Happy Pi Day! And it's also Albert Einstein's birthday. What fragrance are you wearing to celebrate?
I had a dickens of a time finding it, but I'm wearing a dab of very old Givenchy Pi.
Reminder: 3/18 will be I Hate...Oh Wait. Wear a perfume you love that features a note or style you always thought you hated. (suggested by pixel)
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.
SOTD is Gueriain Apres Onde…nothing to do with PI or Albert Einstein, but it is a rainy dreary day.
Me too! For the exact same reasons.
I just ordered a bunch of Smell Bent samples and today I’m wearing Fashiony – a fun, fruity lipstick oud.
It is powdery?
It’s not really powdery, no; the drydown reminds me of Divine L’Inspiritrice (I swear both of these have like a cherry sno-cone note)
Aha. Thanks!
Ooh love Pi, and one of my hubby’s favourites too. Has anyone noticed the similarities between this and Organza Indecence?
They are definitely related!
Wow. That makes me want to try it!
Dang. I should have dragged out my also very old bottle of Pi (I bought it when it was launched). They used to have this amazing dehydrated shower gel that was sold as a 3-pack of flat plastic-and-foil envelopes with a screw cap and a rope hanger: you’d fill one with warm water, squish it around to dissolve the crystals, and voila: shower gel. So modern! It fit so perfectly with that futuristic theme.
Sample week, as in “I’m trying to burn through all these seeming hundreds of samples I bought over the years”, so I’m in Tom Daxon Crushed Bloom, which is basically just rose and LOTV over a musky base. Nice enough, I guess? Nothing out of the ordinary.
How cool! Surprised more brands don’t do something similar for shower gel.
That gel sounds great for travel!
Woke up early this morning (well that is everyday with this baby buddha) to a dreary gray wet day.
I still sampling Teo Cabanel. I am in Lace Garden today.
I can appreciate the beauty of this but its way to floral for my taste. The dry down is the best part.
I sampled Alahine over the weekend. At first, I didn’t understand what the hype was. The more I wore it the more I loved it.
Tea today is Paris breakfast, a black tea with citrus notes and I am still in my pj’s
It took me four wearings to fall hard for Alahine.
Yes, thanks so much for being an enabler (one of the many) 🙂 I would of missed out on this one. Post shower I will be wearing this one again after Lace Garden fades. Enjoy your Monday Mals86!
Same for me. Glad I got a whole bottle!!
The bottle is gorgeous!
I’m at the stage (cluster feeding!) where I can’t say I got up early because I haven’t really gone to sleep, except for an hour here and there. :-/
Lace Garden is one I’ve been wanting to try. Seems like a great pick for spring!
Welcome back! I have been waiting for you to post something about the baby! Congrats! I am so so happy for you. Welcome to motherhood-treat yourself well.
Cluster feeding only happens to me around 4pm.
Hang in there DottieNC-it gets better.
Lace Garden is great for spring, doesn’t really work for me. Would you like it? I would be happy to mail it to you as a “welcome to motherhood” gift.
Its just a small sample vial from lucky scent and I have only used a few drops.
Bah, same here! I’m waiting for feedings to settle down a bit…
What a pretty bottle Lace Garden has! I’m a sucker for pretty bottles.
Congratulations!
Are you hanging in there?
Maybe you should treat yourself to a pretty bottle – you deserve it
Congratulations, Dottie. Enjoy this stage, and every one to come. 🙂
A little Pi humor for a Monday morning:
If you ask a scientist what pi equals he’ll tell you it equals 3.14159. If you ask a mathematician what pi equals and he’ll tell you pi equals the circumference of a circle divided by its diameter. If you ask an Engineer what pi equals he’ll say “Pi? Well, it’s about 3, but we’ll call it 4 just to be safe.”
…And if you ask a kid what pi is, he’ll ask if he can have ice cream with it!
Note: Engineers tend to be cautious and overestimate to be on the safe side. 🙂
SOTD: 212 Sexy. Good stuff!!!
I’ll share this joke with my husband later! 🙂
Too cute!
Awww, that’s cute 🙂
😉
Love the joke! 🙂
🙂
And are you saying that Pi equals in fact 212?
LOL! I didn’t even connect that my scent has numbers! (Not that awake yet…) Pretty cool! 🙂
Love! You don’t happen to be an engineer, do you?
Not me….I’m a pharmacist, counting pills and milligrams all day! 🙂
???? Haha, love it!
Europeans seem to pronounce Pi as “pee”. Not a big fan of the women’s scents although I have developed an appreciation for some of them over time. The men’s Givenchy fragrances are, however, very well-done. While not my cup of tea, Organza Indecence is a splendid, spicy, sexy juice.
I got some samples over the weekend and I’m in Aedes de Venustas today. It’s…. very different from what I thought it would be. The opening was very funky, but it quickly turned into something really nice. I haven’t quite been able to formulate all my thoughts on it but I think that opening fits the theme perfectly. For a second I was afraid I’d have to scrub it off, but now I think I like it. I’m not sure what note(s) caused such a reaction though.
I read your post fast and thought you were actually at Aedes! 🙂 A fleeting thought of what a lucky girl to be there on a Monday morning.
Doi… 🙂 Thought you were on vacation…
That would be nice if I were at Aedes, but I’m in an office that’s probably around 3 hours away from there.
I’d like to be on vacation too. I’m counting down to the one scheduled for June. 🙂
Curious to know whether you’re in the Aedes signature from their line, or the one L’Artisan made for Aedes? (I like the former, but recently I’ve completely fallen for the latter.)
I’m in the Aedes signature scent, but I do have a sample of the one by L’artisan and plan on trying that too.
Oh cool–I do like that rhubarb! Be warned tho, I find the L’Artisan Aedes totally unrelated to Aedes signature.
Yes, I did read that they were vastly different, but I am looking forward to trying the other as well.
I was a bit put off by the rhubarb when I first smelled it this morning. It had that very sour-grapefruity note and I was really afraid it would turn funky on me, but it ended up smelling really nice!
I am wearing a tiny drop of Tzigane by Corday which is a long discontinued carnation chypre. The top notes are funky in that nail polish remover way, but after ten minutes or so it is humming along nicely.
I am drinking Harney’s English Breakfast from a sample. It tastes like mostly Keemun.
I need to do a Harneys order, I haven’t in a long time. At the moment drinking an Upton Lung Ching / Dragonwell.
I only drink Canadian Breakfast tea now because, like a good EDP, it has oomph!
And I don’t even know what Canadian Breakfast tea is!
As the ad once said, “Available only in Canada…pity!” For the English, that is. Canadian Breakfast by Red Rose is a relatively recent innovation, I suppose to keep up with the Irish and English Breakfast teas. We Canadians, being more closely tied to England than Americans, prefer our tea to have character and depth, unlike the “maiden’s waters” of brands whose names I will not mention. We also would not dream of hanging a string with label off our tea cups!
Gotcha. I think “American Breakfast” is generally speaking coffee — there really isn’t any tea tradition here other than iced tea.
sotd: Balmain Jolie Madame.
I’m having 5 days of violets this week; so it will be a violet-focused scent Mon-Fri 🙂
You smell wonderful.
That sounds like fun and I will be taking notes.
Violet Week! What a good idea!!
I’ve only got two violet-focused scents (Jolie Madame and Violetta) in bottles, but maybe I could eke it out with samples…
Last night I wrote down my 5 violets to plan ahead. Today I was supposed to begin with a different one but couldn’t help myself and began with my very favorite (Jolie Madame). Now I will have to see if I can actually wear 5 different one’s and not wear Jolie Madame at least twice! I do have 5 that I genuinely like, though.
I love your organized approach to violet. Might be fun to try with other florals.
Looking forward to seeing what you wear!
This will be one good-smelling week! I’ll be following you very closely…
Love this idea! Excited to see what you wear as I’m always on the look out for violet ‘fumes.
Oh, fun! I love violet scents and Jolie Madame is a favorite winter violet for me, the leather (a note I usually don’t care for) adds a nice bit of substance for cold weather. I could easily join you in a violet week, but instead I prefer to pick one violet scent for each month to savor. I’ll be looking forward to seeing your choices!
SOTD is Carven Le Parfum, one of my favorites.
Carven didn’t work for me but its very lovely! Enjoy your Monday
I need to try that one. Sounds like something I would enjoy.
I really like that one. Bought a 1 oz bottle (but only wear it in summer because the staying power is quite low on me).
I love the opening for Carven, but not the musk in the base. Lovely while the top lasts!
Ironically, I am wearing PHI today. What a coinkydink! Happy Monday all!
Ha! Close enough.
Not the Pi that you were referring to but close enough. 🙂
You smell great!
Huh, I wish I had thought to celebrate Pi Day with another Greek letter! You smell fantastic
Thanks! It was a completely random choice. I am not that intuitive but it struck me as funny.
SOTD: Eau de Reglisse (Caron). Yummy.
That one was nice. Wonder if they still make it.
Drinking Sichuan Top Golden Monkey, which is a peppery black tea. Wearing Ys Uzac Pohadka, interesting, and fortunately nothing more than that.
You are very exotic sounding today!
Pohadka sounds much more exotic than it is. It’s a dry, restrained leathery tobacco blend, with a little immortelle thrown in.
I’ve since added Goutal Tubéreuse, and I feel much better!
Nothing like some BWF to lift your mood!
Peppery tea sounds like one I’d love. But you’re not in the U.S., are you? I’ll try to hunt it down on these shores.
No, I bought it in Brussels.
Wearing leftover ELDO Putain des Palaces until a post yoga shower. Then….? Something with lots of rose! I’ve been craving roses. I’m off work for spring break this week!! And it’s really spring outside! Gonna enjoy this week thoroughly.
Enjoy your spring break!
I’m in Eau de Merveilles, layered with Eau Claire des Merveilles as suggested in Robin’s review of Eau Claire. She’s right, folks – a 2-to-1 layering ratio of these two is just perfection.
That sounds amazing. I need to get an ECdM sample now.
I still need to try Eau Claire. I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone mention it here.
Sounds like I need to get a sample of ECDM too!
I’ll have to try this combo, the Eau is my favorite of the Merveilles, the Claire my least favorite. Perhaps the two together will be even better . . .
SOTD Atelier Trefle Pur – trying to make some progress on the mostly unsniffed sample set. Santal Carmin is my favourite so far. I liked Vetiver Fatal too but only tried a dab so need to give it a proper wear.
Atelier Trefle Pur is such a lovely and gentle green
I also have the Atelier sample set, have had them for two years or so, and I have tried less than half of the fragrances. It may be because they just don’t last on my skin. I don’t think that I’ve tried either Santal Carmin or Trefle Pur. I think one of those would work for tomorrow.
The Trefle is nice but a bit too green for me. If you like green it would be a great spring scent though.
Sotd is Theorema. I don’t wear it often but it seems perfect for this cold and rainy Monday.
I needed something cozy today too.
SOTD is Azemour from KVA’s split. I’m fortifying myself for some challenges today and this fragrance with the bright citrus opening and so much loveliness in the drydown will help. No one will mess with me! A perfect homage fragrance to the brilliant Albert Einstein.
Hello scent twin!
Perfume fortification is the best – and what a good one!
Good news. Maybe mine will arrive in the mail today!
Azemour has healing properties!
I’m wearing Chanel 1932 today, and drinking some iced green tea.
We had to bring our dog to the vet early this morning. He’s having some health problems. On Thursday he went in for his annual checkup, and his liver values were very high. We brought him in again on Friday to have an ultrasound done, and his liver is full of tumours. So, we brought him in this morning to vet, where they will do a biopsy on him. My daughter is heartbroken. He is the family dog, but from the time we got him, those two have had a bond with each other.
I’m hoping for some good news today.
I’m so sorry about your pup. Hope it’s something treatable and fairly inexpensive/painless.
So sorry. Fingers crossed for good news.
It can be so tough when a pet is ill. I hope you get that good news.
1932 is so cheering.
Pets are like family, hope 1932 comforts you today. Sending you good vibes!
I’m so sorry to hear about your dog’s health issues and hope that they can be treated. Big hugs to you.
So sorry, that’s really tough for you’re family.
Good luck with your dog’s health! I hope he is OK.
Oh I am so sorry! I hope that the vet can fix your pup up.
Oh, I’m so sorry. Our dog is 4,5 months old and we are already so attached to her that I have to make sure somehow that she never gets sick. I sincerely hope there’ll be good news later.
oh, no! thinking of you and hoping for good news.
So sorry. Hope you get some good news today.
Hoping for the best for the pup and your family. It’s so hard going through that.
I’m very sorry, it’s hard when a beloved pet gets ill.
Keeping fingers crossed!
So sorry to hear about your furry son! Will hope for good news….
Fingers crossed, I’m hoping for some good news for you, too.
I hope you get that good news.
Thanks everyone for the kind words. He is home now from his biopsy. We should have the results in 2-3 days.
You’d never know he was so sick by the way he is acting. He was running in the backyard earlier. And, his appetite is healthy.
I was low on sunscreen and bought the best I could find at the grocery store. Sadly, the Beautypedia review didn’t mention the overpowering fake pineapple scent 🙁 I’m doing my best to run with it by wearing a hefty dose of Isis, but I fear the sunscreen is winning. I’m pretty sure now that I had this same sunscreen in different packaging a couple of years ago when a stranger complained about my awful fruity lotion. It does smell like a B&BW failure. Oh well, at least I’m the only one suffering this time.
Hope everybody had a nice weekend! It was my in-laws annual St. Pats party so I missed out on NST but will go read the comments when I get a minute.
Maybe the grocery store would take it back? I’ve returned a face lotion to Whole Foods when I didn’t like the smell.
I’m sure they would but I’m at Mom’s and it’s a two hour drive. I don’t have enough of my good stuff to see me through the week and I’ll go through it fairly quickly anyway. At least I’ll be sure to apply liberally so I get through it faster! I’ll try to keep my whinging to a minimum 😉
You just aren’t drinking enough pina colada to not notice. 😉
Excellent point 🙂
True! 😀 I’m planning on clearing some more cactus so perhaps after the machete swinging would be the best time.
So odd for Beautypedia as they always come down hard on scented products.
That’s what I thought too, but fragrance is listed last so I wondered if they had actually tested it or just checked the ingredients. I’ve been disappointed with several five star products lately.
Hello, I’m back! My beautiful baby girl was born three weeks ago today. Everything about childbirth and newborn life has been more intense than I ever imagined. I’m so in love and so sleep deprived. :-p
For some reason I’ve been wearing only Mohur since I got home from the hospital. My SOTD today is the lovely Mohur Extrait, which I finally got my paws on through the splitmeet (thanks, clarissa!).
Congratulations! Welcome to mama life.
You smell lovely.
Congratulations and welcome back! Mohur Extrait is wonderful.
YAY! Congrads! Newborn baby head smell is the best. Welcome to sleep deprivation! I am right there with you!
I hope your birthing experience was empowering as a woman and that you are hanging in there ok!
Yes, now that you mention it, the birthing experience was empowering – in hindsight, with some distance from the pain. 🙂
Congratulations Dottie! Such a wonderful time for you and your hubby. I hope that you and the new little one are both doing fabulously well and you smell divine!
Congrats, new mom and scent twin! I am in Mohur extrait from the split, too!
Congratulations and welcome back!
Congratulations!
Congratulations!
You smell worthy of the occasion! In my experience, the sleep deprivation will pass, but the love will only grow bigger. Huge congratulations and best of luck!
Also, in addition to perfume, I recommend ordering some really nice skincare 😉
Congratulations!! Best wishes. The first three months are the hardest.
Congratulations!, how was you’re labour?, hope it went smoothly.
So glad you’re enjoying this magical time, it passes so quickly.
The labor was … intense. Everything went smoothly, but the pain was something else! Totally worth it, though.
Congratulations! Take good care of yourself – as well as the baby!
Congratulation!! Enjoy the newborn smell while it lasts!
Glad to have you back! It’s been a long time for me, but I well remember how exhausting/exciting those first few weeks with my son were.
So happy for you and your treasure. Congratulations!
Awwwwww!!!! Congrats, and welcome back!! In my experience, once you really get in a groove and good routine with Baby (and Baby takes longer naps!), you will be out of the intense part and enjoy it a lot more. The 1st few weeks are BRUTAL!! LOL I remember with my 1st born, I was so desperate for sleep that I just sobbed one morning….and then we both took a good nap….. 🙂
Enjoy this magical time!!!
Congratulations! It’s a magical time and only improves whenever she learns to sleep! Lucky girl already has a perfume collection. Never to early to start 🙂
Yes, my daughter will come into a nice collection of perfume, books, and purses. 🙂
Congrats!! And good luck on the sleep front 🙂
Congrats on the baby!!! Mohur is a great fragrance to go with the baby smell 🙂
I am debating if I should be joining you guys in the Mohur land today 🙂 Mohur it is then 🙂
Yay, scent triplets!
Yayyyy!!! 🙂
Congrats and enjoy the baby!
How wonderful! Congratulations to you and enjoy each and every moment!
Congratulations! Wishing you lots of joy (and naps)!
Congrats on your sweet baby girl! Sleep deprivation is hard but temporary; the love you feel now will sustain you through that and will grow and grow!
Congratulations and welcome back!
Hey, Congratulations!
So glad to hear from you, Dottie! I’m glad everything is going well. I hear the sleep deprivation gets better when they go to kindergarten. 🙂
Congratulations!
Glad to see you back! Congratulations!
Thank you all! Lovely to hear the encouragement and words of wisdom. Great to hear that I will one day sleep again. 🙂
I’m wearing a sample of CdG Dot. It’s fairly simple, osmanthus with a little incense, but so far I like it a lot.
I have not made up my mind about it yet, but it’s pretty!
Note to self: take out your osmanthus scents tonight!
I keep forgetting and I do love those flower for spring.
It’s a bummer of a gray, drizzly day, following a challenging weekend. I couldn’t find the scent I wanted this morning either, so I’m not off to a great start. However, I’m wearing Cuir d’Ange, of which I got two(!) extremely generous samples from Hermes over the weekend, and though I started off feeling it was nice-but-nothing-to-obsess-over, I now find myself obsessing over it. Perfectly soft and leathery, alternating with a floral soapiness and…ambrette? Really lovely.
I love Cuir d’Ange. Zoomed through my sample way too fast, then added it to my want and need list.
I’m wearing a very un-Pi-like fragrance – En Passant. I’ve unilaterally decided that it’s spring and I’m therefore wearing head-to-toe pastels today; hence also the choice of scent. Spring isn’t fully cooperating: it’s beautifully sunny, but chilly here. Everybody else is still wearing black and grey, so I look bright and cheerful or bright and positively deranged, depending on your outlook, against that dark background.
Either way, you smell beautiful. I’d rather have the sun than all those rainy days, but it’s chilly.
I’m not really complaining either, I can live with the chill, if there’s light. And En Passant is a genius scent.
Sounds wonderful to me!, It’s so lovely to wear soft florals and pastel colours for the first time on a bright sunny day after a long wet/cold winter, and En passant is such a perfect accompaniment too.
My thinking exactly. Zara has done a midi lace dress for this spring that could have been painted by Monet, had he only pastels in his palette. I’m aware that there’ll be about 7 million other people wearing the same dress this spring, but I don’t really care, it is really beautiful.
The dress sounds beautiful.
That. Sounds gorgeous, I’m going to look fo it!
Bright and cheerful is always better than Greek grandmother in mourning! My apologies to Greek grandmothers, and grandmothers in general, and those who take a traditional approach to mourning, but really unless there is a necessary reason to wear black, bright and cheerful is always better than cold neutrals… 🙂
I do like black as well and love the mafia funeral look for summer – all black, huge sunglasses, scarf, bare shoulders, tight pencil skirt, heels. But there comes a point every year when I’m physically incapable of wearing black and that time is now here.
Love “Mafia funeral look.”
I’m forced to wear black at work. I call it “Sicilian widow”. It doesn’t suit me, makes me look haggard, and I feel unhappy in it. I’ve always said that I will only wear black in my coffin. I live my life in living colour!
En Passant lasted a new york minute on me 🙁
It’s not the longest-lasting scent on me either, although I can still smell it a bit (it’s afternoon here). But I have the travel spray and I’ll just reapply. Would be difficult to do it after every minute, though…
you smell lovely.
Thank you! So do you.
We’ll go with bright and cheerful!
Yes 🙂
I very much wish I had your sunny weather and enthusiasm. I’m in token black sweater and boots because it’s rainy today.
I can be the laziest of dressers on days when I don’t have that enthusiasm. This is why I’ve now realized (after years of scorn towards the category) that it really pays to have decent basics – perfectly fitting jeans, cashmere sweaters, good-looking flats. Because it is a fact that when I’m tired and cannot be bothered, jeans and a sweater are what I’ll wear, no matter my original intentions. Considering that on days like these I’ll be wearing no make-up and look generally forlorn anyway, at least if the comfy clothes are good quality, I’ll not be escorted from the premises of the Commission.
I agree 100% with this and I’m in the process of actually building that good basics collection now. We can be super casual in the office anyway, but I’ve found that even if I’m feeling blah I certainly don’t need to look it.
Apologies that it turned into a bit of a rant. I’m sure you look lovely in your sweater and boots.
The whole picture sounds lovely and hopeful. It reminds of that effect used in some films where it’s all black and white except for one dash of color somewhere. It’s black and white here today, and I conformed to wearing black and grey. It’s all a bit dreary.
Love the idea, love the scent. You must smell (and look) wonderful!
Enjoy your cheerful colors! Personally, I vote for “bright and positively deranged”!! ????
SOTD for drizzling spring day is Natori edp.
Cloon Keen Atelier “Castaña” for me today. This vetiver and chestnut concoction is a bit light for my tastes, although I know on some other people it’s too heavy. Whilst my Vetiver Tonka is different to this, they sort of occupy the same ecological niche and the Hermès has the edge. :^)
Sounds lovely..
I like that it’s different without veering into the challenging. I wish it retained more presence, longer.
That sounds like an incredible combination. How sweet is it?
To my nose, it’s not sweet, rather it is almost savoury, a dryish toasty scent that stops short of being gourmand.
Wow, ok, I definitely need to try this.
I’ll have a bottle up in the swap meet…
I’m wearing a generous dose of my semi-vintage Parfum Sacree EDP, augmented by a few drops of the very vintage Parfum Sacree Parfum and I think I smell great and no one else has remarked upon it, so I didn’t overdo it.
I now have my collection on a 28 day rotation and it is working great. The 28 is main notes, with two or three candidates in each category, so on any given day , I only have a few choices (reduces waffling), but I still feel like I am making the rounds and using my collection liberally. Also helps focus the “what shall I buy next?” by clarifying what I will need to refill next…
I hope to attain that plateau one of these days. It cheers me to know that you’ve been able to do it. After the swap meet, I’m going to work out my own 28 choices, inspired by meredifay.
Nice idea! Not sure I could be so disciplined.
Sounds like a great idea, but probably wouldn’t work on fickle me. But Parfum Sacre, swoon! ????
SOTD is Opium Fleur De Shanghai. It is really lovely. When Opium came out, I thought I didn’t like it, so I never tried it again. I like this very much, not at all heavy, although it may be in the heat. It’s cold and rainy today, so it’s cheering me up. I looked on Amazon to see what it would cost, OMG it’s $300. Don’t like it that much.
Wow, that’s gone way up in price!
In Miami for a few days so mostly wearing Eau de Sunscreen, but did some perfume shopping yesterday and bought Coromandel and Mojave Ghost. The latter has very mixed reviews, but I liked it as a somewhat inconspicuous, dry with a little twist of something perfume – and the SA was extremely winning. He did not talk me into the beautiful Memo Inle Iris though. I realized I do have a line in the perfume sand and this, at 550 or 600, is past it. It smells amazing though for all you profligate iris lovers out there!
I quite like Mojave Ghost. The SA at Aedes thought I would like it and gave me a sample. She was right, of course. Hmmm… Maybe I will wear that today!
Mojave Ghost is one that I go back and forth on. I wear it and then sometimes feel it is too cloying to me. but I do think it smells good…I just can’t make up my mind!
I could see it becoming cloying under certain circumstances. It hasn’t happened to be so far though.
Yes I can see this too. Right now by the beach it seems to achieve that dry but fruity thing that some truly great rose wines can do.
La Vierge de Fer. I. Hate. Daylight. Savings. I vote to abolish. it is so archaic.
Amen!
Second that!
This.
I’m wrecked today. I was just starting to get used to the little bit of sunlight I’d get when I woke up and now it’s back to being dark again.
There are times when I wish I lived in Arizona, just to get away from Daylight Savings Time. I just don’t know why they still have it around. Just because they thought it was necessary 98 years ago doesn’t mean it is necessary now.
But it was fun watching my 12 year old try to get his backpack on this morning. It took a while.
Twisted Mommy!
I wear that badge with pride. 😉
HAHAHA
That’s hilarious! Some of my favorite childhood memories are of my dad laughing as I did kid-tired-awkward things. It always made me laugh and so become more uncoordinated and eventually someone would come sort us both out!
We’re not in for it until end of the month, but I hate it too! I just want to stay on regular (winter) time.
Ugh. Daylight Savings sucks. Having a hard time getting out of bed, but at least Pie Day is some consolation since my work will have some in celebration.
SOTD = Chanel Coromandel which is perfect with the cold rain of today (and most of the weekend).
Still in the midst of organizing my samples in the hopes that I will be able to try all of them before next year. I was told that my goal is reasonable since there are only about a hundred or so. 😉 I left out a few that I’m curious about, so I’ll be sampling this week!
Happy Pi Day!!!
I enthusiastically share your disdain. Also, you smell great.
You smell great. And yes, a slice of fruit pie – good fruit pie- would be perfect on a dreary day!
This week I’m wearing a few of the perfumes I’ll be listing on the Swap Meet. Today it’s Casmir, and it’s luscious, but I’m trying to separate the likes from the loves, so …
I’ve been thinking along the same lines! And the weekend poll was a great way to kickstart that.
I’m wearing Azemour today, with a soft green jumper & red quilted floral jacket, and a lovely big , light weight wool Liberty scarf, that I got for £1 at a charity coffee & cakes morning on Saturday!, this was definitely my best bargain in quite awhile, it’s a really beautiful print, and I actually bid for this one on eBay a few months back, but the bidding went too high. I’m feeling very pleased with myself, as I have a real weakness for scarves, and Liberty prints, and this one was calling to me from across the room!
At the end all the bric a brac was reduced to 20p, and I came home with lots of other junk too. The selection of homemade cakes was really good as well.
Scarves are my favorite accessory. Congrats on your find!
My husband told me I should open a scarf museum, so I share the obsession obviously!
Thanks!
Great score!
I have a weakness for scarves, perfume and tea and sometimes hats- insert the word fancy in front of all of those. When we moved to our new apartment I claimed a shelf just for my tea!
I’ve got a 2 little tea shelves, my little girl call’s it my ‘Tea shop’!
I love Liberty scarves!
Wow, accessories, coffee and cake. My kinda day. Way to go!
Congrats on your bargain! Scarf + Liberty + £1 + charity = AWESOME. (I have a scarf problem myself. But I live in Arizona. Oh well.)
I knew all you lot would understand!my husband isn’t that impressed.
Lucky you! I love Liberty prints but have never found anything I can afford. Well done.
No perfume, but I’m drinking a lovely jasmine and orange green tea, a gift from my MIL. If I was going to wear something today, it would be Ostara. My daffodils started blooming over the weekend, my favorite flower, and the opening of Ostara captures it PERFECTLY.
What a sweet MIL. The tea sounds lovely.
I blindly ordered a bottle of Ostara last week. It was just too good of a deal to pass up. The daffodil is my mom’s favorite flower and I figured I should definitely have it in my collection. I’ve never noticed much of a scent though. Perhaps I need a whole garden of them? 🙂
How is the baby?
There might be a wiggle of Flowerhead left over from last night (still don’t care for it, particularly), but I’m looking forward to trying Mohur over the Yuzu & Cocoa shower gel my sister sent me on Saturday. It’s supposed to be quite warm here today, and I think that combination should prove . . . mmmm, enticing.
Is that the Lush? How is it?
It is! I adore it; it makes me think of gelato. Creamy + citrus + tonka (nothing particularly calls to mind chocolate!). I do find the color a bit off-putting when it’s on my skin, but someone with more melanin (most of the world) probably wouldn’t care. I think the scent was a bit more piquant in the cold weather, when last I tried it, but I like the gelato-y experience quite well enough.
Thank you so much, sounds great! Hope to try it soon.
SOTD: Rainy dreary Monday- dark and wet. Did not want to leave my bed!
To cheer up, a mishmash: Showered with a bit of Flying Fox (RIP) gel followed by a couple of spritzes of Sycamore. Perfect.
OOTD: Blue slim trousers, white shirt, navy blue scarf, cream cardigan with a cherry blossom printed obi belt. I made the obi belt from a couple of old, heavy satin scarves and have not worn this in YEARS!
Love Flying Fox, love Sycomore, love the belt.
Oh, thank you! I really wish they sold mini of Sycamore- it’s a perfect perfect scent when alone or layered, as I like to wear it!
Edw97005, I have a ginormous bottle. Please email me 😉
Yes, Hajusuuri, thanks again for the Sycomore split. It was perfect in today’s humidity.
My choices were similar….in the fog this morning I put on Neroli Portafino, then later added Sycomore. It’s heating up here, high 77 and very humid.
Will take the 77F but leave the humidity and fog! You smell GREAT.
All sounds wonderful!
Thanks! 🙂 Happy Monday!
SOTD is Zeta. I still have a half a bottle left, but I find myself hesitating over wearing this lovely because I know it’s been discontinued.
You smell great! I have half a sample vial left and am saving it for that most absolutely perfect moment when all the stars and planets are aligned just so… I wish he’d make it again.
Don’t save it, use it? I can supply you with a decant 🙂
Omg! Thank you! I could not say no to that. And I’ll take a little pecan pie, too 😉
Ha! That bite was so little that I ended up eating 5 really mini cupcakes from a co-worker’s mini shower. I was told they were Melissa’s cupcake which I think has a storefront near Times Square. I am in big trouble!
I’ve seen those Melissa’s places. I don’t think I *get* the tiny cupcake concept since you need about 6 (or 5 in your case) of them to make 1 Crumbs cupcake. But they are very cute.
So perfect for spring, no? I’ve got a stash of samples, so hopefully set for awhile, but wish it wasn’t discontinued too.
Hi. I am going to London in a couple of weeks. For those of you who live there: If I only stop in at one store to smell perfume, which one should it be? Thanks so much.
Well, Harrods is famous for its perfume hall, and as an outsider you can pretend not to know its reputation for nouveau riche vulgarity and just enjoy the bling and the outrageous prices. Liberty has a decent selection in a beautiful Arts and Crafts building in the centre of town. Personally I like Blooms because they have a bunch of different stuff but they won’t have the traditional big names like Chanel/ Guerlain/ Hermès.
Thanks, Koenigsberg.
Absolutely agree with the other suggestions and would add Fortnum and Mason which has a beautiful perfume hall, and is near Santa Maria Novella, the Malle boutique, Roja Dova and others in the Burlington arcade. Also Les Senteurs is brilliant and last time I was at the Seymour Place branch had a really helpful assistant. Enjoy London!
I didn’t realise that Les Senteurs had a bricks-and-mortar shop. Their online range is incredible – does the shop measure up? (This is where I got this week’s Cloon Keen samples as an example)
Thank you, Sophie.
It’s Soivohle Wild Ginger Chai today, an antidote for heavy rain.
I have an indecent number of Soivohle samples that I have sadly neglected! I will need to remedy that!
Oh, do! Liz Zorn’s perfumes definitely deliver on the promise of an artistic experience. I’ll be eager to find out what you think.
I’m wearing Christopher Brosius’ Where We Are There Is No Here, an ethereal jasmine sandalwood musk that’s more sensed than smelled. A bit ghostlike. Like Pi it’s impossible to pin down a finite definition, but it’s definitely there. It makes me feel as if I’m floating through a gently scented mist on this gray day.
I love your description of that one! It’s like wearing poetry. I have yet to try any CBs. I’m moving to Brooklyn next month so I’ll have to pay them a visit.
I checked out their website over the weekend and I am very curious about 2nd Cumming. Have you tried it?
I have! I lurrrrv it. Smoky peaty boozy. Perfect for a wintry day, sitting by the fire, reading a good book.
Was it for the perfume or the water perfume? I feel a purchase cumming 😉
Ho ho. I always buy his absolutes, the water perfumes don’t have much longetivity.
Have you been to the actual store, hajusuuri? We should make a pilgrimage!
No, I have not! Tbat pilgrimage sounds good!
I haven’t been since they moved from their old store on Wythe Ave. but I loved that place. All sorts of scents I’d never imagined existed. The next time I’m in Brooklyn it’s definitely on my list.
I refer to this one as “Where We Are There Is No Perfume” since the scent escapes me in a flash. I do adore the jasmine open on this one, I just wish it lasted longer than one sniff. I actually contacted them to plead for a perfume of just those opening jasmine notes, but they were unswayed.
funny.. 🙂
Gosh, seven hours later I can still smell the jasmine. No sillage though, just a skin scent.
Met up with a band of Bay Area fume heads on Sat (thanks Robin et al for the meet-up feature!) that culminated with a giant pile of samples we were each trying to offload. I pulled a couple of Parfums de Nicolai from it. Yesterday I tested New York Intense (really liked this one) and today began in Amber Oud (nice, but no need to lock up my wallet).
After we parted, I took advantage of the schmancy mall and stopped in at Cartier. Has anyone tried their ouds? I feel about oud the way I feel about many notes–it depends on the perfume… but the Cartier ouds were really fun. I’m not sure I exactly recommend Oud Radieux–it is extremely potent stuff–but it is a good ride. If you like ginger. Spicy ginger. Hot spicy ginger and oud. Definitely try Oud Radieux if that sounds intriguing.
It sounds like you guys had fun!
How would you compare the spiciness with that of NVC Trayee? That’s my spice tolerance.
Errrr… think Ting Ting Jahe ginger candy…Oud Radieux might be one you should skip… or at least test on paper only (but DO NOT put it in your purse with other paper tests as it goes nuclear and destroys all other scent samples within minutes).
So great you guys met and had a good time!
Wearing La Tulipe today…
Lots of freesia and smells like spring…sometimes freesia veers into dryer sheet territory for me but we shall see where the day takes us…
Love the scent of freesias. I have a bouquet of cut freesias and hyacinths in the living room that is wafting towards my office…
Hi scent cousin! I’ve joined Amy in Mojave Ghost. I liked La Tulipe and almost bought it. Went home with Blanche that day instead. How did I come away without a La Tulipe sample?? Oh well.
About to head into work and I’m dreading our pie sale. Pies as far as the eye can see. I think today is probably going to be either a Deneuve or no 19 day. I’ll just grab which ever one finds it’s way into my hand first before I clock into work.
SOTD is Bulgari Omnia (the original). I tend to save the few drops I have of this, but I was going through my samples this weekend thinking of the swapmeet, and I found quite a few decants that had evaporated, which inspired me to just wear them, no matter the fact that I might not be able to get any more.
Use it or lose it 😉
Grey day with grey outfit. Wearing the cozy antidote: Kenzo Amour. The magenta bottle is very cheerful though. I was thinking it would make a nice necklace charm (scaled down to size, of course) 🙂
Drinking a real expresso and wearing 8 healthy sprays of Shalimar. Going to speak to the toughest crowd ever in a few hours, and need the companionship of Shalli to go through. Wish me luck!
Good luck and you’re bringing a great companion!
Shalimar and espresso sounds like you are in business!
Fist pumping for ya!
This sounds rather serious, good luck!
Best of luck, Solanace!
Go get ’em!
You got this! Guerlain and good java!!
Good luck!
Respect! 8 sprays of anything requires strength and fortitude????
Even though it’s chillier than the last few days, I still feel drawn to spring scents so today I’m in Soivohle Lilas et Narcissus which is stunning and rich
This sounds so good.
Oh that’s sounds beautiful!
You know, I didn’t love that one and I can’t remember why. Should get my sample out and retry it.
Mugler Innocent (Angel Innocent?). I have never been able to stand Angel, this is apparently a softer version and easy for me to wear. From the haven’t worn these in a while category, since I have sampling a lot.
Our cafeteria is doing a riff on Pi Day with a pie tasting station. Never one to look a gift horse in the mouth, I went for a one-bite pecan pie!
SOTD = Prada Infusion d’Iris Absolue
This was love at first sniff and the first time I requested the larger 100 mL bottle when a smaller one was a available.
So good.
Ha ha ha! I’m famous! It’s “me” day on Friday! …now if I could only remember what note I was talking about with ‘I hate… oh wait’. Snort. Guess I get to play along with the rest of you. So I’m going to guess ‘rose’, in honor of which I’m currently wearing By Kilian Liaisons Dangereuses aka Rose J’Adore. Which, sadly, is not really working for me today, that’s a pity; Mondays are bad enough, time-shifted Monday is even worse, and time-shifted-Monday-with-the-wrong-perfume is just unkind on a cosmic scale. On the plus side I didn’t have to report for jury duty today; so it’s not as bad a Monday as could have been.
Oh geez, if you had jury duty on top of that it would’ve been an epic form of unkindness on a cosmic scale! Universal unkindness!
I can totally see how rose would be the sort of note for some. I think it depends on what kind of rose in some ways. Grapefruit is definitely the note with me. Although rhubarb may be added to that list.
I tried Liaisons Dangereuses for the first time this weekend and was favorably impressed!
I’m in Jacomo Silences today, from a mini I blind-bought to meet a free shipping threshold. It’s everything I should love, given my affinity for green scents, but instead I think I’m hypernosmic to something in the base. I’ll give it a shot again another day, but I’m thinking that this one just isn’t for me.
I’m always sort of surprised when I don’t love something I think I probably will, given the notes. (“But it’s green! I love green!”)
That said, I love Silences.
SOTD: Knot by Bottega Veneta
Been a long time since I’ve worn this one and I still enjoy it, but other loves have pushed it down a few notches.
Off to get my 3rd cup of coffee.. yep, it’s Monday and it’s a gloomy, gray and cold Monday to boot.
I have been sipping tea all day, mostly because of sheer exhaustion.
What could I wear in honor of Pi or Einstein? Maybe Mitsouko, because it’s an intellectual scent?
So far, SOTD is the remains of last evening’s Obsession–one last hurrah before I swap out my perfumes for spring and summer.
I’m wearing Cuir d’Ange for the second day in a row. I think I may need a 15ml of this one too. I like it a lot. I get decent lasting power from it (mostly as a skin scent, but it’s still there), and I get a slight touch of cuminy funk that I haven’t really seen mentioned elsewhere. Maybe that’s just how the leather note is reading to me.
Trying to use up some ‘winter’ samples, so in Ambra Nera today. Unfortunately, I want green, floral spring scents, so may have to put them away for next winter.
A little dzing from a decant I recently got in a swap–smells as oddball great as I remember. There’s some Bois d’armenie on my scarf from yesterday, which is a nice combination.
Happy Monday, everyone! This should be a joyous day for me because it is the first day of my Spring Break. It didn’t start out that way. I was supposed to have dental surgery today, but my appointment and surgery procedures got so messed up. Someone seriously dropped the ball on this one. So, after everyone in the office continued to apologize, it all had to be rescheduled for Friday. What a way to o start and end my Spring Break week.
My SOTD is Satura Cherry Blossom by Jo Malone. It seems appropriate for a Spring Break fragrance.
That sounds awful! So sorry!
Gourmand Coquin because…rain. And cleaning closets and sorting clothes, shoes to donate or toss….
Yum, Gourmand Coquin is great! Certainly a good way to add a bit of cheer to the chores.
Mmmm, I may have to wear this this week!
tough times demand tough cookie – don’t mess with me scents – that means for me 31 rue Cambon, SODT (might become of the week)
Knock ’em dead!
Just got a reluctant Chanel SA to make a sample of this and am looking forward to giving it a real wear. I’d just bought a bottle of coromandel, so she should have been running to make it for me, right? Ha! Anyway, you smell great.
do give it a chance! It wasn’t love at first sniff for me, more an acquired taste, e.g. like smoky-peaty whisky. And yes, I find that if you buy a FB of one of the exclusifs the SAs should automatically offer samples of the others, but that’s in some kind of parallel universe to mine
I’ve had the same experience with Chanel. Regardless of “attitude” marketing, it makes no sense to me.
I must try that! I love “don’t mess with me” scents!
Penhaligon’s Violetta for me today, but I am going to dig out my sample of Lilas et Narcissus and retry it.
Adding some sunshine to Keep-It-Simple Monday with L’Occitane Feuilles d’Oranger (Orange Leaves). Someone wore it last week and that prompted me to pull it out today. It’s an entire orange, including peel, leaves, stems and twigs, crushed and put into a bottle. The edc layered over the spray body milk creates a light but long-lastng scent with a brisk, tart and aromatic note that brightens up the day, despite the rainy weather forecast for the week.
I wore Feuilles d’oranges recently, I broke my bottle and a friend found it on the bay and sent it to me as a surprise gift. I adore this. The other perfume by L’occitane I own is La Vanilla. Feuilles is by far my favorite though. You smell great! How is the body milk? I am jealous you own it! 🙂
The body milk, called Lait d’Oranger, comes in a spray bottle and, although milky in color, is a very thin liquid, much more like a body spray, and you just mist it on. But it softly moisturizes and the scent is quite strong and long-lasting. It smells the same as the edc. I picked up two when they were clearanced out. I also enjoy wearing it under my favorite fragrance of this type, Nina Ricci Bigarade, which was only produced a couple of years in the mid-1970’s.
Wearing Vanille 44 for a rainy Monday. Unfortunately, it was also the scent I was planning to wear for “I hate…oh, wait” so now I’m not sure what to do…
I say you should wear it again! Unless you are apposed to wearing the same scent in the same week…
Love Vanille 44! So good by itself and also layers well!
Happy Pi Day all! Started the day with D & G’s Sicily., a summer fave, all spicy-soap floral without the sharp edges. Now sitting outside my office enjoying a late lunch hour in sunshine and 75 degree weather. Just found in purse: a silly old roller ball of Kate Spade Live Color Fully, fully forgotten about. Gave it a whirl & darn, what a pretty, happy little fragrance.
Oh, jealous of your sunny 75! So gloomy here.
I feel certain that Einstein would have liked a good dirty jasmine on the women around him, so I’m wearing Tawaf and planning on quiche for dinner (that’s the pie). It also smells like Salome in the house because the bottle arrived and I’ve been decanting for the participants in the splitmeet. So it’s jasmine/rose/funky in here, the poor cat is sneezing, and it’s bucketing rain outside but I am strangely happy with everything.
I feel quite certain that Einstein would have enjoyed all of this!
This post makes me strangely happy.
Sounds perfect!
I’m another person wearing Vanille 44 today. It felt right for the rainy day we were having, but now it is clearing up and getting a bit warmer (and it still smells great).
So, the last week I’ve been thinking about perfume as story telling, and looking at the story tellers (I would say Jean Claude Ellena and Serge Lutens are two good examples). I guess I’m interested in this in relationship to my own work, and how my scent mapping is really just a form of story telling. I have been going back over John Berger’s essays on art – as these always offer insights into how we ‘see’ and make sense of the world (though I’m more interested in the sense of smell than sight) . I think I’m far more taken by the story telling aspect of perfume than say the symbolic aspect, or the (more modern) curating/cataloguing (scent library) aspect. It’s separating story telling from romanticism and metaphor that is one problem. Anyway, I’m off to smell sperm whale oil this week. Just had an amzing walk in the mist and rain through pine sheltered fern. Wearing Blackbird and New Musk , together, as I like the way the musk softens the pine.
Enjoy your sperm whale oil sniffing
Words to live by!
I’m very happy to suspend disbelief and enjoy the journey if the notes of a perfume ‘back up’ the story. Beaufort and Eau d’Italie are examples where the smell matched the tell. :^)
Love this idea of perfume as story telling! Perhaps that’s why I actively dislike very simple perfumes.
Yes, that’s the direction i am heading in…perfume as an unfolding narrative theough which perfumers communicate and we add layers of meaning through wearing…
Wearing Joy as something to help a challenging and emotional occasion. It was a sad day but also full of family warmth. Happy Pi day all x
Hope Joy worked well for you today
Thanks lovetosmellgood.
Super late to the party today. SOTD was FM Vetiver Extraordinaire, which was perfect for sitting in a room full of people droning on and on. Whenever I felt myself nodding off, I’d stick my nose down my shirt and inhale deeply and wake right up!! Such is the power of perfume!! ????
LOL — love VE, never thought of it as an antidote to boredom but glad it worked!
Woke up this morning thinking of Ostara. I am not one to argue with Morpheus, so I spritzed liberally and walked about in a yellowy-floral cloud of springtime.
Coincidentally, I watched Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont this afternoon. I enjoyed the movie’s reference to Wordsworth and his poetry:
“I wander’d lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er vales and hills
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils”
Someone told me a nap is a good antidote to the spring forward shenanigans, so I gave it a try this afternoon.
Like. +1. Agree. 🙂
Great idea! Will wear Ostara tomorrow. (Today was Paestum Rose)