Happy World Elephant Day! What fragrance are you wearing?
I'm wearing Berdoues Assam of India.
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: top image is Temple Elephants [cropped] via Sistak at flickr; some rights reserved.
Tea! Sandalwood! What’s not to love about that one? Hope it smells as good as it sounds.
I’m hanging with Dries again today. We are perfect for each other and I am thinking this may be a long term relationship. He makes me smell good and feel fantastic! He is undemanding, supportive, gentle but muscular at the same time. I may have to make an investment to get a good portion of his time, but it will be worth it.
I pretty sure he likes me, too
Lol! Dries sounds dreamy.
It’s nicely done — not genius, but very enjoyable.
Dries is genius, of course
Happy for you guys! Glad you’re taking the relationship to the next level
I’ll have what she’s having….
A bit muggy this morning so I’m wearing Oolang Infini
Twins! Oolang Infini is perfect for a muggy day. One of my faves from Atelier.
I am wearing SL A La Nuit today. Beautiful Jasmine. On me it seems to stay very close to the skin. I am wondering if that is the norm. I am working at home today so I haven’t been able to find out if there is much sillage to it.
You smell gorgeous Kris. A La Nuit is on my wish list. It wears close to my skin too, although my husband commented on it when I was wearing the sample (very positively), so sillage should be ok.
A la Nuit isn’t big on me either, but nice while it lasts.
Thought I’d wear some neglected decants today. This morn was Rose Anonyme, which I disliked when I got it and abandoned, but now- not so bad.
Now I’m in Jardins d’Encrevains George. It smells a bit medicinal but again, not so bad.
I find Rose Anonyme to be an excellent layering agent – by itself it has a slightly yeast-y effect on me that I struggle with a bit. Broken record here, but try it layered with a light leather (like Cuir Mauresque).
Rose Anonyme didn’t work for me solo either. Too sugary. But I have worn it layered w/ FM Vetiver Extraordinaire and liked that combo.
Bathing in immortelle, with Goutal’s Sables. Half life of plutonium, but oh so lovely.
LOL. I love Sables, but because of its persistent nature wear it mostly to bed. How does it fare in warmer weather?
It blooms in the heat, but I love orientals in summer. I only ever wear Chergui when it’s hot.
Sables is so earthy & lovely – I’m still dabbing away from a 1 ml sample vial that will last a long time for me, lol. AG also uses just a touch of immortelle in the original Eau de Monsieur. It gives it just a little more something-something than the usual EDC. I wish I’d got a bottle of the original EdM when I had the chance. I wonder how the new version of EdM is?
http://perfumeposse.com/2008/04/22/annick-goutal-for-monsieur-and-me/
It took me a while to fall for Sables, and I still don’t wear it very often. The link is to a very nice review on the Posse. Tmpoo’s comment a little way down merits a read as well.
I haven’t yet tried the new Monsieur, but after reading a review of it, on I think Persolaise’s blog it must be very different to the original, which has a nice dose of immortelle but nowewhere near as prominent as in Sables.
Glad to hear about this one. It’s on my Fall sampling list (with Musc Nomade).
Happy “Hump Day” Everyone!
Today I am sampling and enjoying so far the fragrance “What I Did On My Holidays” by 4160 Tuesdays. What a fantastic summer fragrance. If you are into mint, coconut, and vanilla (these are the notes that I smelled immediately), then you would probably like this. The opening notes are AMAZING! I just wish it lasted longer. Will have to reapply my sample of this.
I need to try that!
SOTD is Caron Tabac Blond EDT (from a supply that STC laid in some time ago, I think), which would have qualified as a Fools Rush In scent if there had been anyone within a hundred miles of me that stocked it. Ahhh, heaven. And speaking of heaven, I tested some vintage Diorling last night and OH MY, is that stuff incredibly gorgeous.
Ha…yes, that would be a fun list too, scents you would have bought right away if you had easy access!
I am still on my week of “fools rush in”
Guess I am a fool- but glad no one is judging me!
Today it Terracotta
Guess I am a food when it comes to Guerlain..
I meant fool-
Not Food!
We knew that
But a Guerlain food might be interesting.
SOTD is Arden Men Sandalwood
Another I’ve never heard of!
SOTD is I love les Carottes, courtesy of Austenfan. I am a big Hiris fan, so les Carottes is very easy to wear for me. Like the top very much, and seriously love the drydown, powdery and fresh, now that is quite composing feat I think. Olivia Giacobetti is a fantastic perfumer. May be a FB in the making.
Love that one!
After ten days in Alaska being eaten by gnats (mosquitoes weren’t a problem) I’m home. Amazing wildlife there, I saw black bears, foxes, a grizzly, tundra swans, and gorgeous plants. Feeling girly today and wearing Moon Bloom.
Nice(except the pests)! My sister is in Alaska now. The photos she’s shared are beautiful.
Sounds fantastic! Totally understand going full on “girly” today
What a treat to encounter such special sightings!
Welcome home!
Welcome back, sounds like it was a worthwhile and breathtaking trip – I believe you were hiking?
Hiked and camped from Fairbanks north to Prudhoe Bay. It was great.
I’m trying a sample of Imaginary Authors’ An Air of Despair. Lots of cedar… it smells like a musty old wooden storage chest. I’m liking it so far.
That sounds amazing! Please let us know how that one goes; I know that is one I am thinking of blind buying!
An update several hours in… The nice spicy/dusky part (I think saffron is listed as one of the notes) is gone and what’s left is a pretty insistent cedar smell, which, to me at least, is starting to feel annoying. I liked how it seemed to be so well blended (masked?) with the other notes at first, but now it feels a little one-dimensional. It’s lasting a long time, though!
Cedar can tend to take over things, so I’m always wary when I see it in a list of notes.
I wasn’t quite brave neough to wear Kenzo Jungle l’Elephant to work today (I have meetings and it is not a delicate scent) so I am wearing Jungle Homme which is a wonderful spicy woods, with a sweet citrus rind opening (not quite candied). I am not quite to the wonderful guaic/cedar drydown but the wood notes are throughout the development.
Jungle l’Elephant would have been so perfect on World Elephant Day too! Those dang meetings mess up everything
I don’t remember where you’re at or what season you’re in, but I can’t imagine wearing L’Elephant in the summer (here), even on a non-meeting day. I think I would be asphyxiated! It’s one of the most potent scents I’ve ever smelled.
I’m wearing another cologne from 4711, Melissa & Verbena, perfect for the predicted 101 degree heat. Our heat index yesterday was 115, and the actual temperature when I went home at 6 pm was 103.
I decided to sample the stash of Le Galion minis my husband claimed as “his,” silly man! I tried Aesthete and woah, tht is a lot of smokey wood! At first, the oud was so strong it was like being hit in the nose but it is calming down nicely.
After much deliberation about what went w/ my mood, weather, outfit etc., I ended up in Arpege. Really love this stuff.
Beautiful!
I seem to crave Arpege in autumn… we’re not there with the weather yet.
It’s not too hot here today so it’s working but I love it especially on warm summer evenings. It’s the current version which is not powdery. Can’t do powder in the daytime heat.
Mmmmm, you smell good. Those old classics are just the best.
SL Chypre Rouge. The first Lutens I ever bought and still a favourite. So weird at the outset (wine gums and pine resin!), so cozy and comfortable later on.
Doing a comparison of new samples I just got in the mail…L’aire du Desert Marocain on one hand, Timbuktu on the other. l’Aire reminds me of the high mountain camp on my family ranch where I spent summers with the sheep herd as a child. Timbuktu is satisfyingly exotic. I like them both, although Timbuktu may be more wearable in my office.
I am happy that I don’t love either one of them overwhelmingly at this point – when the samples are gone I will get a spray decant of each and see how it goes. Looking forward to Ubar and Mohur edp or edt or whatever – not the extrait – comparison tomorrow.
Also, getting over this nasty bug which half the people in my office have. It’s nice to smell again, even tho i don’t totally trust my sniffer… Happy Wednesday, everybody…
Holy cow! I read “Timbuktu may be more wearable in my orifice”! *gasp* Wow- I’m gonna have to take five minutes to recover from my dastardly dyslexia…
Deva! I spewed my iced tea and lemonade all over my desk! Sorry to shock you, even tho that was not my intention!
I work so hard at not shocking my fragile and (overly) sensitive coworkers…. I come here to get away from them….
Oh my! So sorry about the ice tea/ lemonade debacle! I forgot to add that I’m glad you’re feeling better. This recalcitrant eye of mine is the culprit, not your post. It sees things that aren’t there….
Oh, it’s quite all right – I got a giggle out of it.
I often experience either – reading something that is not there, or looking right at something and not seeing it…
SOTD is AG Heure Exquise edp, which I realize I haven’t worn all summer. I love this stuff!!
Do you also know the EdT and want to share thoughts on the comparison?
I don’t have a lot of experience with HE, but I first had a sample of the edt, and I loved it. Then I received a decant in a swap which did not specify edt/edp, but it had a bitter note, which was different from the edt. I don’t see the edt on the AG website, so I’m wondering if they still make it, or is it just out of stock?
Leathermountain: Here goes. Heure Equise is a very dry fragrance, but to my nose the edt is much drier than the edp and has less rose. (It’s also the version that I think gets closest to what people will say is a near twin to Chanel No 19, esp. as regards the galbanum and iris accords.) I think the edp is a bit more damp in the opening with much more of a rose and vague florals accord, but by no means too rosey, and this makes a great counterbalance to the smacking aldehydes and galbanum accords. The sandalwood base is similar in both, but the edt gets there faster. There is a bitter, vegetal note in both, and I smell this in other Goutals. Aldehydes are about the same. I don’t get much animalic notes out of either, but I need to get socked in the face with animalic notes for me to really notice them. The edp has a much longer wear. I wear the edt when I want a greener, drier experience, as well as a faster track to the gorgeous bone-dry sandalwood base. I wear the edp when I want more of the rose/floral accords. I think after about 2 hours they both follow the same trajectory. I really really love the very dry and yet velvety sandalwood base, which doesn’t get as much chatter, but is almost the best part. I hope this helps. If you are ever so fortunate to smell the dry body oil, it differs significantly from both the edt and edp. It is gorgeous and almost entirely a rose sandalwood affair. The HE dry body oil would be my desert island fragrance.
Fantastic! Thank you, AnnS!!
I’ve never heard of this Heure Exquise dry body oil. Is it discontinued or just in narrow distribution? I was in a recently opened AG boutique in NYC, and they were promoting the Songes oils (with and without shimmer). I didn’t notice any other oils but was a bit smelled out by then.
I am VERY interested in those Songes oils. I think the HE DBO is discontinued for a few years now. I have an old bottle that I bought about 2008 ish.
If you have any trouble accessing them and want some sort of mule, drop me a jimayl. I’m alederberg.
I’m still not sure why I don’t love HE as much as I do No. 19, given that they have so much in common. HE is friendlier, I think.
I love HE more than No 19, but I wear No 19 tons more than HE. Go figure.
You smell gorgeous! It was your constant prais of this scent that prompted my unsniffed buy years ago. Love at first sniff, and still a much worn scent!
Vintage Vent Vert. A perfume pal has promised a comparison of her three bottles of different concentrations and eras, so I’m wearing my one specimen in hopes of understanding more of the nuances of her research. Why am I endlessly fascinated with comparisons?
You know, when I notice similarities between fragrances and then wear them at the same time, it helps to pinpoint where they diverge, and I find it gives me a better understanding of the fragrance structures overall. Wearable experiments are fun – it’s a little like playing detective!
Yes, that’s true!
Morning, Leathermountain. Aren’t you a scientist? I should think your urge to compare is part of a search for truth. I admire that immensely: I just search for a pretty smell.
Good morning, waterdragon. Thank you for your compliment. I love to learn about science, but I’m not a scientist. If I could be a 19th century natural philosopher (also wealthy, likely male, and not too concerned with justice as I understand it today), that would hold some temptation. I just search for pretty truths.
Perhaps the search for pretty truths is the essence of the perfumista journey. I can think of far worse places to look for truths than down the rabbit hole!
Hear, hear!
I think there is a kind of truth to be discovered via fragrance b/c it juxtaposes the human sensual experience with the best that nature has to offer.
Silences pdt today. It’s hot… last day before school starts… and I’m researching portable chicken coops. I’d love to have some chickens.
Chickens are great! I have 16, which is 4 too many for the coop I have. Email me – I can give you some good advice…
Advice would be excellent! Where can I contact you?
I’m on a farm, so no need to worry about local regulations. But I will need to keep them penned, probably outside the dog’s Invisible Fence area. (He loooooves things that run around and can be chased… we got the Invisible Fence because he kept getting loose and getting in with my son’s sheep. He would have run them to death, just trying to make friends, if we hadn’t prevented it.)
We do have hawks and foxes and coyotes as well. Have never seen a raccoon in the yard, but we are close enough to some woods that it’s not out of the range of possibility.
I think I’d like to have 3-5 hens, no rooster.
how come portable?
little portable pens so you can move the pen with birds around your lawn or property and let them have a go at no place for too long…. free range with control, so to speak.
Not TSA approved then?
Right… if you leave them in one spot, apparently nothing will grow there in a matter of weeks (chicken poo being notoriously “hot” in terms of – nitrogen, I think it is).
That and they are just ravenous little dinosaurs and when they are cooped up they will eat all vegetation, and then tear up the ground and eat the roots of the vegetation looking for insects…note the pun there. Cooped up! See what I did with that? LOL! I love having chickens around.
I put on some Chanel Chance eau tendre hair mist this morning, it was very present in the beginning but now at lunch time I don’t smell anything so I applied some musc bleu sample I had at my work, this smells great.
Infusion d’iris edp. Because calm, cool, and collected is called for today, and i may need some assistance walking the line.
Plus, it smells good.
Hope everyone’s Wednesday goes well!
Twins! I needed calm, cool, and collected today as well.
I’m finally trying NV’s Pichola which I find to be a stunning scent. I love the saffron and orange blossom/tuberose mix.. Except for needing to stick my head down my shirt to still smell it, I’m sold.
What talent that brand has!
I love Mohur so much, I am trying hard not to smell the other offerings… by all accounts Pinchola is fabulous…
I spent this morning at my realtor’s office, completing the paperwork to put on offer on a house! So of course I had to go with something that felt particularly sophisticated- Shalimar. I love that it manages to be both classic and weird at the same time.
Classic and weird! LOL! Dune falls into that category of perfumes for me.
I’ve never actually tried Dune, in part because it’s so polarizing and so many people seem to dislike it vehemently. Time to decide for myself, I guess!
I think many classics are weird, and it might be part of the reason for their classic classification.
A while back in reference to Bandit, I think, Anniky, I think, referred to a related kinds of genius.
(I love the spontaneity of our threads but still sometimes wish they were easier to search.)
I’m probably remembering half wrong, but it was along the lines of weird and wearable.
I’m especially taken with things that are weird and beautiful.
I think I remember that “weird and wearable” which seems like the most difficult to achieve. Just weird or just wearable doesn’t seem as challenging.
Good luck with the house! And Shalimar classic and weird – that’s a great way to put it. That’s probably what separates it from the other orientals of the world!
I’ve been developing a great appreciation for Shalimar, especially the EDT which still makes me cringe a bit up top. I was reading the history yesterday with its connection to the development of vanillin. Very interesting. Also, there’s a legend that Shalimar was a happy accident that ooccurred when J. Guerlain dumped to much vanillin into a Jicky specimen. Makes sense if you do a side-by-side. All that to say “you smell fab”! Good luck with the house.
R, good to hear you’re wearing that Berdoues Assam of India – I’ve heard nice things about it. Not a masterwork or anything, but very pleasant, which is sometimes all you need in the summer. And how lovely that it’s Elephant Day! I’m feeling really in the mood, having just looked at lots of pictures, as we are three days from paying our deposit on a family vacation in March to north western India, a big, big trip for us. Most of the research done, the travel vaccination clinic appointments booked, and yesterday I was wearing Pichola to celebrate. Today I’m wearing Armani Prive Ambre Soie, though – surprisingly wonderful in the warm weather, wondering why I don’t wear it more often.
I tried a few of the Armani Privee’s a while ago. I was very impressed with Ambre Soie and with their Incense.
Your journey seems like quite an adventure especially with small children, but in a good way. India must be fascinating.
The Bois d’Encens? Yeah, those are my favourite two from the line, as well. I haven’t tried all of the newer ones with the gold caps, though.
Oh, massively jealous!!! My sister and I considered a trip to India but ended up in Barcelona, and that was it for me since I so rarely manage to leave the country.
And gosh, I’m way overdue to nag you for a new post, ha!
Lovely to have positive feedback from you both; this seems to be a very polarizing trip. Some of our friends and co-workers have said “A marvelous adventure!” and the rest have told us we’re crazy and endargering our children. But, hey, Barcelona is somewhere I’ve always wanted to go, so that’s an enviable place to end up, too.
And, whoops, I put my head up!
Seriously, just give me a date…
Narciso Rodriguez for Her. I just had to make a change from hot weather citrus scents.
Love that one too. I am thinking about getting it out soon. You smell great!
Right now, I am wearing Tonka Imperiale while looking for my wallet. I’m hoping it is either in my Dad’s car or in customer service where I work. I’ve never had this happen before. If not, I am going to have to call my bank and my credit card company to get new cards while watching to see if there is anything fishy. Yeah, I am panicky right now.
Good luck with that!
I hope you find it. I know that feeling. I lost mine in a movie theater a couple months ago, and luckily I got it back. It fell out of my purse under the seat, and I didn’t realize it wasn’t there until I stopped at the grocery store on the way home.
So unsettling and ultimately a pain in the butt having to cancel and get new cards. I do that at least twice a year. But the silver lining is discovering the good samaritans of the world. Hope you find it intact.
Had to actually be somewhere today, an old friend’s father’s funeral, & it’s warm & sunny here in the north east of Scotland so wanted something lighter than my usual Penhaligon’s Bluebell – am wearing Trish McEvoy’s Snowdrop & Crystal Flower, which occasioned a couple of compliments at the get-together after the service.
Scotland! Oh, I’d love to travel there someday. I have a bit of Scottish blood from my mother’s side. I’ll be cliche here and say that I’ve read all the Hamish MacBeth stories and also spent some time studying a map of Scotland so I had a better idea of the way far up geography of the UK. I’m trying to figure out how I can get there via a string of ferry rides from North America, across the different island countries of the north Atlantic. My husband kind of chuckles at me about this when there are such things as airplanes.
Hello AnnS
You’re one up on me – hadn’t realised Hamish Macbeth was anything other than a TV series which I didn’t watch, notwithstanding I am a huge Robert Carlyle fan! My late aunt lived in upstate New York & many years ago 2 friends of hers from here in Aberdeen went to visit her by sailing from Southampton (on the south coast of England) on the QE2, because one of them didn’t like flying. If you ever get to this part of the world, please do drop me a line.
SOTD is Sballo by Bruno Arcampora. It feels right today. But then, it almost always does for me.
Hi everyone. I’m wearing Jungle Elephant, loud’n’proud. I love it, from its slightly camphorous opening notes, through the mad muddle of sweet spices and wood in the middle and the gentle reminiscence of its last play on my skin. I was feeling a bit gloomy until I sprayed myself: the swelling and bruising around have now come out around my mouth and I look multi-coloured, lop-sided and most odd. My dear man said my cheeks remind him of a small American creature with an assertive tail and a natty outfit–I hope he was thinking of a chipmunk and not a skunk. On the other hand, he doesn’t love Jungle, so I’m not totally confident…but I have a great thing to look forward to: tonight I can eat some casseroled chicken! Super!
L’Elephant is big and bold to be sure! A trumpeting kind of scent, so to speak.
You are magnificently colorful today and it sounds as if you are healing wonderfully well. I mean, chicken casserole…? What a delight
Mmmm, yum. What I want, of course, is a jacket potato and grilled steak, but I’m just being perverse.
Being at home has given me too much time to play around with samples. I found Sycomore, and now I can’t stop thinking that I absolutely need it, ‘cos I’ve nothing like it, and yesterday I had rather a thing going on with number 18 as well. And, you see, these new loves don’t have to be unrequited, because soon I will be in Sydney, and there’s the Chanel boutique really close to the hotel…
Well, some folks here say Encre Noir is very close to Sycomore. I don’t know. I have never put my sniffer on the Chanel. I did a BB with the EN and couldn’t smell a thing. I had to send it to a loving home. May be worth your while to get a sniff of the EN to see if it satisfies your hankering for the Sycomore. A very thrifty alternative to be sure!
Mmmm, steak on the grill…almost time to go home…think I make grilled steak salad for dinner…
Glad to hear you are feeling better. I second the Encre Noir recommendation. It’s excellent, and quite close to Sycomore. And way cheaper.
I’ll try the Encre Noir while I’m there. It gets lots of love, but I’ve never seen it for sale in A-NZ. It was probably gone from the stores here long before I started abseiling down the rabbit hole.
I know that you all like the men’s version, so I shall seek it out rather than the one they direct at girls. I’m keen to try the Dior exclusives too, mainly to eliminate them from my enquiries, but who knows? I may fall in love again. I’m terribly susceptible! To perfume, that is…
Glad to hear you are on the mend, Waterdragon, if you can’t talk yet your L’Elephant will certainly ‘speak’ for you, loud’nproud, indeed!
Solid food! Yay!
I’m wearing Clinique Aromatics in White because I plan to be out and did not want anything assertive or complex. It bears no resemblance to the original that I can detect. I like it at first but later one of those woody notes that I don’t care for emerges. It needed a bit of real patchouli instead. I’m afraid to try the upcoming Black version, fearing it will have one of those spiky woods.
It would be fun to make a dictionary of such correlations, don’t you think?
Black, adj., [wish it were] archaic….
7) one of those spiky woods
–usage: modifier of titles, cf. Flanker
We totally should! It would be so much more useful than Luca Turin’s idiosyncratic and frankly snobby effort.
Ninefold–haha, that would be Ninfeo–Mio today. One of my favorites and wisH I had a FB so I could dab/spray often.
That was love at first sniff for me too! A full spritz is 10x more wonderful than a dab. I found my FB at a discount in the old packaging, which I think is prettier anyway
I love that frosted green bottle – it’s so pretty!
For some reason this morning, I felt like I really needed a strong and confident scent. I went with Gucci Rush. I always feel a little badass when I wear it. Even though I am not. I ended up having a distressing day. I keep smelling my wrists for more strength. Trying to keep my head up.
I hope your day improves lillyjo.
Thank you Petunia. I am waiting for some news at the moment. As Tom Petty says ‘ the waiting is the hardest part ‘ sorry, couldn’t resist a Classic rock reference.
It’s a classic because it speaks a deep and profound truth. Hope you get only good news
Czech & Speake Dark Rose is my SOTD.
I put some on a little while ago, after a sweaty workout and a shower. I feel better now that the workout is over
Decided to give my sample of Bulgari Thé Bleu a full wearing today. It’s not bad, but I don’t think I’ll feel any need to own it. Violet leaf and I are not friends. I’ll be interested to try the black one when it’s out, but so far red is definitely my favorite.
I like Bulgari The Rouge, too. It’s good any time of the year. I need to try the Bleu and Black ones. Today I put on Laura Tonatto Fior D’Arancio.
SOTD is Tru Blooms Fountain of Roses, the second in a series of fragrances created from flowers planted, grown, and harvested within city parks and urban gardens of Chicago. It’s described as an aquatic floral – Buckingham Fountain filled with roses with the beautiful Lake Michigan in view? Not an ozone note, however, the ‘watery’ sense is provided by sparkling citrus topnotes that lend a wonderful refreshing quality to its heart of rose geranium, LOTV, and pink rose petals. Blonde woods, a bit of patchouli and some musk provide a warm – but not too warm – bottom. I love rose fragrances but find many too rich for summer heat; this is one that wears very nicely.
And it’s gratifying to me to support this joint endeavor in which the company has partnered with the city of Chicago; 27 gardens were cultivated for this initiative, 60 jobs were created and specialized training was provided to 150 workers.
That’s lovely.
Community gardens are such important projects. This sounds really interesting & important too!
Great story. At $42, it might be worth a blind buy
Checking in late…I’m in Helsinki, just finishing a walking tour. If I were more adventurous, I would stay in town and walk back to the ship; however, since I get turned around quite easily and maps look like a neuron chart to me, I will stick with the tour program and go back and enjoy the rest of the day on or near the ship!
For those following my step count, I am up to 138,000 as of yesterday! 37,000 more steps and I will meet my 2nd goal (175,000). At this rate, I’ll set a third goal of 200,000 and I need to decide on a reward!