If you have a spare moment, do tell us your fragrance of the day.
I'm wearing the stunningly beautiful Wit by Parfums DelRae.
Reminder: tomorrow, 9/4, will be Back to School Friday...wear a perfume that says 'back to school' to you, or that says you mean business, or ....?
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 school buses [cropped] via Dean Hochman at flickr; some rights reserved.
Guerlain Terracotta since I’ve hardly worn it this summer; I’ve been on a sampling jag and have mostly ignored what I already own. It’s good to wear something that I know I like and not have to think about
Scent twins
Same here. I’ve been doing so much sampling that I’ve hardly worn anything I already own for months!
Scent triplets! This stuff is so sensual and sexy on bare skin.
SOTD is AG Passion – just a light application of the EDT since I’m in the office today.
Fraternal scent twins–I am wearing Panache.
Hey almost-twin! You smell great too.
I had planned to wear Fleur de Chine, but I was so busy admiring my tiny Le Creuset pots in the morning (I’ve just bought them and made oven-baked eggs) that I completely forgot. So I’m wearing Fleur des Fleurs by Une Nuit a Bali, a nice, slightly tropical floral (I happened to have a sample in the office).
You bought the mini cocotte? I make my eggs in one of those all the time, love shirred eggs — if they have lots of butter and lots of cheese
Well. How to say this? The thing is, I bought six of them, in different colours…
I tried out different combinations: egg with smoked salmon, with cheese, with tomatoes and ramson butter. All were delicious.
Well, good for you — they’re adorable. I only have 1, because nobody else in my family likes shirred eggs.
But they are good for desserts, too!
You two are making me hungry!
Yum, I’d love to go to your house for brunch!
If you happen to come to Brussels, this can be arranged
You are making me tiny cute Le Creuset pots! My kitchen is red and white mainly, do they have red ones?
(Going out on the internet to see)
Oh, no, they do, a set of three on a little tray…but, I was going to buy Perfume! with this paycheck, and now these tiny little red pots are calling my name. Evil Anniky! It’s all your fault!
I’m willing to take the blame, but I think they can fill a similar role to perfume: something lovely that you don’t necessarily need, but that makes life a bit nicer. And mornings easier to bear. Everyday luxury.
And yes, the colour selection is pretty great.
Meredifay, if you only want one, check Amazon, that’s where I bought mine (and did not pay full price for it).
I’d never heard of shirred eggs, and now that I’ve looked it up, I have to try it. The mini cocotte is awfully cute, but I think the ramekins I already have will have to do for now.
The ramekins will do very nicely and it’s a great dish – a bit like omelette in the sense that you can use whatever ingredients you like and have endless variations, but baked/shirred eggs are much easier to get right. You just have to know how a clock works. Good luck!
You can absolutely make in any ramekin, the only advantage to the cocotte is the lid.
You can also use ramekins to make coddled eggs in a saucepan of water — I did that for a long time before I finally found one of those very old specialty revereware pans.
In Terracotta today! My summer scent
Wondering if anyone know if the Shalimar cologne that was released this year is available in the USA?
Shalimar EDC is currently available online at fragrancenet, but I have no idea if what they are selling was released this year – it may be from an older batch.
This new Shalimar Cologne is a totally different animal from the EDC. It comes in a beautiful pink bottle. I have yet to test it though.
Oh, interesting, I’d missed this. The EDC is so nice, though, I wonder why they had to come up with a new version.
They should have come up with a better name for this new flanker as not to confuse us!
I’m in leather and roses today – Cuir Mauresque layered with Rose Anonyme. Great combination.
Yum.
Mmmm, this sounds good. I love Cuir Mauresque, but have never tried to layer it with anything.
Nice combo!
Big fan of Cuir! My sample is gone baby gone, but I have fond memories of it.
Scent twins! You inspired me to pull out my sample of Wit. Very, very pretty.
And Nightingale inspired me by wearing it yesterday
SOTD: Knowing.
My comfort scent. The reason for wearing this is because I caught a whiff of my colleague’s oakmoss fragrance and it got me craving some. Funny thing is, he doesn’t wear any perfume but just some spray-on deodorant and it becomes this beautiful oakmoss scent on his skin.
Talk about enviable skin chemistry…
Possibly enviable spray-on deodorant. I borrowed some over the weekend that are marketed as masculine, and they smelled impressively like full-on perfumes.
Possibly nicer perfumes than the womens deodourants! I use men’s deodourant as the womens are all fruity or aquatic or that watery chemical floral blahness.
I totally agree! I am trying Cashmere Mist deodorant today for the first time… (it is not a perfume I wear, but the deodorant gets a lot of love on the blogosphere)… it is okay, but I’d prefer me some good ol’ vetiver… usually considered a masculine ingredient in deodorant for some totally atavistic reason!
Scent twins? I ran out of my everyday deodorant the other day so I broke out the special occasion Cashmere Mist. I liked it better twenty some years ago when it was oval shaped and in a black container. I don’t know if it was reformulated when they changed packaging. (The perfume definitely has been.) But it seems the old stuff was softer, both physically and scent-wise.
Hey Lucy, I’m flappin’ my arms at ya.
So, the deodorant is okay, but what you are describing from 20 years ago sounds more like a product I’d like… luxurious, which this product is not.
Prada Infusion d’Iris EDP is my SOTD
I caught a whiff of this on someone on the subway this morning, and it smelled so nice. You smell great!
This morning, I was going crazy trying to figure out what wonderful scent I was smelling and where it was coming from. I never figured it out–probably a combination of perfume on my clothes, pillow, and scented cards on my nightstand–but it put me in the mood for something sweet and spicy.
So I’m finally jumping the ready-for-fall bandwagon. Enjoying a pumpkin latte and slightly overdid it this morning with Arquiste for J. Crew 57. Too bad it’s supposed to be 90+ degrees today.
I find that J.Crew 57 doesn’t last long on me so maybe you won’t have to worry
Are the pumpkin lattes out already?? Yay!
You smell great! Hope No 57 doesn’t overwhelm you in the heat.
I adore both of the Arquiste for J. Crew scents. Hope he does more for them!
Ha, did same last week–we’d had a few cool days in a row, and finally I succumbed and put on 57… so of course that day it was 95 degrees and humid as heck. Whoops. Hoping you can enjoy it somewhere climate-controlled
I have done that so many times, too! And I agree, most likely it’s a combo of several. I have the same thought when I put on my seatbelt in the car. The shoulder strap always smells fantastic
I love Wit!
However, am sampling Jour d’Hermes Absolu, having not gotten along with something harsh in the original, and having heard that the Absolu version was easier to wear. So far no “ugh, must get this off me” as I had with the edp, but I’m not loving it either. It’s odd how very few JCE fragrances I actually like.
Oh, urgh. No, I’m going to have to scrub this one too. Just no.
Ha, JCE wins again
I’m the same , I love the bottle and the idea of both those Hermes scents, but unfortunately they make me nauseous !!
I didn’t like either of the Jour d’Hermes versions, either. Something about the sour top notes, which smelled a bit like (bad) grapefruit, just didn’t work for me. Which is strange considering how much I love Pamplelune in all its grapefruit glory.
I love Pamplelune too. But there’s something in this that I can’t actually SMELL which is working my nerves the way Sharon Stone plied an icepick in Basic Instinct.
HA! Of the many pleasures I did not realize would accompany a perfume habit, the wit and verve of perfumista prose has been one of the best surprises
(For that matter, the poetry’s none too shabby either!)
Agreed! Mad entertaining.
So interesting to me which perfumers one does or doesn’t jibe with. I confess I think maybe I don’t “get” Christopher Brosius. The scents are beautiful but I haven’t really found one I think is *appealing*–they all smell like things I might like to smell on an inanimate object more than on my skin. Like very lovely room scents. Obviously many noses more sophisticated than mine disagree tho!
(The one exception to this example for me might be Gingerale, but I’m having a hard time pinning down whether this came before or after his time at Demeter.)
I’m wearing a sample titled Vintage Shalimar Deodorant, applied as perfume.
I’m going to have to try Wit, as there are too many people who adore it to ignore.
Still deciding which of my samples and decants at my desk (there are beginning to be an almost comical number) to use…
I think I might do Cuir de Russie on one arm and Mille et Une Roses on the other. #decadence
Have a lovely day!
Wow, decadent indeed! They are two of my favs – I’m interested to hear how they smell together.
Because of my scent eating skin, I can safely wear two different scents on each arm and no one – including me sometimes – will notice. As they’re on two different arms and both fairly soft (on me anyway), they’re not combining. The CdR is from a spray so it projects a bit more, but the other is a dabber sample and I can only smell it when I push my nose to my wrist.
I did have someone standing next to me grab my left arm (the CdR one) and take a good sniff – apparently that one is doing well!
Someone you know?
Ha – yes, thankfully! A work friend. She loved it.
I started off trying to compare Dzonkha and Timbuktu, but shortly after I applied, I had one of those reactions where one’s lips and tongue start going numb…I react that way to some pesticides, roach and ant killers, etc. Argh, distressing. Suspect it was Timbuktu, but I have not been appreciating Dzonkha either, so both got scrubbed, and put in the pass along envelope – actually, the 2nd pass-along envelope, as I have been sampling, comparing and culling ferociously.
So then to sooth my nose and nerves, I probably oversprayed Seville a l’Aube, but my office mate is out of the office, so I am here in an lovely orange blossom haze…
Anyway, to extend my little tidying up frenzy here, if anyone is just aching for a random batch of samples, and can’t wait till the next Freebie Meet, email me and I will pass some along, as I would like more room in my perfume drawer… use my username at gee mayl..
Oh dear, do be careful!
My hyperactive histamine generating system is annoying sometimes, but it inspires me to eat organic….
Oh too bad. I love both of those…
I am also steadily growing my “hmm no thanks” box of samples… It actually makes me feel better. I once met a man who said: 1) he had never had a bad meal in his life; and 2) he put ketchup on everything.
LOL! Sorta sounds like adorable hubby, although I am slowly inspiring him to be a little more discriminating than that!
Is there a perfume equivalent of ketchup?
Pink pepper
(…I feel ok making that joke because I like both!)
I had a few glib responses…but they all were disses…but truthfully? I love ketchup. So it is complicated… a scent or scented product that is almost universally liked (like ketchup which is considered indispensable even by people who cannot stand tomatoes) but is also very accessible, cheap, and lowbrow. Sigh. Nope. Nothing matches ketchup.
ugh, that’s no fun. Unum Lavs did that to me, plus metallic taste in mouth and shortness of breath. That’s the only perfume (so far) that I’ve ever had a truly allergic reaction to. Where’s IFRA when you need them? Ha!
Hope you’re feeling better now.
I had the same for Atelier Oud Saphir. I literally got nauseated and had to sit down and drink a lot of water. Was very weird
Hope you’re starting to feel better!
thanks for all the notes of concern – whatever it was was only on my skin and soaking into my system for about 10 minutes before I cleaned it off, so I am fine now. But yes, I have had the full blown reactions other mention and it is really not fun at all.
Ooosh! That sounds kinda scary. I also had some reaction today to my sister’s cloud of Stella which smelled nice but made my chest feel heavy and my throat scratchy.
Wit is simply beautiful!
Today, A Taste of Heaven by Kilian.
I started today with Tom Ford’s new Venetian Bergamot, which I like, but could tell it would not last past 10am for me so I added a few sprays of PdN L`Eau à la Folie.
Funny how we were chatting the other day about not smelling scent on people as I was just over at the desk of a colleague and she smelled really good. I asked her what she was wearing and she said the Burberry Woman, the original. I looked it up and its a fruity floral, but it didn’t smell like that on her at all. Amazing what chemistry will do to a scent..
Oh my! It must be an indication that i have waaay too many- like Old Mother Hubbard of perfume- because I actually forgot I owned this until you mentioned it.
Im surprised that its listed as a fruity floral because that’s not what I get at all. It certainly isnt pink and sweet or any of the things that ‘fruity floral’ conjures up. It’s quite a nice scent and I used to get lots of comments on it too.
My sister wore this on her wedding day last year, and I remember the vanilla being prominent enough that it seemed more of an oriental to me. Definitely pretty.
Wearing Sa Majeste La Rose–I drained my sample of this today. So excited, I’ve been blowing through perfumes like crazy in the past few days. Gotta use up samples to make room for new samples and old favorites.
Nice! Yeah I am on a mission to clear things out, myself. How’s it going on your end? Anything you’re liking well enough to reup, or so far is it mainly things you won’t miss?
SOTD was a blind grab out of a bag full of minis, which luckily for me ended up being Vrai Blonde. I am continuing to avoid the summer citruses, trying to prepare for for fall. This is my only ELDO, and happily enough, I really like it.
Ah, that picture of buses reminds me of a box of pencils – same color. I opened a box of my colored pencils the other day and the smell was great, wood shavings. Smells like creativity
SOTD is Dame Perfumery Rose, Cassis, and Sandalwood. I’m craving roses big time today!
That Dame is one I haven’t noticed existed. How is it?
It’s a great jammy rose. I don’t get much sandalwood.
sotd: frederic malle carnal flower
i’ve been thinking about tomorrow….what smells like ‘back to school or back to work (end of summer?)’ to me. I have about 3-4 in my head. interesting to ponder this one!
It’s a great topic, isn’t it? I’m predicting a fair number of 19s. I wonder what else people will come up with.
Back to school makes me think of cedar and the smell of pencil shavings when I empty the pencil sharpener. I’ve not found a perfume like that.
Have you tried Precious Woods from April Aromatics? It’s a nice rough cedar bomb, although it’s missing that greasy mineral graphite note. I know graphite is soluble in oil, so that could make for some interesting layering experiments. I have no knowledge of how safe it would be but my guess is pretty safe. Pencils ought to be designed for all methods of human consumption, judging by the habits of very young writers and some of the extra stressed out older ones.
I am wishing it were cooler and am pretending it really is fall by wearing Diptyque 34 boulevard Saint Germain. I have been training for the Abon Breast cancer walk in October and walking in 90 degrees plus humidity is so gross!
Avon! Not Abon
We had a hella hot summer here in PDX – and then right on cue it cooled down to highs of 70s last week of August. But I am still wearing summer fragrances!
So jealous of your temps!
Yikes, that is gross weather to be walking in. Good luck! At least you smell fabulous
Thanks!!!
Jour de Hermes layer on top of Santa Maria Novella almond soap. There is somethiung about grapefruit/pink peppery/almond scent that really feel pretty and comforting.
Robin, I love the picture. This is just our 2nd week in school, but it feels like its been months. Geesh! And, I’m in charge of transportation and buses this year. So, I’m digging the bus picture!
My SOTD is Chloe. Not sure what I will wear tomorrow since our “back to school” day was somber. Noone was ready to return. Oh, well. Back to the daily grind.
Being in charge of buses would give me chills (not to mention hives)! I tip my hat to you. Respect!
Thanks so much!
Same here, that’s got to be tough!
Dries and I are hanging together again. We’re becoming bosom buddies despite the fact my fashion choices are an egregious affront to his esthetic ideal. What can I say, yoga pants are comfortable.
I’m going to have to think about an “all business” scent… Not sure if I have anything to fit the bill since I haven’t taken myself seriously since I was about 9.
Happy Almost Friday Day to All
Hey, Victoria at Bois de Jasmin did a fun piece on Belgian fashion designers– a museum exhibition–the other day. It was about Dries and others–most of whom I did not know. BUT, there were lots of very a la mode, avant garde, cutting-edge (you see where I am going) pants in the show that looked like yoga pants to me!
I saw that! And thanks for your yoga pants support!
Sadly, I am neither avant garde nor cutting edge. What I am, is lazy. And a big lover of non-binding-in-the-waist pants. It’s my waist needs to be whittled, but I don’t anticipate that happening any time soon.
It’s still phenomenally hot herein Cleveland and I am wearing Jicky. Can’t wait for the heat to go away.
I needed the perfume equivalent of a food detox after this week’s wild ride of the good, bad and the ugly. After much hemming and hawing and picking up bottles and samples and putting them back down, I settled on Tabac Aurora to center myself on what great perfume is all about.
Great choice! I look forward to wearing that more with the cooler weather coming.
Eau de Shalimar today. This was a blind-buy for me in the winter, and I found it dry, dusty, thin, and high-pitched, but as a light, lemony-vanilla cologne-type scent, it’s obviously more suited to warm-weather use. It’s still a bit dry and powdery, but pleasant- I just sometimes wonder if it’s too close to baby wipes and vanilla car freshener for my taste. However, I always find that the spray mechanism on this and other Shalimars is perfection…they dispense a fine, light, even mist and I love it! I wish all sprayers were like these…
A good sprayer is surprisingly hard to find.
It really is, isn’t it? You wouldn’t think so but it sure is. Some shoot a stream, some are bizarrely hard to aim with accuracy, some leak onto your finger…
I do agree that the Guerlains have a great sprayer! I also find that my Chanels have a decent one too.
Seems that’s what distinguishes les grandes maisons these days…
I was thinking yesterday how much I love a sprayer that works well. I have an Hermes travel spray that will give a perfect puff of mist when I press quickly or just a little bit of a spritz if I press gently. Love that!
Penhaligon’s Ostara. In the spring, the drydown was a bit too honeyed and dense for me, but I think this fall it’s going to be wonderful.
The first few minutes are so pretty, aren’t they?
They are!!! I wish the first few minutes lasted forever.
I picked infusion d’iris absolue, workhorse pretty-but-distinct scent in my wardrobe! I found three of the new infusions and briefly sampled two: amande and oeuillet. The latter one has a nice spicy top note but once that faded I found it hard to smell anything but the Prada infusion base. The amande is quite sweet (it’s apparently unisex but I would never have guessed it) but has more character and longevity. I’ll have to sample again, more thoroughly, and try to find the cedre too!
Do you find the Iris Absolue better in some seasons than in others, or would you say it’s good in all seasons?
I’ve worn it in all seasons! But I live in a cold climate so I don’t really know how it behaves in very hot weather. It definitely has enough heft for our cold damp winters though, and it’s my go-to for weddings and similar occasions!
Yesterday I wore Dior Vetiver, for palate cleansing purposes after Tuesday’s Amouage-sample-overdose. Today is AG Eau du Sud. Can’t wait for the holiday weekend….
How does that compare to the Guerlain Vetiver?
Resolutely ignoring the autumnal weather and wearing BP PC01 — (imaginary) summer rules!
SOTD = TDC De Bachmakov. I think if Queen Elsa (from Frozen – have been watching too much of it, not by my own choice) wear a fragrance, this would be it.
Today is my husband’s birthday so we are off to loiter in a favorite antique mall. I am drenched in Korrigan and enjoying it greatly. Almost to the bottom of my second small decant (partially due to a screwy sprayer, hence the drenching) so should probably pull the FB trigger on this one.
The kittens are all spayed and neutered and “in recovery”. Unfortunately, the girls don’t realize they have just had major surgery and are supposed to rest. Please, someone tell me how to explain to four kittens that they aren’t allowed to run or jump for ten days!
Feed them into little kittie comas? The only way I know to slow down cats…
Yeah, but after 15 minutes they’ve processed all that food into feline jet fuel.
Oh to have that kind of metabolism! LOL…
I’m glad to see someone liking Korrigan – I’ve been contemplating a FB for quite some time now.
I really like it if I’ve worn through two decants. My FB purchases fall into three categories: impulse buys, things I love for special occasions, and things I really find comfortable to wear. Korrigan is in the last category and the one I should always try to purchase from.
Annikky, I have Korrigan; it was a blind FB buy and I love it. And use it liberally.
No SOTD yet, just in the door and looks like there is a package from Luckyscent w/ taurville incense flash inside along with a sample of I Miss Violet and Ambrette 114 since so many have commented recently on its coziness for fall. I have never worn fragrance to bed, I usually spray my sheets with lavender, but I keep reading that many contributors do apply fragrance at night … So my SOTN will be incense flash after I tear the box open!
I got a sample from Scent Bar and really like it. It’s kind of the perfect salty, caramel-y, skin scent. And it lasts forever! It’s also on my FB consideration list. We didn’t bother trying to contain our kitties after neutering. They healed fine.
SOTD = Diptyque Volutes EDP
All the Diptique wearersthis week prompted me to open the perfume vault (figuratively). I should wear this more often!
You smell great!! I am debating if I should get a decant of this – how is the staying power and projection on it?
I have the edt version and throw and lasting time are both great for me. I would imagine the edp is even better…
The EDT and EDP smell quite different to me but you are right about the throw and longevity. My EDT bottle is MIA right now…
The EDT lasts all day on me. I only have a sample of the EDP. They are pretty different. The EDT is dryer and more iris-y, powdery. I bought it a while back and don’t recall if I liked it better than the EDP or if cost were the deciding factor. But more recently I have preferred the more resinous EDP.
Staying power is excellent and the sillage is a few inches – definitely not a skin scent.
Wearing Eau d’Ikar. Finally bought it this summer.
Ede97005 is clinging to summer and ten miles away, I am watching the leaves turn red and fall off my maple tree! I think I’m pretty much done with summer scents and grabbed SL Un Bois Vanille this morning. I don’t have a clue what to wear tomorrow; I’m retired, so no school or business for me! I may have to find a perfume that says “Do whatever you want.”
I like that statement
Me too! It must be nice to wear what you want most days without considering where you’ll be spending your day.
oooh, that would be a good Friday project! Wear the perfume that says for you…. “I do whatever I want!”
Yes!! My hubby would say, don’t you already do that?
I envy you and wish to follow your lead, sensei.
I have not noticed changes in tree leaves- yet. But all the apples and Brooks plums, persimmons and pears are decorating the trees around Beaverton like jewels.
I am wearing my last summer outfit today- white pants with a sugary pink top and turquoise suede shoes- with le Jour de Hermes; I have no idea what back to business perfume I will wear- I have a few!
SOTD is Gardenia perfume oil by Olivine Atelier worn over YR Monoi oil. This is supposed to be our last really hot day, at least for this week so I thought it would bea last nod to summer, I hope.
Gosh that combo sounds nice!
Hi from Amtrak where I’m sadly realizing I really did not packing any back-to-school perfume! Ah well, I’ll be looking forward to hearing everyone’s favorite pencil shavings scent
Meanwhile scent of the train trip is just a lavender hand sanitizer from Whole Foods, to which I have something of a devotion. It’s a little silly as I’m sure I could find hand sanitizer at a better price–or a nicer lavender–but the combo of clean hands plus a little aromatherapy goes a long way to making travel more tolerable!
Plus they usually have a box of them at checkout, so, path of least resistance ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Wait. Which one do you have? I get Dr. Bronner’s organic hand sanitizer in lavender at Whole Foods and carry the spray in my purse. It is a “salty” lavender, very close to a room spray my mom used when I was a kid.
Oh, maybe I should give that one a shot! I’ve got the EO-branded ones–the scent won’t change anyone’s life (least of all lavender devotees, I should think), but it doesn’t smell as industrial as I feared, either. Just sort of soft, very l And the scent doesn’t linger TOO long, which is what I’m looking for from a hand sanitizer–nice to have a couple sniffs but then I don’t particularly want it to become my SOTD.
Wearing the bright but sexy summer leather that is Acqua di Parma Colonia Leather. Have a wonderful day everyone!
I picked Chanel No. 5 Eau Premiere again today. I have been wearing this a lot lately. It is so funny because I have never had a lot of love for Chanel and then this year I bought Eau Premiere, Cristalle and Coco. You people are having some serious effect on me. LOL.
Today I put on AT Sotto LA Luna Gardenia. It is really good on me, with enough gardenia coming through (but I have to be careful not to overapply, as it stays with me a long time).
You smell great! Wish I brought my sample with me to LA.
You could swing by Scent Bar (the real life store associated with Luckyscent) and get some samples
I am dying to get out and go to Scent Bar. I will whenI have more time. Love that place.
Bottega Veneta for my SOTD. I haven’t worn this in ages.
Was planning a quiet putter-around day at home but I’m smelling so fine I think I’ll have to go out after all!
Yes, share your BV!
Lys Soleia by the beach. It feels so right.
My SOTD is Guerlain Terracotta, and it’s delicious yet light. Now, I have a question for the perfumistas who are extrait bottle veterans. I got my first ever Chanel extrait, Box of Eels this past weekend, and I’ve opened the bottle. Am I supposed to cut the black string or leave it alone?
I have no clue about the string issue but congrats on the splendid addition to your fragrance family
Thanks! I think owning this bottle redeems me a little as a perfumista because I tend to wear and enjoy a lot of the popular, less complicated scents. La Petit Robe Noir anyone? Lol!
Congratulations on your wonderful bottle! What I do is wiggle the stopper until I can pull it free of the membrane covering the top of the bottle. Sometimes I have to cut the string but other times there is enough room to get the stopper out without cutting. I like how the string looks so I try and leave it, but if I have to cut it, too bad. I want the perfume more than the string!
I don’t mind cutting a little, just enough to free the stopper so I can dab away without fearing losing any precious drops. I also wouldn’t want to ruin the beautiful black seal.
I tend to be clumsy with opening things and it was much easier to cut. Unless you’re using it on a very regular basis, I suggest wrapping the neck and top with Parafilm to reduce/avoid evaporation. Parafilm is available from ebay. I can also give you some when I finally meet you one of these days!
Aww, you are way generous! I do know about Parafilm though haven’t tried it because I don’t do much decanting and never had a bottle of extrait until now. I so hope to meet you finally at some point soon!
I’m wearing Gucci Rush today. I hadn’t worn it in a long time so I thought why not. I’m kind of meh about it, but it’s fine.
Love Gucci Rush.
Hi all! Feel like I’ve been on another planet. I left for LA last Friday unplanned as my brother thought I should come out quickly to see my mother. So, I’m here on a one-way-ticket for now and staying at my folks abd helping out with my mom. It’s very stressful at times so I try to get out during the day. I ran an errand the other day and parked at a meter, and like a mirage, there was a perfume/souvenir shop which I ventured into with low expectations. They had classics and sone niche (Amouage abd Montale) and the young Iranian owner hauled out a bunch of vintage stuff he had including Arpege, L’Interdit, some Cartons etc. I left with Lyric body cream, a mini Caron Aimez Moi, and a couple Montale samples and an Amouage Fate sample. Wearing a light application of Fate which I really like. Also confirms my difficulty with the loud Montales. Too iso-E heavy for me. Will go into the freebie pile.
I miss checking in on a regular but sometimes do a quick read before bed (no cable or wifi here. Argh.)
I am glad you were able to have some time for yourself. And what a great little shop you found!
Thinking of you, ElisaP.
Thanks!
I love little shops like that, I’m glad you found one to distract yourself for a little while. If it’s a little town, try the drugstore next!
It was fun. The guy was really nice and seemed to enjoy talking about perfume and finding someone who appreciates vintage perfume, even though I didn’t buy any. It’s L.A.-not exactly little; -)
L.A.=no bargains, I guess, but lots of places to sniff. I thought you’d just flown into LAX and had gone elsewhere to see your mother.
This is perfume doing its job. Well done looking up at the right moment and stepping into that shop!
It certainly helps.
Hope everything goes well and that you can de-stress!
Thanks. I do take small breaks. I just need to remind myself that this isn’t forever.
L’Artisan Caligna today
Wearing Hanae Mori Hanae. It was a blind buy for me. I’ve actually received quite a few compliments on it.
Iris Ukiyoe this morning with a dab of Wit later in the day is more than ok for a Thursday. I love them both.
I’m soaking up the last few days of summer so I decided to wear, Dune by Christian Dior. Beachy, salty, deliciousness.