Happy Dr Seuss Day! Hope you will have lots of good fun that is funny. What fragrance are you wearing?
I'm in yesterday's flanker: Estée Lauder Sensuous Nude. Tea at the moment: Harney & Sons Kagoshima.
Reminder: On 3/4, wear a fragrance from Estée Lauder or Aramis, if you have one.
And for those of you who like to plan ahead, see Scent of the day ~ Friday community projects 2016, where I'll try to always have the next five or six weeks mapped out in advance.
First perfume I unpacked this morning was Jardins d’Armide so that’s what I’m wearing. At least this perfume box was easily accessible. I hate moving
Moving is the worst. Hope it goes smoothly…
It went pretty smoothly aside from the fact that I’m exhausted. Now I just have tons of boxes to unpack.
Glad you’re over the hard part. We’re planning to move very soon and it feels like we just moved, even though it’s been a year and eight months. I’m stressed out just thinking about it. Hope you’re done rehoming yourself for a while.
We just moved 6 weeks ago with a todller, a newborn, and a maine coon. It was so lovely… 🙁
AND you’d just given birth.
I think all of us still believe you’re Superwoman.
Yep.
I think you really must be superwoman.
I broke down in tears when we moved back home after being out for over a year during a major project, as it was so stressful and not finished etc.. Seems pretty minor compared to what you did!
Thanks, I need a cape 😉
Yes, a cape!
Listen to Edna Mode! NO CAPES!
I have a bulletin board (in storage somewhere) that says, “Some days I think I could conquer the world with a cape and a nice tiara.” I bet you (and maybe Annikky) have a closet full. 🙂
How? Were you able to hire movers to do everything for you? Are you from a family of 15 and everyone came in and did the work in an afternoon while you were in the hospital? 🙂
We are starting to look for a bigger house and I’m dragging my feet because the thought of packing all our stuff depresses me. We’ve been in our house for almost eight years (and have a lot of junk) but before that we moved four times in five years. I still have a recurring nightmare that I left a box at the old house but don’t realize it until a year later.
Moving is annoying, but you smell great today. That’s a lovely scent.
Bless you. We just resigned our lease and not because I love this un insulated, vermin infested, poorly built house. I just hate moving that much.
Ugh.. moving is the worst. Good luck with the unpacking, and hope you like your new place.
Good luck and heartfelt wishes for minimal stress unpacking.
CDG Zagorsk. The more I wear of my decant the more I like its bright clean lines: it’s really not smoky at all. I don’t know of any other incense like it. I probably wouldn’t buy a full bottle but it’s definitely my favourite of the Incense line.
Zagorsk just never grew on me. But you’re reminding me I have not pulled out my Ouarzazate in a long time…so maybe I’ll be your cousin this afternoon 🙂
I got samples of all the CDG incense series a while back and was waiting until my mini sprayers arrived before using them. Might do them next week as my lost-and-found project, although I have a l’artisan library set with prior claim. I want to try the incense before the weather turns warm, but hey, this is England, we have a while yet…
Just noting that really only Jaisalmer, to me, is a cold-weather-only scent. I wear Ouarzazate mostly in summer, and I would think Zagorsk & Kyoto & Avignon were pretty much year round. Maybe others will disagree!
Well, maybe Avignon not in full-on-summer. But still.
Yep. Kyoto is a summer incense to me for sure and Ouarzazate is wearable year-round. I should pull my bottle out too. I don’t think any are unwearable in warm weather unless you’re really not in an incense mood or the Avignon happens to go soapy on your skin as it does on me.
I’ve been wearing Kyoto all summer and I love how it responds to the heat ( especially outdoors, in nature ). Love this perfume!
I love this one in the dead of winter, it transports me to the forests of Siberia where I can smell the pine trees and the snow, and the hushed atmosphere.
It is cold, isn’t it? I like that about it.
SOTD = DSH Oeilets Rouges. A lovely powdery carnation, cozy and pretty on this nasty day in Michigan. Took me 2 hours and 15 minutes to do my 45 minute commute. Ugh.
I didn’t realize you were in Michigan – I’m from Mt. Pleasant. I’m guessing you’re in the Detroit area? Is there any good perfume shopping there? I wasn’t into it in the era I lived there, but now I’m curious.
Stay safe on the nasty roads!
Oh, hi! I work in Ann Arbor and live west of town in Jackson County. Perfumista opportunities are unexpectedly sparse here. It’s odd.
I love Ann Arbor, but it is odd that there isn’t a perfume boutique in that area, isn’t it? I feel like the Detroit Metro area could sustain it. Maybe someday!
Wow, I’m from Roscommon. Not neighbors, but about as close as it gets up there.
for a moment, I thought you meant Roscommon, Ireland!
I wish. I meant MIchigan. They are “sister cities” though. I used quotes because Roscommon, MI is quite small. Techinally it’s a village.
When I was very young, for a time, we lived in Houghton Lake.
Oh wow. The NST world is getting smaller. 🙂
It is indeed!
I take it you’re no longer in Michigan either? Was anyone left behind? 🙂
Wow – so random! Hi, former neighbor!
we moved to the east side of the state. Now in west michigan. Now you know why I hate snow so much.
Hey there! *waves*
My parents still live there. I make it up a few times a year. It’s about a six hour drive from where I am in the Chicago area. And sadly, no perfume shopping anywhere from here to there that I’m aware of.
That one sounds right up my alley, in fact the whole line sounds wonderful, wish DSH was available in the UK.
This is my favorite of her line that I have sniffed. It’s very satisfying.
Well, at least you have the commute time to really plumb the depths of your scent, explore and analyze, thus getting the full experience!
Trying to put a positive spin on it????
There you go.
I listen to Audible books, and dictate little notes to myself, and sometimes call everyone I know 🙂
Yeah, a commute like that needs its own itinerary.
I love Oeillets Rouges.
DSH Oeillets Rouges is one of the best carnations in the world. Love that!
Ditto. I retract any statement that I only want one fragrance (Beloved). I want two.
Sorry about the commute. We had that in Chicago yesterday. 30 minutes to do six miles back from the grocery store.
Ugh on the commute and the weather. Nice on the perfume, which I need to try again.
I’ve been meaning to try OR for quite a while. Everyone who mentions it always says nice things about it.
Your commute sounds awful. I’m surprised that you didn’t turn around and go home or that your employer didn’t cancel work.
When the weather is nice and the traffic is light, it takes about 37 minutes. Traffic being what it is, with the price of gas down, generally take 45-50 minutes. The snow on top of freezing rain yesterday made getting home last night and come back this morning pretty treacherous.
Due to the fact that I work night shift hours and sleep during the day, my SOTN for March 2 was Fiore di Bellagio by En Voyage Perfumes
I switch back to day shift hours when I am off, but during my work week my “day” usually starts at 3 pm when I wake up & I have to work from 6 pm – 5:30 am. I have a 75 minute commute one way in good traffic & good weather (don’t even get me started on bad traffic & weather….so I totally empathize with your commuter woes). I don’t usually get home until @7-7:30 am, go to bed around 10 am, then wake back up at 3pm, and do it all over again! I just now arrived home from work & I am making myself dinner with a glass of wine before heading to bed (I figure it’s got to be happy hour somewhere in the world right now…LoL)
I love the scent of carnations too, but I find the En Voyage Perfume one is a very spicy carnation, rather than a powdery one. I will have to try and give the DSH one a sniff after so many positive comments.
Now what I shall I wear when I wake up in a few hours and start March 3rd…..decisions, decisions, lovely scented decisions!!!
Almost twins – I’m wearing Sensuous Noir.
Step sisters?
One Of my faves! You smell fantastic!
My father read all the Dr. Seuss books to me so well, with such a sweet, melodic voice, that one of the main reasons I want to have children is to hear him doing the same for them. Hell, I may ask him to read to me again when I see him at Easter.
Van Cleef and Arpels’ Bois d’Iris today. The vanilla is coming out much more because I sprayed it on skin, and I prefer the way it smells in its opening and on my clothes. I’m not usually one that loves the opening of a scent, but this one is one of my favorites.
Have a good day, all.
I haven’t never tried that one, but it sounds like something I may like since I love Iris notes.
You can come over anytime and my husband or myself can read you some Dr. Seuss when you are away from your pop.
Awww – I’d love it! We really do need to meet sometime soon. And you know I’ll come bearing Dr. Seuss books as gifts for your little ones. 🙂
Yes we do!
Does Bois d’Iris run masculine on you? Just curious since its a unisex fragrance.
I love it too, and it does not feel masculine to me, in addition to Iris, I get a lot of vanilla, not too sweet, and some pretty mellow woods-no scratchy pencil shavings here.
Great thanks for your input!
It doesn’t run masculine on me at all, but fragrances do tend to “warm” on my skin.
I’m too old to have read Dr Seuss as a child, of course, but I did love any e cause to read them to my nieces and nephews. My oldest nephew is over fifty, but to this day, I can still recite “The Tweetle Beetle” poem, and I don’t even need a glass of Chardonnay to get started!
Several years ago I bought a copy of my favorite childhood book (The Duck on the Truck) and was reading it to my dad and he was reciting along. He still has it memorized decades later
Love this.
There are several books I read over and over to my kids, that I could still recite from memory! The Seven Silly Eaters and The Runaway Pumpkin stuck fast in my brain.
(But then, they watched the Toy Story DVD so often that I could probably recite the dialogue from that, too.)
I love this. My dad was by far my favorite person in the world, but he was horribly dyslexic so read too slowly for me since I could read easily very young. My poor mom always got the pleasure of doing the reading and my dad got the cuddles.
The Richard Scary books were my favorites but I loved Seuss, and Beatrix Potter as well as the books that had been my parent’s. I can still recite the entirety of Scat Scat Go Away Little Cat and several others.
My dad will break into it with little provocation too. Makes me want to curl up next to him. One of my best childhood memories. What a wonderful thing to have done for your nieces and nephews.
Oh, I must try Bois d’Iris on clothes. I loved it in the summer but have cooled on it a bit. The opening is gorgeous.
I’m having an extra day working from home today so wearing Tilda Swinton Like This for the comfort factor. Grey, cold and windy here.
I bet that’s perfect on a cold day. Where are you located?
I’m in London, so no dramatic snow or ice, but I wish spring would get a move on!
Sorry that I’m not able to share some of our non-winter winter with you. As I said before, I feel slightly guilty for enjoying the effects of global warming, but not too much 🙂
Love that Tilda Swinton, but where is my sample??
Bois d’Iris is another day or items of mine. You smell great!
Favorite of mine. Stupid spellchecker.
It is a pain in the tuchus, isn’t it?
Thanks for the compliment! I bet you do too, though I haven’t smelled the DSH you’re wearing yet. I will 🙂
I loved reading this thread! My father was called “Pop” by all the grand kids. And they adored it when he would read Hop on Pop to them. He passed away but this brought back such sweet memories of giggling children, who loved the thought of hopping on their Pop. 🙂
So lovely – so glad it brought back good memories?
As a mom I can recite almost every single Dr. Seuss book we own!
You an think about red..you can think about pink..you can think up a horse ..Oh the things you can think! HA!
L’ame Soeur by Divine today. Sort of mixed in with songe bois d’été ..don’t ask..had a sample fail moment.
Yes, me too!, Dr Seuss is such a brilliant creation.
The illustrations are so creative
Good grief. I’m first to comment,or so it seemed when I began to write! Insomnia is its own special sort of nightmare! I really just logged in to see what all of you were up to, so I’m not wearing any scent at the moment except the remnants of some unidentified perfume oil, quite pretty, slightly lilac-y, that I bought in Dubai years and years ago. I don’t know what perfume I’ll wear when the day begins. Maybe White Linen, just to be contrary, because the dress I plan to wear is black, and made of dome sort of polyester georgette.
Insomnia is truly the worst. Some friends at work have said that tart cherry juice helps.
I’ll try it! Thank you! If you told me that insomnia is cured by rubbing scrambled eggs in my hair while hopping on my left leg, I’d do that too.
My dad sells cherry juice and pills in his wine store. It has quite a few loyal customers. Make sure you get the tart juice, not the sugary kind at the grocery store. You’ll likely have to go to a natural foods or vitamin store to find it. Most of his customers prefer the cherry concentrate that has to be mixed with water. It isn’t the most pleasant drink, but the benefits outweigh the few seconds it takes to get it down. Tart cherry juice naturally contains melatonin, which should help your sleep. It also reduces inflamation, which anywhere in your body can cause a whole host of annoying issues. It certainly can’t hurt to try it. Good luck!
Thank you! I’ll pootle off to the health store down town and see what I can see!
I’m so sorry about the sleeplessness. I’ve got it too and there are nights when even my magic pills don’t work. I hope you don’t feel too wrecked today!
Insomnia is the worst; especially when you want to sleep but can’t. Have you tried some of the over the counter medications that are nonaddictive? They might help.
Good luck.
I hate being unable to sleep, but thankfully it’s not a regular problem for me if I keep my anxiety under control. My father in law has severe insomnia and has tried everything to no avail. The sleep specialists have prescribed loads of drugs and dietary changes over the years that did nothing so he now just sleeps when he can. He says he wishes he had the time and money back he spent doing sleep studies. His mother is the same way, only sleeping about two hours at a time. I have my fingers crossed that my husband doesn’t get that bad.
The only thing that I have done that helps (and mine is more of a panic disorder thing than true insomnia) is daily light exercise. If I don’t walk or do something outside regularly to reset my brain I start a cycle of sleeplessness. It helps my husband to do so too, and I’ve wondered if it would help his dad and grandma if they were physically able.
Like your FiL, over the years I’ve tried all sorts of meds, but I seem to be quite resourceful about defeating them. Now I just try not to let myself be too stressed about the situation. If I lie awake too long just thinking, I get resentful and restless, especially when Richard and the rest of the world are asleep, so I read on my Kindle and I play online or I plan things to do with work. Sometimes, I mark assignments. Sew a hem. Stitches on a missing button. Anything, just so I don’t fret about being awake. But this last week has been worse than usual, and today I’m so tired I feel really sick. I’m going to try the cherry juice –sounds delicious and can’t do any harm– and step up my exercise. I’m a bit twizzled up, especially in my upper body, and more stretching would be helpful.
After struggling with severe insomnia for a couple of years, I got prescription sleeping pills at the doctor – but never really took any of them. The box is still sealed, after a long time, actually the pills are probably too old, but I won’t check. The simple knowledge that I can access them whenever needed has been enough to make me sleep within 5 minutes. Darn anxiety!
So, today it’s “Lumière Blanche” from Olfactive Studio. Top notes cardamom, cinnamon and star anise. Heart almond, cashmere musks (you what now?) and iris. Base cedar, sandalwood, tonka beans and white musk.
This smells very pleasant with the cardamom dominant but not domineering. The dry down is a beautiful but reticent aromatic mix. I guess it lasted about 2 hours for me but I may get another sample in warmer weather in the hope it might persist a bit longer.
I really liked this one too, but it’s also very fleeting on me. I’m saving the last of my sample Annikky sent me to try when the weather is warm as well.
You know, I don’t think I’ve ever smelled a perfume with a discernable cardamom note, and it’s a favorite scent of mine — so piney-delicious!
have you ever smelled Hermessence Epice Marine? I get a distinctive cardamom note in that perfume. I really enjoy it.
Thanks for the tip — I’ll have to give that one a sniff. Hermes is a favorite fragrance house of mine…
I found quite a haul at an antique store in terms of perfume minis! Shocking, Mitsouko (in the smallest heart container I’ve ever seen!), Ma Liberté, and Deneuve, my scent of the day. I love the opening but it seems to have quit me.
Oh u lucky thing!, we don’t get perfume in charity shop’s/jumble sale’s here, more’s the pity..
Man, these days I could live in vintage it seems. I’m not sure I’d mind.
Curious: Did the shop allow you to test the perfume before buying? I found some bottles in a shop near me and I didn’t know the protocol. Plus the guy was a little intimidating and I was afraid to ask. I would hate to buy something I couldn’t wear because it had turned or whatnot.
I feel that struggle. Generally, if it’s locked in a case I won’t unless the owner is helping me and I can ask. If it’s laying out though, I don’t think anything of it.
Once though, i found w mini of Poison Espirit de Parfum and went to sample it. The entire contents poured out of my arm! I was so embarrassed even though no one saw me that I bought it. I had to ride home with my arm out the window.
Oh wow, accidentally drenched in Poison. Bet that was an experience!
…so it was like wearing Poison normally? 😉 Yikes, hopefully you like poison! How long did it take for the scent to fade from your arm?
It was my only Poison experience. O’m dying to try it again but I only find empty bottles.
Sublimi, I don’t remember. If I hadn’t washed it when I got home who knows?
Ah nice haul.. I haven’t done the antique store thing in a long time.
Vamp à New York, drinking Sikkim Temi, which is ok, but not great, good enough to take to work.
Oh, I loved Vamp a NY. Too bad it’s impossible to find now. ;(
It’s still found very easily in Europe. Many shops seem to carry it. Are you in the US?
When I search via Google, all the online stores are out of stock. 🙁
Yes, I should add, I’m in the US.
I’m in Lyric and keep sticking my nose down my collar to sniff myself. One of the readings at my wedding was Dr Seuss!
Hi twin!
Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
That was the one!
Lovely.
That’s great!
Mmmm, I totally understand that. I’ve done that so many times wearing Lyric. You smell great 🙂
Wearing an Aramis/Lauder winner today……JHL by Aramis!
JHL (named for Estee Lauder’s husband, Joseph H. Lauder) is my husband’s signature fragrance. He’s been wearing it since the 1980’s, so I reached across the bathroom counter over to his stuff! 🙂
The bottle is shaped like Joseph’s favorite Cognac bottle, and the original box after his smoking jacket. It is GOOD STUFF!! I smell like I’ve been snuggling with my honey this morning…..good stuff too!!!! 🙂
Sounds good!
Nice!
I wish I had a vintage bottle of Lauder for Men. My dad used to wear that. I’d love to wear it for Friday!
I had a hard time learning to read, and my parents used the Dr. Seuss and Theo LeSieg books to help me learn. I still remember being excited when we sat down with a new book. SOTD is Youth Dew Amber Nude.
Ha, I had to google Theo LeSieg!
But his books were familiar when you found him, right?
Yes 🙂
SOTD is Fille De Berlin, I’m so so happy to finally have a full bottle, another eBay bargain, I really must slow down for awhile, damage poll for this quarter has been alarmingly high.
Bright sunny start to the day, and gorgeous colour of perfume inspired me to wear a beige, red, pink and pale green maxi dress, after rain, howling winds and a brief snow storm I’m looking slightly bedraggled, with a very wet hem- I still smell good tho, which is obviously the important thing!
I wore FdB yesterday after I scrubbed off Maii. I also own a full bottle and the color is gorgeous. One of my favorite rose scents. Also would be elegant on a man too
Agreed – I love the rich red of the juice, and now I’m curious if I could find a man to try this on so I could smell him.
Yes, would be fabulous on a man!
If u find one, let me know how he smell’s..mm!
Ditto. FdB is one of my fav roses.
Your wish may be granted! A guy, a GUY, asked to be added to our NYC sniffa group!
Ooh!
The outfit sounds lovely wet hem and all and La Fille seems rather perfectly matched, somehow a wind blown rich rose!
Thanks Sophie, this is the one good thing about biting cold wind, it wafts perfume around, which is lovely!
Love this one! You smell great!
Thanks Amy, which other roses do u like?
I went down a real rose rabbit hole this fall and found a lot that I liked. FdB started the entire thing and I also love SL Sa Majestie la rose and Rose Nuit, Malle’s Une Rose and Portrait of a Lady, Mohur, Heeley’s Hippie Rose on the right day (there is something in it that once in a while makes me a tiny bit queasy), PG Ispahan, Phi, and again on the right day, Rose Flash. It can be sweet and the creosite can get to me, but on the right day I love it. A lot of roses to sour on me, so some that are popular with others were fails for me, perhaps most sadly all the iterations of Vero Kern’s Rosy. I’d love to hear your favorites as I am always on the look out.
Hi Amy, I haven’t tried that many, most of the ones u mention are still on my ‘to sniff soon’ list!
However I have a big bottle of POAL, which I adore, and Tauer’s incense Rose is going to be my Autumn perfume purchase.
I have Epic, but I don’t get much rose from it, I like layering it with florals/roses tho.
Tocade is one I like at night time, as its cosy, it really grew on me, I didn’t like it at first. I really like Eau d’chloe, for ‘rose lemonade’ in the summer. I also want to try try Annick Goutals roses.
Oh and I have Jo Malone’s Red Roses, which I don’t love but is nice for layering!
Warming up on this chilly, cloudy day with some Haute Voltige. I’m not positive I like it, though it certainly does heat me up.
Questions that are unrelated to this post:
– I’m going to a conference in wet, cold Berlin next week. What are some good conference perfumes? Empowering, inspiring, but unoffensive?
– Do you find that perfume (yours or others) bothers you when you are eating food? How do you reconcile the battling scents of food and perfume?
You can try La Fille de Berlin if you like rose! I find it to be empowering… But dab- don’t spray
Have a wonderful trip
I love it too, and second the dabbing suggestion – it can have powerful sillage even on my scent-eating skin.
Hi Koyel, concerning conference, I recommend any Chanel (see ‘what is your most versatile perfume’ post on BdJ, any 31 Rue Cambon especially, or when not available no 5 espc. extrait, or Cristalle but maybe a bit too summery for Berlin cold and wet.
I never find perfume interfering with food, when going out for a really nice dinner (which we seldom do) I apply sparingly, and from the ‘versatile’ bunch. Good luck in Berlin!
I second Hamamelis’s ideas about the Chanels, especially 31 RC. They are versatile indeed, and will adapt obligingly to every activity, from listening to keynotes to the conference dinner, and also (if you’re at all like me when I go to conferences) skiving off on your own lonesome to shop or just potter about the city. Have fun!
Sycomore is one of my favourite work morale boosters and good in cold weather as well as hot. Also Roja Vetiver – was lucky to get a couple of bottles at 1/3 of the usual price in the outlet sale last year.
I think Dior Gris Montaigne is perfect for professional/office/conference wearing.
I’ve never experienced perfume messing with my experience of food! (it’s the other way around actually; very pungent foods cling to my clothing and that bothers me!)
Oh just order a decant of this as it sounds so appealing!
1. I agree about Chanel – they are quite versatile and inoffensive, but still beautiful. Hermes is another good inoffensive line, although not as inspiring as Chanel for me.
Perfume with large sillage tends to be noticed, so you can try reducing it by dabbing on skin and avoid spraying on fabric.
2. Very, very, rarely do I notice my perfume when eating. Usually it is because I wore a powerhouse. On the other hand, anybody who wears perfume tends to not notice it after a while – like background noise. If you are eating in close quarters with others then it is likely they will notice your fragrance more than you.
As a rule, and there are obviously many exceptions, orientals and gourmands tend to pair better with food. The gourmand is tricky because it could clash with the food. I would avoid anything too sweet.
Hope this helps, good luck! ????
Such a great question and answers. I tend to go for things that smell grown up but also make me happy and entertained during long days. Various Malles do the trick for me – Une Rose, PoaL, Iris Poudre – but also Iris Cendre or Iris de Nuit. Misia would be good too. And I just did a long two days with Bombay Bling!
I am sure you will have a fascinating time in Berlin – such an interesting city.
I completely agree about the Chanels and would add No19 to the list.
I also think some of the Tom Ford’s could do well, maybe something interesting but elegant like Café Rose, which somehow seems very Berlin appropriate to me. Equally good and varied would be any number of the Frederic Malle’s – personally for reasons I can’t explain Epices Noir always goes well in a professional context, or Le Parfum de Therese.
For something softer and less assertive L’Artisan and/or Annick Goutal always seem elegant, inoffensive but not boring, anything from Tea for Two to Duel or Musc Nomade.
In terms of food I agree I don’t generally find it makes much impact but I would certainly choose something with more ‘heft’ if I was going to have e.g. steak and red wine, or something sweeter if going for tea and cakes (which happens not early often enough).
If we meet up in London, tea and cakes would be good!
If there’s a London meetup, I’d love to try to fly up to eat that tea and cakes with you!
Will let you know – we will have to make sure the meet up includes both!
Yes, I agree Fille de Berlin would be perfect, and dabbing a good idea. Oh to wear FDB in Berlin, how perfect!
This may be an unpopular perfume opinion, but I tend to skip perfume when I’m going to a nice meal. Though for me it’s really a result of having gotten into perfume–I’m much more interested in the way different dishes and ingredients smell now, and I’d rather have a clear palate to enjoy them. It is inconvenient tho, especially if your evening isn’t ending with dinner! I’ve been known to bring a small decant in my purse to apply in the bathroom at the end of the meal, if we’re going on to a party or a concert or whatever next. (This takes some careful planning tho, because I have some perfumes I only wear if I can spray them in the privacy of my own home and let them quiet down before I go out in public. Even if the meal’s done, I don’t want to return to the table and gas out my companions with a powerhouse sprayed just moments earlier!)
That’s such a great idea! I should start putting samples in my purse.
I mean, it’s just a good idea in general. You never know what kind of perfume emergency might arise 🙂
I often let the remnants of the day serve for dinner and then top off after. I don’t like anything to noticeably vying with the food – or irritating people around me. (My big fear.)
Agree, def feel fine about perfume from earlier in the day (I would neither abstain all day nor feel a need to shower just to get the morning’s perfume off, just for the sake of going to dinner! 🙂 ) I’m just careful about applying something new shortly before.
This is why I don’t burn scented candles at home. I live in a small apartment so the scent permeates every room, and it interferes with my sense of smell when I’m cooking and eating.
I don’t go out to eat terribly often but when I do it’s generally followed by another event that takes place in close quarters (symphony, play.) I don’t want to disrupt anyone else’s meal or annoy people sitting next to me at the theater so I wear perfumes that are soft-spoken and don’t project too much on me. Lately this has been Misia, which I love to sniff while watching performances but it’s low-sillage enough on me that no one else can smell it unless their nose is right on my skin.
Like most others, I’m not distracted by my own perfume when eating out – my concern is for others around me or, god forbid, blowing out the restaurant with my perfume.
For some reason Coromandel goes really well with Mexican food for me. But I have been put off by strong perfume on other people in restaurants especially strong florals and aldehydes.
Yeah it’s true that there can be nice food-perfume combos! Just tough to coordinate, especially if people around you may be eating something different…
Wow, thanks everyone! I have almost nothing from your excellent list, which perhaps means I should start thinking about more sophisticated scents 🙂 But this definitely gives me an idea of which of the perfumes I do have to take with me!
I agree about the Chanel but if you want something a bit more relaxed I’d suggest Love, Chloe or Cartier Baiser Vole.
I hope you have a great time in Berlin! (I’m jealous!)
As for conference fragrances. I’ve had to tackle that myself. I usually pick a fragrance that accomplishes a few things. 1. feeling confident and alert. 2. goes well with stuffy air – conference rooms are always stuffy!. 3. Can stand up to a full day. 4. Is rather inoffensive. My past conference picks have been AG Mandragore edt; Guerlain Vetiver or L’instan ; Chanel Allure; and Bottega Veneta. What I find to be a better tactic if you just can’t make up your mind is to keep a vial on hand so that AFTER you step out of your last session, you can rejuvenate your senses by applying something really great.
As for food, I always think that less is better if none at all for going to a restaurant. But a light application of a rose soliflore or frag with a lot of rose seems to go well with many foods – esp. asian, thai or mexican.
If I can only pick one scent for a conference, it would be Chanel No.19 EDP.
As to perfumes bothering me while eating, my own never bothers me but nuclear levels of others annoy me.
I am wearing Bernard Chant’s Aramis Devin. A wonderful piney green fragrance falling between Polo and Pino Sylvestre. My bottle is fifteen years old at least, but it doesn’t smell off and is full of oakmoss. I wonder what the newsest formuation smell like.
I am drinking some Yunnan Balck Snail tea from Harney and Sons.
You had my attention at “wonderful piney green”. I just looked this one up and it does indeed sound wonderful.
I love Devin, wish I had some to wear this week. And I’m SURE vintage is better.
I love Pino! I have not smelled Devon but I am sure you smell great.
Today I’m wearing J Del Pozo In Black.
My kids loved the One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish book when they were little. It was a fun book to read to them
Happy Dr. Seuss day!
My two love that one too.
I was *thisclose* to being a twin with you, Robin. However, my hand went for my sample of Nobile Rudis instead. It’s a little bit chilly today and the dark colors I’m wearing didn’t seem to match up with Sensuous Nude.
I don’t actually know what the weather is here, have not so much as poked my nose outside, but can verify that the wind is HOWLING. It is probably not Sensuous Nude weather 🙂
We’re sportingly going to have a thunderstorm today. It’s probably not White Linen weather here, but that might not stop me!
“sportingly”? Oh please, Mr Autocorrect, now you’re just taking advantage of a poor old woman who’s too tired to see straight. I meant “apparently”, and how that turned into “sportingly” is beyond comprehension.
And yet, it still worked. 🙂
Lol! It has a mind of its own.
I thought it was a fun spin to put on a thunderstorm. I might start using it:)
I liked it too!
SOTD Tauer PHI rose de Kandahar
My shipment of Lonesome is today, not yesterday, grrrr. I was so excited all day to get home for it.
I see a tax refund in my checking account this morning! I spent 5 minutes in the shower fantasizing about what fragrances that would get me then reality hit. .. Pay bills. Grrrr
I did the same thing. I think just one little bottle wouldn’t hurt, right?
You smell fabulous! If it’s any consolation, I did my taxes yesterday and I have to pay Uncle Sam! I went home and just about cried! I’m wondering if Gov’t dudes would take payment in the form of my new refrigerator??
I’m with you. We owe 8.5k this year, because of some awkward timing the way some things work out. We were expecting to owe 5-ish, so that extra 3.5 really hurts!
I’m going to owe as well. I planned it this way (chose to make only the minimum required prepayments on my freelance work, because when I’ve estimated more generously in the past, I’ve had some problems getting the refund disbursed), but writing the check is still rough. Hang in there team.
I just hate the penalty of not withholding enough because in addition to having to write the i itial check, there’s the what else you owe PLUS the interest. Let’s see how I do for 2015 as I did not add anything and took the minimum exemption.
Oh yes I hate the penalty too–for all the tax nerds ( <3 u!!) out there, when I say I made the minimum required prepayments, I mean I prepaid 100% of my prior year's taxes,* so, shouldn't see any penalties, just the difference between what I paid and what I owe (higher for 2015 because of irregular arrival of freelance payment.)
*I hear tell of an income bracket where you need to prepay 110% to be certain of avoiding penalty but I am not in it 🙂
SOTD: Armani Privé Rose d’Arabie
It’s the LE with the gold dust but nobody will notice unless they have x-ray vision and see through the scarf, wool sweater and this thick shirt I have on…but I guess the sillage makes up for it! 😉
but it smells so good! hahahahaha. and I’m sure you are just shimmering! 🙂
I wish I had sampled the “golden” version when I had the opportunity. Love this rose!
I’m continuing my Estee Lauder World Domination Week with Lys Fume. I planned to wear Le Labo’s Lys 41, but I think I’ve drained my sample. None of the other Le Labo samples looked appealing (finally, one pretentious package and trend driven brand I don’t much like!). So Tom Ford it is.
Yeah, I have a thing about Le Labo. Luckily, I haven’t fallen hard for any of theirs that I’ve managed to try – I liked Lys 41 and Aldehyde 44, but not so much the other three or four I tried.
I do like their aesthetic, but not the scents so much. Lys is lovely and Ylang, if I remember correctly. My favourite is actually their Patchouli (I bought a bottle for J), but the others I’ve tried have left me indifferent. Some, Like the Iris, I actively dislike.
I’m often influenced by the look of the brand (Byredo is a case in point), but have been able to resist Le Labo 🙂
Le Labo just irritates me, being all superior like that. (Plus, I hated hated hated Ylang 49. Smelled like pondwater to me.)
ELd’O is another outfit whose aesthetic puts me off.
Le Labo and ELdO are sort of opposites for me – I tend to like ELdO’s scents, some of them a lot, but I don’t like the bottles.
I think Le Labo’s products look nice, but don’t really care for the content. The naming policy irritates me as well. (I wonder now if it was Ylang that I liked. Need to check.)
I am really curious about that, is it very Lily like or more of an abstract smoky floral?
Meanwhile I have just ordered some Le Labo samples after sniffing the wrist with Lys41 obsessively all of yesterday (and enjoying the remains on my scarf today).
I get quite a lot of lily from this, although maybe not quite as much as from Lys Mediterranee. The floral part seems almost fruity to me, although in a very elegant way. Unfortunately, I don’t get much smoke, but there are some wood and spices.
It’s not the best of TF’s line-up, but it fits my taste well. As we seem to have a pretty big overlap in what we like, you might be interested in trying this. Then again, it’ll be discontinued anyway…
OK will spray it next time I see it.
By the way, big news I forgot to mention I was in Harrods yesterday and they had LOADS of Fleur de Chine. Apparently it has been re-issued just for them. They had so many complaints TF has issued them with a special supply or something. They also take orders by phone.
Soo subject to their shipping restrictions there is a supply of Fleur de Chine and all is not lost.
Funny Le Labo started my real romance with perfume and I’ve had multiple FB or Bergamote and Nerolo, but haven’t been tempted by many others. I consider Lys and Patchouli and, depending on my mood, Rose 31 occasionally, but haven’t bought any of them except on sample packs. And I really like Limette, but it was one or the annoying city exclusives. That is I think their most annoying gambit so far.
Oh boy, typing on my phone is the worst. But I think my intention is legible!
Oh, yes, the exclusives… Also, all that mixing on the spot! Almost forgot about that. I think Le Labo is a good gateway brand for style-concious women who are starting to explore perfume. And Patchouli is really good, but it’s a smoky leather to me, not a patchouli.
I think LT calls it Le Labo de Russie. He considers it to be a leather. I found some resemblance to Black, but the Labo is a tad sharper.
For a Le Labo LEATHER, you have to try Cuir 28.
My concoction for today is Dame Perfumery New Musk, layered over Narciso shower gel and body lotion. The New Musk is a floral musk, I think it will be good for spring.
That’s good to know about the musk- I was afraid it might be too heavy in the heat and humidity here. Now I am more inclined to sample…
You should, it is not heavy at all. I sprayed a lot too. It really is very pretty.
ohh, I didn’t know it came in spray form! I thought it was a regular open mouth bottle…now I am even MORE inclined!
yes, you get to choose. I actually called to place my order, and spoke with Mr. Dame. He was so nice and helpful. He also sent samples, so I could try out some of the others.
I just received some of this, tried it alone last night… Got plenty of floral.
I’m wearing Tuscany per Donna, which I think of as “my Tresor.” (Tresor has a note that grosses me out.)
I was eyeing this one up the other day after I saw it mentioned as a relative to Samsara. Is it worth trying the original, do you think, or is the modern version fine as is?
I’ve heard that it’s been recently reformulated and not in a good way so I wouldn’t bother unless you can find an older version. I’ve seen the Samsara comparisons too but every version I’ve tried is sweeter and rosier than Samsara, which is why I associate it more with Tresor.
I purchased a bottle 2 years ago and since I was not acquainted with it before I like it just fine. I layer it with its equally lovely masculine counterpart.
I too am curious about this one. I really like Tresor, so if it’s similar, I would give it a try.
I can’t believe this – my mom used to wear Tresor, thankfully, after I went to college. But every time I smelled it, I would immediately get a headache and feel like I had to puke. No joke. I detest the smell of Tresor. It is nice to know that I am not the only one. I have no idea what accord it is that causes such a violent reaction in me.
I couldn’t bring myself yet to wear any EL, world dominated, owned or otherwise, so I am in Safran Troublant today. But now I remember I have a Tom Ford decant of Fleurs de Chine. That may do later today as Safran Troublant is somewhat shy after a few hours.
love Safran Troublant.
Since I’m not doing a Lauder week, I’m playing in the samples again today.
I could probably do a Lauder-owned week (there are enough Tom Fords and Malles that I like), but I don’t feel the need. Samples it is, and it will probably be more Dame Perfumery ones.
ordered a few Dames recently. Did you get to any of the Eris yet?
I did try the Erises yesterday! Comments on Angela’s review. (Short version: interesting, but nothing I loved.)
I actually had to duck out for errands, so I went with Safari (again) instead of sampling. Must take Taz to the eye doctor.
SOTD is Canel Sycomore. We like each other, but it’s not love.
Tea of the day is coffee????
I missed all the lovely Dr Suess books as a kid. Myparents were not the “interactive” type???? So I jumped right into Nancy Drew, Trixie Belden, The Black Stallion, and just about any book that featured an animal as the main character. “Silver Chief, Dog of the North” was one of my favorites.
I totally agree – tea of the day is all too often coffee for me, But this forum has got me to have more tea and I have enjoyed a number of Kusmis over the past few weeks.
You smell elegant yet very don’t mess with me – all good stuff! Also, Sycomore surely goes perfectly with coffee or maybe Lapsang Souchong?
I think I would like it better if I could test drive by spritzing instead of dabbing. It seems a bit fleeting as well. I appreciate the “don’t mess with me” vibe, though. That’s exactly how I feel today.
I really haven’t explored teas. I did gift someone with a clear glass teapot and the “blooming” variety of teas, which I found very estheticly pleasing. Not sure how it tasted though…
Aesthetically even. Were’s Spell Check when you need it??
I give up!
I didn’t read Dr Seuss either (my mom didn’t want us to, which she now denies) but I LOVED Nancy Drew and the Black Stallion,
LOVE Sycamore. LOVE Nancy Drew. My fav juv book was the Trumpeter Swan by EB White.
Oh yes, EB White. All were favorites. Charlotte’s Web? I get teary-eyed just remembering that one.
None of my Lauders felt right today. So– vintage Emeraude PdT. Lovely, pretty soft for my scent eating skin.
You smell great. Love vinty Emeraude!
Yoga later, so Pure White Linen for me today.
Thanks for the exercise encouragement! I’m taking your advice to heart and will stop feeling guilty about leaving work at 5pm to go to yoga class (even though we’re so busy we’ve been told all overtime is approved until told otherwise).
I haven’t really been athletic for years, so it’s strange for me to be so active…but I’ve been noticing it affects other parts of my life as well: I sleep better and more easily so I’m more energetic, I’m more social both with the people I work out with and coworkers (though those aren’t mutually exclusive), and I’ve gained confidence by accomplishing things I never knew were possible (for me). I’ll definitely be keeping it up, and highly encourage others to get started on making it a habit as well!
Yoga is one of my favorite types of exercise–I love how it can be adjusted for a variety of levels and how easy it is to find on Youtube for those days when I can’t make a class. Good for you!
The possibility and even encouragement to work just at your level (as opposed to the “more is always better” theories of exercise) is totally what I love about yoga–and actually has translated nicely into other settings too. I used to struggle with frequent running injuries, but much less so now that I feel like a workout still “counts” even if you don’t do it at an exertion level that makes you want to die 🙂
My instructor always says “you have to work at where you are today, even if you’ve been able to do something previously, maybe your body doesn’t want to do it today, and that’s fine”. It took me a couple of pulled muscles to learn to listen to my body–and not just my ego–when working out!
One of my teachers used to talk a lot about “balancing ease and effort,” which can be applied beautifully to life in general as well as yoga!
So happy that’s working out for you! I def see a lot of the same benefits, most of all that I sleep better.
I also though really empathize with people who hate exercise. It took me a long time to find my way to a form of exercise, appropriate exertion levels, etc. etc. that I could do without feeling beyond miserable. Shoutout to everyone who feels the swell of murderous rage when someone says, “Well have you tried exercise?” 🙂
Glad you’re enjoying getting back into it. Also makes me feel slug like as after many years of training hard and a lot I have only walked and stretched for a few months – I figure there is a time in life for all of it, and will get back to it when the time is right!
Meanwhile, you should completely go for class at 5 as am sure it makes you more productive for the rest of the time.
You smell good. That was my scent yesterday. 😀
You are totally right about the exercise. It makes such a huge difference in how you feel. I’ve been a bit slack this winter – as usual – but have starting up again now that the weather is getting better.
The benefits of sleeping well is reason alone to keep me exercising! Also, there’s something extremely satisfying about knowing how much better and stronger you feel after exercise. I also started to see it like something I must do each day – like brushing my teeth. I have to floss/brush my teeth to make sure they don’t go bad and fall out so why wouldn’t I exercise a little each day to make sure my body doesn’t fall apart as well?
Never feel guilty for exercising and going to your yoga classes – ever. Your health is more important.
sotd: Houbigant Oranger en Fleurs. I recently purchased a bottle for myself and have decided *this* is my OB/white floral blend that I’ll be wearing frequently for some time to come!
I am looking for a orange blossom. How do you find Oranger en Fluers compared to SL Fluers d’oranger, if you have tried the latter?
SL Fleur d’Oranger used to be my absolute favorite. Sadly, I can tell it’s been reformulated from it’s original version and it doesn’t seem perfect to me anymore, it smells much more Jasmine focused now and less about a somewhat sexy (cuminy) OB.
I find Houbigant Oranger en Fleurs more classically styled over SL FdO, the Houbigant is almost like Robert Piguet Fracas minus the dosing of tubereuse. The Houbigant is really gorgeous if you want an OB that isn’t strictly straight up OB – it’s a blended white floral which is prominently OB. I also absolutely adore the L’Artisan harvest editions and even Jo Malone Orange Blossom but these are purely OB, without the blend of other white florals.
I haven’t tried the Haubigant, which sounds lovely, but I have recently fallen for Seville A L’Aube, herbal& honeyed, it’divine! Very good prices on eBay too!
I also have Bottege venetta Knot, which is a lovely and elegent summer perfume for me.
I didn’t love Fleurs d’oranger, but think I was expecting it to be more cuminy, and was disappointed, as I love cumin in perfume!
Ok, well I will have to give Houbigant and Seville a try.
I was sad to see that SL has been reformulated, I can smell that as well and thats why I asked. I think LS has samples of Houbigant I will give that a try as a replacement.
The Houbigant and Seville are miles apart in style. Seville, to me, is like candy (tooth achingly sweet).
Just to add to the orange blossom possibilities, at very different ends of the spectrum, Jo Malone has a pretty good one, and Kilian Sweet Redemption is sort of like Seville but with something different – both worth trying. FWIW thought I thin the Houbigant might be the easiest and prettiest to wear of these.
think not thin, sorry.
My fav OBs are Lorenzo Villoresi Dilmun (OB, petitgrain, and some soft vanilla), and Laura Mercier Neroli. It’s discontinued, but you can still find it. It is very soft, very freshOB, with an accord that I can only describe as smelling like lemoncello aperitif. It is quite lovely esp. for spring!
Iris poudre today, sometimes it’s just nice to go all ladylike!
I agree!
great choice
Lovely.
People of the Labyrinths Luctor et Emergo. Something in there (powdery vanilla and incense, maybe?) reminds me just a bit of a softened version of Shalimar’s drydown, and I love it.
Thumbs up! Did not expect to like a cherry perfume, but niche perfume confounded my expectations once again 🙂
Gosh, I remember when PotL was all the rage back in 2006-08 I think. I wore it once over the past year and have fond memories of it.
Chergui today. It is so lovely, but I overapplied by mistake this morning. There’s a Chergui fog emanating about 8 feet away from me…
And sadness, I used up the last of my decant. 🙁
🙁 Time for a full bottle!
Time for a full bottle ..maybe you can find one cheap online
Sampling a bunch of the Miller Harris Fumée scents this morning before my shower. They are pleasant but I think the samples are enough to satisfy me. I already own Bois d’Ascèse and now Lonesome Rider, so I have enough smoke in my life.
Speaking of Lonesome Rider, it starts off with a barbecue note I am not wild about, but that disappears after 15 minutes and then the drydown is lovely. It has that same sparkling quality I get from Orange Star and Incense Rose, but with Iris instead. I will give it a full wearing today after my shower.
Wearing Jour d`Hermès Parfum today…
I have a 2nd interview for an internal promotion at work today. As I think I mentioned before I have mixed feelings given the level of dysfunction of my company currently but…onward and upward.
And more earning power means more perfume inherently, right?
Exactly. Hopefully you can also influence the company in a more positive way as well!
Good Luck to you!
Good luck! Maybe in a different position the dysfunction will decrease.
Good luck with the promotion!
Hope it works b out the way you want it to!
More perfume, maybe more chance to correct from above? Good luck if you take it.
Well, that explains why there was a giant display of Dr. Seuss books on sale at the grocery store yesterday. I may have bought baby Jack a few to go with the dozen or so he already has. Who am I kidding? They’re clearly more for me than Jack. The Cat in the Hat always annoyed me, but all the rest are among my favorites.
SOTD is Pleasures. It smells nothing like the glorious, cheerful, unique floral I used to sneak from my mom’s shelf in the late 90s. Instead it smells like something I should be cleaning the shelf with. I just bought this mini from the EL outlet in November. It seems safe to guess it’s one to three years old. It doesn’t smell like a turned bottle, did EL reformulate Pleasures?
Probably. I tried Beyond Paradise and it has turned from a floral flurry to a hand lotion scent…sad ????
So sorry. I really liked Beyond Paradise when it first came out.
I ended up scrubbing the Pleasures. Scent of the afternoon is Le Parfum de Therese. Ahhhhh.
Last fall I went to the EL counter to smell Cinnabar, and it smelled different than I had remembered. The SA said that none of the perfumes had been reformulated. I just said o.k., and left. I think I have a pretty good scent memory, and it wasn’t the same.
Ha, none!? What an interesting thing to believe! Recently a Diptyque SA told me all of their fragrances were made exclusively from natural ingredients. And I don’t think he was lying, he just…really had the wrong idea.
I think we all know SAs can’t be trusted. 🙁
Was it out of one of the new bottles? I’ve been curious about those. Luckily I bought an old bottle about five years ago and it should last me a lifetime.
(admits in small voice) I hated The Cat in the Hat. It made me so *anxious*! Will he ever stop messing stuff up, will he ever leave, will the mom get home before the kids clean up??
It was just too stressful!
I have other Seuss favorites, of course, but could NOT do that one. Never even read it to my children.
Oh my goodness I know exactly what you mean. I was so worried as a child – ‘where are the parents!’; ‘aren’t they going to get in trouble?”; Ah cat go away!’ My best friend is still capable of a hilarious rant about this 45 years latter.
I liked green eggs and ham.
All I could think about was how the Cat was manipulating the kids into doing exactly what the parents wouldn’t want them to. When a seven year old is asking where the parents are, something’s not right. I would love to hear that rant.
Green Eggs & Ham is wonderful. When I bought it for my son I also got the Spanish and French versions. I thought it would be fun to see direct translations when he gets older.
pssst … over here.
I hated The Cat in the Hat for the *exact* same reasons. Plus I knew that I would never, ever get away with any of his shenanigans, and he’d get me into trouble while he smirked in the corner.
It’s hilarious to see how not alone I am here.
Not my fav Seuss either.
Which one is?
He really wasn’t a very good role model for children, was he? It seemed like his only agenda was to get the kids into trouble. I won’t be reading that one to my kids either. One fish two fish red fish blue fish is much more our style.
I’m so glad I’m not the only one who had anxiety re: the bad cat.
No. And I adore cats. Just not that one.
Yesterday, instead of grabbing vintage Mistouko when I was walking our the door, I grabbed vintage Ivoire instead. The decants looked exactly the same. But I needed something to review. Ivoire reminds me of vintage Givenchy III.
We have the people who are redoing the kitchen and bathrooms over. They are working on caulking the bathroom tile. That meant that I had to throw on some clothes before I could take a shower. So I’m sitting in vintage Bal, happy that my dentist appointment was cancelled.
Happy “Hump Day” everyone. My SOTD is a Lauder fragrance, but its by Aerin instead of Estee. I am wearing Rose de Grasse. Hopefully I can get some credit. This scent, in my opinion, is a beautiful rose scent. I hope everyone has a fabulous day!????
Difficulty facing work this morning added to my forgetting perfume. I wear perfume cleaning house on Saturday morning, so it is rare to forget. I do think it would be fun to see what a mind like Dr. Seuss would create if he did perfume. Start with cotton candy and then get weird?
I’m imagining something like Angel Eau Sucree, which is surprisingly good (I really dislike Angel). It smells like berries and cotton candy, but in a good way. Not wearable for me, or rather my personality, but it made the child in me very happy. Just like Dr. Seuss!
Yes, cotton candy like the trees in somem of his books 🙂
Perhaps it would smell like beautiful schlopp with a cherry on top? I’m imagining something bright and fruity like Ineke’s Scarlet Larkspur…which I now think I will wear this afternoon.
SOTD is The Different Company’s Bois de Iris,
I wish I could figure this one out. What do you smell?
That is such a beautiful scent, you smell great.
Hi everyone!
Right now I’m wearing a big spray of Black Saffron on my chest, which is very exciting. I haven’t showered yet though (about to) and excited to pick something for after.
For so long I felt like I was trying, trying, trying things and never really finding anything I loved. I got stuff because it was ‘what I liked the most’ but not stuff I was that excited about wearing. But lately I feel like I’ve finally started curating a small collection of fumes that I actually look forward to wearing! It’s so much nicer. 🙂
Nice! It’s easy to get into that rut of sampling and always feeling dissatisfied. It’s nice to take a break and wear what you love for a while.
Aramis Portos for me today– a subtle smoky labdanum/woods scent, as comfortable and warm as a beloved old flannel shirt.
What a lovely analogy, wouldn’t mind wearing both!
It really does the trick on a chilly, windy day. 🙂
Gardenia Passion today. Clearly not going down the Lauders route although will try Tom Ford and Malle for the rest of the week. Gardenia feels so warming in the freezing sleet today, it really does wear incredibly nicely in the cold.
Meanwhile I have gone and added a lot to the damge this quarter, with samples of Le Labo and a bottle of Putain des Palaces. Oh well.
AG Gardenia Passion one of my faves. Love it in both EDP and EDT.
It really is lovely and whenever I wear it always try to remember to wear it more. Is there a big difference between the two, I have the edt?
I wouldn’t call it a big difference. The edp is more tuberosey and a touch more sweetness. The edt is a tad more green. But they are fairly close.
I got a sample of Putain des Palais from Les Sentaur’s recently, with bottle of Iris Poudre, I really like it a lot, I find it really cosy and elegant at the same time.
Glad you said that, as I do really like it but sometimes struggle to explain why – cosy and elegant is just it! PS have sent you an email re perfume meet up, so fingers crossed for tea and cakes in London.
Great!
Ok, I’ve got to share as I know this is something only a perfumista can appreciate (although my husband did a great job of looking genuinely happy for me).
I ended up standing in line at the Diptyque SS last night way too long that I seriously thought I must be nuts but, I scored big time! All I wanted was the Essences Insensées 2015 (the jasmine), and figured it was probably a long shot since these are limited edition and top of the line items, and so maybe I’d pick up something else instead. I was pleasantly surprised to see that they did in fact have the Essence 2014 (mimosa) but in speaking with one of the assistants that’s all they were offering this year. Next thing I know, I see a guy restocking the shelf with the Essences, all 2014, but low and behold I see him put out one 2015, the jasmine. I couldn’t believe it, and brought it over to the gal and she gave me a very puzzled look and simply said, ‘this is your lucky day, that shouldn’t be out for sale’. Yeah! Inside I did my little happy dance, and checked out a $175 dollar bottle of exquisite jasmine perfume for, wait for it, $90.
SOTD: Essences Insensées 2015
They still have a good number of perfumes if anyone is thinking of going today.. candles, not so much.
Congratulations on the nice perfume score! That’s an awesome discount you got as well!
Thanks, Jenkr! Super happy on this one.
I LOVE the mimosa. Can I call or is it in person only? I could bathe in the mimosa….
I think you have to show up..
The sale is for today and tomorrow, yet.
The Mimosa is great – I got lucky on eBay with mine.
Well done, what a steal!, u smell wonderful!
Thanks! I think this is my jasmine 😉
YAY!!!
Oh, I just love it when good things happen. Yay!
Congratulations, what a score!
Wow, what a score! I love both the jasmine and the mimosa. Congratulations!
Oh – lucky duck! Awesome score. I have the MImosa – which is by far the most gorgeous mimosa – and I have the solid for the jasmine. But that jasmine bottle is so gorgeous. I have to fight the urge to buy it just because it smells so good. But I don’t need any more…. How cool.
Thanks! Yes, I’m really pleased. The Mimosa is quite pretty too.
Glad I wasn’t there to pry it out of your hands 😉 Congrats on that find!!! 🙂 I bet it was worth the crowds.
Ha! I was very determined and seeing that one bottle available I felt it was truly meant to be.
Oh, lucky! I love that one.
Wow! Congrats!
Couldn’t decide on a SOTD so grabbed at random and ended up with Jub XXV. Turns out to be just the thing. I may have to get a bottle so I can give my husband his decant back. I’m not sure he has even worn any yet and it’s half gone.
We’re going to Mom’s tomorrow so I have packing and shopping to do today. I wish I could get motivated this morning.
Wearing Chanel No. 22 today. It feels perfect as I’m wearing a leather accented top that is black and white striped with black pants and a black blazer and black oxfords and red lips. I meant to leave a comment yesterday about how I was wearing Fleur de Chine and how I’m so bummed it’s discontinued. Why does everything I love go away? It seems to me that a lot of the time,it’s the really GOOD perfumes from a collection that are discontinued (due to low sales). Why doesn’t the general public have better taste in perfume?!
Ha! That is the question!
Great outfit-perfume combo, and YES, and the same problem applies to music and other arts… I think maybe there should be much more investment in education, all around the globe?
love your outfit description, and with Chanel 22! ah-mazing!
You look and smell great! I’ve been devastated about FdC as well, but apparently Harrods has just received it in some quantity – in case you need a back-up and can’t find it anywhere. (See SophieC’s comment some way above, in response to me.)
Thanks! After some trouble, I was able to snag the last bottle from Nordstrom. They’re shipping it to me from whatever store it ended up being from.
In the lovely Osmanthe Yunnan again today. It’s a day full of meetings at work, so I needed something gentle…
I have meetings all day too. OY is so pretty!
Working from home this morning and now have to go to the office, I think armed with Bois d’Ascese.
And notice working mostly means reading and commenting here!
Our tastes seem to be pretty similar… Love this one.
That’s flattering for me!
Vintage Jolie Madame, again. This is so classy, polished and Audrey Hepburn-like, it makes the gloomy grey city around me metamorphose into black and white Billy Wilder photography.
Ah! Lovely! Such a fantastic gray day scent.
Vinty Jolie Madame is my absolute, hands down #1 (okay tied with Alahine and Profumi del Forte Roma Imperiale). Sorry, I’m just not capable of truly listing 1, 2, 3…. but Vinty JM is my holy grail. So. You smell AMAZING
Celebrated Dr Seuss Day with 40 delightful pre-schoolers. We read Cat in the Hat which I still love! Oh that bossy fish and that laid back cat! We sang songs and colored. Utterly sublime. One squirt of EL Azuree, discreet and nice in small doses.
Very cool! My daughter got to eat green pancakes at school.They are reading Seuss all week. I love celebrating this time at the library too!
But Lethal in larger amounts. And why did I think spraying my hair was a good idea?? Major showering and scrubbing ahead later tonight. :-/
It can balloon alarmingly. By far, the loudest Lauder I own.
Fracas on one wrist and Gardenia Passion on the other so I wouldn’t have to decide.
Hooray for Dr. Seuss Day! “Thank you! Thank you, Sam-I-am!” ????
You smell gorgeous – half twin on the Gardenia.
Right back at ya! (I love the idea of a ‘half twin’!)
P.S. I so wish I could join the meet-up in London! I lived there for a year, and I miss it terribly–horrible weather and all. But now I’m back in Arizona…
ok, you win for most gorgeous smelling person today! Fracas + Gardenia Passion, gal after my own heart 🙂
Gosh, thank you! ???? They did smell nice hanging out with each other. I’m tempted to try layering them next time.
I like Dr. Suess, but like others I was too old for him to be read to me when I was a child. I do remember sitting on my dad’s lap as he was reading a Little Golden Book of Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer. He used to run his finger under the words as he read and that was very helpful as I learned to read. “Meadow” was a word that I found difficult. Strange how I remember that almost sixty years later.
Yesterday got completely away from me and I didn’t wear any scent, but this morning I’m trying to hurry up warm weather in Jour d’Hermes.
I don’t think I had any Dr Seuss books, but I loved Go Dog Go by Eastman, which read almost like a Dr Seuss book.
I did have tons of the Little Golden Books and they were my favorite. I also had the Rudolph one.
The first word I ever read that I understood as the word and the thing was “grapes”. My mom was reading to me from the Lois Ehlert Eating the Alphabet book. I have never forgotten this because I had troubles learning to read.
I am stunned and amazed you remember such an early event. My memory stinks, which doesn’t bode well for my cognitive function as a rapidly aging person…
SOTD=YSL Opium Fleur de Shanghai. It was a sample I found in my stash….I really like this! I remember thinking Opium was TOO much when it came out, but this is a much quieter oriental. I was routing around for an EL Sensuous sample I thought I had, but cannot find. I think I liked, not loved, that…liked the Sensuos Noir better, but, of course, they discontinued it.
Bois des Iles is my SOTD. I enjoyed reading everyone’s comments. Now back to work!
Testing day for me. Pre-shower, I wore Tom Ford Mandarino Di Amalfi (got a very cute mini for free when I bought Fleur de Chine) on one arm and Atelier Cologne Cedrat Enivrant on the other. Nice citruses. What do you guys think?
Post-shower, I’m trying Juliet Has a Gun Gentlewoman. I’m disappointed to confirm the hat something in a lot of orange blossom fragrances smell plasticky to me (Elie Saab, for example, was one of the worst in terms of that for me), which bums me out since I love the smell of orange blossom water, and neroli, etc. What could be the culprit?
This is a hard one as I much prefer the Tom Ford and it is much more expensive. There are some Ateliers I like, but I find Cedre Enivrant a little harsh and chemically. M d’A on the other hand just smells really good to me. How did they end up comparing for you?
I came across a couple of bottles of perfume stuffed into a pair of boots yesterday (such a great de-cluttering storage system I think I might write a book about it ) so I am wearing Mary Greenwell Plum today. I think this could be a great early autumn scent as it’s quite mellow but it’s too sweet for me so I may have to re-home it (Waterdragon? Gaynor?). I do like that very faint fly spray note.that tempers the sweetness. It’s definitely the wrong perfume for me…and I can’t remember when I got it.
I thought I was going to be crazy about MG Plum. But I wasn’t. It just seems like it should be a favorite of mine. But isn’t.
Same with Patou Sublime. I *should* love this. But don’t…
Funny how this goes… ;-/
Fyi, I have also hidden things in my old boots. sometimes I go through them just to see what I might find.
I am in AT Amber Flash today. I do enjoy that one.
Amber Flash is great!
I only have a couple of Lauders, so I’m saving my Lauder for Friday. Today I’m doing kind of a Lauder’s Bent on World Domination day with the last milimeter of my Iris Poudre decant, which was remarkably hard to get out.. I had to turn the little bottle at odd angles. It was taunting me, I tell you.
I would have just smashed the glass 😉
Lol I didn’t even think of that!
Do you know how lucky you are?
SOTD is Chanel No 5 edt.
I must admit to weeping every time I watch The Grinch. Bizzy, bizzy day so will enjoy reading the comments when I collapse on the couch later. SOTD is BV because it is still heavily clinging to my sweater. My choice would have been Wit for this sunny day.
hehe our dog’s name is Bizzy 🙂
Today I wore Djehenne, from a recent decant swap, and though it must be a nice scent, it has one of those crazy woody ambers that just rings out/radiates terribly from my skin. Might demand a shower before I go out again…
A cold day but sunshiney bright, I’m keeping warm with SL Rahat Loukoum layered over L’Occitane almond oil. Mmmm . . .
We have several Dr. Seuss first editions we treasure. Last year my little granddaughter thought it would be fun to have the ‘Green Eggs and Ham’ dish offered at our local pancake house. Not such a good idea, she practically turned green with nausea as she tried to swallow those green-colored scrambled eggs. Since then, whenever she’s over and I ask her if she’d like to go out for breakfast, she eagerly says, ‘Yes . . but I won’t have the green eggs and ham.’
Love that l’Occitane oil. I agree with your granddaughter- eggs should NOT be green ????
I need to start commenting *before* I read….I get pulled away.
Wore BV today, though recent comments re Patou 1000 are nagging at me. I’ll have to dig it out.
Have a beautiful evening, all.
The comments blow up so fast that it is sometimes hard to keep up.
BV is beautiful. You smell great!
Late to the party but here I am!
SOTD = Parfums MDCI Chypre Palatin
I am on my 2nd decant which means I really must get that FB!
This is one of those everything AND the kitchen sink perfumes. It did not last long on me as I only wore barely 3 spritzes. Next time…5, so watch out world!
Tomorrow, I have to wear old reliable spine strengthener No.19 EDP or maybe I’ll debut my 31 Rue Cambon. Decisions decisions…
Will you need the velvet glove, or the leather one? 😉
I love my new 31 RC. Hadn’t paid much attention to it in the past but finally did a serious test in January and decided I loved it.
A commenter from a few days ago prompted me to get out Mistral Patchouli for a test sniff in cool weather. I like it just as much as I do in summer. Refreshing and energizing!
Wearing EL Private Collection but not feeling it. Craving Thierry Mugler Oriental Express, an other-worldly Shalimar both familiar and alien.