Gah, another Monday. If you have a free minute, do tell us your fragrance of the day.
I have a doctor appointment today so am commando so far.
Reminder: this Friday, 6/12, we're looking at literary connections...name a favorite novel, and wear a perfume that fits the novel or a character in the novel. The summer reading poll will follow on Saturday.
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 Abbey House Gardens [cropped] by SLR Jester at flickr; some rights reserved.
Grabbed my Eau Sauvage instead of my Diorella on my mad dash out the door to class! They are in identical decant bottles. Still a great fragrance but I’m craving a raspy chypre this morning.
Oh but you still smell great!
Doused myself in Cristalle this morning. Just taking care of little chores around the house, but I smell fabulous!
You DO smell fabulous
Love Cristalle!
Me three.
Me four!
Me five!
I’m commando this morning. Wore Lyric all weekend so I don’t feel deprived and I just couldn’t decide this morning. I have a sample/decant order coming today and know I will want to try stuff this evening so I’m gonna (im)patiently wait.
Hope the mail is quick
Well, the status went from “out for delivery” to “delayed” and now says its in Georgia :/ Methinks someone screwed up. We are now going to have to stay here long enough to get my package tomorrow so it doesn’t have to bake in the Texas sun all week. I hope it doesn’t turn into one of those 7pm deliveries.
I’m continuing my MDCI explorations and today is devoted to Vêpres Siciliennes. Very pretty yet again.
VS is very pretty! I tested that a long time ago, but I remember it being one of my favs that I smelled from that line. I recall thinking it was very wearable.
Finished a Atelier Cologne ‘Sous le toit de Paris’, but it was far to little in the vial and fleeting, so in addition smeared my arms with Lush’s ‘The smell of weather turning’ solid perfume.
Figured the weather is turning in the UK (finally) that marking it is obligatory.
And now I’m at my computer at work listening to old videos of Jewel, of course whilst working (ahem). I wonder if the fragrance – a little hippy-ish – is making me crave her music…
You smell fantastic! The Smell of Weather Turning is just great.
Ah, Lush sucks me in with their names! I need to try this one for sure..
Its summer in the sun on bales of hay. Rolling is optional!
Meredifay, sadly it is discontinued.
That one is only weird in the beginning… but great weird.
I wore colognes this weekend, since it was so warm here in East Texas – into the mid 90s. Today I wanted something different and I found my mini of Marni at the bottom of my perfume basket.
SOTD is Premier Figuier Extreme. I’ve wasted massive amounts of mental energy trying to decide if I like PFE or Philosykos more. Finally gave Philosykos the edge, but I definitely reach for PFE more in the summer. It’s so soft and creamy and coconutty. Love it!
They are both so good – it’s a hard choice! You smell great today
Penhaligon Blenheim Bouquet. It is very austere and works as an olfactory backbone when I need to get things Done. It must’ve worn off though since I meandered away to the perfume counter when I was running errands. I came across a 30ml bottle of Amber Ylang Ylang on half-price and not a gallon of frigid British eau de cologne could have stopped me. At least it’s a tiny bottle! May it encourage me to continue with the day’s chores!
Wore Penahligon’s Artemisia for a lot of the weekend, since I found a 5mL bottle at a rummage sale for $1!!! I thought about wearing it today too, but went with Trefle Pur instead.
Wow, what a deal!
I know! I also got 2 2ml samplers, one Jo Malone French Lime Blossom, one something I’d never heard of.
I found a little bottle of Jo Malone French Lime Blossom at a Sally Ann for $6, which I was able to trade since it didn’t work for me. That’s about it for steals for me…
Oriental Express. There is a sort of “fresh” or astringent note—maybe the basil?—that seems stronger than I’ve noticed before. It’s nice on a foggy, muggy morning.
Drained the last drops in my sample of Rose Ikebana. This one has grown on me, but I don’t think I would buy a 100ml bottle. Maybe I could participate in a future split and get a cute 15ml?
Or I could remain happy with my bottle of Stella, when I want a citrusy rose…
love the rhubarb note in this – definitely worth a 15 ml.
Hi Vanie – I have an 8ml decant you can have. Let me know if you want it. I will be at the Etiket Tauer Perfumes launch this Saturday with a few other perfumistas if you want to meet up there or I can get it to you another way.
Oh! That would be great! (Both for the decant and the meet up). At what time are you guys meeting?
11:30 at Etiket Saturday. See you there!
Wearing Natori today. The plummy rose is keeping up my spirits on a gloomy day.
Luuurve Natori!
Gorgeous!
Vintage Salvador Dalí, the one in the nose and lips bottle, because some days you are just going to have to wear a big eighties oriental, right? It smells SO GOOD on me.
In my world, big eighties orientals are a staple! You smell great!
Good morning, all! SOTD is Tom Ford Bois Rouge. Woods, leather and smoke.
SOTD is Royal Water (Creed)
Very nice!
Hot here today so I am in the refreshing citrus woodiness of PdN Balle de Match. Simple but effective and cooled me right off.
Fils de Dieu for 4 or 5 days in a row now. It was a blind buy, but I found it on sale at Anthropologie, and I’d been wanting to try it. Plus, I’ve been obsessing over coconut lemongrass soup lately, so I couldn’t help myself. This is by far my most successful blind buy; I like it more every time I wear it (and I’m wearing a lot of it today).
Awesome. Love blind buy success stories.
Sampling Madeline from Sweet Anthem–it’s sort of a soft refreshing pretty
SOTD: Modern Muse by Estee Lauder.
Hurried out the door this morning and this sample was in my bag for emergencies. So far I am getting a constant bouquet of white florals (tuberose, jasmine and a little spiciness from the lily).
A friend was wearing this last week, and it smelled really great on her. I was surprised to hear what it was, since MM went sad vase water on me fast.
I really liked this one on paper… not so much on my skin, but that is par for the course with me and Estee Lauders. They just go WRONG on me, sadly. (I refuse to buy them if I can’t wear them on skin. But they do stay gorgeous for a long time on fabric.)
They don’t work for me, either.
Me, too. I love to sniff the Estee Lauder testers, but there is something in them that goes off in the wrong direction when I spray on skin. Except the old, old Youth Dew, which I used to filch from my grandmother’s dressing table. Good thing the world isn’t hurting for fragrance choices.
Calvin Klein Reveal, just two sprays. It’s great so far
Happy Monday, All!
Is should really try this, have been hearing/reading great reviews. I’m really interested in a good quality solar – totally hated Dahlia Divin.
I like it, is musky, salted caramel and warmth on me. Reminds me of what I wanted Prada Candy to be, but that one isn’t a friend to my skin.
If you try it, report back please!
You smell nice! I sampled this a couple times when it came out, and it didn’t grab me. But I wore it to an outdoor party this weekend, and I think it really came into its own in the warm summer night.
Thanks! It’s fun how different seasons/etc change perfume performance. Glad you are enjoying it – you smell nice, too!
L’Artisan Mure et Musc Extreme is my SOTD. I have a small amount left in my sample. I think I’m in love!!
Found myself at the Malle counter at Barney’s BevHills on Friday and have been living on my new bottle of Dries Van Noten for the past few days. Love the combination of freeze-dried raspberries, Sandalwood, and Vanilla.
That one really grew in me this past winter. Maybe a 10ml in my future. Also the only scent I wear that got compliments.
SOTD is TF Noir Extreme layered with FM Vetiver Extraonidaire. Nice on this cloudy, misty morning. Happy Monday!
L’Artisan Séville à l’Aube, helping me float thru the Monday morning emergencies we always have here…
SOTD for Keep-It-Simple Monday is Le Couvent des Minimes Orange Blossom (the previous version of today’s Eau Aimable), bright and refreshing on a very warm and sunny summer day.
Finally went into Ulta to try these (thanks to whoever mentioned they carry them – I doubt I would have stumbled across them on my own!). I really liked the Missions and Matines – wish they had small travel sprays.
Which Ulta did you find them in? The one at Sports Arena didn’t have them.
Mission Valley (next to the new Trader Joe’s) – hi there fellow San Diegan!
Thanks! I am in Montreal for the next several months but I will check out the MV Ulta when I get back!
You smell great! I transferred some Eau Aimable to a rollerball container that I keep at work.
I was craving something that I’d not worn in a while – warm and something something. I just couldn’t put my finger on what I wanted, but then the bottle just winked at me from my drawer — my vintage decant of Guerlain Vol de Nuit extrait. I used the rest of it up! But I smell soooo gooood!
Yum! Perfect season for it.
Oh, yes, you must smell divine!
I doused myself in Jour d’Hermes this morning. The citrusy start is almost like a cologne, which I wanted as it’s already hot this morning. And now, being surrounded by flowers feels so good.
LOVE Jour d’Hermes on a hot day – you smell fabulous!
Thanks! I bought it in the winter, so this is the first really hot day I’ve worn it. Funny how on cold grey days it felt like a warm bubble of sunshine, and now on a hot day it feels like lying in the shade beside a creek, with blossoms weaving in the grass and branches.
I love an all-weather scent!
This is the first day in a week of taking my older son to various medical appointments – he’s okay, but he has pectus excavatus that has been getting more pronounced over the last couple of years, and we’re going to try to get it treated this summer. Which involves surgery to insert a metal bar through the rib cage to push out the malformed bone(s). But before I can even call to schedule the consultation, at a hospital 5 hours’ drive from us specializing in this kind of treatment, we have to have tests done. What he’s got left: an MRI, an EKG, and metal patch allergy testing, which involves three (!) separate office visits at an allergist 2.5 hours’ drive from home. GRR.
SO. I needed pretty, but backbone. Could have gone with Cuir de Lancome, but I decided on my tiny decant of 1932 instead – it has a drydown that reminds me somewhat of 31 Rue Cambon, while being considerably lighter and more cheerful up top.
Oh man, good luck with all of that! That’s a lot of schlepping and anxiety so I’m sending out hugs, positive vibes and best wishes to you all.
Thank you! I’m sure we’ll need it. My son’s a fairly phlegmatic individual and seems to be taking it in stride, but his mom is a little overwhelmed.
Yeah, “overwhelmed” is in the Mom job description. Hang in there, and good luck.
You DO need backbone…poor you & him! Hope you can stay in a nice hotel when you go to the hosp, instead of having to turn right around.
Was dismissive of 1932, will give it another shot the next time I see it.
Thanks for the encouragement! We have to get all the tests done, and then schedule the consult with the surgery also scheduled tentatively; we’ll stay in a hotel when we do that. I just hope we can get it done before band camp starts in August. They say recovery from the surgery will take 10-14 days. Poor Gaze is low brass captain, and he’ll have RESPONSIBILITIES. Ack.
A lot of people were underwhelmed with 1932. Although it’s pretty fleeting, I was smitten with the lovely topnotes and the wispy, 31RC-Lite drydown. But then I tend to get on well with Chanels in general, and I think that makes a difference.
Glad 1932 works for you! Sorry to here about your boy’s difficulties – you are bring such a good msma…
Well wishes to you, this must be difficult.
Oh, Mals! That sounds rough for all concerned. Sending you good wishes.
Hoping things go smoothly and in good time for the assumption of RESPONSIBILITIES!
Oh, wow, sounds completely exhausting and anxiety-producing. Sending positive thoughts for a successful outcome and speedy recovery for your son.
Pacifica’s French Lilac, now that the real lilacs are long gone. A rainy, dismal day. Missing my daughter and hoping some lilacs bring cheer.
I live on the in San Diego where there really aren’t any lilacs, but the landlord of our place planted one that supposedly will live in our dry climate. It has never produced more than 1 or 2 sad sprigs of flowers in the past 2-3 years, but something happened this year and while it isn’t anything like a “real” lilac, it has enough blooms for me to cut 1 or 2 sprigs to bring in the house. They smell like the real thing , so that’s good enough! Just brought one in last night.
whoa, please excuse all those typos – tried to change a sentence and everything went wacky! Disregard the “on the” in the first sentence.
Oh, nice! Lilacs of any stripe have to be good.
Modern horticulture (and perfumists) can work miracles!
I’m in Highland Lilac of Rochester for the third day in a row.
My comment went in the wrong spot.
Lilacs in San Diego? Awesome!
I have this in the shower gel and it’s pretty nice.
You smell good.
A warm day here and couldn’t decide what to wear, so went with AG Chevrefeuille since I have a big honking bottle of it now. Such a happy fragrance to perk me up on Monday morning after a really nice weekend.
Twins! We’re just bringing a little sparkly sweetness to this Monoto-Monday.
Chanel’s 28 La Pausa is my SOTD.
I love this! You smell so fine :))
Thank you, Delacey!
SOTD = Chanel No. 19 EDP
I nebbe-doused this morning. This is now my go to fragrance when the weather report is all over the place.
At a meeting in a small room earlier today, someone’s perfume smelled really good so I asked what she was wearing and she said it was one of the Juicy Couture perfumes. I suspect ot is Viva La Juicy because of the soft vanilla note. This goes to show that on the right person, mainstream fragrances that many perfumistas dismiss can and do smell nice.
My mom likes Viva la Juice- it does have a nice drydown…..
It had been so long since I wore it I don’t remember the drydown!
I was wearing Viva La Juicy a lot before I fell down the rabbit hole. Still wear it occasionally when the weather is nice.
It sounds like it would do well multi-season except perhaps for the coldest days.
I really like the parfum of the original Juicy Couture (they sell it in smell 5ml dabber bottles, laminated on cards, at my drugstore! for $13 apiece!). It’s a bit like Mary Greenwell Plum, but with a very quiet, sweet woody drydown instead of Plum’s tiny-slice-of-chypre base. The edp is VERY watermelony if you ask me, but the parfum isn’t – which is probably why it got a decent review in P:TG.
I gave a away mine for a good cause but I actually may have another travel spray tucked away somewhere…if not, to the drugstore I go!
Strange Invisible Perfumes Emerald Moss, it’s perfect for somewhat hot (comparatively, for Washington DC), hazy weather. I was going to save it for special occasions, but I feel I will end up wearing it very often this summer.
Sounds perfect. Wear the good stuff!
Here in northern Sweden the weather has been quite miserable for the last weeks- four times the normal amount of rain and no sign of summer. Today it’s slightly warmer 13 degrees celsius
SOTD Guerlain Encens Mythique.
I’ve just got back from Barcelona, so tired. Because of an aircontrollers’ stricke, we had to come back sooner than planned, so my exploring/shopping time was cut short. But I managed to visit the perfume museum in the morning (it’s nice and quaint and small and totally un-curated) and buy some perfume from the fragrance shop that’s in the same building. I had made up my mind to come back with a local scent, so I did what I always forbid others to do and bought two bottles after trying them on skin only for 30 minutes or so: Carrner Barcelona El Born and Ramon Monegal Cuirelle. Let’s hope for the best…
*strike
You’re far more amiable than I would be having to cut a vacation short. Sorry that happened.
In Bendelirious, or at least I was this morning. It’s exuberant but fleeting.
My SOTD is Santal Blush by Tom Ford. I haven’t worn this one in a while (I guess I am trying to save the little bit I have left). It is one of those unique fragrances that should probably be worn on special occasions. Hope everyone has a great week!
I have this & love it. Tend to wear it more in fall, though.
SOTD L’eau de L’Artisan – good for a Monday.
I’m in Highland Lilac of Rochester for the third day in a row. Can you tell that I like it?
Lilac is lovely. Ok, you made me go look at the website
Yes, lilac IS lovely!
SNAFU is today’s mantra. Yep, it’s a Monday.
Wearing Black Nirvana today. Hope everyone has had a good day.
Hoping things will get better.
Prada Candy for this grey rainy day in Montréal.
Eau Premiere today, as I am dragging a bit after a long working weekend. No. 5 in general is my comfort scent, and the Eau Premiere is the bright and cheerful version. Yea, Monday!
I’m wearing Gomorrah by Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab today (thanks Leathermountain!). I like this one. It’s kind of a spicy sweet floral incense thing.
My pleasure! I’m so glad you like it. It is a thing, eh?
I wore Balalaika today, a vintage sample. Another odd duck from Lucien Lelong! This one is white satin gardenia flecked with violet powder, walking barefoot along a forest path, eventually stopping in a place known for assignations, where spilled champagne and other happy residues mingle. I can’t believe the idea for this is over 70 years old. It wears like the latest niche storyteller scent. Another one that’s not easy to wear, but what a fun ride when you do! I would love to know what people made of this in the 40s, 50s, etc.
Your description makes it seem dreamy!
I know, I’m in danger of losing my reputation as a curmudgeon.
Nah, great description. : )