this marvelous mini bottle of Jour. It holds 12.5 ml! I also got a sample of Acqua di Parma Colonia Leather, which smells fabulous on my husband. Was excited to see that they carry the whole Acqua di Parma line there now. The whole experience made me remember that I really should give bricks and mortar stores more of a chance instead of just buying online.
Oh how nice — betcha the mini is cute.
You smell great! I got a little mini of Jour in a gift set I bought on discount. So cute!
A good SA is a treasure!
SOTD is 24 Faubourg to counteract the cold rain falling this morning.
SOTD is SL Fleurs de Citronnier – very pretty and works well for the office. My decant is almost gone, it may be time to look for a discounted FB.
Idk if I have sniffed that one..I so want to though.
SOTD= Séville à l’Aube. This makes me so happy, I’m thinking of stopping my rotation and just wearing this everyday…I wore Iris Poudre yesterday and it was wonderful, but this is better…Of course, my little bottle of Scent Of Hope is in the mail, so I’ll see how I feel after I have that in my possession sgain as well. My new theory of how to determine what is full bottle worthy is to just see which samples and decants I go through the fastest. By that reckoning, Iris Poudre is at the top of my to buy list now. How do others decide what is FB worthy?
That’s a pretty good way to go about it. If I go through two samples or a decant fairly quickly, if I am bummed more than usual that they are drained and I am trying to get drops out even though it’s bone dry.. it usually means I really like it enough to want a fb. Or if Donatella is listening…enough to just want another decant;).
Any scent that makes me swoon and want to wear for days on end is definitely fb worthy….I have been thinking about blind buying this one for a while now b/c everyone raves about it…but then I read somewhere that it could be a bit “soapy” with some…..what is your impression? and last I looked on fragrancenet it was selling for a song with a 20 percent coupon….I say go for it!
Well, I’ll be the wet blanket. I don’t get soapy, but the orange blossom smells like grape candy to me. Gourmet candy, with some lavender and incense, but still candy. I think both the too-sweet and two-soapy factions are small minorities, but I still think it might not be a safe blind buy.
I’m currently working my way through a Malle coffret.Lol.I have some fb’s already,of which PoaL and Iris Poudre are my favorites.SOTD is the last from my Musc Ravageur mini:I’ve been grabbing it a lot lately!It’s definitely fb-worthy.
Being a really bad influence here but…..fragrancenet has a 1.7 Seville for fifty seven dollars !!!!
Wow. Hiding my wallet.
Oh, yes, that is where I got mine last week. I am sorry I didn’t think to mention the deal they have – I had checked a box to be notified when the smaller size was back on stock.
Oh, now look what you went and made me do – my first-ever FB blind buy!
I probably have more exceptions to what is FB worthy that it’s not worth setting up a rule 😉
In Lubin Korrigan, one of the samples I brought with me. Love the first hour or so and then it goes all boring on me. But that first hour is so great.
On a bus going down Oxford Street towards Kensington High Street: just passed an entire store called Arabian Oud and all I could think was, “Please no more oud!”
Oh, but it’s Arabian — MUCH more classy than the plug-in ouds!
But Arabian Oud is where Kalemat lives!! and the new Kalemat oils! and Ghroob! I bet there are plenty of people (including me!) wishing I were ambling past the Arabian Oud shop seeing shipping is nigh on impossible!!
Ugh! I would love to be in AO territory. I would blind buy if I could find someplace online (so just as well I cant).
Sadly, Ghroob did not work for me. Hopefully it went to a nice thrift store shopper’s home.
It’s fuuny how we had the same reaction almost at the same instance with the big BUT you shouldn’t miss it!
I laughed out loud when I saw your post! 🙂
I hope you saw these Pyramus!! 😉
But you must stop there! It’s home to Kalemat and all sorts of other goodies. Check out Kafkaesque’s blog.
Someone yesterday–can’t remember who it was–inspired me to wear Bois des Iles. I’ve got 3 tiny drops on, maybe one sixteenth of a mL total, and I keep getting little wafts of it.
I need to get a sample of this to try…
Oh yay! Glad I prompted you to wear it. I have a little decant that makes me happy.
Ah, it was you! Thank you! Even with my sandalwood avoidance, I’m enjoying this.
I’m wearing Truth or Dare Naked, one of my swap gets.
Too bad BWF week is when I’m traveling for work. I was going to wear BWF’s all week! But a) I don’t want to pack all BWF’s and b) they’re not really appropriate for the office in April in Boston. I’ll have to do my own personal BWF week when I get back.
Personal BWF week sounds good.
(You’re not implying that April in Boston is actually warm, are you? 🙂 )
Noooo, it’s still snowing there! I know you like white florals in the cold, but I don’t think they’ll be cuddly enough to get my through! It’s 80 here in Denver though….
Mals, in Boston and drove to and from work yesterday in snow. Today was a puffer coat day in the morning. They’re warning snow, tomorrow, then a swift trip to 60 degrees on Friday. I wore Azemour to try to summon spring.
Is Naked quite different from the original?It has never appeared here,really curious!
I didnt think it was here either, but then I realised the bottle is exactly the same. I didnt notice until i picked one up to sniff and thought ‘this doesnt smell like i remember!’ … oh… that’s why.. 🙂
It is quite different, yes. It’s less of a Fracas-y white floral — though it does open with the bubblegum aspect of tuberose/jasmine — and more of a musky/woody suntan-lotion skin scent. A bit sweet at first but I really like the drydown. Reminds me somewhat of Tocca Margaux.
You should totally wear your bwf perfume at the office in Boston. Your Sun and warmth deprived Boston colleagues will love it.
I’ll try to at least wear a BWF that Friday!
Sampling some Floris samples. There are a couple I like. Most are rather ‘thin’ scents to me though.
Feeling floral today: Anais Anais.
This scent takes me back to high school…you smell pretty!
I love this, my mother wore it for years. I think it is the hyacinth that makes it so pretty and Spring like. Just gorgeous.
Today I’m wearing 31, rue Cambon. It may be all Les Exclusifs for the rest of the week.
That’s a good week:).
Agree!
I enjoy Spicebomb, but I went with another Polge creation today, Apparition Homme Intense. I really love that one!
I needed a break from my Amouage sampling so today I’m wearing Histoires de Parfums 1740. Love it, much drier than what I’ve been wearing in the past few days.
Today I decided on D. S. & Durga Coriander and it’s light, but very nice.
Wearing Baiser Volee EDT today, trying to imagine away the grey clouds and wind.
I’m testing Fendi Theorema for the first time today. I got it this very morning from the most recent swapmeet. Oh my! How could they discontinue this!?? And it’s getting almost impossible to find outside of eBay, isn’t? Nonetheless, I’m glad to have a decant of it!
Welcome to the club 🙂
I’m wearing Tom Ford’s Violet Blonde and am enjoying it. I have wild violets in my garden, they smell so sweet. To me Violet Blonde has quite a wallop of iris (which I love too!) it is very windy today in Provence.
Hmm, I look at Tom Ford and think ,”creative process harnessing by the money making machine” and want to look further for what I smell like, but your description of Violet Blond makes me want to sniff it, at least…. It was very windy here in Michigan yesterday, guess it got all the way to you today. LOL!
Hmmm. I would say it is worth a sniff. For a violet made with a more authentic creative process you could try Violette Sacree by Au Pays de la Fleur Oranger. There is a nice review of it on here. I have a sample and fell in love with it. It’s kind of mysterious…
Meredifay, if you’re in Michigan I can send you a decant. I have gallons.
is it les mistrals, or is it the wrong time of the year for those? Have heard les mistrals are even more intense than the winds that howl over Lake Michigan in the USA’s midwest.
It IS the Mistral… been blowing for a few days now! Can’t wait for it to end, it is driving me crazy.
I’m Polge-ing it (Jacques, not Olivier) again, in Chanel 1932 again – just the parfum this time, no layering. 1932 got such poor reviews, pretty much across the board, for being disappointingly dull and characterless and without staying power – everybody said, “It’s pretty, but it smells like all the other Chanels, and it’s JUST pretty, not distinctive, nothing new here. Also, overpriced.”
The point about being overpriced is probably deserved. And the EdT in particular is quite fleeting. But it makes me so *happy* that I can’t regret my decants. It reminds me quite a bit of 31 Rue Cambon in the drydown (yes, the parfum has a drydown, and even with my scent-eating skin I got six hours out of it yesterday), without the sweet amber of 31 RC. I have a hard time regretting the just-pretties.
If it makes you happy, that is all that counts! The only LEs that I really like are Bois des Iles and Sycomore. So… there is a lot of room for dissent in the line.
I loooove 1932, underrated! Better than Misia, imo.
Hey…if you love it and it smells great on you, who cares about others’ opinions 🙂 !!!!
1932 is a beauty!
The weather is supposed to be showers, hail, and thunderstorms so I am wearing En Passant. Spring is coming!
Since it is cold still, and snowing now!, I am taking the opportunity to dive into some of the many treasures I got from the swapmeet. It was just awesome and I truly appreciate everyone who swapped with me. Today I am wearing some of the gorgeous and I’ve never smelled before, but now has completely captivated my interest Lancome Cuir de Lancome from the lovely “J”. And also a dab of Guerlain Vetiver. I smell soooo good!!
As far as Cuir de Lancome goes, I am just so happy to fully admit that I am so glad that I was wrong… I usually avoid leathers b/c they just don’t work for me unless the leather is very soft. I’d see all these positive comments about CdL on the blogs, but I just thought it wouldn’t be for me. Oh glory! All I can say about CdL is that it smells to me like a bunch of buttery bearded iris tied with a leather cord. I get more iris out of this fragrance than nearly any other iris fragrance I own. The birch tar masquerading as vetiver helps too. It is just about as perfect as it gets. Wow. I don’t think I’ve ever been so happily surprised when I’ve smelled any fragrance I’ve tested. This has rocketed right up to my HG list.
SO pleased you’re enjoying it – it’s a favorite of mine, too.
Felt the same way, I can appreciate leathers, but they don’t seem to suit me….until I met Cuir de Lancome, thanks to all the glowing reviews!
SOTD is SSS Lieu de Reves. I love violets anytime, but never more so than in early spring. LdR, with its powdery, slightly woody violets, is perfect for a chilly, cloudy day with peeks of sun promising warmth to come and peeks of green sprouting from the ground. Our scilla are blooming – tiny little deep blue flowers that scamper wildly across the still-sleeping grass and flower beds and then disappear as quickly as they arrived. A place of spring dreams . . . right in my backyard.
Yuo smell lovely…one of my favorite SSS fragrances!
What a lovely description of spring.
I am starting to discover that Lieu de Reves and it’s sister “To Dream” are probably my favorite treatment of violets. Not too sweet, but nice and warm and plush.
Wearing Ferre, either since I was thinking about it during A’s easy perfumes post, or because it’s the middle of the work week.
SOTD for me is PdN Amber Oud, a cozy lavender vanilla.
You smell divine! I love that one.
No perfume till late tonight. Massaging scent sensitive prenatal and elderly today.
I’m finally well enough to work.
I decided to try layering Demeter Tomato and Un Jardin en Mediterrannee. They’re a pretty natural match. The tomato leaf note fits right in.
that sounds like a really great combo!
SOTM was Rose Jam shower gel and Ro’s Argan body stuff. Ive realised I much prefer the smell of the African Paradise body conditioner and wish LUSH would do a perfume of that!!
After that was Plum, and now to bed is Cologne Du 68, which is a bedtime regular.
Nicolai’s Eau d’Ete, on a very springy day. I didn’t have Bvlgari’s Au Thé Vert, to try my corrected Ranger fragrance from yesterday. (Thanks Rapp!) This was the cleanest, simple green thing I could grab. Be well.
SOTD = Chanel Coromandel
Yummy and Cozy. It is still freezing cold in NYC (or at least it was this morning. We’re supposed to get some freezing rain and / or snow tonight!
I saw snow out my window about 30 minutes ago but gone now! No snow in April, please!!
Tested Lily of the Valley & Ivy today, which was very pretty but fleeting like all Jo Malones on me so far. Now happy in Tea for Two which suits todays stormy evening.
Is Lily of the Valley worth the price?
It’s very pretty but rather fleeting on me. The Birch & Black Pepper one lasts longer on me.
Bruno Acampora Jasmin perfume oil for me today – it was radiating a lot when I first put it on but has calmed down nicely now.
My SOTD is Chanel Coco. After doing a Zumba class today, then walking both dogs, I showered and lotioned up with Coco body lotion, then put on a few drops of Coco parfum.
You smell fantastic!
Sounds lush!
Wrapped in a cocoon of musk and vanilla today. Sotd is Ava Luxe’s Nude Musk. A favorite comfort scent.
Wearing Cuir Beluga today by Olivier Polge from a decant given to me a while ago by the generous H. here on NST.
This is so beautiful, especially the warm vanillic opening. YUM!
Yum indeed. I will wear this tomorrow instead of a Chanel!
🙂
I’ve launched a Malle week, re-trying some old samples. Yesterday was Dans Tes Bras (violets); today was Geranium Pour Monsieur (mint).
SOTD is Roberto Cavalli Oro. I couldn’t decide what to wear today, and then remembered Angela’s Easy Perfume post. Warm spiced apple goodness.