Another week, another Monday. What fragrance are you wearing today?
I'm wearing L'Artisan Parfumeur Séville à l’Aube.
Reminder: this Friday, 6/19, wear a fragrance from perfumer Bertrand Duchaufour.
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 Sevilla in Details [cropped] by * Polly * at flickr; some rights reserved.
Lipstick Rose. Yum.
Jean Louis Scherrer; Green with attitude.
The best kind of green!
Chanel Les Exclusifs Eau de Cologne
One of my favorites in the Exclusifs line. Lemon a la Chanel.
A great cologne.
Scent twins! love love Eau de Cologne
Snap! I’m also wafting the joy that is Seville a l’Aube. We smell delightful!
Triplets :).
Nice! We do all smell lovely.
Mitsouko EDT. It is just one of those days when you need to wear something that is NOT kidding around.
I like that. Mitsouko = no joke.
Incense rosé by Tauer, because it’s cooler today and. I love it.
It’s one of my favourite Tauers. You smell great!
I’m wearing Habanita. A bit rich for June perhaps, but whatever; I work from home!
I have never read a thing about “Air de Habanita”, which has been around for years. I suppose it might be perfect…
I had never even heard of it, just looked it up. Sounds really interesting!
Never saw it here, even when Molinard was easier to find than it is now.
Habanita is so gorgeous! I haven’t worn mine in a while… maybe I can fit it in this week!
Seville a l’Aube as well. I love it, I used to think it’s too sweet, but I get so much more out of it now. Summer perfection.
Aerin Rose de Grasse – don’t usually care for roses much in fragrance but this one is not too sweet, not too green and a little bit earthy.
Absolutely perfect for the season. Don’t you think it is more of a “clean” rose – if there is such a thing?
You smell divine!
Nuit Rouge today. Grapefruit and incense. It’s ridiculously soupy outside today, but this one seems to last in bad weather. This should be a good test of that.
Grapefruit and incense? What an interesting combination. Never smelled the two together, but I bet it is intoxicating! Sounds fantastic!
I am wearing SMN Rose Water layered with Chanel No.5 eau premiere (old version). I love this combination.
That sounds really interesting!
Wow, everyone smells GREAT today.
I’m wearing box of eels (Bois des iles) because I bought myself a bottle and can wear it whenever I want
LOL — and what better reason??
I love Box of Eels in the summer!
Best reason ever to wear it
It’s your party!!!
I’m thinking of wearing Duchaufour for the entire week, although the need of getting his name right on six occasions almost put me off the idea. So it’s Dzongkha today, it works well with the rather sombre mood at work (negotiations with Greece have broken down).
I wore his fragrance and didn’t say his name
Maybe some Aniseed is called for in perfume. I saw the headlines this afternoon and it doesn’t seem to bode well.
Good luck!
Surfing The Sample Sea, Mary Candida Gentile’s Hanbury and my goodness is it pretty, pretty, pretty!
Love love love Hanbury!
It was your wedding fragrance, yes?
Hanbury is astonishingly beautiful to me. One of my favorite notes is true, or natural orange blossom, and on spraying this I immediately thought of a Robert Tisserand orange blossom I bought decades ago. I absolutely adored it, but could never find any commercial fragrance that came close to that scent. I was concerned about the honey note in Hanbury turning syrupy and sweet, but I’ve had it on for about seven hours now and it’s been a delight from start to finish.
Good memory! Yes, I wore it to the joyous gathering on an autumn day in a garden. I agree with you, of course. Nothing to add but a huge grin!
Thank you so much, I truly appreciate it.
I’ve been reading reviews (and comments here), and Hanbury sounds SO beautiful.
Tuberose by Veritas Inlustrat Perfumes…over 30 essential oils blended into the creamiest tuberose ever…wish it lasted longer yet I suppose lack of longevity is to be expected from an all natural.
Never heard of this line. Tell more?
I googled and all I could find was a link to Crossroads Gift Shop’s facebook where they are being sold alongside mantra bracelets. I could not find an online webstore. I discovered the line at my local library where they were donated and sold for fundraising…..there was a sign listing elsewhere they could be bought …… all local shops…. aside from Crossroads they are also carried at a clothing boutique by the name of Magnolia’s and a tea/coffee place called Pawling Trading Company…all in upstate NY. I have purchased several bottles from my library and both stores…they are ridiculously inexpensive (ten to twenty five dollars for 3-5 ml) and are made with high quality essential oils (not fragrance oils) and really smell like perfume. I just wish that they lasted longer on my skin so that I don’t need to re-apply. But I guess for that price I should not complain!
What a great find, and for a good cause!
Orange sanguine with vanille insensee. The Orange for energy, the vanilla for calm. Today is my son’s thirteenth birthday. I so want it to be a good day for him.
I adore that combination…nothing like an “adult creamsicle”!!!
Happy Birthday to the new teenager in the family! What fun awaits . . .
Happy Birthday to your son. I remember those days, and as a parent I found them extraordinarily difficult. I applaud your wish for your son to have a good day, and I know you wish all the rest of his days to be filled with joy.
Thank you. We just finished with cake and ice cream ( all chocolate, his favorite ) he says he had a very good day. It’s his sisters turn next week.
SOTD is PdN Fig Tea layered with Philosykos for more fig. Fig Tea should be called Osmanthus Tea, cause that’s all I smell. Still lovely though!
I like the PdN Fig Tea very much but it doesn’t last on me!
Osmanthus is lovely in this!
Really, it’s fig-less? I love Nicolai and tea but not fig. Worth a try for me, you think?
I get fig fruit in it but not the Dreaded Fig Leaf – and so far it’s the only fig scent that I don’t hate right down to the bottom of my soul.
Ha! See I love fig and I honestly don’t get any fig at all from it. Maybe it’s fig leaf that I like in other scents. It’s mainly tea and osmanthus to me, so if you like those notes you might like it.
Not all the way down, eh? How does fig fruit differ from fig leaf? Are we talking fresh or dried?
And what does osmanthus smell like? I still cannot figure out what that is.
I think think this scent might help educate my nose!
Muggy outside here today and rather hot, in the low 90sF. I’ve trying to clean up the mulch where the dog destroyed the bags and scattered it GAH DOG WHYYYY?
SOTD is the reorchestrated Silences, the Eau de Parfum Sublime, which always seems to be what I had hoped Chanel No. 19 Poudre was going to be – an iris floral with galbanum, lightweight and (even) easier to wear than No. 19.
BTW, I heard that old Silences is being D/C. Good thing I’ve got a stash of the 80s stuff.
Ah well, mals, you know I love Silences! I always thought that the Eau de Parfum Sublime would be replacing Silences, but I just never see it!
I know! But I never see Silences in a store, either. Jacomo doesn’t have good distribution in the US, I think. (Bought my EdPSublime online from New London Pharmacy.)
Making note…New London Pharmacy
I think Barney’s has some Jacomo, but not Silences. Also noting New London. Thanks!
re: dog, because some other dog in heat pee’d on it and he just couldn’t stand to not know if she was really there….(I had a dog that would break glass panes out of our front door to go find a girl dog that was in the mood. I tried to help him loose interest by removing some essential parts, but even tho he could no longer perform, he was still Really Interested! Poor old dog…) Sorry, TMI, everyone. Human natural perfumes pale in comparison… Hence these artistic efforts we mull over and talk about here….
Love your story!!
We have two cats (of our three) who incessantly play with the skunks… now we have three small skunk kits that race around our back yard at dusk followed closely by one of our cats…. they are extremely cute (the smallest is still pretty blind and constantly crashing into the others, brick borders, or large roots and tumbling…. but I worry that one day it will all end in tears…mine mostly if I have to de-stink the cat!
I’ve had to de-skunk the dogs. I cannot imagine what a horrible task it would be to try to de-skunk a cat.
OH dear.
My dog is missing some boy parts, but he’s less than two years old and he is crazy. I’m not sure why he would have ripped up three bags of mulch, but boy howdy, he did a number on them. And then left the mulch alone – apparently chewing the bags was enough.
Those bags looked at him wrong.
Anne Pliska from a sample. Thought I had enough orange and neroli frags, but may make room for this. It’s also reasonably priced, which is amazing.
How does it compare to Seville a l’Aube, my favorite?
Oh, I can answer that one! They are quite different in character. Anne Pliska has a strong vanilla+ plastic dollhead at the top notes and quite a different character than Seville a l’Aube. I found the latter to be airier, more conventional (but still interesting), and longer lasting.
Plastic doll head = unappealing to me. Thanks for the note.
I loved the top part of AP, which I would describe as orange creamsicle (well, okay, I can see the doll head description)… but then it descended into a Youth-Dew balsamic amber thing, which I canNOT deal with.
Can you cope with Seville a l’Aube? Have tried neither Pliska nor the l’Artisan, but inclined to think I’d prefer Seville (Youth Dew-free zone here too).
Yes, I think it is the amber that I percieve as doll head.
And I *like* Youth Dew. (In dabs)
I’m wearing Wit today and feel like a ray of sunshine!
People love this sooo much – I would love to feel like a ray of sunshine today! I am moving it to the top of my samples to buy list….
You smell wonderful.
Happy Monday to everyone! I hope your weekend was phenomenal! My SOTD is created by the talented Bertrand Duchaufour. It is Deliria by L’Artisan. A gracious NST reader sent this scent along with a few others last summer to me. It was one of the fragrances that I actually fell in love with. It was also one of the fragrances that introduced me to L’Artisan fragrances. Such a unique house or brand!
Hmm, I actually have a sample of this but I’ve not opened it yet. I guess I’ll do that for this week.
Let me know what you think. I know I have “unique” taste when it comes to fragrances I like.
I could easily do a whole week of Bertrand Duchaufour fragrances, but I forgot this morning. I’m wearing Osmanthus Interdite, with a tiny dab of Russian Tea on one wrist. The Russian Tea is pretty much all I can smell at this point.
Cooler and rainy today so I’m trying out my vintage mini of Galanos since it seems to have quite a bit of spice
Yes it does. What do you think?
I like the drydown better than the opening so it probably won’t get a lot of wear because I prefer scents that I enjoy all the way through but it’s really nice at the moment
Fair enough! Do you think your top notes have turned?
I’m wearing Satsuma by The Body Shop. I’ll put on some Eau Aimable (orange blossom by Le Couvent des Minimes) later. I wanted to love Orange Sanguine, but the artificial woods in the base really bug me.
PSA for STARGAZERS:
According to NASA, “Throughout the month of June 2015, the two brightest planets in the night sky, Venus and Jupiter, are going to converge for a jaw-dropping close encounter. You don’t want to miss any of the action. When the sun goes down, step outside and look west. You don’t have to wait until the sky fades to black. Venus and Jupiter are so bright, you can see then shining through the twilight. In fact, some people say the planets are especially beautiful when they are surrounded by the cobalt hue of the early evening sky–so don’t wait.” http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2015/11jun_skyshow/
Phenomenal! Thank you for the information and the fantastic link!
lovely article! We don’t see many stars here in NYC
you smell great too!
Thanks for the link, kindcrow!
Oh, a (near) scent twin!
The good news is that Venus and Jupiter are so bright that I might be able to see them shining through the layers of clouds that just won’t go away here. I don’t remember what a sky full of stars looks like!
Hey, we noted those two bright planets last night on our walk! I didn’t think we could see Jupiter so well, but it was indeed quite bright!
awesome! thanks for the heads up!
Ditto about the planets
, and ditto about Orange Sanguine. 
NST: I came for the perfume, I stayed for the stars (and all the other fascinating info this community shares).
Nice!
Yes! Stars, book recommendations, what’s blooming at the local botanical gardens, travel advice, history lessons, etc.
Kindcrow, what do you think of the Satsuma ext? We only received it in South Africa a couple of months ago and I am slightly disappointed. I adore the Satsuma soap and the Satsuma ‘beautifying oil’. I have not bought the body butter because it is sweeter and less refreshing to me. I still like it though. When I saw the ext in the shop I was really excited but it actually smelled a bit flat to me
Maybe I need to try it again?
that is *edt* not ‘ext’!
I like the Satsuma EDT, but it’s the only Satsuma product I’ve tried, so I can’t make a comparison. It smells a bit like orange Fanta, which according to the soda can is made with 100% natural flavors
I bought it to layer with Mandarino EDT from Monotheme Fragrances. The Mandarino is so bitter that I rarely wear it, so I’m hoping that the sweetness of the Satsuma will balance things. I just sprayed them next to each other on my arm, and so far good!
A generous dose of Cristalle EDT for me today. The level in my sample is getting dangerously low! Not sure yet if I would buy the EDT or the EDP (and I wish one of them came in the classic square Chanel bottle instead of the tall rectangular one!)
That’s a tough call – I like both the edt and the edp. They are different enough from each other. At the very least, the edp lasts a little longer. They are just both superb in very hot summer weather. Cristalle is just so awesome. It would be nice if they did a limited release in a classic bottle. Heck, it’s better than most of their Les Exclusifs!
Gardez-moi at the moment…summer perfection
SOTD in this hot muggy morning is Annick Goutal Songes edp. Humidity and Songes go very well together.
Very true
CDG Kyoto. I can do a week of Duchaufour CDG scents!
It’s going to be another scorcha of a day, so light layering:
1) The Body Shop Satsuma body spray all over.
2) Jour de Hermes on pulse points.
Very light, very refreshing and very pretty.
Another day in a seemingly endless string of days of thunderstorms, heavy downpours, flooding alerts, yada, yada, yada. My garden is one big mudhole. Aargh!
Before this morning’s rain, I cut the last 3 white peonies and put them in a pitcher with tiny white roses and the lovely, fragrant blossoms of our mock orange shrub, which is in full bloom. (I don’t know how mock orange blossoms compare to ‘real’ orange blossoms, never having smelled a ‘real’ orange blossom flower.) The fragrance is heavenly and I want to smell like this! Doing a search on Fragrantica by notes yields Hameau de la Reine by Historiae and Rose de France by Historiae, both by Bertrand Duchaufour. I’m not familiar with either of these, has anyone tried them?
Instead, I’m hoping to brighten my day with Pacifica Malibu Lemon Blossom on Keep-It-Simple Monday. Waiting for its lemony sunshine to take away my morning crabbiness . . .taps foot impatiently.
Our Peonies up here are at their peak, soon to be finished. It’s so sad when they are gone. They are so gorgeous and fat this year. But the rain is getting to them. Your bouquet sounds so lovely. Ours are blooming with purple catmint around and it looks very showy. I’ve never smelled those fragrances you found, but I was also recently thinking about a “true” peony fragrance. Peony is so close to classic damask rose, but really not quite. There is a fresh muskiness to the ones we have. Very soft and sensual. I would also be curious to find a fragrance like that.
I agree, their scent is very close to damask rose. And mine have been pummeled by the rain numerous times and are just about finished. We’ve had so much rain here lately the bushes already have powdery mildew, which they usually don’t get until late in the summer, and it’s not even officially summer yet! So sad, so short-lived.
I’m sampling Lavs today. Will report back once I can stop herding kittens and actually think about it. Gah!
I’ve never met a cat that didn’t like me so I think I have some work to do on this.
Turns out the fearful, timid kitten isn’t really; she just doesn’t like me. She’s fine with my husband and I’m hoping the smug doesn’t last long or I’m gonna sock him
I know next to nothing about cats, I’m very much a dog person, but with dogs it’s often a case of the more you try the less they care, and the more you ignore the more keen they become. Maybe this philosophy works with felines as well. Good luck
Nah, with cats it’s a reward thing. You have something they want badly enough that they will conquer their fear to get it. Apparently, with Doolittle it’s going to be kibble rather than baby food. She likes kitten cookies and that’s my husbands secret. Already got her to eat one off my finger which is a huge step.
Another fail-safe is a hot water bottle or other heated surface under a soft blanket. We have “cherry bags” that are pillows filled with cherry pits you can heat in the microwave (“cherry pit pillow” search on Amazon if you are interested). Put one of those heated pillows near me, and I am catnip incarnate!
I’m going to look into that cherry pit pillow. We have a hairless Sphynx who would love that!
DSH Scent of Hope, another lovely Iris – centric scent. Would so much like to smell the original, but it is gone, gone, gone. Three Iris’s I love, Scent of Hope, Iris Poudre, Bois d’Iris. I really like Iris Silver Mist, but the super carrotty begining is a little rough for me. Didn’t really enjoy Silver Iris, too sweet. What other Iris – focused scents should I try?
Besides Prada – I’ve done two bottles of that and have moved on to enjoying perfumes with more body, or density…
Heeley Iris de Nuit, 19 Poudre Chanel, 1889 Histores de Parfums
*Histoires aka Moulin Rouge
Oh, thanks!
Hi meredifay! Maybe this would be something that you’d be interested in?
https://nstperfume.com/2015/06/09/5-perfumes-iris-fragrances-for-summer/
I’m sampling I Profumi di Firenze Lilla Serenella this morning. I love lilacs, but this is like being smothered in them–ALL lilac, ALL the time. There is a tiny hint of green and I think a smidge of vanilla, but the lilac is truly massive.
Truly massive lilac sounds potentially awesome to me
Trying CdG Sequoia today and just found out by clicking the Duchafour link that I am on point today! I didn’t realize he did this one, and I really don’t have many Duchafours, so could wear this one again Friday. I think it will be too warm for Havana Vanille. This one is nice – figured it would just be sawdust, but there is some other stuff going on.
I’m sorry I never made it back to the reading poll over the weekend…Thank you so much to the many of you who suggested easy reads for my upcoming vacation. I am buying Angela’s first one today and will also be picking up another at the library. As soon as I renew my library card. It expired last October. (*hangs head in shame)
SOTD is Nuit de Cellophane. I’ve been reaching for this a lot lately. For some reason it is just working lately.
Thanks again NSTers!
Oh, however you get back to the library, that’s a good thing! No shame.
As per usual, WHAT MALS SAID!
My SOTD is Guerlain L’Heure Bleue, which has rappidly become a hot-weather staple. Lovely!
It’s a summer staple for me too.. It really blooms in the heat!
Spicy Monday with the original KL. This is so amazing on a rainy, cold day. I wish I had a vat of it.
I agree. I love it on a rainy cold day, too, in November. A Thanksgiving Day favorite for me (applied in small doses, it’s a powerhouse). I especially love its sultry drydown.
Yes, it is huge, lol. I only have a mini, but since it is so strong, it will still last me for a few years…
I wore KL a long time ago. I have a tiny bit left in my bottle that I keep to visit with every now and then. I love it, I really should replace my bottle. I think you smell wonderful.
I think I could easily do a week of Duchafour…
Today I’m wearing Jardin du Poet.
Everytime i go to Mecca Cosmetica I douse myself with this- love it! Really must buy a bottle!
Sampling Caldey Island Lavender (nice, a bit short-lived, but very very nice!) and contemplating Duchaufours. Perusing my samples, I re-read the first three of the Ann Gerard reviews here, all rather enticing, plus a couple of L’Artisans (Seville a L’Aube, Nuit de Tubereuse) that stray further from my notes wheelhouse but sound worth a wear. Not sure where to start…. Any suggestions for me?
Leathermountain, I only have two of his – Avignon and Kyoto. I have to be in a particular mood for these. I had a sample of Dzongkha which I liked very much, but L’Artisan is not sold here. Ditto on the much mentioned Seville. The Different Company’s Oud for Love is sold here but is out of my price range at present! The ones that sound most intriguing to me are the Neela Vermeire’s, but given the price bracket it is just as well they are not that accessible
When I was overseas I did once try Eau de Italie and Jardin de Poete both by Eau de Italie, and very nice also!
Thanks for your input, Merlin!
I’m awaiting a small decant of Amouage Jubilation xxv which I ordered thinking it was the women’s version, which I love and which it isn’t. The women’s is “25”. Could they have made things more confusing? But since the “xxv” is a Duchaufour, I’ll be prepared for Friday
Have you tried that one?
So XXV is ‘men’ and 25 is ‘women?’ That really is confusing! I haven’t tried either one but both look interesting.
I was unclear before, I’m sorry. Those Ann Gerards and L’Artisans I mentioned are, I think, the only Duchaufours I have right now. I meant to ask for suggestions from my little list.
After four days of Un Matin d`Orage–a generous NSTer got me hooked and Amazon is selling a gift set of body cream and perfume for less than $50… and I took the plunge… It is the first gardenia scent that I could both 1. still smell after an hour, but 2. did not want to scrub off after an hour…
But today I am taking break from gardenia and wearing the ubiquitous but beautiful Prada Infusion d’Iris.
Your 1) and 2) made me laugh.
Heh heh heh. First one’s free…
So happy you like the scent.
Alien Eau Extraordinaire!! Sweetened jasmine tea. A recent love!
Today is FM L’eau D’Hiver with an added spritz of Olympic Orchids Golden Cattleya for an extra dose of honey and sunshine.
Today I chose Fool for Love by Ego Facto.
I must’ve gotten the cosmic message as well because I decided to go with Seville A L’Aube too. Finishing off a small decant. I like it, but there’s always been something about it that keeps me from loving it.
Too sweet? I’ve only sniffed the vial, but that’s what I’m anticipating.
Fils de Dieu for me from a sample. I’ll never have a bottle, but this is such a pretty scent. The sons of God are humble folk.
I feel the same way about Fils de Dieu. It’s very pretty but I still don’t love it.
It was raining cats and dogs today so I chose Apres L’Ondee, of course. It’s my rainy day scent.
It’s so nice in the rain, and Pendant L’Ondee just doesn’t have the same ring to it.
Silly joke, but those words actually sound like very heavy rain. Maybe we need a niche scent called Pendant L’Ondee….
Ugh… Difficult IPad…. My response was
I reorganized my perfume last night, and put all the little samples/decants that are summer appropriate into an easily-accessed container.
So today I’m wearing L’Ombre Dans L’Eau. So gorgeous. I might need a full bottle, once I use up all my other green roses…But I’ve only got one more wear left in the sample.