Another weekend, gone! What fragrance are you wearing?
I'm wearing Paul Smith Story.
Reminder: this Friday, 28 August, as the summer winds down, wear a fragrance that says "Summer 2015" to you. (If it's winter where you are, wear a fragrance that says "Winter 2015" to you.)
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.
Carnal Flower. I just bought a travel spray and I am already yearning for a bottle. This is one of the Summer 2015 scents for me, along with Kerosene Unforsaken, Seville a l’Aube and BV Knot.
That’s a really great list — I could do a summer with those!
CF is perfection. I’m usually pretty stingy when it comes to pricey perfumes, but CF is worth every penny. You smell great!
love your list!
Was sniffing various samples and got Floris Honey Oud on me so that’s what I’m wearing. I was planning on testing it when the weather was a bit more autumnal but whatever. It is one of the most gorgeous oud scents and it smells like there’s real oud in it (no traces of band-aid). Stunning
Sounds lovely!
I’ve been curious about the Floris Honey Oud.. need to try soon!
Trying out Olympic Orchids Javanica and what a lovely use of nutmeg in this creamy floral, I must say. I am beginning to think that if I had an opportunity to start my perfume journey over again, I would start with essential oils and niche and stay out of the mainstream almost entirely…….
But perhaps you needed to begin with mainstream so you could work your way into appreciating some niche stuff (not that there isn’t expensive niche dreck)
Nor excellent niche-worthy mainstream offerings!
You are both right. It is just very disappointing and depressing to have very few places in my perfume desert to sniff any thing new or out of the mainstream. I hate samples, it is never enough and spraying and dabbing render almost completely different fragrances. I appreciate the luxury of spraying on paper, wait, try on skin, wait and then decide. That is a ritual I enjoy, but just do not have the opportunity to have. But enough of my cranky self!
Who are those peeps in the photo? They look vaguely familiar.
SOTD is Ninfeo Mio to help offset the sauna that is late August in the South.
Where is autumn…?
It’s a still from the Paul Smith (UK designer) eyewear collection campaign in 2014. I can only identify two of the models: John Wiles (left) and Julia Nobis (center).
Thank you — I did not know their names, just that it was from the 2014 eyewear campaign.
Thanks, they look suitably hipsterish. I thought the dude on the left looked like River Phoenix, but alas, he stepped off the planet a while back.
Appropos of nearly nothing, I read this weekend that River Phoenix’s first name really was River, but his last name was Bottom. Who would name a baby River Bottom?
The same people who named his siblings Rain Bottom, Summer Bottom, Joaquin Bottom, and Liberty Bottom! The parents legally changed the last name to Phoenix sometime after they moved back to the U.S., according to The Source of All Knowledge (Wiki). Lots of creativity in that family
Our summer is quickly drawing to a close. I am so bummed about this. It was only about 52 degrees last night! Brrrr!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BTW – Ninfeo Mio – you smell great!
Send that weather here- the entire state will thank you. I just realized today what NF reminds me of! I have been getting a tickle of familiarity ever since you introduced it to me and it was driving me crazy (don’t have to travel far to get to crazy in my case). It smells just like Publix (our grocery chain here in the swamps) Key Lime Fozen yoghurt! Delicious and so refreshing. Everything seems to revolve around food with me
Lipstick Rose from my Malle coffret. Would like some more of this and Carnal Flower, but not sure if a travel spray would do it or if i need a bottle before new management messes with it..
I once worked for Lauder and I can say that they typically let the brands they acquire do their own thing without much interference. The influx of money just means they can quickly grow and expand the brand in ways that may not have been possible before – so this probably means more FM freestanding stores (as they did with the full acquisition of the Jo Malone brand), more scent launches, but not necessarily a tinkering with existing formulas. But time will tell the tale, eh? Fingers crossed, as I loves me some Carnal Flower.
You had me at coffrete. I don’t remember seeing that on the website. Is it new?
2012, but it has appeared a couple of times since then.. there was a male/female/complete collection..maybe (hopefully) they are re-configuring due to the new scents since then? I of course am greedy so splurged on the complete, mighty expensive one
Good for you! Why be content with some when you can have it all
What’s your favorite of the lot?
SOTD: Ladyboy from Lush.
This is totally bananas. Honestly, it is what the scent is based on. Yum
And such a great name!
Oh how I miss Banana Moon
today it’s: Profumi del Forte Roma Imperiale
which is easily in my top 10 of top 25 scents (because I can never truly list my top 10, perhaps not even 25, so this is a joke in my house)
this stuff is amazing.
I agree whole-heartedly
I’m wearing Rosa Flamenca, not quite dark, nor quite light but somewhere in between.
After showering, I think I’ll spritz Carnal Flower. I’ve missed her.
Today I took my husband’s bottle of Chanel Egoiste, and gave myself a few light sprays. It smells so good!!!
You smell great!
That’s a great one.
I’m in Atelier Sud Magnolia. It’s nice, but I don’t love it. Still impressed with the line as a whole. I really want to try their new jasmine scent.
I’m wearing Dzing! for the first time. Apparently you either love it or you hate it, and right now I’m not feeling the love. Maybe in the dry down? I’m getting the same musty notes that I get whenever I try to wear a fig scent. There are no figs in this, but something in the fragrance is pushing that button.
It isnt either love or hate for me. I like it enough to have a small bottle from years ago, but to be honest, your mention of it reminded me of that! I find it similar to Bvlgari Black, which I wear more often. I really should wear it again to see where it fits in my love to loathe scale now as I probably havent sniffed it for a good 2 years! :-/
I recently wore it again and found the warm weather treated it well, made it sunnier and nuttier.
Though again, just a LD at this point…
LD?
“Light Drenching”? “Little Decant”? “Lonely Drizzling”?
Yes, similar to Black is how it strikes me too. Also SMN Nostalgia. (And actually, thinking of Dzing in the company of those two, I may have to take back what I just wrote below about not seeing the musty quality!)
(little decant)
and mine is sadly AG
(almost gone)
How interesting. Full disclosure, I love Dzing, and figs, but I do know at least what you mean about the mustiness of some figs. I hadn’t noticed that quality in Dzing though–it makes me curious whether it could be a skin interaction thing. By chance have you smelled Dzing on paper? Does it strike you the same way?
I’m Keeping it Very Simple today with just some coconut vanilla body lotion as I finalize last minute details for our special birthday trip to Disney World with our Little Ones. It’s just the four of us; at almost-8 they’ve never been and we haven’t been in 30 years, so I hope the months-long preparations result in a lot of smiles for them and lifetime memories of special moments shared with Grandma and Grandpa long after we’re gone.
I’m only taking minis of L’Occitane verbena and Bvlgari Omnia Coral, just in case I have a moment to think about fragrance, or want to, because I know I will be exchanging our lovely early fall weather here for hot and sticky days ahead.
Wishing everyone a wonderful week!
That sounds like a fabulous holiday Laila! Im sure they will treasure the amazing time you’ll all have together
Thank you. The kids are on their way here right now; they don’t know where they’re going yet, only that they’re going on a special trip with us. tomorrow morning. My granddaughter told daddy she thinks we’re going to Antarctica!
Quite the opposite, my weather app told me that at 11 a.m. today it was 89 and felt like 99 degrees in Orlando. Oy!
It’s very hot. And humid. No let up in sight, but you will be having too much fun to notice
Seriously, stay very hydrated!
Too sweet! And what a wonderful surprise. Hope you all have a great time.
You all will have so much fun together!
Fingers crossed, I hope so! We’ve never gone on a trip together like this together, beyond the camping realm. Those butterflies I released last week are now flying in my stomach!
I think I know what you mean, based on my anticipation of adventures with my niece and nephew. It does seem to me that Disney is at least as likely to please as camping. Looking forward to hearing about your adventures!
No idea about Disney World, but Disneyland, to my total surprise, had a very nice perfume boutique! Lots of Hermes, Guerlain, and Dior, among others. It was totally empty, with two very nice SAs. I didn’t buy anything as my head was in a Pirates of the Caribbean mode, and goodness knows what perfume that might have inspired me to buy!
Right now, perfume is the farthest thing from my mind, but that can’t last long, can it?
Huh! In the hotel or in my the park itself? I haven’t been there since 1997.
In the park, across from the exit to Pirates of the Caribbean!!!!!
Lucky! I’ve read about the amazing perfume collections in the various Worlds at Epcot. Maybe if have any mommy time you can go explore. Have fun!
I read that Epcot/France has a very nice fragrance boutique where one can buy items not usually sold in the U.S., so I might just take a peek when we’re passing by . . .
Aha! You are already thinking about perfume again
Drained my sample of Heeley Cuir Pleine Fleur this morning, and am hoping the post office website isn’t lying to me when it says my larger decant will be delivered today. Someone a few days ago mentioned Jolie Madame as a sort of sibling or cousin, and I think that’s spot-on, although CPF doesn’t have the slight fizziness that Jolie Madame has, and I think CPF has a tiny bit more leather. I REALLY like this one. (Santa, I can’t choose between Cuir Pleine Fleur and Ciel d’Opale – may I please have both??)
Thank you for all the kind birthday wishes on Friday! Back from a great weekend, I’m now sitting at the airport on yet another business trip. Wearing Rahat Loukoum, and admittedly didn’t bring much in the way of quiet office scents with me. I’m so tired of business travel and decided I wasn’t in the mood to compromise on scents.
I’m sampling Prada Infusion d’amande.
The almond and bitter almond notes are very good, imo. But the base is the same iris/musky stuff base they always use, so the drydown is a bit of a letdown.
almond? I love the smell of bitter almond. Hope it finds its way here.
Perthgirl, I know that the new Pradas are coming to Auckland quite soon, so you’re bound to see them in Perth. I’m looking forward to the almond one especially, and I really want to try the carnation one too. Am sort of hoping they might be in Sydney next week, but my rule is not to buy anything when I’m travelling that I can pick up in A-NZ. They’d have to be in the “can’t-live-without-this” category for me to break that rule. On the other hand…almond!
I tried the new Pradas at Kadewe in Berlin and the only one I liked was the carnation.
Inspired by several mentions of Carnal Flower, I’m wearing Mona di Orio Tubereuse.
How did you like Mount Rushmore?
Very surreal and entertaining! I especially loved Badlands.
I’ve heard great things about Badlands. Did you spot any surprising historic plaques hidden in the landscape?
At Mt Rushmore? Not really but I admit I was mostly just gawking at the giant faces
Oh, the Badlands are great if you have never seen them before. Glad you had a good time.
Thanks Kris!
SOTD is Aftelier Perfumes Lumiere, a green tea floral. I’d forgotten I had a sample til I was scanning thru my spreadsheet this weekend. Pretty….
I’m extending PdN Friday into Monday with L`Eau à la Folie and loving me a little mojito..
In Encre Noir today, a wonderful vetiver that I discovered due to it’s great reviews here on NST.
I put some of EN on yesterday after the sun went down. It is so earthy and smokey and gorgeous!
Wearing Amouage Epic Woman today. I don’t know why I am hoarding this stuff when I have two big bottles of it. I’m happy that it is cooler outside to justify wearing it.
Maybe Im a glutton for punishment, but I discovered that I simply adore Epic in the nights of the days when its so hot sweat is running down my back. There’s something totally hedonistic about it.
That’s hot
For real, though, as per my post below, I am absolutely convinced that perfume smells better on dirty, sweaty skin.
The way it was meant to be worn!
After all, why invent perfume and continue manufacturing it these several millennia?
It never gets as hot as that here, but I’m going to try the night after the long hot day thing with all my Amouages. I don’t wear them as much as I thought I would. This ploy might mend my fraying affections.
I’m wearing FM Portrait of a Lady today before a little yard work. Air quality here has improved over the weekend. On Saturday, I could hardly see across the street due to smoke from wildfires in Eastern Oregon, Washington, and Idaho.
Those fires are so truly awful. I hope the best for everyone. I camped once at Hell’s Canyon (Hat Point) and on the top you could see evidence of an old fire. It was eerie in the fog. I know the forest and fields eventually regenerate themselves, but it is just so massive.
Because it is the first day of school and the kids are coming back, I decided to wear my signature fragrance. My SOTD is Nectarine Blossom ad Honey by Jo Malone. This fragrance helps me keep a smile on my face and just brightens up my day.
For some reason that doesn’t surprise me. I wore Blackberry and Bay with Orange Blossom by JM. I am very curious about the new Mimosa. Have you tried it yet?
No, but it’s next on my list!
Sampling CdG Luxe Champaca. I liked it better when I spritzed it on in a store a few weeks ago than I do this AM. This confirms my theory that most things smell better at the end of the day on “dirty skin” as it smelled sweeter, richer, and more exotic than it does after showering this am. Now it’s greener, more tuberosey, and slightly soapy. But still a nice white/yellow floral. Although kind of boring for a CdG.
I agree!
Is that the luxe luxe luxe luxe, or the EdT? When I did this, I wore the xl one in the shop and the EdT from home, so that could also have something to do with it.
It was the EDT both times (the rectangular bottle) I don’t remember touching that pyramid thing.
sort of impulsively put on Chanel No. 5 this morning. My sniffer is still sort of on the blink. I can barely smell it.
Hope your sniffer will recover very soon. Are there other scents you can smell more reliably right now?
Sorry your sniffer is on the fritz. You smell good even if you can’t smell it!
You all are just wonderful. In spite of the massive amounts of antihistamines I take, right now is sort of the peak of my allergy season, (golden rod and all the things that bloom at the same time!) so I think some of it is just allergic irritation in addition to the dwindling effects of that nasty virus ( which keeps traveling around the office – an office mate who NEVER gets sick is home today with the headache and fever beginning of it…), so, I have every confidence that a few more 55 degree nights and a thunderstorm or two to knock the pollen out of the air will have me back to my odor appreciation baseline…
Due to the gift that keeps on giving, the very first thing I do as soon as I arrive at my desk is to wipe down my work surface, phone, headset, keyboard, mouse (in reverse order actually but I’m too lazy to re-type). When something nasty is going around the office, it usually skips me and moves on to the next person. I have a sign up to tell the cleaning lady not to clean my desk (she uses the same dirty rag to wipe down everyone’s desks).
Yes, I have these antiseptic wipes I clean everything off with….
Tried Citizen Queen for the first time today–love it (got a decent sized mfr’s sample spray). For some reason, this is the only JHaG that truly appealed to me, based on the notes.
Ô Intense de Lancôme for me today. I’m intending to compare it (via memory) with Eau de Givenchy and Eau de Caron, and maybe Eau de Guerlain later. A perfume pal raised an interesting question about these Eau de __________ (fill in name of house) scents, so I’m conducting whatever field tests I can source.
Anyone care to share thoughts on any Eaux de Maisons?
O, and if anyone can compare Ô Intense de Lancôme with its non-intense pillar Ô, especially if vintage-ish, I’ll be thrilled!
What was the interesting question?
(Inquiring minds want to know!!)
Oops, built that up way too tall. It was something like, “How would you compare Ô de Lancôme, Eau de Rochas and Eau de Givenchy? It seems that these three are often discussed together.” On hand I had the Givenchy and some unmentioned Eau de Caron, and that Caron was very much the odd man out, tarry lemony dusty vanilla (Caron’s answer to Shalimar? I only thought of that after writing those adjectives, not once during the wearing). So I got interested in the question.
I haven’t tried Ô Intense, but the various vintages of pillar Ô smell different, so it’s a complex question.
Good point. I haven’t smelled any of them but I hear good things!
Two of my favorite citrus-y eaux are Eau de Guerlain and the Chanel LE Eau de Cologne. EdG gives me more herbs and florals and wears a bit longer, while the Chanel is smooth and glossy with more spice, then it smells like clean summer skin.
Nice comparison. Thank you!
All ‘straighten up and fly right’ with me today to drop up my youngest baby at school this morning. 7th grade. (Yes, that whirring you’re hearing is the sound of my helicopter blades on high…) Needed something spine stiffening but easy, so went with Prada’s Infusion d’Iris. Husband’s comment? “Oh, you’re not wearing perfume today!”
I think that’s why the Absolue version appealed to me. I could smell it without having to spritz 10 times!
So much better than yesterday’s inversion.
I meant the comments.
Hello, everyone. I’ve started my day early in a haze of Bois des Iles and good-humour. Hope both stay the distance!
Gorgeous!
You smell divine!
SOTD = FM Iris Poudre
I want to use up the remains of my travel atomizer so I can switch to my FB! It is perfect for today and the dry-down is fantastic!
Iris Poudre is the best!
Agree!
Such self-control. I usually switch to the FB the instant it lands in my hot little hand. I’m also really good at re-wrapping secretly-unwrapped Christmas presents.
LOL
Pulled out Parfum Sacre today, not quite suited to the weather yet. But i can’t wait to wear this once it turns Fall.
PS is a great fall scent. All those shimmering spices!
I thouight about putting this on this morning, but also decided to wait for chillier weather!
Everyone smells so great today! I couldn’t decide what to wear, so for a while I just enjoyed the remnants of Tokyo Milk Dark Bulletproof that I put on last night (smoky tea and coconut, but the coconut is pretty subtle and just adds creaminess). Then I decided to try some samples that were sitting around – Dame Perfumery Dark Horse on one arm and Passion Fruit, Orange Blossom, and Vetiver on the other. OH MY GOODNESS I love Dark Horse. I can’t even tell what is in – well blended – it but I can’t stop sniffing my wrist
Dark Horse smells like a spicy vanilla to me. Almost like Black Flower with more spice, less citrus. It is nice.
Also, nice to see a mention of Tokyo Milk. I think her Dark series offered some affordable(cheap) scents that are much more interesting and fun than the mainstream offerings at Sephora.
SOTD is AG Heure Exquise dry body oil and edt. I don’t normally put them together, but I wanted some extra oomph.
I had the oil at some point and loved it!
The EDT is the only version of Heure Exquise that I’m not familiar with. I have the EDP and the oil. I often layer them and they work together so beautifully. So you must be smelling great today!
Wearing Love is Sweet by 1000 Flowers. It reminds me of a scent from childhood, but can’t figure out what.
I decided on Ineke Angel’s Trumpet today. Have to enjoy those florals while it still feels summery outside.
It was a pretty perfume-full weekend for me. Fumie SIL is in town, so we dragged most of the family around to the CBIHP showroom, then the next day walked down Bleecker street for the Bond 9, AG and Diptyque boutiques. Whew!
After all that, this morning I drained my sample of metarboles. It is still barely there on skin, but clinging nicely to hair.
What did everyone think of CB’s place?
Interesting. We expected (from the address) that it would be the cute/hipster part of Williamsburg, and were surprised when it turned out to be the industrial/not yet gentrified part of Williamsburg. The downstairs neighbors definitely had an eau-de-cigarette thing going on. But the staff were lovely and it was fun to poke around and sniff stuff.
Vetiver pour elle. Right on the line of refreshing and dirt, and so so good. This little decant is delightful, and there’s not much pour elle/gendered about it.
Needing both strength and comfort this morning so naturally went with No. 19.
I hope it worked!
Aftelier Tango. I’m still sulking because it’s discontinued. It can still be special-ordered, but with a minimum of two bottles, and so it’s not practical.
I tested Sepia and Palimpsest recently, but I don’t really like them. I liked Bergamoss but don’t care for solids.
I had trouble “getting” Pamlimpsest. I took it as a personal failing, with such a great name and great list of notes…
Phooey. If a scent is not “you”, it’s not, and that’s all there is to it. Wouldn’t it be dull if everyone liked all the same things?
…and I didn’t like Palimpsest either.
I did not like Palimpsest either. Bergamoss is another thing together. I am just waiting for the weather to cool down before I place my order.
Oof I feel your pain–I just decided I loved Honore des Pres’s Sexy Angelic, only to discover you can’t find it ANYWHERE. Have placed an order from eBay Germany–cross your fingers for that risky undertaking… Meanwhile, maybe you could mention Tango in the upcoming splitmeet? Maybe someone would like the other bottle!
Meanwhile I was thinking of you today, seeing the current Neiman’s bonus offer–$300 gift card with code NMAUG if you pull the trigger on Diaghilev today! For something practical
C.H., I’ve ordered one or two things from Germany on ebay with no problem, so it seems like a reasonable risk.
I’ll try the splitmeet – you never know!
Diaghilev – that is MAJOR temptation!!!
I went with Providence Perfume Co. Hindu Honeysuckle today.
You smell great! Maybe that’ll be ‘my summer 2015’ scent. ..
Thanks! I like this one a lot.