Happy Tuesday, and happy National Fig Week! What fragrance are you wearing today?
I went with Imaginary Authors Yesterday Haze.
Reminder: this Friday, 11/6, will be Enabler Pin Friday: bestow a pin on someone who convinced you that you just had to try (or buy) a fragrance. And of course, wear the fragrance!
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 Figs [cropped and background extended] by Ramnath Bhat at flickr; some rights reserved.
I love fresh figs- yum yum. Sometimes the frozen ones at Trader Joe’s are not that bad either.
The last couple days I have been testing out the parfum and the EDP , the inspiration from the community project a few weeks ago for “slow-burn”. I noticed that a lot of people had Shalimar as their answer and I never really gave it a shot. The parfum and the EDP I automatically liked better then the EDT. I am trying to tell my wallet that the EDP is just as good as the parfum :-\
I love figs too, even the dried ones.
Is your wallet listening?
Ha! I hope the wallet is listening.
When I lived in San Francisco a while back I remember going to the farmers market and buying fresh figs- it’s a treat
Was that the Ferry Building market? Glorious.
Hi Lovestosmellgood, I have an unloved bottle of the parfum (Ode a a la Vanille works much better for me). Let me know if you have anything unloved and we can maybe figure something out. email me at brenda dawt moyes at yahoo dawt calm if you’re interested.
It’s the spray bottle, not dabber, so the bottle isn’t pretty.
Emailing you now
I am sandrabenedict at gmail just in case it goes into your spam or something. Emailed you
Like figs, but not in perfume for some reason. We’re having a string of stellar sunny & warm days here in Chicagoland. Yesterday at the park there was a lady with the most winning combo of dogs: a bulldog, golden retriever and cocker spaniel, bounding joyfully about. They were so cute! Keeping the cheerful vibe going, went with CSP’s Pamplemousse (can easily change my SOTD in a couple of hours too).
Fun!!
There’s a baby bulldog in my apartment building named Chunk. I can’t let him pass without petting his many, many face folds. I suspect his poor owners are a little sick of me, but he’s just tooooooo cute!
A baby bulldog named Chunk? I just melted.
I’m with you on the figs – love to eat ’em, don’t like them in perfume.
And have seen SO many people drive up to the polling place today with a dog (or two. or three!) in the vehicle. Have seen an elegant Weimaraner, two cute Boston terriers, a Shih Tzu, two blueticks, a beagle, and several other dogs today.
Totally braindead tonight. This is shift 6 of 9 straight, and very late ones so getting to bed at about 3/4am. Dragging my feet til Saturday…
So even though I can smell myself I totally forgot what I was wearing. Had to think about it.. Bvlgari Jasmin Noir. It doesnt get much love but it’s such a comfort scent to me. It’s helping, I think..
I was just looking up Jasmin Noir before I read your post! I have debated with myself over it for a long time. Sometimes I really love it and sometimes I just kind of like it.
Im not always in the mood for it either, but other times it just has enough cozy and enough sexy to feel right.
SL Arabie. No figs, but dried fruit (obviously— it’s a Lutens) and tons of spices on a warm, resinous base. Sexy but unexpectedly subdued, in a good way.
Fig Day?? Then I’d better go with Philosykos! I love my solid, but often wonder if I need a full bottle, too.
Fig WEEK. Just saying.
Alas, I am not doing fig week–maybe next week (do I have five fig scents?). I am on day two of violet week and am wearing CB:IHP Violet Empire. I should wear this more often.
I really, really want to try this one.
I’m back in Chergui today. It’s cold and damp and we might be getting snow this morning.
Fig week, you say? Well, I’ll have to remedy that for the rest of the week!
sotd: Diptyque IE Mimosa. Really nice stuff. Subtle (after 10 sprays) but very nice.
Diptyque EI Mimosa is one of my favorite perfumes. I am going to buy a backup bottle.
You smell heavenly!
I’m trying to pretend I can’t hear you guys. I’m not sure I like mimosa, but I love that bottle!
Didn’t know about fig week. I’m wearing Cuir de Russie today, in it’s most glorious form, the extrait.
Is it glorious? And would that be new or vintage? I had a decant of the EDT (modern version, I’m quite sure) and found it completely underwhelming, not even in my top ten of leather scents (there were actually a couple of Demeters I liked better), but I am willing to believe that the extrait is wonderful and worth hunting down.
The modern extrait is worth hunting down and trying. It’s a lot better than the EDT, and I love the EDT.
I love the EDT, too, but I think the extrait is worth trying even if you don’t like the less concentrated version.
New. Purchased 2 years ago. I happen to like the EDT a lot too, but it doesn’t make me feel weak at the knees like the parfum does. So worth trying at least.
I’m adding my tuppence worth to support the extrait as well, Pyramus. It’s just gorgeous; not a chicks-kick-butt leather like Bandit, just elegantly present, like a posy of gentle flowers carried a while in a soft leather-lined hand-bag until the flowers smell of leather,and the bag of flowers. Seamlessly, perfectly done. I betcha you’ll love it!
Glorious is the word. You smell so good.
I have only one fig perfume, the divine Neela Vemiere Ashoka. I’ll have to pull out my small bottle this week.
Today is a beautiful, sunny day in Chicago, so I’m taking a break from my heavier fall perfumes for some L’eau d’hiver. I have the travel bottle in my purse to reapply this fleeting beauty through the day.
It’s a beautiful sunny and unseasonably warm day so I put aside the ambers and spicy scents and am wearing Volnay Brume d’Hiver. I love this scent and really need to track down the other scents in this line.
These days are the best, made sweeter by the impending winter. Makes me want to ditch work.
Your pic made my decision for me — Figuier Ardent.
BTW, the PINROSE line at Nordstrom, though mostly unremarkable, has a really good fig fragrance. It reminds me of Pulp!
A fig perfume similar to Pulp… Must sample!
Same here, thanks Elisa!
I thought I was totally figless, so I am in DSH’s Scent of Hope. Little wafts of peachy irisy loveliness…and now I read here that Ashoka has fig in it! I just got a sample of that in the mail. I will sample Ashoka tomorrow, for the cause!
The fig in Ashoka is creamy and comforting, almost to the point of smelling like coconut milk to my nose. (In a good way, even though I’m not fond of coconut.) I looked it up and the official notes are fig leaf and fig milk. I’d be interested to hear your thoughts when you sample it.
Fig leaf tea – just crumbled leaves, steeped – smells quite coconutty.
I’m wearing LADDM today and feeling pretty fabulous (which is nice after being so incredibly sleep deprived and cranky yesterday).
I had dinner with my parents last night and my mother–who generally hates scents–mentioned that she wouldn’t mind if I wanted to get her a second(!) decant of a particular scent she wore as a teen. That feels like a strangely large victory.
Nice! I’m curious to know which scent.
Strangely enough, this lady who gets headaches from my conditioner and lotion–and who I don’t ever remember wearing fragrance when I was a kid–was thrilled when I said I could give her decants of Bal a Versailles and Faberge Tigress for Christmas. Apparently she needs a refill on Tigress already!
Wow! Yeah, which one?
Faberge Tigress. Apparently she used to borrow from her sister’s bottle.
I’m always entertained and/or amused by the topics that come up as national or international day/week this & that, Robin! I wore MH’s Figue Ameure some years ago & was practically mugged by the receptionist each time I visited her office to pick up/send courier packages! I relented in the end & gave her the bottle with a fairly serious quantity of juice remaining – she was thrilled!
MH Figue Amere is a really nice fig scent. Different from most. I finished my bottle a few years ago and long for more of it every now and then. I love the salty edge.
Up for some blasphemy today, so I layered Shalimar parfum over Molecule 01. It’s interesting to add a chemical that wasn’t available in the 1920’s to something so iconic.
Not an imorovement of course, but not bad either.
Almost scent twins- except no molecule for me
I thought about wearing Caligna in celebration of Fig Week (and I do love figs), but I’m a little obsessed with my new bottle of Dzing! and, with such a lovely fall day forecasted for SoCal, couldn’t resist its pull.
So happy about that, too. Yum.
Dzing! Oh, I so need a bottle of that one. Adding it to the list!
I am in D S & Durga Coriander today. It is light on me, but I put enough on to last the whole day.
Random samples today– Cio Cio San on one hand and Fior di Loto on the other. Neither are particularly me (though Cio Cio San is very pretty) but the combo is making me smell like spring.
Chanel 19 today. I haven’t worn it in a while because I couldn’t find it. Finally tracked it down. Clearly needing a better storage solution :/
Twins!
Triplets! I recently got a small sample (2mL) vintage-y (90s or so, I think) at a street fair for 50 cents! Trying it out today. Hmmmmm….
When I put my nose right up to it, I don’t like it that much, but over the course of the morning, I got some really nice floral whiffs when moving my arms around. I don’t think this is going to be the Chanel for me, but I’ll definitely finish the sample.
Quadruplets!
I love that so many here love it. Before NST, I felt like I was the only person alive who liked this one. It is so nice to know there’s a whole faction out there in this big old world!
I have yet to find a fig scent other than Womanity that I actually like. They all smell like mildew to me. On the other hand, I love fresh figs. My sister-in-law has a huge fig tree growing in her front yard, and used to serve fresh figs with a lemon yogurt to dip them. Yum. SOTD is Gucci Guilty.
Ditto! The only fig I seem to enjoy is Womanity, and honestly, I do not know that I’d know it was a fig scent if I hadn’t been told.
I too love fresh figs, but the scents are frequently too milky mixed with generic skin of fruit for me to wear as perfume. Sometimes I like the scent in soaps, because it smells clean to me without all the modern muskiness of “CLEAN.”
Exactly. I’m with you. Will devour but not wear.
That fig picture is making me seriously hungry! Today I’m wearing the Volutes EDT which is lighter and more citrusy than the EDP. However it isn’t lasting very long on me. I should have popped my little travel sized bottle in my purse. I’m ready for a respray!
You smell great!
Since I am not much of a fig fan, this week I am going to work through small samples that have squeezed themselves into the tiny corners and backs of perfume boxes. This morning I am trying Keiko Mecheri’s Bois De Santal (Thank you Merrily!!) The good news is that a tiny .5 ml sample is plenty to test this fragrance… It is primarily a rose scent to me—and I am so pleased with myself for figuring out what it reminds me of–Tresor! The first 10 seconds are clearly sandalwood, but the next half hour is an acoustic variation on Tresor (not as headachey)… Now it is calming down again and I am getting woods with my rose, and even a little fruitiness (not listed in the notes)…. If you ever wanted to try a less bombastic Tresor, this might be it…
I love Yesterday Haze! How ironic. I didn’t know that it was National Fig Week! Just got my Summer Fig body wash and body butter from The Body Shop yesterday. Couldn’t wait to use it. I love it! So I topped it off with Wide Fig & Cassis by Jo Malone. I will be wearing this all week because I am off to a Counselors Conference for the rest of the week! Yay!
I didn’t know either…glad I found out before it was over
And glad to hear the TBS stuff is good, will have to try it.
Right now, I’m wearing Frapin 1270 and yesterday I was wearing Infusion d’Iris. You know, I can never make up my mind about Infusion. One day I like it and the next it’s somewhat okay. Post shower, I haven’t decided what I am going to wear.
I really have to be in the mood for it too, but when I am… it is lovely!
I’m always attracted to it at first sniff but soon find it boring to wear UNLESS the weather is very hot and humid (as it often is in the DC area). Then I appreciate how chill it is.
How does something get a week vs. a day? I love figs in all their forms, but curious on the whole week idea. Gorgeous, mouth watering photo.
SOTD for me is Ambre Russe.
Ha, good question!
Yeah, how?? And other things get a whole month.
Wearing Jo Malone Birch & Black Pepper, because I was looking for a scent that would be traditionally British/English, but modern and a bit rock’n’roll at the same time. B&BP is a pretty good fit and I like it – it’s one of the more interesting scents from Jo Malone (I think).
Oh, and I love figs – in perfume and even more so in body products; raw figs, dried figs, roasted figs, fig vinegar, fig syrup, fig everything.
I completely agree. I have this one too, but I don’t think I’ve worn it yet! I forgot about it, thanks for the reminder!
You’re welcome! I hope you enjoy wearing it.
Scent twins! I’ve been wearing this a lot the last week suits my mood and the weather we’re having.
Hi, twin! It’s a good one for current Brussels weather, too – it’s officially autumn, but it’s still very nice and warm. B&BP has the “autumn ingredients”, but not the heaviness.
I’m wearing Aftelier Vanilla Smoke—just received the sample yesterday and I will definitely be buying this one in one form or another. It’s gorgeous, although not (to me, at least) tremendously smoky. I got samples of the parfum and the EdP, and the smokiness seems a little more noticeable in the EdP.
I like the sound of this one!
Jealous jealous jealous! I can’t wait to try that one!
Jealous too! How’s the sweetness-factor?
It’s slightly sweet, but much less so than many vanilla perfumes.
oh, I have been waiting to hear some feedback about this one! What do you think so far?
I love it so far. It’s a very creamy scent, if that makes sense. There is a lot more smoke and wood as it dries down. I resampled CB I Hate Perfume 7 Billion Hearts the other day and it is nowhere nearly as bitter-smoky as that.
Oh, good to know! I had a teensy decant of 7 Billion and did like it but no where near enough to get a FB. I love creamy scents so I really need to just order a sample of this. Thanks????
I actually adore 7 Billion Hearts except that it doesn’t seem to last very long.
Have only tried the EdP so far but I found it smokier than you did. Great scent.
Yippeee!!! Sounds perfect!
SOTD is Chanel 19 EDP, because I wanted something a little bit bright today. It’s so lovely.
It’s gorgeous! You smell fab!
Popular choice today!
Fig Week? Oh dear…I haven’t really explored figs as a perfume note. I’m in something far away from fig this morning, L’Heure Bleue vintage parfum.
Trying my Benjoin 19 sample.
Not with the fig program today. It’s another scorcher here and I forgot to spritz before I left this morning to run errands. Just got home and doused myself in Guerlain Vetiver. Feeling somewhat refreshed and rejuvinated now
You smell divine.
Late entry today, SOTD is Lexington Ave (Bond no. 9).
Good morning all, from a dreary, rain-soaked Auckland. It’s cold enough today for me to wearing a long-sleeved linen jumper and heavier jeans. Summer is very dilatory about getting underway this year. Setting aside my moans about the weather, I just want to say that I find it absurdly charming that we live in a world where someone has declared a national fig week! I’ve been sitting here eating my breakfast and smiling about it, and I have no idea why it caught my fancy more than the other celebratory days Robin has reminded us of. However, delightful though figs are in all their forms, including perfume, I’m wearing Bandit, and the raw green and leather are reaching out into the whole apartment. My husband doesn’t like this one much at all, but he RESPECTS it. He just asked me what my diary holds today, thoughtfully kissed the top of my head, and advised me to take it easy. Huh! Hey, have a wonderfully fragrant day, NST. Enjoy all that you do….I’m going to, just see if I don’t!
Figs are the underdogs of the fruit world! Go figs!
Do you think so? I rather thought they were having a revival! They always seem to be featured on these interminable cooking programmes, roasted, drizzled with honey and served with clotted cream or something, or draped glamorously with prosciutto. I like them raw and warm from the tree, but however they come, I’m with you about supporting figs. Up the fig! Figs forever!
Roasted fig & honey & fresh cheese pizza, yes. But it’s darned good!
How I wish figgin’ Fall would be here to stay, but No! the temps are supposed to go up to the seventies the next few days. Ugh. That said, I love fresh figs. For a quick fig fix, peel fig, split in half, drop a dollop of balsamic vinegar (the concentrated type that comes in a squueze bottle), on the inner part of the fig, let sit for 15 minutes or so and top with parmesan cheese shavings (I’m lazy — I use the pre-shaved version). If you’re feeling slightly more ambitious, you can wrap the fig halves with paper-thin slices of prosciutto. Yum!
Mmmmm……
Oh, gorgeous. I’ve noted this, and Robin’s pizza. Soon(ish) it will be fig season, and I shall raid my sister’s tree. BTW, is anyone else a fan of Open All Hours? I love the episode in which Arkwright decides to move all his overstock of figgy biscuits!
Hermes Un Jardin Mediteranee ….love this scent. I also find this is a great ‘travel scent’ : one that I take everywhere I go as it is very adaptable, wearable and can lift a drab city location or add sparkle to a family visit…the type of family visit where you do several trips to the dump (waste centre?) for your mum.
I’ve got a visit to my mother-in-law coming up: I’ll try UJM to see if it helps. It’s completely mad that after all these years, I still dread The Visits.
I feel your pain. For me, it is my sister-in-law. I’ve tried everything from showering her with gifts and praises to blocking out all her snarkiness… but she still gets under my skin–even after nearly 20 years! (And don’t even get me started on all the great bottles of perfume I have gotten her over the years!)
Yep, the in-law relationships can be tough and difficult to negotiate. I smile and say little, but eventually, I stop smiling. I still say little, but my mood gets grim. Actually, I might need something stronger than UJM, now I come to think of the visit objectively! Might be a day for Femme, and bother the consequences!
You need Rien, Bandit and Aromatics Elixir!
Nice to know about fig week! I will pick something appropriate tomorrow
Today I’m wearing Frederic Malle En Passant.
Lovely choice!
You smell beautiful.
I don’t think I have much figgy perfume, the closest I can think of is Ninfeo Mio, with fig leaves. It doesn’t seem quite right for the drab day (Wellington seems to be much like Waterdragon’s Auckland), but this might be a day to go with perfume that males me think of the weather I wish we were having.
Sitting in a cloud of Encens Mythique, waiting for my houseboy to bring me a bowl of figs.
…Rats, I am still working for a living. Will have to feed myself figs AFTER a day of work AND will have to do my own fig-buying too. Hmph.
Life is hard. ????
It is, but Encens Mythique makes it better!
Absolutely!
My houseboy MIA too
What IS it with houseboys these days! So hard to get good help!!!
Wearing SL Five O’Clock Au Gingembre to celebrate a gorgeous fall day. It’s not fig but it a perfect fall scent for me. Wish I wasn’t stuck in an office all day. I want to go outside and play.
Love this one! I think I’ll spray some on when I get home this evening, after my L’eau d’hiver fades away.
I love L’eau d’Hiver too.
SOTD = Chanel No.19 EDP
i’m awarding enabler pins to Marjorie Rose, mals and AnnS. It was a “Limited Edition” comment in a Lazy Weekend Poll dialogue circa February 2015 amongst the three of them that prompted me to seek this out. It became my birthday present from me to me and joined the ranks of my all time favorites in many categories.
Oh yay! Glad you’re liking it. I love the older edt, but I think the edp is a tad easier to wear sometimes. Lovely stuff.
Tea for two, which was enabled by a lovely NST swap. (Thank you!)
Ready for semi-sun fall day with a bit of chai and smoke.
Didn’t know about Fig week but I love Yesterday Haze, wore it last night. I love figs too, fresh, dry, preserves etc. We went to Philadelphia in August and I found some fresh figs at the Reading Market, they were so good, we never get them here in the Midwest.
Wearing Commes des Garcons 2 today, the one with the ink. I can add it to my long list of perfumes that smell so great,I don’t know why I don’t wear them more often.
It’s Election Day, and I am taking an hour break from standing at the polls handing out election information for my husband who is running for our county board of supervisors. So tired.
Chanel NO. 19 vintage edt today… for backbone. So far, everybody has been pleasant, even if I know they’re voting the other direction.
I don’t know why I can’t stand fig notes in perfume. I love to eat figs. But there is something impossibly bitter about fig notes (and this from someone who digs notes like myrrh and galbanum, usually noted as smelling bitter) – I guess the bitterness of fig leaf is just not “my” kind of bitter.
Ohhh.. . the political landscape of Wisconsin (wink, wink)! But seriously, wishing your husband and yourself all the best this election season!!!
It looks like he’s won, 60% to 40%. Which is respectable.
I didn’t realize it was fig week.. I should’ve worn Philosykos or something.. maybe tomorrow. I’m wearing CDG Kyoto today, and now I’m wondering if Philosykos and Kyoto would layer together..
Also fig-related: I have a recipe in a book on liqueurs that my friends gave me for Christmas last year that is brandy infused with dried figs, honey and chai tea, and it’s amazing.
That sounds wonderful, and very festive!
incensy fig?- sounds good to me, give it a go, and please let me know how it is.
Oh, forgot to mention my lovely scent of the day is Silver Iris, which is a lovely & happy Autumn perfume for me.
As far as I know, I have nothing that even resembles fig in a perfume. I wore Narciso edp all day and switched to Lou Lou tonight. Every time I wear Lou Lou I think my gosh, I should wear this everyday, but then I don’t. really, depends on my mood, tonight,I needed something a little bad ass and a little sexy. hope it works.
Couldn’t decide between Kelly Caleche and Cabochard tonight so I am wearing both and they are playing well together!
There is a fig tree on one of my walking routes and I always surreptitiously stop to break off a piece of leaf because the sap smells fantastic, much better than either Philosykos or Premier Figuier.
I’m testing Aftelier Fig again. It doesn’t really smell like fig to me but rather some kind of honey or dried fruit, oatmeal and nut bar. And a big dollop of gusset. It’s a strange experience.
… those would be strange together, yes.
Papillon Perfumery’s Anubis for me today on this gorgeous fall day.
Wearing Memoirs of a Trespasser. Today is the 3rd day of rain we’ve had in what was to be a 4 day rainy stretch. But if I glimpsed the TV weather correctly, looks like they’ve added rain to 4 of the next 5 days. If I’m gonna wear fall scents, I guess I’ll have to reimagine what fall looks like.