Ouch, another Monday! What fragrance are you wearing?
I'm wearing a bunch of stuff, including the new Eau de Toilette version of Narciso by Narciso Rodriguez.
Reminder: this Friday, 8/14, we're doing Fools Rush In...wear a perfume you bought within 5 minutes of smelling it. Bonus points if you ended up loving it! If you've never done anything so foolish, then wear the fragrance you bought the soonest after trying it.
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: shown is a clutch bag from the Fall 2015 collection at Narciso Rodriguez, price unknown.
Oh, I tried that new Narciso at the Duty Free yesterday! After 11 years, I think the original NR For Her EDT is still their best.
No SOTD yet- I am still in bed, with a cat who has no intention of letting me move. Maybe I’ll go with CBIHP Burning Leaves, one of her favorites.
A cat with good taste
SOTD: Silver Cologne (Amouage)
Oh, never hear about that one anymore! Nice pick.
One of the most perfect scents ever– Haie Fleurie du Hameau
Lovely!
Adore that one, a perfect summery jasmine!
Beautiful, natural smelling jasmine!
Welcome back, although it doesn’t seem like you were on a REAL vacation since you were here everyday. Hopefully, you FEEL like you were on a vacay and have returned rested and rejuvenated!
Love that clutch but it doesn’t go with my current attire, a very stylish set of pajamas
SOTD is leftovers from last night- PdE Musc Tonkin edp from a small decant. I like the extrait better but only have a small sample of it and don’t feel completed to attain a FB of the edp. My decant will suffice (sigh of relief from my pocketbook).
Hope everyone has a fab Monday (I know, that’s a total oxymoron!)
Oh, I just KNOW I was on a real vacation because I’m so terribly behind on everything, from perfume to laundry, LOL…
How lovely to be able to see your gorgeous self Deva!
You and a few others here were my inspiration! Brave soul that you are, you paved the way. I merely followed.
If anyone wants to use my overly large forehead for advertising space, just give me a jingle
And what a beautiful cat you have! The feline equivalent of a supermodel
Hi Deva! Your face is lovely and it’s so nice to see it!
Right back at you, ihadanidea! You, along with perthgirl, are trend setters for sure
Great gravatar, Deva! Haven’t checked out Musc Tonkin extrait, only the EdP, and that stuff is powerfully long wearing. I don’t think I’ve ever really clocked it. I can’t imagine a MORE concentrated version. If the extrait has a bit less fruit, and more animalic growl, now that would be better in my book. Hope you enjoyed your Monday ;D
Yes, I extrait is a bit more furry. It doesn’t project as much and just a teeny tiny dollop is all that’s needed. But it’s gone baby gone…
SOTD is Ormonde Jayne Tiare, again. I’ve been wearing it all weekend. I love it! Might need to ask for a FB for Xmas…
Hope your well rested after your vacation!
I am wearing one of my “fools rush in” scents today since I am already thinking about Friday! Shalimar initial
I am, thank you!
Are you compensating for going scentless for so long?
I’m wearing the original Divine by Divine. I still haven’t found out who the nose is for that one. Yann Vasnier was listed on one site but as Divine came out in 1986, I’m guessing he had not even passed his Bac.
Anyway, great scent, if you like classic French perfumery, as I do.
I realise that I left my sentence sort of unfinished. I meant that in 1986 Yann Vasnier had not even passed his Bac.
I’ve been trying to translate a difficult text into French and my brain is slowly giving up on me.
More like catching up on all the days I didn’t test anything new!
You don’t happen to know who did that fragrance do you?
Unwinding from a holiday is not one of my favourite times. Still, much better than no holiday at all.
Aurelien Guichard.
Thanks!
When looking up what else he had created I realised that this is a young perfumer. I don’t know who your source is but Aurélien Guichard is in his late thirties, which means he was still in primary school when this fragrance was created.
Did he do the EdT too? I confess I have not even checked. And doubtless they’ll say he did even if he didn’t!
And Austenfan, we are talking about Narciso, which is 2014, and not Narciso Rodriguez For Her, which is much older.
Ok, and NR For Her is 2003, I think, Christine Nagel and Francis Kurkdjian. And Aurelien Guichard’s picture is rather old now. I do have listings for him that are nearly that old!
I’m sooo sorry, I think you meant Narciso and I meant Divine. This is becoming very chaotic, anyway, it doesn’t matter. I’ve since discovered that Aurélien was 32 in 2010, so there is another titbit.
Ha, but you were talking about Yann Vasnier, weren’t you? Sorry, I think I”ve made the confusion worse.
I was talking about Guichard, but in relation to Divine; I wonder does that make him Vasnier?
Pretty sure!
austenfan, all I could find was that Parfums Divine was established by Yvon Mouchel in 1986, and there are a few references I found that he was the perfumer for Divine. Here are a couple:
http://legerdenez.blogspot.com/2005/12/yvon-mouchels-divine-strange-fruit.html
http://www.xovain.com/skin/parfums-divine
This may actually be true, but why did he hire other noses for all his other scents? It’s a gorgeous scent regardless of who made it.
Divine by Divine was by Yann Vasnier and Richard Ibanez–I am sorry I started the confusion!
I rather enjoy a bit of confusion myself.
Then Vasnier probably worked on the extrait with Ibañez.
Ugh.. the day back from a vacation is a tough one. Ease in… no rush, and call it a day around 3pm
SOTD for me is Osmanthus Interdite.. and love how Lucky Scent describes this, “Delicate and alluring, the fragrance is joyful and tranquil…a secret blossoming oasis of beauty in the midst of our busy modern life.” They nailed it IMHO.
Friday’s project sounds fun! Can’t wait to read how everyone answers..
Recovering from a second round of what ever virus has me in it’s clutches, but I can smell today, so wearing Apres a l’Ondee, a very light soothing thing…
Oh, hope you feel better soon! Summer sickness is a bummer
Thanks! Many of my coworkers are sicker than me, so I get extra points for showing up…it is a nasty bug that is going around. Two people out, two others in addition to me here but fighting it… Ugh.
Apres a l’Ondee makes it better…
I hope you feel better soon!
Whatever I got was twice also, 10 weeks total, seemed like forever. Hoping a much shorter time for you, feel better!
ha ha, Fools Rush In is cracking me up. Bet it’s been quite a while since I bought a frag in such a fashion.
Wearing Mona di Orio Musc, which I got a sample of on my amazing visit to The Perfume House a few weeks ago. Since I wore it a lot during my vacation, it reminds me of being in Portland. Perfect on a day when I need a mental vacation.
I LOVE that one. It’s almost signature scent worthy for me, too bad it’s so $$$
MdO Musc is amazing. You smell fantastic. I love having scents to remind me of travels. When I use up my mini, I may need (insert air quotes) a FB
At first I thought I might have tried Narciso EdT, but not yet. My sample is Narciso Rodriguez for Her, which I got because of LT’s recent positive review. I almost liked NRfH, but there is something that reminds me of instant cocoa mix, the cheap artificial kind.
There are so many versions of this I can’t keep them straight with my limited cognitive abilities. I know I tried one version that I really liked, but then didn’t remember which it was and just gave up. I have no staying power apparently
I get these two fragrances from NR so confused. The first, original, NR fragrance was too much musk for me. I can’t even tell if I’ve sampled the newer one from the “white” bottle, b/c the samples I keep trying to get all just say: Narciso Rodriguez!!! Very frustrating. It’s like revisiting the whole Ferre “Ferre”, Ferre Ferre, fiasco!!!
Now, which Ferre was it exactly??
Dame Perfumery’s Passion Fruit, Orange Blossom & Vetiver.
You’re all smelling so good today!
Wore Phi all day today, and it got me through ‘one of those days’ nicely. Bedtime now and in MPG Ambre Dore. I’m so in love with this oudy amber, it de-frazzles every nerve in my body.
PHI! How to love thee!
I need to try to de-frazzle with that MPG- sounds like the magical elixir to ensure happy dreams
I’m wearing Ubar. Go big or go home! (I am home.)
By the way, in my head Ubar is “Upscale Amarige”
It’s one big scent. I like it a lot better though, than Amarige. Which I used to love on a friend, but cannot bear on myself.
I kind of like Amarige but I know it’s well-hated.
I don’t hate it, I just could never wear it myself. Same with Coco Mlle.
I really like Ubar though. Gorgeous filthy floral!
By the way, have you tried Cococabana yet?
No but I almost wore it today! Probably will this week
Oh ha, I was considering the Amarige comparison a selling point!
I used to looove Amarige(no shame). My older sister gave me her bottle because it made her sneeze uncontrollably. I only wore micro drops of it though. Smelled it recently and couldn’t imagine what I was thinking back then. Maybe it was reformulated.
Yes, Ubar seems related to Amarige. Or maybe closer to Ysatis, I think I actually did a throwdown between (rereleased) Ubar and Ysatis. Or meant to, one or the other.
Oh, I’ve never tried Ysatis! At least not purposely, in adulthood, I probably smelled it around as a kid…
Really? I wore Ysatis frequently for a while, but then it started seeming a little grand for the circumstances in which I found myself at the time, so I think I gave it to my sister…
Ysatis was my first grown up perfume. My aunt gave it to me for a gift. It was really special to me.
And P.S. Another good poll would be the scent that took you the longest to finally break down and buy!
Yes! I have a good one for that. Five years is my current title holder.
I think it took me about that long to buy Eau de Baux
Ah, I have a sample of Ubar coming in the mail – I am looking forward to it…
Great attitude for a Monday!
Diorissimo today, which turns out to be a Fools Rush In scent for me…Now I’ll have to figure out something else for Friday.
Robin, how does the Narciso EDT compare to the EDP?
Can I answer you later in the week? I am planning to wear them together! All I can report so far is a) black bottle is WAY cool and b) it’s lighter, as you’d expect and c) nearly certain I don’t like the EdT as well as the EdP
Great! Thanks!
I’m wearing Carner D600
But mostly I’m posting to report on some vaguely perfume related news from Britain and South Africa. According to the Independent:
A technique used to identify the exact substances in a perfume, or other chemical substance has now been used on some very old, and not very clean pipes, most particularily on residue in “tobacco” pipes found in the Stratford-upon-Avon garden of William Shakespeare.
Residue from clay tobacco pipes more than 400 years old from the playwright’s garden were analysed in Pretoria using a sophisticated technique called gas chromatography mass spectrometry.
They discovered traces of marijuana.
One of the sponsors of the study suggests that this proves that Shakespeare indulged in pot. However, the story raises some questions:
1. Did foolish Elizabethen Brits become addicted to tobacco because the early imports from New World mixed pot and tobacco and the Brits thought that it was the poisonous tobacco which was pleasant rather than the pot?
2. Since Shakespeare did not actually live at home very much, (preferring London, and possibly a mysterious good looking youth and lovely dark lady to his wife Anne Hathaway), who exactly was smoking those pipes? (Assuming that the dope actually was left behind by Shakespeare or his contemporaries).
3. Is England so bereft of chemical engineers that the pipes had to be sent to South Africa.
Oh, that’s very interesting! That Will, what a scoundrel
It’s a wonder Britain let those pipes out of the country. That’s more amazing to me than the Mary Jane residue.
Scoundrel, indeed! When I was a teenager, I announced to my mother that I thought that Shakespeare and John Donne would be wonderful lovers. Instead of being pleased that my interests had turned literary and were no longer directed towards the boy two doors down–him with the very big motor-bike and no discernible morals whatsoever–she said very sniffly that both Shakespeare and Donne would have had bad breath and BO. She sent me away to read social history to cure my imagination (didn’t work!)
Oh my. Your mum was a killjoy. Glad it didn’t deter you and wreck your wonderful imagination! How can one navigate reality without a substantial imagination?!
Slowly and dull-ly. Sounds like I’m channeling Eyore.
So many entertaining questions! LOL!
Fascinating! Curious to know who the sponsors are, and if there is any possibility of a hoax/practical joke with specimen contamination. But if it’s real, that’s cool.
As I recall from the article (available through the Huffington Post UK, the sponsor has argued that certain lines in Shakespeare are direct references to cocaine and marijuana, which (again according to the article) were being brought into England during the periods of Shakespeare’s life.
Shakespeare, based on the references to innovative shipping practices, international travel, and his audacious construction of the Globe Theatre, seemed intensely interested in the new and exciting of his day. So if new substances were available, I’d imagine he’d be up for sampling them. On the other hand, if he wanted to write about them, why wouldn’t he do so clearly, None of this stuff was illegal.
The article I read including some references to someone huffing about how dare anyone accuse Shakespeare of being a pot head, instead of a genus.. How many potheads have come close to writing a Shakespeare play in the years since, he asked?
Well, yeah most Brits who smoke pot in their pipes do no write anything of merit. Neither do most Brits who do not smoke pot. Few people of any sort turn out to be writers. And only Shakespeare, was Shakespeare (Note: Despite the claims of a few that Lord Francis Bacon was Shakespeare)
I do have a little trouble imagining Ms. Austen smoking a hookah between her sewing, caring for her mother, and her writing. Still there are a a few Brits over the years who have both smoked something or other and have been geniuses. Barrett Browning took morphine on a daily or nearly daily basis (probably originally for a back injury), Cooleridge supposedly dreamed up Xanadu in a hash fog and Sir McCartney, whose written a nifty tune or two, has been arrested for possession.
“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” is a favorite of mine and there are some definite descriptive scenes that may have been induced by some type of psychedelic substance. Not a good trip either, mores the pity for poor Samuel
Laudanum perhaps?
Yes, Coleridge was an opium addict wasn’t he?
I think I’ve identified the dock at which I missed the imagination boat….
Fascinating. I’ll have to show my 9th grade students this article when we tackle Romeo and Juliet this year. Anything to show Shakespeare is not “boring.”
I’ve seen bits of R& J done in rap–not boring at all.
The problem in these modern times is that no one gets his wonderfully sly humor. It’s the same with Chaucer- another total card
Just sprayed myself with 31 Rue Cambon. I’ve decided to be elegant and untouchable today :).
I even have Barbara Streisand singing in my head – “Don’t bring around a CLOOUD to rain on my paraaaade.”
Perhaps those two things are incongruous, but in my head, it works.
Elegant and untouchable sounds perfect for me! You smell great!
Thank you dear!
You smell fabulous today!
Thank you! Also – love the kitteh face.
I adore your purr! That look of intense concentration suggests that something quite close is about to be pounced on. I wish my Dakkie-cat could hold a thought that long.
I suspect, dear ihadanidea, that you’re always elegant, not just by deliberate choice on a particular day! One the best things about 31RC is that the untouchability (untouchableness?) it projects is an illusion. In a rather subtle way, it is actually quite a “come hither” scent…have a wonderful day!
It is such a shame that we live thousands of miles from each other because I’d love to buy you a drink, Waterdragon. You are so sweet, and I’d love reading everything you write, especially because of your unique voice. Long distance cheers to you, dear.
Happy Monday Everyone! My SOTD is No. 42 The Flower Shop by Jo Loves. Love the smell of a fresh bouquet of flowers! Perfect for the triple -digit temps we are predicted to have today.
I would love to smell that one; unfortunately I can’t find a sample anywhere (and don’t live in the UK, so forget dropping by and hitting the tester).
Yep, ditto.
Wearing a bit of Givenchy’s L’Atelier de Givenchy Neroli Originel from a sample this morning…it’s a really lovely, natural, soft, sweet but not syrupy neroli. I enjoy it, but there are so many nerolis out there that I find the high price of this one a bit too bogus to entertain, even if I had money to burn (although if I really had enough money to take that that phrase literally there’s no telling what I might do…I’m thinking garments of cake level hedonism here). But seriously, some of these houses are getting out of control price-wise.
SOTD is Un Jardin sur le Toit. Sometimes it is just right, like today.
Not my favourite Jardin, but it’s still quite nice. Hopefully you can try new things tomorrow.
SOTD was a fleeting but lovelydose of Mandragore
For Keep-It-Simple Monday, I’ve layered YR Mure Sauvage shower gel, body lotion, and edt. I smell like the blackberry plants growing along my back fence: a bit earthy, a bit green, a bit musky, with berries ripening in the sun but not quite there yet – almost sweet but still tart, even somewhat bitter. And definitely deep purple, almost black.
Today I am wearing AT Sotto La Luna because I just felt like putting something floral on that has good sillage. I’m also enjoying the gardenia that does come through on me.
I think I’m the only other person I’ve seen mention this one. It such a comfort scent for me. Gardenia pudding.
I have a decant I never wear because it’s just fairly horrid on me. Quease city.
Ha! I can totally see that. I’m probably a lone lover. And it wasn’t love at first sniff. Someone on fragrantica said the key to enjoying a Tauer is not to stick your nose in it. It’s like a Monet. Best enjoyed from a distance. I found that true for this one.
Today has been rather overcast and grey, perfectly coinciding with the arrival of a partial bottle of Caron pour un Homme, its lovely,
and is really helping me through a stressful day with my 2 pre school naughty children!
SOTD is RL Safari. I wanted something green and Safari has a great warmth to it as well. I am definitely turning into a classic green chypres person!
I’ve been wearing mine recently too.
Today is ridiculously humid (glasses fogging up and everything), and I am wearing Byredo Bal d’Afrique!
My enabler husband got 21 samples from ELDO and we have been sniffing away. I have reached my threshold of NEW-NEW-NEW for the day and am wearing Chanel Eau Premier today. I only ever tried his one because all y’all talked about it so much and so I say Thank You!!
Once you get well acquainted with the 21 samples, I would be interested to know what are your top 3 faves. I haven’t tried very much from this line, but I own Bijou Romantique which I love in cooler weather.
Where did you find this scent-loving husband??? Probably just as well mine is disinterested as we would be broke. Though he has had his own collection obsessions. It was PEZ dispensers fir many years.
I’m wearing Eau de Merveilles today. I tend to think of it as my ‘default scent,’ because on days where I don’t have a craving for a particular scent or note, I generally wind up wearing this.
Great default scent, and great moniker, Petrichor! EdM seems golden, always correct. As for your screen name–today at work I was trying to explain that I wish it would rain, as I like that scent very much. Perfect for perfumistaland
Eau des Merveilles is one of my summer ‘go to’ scents as well, and Ambre d M is an autumn favourite, have u tried the Edp version of Eau des merveilles?, i need to get a sample i think, and still havent tried Elixier..
A couple of weeks ago I tried the Elixer des Merveilles. I remember that it was very masculine relative to the Eau and the Ambre.
I haven’t tried the Edp. I do have a mini of the Elixir de Merveilles (i got it for something like seven dollars, which made it too inexpensive to resist!)- I find it to be quite sweet, though some people seem to experience it as more wood-y.
I wear Elixir de Merveilles and love it! My signature and always get asked what I am wearing.. even followed in stores. Great lasting and is clean and classy smelling…
Welcome home, Robin!
I have two SsOTD, one on each wrist: Patchouli Patch and Oyedo. They are so different that the comparison hardly seems fair, but I just plunge my hand into my samples tin and wear whatever I grab. I really dislike Oyedo without knowing what it is that smells so noxious, but fortunately it doesn’t last long. PP smells a bit soapy to me, but it’s hanging on, and in drydown does not remind me at all of patchouli. Very small patch, I guess.
The noxious note for me in Oyedo is thyme, and that note lasts for hours! Thyme is used in some foul-smelling disinfectants sold at health food stores.
Thymol, which is derived from thyme, is what’s in the disinfectants that I mentioned.
Thanks, KindCrow. Both interesting and helpful. I love thyme in food but apparently not on my body.
Yeah — thyme is often used in herbes de Provence mixtures, which I like in soups and stews.
I can’t stand Patchouli Patch! It’s one of only two Duchaufours that I actively dislike. I’m not a huge patch fan, but there are patchouli perfumes I love, and can appreciate it I as an element of a complex composition. Hence, so it’s probably something other than the patchouli in Patchouli Patch that I can’t tolerate. Don’t care for Oyedo, either. I hope you have better luck with your next sample draw!
Haha. I’ve been a patchouli fan since back in the day, so long ago. Thanks for the good luck wish; I don’t think my samples war will be worse than today.
I love Oyédo, such a bizarre citrus, but I can see how it wouldn’t be to everyone’s taste.
I was trying to imagine how anyone could like it. Our noses are so wonderfully sensitive and varied!
Hmmmm. I’ve been on a patchouli quest lately. Mostly just reading about them, not so much ordering/sampling. Although I really like Demeter Patchouli. Any others you like?
Thank you!
Trying to eke summer out of a dreary weather day in Bronze Goddess on one hand and Unforsaken on the other.
28 La Pausa today. I was totally going to copy ihadanidea today and wear 31 Rue Cambon but my sample was dried up
So I went for another Chane sample. I’ll have to remember to seize the day more often and use my samples before they evaporate.
It’s very sad and disappointing when a sample or decant evaporates! But La Pausa is very beautiful too!
Hello, all, and best of everything to everyone.
Thank you to all my well-wishers yesterday: I saw all your lovely comments, but I was all flolloppy and anyhow, and no matter how I tried, couldn’t seem to put words together to reply. The pro-seed-u-ah (as the surgeon pronounced it) went well, and I apparently behaved with exemplary decorum except for announcing afterwards that I was so happy, I could vomit on the ceiling. According to my husband, that engendered much anxiety and a positive flurry of activity! I’m rather hungry, though, and I have two lines of a limerick in my head: “If I go without breakfast and dinner/I’m bound to get quickly much thinner….” So now I’m matching my perfume to my hunger: gourmand, any gourmand will do. Home today because of swelling and discomfort, so I shall spray with abandon!
Get well soon!
Personally, I think vomiting on the ceiling would be a nifty parlor trick, but then I am an RN with a very warped and twisted sense of humor. Speedy recovery to you Ms. Dragon!
what is RN?
Registered Nurse?
Registered Nurse. And yes, we do respect vomit, especially the projectile kind that’s faster than the speed of light
Actually, I can’t think why I said that. I haven’t actually thrown up since I was 28, when my appendix burst, and it’s not your average, straightforward expression of relief and gratitude, is it?
Waterdragon, I think I understand! In the 25th hour of being in labor with my first child on no pain killers (I wound up having an emergency c-section so got an epidural at hour 26) I loudly announced to the doctor, nurses, doula, and my sick-w-worry husband that I was the Statue of Liberty.
Not this RN. It’s way down on my list of best-to-worst body fluids. But not last. TMI?
Wow, Oakland, that’s impressively random! I’d love to have seen their faces as they processed that piece of news!
I’m an RN too, and part of the post-anesthesia assessment is how to discern what is relevant in what the patient is conveying! Joyous vomiting may be a concern due to aspiration and pressure on tissues and stitches, etc. Being the Statue of Liberty is probably simply … interesting, but could have some weird relevance.
I’m glad that you are home, and I hope that you recover quickly and I look forward to the rest of your limerick.
I haven’t heard “flolloppy” since Felicity Kendal uttered it in the Britcom “The Good Neighbors.” Was it Orwell who used the phrase “positively invertebrate?” I’ll have to ask my husband.
Take care,
KC
I knew I knew the source of “flolloppy”, but I just couldn’t locate it in my muzzy brain! Thank you!
I wonder whether The Good Life would still be funny, or whether the attitudes would be too dated to be amusing now? I still love Yes, Minister & Yes, Prime Minister, and Open All Hours is great too. I even watch Are You Being Served? if I get the chance. I adore Mrs Slocombe, and I am unanimous in that!
My favourite was Mr. Humphries. My favourite sitcoms are Fawlty Towers and Blackadder.
Oh yes, Mr Humphries–“Walk this way…” Good times!
Oh, Dave Allen Dan here!
Whoops! That’s supposed to be FAN
The sexism (and other “isms”) in “The Good Life/Neighbors” rankled me when I watched it as a kid in re-runs in the 80s on public TV in America. Overall, I thought that the show was funny and charming, even though it pissed me off occasionally.
“The Rise and Fall of Reginald Perrin” was funny for a while, but then it got depressing, IMO.
There was an episode of “Endeavour” (Mystery series that follows the young Inspector Morse) that featured a department store staff that was obviously a take-off of “Are You Being Served?”
Really? I’m just watching Endeavour now. I’ll be alert for that.
Per Wikipedia, the episode is called “Sway,” and it’s in Series 2.
Congrats on getting that proseeduah over with, and hope you’ll recover smoothly!
Hope you mend quickly!
Waterdragon, You are still witty while under the weather. I am glad you are on the road to recovery. I hope you can eat something tomorrow! ????
Glad your home and hope you recover quickly!
Wishing you a speedy recovery!
I’ve got a Fools Rush In scent today, and it’s Caroline from Sweet Anthem in Seattle. We were visiting Seattle and made a detour to check out the local perfume shop, and Meredith Smith (perfumer and purveyor) offers such nice small bottles. I don’t wear it much, but when I do, I enjoy it.
Oh, she’s so lovely to deal with, isn’t she?
Yes, she was great!
Late to the party as usual. Had to attend to Monday Morning Dramas at work (sigh)
The day started off quite nicely though. I awoke to my most favorite morning view: the canyons below our house were full of fog, with bright sunny skies above: it always seems to me that I could step out and walk across the top of the fog bank to the ridge beyond. (Anyone ever seen the movie ‘A Walk In The Clouds’? Terrible movie, dear Keanu at his most wooden, but lovely cinematography. The title refers to just this sort of view.)
SOTD is EL Dazzling Silver. Pretty and yet a bit otherworldly. Seemed to fit.
That’s a very pretty movie, even if it’s cliche and Keanu is, as you say, awfully wooden.
SOTD is Demeter Gingerale. It’s actually cool and overcast here today, but I’m still enjoying my summer rotation!
Actually I’ve–finally–started keeping a perfume diary this summer, and it’s been interesting to see that, outside testing a handful of new things, I’ve worn the same six or eight perfumes every week since the beginning of July! Not sure I would have been able to predict that that was my pattern. Would love to hear whether others’ diaries have yielded similarly surprising info about their perfume usage (oh man that’s so nerdy but I really do want to know.)
REALLY need to try Gingerale. Every time it comes up I say that, but I have yet to find some to try.
Amaranthine. Sometimes you can’t know if you like a thing until you wear it in quantity. Especially a dirty summer floral?
Oh this is perfect: I never know what to say when SAs ask me what kind of perfumes I like, and clearly “dirty summer florals” is the best possible answer!
heh. I just have a little decant of this one, but it’s in the “dirty summer florals” section of my sample box…
Dying to know what else is there! SL Fleurs d’oranger would be my first guess…
SOTD: Carven. Fresh and lovely. A pretty, pretty iris scent.
Carven Le Parfum? I like that one. Don’t really notice much iris in it.
Wearing Ligea La Sirena by Carthusia today over lavender shea butter lotion by C & E. Just craving lavender today. A perfect sunny 80 degree day with no humidity.
I’m wearing Atelier Cologne Rose Anonyme today. I was at Sephora over the weekend and saw that they’re finally offering this one in a travel spray by itself, so I snapped it up!
Packing and shopping today for part 2 of The Family Vacation. Comparison wearing Fire Island on my right arm, and Bronze Goddess on my left. So far, the thing that makes Fire Island an occasional chemical spill, is also what can make it so great–it is a blast of sun hot tropical florals and sun oil that is tenacious…. Bronze Goddess is more demure (and it isn’t exactly a skin scent!), with woods in the base– dried sweet myrrh and sandalwood, rather than the fatty tuberose and neroli oil finish of Fire Island… if that makes any sense!
SOTD was a sample of Guerlain Chant d’Aromes which I did not enjoy. Green, bitter, soapy floral. I think soapy will always be a “no”.
But all was redeemed by my little stash of Songes body oil that I keep in my work bag for fragrance emergencies.
My response to Cd’A too. I want to love it, but it’s more from a sense of duty than anything, much like my feelings for broccoli.
Love Après l’Ondee though.
Yes, the comparison to broccoli is perfect(the taste isn’t appealing enough to suffer through the laborious act of chewing it). Now you have a good excuse to avoid it for a bit (the veg, that is). I have enough Guerlains to love at the moment as well.
Soapy is still a big no for me too.
I don’t get soapy from aldehydes, though – a lot of people do. For me it’s nearly always orange blossom/neroli.
I think it depends what the aldehydes are combined with. Neroli is a toughy. Almost always soapy. I’ve found a couple OB that don’t have that bitter, soapy edge. But I also find those pretty boring.
I was rifling through old samples yesterday, and came upon two of the very first ones I ordered from luckyscent back in 2009 (I think), right after I happened upon a copy of The Guide in a public library (yay libraries!). The samples were Nicolai’s Odalisque, which I wore yesterday, and Fig Tea, which I wore today. I think both have aged beautifully, and I find them much more satisfying now than when I first got them. Back then, as a noob, I thought they were pretty, but they didn’t “speak” to me. I wonder which of us has changed more over time: the perfumes, or me?…