Happy Easter, everyone! It's time to fill your (fantasy) Easter basket:
1. You can pick one perfume, new or old: what is it?
2. And you can have one other scented product (a candle, a body lotion, anything): what is it?
3. Your favorite candy?
4. And any random present you'd like the Easter bunny to bring you.
Note: shown are the 9" Peeps Plush Bunnies ("Any Bunny would love to get one"), around $9.99 each.
1. That’s a tough one but I woul go with Iris Silver Mist.
2. I would go with Amouage Epic in body butter form.
3. Mine would have to be thenHarry and David chocolate coverd strawberries and bing cherries.
4. If a $500 gift card to FragranceNet is too much, an Amazon gift card will do.
Happy Easter everyone! Today I am wearing Amouage Epic Woman. Tomorrow is probably going to be Iris Silver Mist.
Ooo. Can’t go wrong with Iris Silver Mist.
My easter basket
Divine by Divine
No lotion thanks-love shower foams by Rituals
Candy..dark chocolate
Going to Francios Payard today for some sweets and tea..
How is longevity and projection of ypu for Divine? Heard great things about the line but never tried any. Have you tried other in the line?
I have tried L”Inspiratrice, L’ame Soeur, L’Infante all very very good. Still waiting to try Spirituielle.
Divine is a sophisticated, glamorous scent. I have a small sample that I dab, so I can’t tell you how the projection would be if you sprayed, but I am guessing it would be good! Its a huge retro chypre. The longevity is hours on my skin, and its not a casual perfume whatsoever.
I would give this line a try. If you like the original Chloe or Dior Miss Dior you may like Divine.
As “the resident expert on all things Divine” I can add to Lovestosmellgood’s comment that all fragrances in this line have excellent longevity and normal projection. By normal I mean that they don’t share Poison’s radius nor do they wear very close to the skin.
4 of the Divine fragrances for women come in extrait de parfum concentration as well. They wear, like all extraits, closer to the skin than the EDP’s in the line, and have the same longevity. They actually have a very nice sample set but shipping to the US is pricey. All in all I wholeheartedly agree with Luca’s words about the line: “Divine occupies a specialty niche that wouldn’t exist were the world sane: good mainstream perfumes aimed at the bourgeois perfume buyer…”
I am now lemming these even though I have HUNDREDS of untested samples. I am especially fearful because supreme split enabler clarissa has her sights set on these 🙂
Hehehe. Mother’s Day is coming 🙂
austenfan is the divine enabler.
That sounds like a good title 😀
Haha, I saw what you did there, lovestosmellgood 🙂
Clarissa, there’s Mother’s Day and then half Christmas, a birthday somewhere and then before you know it, another Christmas. 🙂
I feel incredibly flattered ^^’
I have the original 3 plus Spirituelle and Homme de Coeur. All have good projection and longevity. This is an underrated but wonderful house.
1. I would love some Iris Ukiyoe for spring. I won’t get greedy–the 200ml bottle will do.
2. I’d love some agar wood incense. So luxurious and potent.
3. I am not picky about candy! But at the restaurant where I work our pastry chef made some orange marshmallows that were absolutely perfect, including just a touch of sour. I’ll take a whole separate basket for those.
4. Dearest Easter Bunny: if you could remove my wisdom teeth at no cost, that would be super. PS: don’t forget the oxycodone. I’ll use them on label, I promise.
Don’t you just wish that you can just have a whole new set of teeth? I know I do but just the sheer cost is scary.
That would certainly be a load off. I don’t mind anything but the cost. That’ll get ya. 🙁
1) How could I choose? That’s akin to torture…
2) Some FM body butter.
3) ALL candy is my favorite candy. I have a wicked sweet tooth.
4) Easter Bunny, please bring me a huge honkin bottle of Box of Eels. Please!!
SOTD is SL Un Bois Vanille.
Ah, I will take some FM body butter too! Carnal Flower, or maybe Dries van Noten if they make that.
They do!
Well good then. Hope the Easter bunny is paying attention.
The carnal flower one is the only one I’ve tried, my tiny sample pot is lasting quite awhile, it’s gorgeous stuff, & feels so decadent combined with the perfume.
Perfume-Guerlain Metallica
Scented product– one of the Frederick Malle body butters, probably Dans te Bras
Chocolate– See’s assortment but must include Scotchmallows
Other gift–a really fabulous vacation to someplace exotic
Ha, I see the FM butter is popular today 🙂
1. That is hard!! I will go with Sultan Pashas fragrances. I have been testing little samples and I am in heaven.
2. Frederick Malle body butter!! Not sure about which one as I only tried Carnal Flower – but this is luxury defined for me. Wallet is running away in fear 🙂
3. LA Burdick chocolates. The marksmanship is incredible and I have not found a single one I do not like. I am a chocolate snob bit this is probably the best one I came across.
4. I am not greedy – a full set of SHL Full Bottles. I can only afford tiny decants and his creations are amazing
I’m with you on those SHLs!
The bottles are so gorgeous. And the juice, the juice!!!!
I did splurge on one: Rose de Petra, which I think is beautiful, bottle and all.
Love Rose de Petra. I have a bottle, and would love some of the others. It’s great when both bottle and perfume are lovely.
SHL? It’s not coming to mind. Thanks
Stephen Humbert Lucas 777. I have a gorgeous partial bottle of Khol de Bahrein.
I want to have that bottle one day
Me too. It will be mine one day.
Ohgod I love LA Burdick. For a while their bonbon assortment boxes were my go-to gift for all occasions. Love their chocolate mice, too.
And the pate de fruits? Those are the best I tried.
So incredible, like little sugared jewels…
LOL on your #4
1) Almost an impossible task, but if I had to flee my home right now, I’d probably grab Dune. Although I’m wearing FdB today from one of my swaps.
2) Voluspa Colonia Gardenia candle
3)70%+ dark chocolate with sea salt, preferably
4) a vacation with cat sitter included!!!!
The cat sitter is important 🙂
I actually really enjoy so.e of the Voluspa candles! Baltic amber is a favorite in my household but if I’m buying it, it’ll be Tuberose di Notti. Very powerful and very beautiful.
They are really nice for the price point and they don’t smell overly synthetic to me. I’m on my second of the gardenia one and I really love it. The tuberose is nice, too.
Black Figue & Chypre is my favorite of the Voluspa line. So cozy on a winter’s day!
I enjoy this one as well but I can’t smell it within a foot of the candle, burning.
I also like the chestnut one they do around the holidays, Black something.
Making a note of these. Hope voluspa available on amazonuk
1. To Bee in liquid form. A lot, please.
3. The now discontinued Smuckers Jelly Beans. 🙁 breaks my heart…
4. A buttery leather fold over clutch in a rich camel color.
How’s the baby?
Growing too quickly! And not colicky like my first. Counting my blessings for sure!
What about #2?
You know, I don’t really use scented candles or scented body products… is that crazy for a perfume fanatic??
Not really – that just means you smell so good from your perfume that the other stuff is unnecessary! 😉
1. A bottle of Memo Inle Iris perfume.
2. FM Iris Poudre body butter.
3. Chocolate! Any chocolate is good. The darker the better.
4. Veering into total fantasy, I’d like to go to an estate sale and offer to buy all the old perfume there, and have them drag out of the back of a closet some unopened bottles of Iris Gris, Apres l’Ondee, Bellodogia and Parfum Sacree, and have the person say, “My grandmother was such a pack rat! Would you take all of these too? I won’t charge you any more. I just want to get rid of them…” 🙂
I love your #4 🙂
Oh Iris Inle! I sprayed it on before I saw the price and now just pine. So so good. I would like the Easter Bunny to bring me that. We’ll smell amazing!
Your No.4 is my fantasy too. I am not sure if it will happen this lifetime.
Me too! I have thought about this so many times!
Note to self: must try Memo Inle Iris!
Dear hajusuuri, if you decide to obtain one of your large samples of this, I would be delighted to contribute to a split!
I feel a retail therapy day coming up 🙂
Ooh, a toughie, but I’m gonna go with… perfume I want in my basket: the largest possible bottle of L’Heure Bleue vintage parfum, of course still completely fresh and perfect smelling :-). Other scented product: one of those gorgeous Fornasetti candles in the ceramic jars. Favorite candy is almost impossible, but since this is fantasy life, I’m gonna go with a Teuscher Chocolates Easter set, which includes one large bunny and twenty-seven truffles…make mine the champagne ones, please!
L’Heure Bleue is getting a lot of deserved love this morning!
Oh, and meant to add, I can’t stand Peeps but those plush bunnies are pretty darned cute!
They are!
I like about one peep a year, that’s enough. But want to try the cocoa ones, have not had those.
I saw the cutest plush baby chick peep basket at Walgreens!
1. Divine L’Ame Soeur
2. Jurlique Rosewater Mist. So lovely, not so inexpensive.
3. English clotted cream fudge
4. Money
Haha money. I love it.
Oh, now, why didn’t I think of that? Lol!
Clotted cream fudge sounds amazing!
Rather than a bottle, I would ask for a box of Bond no 9 Bonbons for my perfume. That would look so good sitting in an Easter Basket. I would want a Fornasetti Architettura scented candle, and a box of La Maison Orangettes. For a random gift I would like a Irene Neuwirth ring set with a neon swimming pool blue paraiba tourmaline and/or a pair of Valentino sneakers with the wide baby blue stripe. To avoid waste, instead of a basket the Easter Bunny could put everything in a Blue Jean blue Birkin with gold hardware. That would really make me happy. Thank you for the fantasy Easter Basket. I can really picture it in my mind.
LOL on the BIrkin Easter basket!
I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s been done!
If it occurred to me, it has to occur to others. I wonder if Birken sales go up around Easter?
You are really good at this, Kaththee! 🙂
Yes, your Birkin basket of goodies is amazing!
Thank you! I really enjoyed that exercise a little too much for my own good. At least I can say that I am good giving real gifts to my loved ones as well. Gift giving is definitely my “love language” although I have never done anything as extravagant as a 100K+ Easter basket. 🙂 This was fun. I enjoyed peaking into the other fantasy Easter baskets as well.
1. In the total fantasy arena–a bottle of (preferably vintage) Guerlain Djedi. More realistic–another bottle of Aftelier Secret Garden as a backup for my rapidly diminishing bottle.
2. Some really high quality incense.
3. Anything dark chocolate.
4. An all expense paid vacation to Hawaii.
Can I change my list? Instead of the trip to Hawaii, I will take this which I just came across on ebay:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/1950s-NIPS-25-Cent-PERFUME-Coin-Operated-Vendor-WATCH-VIDEO-/301837499318?hash=item4646eabbb6:g:WLsAAOSwHPlWgxuv
In case the link doesn’t work: It is a vintage perfume nips vending machine. I have quite a collection of the nips, but this is the first time I have seen one of the machines.
I just watched this. How awesome is that? I never even knew something like this existed…….
I have seen it all! 🙂
Oh my, but wah, that price does not include shipping, which means a trip to CA may be in order. In MY fantasy, I put this item in my cart and hit submit offer and the seller offers to drop it off in my house because SHE was taking a cross country road trip.
LOL! Love it!
Wow…those guys sound like they are also from the 1950s.
A bottle of Pulp, which would work great for next week’s challenge.
2. Jaisalmer candle
3. Macarons and Ice Cube chocolates. That’s my high/low basket of sweets.
4. 3 round-trip tickets to Tokyo.
I started to say Pulp at first, but I went with APOM because it was a tad bit more expensive and I could only pick 1. Now if we were allowed to have 2, I definitely would have put Pulp.
Pulp was the first thing I thought of for next week!
1. Cdg Avingnon.
2. A set of The Body shops British rose shower stuff.
3. Renee Voltaire Ginger chew
4. Can the Easter bunny fix my left foot? Would be fantastic!
I think the Easter bunny can do anything 😉
British rose? I cant find anything on their website by that name. And I love rose stuff.
Hmm, it’s out in Northern Europe, by maybe not everywhere yet. Looks like this: http://iamfabulicious.blogspot.se/2016/02/the-body-shop-british-rose-collection.html?m=1
It’s a green, fresh rose. Not unlike Byredos Rose of no mans land. I have the body butter, which is light but moisturizing and gives a bit of a sheen. Very nice.
Hey thanks-not out in U.S. yet, apparently.
1. That’s odd, I don’t want a perfume right now. Better check if there’s a pulse… Well anyhow, I don’t want to waste the boon from the bunny, so I would ask for the perfumes that everyone here wants and a miniature assistant person to keep track and ship it all.
2. Another bar of Porto Iris Lavender soap – mine is getting low – and some of those violet flavored pastilles.
3. Neuhaus chocolates
4. A little house in South India
Oh Sajini,
Your response to #1 is so very sweet. Thanks for being so generous! 🙂
Thank you, Sajini! You can have my number 4 for your house. 😉
So sweet. Thank you, dear.
1. A full, unopened, expertly stored bottle of Guet-Apens.
2. No real preference here, so I’ll gladly forgo #2 in order to increase the likelihood of #1.
3. Dark chocolate, preferably with unusual flavor combinations mixed in.
4. Do Easter bunnies pick out wedding jewelry? Because I’m tired of looking at necklaces (words I never expected to say).
I wore a pearl strand for my wedding, in a length that just grazed my collar bone, and it looks great in the wedding photos. Would something like that work with your dress? Could take some stress off …
I agree. Pearls are classic and something you can wear the rest of your life. Most wedding necklaces never see the light of day again.
I also wore pearls 18″ and they go with everything. Jeans and a button up shirt is my favorite look.
I also wore a stand of pearls for my wedding. They had belonged to my grandmother, so they also served as my “something old”. An 18″ or 20″ length, depending on your frame, is a classic that you can wear forever.
I actually love pearls and know deep down that I’ll probably end up wearing some. I think I’m just over-complicating things by trying to find something special and elaborate that I can’t get away with normally. (Not that special-elaborate-unusual will ever match the beading and rhinestones on my sash/belt anyway.)
Ditto to all pearl comments above. Timeless and classic.
Double-ditto. My mother’s pearl necklace was my “something borrowed.” Plus, my matron of honor (and only attendant) gave me a pair of delicate, single-dangle pearl earrings. I like low-key and classic. 🙂
I’m thinking I’m gonna need an “Idiot’s Guide” to help me plan my wedding. I don’t know squat about all this stuff! Hadn’t even considered wedding jewelry. . .
Your taste for #1 is perfect, of course! What you need is a fragrant friend to troll the internets for you and let you know when a bottle appears on an auction site. (Thank you, CH!)
When I got married 26 years ago, I didn’t think much about things like that either. It never occurred to me to buy special jewelry just for that one day. If I had bought a necklace to wear for my wedding, it would have been something I could wear from then on–sort of a wedding present to myself.
I don’t know anything about wedding planning either, and it turns out that I don’t care about a lot of it. ???? I’m currently only thinking about the things I normally like (clothing, jewelry, stationery) and ignoring everything I find boring (makeup, hair, writing the ceremony, anything related to the reception or reception decorations). Clearly I haven’t successfully executed this task yet, so take my advice with a sea full of salt, but I’d suggest not being like me and instead making an actual plan before you start buying stuff. (Saves on having to buy better-matching stuff to replace it.) You have lots of time, though! Enjoy this part before you start getting bogged down in planning.
I was so lazy/disinterested in wedding planning, I let my MIL handle it all. The only things I cared about were the dress and the ring.
These comments are exceptionally reassuring! 🙂
Yes, take time and thought on the things you care about, and let someone else worry about everything else. Call me old-fashioned, but I think a wedding should be thought of as a happy celebration rather than an “event.”
I got a nice linen dress, mom’s old pearls and called it a day. White wedding chapel in Las Vegas…..
Oh darn, I need to do more vintage fragrance shopping?? Well if you insist…. 😉 😉
I’d hoped you were up for another challenge! 😀
Twist my arm!!
I’m thinking we should have a wedding perfume Friday a la what would ellebelle / Marjorie Rose (+ anyone else engaged to be married but have not announced) wear on THEIR wedding day?
Sounds very helpful!
Even though I think I know what I’ll be wearing, six months until the wedding gives me thousands of chances to change my mind. I’d absolutely love to hear people’s wedding perfume suggestions!
I’ve wondered at what the sweet spot is between having enough time to plan/give people enough warning and taking so long that I start to overthink the details! We’re looking at next summer for the wedding, since there’s a million teachers on the guest list, but part of me wishes winter break seemed like a good idea.
Marjorie Rose, I missed the news that you are engaged, but now I do know, I just want to say how happy I am for you! Warmest felicitations and congratulations to Mr Spicebomb too. Oh, and as for planning the wedding, you know what? People will be so pleased to be with you in your happiness they won’t care where it is, or what you wear, so just do and choose whatever pleases the two you the most. That way, every single thing is bound to be beautiful., and full of joy for everyone who loves you.
Thank you, Waterdragon! We’re very happy!
I really agree with your thoughts on making it our own. I’m finding it tough to get my head around mostly because I’ve never given it much thought. I don’t know what I want, so it’s easy to think about what’s expected instead. But ultimately, I’d rather do what I want than what’s expected. 🙂
Marjorie Rose–first of all, best wishes to you and your fiance. Marriage is a wonderful thing when it is with the right person. My hubby and I have been married for 25+ years and I can honestly say marrying him was the best thing I have ever done.
When I got married, I had never even heard of a wedding planner, so I didn’t have one. My mother and I planned the whole thing in about 3 months. We kept it pretty simple–I wore a wedding gown and veil, had a bouquet, flowers for my matron of honor, flower girls (my 2 nieces), and boutonnieres for the men, piano and organ for music, and a photographer to take pictures. The guys wore tuxes and my MoH and flower girls wore matching dresses. Then we had a nice sit-down dinner for the reception, mostly because we knew we would be hungry and would need to eat! We had a cake from a really nice local bakery. That was about it. We didn’t decorate the church to the hilt, or try to put on a big show. I wore jewelry that I already had, and one piece that I borrowed from my mother (my something borrowed). I did my hair and makeup myself that morning. Our wedding was quite small, but had it been large, it would simply have been more place settings at the reception and more invitations to send out.
All I concerned myself with were the things that were important to me. I wanted a real wedding gown (my mother wanted me to just “go to the mall and find some white dress you could wear”. Well, that wasn’t going to happen! Wearing an actual wedding gown, having a bouquet (which gives you something to do with your hands), having the Bridal Chorus and the Wedding March played, having pictures to remember it by afterwards, and having a nice meal and a wedding cake were important to me. I didn’t care, however, about putting on an elaborate production. Afterwards, I heard from my MIL that some of the guests had commented what a nice wedding it was and that it was the first wedding they had been to where it seemed as if the couple was doing it for each other and not to try to impress everyone else.
Just do what is meaningful for the two of you and will make the day special and memorable for you. Don’t worry at all about what is “expected”. I think weddings have gotten waaay too over the top these days, and now everyone seems to think they have to pull all the stops out. The people who really care about you will be happy to be there for you to share this special day with you; they won’t think less of you if you don’t put on an extravaganza.
Missed this too, congratulations! And yes wedding perfumes would be fun. I think farouge did a thread in that awhile back at BdJs Recommend Me a perfume feature, but can’t remember which month.
I wore a pearl strand too, so I’m joining the chorus.
Ah, fantasy. For perfume, it would have to be vintage Diorling EDC (the large splash, and in perfect condition, of course). I don’t really have a favorite body product, but so many NSTers are raving about Frederic Malle body butters this morning that I think I have to go with that (the Iris Poudre one, I think). The Easter Bunny knows about my shameful candy secret (Smarties … sshhhhh). And for random extra surprise, hidden at the bottom of the basket? A Mini Cooper coupe, in a custom pale-green paint color. I don’t know how EB fit that into a basket, but there you have it. 🙂
I like smarties candy as well
Oh pale green is a great mini color choice!
1) Guerlain latest May Day release of Moyette in that beautiful bottle.
2) Return trip to Bhutan so I could buy a lifetime supply of lovely handmade incense sticks. I bought a dozen boxes and am rapidly running through them!
3) Dark chocolate, preferably from Christian Constant in Paris
4) I’m heading to Paris in April to visit a friend. I want to eat and drink whatever I want, in whatever quantities I want and not gain an ounce! Hows that for a dream wish?
(I will get #3 on my trip and I’ll be there for the release of #1. I just can’t AFFORD #1)
Sorry #1 should be Muguet, but after just seeing the Tokyo bottle of Mitsouko I want to change my mind! Stunningly beautiful.
So exciting the trip to Paris!!! In general, I’m not one to throw caution to the wind, even when on vacation, but I think Paris makes for a very reasonable exception. Do tons of walking around town, and you can justify some indulgences! 😉
I’m with you. Plus my friend has a 4th floor apartment and no elevator. The French woman’s stairmaster!
My exact thoughts, eat whatever you want and walk those calories out. No sacrifice. 🙂
I love this year’s muguet bottle!
Happy Easter and may everyone enjoy this festive time.
1. Can I please have a bottle of Atelier Cologne Encens Jinhae? (or Masque L’Attesa but first I got to try it, sounds like iris heaven)
2. Atelier Cologne Silver Iris shower gel please
3. I’ll just go with plain bitter chocolate
4. Maybe new Ariana Grande album? I just heard her “be alright” and “dangerous woman” singles and I really dig those tunes.
SotD is California Reverie, by VC&A.
Lucas how did you like Encens Jinhae? I am torn between that one and Tobacco Nuit – I wish they came in 30 ml bottles.
I loved it Clarissa, you can check my blog review for detailed impressions. I also liked Tobacco Nuit and Mimosa Indigo. They come in 30ml bottles but only as part of a coffret with 200ml of the same scent. I would love those 3 in small size
Happy Easter Everyone!
1. You can pick one perfume, new or old: what is it?
I have been wanting a bottle of APOM by Maison Francis Kurkdjian for the longest time
2. And you can have one other scented product (a candle, a body lotion, anything): what is it?
I like to layer my fragrances; so APOM body lotion or shower gel would be nice
3. Your favorite candy?
I love jelly beans; they would be perfect in my basket
4. And any random present you’d like the Easter bunny to bring you…
Money is always the perfect gift to give – so that would be a nice surprise
Have a fantastic weekend!
edit: to get
instead of to give
(but it is nice to give, I just need to receive right now) LOL!
I have a 3ml decant of APOM if you’d like me to send it your way? I went to NM a couple of weeks ago (due to talk of the reformulation of CPlS) to talk to the very nice SA. I see her every time I’m in store (I think she lives there!) and we always have a nice chat and she has never been anything other than kind. I tried a spritz of APOM at her suggestion (I’m still trying to bust out of my FloralPhobia limitations), and she made me a generous decant. You can reach me at taiga1 0 1 in the land of Yahoooooo! if interested, no space between numbers????
Awww! So sweet of you. I will email you right now.
I love the fragrance ladies at NM in Boston! The manager, Ann, has been there forever, and she is one of the most knowledgable SA’s I’ve met – plus she is always gracious.
Have you noticed that the APOM comes in travel sprays? In all you get 33ml for $95, pretty good as compared with 70ml for $195!
Hi all,
Gray and cold here in Colorado and too much snow left for an Easter egg hunt.
1. You can pick one perfume, new or old: what is it?
Heeley Ophelia. Recently fell in love and also read that it’s been dc’d (of course). Debating about purchasing a decant. I just don’t like decants though – they’re clutter-ish, sometimes go off or dry up and feel like a lack of commitment. What do you all think?
2. And you can have one other scented product (a candle, a body lotion, anything): what is it?
Carthusia Mediterraneo body wash. Or lotion. Not picky.
3. Your favorite candy?
Some kind of dark chocolate truffle with nuts.
4. And any random present you’d like the Easter bunny to bring you.
Our remodel to be finished ASAP? If the E.Bunny can do that I would be forever grateful.
The Heeleys are so great and easy to wear – and they better not be discontinuing Sel Marin or Iris de Nuit! If you can afford it, I’d buy a bottle instead of a decant; if not, decant. Sounds like you will wear it, which obviates the clutter.
Yes, buy the bottle. No regrets!
Oh I see now that bottles are scarce. I’d get a decant!
This is too hard and now I just want to copy others. Like I’ll take a bottle of that Memo Iris Inle – or Mohur extract of the Easter Bunny isn’t feeling flush. Then perhaps some Le Labo Rose shower gel, which someone mentioned yesterday. Burdicks chocolates are the bomb, but Fran’s dark chocolate and sea salt caramels would work too. And what I most want in the world is my own private, lifetime maintenance paid, swimming pool. Of course, living in an apartment in the NE US makes this a little hard even to fantasize about.
1. I think I’d choose Coco, but this is a very tough question.
2. I love body lotions, and I’ve always wanted to try a Jo Malone scent
3. Cadbury creme egg
4. A check that would cover credit card debt for perfume
Just realizing I really really like Coco. You’d smell great!
1. You can pick one perfume, new or old: what is it? I don’t know. I’m wearing Amouage Gold today, and loving it.
2. And you can have one other scented product (a candle, a body lotion, anything): what is it? I wouldn’t mind the Jardins d’Ecrivains George candle. I like the scent, but would love to try what the candle is like.
3. Your favorite candy? Dubbelzoute drop!
4. And any random present you’d like the Easter bunny to bring you.
A wire haired Dachshund, life is boring without a (sausage) dog.
Oh my gosh! My mom used raise and show (conformation) dachshunds, and wires were her favorite variety. She won BoB at Westminster one year with a wire bitch and we never heard the end of it. She was so proud of that dog! They are lively little dogs with big personalities and great companions. Do you see one in your future?
I lost my first Dachsie last summer and I’m beginning to think of a successor. The practicalities are a bit difficult as I work away from home, but not impossible to overcome.
Did you know that there is actually quite a big difference between Continental European Dachshunds and the ones in the UK and US?
They are without a doubt my favourite breed. I think they teach masterclasses in manipulation of humans.
No, I didn’t know that! Is it a significant difference?
The Kennel Club recognises 2 different sizes as does the AKC. I don’t know about American Dachshunds but the British ones are significantly lower to the ground and longer backed than the typical German Dackel. In Germany as in the Netherlands 3 sizes are the norm. Standard, Miniature (Zwerg) and Kaninchen.
The Merle colouring are becoming more popular here as well, but white is still not allowed in Dachsies ( associated with all sorts of illnesses) over here.
I think the main difference is that in Germany, France and probably the Scandinavian countries they are still bred for work, which requires a different built and a different temperament. I’ll stop now! Do you have a favourite breed? You have an Australian Cattle dog now don’t you?
Oh, that’s really interesting! I love any information about canine history. The most genetically diverse species on the planet and they work endlessly and tirelessly for humanity! I mean, really, who wants to go down a hole after a bad tempered badger?! Bad, backyard breeding abounds here in the US unfortunately, but they are “supposed” to be quite low to the ground, deep chested, with a nice tuck in the belly area. Wire temperaments are much better here than the smooth and long haired, I think because they are less popular, thus less “tinkered” with and have some typically inherited terrier traits personality-wise as well. The worst thing that can happen to a breed here in the US is to become “popular.”
This is the type of Dachshund I like. http://www.hogejacht.nl/nl/reuen-verzamel/thijs
I think bad breeding happens a lot here too, although it’s not legal to buy dogs in shops. We currently have a problem with dogs imported from puppy mills in other European countries. The responsibility lies with the prospective puppy buyer as well. A friend of mine recently had a litter of 7 Picardy Spaniels. By the time (8 weeks) left for their new owners they all knew their names, would come on a signal(flute), would retrieve various objects and were showing a good start towards being house broken. Sure she charged a fair amount of money, but she still spent far more money than she received in return. It was a delight to watch 8 healthy, happy dogs. Mum was in great shape too. Shiny coat etc.
Your number 4 is the best!
I think so too!
1. Papillon Anubis – it’s the only thing I’ve sampled and shortlisted but not yet bought a decant or FB.
2. A Burren Perfumery room spray in Cedar and Lemongrass (now discontinued, but that won’t stop the Easter Bunny!)
3. Blanxart chocolate.
4. The willpower to use my gym subscription. :^(
I’d go to the gym with ya! 🙂 Sometimes good company is the best motivation. We could make it smell *good* in there. 😀
Let’s all go together! 🙂
Anubis is high on my FB list too. So good.
It is a great one – totally agree
I’m with you all on Anubis. It’s so good and is my late night go to scent. I would highly recommend getting hold of a bottle. I love all of the Papillon Perfumes but Anubis is my favourite.
1. Parfums de Nicolai Sacrebleu.
2. A huge bundle of sage incense for the house.
3. At the moment, I’m obsessed with kẹo gừng dẻo, Vietnamese ginger chews. My MiL sent me a big box of them, which I’ve managed to deplete in an eyeblink. They come dusted with rice powder like loukhoum and have a massive, hot ginger kick that cures whatever ails ye.
4. An adorable built-for-two Cape Cod cottage in which to place all of the above, including the Easter basket.
Ooh. Love your #4!
Oh yes please! My spouse and I actually looked at one recently, but the rent had a “you-can-see-a-sliver-of-the-river-from-five-blocks-away” increase tacked onto it. (sob)
Almost forgot: SOTD is Nemat Nag Champa. Addictive buttery frangipani.
I didn’t know the name for them but I love the ginger chews. I got addicted to them when I had a cold and was craving ginger.
They truly can get you hooked… But we can always say they were “for the good of our health” ! 😉
Exactly 😉
I’m addicted to the Ginger People’s Gin Gins, which sound very like the Vietnamese version. Before Gin Gins and on the West Coast, I used to get a kind wrapped in dissolvable rice paper. I can’t think of their name now–think it started with a J. More than you wanted to know about ginger candies.
There is NEVER too much to know about Ginger candies! Now I’m off to look up the Ginger People– thank you for the tip! (Mine are “Prince of Peace” brand…)
Gin Gins are good too. I don’t see those around as much. I think the ginger chews I got were actually from Indonesia. I’ve gotten ones at my Kroger that were Reed’s brand too (Reed’s also makes really tasty ginger ale).
I love Reed’s. Goya is good too, if a little sweet. It makes a great ginger sauce for stir-fry.
1. I would like to have Guerlain L’Heure Bleue vintage the biggest bottle possible, well preserved of course.
2. For body products I am curious to try new Chanel No. 5 body oil
3. Laduree macaroons
4. The easter bunny can bring some peace and kindness to the world
Re: #1: Great minds think alike! 🙂
oy, didn’t know about the body oil. And it’s the last day for triple points. May be turning myself into the Easter Bunny shortly.
1. A very vintage bottle of something Guerlain—L’heure Bleue, perhaps? In whatever concentration Bunny thinks is best.
2. Bronze Goddess body creme is probably the only scented body product I’m likely to get, although if Bunny would like to surprise me with an Amouage creme, in Beloved or something else wonderful, Bunny is welcome to do so!
3. A box of See’s MILK chocolates with mostly creamy (not nutty) centers. A few caramels are ok too. Butter cream, lemon cream, coffee, brown sugar–the good ones, Bunny!
4. Tickets (and two weeks off) for me and Mr. Spicebomb to Italy. We’re thinking it would make a good honeymoon. 🙂
Just got some more of the BG body cream. It is the most heavenly cream I know. I love it!
It’s definitely on my shopping list. Need to get to the mall and it will be mine. 🙂
Yes to the MILK chocolates and See’s! Nothin’ ritzy for this gal, at least not in chocolate.
Agreed! Why pay more when something affordable can be so delicious?!
1. Difficult but right now I’m in the mood for Vetiver Tonka or a backup bottle of Nasturium & Clover
2. A Dipytique candle, how about Geranium Oderata
3. Easy, Reeses peanut butter cups or eggs etc, I’ll gladly eat it all.
4. Err lots of sleep in my own bed? I’m so tired after 4 red eye flights and staying in hotels this month, I’m glad to be home.
Welcome home! Rest well.
Thanks! Slept like a log last night and tomorrows still a holiday, so yeah!
1. Byredo Gypsy Water. Soft sandalwood heaven, yes please! The Mr likes it too, so we could share.
2. I have a small bottle of Lush Happy Hippy, please Mr. Bunny bring me a big bottle because it is so refreshing!
3. Chocolate, mmmmmm. An assortment of full size milk chocolate Cadbury bars, sent straight from the UK.
4. A charging cable for our hand held vacuum. The first one mysteriously disappeared and it would be so lovely to use that device!
I always stock up on Cadburys chocolates when I’m in Canada. LOVE them! (And way better than the versions we get in the States.)
The next time you’re in Vancouver visit the specialty candy store on Robson near Granville. They have the UK version of Cadbury Dairy Milk — even more-ish than the Canadian version.
😀
This is very good information to know! Thank you!
1. A bottle of Musc Ravageur. I’ve bought I don’t know how many decants, so dear Easter Bunny, I’ve earned this bottle.
2. I have candles, lotions, shower gels, etc. in every closet and drawer in the house. It’s not at hoarder levels yet, and I’d like to keep it that way, so I’ll pass on this.
3. There’s a small, family-owned local company that makes wonderful chocolates – I’ll choose anything from them.
4. I’m with Hera – a little more kindness in the world, please.
#2 such restraint! Love it.
1. A perfectly preserved bottle of vintage Chanel Bois des Iles
2. Atelier Cologne Sous le toit de Paris soap or shower gel
3. Zero calorie organic Dark Chocolate, the darker the better
4. A genie who can grant unlimited wishes
I just ordered the 200ml bottle of SLTDP… Didn’t even think to look for bath products! Shower gel sounds lovely.
Actually, there are no bath products for this, unfortunately. A girl can only dream…
😀 Hahaha, your #4…
It may be a tad easier than world peace 🙂
Zero calorie organic dark chocolate. When you find a source do let us know!!! My husband bought me a bar of Godiva dark chocolate with sea salt for my birthday, which was lovely, but I only wished it was darker… come on, Godiva, only 50%??
I’ll share the info once I get my first shipment 🙂
During the holidays, Costco sold a pack of 5 Lindt dark chocolate assortment with a combo of flavored (sea salt, orange and caramel in 47% cocoa), one 70% and one 85%. I bought several to give as gifts and somehow ended up with, ahem, a few extras…kind of like that Baileys Irish Creme liqueur somehow never made it out of the house 😉
I would love a giant bottle of Naomi Goodsir Or du Sérail – those little 50ml just make me want to hoard.
I would also like a complete set of the FM body butters. 🙂
Reeses chocolate peanut butter eggs (plan to stock up Monday on sale!)
And finally, a trip to Paris complete with paid shopping spree!
What is the price for these FM body butters everyone is talking about? I love a good body butter.
$200 I think. Pricey stuff but very luxurious and highly scented.
I forgot to mention my SOTD: Dans Tes Bras.
Yeowch. Remind me not to sample while I am out of work. ….
Too rich for my blood!
Reeses does chocolate peanut butter eggs!! I love the cups, eggs might prove fatal!
I just saw DARK CHOCOLATE cups!
Those are good. I mean, I don’t even like Reese’s very much, but the dark chocolate changed that.
Trader Joe’s also has dark chocolate peanut butter cups. They were taunting me last week.
Or du Serail is gorgeous, isn’t it … and very nearly edible. Would go well with chocolate. 🙂
Monday? Sale? That sounds fantastic. Perhaps it’s lucky we don’t have these, I’d go crazy.
1/ Amaranthine. Not because it’s ‘the one’ but because I’d like to have a bottle atm.
2/ Pass. Don’t use scented body prodcts, candles etc.
3/ Midget gems 😀
4/ Mr Schneeze will move in in a few so I’d like a dozen matching coat hangers. Or about 10 litres worth of De Bortoli’s boxed Sauv Blanc. That’s seriously drinkable wine.
I would have picked something anyway to give away as a gift 🙂
First, through no fault of my own, I didn’t get to post yesterday on our picture community project, so here goes–Andy Tauer’s Reverie au Jardin, a wonderful complex scent that would be completely at home in that picture’s setting and story.
Now, as for today’s questions:
1–Love’s Fresh Lemon, to take me back just a FEW years!!!
2–a magic candle that would waft whatever fragrance I craved at that particular moment.
3-homemade sea salt caramels, and if dipped in dark chocolate, so much the better
4–world peace, and I’m not even joking…
fragrant hugs and kisses to my smelly friends around the globe.
Adored Love’s Fresh lemon, way more than Baby Soft. Perhaps that’s what set my love for citrus and the cologne structure. Or, it could have been that I ate straight lemon halves as a child. (now I just eat lemon wedges).
Love’s Fresh Lemon – that brings back memories!
And I am so with you on #4.
I love your little icon. That painting is one of my favorites!
I’m thinking a two stage process for question one – lots of samples of expensive things I’m too scared to try in case I like them, with voucher for a bottle of my choice.
I’m not a great fan of other scented products, so a second voucher would be nice.
There are some lovely chocolate places here in Wellington, so the Easter bunny could exercise some choice here.
And my wish is for more storage space. I spent some time yesterday going through my fabric hoard and it’s much worse than I thought. Bulky woollen fabrics and a small apartment are not working well together 🙂
Gaynor, I have exactly the same problem with my sewing fabrics! I can’t bear to quit them, because one of my definite plans for retirement is to do much more sewing, but I must say I wonder why I always buy wool insteadvif something light that packs away to nothing!
You could use the packing cubes that compress soft bulky stuff by about 1/3.
The ones that vacuum pack the contents? I tried that once, but they sort of exploded in the cupboard when I wasn’t looking. The real solution would be to stop buying fabric until I’m ready to work with it, but I am weak-willed in the presence of pure wool. Mum had this saying, “There’s no substitute for wool and character” (she had a fondness for odd little aphorisms). I must have internalised this one more than I realised, ‘cos I certainly have the wool part down pat!
1.PdN Sacrebleu original. Just attended an Int’l Women’s Month scented seminar at Ari’s shop. Wonderful! Sniffed the Intense version today.
2. LADDM body cream.
3. SEE’s dark chocolates fresh from the case, especially the brittles and caramels.
4. Personal trainer on call who appreciates perfume.
LADDM body products? There are such items?
I don’t think so, but it’s my fantasy Easter basket.
1. A pristine bottle of Patou Ma Collection Vacances, please, Easter Bunny.
2. A BIG bottle of Rose Jam shower gel (I’ve been eking out the travel size for over a year now).
3. A dark chocolate maple cream egg, or a raspberry one. Or a small box of those fruit slice thingies.
4. Funds for a writer’s conference would be *awesome*.
I can relate! I’ve got 6 mini bottles of Rose Jam shower gel in my cabinet
Lol this makes me feel so much about better about what my cabinet looks like 😉
Mals, if you find the Easter bunny who has the Vacances, please send him on to Arlington after he delivers your bottle. 🙂
My ears pricked up at the description of April Aromatics Purple Reign last week. I’m hoping it might be a good substitute.
I think there’s a bottle of the Rose Jam shower gel to swap toward the end of the swapmeet posts. Don’t know if it’s still there, but you might want to check.
1. Amouage Jubilation 25. So that I can finally stop debating with myself whether I can afford it or not.
2. I’d love to have a Diptyque’s Le Sablier Diffuser. Orange Blossom will do, although I wish they had one in Mimosa.
3. Liquorice candy, in large amounts.
4. A small house somwhere in the woods is probably too much to ask of a little bunny. But I do need a new bookcase.
I asked for a pool so I think a small house is fair. It’s a magic bunny after all.
1. Endless supply of Diorella from the 70’s 80’s or 90’s
2. Not a big lotion/cream/candle user so I’d choose one of L’Artisan’s boules. But I’d willingly sacrifice this category for more Diorella.
3. At Easter I always want a cheapo marshmallow egg (not fancy ones), but they are harder to find as now they’re all based on other chocolate bars like Reese’s pieces, etc. Of course dark chocolate (70% or above) is always appreciated.
4. Since I can’t expect the Easter Bunny to provide everything, when I win the lottery I will be getting implants — dental implants. However, I would be willing to accept the money to pay for them now.
Happy Easter to those who celebrate!
1. Vintage No. 19. Just love it.
2. A Diptyque candle in the large size. I’ve never had one.
3. Any good quality dark chocolate, I’m not picky.
4. Spring weather.
Which is your favorite formulation of the 19?
I love them all…except for the Poudre. 🙂
Your Easter basket sounds very reasonable. I hope you get them all 🙂
1. I think a bell jar of either Boxeuses or Iris Silver Mist — the cool engraved one please!
2. Hmmm.. Maybe a Malle body butter. I’ve never tried them but they seem to get a lot of love. Maybe carnal flower.
3. Dark chocolate. An assortment of Vosges dark chocolates with different fillings and flavors.
4. I’m planning to start house hunting here in the next month or two, so some more down payment money would be ever so helpful. A winning lottery ticket wouldn’t be too much to ask would it? ;p
Carnal Flower body butter sounds exquisite! I think I’d probably swoon at my own scent to such a degree as to needing a fainting couch!
It does indeed! Though if it really caused that much swooning you’d probably have to put a warning on it about operating heavy machinery. 🙂
Hahaha! That would make an excellent advertising campaign for a line of fragrances. Warning: do not use in an enclosed space without proper ventilation!
Good luck with the house hunting! I hope you find something you love. A house should have been my #4 actually.
Well yeah I guess I could have skipped the money bit and just wished for the house. That would make things a lot simpler! 😀
Also thanks!
1. More Box of Eels parfum.
2. I’m not much for scented body products either, so I’ll join lindaloo in asking for one of L’Artisan’s big amber boules.
3. See’s milk chocolate Pecan Buds, please.
4. I’d love a reliable, affordable, efficient handyperson. Since that combination seems impossible to find, I’d settle for a strong high school student who wants to earn a little extra money after school and on weekends.
I’m wearing La Perfumerie Moderne Desarmant today. Very pretty.
How does Desarmant compare the to Roja Dove lilac scent?
RD is a heavier and more plush scent. There is something about Desarmant that is light and sparkling, but not in an aldehylic way. I kept thinking, “This is California Reverie with lilac instead of white flowers, and not as sweet.” It has lasted all day on me, too, which is a big plus in my book. Both are good lilacs.
That sounds lovely.
Love Desarmant
Yes #4! Seriously.
Morning to all. So, my Easter basket will have a bottle of Beloved (for the dear man to enjoy on me, which will increase my enjoyment about fifty-fold) and some tubes of Ecoya French Vanilla hand lotion to give to my friends who are perpetually dieting so they can smell gorgeously of food but not eat any (the not eating thing gets a bit tedious sometimes, if I’m honest). For sweet treats, I would choose some Otago dried apricots–there is nothing else in the world quite like them– or I would make some hot cross buns laden with spice and fruit. My random extra item would be a Sphinx kitten that could cuddle into the vast expanse of Dakkie’s tummy and help him with his mice.
My SOTD thus far (and it’s nearly 10.00 a.m. here, so it’s been on for about four hours and is unlikely to improve now) is A Mistake. I’m about to go and shower it off.
Hey Waterdragon, welcome back! I have to look up the Otago dried apricots to see if I can them them in the U.S.!
If you can find them, do try them. They have a far more intensely apricot flavour than the Turkish ones, which always strike me as just rather blandly sweet. They make the ultimate apricot jam, too, though in our house, they usually don’t survive long enough to make it into the preserving pan!
Have you tried the ones from Trader Joe’s? I get the California slab apricots. Sounds similar to Waterdragon’s. They are more tangy, apricot-y, and deeper color than the Turkish, which are sweeter and more bland.
Nope, may have to go to the one in Manhattan to pick it up. The Trader Joe’s I would normally go to closed due to a roof collapse from the last major snowstorm (it was also somewhat of a pain to get to and the parking situation is atrocious).
I highly recommend a Sphynx! I am so in love with mine. She’s unlike any cat I’ve ever had. She’s wonderfully kooky and affectionate and a great cuddler. We almost took in another one recently that needed rehoming but since we’re moving soon, thought it would be too traumatic for everyone involved. Your life will be forever changed by a little naked kitty. I wish I could have sent little Henry your way.
Oooh, Henry! Henry! I want the Sphinx called Henry!
Richard really adores Sphinxes, and though my heart belongs first to Siamese and Orientals, I love them too. So maybe when we leave Auckland, we’ll find a breeder and see about it. I weighed Dakkie today and to my horror, he is nearly 8 kg! Goodness me, that’s a lot of lilac point! He could do with a fully interactive kitten to dash around with., ‘cos it seems that The knitted mice aren’t offering much of a work out!
Had to look up a calculator to be sure, but I’ve got a kitty that rivals your 8 kilos! But agreed, that is a lot of cat! My Opie (a mixed breed from the shelter) topped out at nearly 21 pounds. I’ve gotten him down to about 17 pounds, and his weight has stalled. At least the vet no longer looks at him like he’s about to have a kitty heart attach as soon as he’s lifted out of the carrier! 🙂
Wow, 18 pounds! He must be a big boy! Love his name too!
Man, that’s certainly a big purr too! The thing with Dakkie is that, being Siamese, he was made tall and long, but with elegant bones not at all designed for this huge payload. He still looks quite beautiful when he’s sitting down, but when he stands up, he has these lkim little ankles and delicate oval paws that don’t tell the same story as his huuuuge tummy…I love every bit of him, though!
My dad used to make me hot cross buns. He’s been gone for a long long time, but I can just about taste them now that you reminded me!
I’m baking today, and the apartment is full of that hopeful scent of dough rising. I wish you could come by for a cup of tea and tell me whether my hot cross buns are like the ones your father used to make. I’m perhaps a bit heavy-handed with the sweet spices.
My dear man does something weird with hc buns– he splits them, spreads the split side with a little butter, fries it till crisp and golden, then spreads the halves with golden syrup. After that, he lies around in a state of torpor while he processes them…I can’t get my head around adding golden syrup to an already sweet bread, but he says he’s done it all his life.
I’d love nothing better waterdragon. I liked mine still warm and freshly crossed. But butter and syrup too? That’s amazing, but perhaps more than I could handle. I’d start to look even more like your cat than I already do. (I grew up with Siamese cats, although never a nice fat one.)
My mom made hot cross buns tooo… Mmm, miss those.
1. I want the Lush perfumes that aren’t yet available in the US. I know they were in the spring catalog as coming here soon, but when?
2. I don’t use lotions or body butter, although I should since my skin has turned from oily to quite dry as I’ve aged. So I would like something interesting that I would be too cheap to buy for myself.
3. Something with dark chocolate and peanut butter please, or dark chocolate and orange. Or liqueur chocolates. I haven’t had the last two since I was a child in Germany.
4. Access to some loose-leaf exotic teas, of the type many of you seem to love. The only options in my town are Lipton and Bigelow, and occasionally Stash tea. One would think that with summer coming to Texas I wouldn’t want hot tea, but I am very susceptible to being cold in my air-conditioned library and I drink hot tea a lot during the summer to help keep me warm.
If you have a Lindt store by you, they make chocolate covered orange peel – delish! They also have an orange flavored dark chocolate bar.
Love.
1. Mohur Extrait
2. Hermès Eau d’Orange Verte shampoo
3. A good old plain chocolate éclair from Rue de Montorgueil, in Paris – eaten there, ok, bunny?
4. A trip to Guerlain mothership, since I’ll be there
LOL on #3 !
😉
I think the bunny should carry you there!
I expect no less from it!
1. So many choices! But I’ll have to go with my current unicorn perfume:
Vintage Tom Ford M7
2. Vintage Youth Dew bath oil counts, right 😉
3. Dark chocolate anything, don’t go easy on the cacao!
4. Not too bad – the large Frederic Malle coffret would be wonderful.
In addition, made a wonderful discovery when I went into Lush today! Their massage bars can double as solid perfumes. I tried the Yes Yes Yes bar on my skin and longevity was 4 hours (those bars are huge, too!). Sillage is good, too – layered it over Coromandel, which was overwhelmed by Yes Yes Yes for about an hour. They are also moisturizing, so you can use them as lotion. Already have 3 bars, but now I’m sooo tempted to buy all of them!
Happy weekend everybody!
Hey, those massage bars are a bargain compared with most liquid perfumes these days. Go for it!
That’s good to know on the Lush massage bars. I’d been staying away for the sake of my bank account, but now I’m tempted to drop in and check them out.
I got the Therapy bar as a gift some years ago (and still have some left as I don’t use it much). I think I find the mix of neroli, lavender, cocoa and shea a bit too muddled? Must re-try! And yes, need to try ‘yes,yes, yes!’
My dad used to make me hot cross buns. He’s been gone for a long long time, but I can just about taste them now that you reminded me!
Oops this should have gone to waterdragon!
That’s OK– I now realise my reply to you is also in the wrong place! Holiday brain function. = down by 40%!
What I mean to write here was good thinking on the FM box!
1. I would love a bottle of Eric Buterbaugh’s Sultry Rose.
2. Does Amouage Fate come in a body butter? If so, Thst, please!
3. I subscribe to Powell’s Books’ “Indiespensible” autographed book club (focuses on indie authors), and with a recent shipment, they rather cruelly included a bar of the most divine chocolate – Tony’s Chocolonely Milk Caramel Sea Salt – from a Dutch indie company whose products are available only in Portland and Seattle right now ????. Boo. I would love to find a bar of each from their line in my Easter basket.
4. A privacy fence for our backyard, to block the view of all of our neighbors’ vehicles parked around our house 24/7, and as an added bonus, to keep the coyotes out of the yard.
I live 3 blocks from a store that carries Tony’s. Email me at my username at a oh ell dotty com and send me your address!
Sounds like you really need that privacy fence! I have a tiny yard, but I’m so grateful for the tall fence between it and my neighbors’ on each side. They’re nice folks, but I hate feeling like I’m being observed while I putter about. Hope you’re able to find an attractive solution soon!
1. That is so hard… Probably something vintage. Or maybe the original formulation of Le Temps d’une Fete. Maybe vintage Chanel 19.
2. I love all scented shower products, but I really do love and don’t own the Baies candle.
3. Only because someone prompted it, I keep thinking of those chocolate covered orange gelled candies…
4. A new job.
Was downtown today briefly, so I now have Santal 33 on one hand, Lys 41 on the other, Atelier Encens Jinhae on one wrist and Mimosa Indigo on the other. The two that still stand out are Lys and Encens Jinhae. Enjoying the latter quite a bit, so look forward to wearing the sample I got.
Oh, I should have requested a new job for Mr. Spicebomb from bunny instead of a trip to Italy. . . maybe I can have the two packaged up together?
1. I’m gonna have to go with Ne m’Oubliez Pas. It’s *really* lovely…
2. I’d like to try the L’Occitane Fabulous Oil!
3. Oh gosh… right now I’m just craving sour patch kids!
4. More fruit trees! We moved in December, sadly leaving behind all the fruit trees we planted at our old house. We just got 2 apple, 2 plum, 1 persimmon and 4 fig trees, but I’d love to get a couple of asian pear trees, cherries, maybe the native paw paw… and though not a fruit, chestnut trees would be more than welcome!
On a side note, after several tries from the sample bought I think I’m going to have to return my bottle of Hiram Green Voyage. I was hoping for a lot more vanilla, but it’s very clovey-cinnamony on my skin and the early stages very loudly remind me unfortunately of commercial bathroom cleaner (so did Un Bois Vanille) and the drydown of nice potpourri. I was thinking of swapping it, but it was a little pricey at 165 so it’s probably best to just get the money back. 🙁
Wow, that’s a lot of fig trees. I have trouble using up all the figs from my one mission…
Yeah I have a problem… To be fair, perhaps its because we had a hard time with our previous figs and never got a lot of yield (they weren’t wintering well) and were young and small trees. Originally I was just going to get 2 (brown turkey, celeste) but then I saw a peter’s honey fig, which I hadn’t heard of, and then at another nursery I saw ANOTHER variety I hadn’t heard of (which I can’t remember now)… and well, the rest is history. To be fair, we’re keeping them potted so they’ll never get very large…
I LOVE fruit trees! First year I bought my house, I planted an Asian pear alongside the road. It’s a little thing, but I got a couple dozen pears the first full season. Unfortunately, due to permitting requirements, I wasn’t allowed to plant any tall fruit trees in the boulevard. I’ve been trying to figure out how to sneak a persimmon out there anyway. 😉
Are persimmon trees tall? And does anyone know what to do with quinces? I put two quince bushes in the back yard and have had bumper crops two years in a row now.
I’ve seen mature persimmons reach 20 feet or so, so plenty tall enough.
My mother’s made quince jam from time to time. They’re quite tart, but that makes a tasty jam if you don’t mind balancing it with plenty of sugar. I’ve heard of quince chutneys for meats before, too, but haven’t ever given it a try. (And LOVE the pretty coral flowers on quince bushes!)
The flowers are beautiful – would love a scarf with quince flowers on it.
Sheri, have you tried making quince tea? If you chop up the ripe quinces, shove them in a jar tightly and fill the rest with good honey, it makes a lovely tea!
Okay that was a terrible description. Slices work better than cubes – so like quarter the mince and slice it thinly, fill the rest of the jar with honey, and let it sit for at least a month. Then spoon some honey and quince out into your mug to make the tea! Also, I think my mom has made quince liquor by mixing quince with sugar/agave and vodka or soju.
Thank you, Sun Mi – I’ll try the tea idea. Might try Marjorie Rose’s chutney idea too, if I can muster up enough confidence. I have very little (okay, zero) experience with preserving produce … and my grandmother used to tell horror stories of pressure cookers exploding and spraying green beans all over the kitchen. Hmmm. That might explain a lot. 😉
Also, for a lot of the trees, they’re only as tall as you let them grow… you can prune off the top and encourage them to grow wide instead of up. Our last persimmon tree died early (we planted it in Nov in memoriam for my favorite cat that passed), but I hear they have really beautiful foliage, so I hope our new tree will flourish!
Oh good luck finding ways to sneak in some more fruit trees! I love asian pears – my parents have a Korean pear and Japanese pear tree (I don’t know the actual names). Are there other asian pears in the neighborhood? I was under the impression they needed to cross-polinate, but I could be mistaken!
I’m going to envision the Easter Bunny as a flamboyant hybrid of the White Rabbit from Alice in Wonderland and Roja Dove, and hope to find a blinged-out Easter basket with a full bottle of Diaghilev. 😉
I had a surprising candy experience recently: I found some squares of Lindt 90% cacao dark chocolate that I’d been carrying around in my purse in a ziplock, and when I bit into them, they had a subtle and sophisticated perfume flavor. !!!
The source turned out to be three scent strips and a ribbon from from the Hermes Boutique that I’d tucked away in the same pocket a couple of weeks ago. The cocoa butter must have absorbed the scent, similar to enfleurage.
The perfumes on the strips were Rose Ikebana, Neroli Dore, Rose Amazone, and Rhubarbe Escarlote. However, the chocolate didn’t smell like any of these in particular, but rather the elegant Hermes base notes.
That is so interesting! Do you think you’ll create new perfume-scented delicacies going forward?
Yes, I need to place a Lindt order to replenish my 90% hoard, and then I plan to experiment. 🙂
Goodness, I’m tempted now to experiment, as well. Replication of a study is key, after all!
For science!!
Happy Easter to those who celebrate it. Am about to go on a bike ride with my youngest an in the afternoon we have an Easter egg hunt planned. So no doubt we’ll all over indulge.
Perfume : Bombay Bling
Scented product : Would like the Annick Goutal Ambre Fetiche candle
Candy : Any dark chocolate for me
Other present : Well this is fantasy really but I would love to get a paid for trip back home to NZ for a visit!
<3 Bombay Bling.
Love Bombay Bling so much!
My choice, too.
Happy Easter y’all!
Just this easter I want not an extremely rare or pricy bottle, but one of Versace Versus Uomo (the first version from the 90’ies.) It wasn’t classy or sophisticated, but it was great fun with a bright citrus/exotic fruit topnote rivalling that of Calyx over a rosy(?), musky base. I remember using a lot, especially while partying. Ah, the ecstacies of yore!
I’d like the big version of YSL’s Feux de Santal perfumed candle, please! Not very sandalwoddy, but sweet, warm and cozy. the closest dupe I have found is Diptyque’s Opopanaz, but that one smells more simple. The reason I miss it so is that it’s very strongly recalls a certain period of my life. Strangely I was almost allways alone while burning it.
I’m more of a licorice guy than a chocolate one and am quite ardently looking for candies with the perfect balance of licorice extract, aniseed oil and a hint of ammonium chloride (a.k.a. salmiak, which adds the aquired taste of saltiness.)
People allways confuse the smell and taste of licorice with that of aniseed. I think because they are almost allways used in combination. The smell of licorice is much less radiant and bright than aniseed. More like an earthy basenote.
And I’d like a scale that can weigh milligrams for perfume mixing. They’re not that expensive but I’m allways too worried about being mistaken for a drug dealer to buy one. I realize you can’t live without one to be able to even have perfumery as a hobby as a lot of ingredieants are powder, crystals (some, like the lovely musk Velvione, look just like ice at room temperature) and canbe very sticky. You can’t just chuck them in like washing powder.
Sorry for rambling. It’s just one of those days.
Ugh, the spellos…
Also forgot to name the actual candy I want. They’re hard candies in a blue metal box with ‘Echt Sylter’ printed on the lid. I used to order them from German pharmacies together with some brands of skin care, but can’t find it anymore.
There now, I’m finally done. The masses can finally find peace. 😉
Lots of coffee/cooking nerds have inexpensive digital scales for measuring dry ingredients precisely. I got mine at the Japanese discount store Daiso, we have a branch in Vancouver, but I’m pretty sure you can find them fairly readily now and without stigma!
Have you thought about buying a scale on Amazon or some other website?
Licorice fern grows wild in my part of the world, and I like to nibble on the root while I’m hiking. Love the taste of pure licorice I get from taking a bite!
This is off-topic, Marjorie Rose, but I meant to say yesterday that I thought of you most days since teaching started this year. Until then, I made a point every day of doing the sorts of exercises you recommended, goodness, was it last year? My goal was to get bendier, and I did. Then, of course, I Igot too busy to breathe and stopped stretching, and I really, REALLY regret it. I’m feeling stiff and all twizzled up and starting again is hard.
Thanks for these thoughts, des esseintes! I enjoyed your thoughts and now know about 100 times as much about licorice as I did before. I also confuse absinthe notes with anise and licorice. Of course, this partly comes from those who invent the purported lists of notes in perfume PR copy.
Perfume would be Amouage Journey woman.
Body product would be FM body butter of Iris Poudre,
Chocolates, would be a selection box of Rococo chocolates, or Charbonnel et Walker Rose & Violet truffles, mmmm
Oh, just got a (heavily discounted) FB of Journey and can now spray with happy abandon. So good!
Happy Easter to all who celebrate!????????
My most ardently wished for perfume changes daily. Today it would be a perfectly preserved vintage bottle of Jolie Madame Parfum.
My non-perfume scented item would be “new car smell” to go with my new car. I’ve been putting off replacing my car. My current vehicle still runs great and I hate car payments. (They seriously curtail my perfume budget)
Strawberries dipped in dark chocolate!
I wish for an end to terrorism and a peaceful, happy life for all. Also, Vacation homes in Italy and France would be nice too.
Happy Easter all.
I’ve done the quiz thing above somewhere, so more prosaically:
– SOTD yesterday was Amouage “Silver Man”, which was a waste of time – unpleasant opening, faintest of soapy finishes a ridiculously short time later, and no middle phase at all. We went to the theatre in the evening to see Gogol’s “The Government Inspector” and I topped up the vanished Silver with the last remains of a “Beloved Man” sample, which was OK but nothing special.
– SOTD today is Amouage “Gold Man”, which does appear to have some lasting power, so far at least. On my (slightly weird) skin this smells like a cousin of the Chanel No. 19 I tried the other day and ‘longlisted’ (which means I may some year get a decant). Since I imagine Amouage Gold is a lot more expensive than the Chanel, I don’t see any reason ever to get more of it. (My partner gets Big Baby Powder from it, whereas I smell it more as a bitter green. It makes me think of a type of flower you might put in an arrangement as background, all light green foliage and those tiny yellow flowers like the centre of a daisy without the white petals, with a medicinal/ fresh smell).
Hmmm….. tough one….
1. Mitsouko edp
2. Archipelago fragrance diffuser in Stonehenge
3. Harry & David dark chocolate truffles
4. Tahitian pearl choker necklace (yeah, sure)
Hmm Stonehenge. I now have to go look that up.
1. Chanel no.5 Eau Premier (got a crush on it recently)
2. L’Occitane’s almond oil body wash
3. Haribo liquorice wheels.
4. A pair of bright red or bright green Palladium sneakers (for winter which is on its way.)
I love Palladium sneakers, they are so comfy! Wore my bright purple ones yesterday.
Yeah – they are total favourites now 😀
My toddler loves those plush Peeps bunnies. I think she’s got four of them at this point. 🙂
1. There are three or four bottles I’ve got my eye on at the moment, but right this second I’m leaning toward Kiss Me Tender.
2. If I can reach for the stars on this one, then Malle Une Rose body butter.
3. While putting together an egg hunt for the kids, I forgot how much I quite like Reese’s Pieces (a bit like M&M’s candy only peanut butter flavor inside a candy shell) so would probably go for them. Unsophisticated, I know, but it can’t be interesting chocolate all the time around here. 🙂
4. A gift I’d like that’s technically for the kids most but for me as well would be to have a weekend in a vacation cabin up north here in Michigan just for a few days. They’ve never been camping or really away from home much, and I’m always rattling on about how lovely it is in the upper pennensula, so would love the opportunity to do that with them in the late spring or early summer. To get away from the city, all the sadness of the last year and to just go for endless walks, live simply and have fun connecting with nature would be fantastic. A lovely dream… 😉
I just had some of the mini Reese’s Pieces as a topping for frozen (not so healthy for you) yogurt.
A couple months ago, I bought expensive chocolate truffles from a trendy shop in the DC area. A few days later, I ate a mini Reese’s peanut butter cup for the first time in years. The Reese’s was far, far more delicious.
Of course, the snack food manufacturers have teams of elite food scientists devoted to seeking the “bliss point”: maximizing that perfectly addictive balance of sugar, salt, fat, and artificial flavorings while minimizing cost. So it’s a bit like Goliath vs. some hipster rather than David.
Lolllllllll 🙂
To be honest, I was surprised how they still seemed to hold up since I hadn’t had them in years. Usually I’m a Lindt chocolate and hazelnut girl if I get a sweet tooth, but while I was filling eggs I thought I’d pick out one treat for myself and chose them. They must have some evil lab genius over at the Reese’s development facility. 🙂
Une Rose products! Do they exist? I was looking for shower gel and couldn’t find it.
And the Upper peninsula is so so great. I hope you and the kids get there soon, Easter Bunny assisted or no.
Hi Amy. Thanks, and I know they did for a while. It’s been so prohibitively expensive I haven’t looked in the last few months, however. Good luck on your search.
Easter Bunny hasn’t quite arrived yet at my house so I’m figuring it’s not too late to get this request in?? I mean, I trust in the magic 🙂
1. I recently fell in love with the L’Artisan for Aedes, so that’s my top request right now I think. (And especially at something of a steep price, I would not mind having the Easter Bunny pick up the tab!)
2. I would take a L’Artisan Provence Boule–this one I def won’t get for myself, but, as Victoria points out over at EauMG, that’s what makes it such a great gift! http://www.eaumg.net/eaumgs-2015-mothers-day-gift-guide/
3. I’m so late to the trend but I’m really into anything with salt. (Anyone who’s sick of it, I’d be happy to take it off your hands 😉 )
4. I keep saying I’m going to buy myself prescription sunglasses, but haven’t yet–so again, a good problem for the Easter bunny to solve 😉
C.H., do you mean the discontinued Aedes de Venustas L’Artisan from a number of years ago in the frosted dark plum colored bottle, or a newer perfume?
I have this one in mind?
http://www.aedes.com/collections/aedes-de-venustas/products/aedes-de-venustas-limited-edition-edp-by-lartisan-parfumeur?variant=5991822529
I got to sniff it because a friend bought a bottle so I know they had it a month ago but yeah I am def on pins and needles wondering how long it’ll be around for, given the goings on at L’Artisan as well as the establishment of the Aedes house brand…
I love salt and chocolate so that better be a trend that never dies. Or at least not in my lifetime!
And perscription sunglasses literally changed my life. Reading outside is now the joy of my existence – and they are proect your eyes from all sorts is incipient sanders. Get them!
Argh. They project
Protect!!
Hehe you know I have always liked the idea that maybe our eyes project! I mean I know it’s not TRUE but it’s not totally untrue either? Maybe? Sigh, born in the wrong century (millenium), again.
It’s really true, anything that allows me to spend more time outside is worth the investment! (An investment in my sanity, above all!)
And if that means my salted chocolate is a little melted from being out in the sun, well, I s’pose I’d be willing to soldier on and eat it anyway 🙂
1. I’ll go with Neela Vermiere Bombay Bling.
2. Amouage Lyric body butter.
3. Anything with dark chocolate and hazelnuts. (Oh, how I miss chocolate. Maybe today I’ll throw caution to the wind and have one square of organic dark.)
4. Before I realized I was running out of time, I saw someone asked for a Fragrancenet gift card. Great idea!
SOYesterD was Bogue Maai, to round out my week of Things I Love but Haven’t Been Wearing Because I Only Have a Little Left. Today I’m joining everyone (I assume) in Ostara. Happy Easter, to those who celebrate it.
Dear Marjorie Rose,
Having followed your love story with great interest, would you please print the date you met, and when you became engaged? How did you two meet?
Congratulations!
Celestia
Very good morning to NST-ites everywhere! I’m going to do very little today, and I’m going to it wearing an all-time favourite, 19. She and I have had a few spats this year, but Easter seems like a good time to pick up the threads again and see where we are. If she’s still being a brat, I’m going to give up on her and put her up for adoption. I hope it doesn’t come to that, though: I’d have to find a new Warrior Woman perfume, and nothing comes readily to mind.
Back to the baking….have a great day, everyone.
I certainly hope 19 gets her act together but I am also hopeful we could find you something to step into her shoes if necessary! Do you like 31 RC? Or Chamade? Those perfumes strike me as spin-straightening in a way that’s similar to 19, while likewise being totally gorgeous!
And I have this sense that Annick Goutal might have some possibilities too? Maybe someone who knows her line better than I do would have specific ideas.
I adore 31 RC–one of my favOurite perfume memories, because I bought it at 31 RC in Paris. I wear it for romance and for fun, mainly, but I could re- think its place in my wardrobe. I’m fond of Chamade, but I’ve never had that deep response to it that I get with the Chanels. Again, though, I could contemplate my inner Waterdragon and see where I end up. However, I’m happy to report that 19 is so far behaving with complete charm and courtesy, though she is having to compete with the smells of chocolate, vanilla and brown sugar. I yielded to heavily-applied flattery and guile and as well as a banana bread and the hc buns, I also made the dear one some Anzac biscuits and some chocolate chip biscuits (by “biscuits”, I mean “cookies”). I love baking, but not as much as he likes eating it….
Don’t know if you have access to it, but Vero Profumo Onda is a great take no prisoners spine straightener. Mito and Rozy are effective as well in that departmeny.
Onda takes no prisoners indeed. She buries them in the yard!
I don’t think I have seen these around in Auckland. I have an up-coming trip to Melbourne, but I’ve also promised myself a Luckyscent order for my birthday. I could get samples and have a happy play.
Those plush peeps are so cute! And a happy Sunday to everyone.
1. You can pick one perfume, new or old: what is it?
A large and perfect bottle (or two!) of vintage Lancôme Climat. Someone sent me a sample once, and I’ve never been able to find a bottle to compare (and I’ve been burned by a fake on evilbay). The perfect green floral.
2. And you can have one other scented product (a candle, a body lotion, anything): what is it?
The Pure Indulgence gift box in Ta’if from OJ. Shower cream, lotion, and bath oil. Now that’s luxury!
3. Your favorite candy?
Dark chocolate M&Ms. The perfect combo of candy and chocolate.
4. And any random present you’d like the Easter bunny to bring you.
A magic instillation of perfect obedience in my new puppy! ????????
The new puppy has arrived! Congratulations! I love new puppy smell.
????
Happy Easter! I am wearing my new bottle of Vero Profumo Kiki extrait, it is glorious. The edp was too fruity, the voile d’extrait was too camphoraceous, but the extrait is juuust right!
1. Every day I feel like I’m doing this – picking one perfume new or old. It is the joy of having lots of choices that I love.
2. L’Artisan boules – d’Ambre or Provence AND a giant dispenser of Rose Jam shower gel
3. I want to lose weight but I love the smell of the little yellow peeps and Jour de Fete almonds and prune Hamantaschen!
4. A perfectly sized cabinet enclosed in glass (to keep out the kitties) to store my perfumes, preferably with temperature controls. Or an additional apt to store my perfumes, attached to the one I have.