You've made it through another week — it's Friday! Our community project for today: wear a perfume by Sophia Grojsman, if you have one.
What fragrance did you pick? As always, do chime in with your scent of the day even if you’re not participating in the community project.
I'm in Yves Saint Laurent Paris, which also kicks off next week's theme. I'm guessing I'll have a twin or two?
Reminder: On 4/15 we're wearing rose for What's in a name, part 1 ("What's in a name? That which we call a rose / By any other name would smell as sweet").
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.
I don’t have a Grojsman sadly, so I picked one of the few YSL’s I own: vintage Y parfum. The topnotes are damage but the rest is a lovely chypre.
I hope I still have some Rose Ikebana for next week, though I do have Nahema if I’m out.
This is in my top 10; such a beautifully understated fragrance.
The damaged top notes make me very sad. I’d love to smell it in all its former glory. I never turn down a chypre though.
I know what you mean – this seems to happen a lot with chypre topnotes (or is it just me?).
No SG here, sadly. But it’s Friday, the first day of a three day weekend, which makes me very happy despite the nagging head cold that has been bird dogging me for the past two weeks.
I’m still celebrating “No Housework” day, with plans to extend that holiday until I can’t stand it anymore. Today is an R&R day of looking into the Sephora VIB sale and just chillaxing in the backyard watching T-Rex carome around the backyard like an over excited atomic particle.
No clue yet what SOTD will be, something casual and uplifting. If only I had a bottle of Corsica Furiosa…
Decided on Guerlain Vetiver straight out of the refrigerator- can you say “Refreshing!”????
It’s hard to beat Vetiver.
True! I may have over applied. I stood in front of the fridge, door open, spraying ice cold Vetiver about ten thousand and one times. ????
What??? No Queen today? I was really enjoying reading about your fidelity 🙂
Believe me, I was tempted to go with Queen again today, but decided scent monogamy is not for me. Good to switch it up. And Guerlain Vetiver! -straight up bracing and restorative after working two emotionally tense shifts supporting a family making tough decisions. I need clean and bracing today. Queen and I have future dates lined up…????
Enjoy your well-deserved time off. I remember those days and those long hours. I’m not sure I could do it again. Much admiration for you 🙂
Thanks! Some days are tougher than others, for sure.
I have been that family, so bless you, Deva. Hope you gleefully enjoy your time off.
Sorry you had to face this situation, too. There’s no easy way around it -one must plunge into the pain and blindly thrash about until calmer waters are on visible on the horizon, and pray you can make it before you drown.
It’s not long till Queen Elizabeth’s birthday, April 21!
Oh, if only I were an Important Person! I could have Tea with the Queen while wearing Queen????
Corsica Furiosa is a great scent!
It is!! It really works for me and I’m so tempted to just splurge on a FB, but then the FM Dries travel size keeps whispering in my ear…what’s a gal to do?
Get the single Dries travel size ($56.00). Also Parfum De Empire’s perfumes are fairly reasonable and you get something like 3.3 ounces.
Well, that’s my conundrum. I don’t want 100ml of anything. I want Marc Antoine to bring back 50ml bottles, or, get really innovative and offer 15 and 30ml bottles. I keep telling him that, but for some reason, he’s not paying attention!!
I say, if I may add my 2 cents, that you go with the CF now and wait for winter for the FM. I’d think you’d maybe get more use from the CF through the hot months.? I personally can’t wear Dries in the heat.
Believe it or not, Dries works surprisingly well down here in H E Double Toothpicks. It has a strange but lovely ambivalence to it that makes it warm and cool at the same time. An intersting duality in a perfume.
SOTD: Calyx! I sure wish I had a vintage Prescriptives version to compare to Clinique, but this stuff is mighty fine. Mighty fine!
Kudos to Madame Grojsman, for some beautiful fragrances that are enjoyed by millions all over the world. She’s a true artist! 🙂
HAPPY FRIDAY Y’ALL!!!!
Jada- the original Calyx was magnificent!!!!!! I think I must have drained 6-7 bottles from the time it came out until the 1990s (when I stopped wearing it)….the reformulation is pretty but kind of an anorexic version of the original (more subdued and less lip puckering fruit!)
And I don’t think getting your hands on a vintage would do it justice as I would imagine the top notes would be so off after all of these years!
I think you’re right – I’ve read a lot of comments about Calyx bottles turning after a year or so.
I actually like the current version better, since the old one smelled so garbagey to me. But I admit that it’s probably less interesting now.
I just sprayed on Kashaya de Kenzo from my reference full bottle.
I can’t say that I’ve worn this forgotten Grojsman fragrance in the past.
Nice fruity floriental with a drydown of vanilla and sandalwood.
I’m liking it.
Robin I owe you for this one, thank you!
And I have never smelled it!
Twins! 😉
I’m up early today and excited to be trying Outrageous. I haven’t ever worn it before, so here goes!
Ah, do report back…
It’s working well with my casual Friday outfit of Stan Smiths, jeans, and a blue varsity t-shirt. On the opening I really got a lot of the green apple–tart not overly sweet, and clean laundry. But now it’s mainly a nice orange blossom scent to me. Perfect for a relaxed weekend day.
That would be about my take — they should have called it Relaxed Casual instead of Outrageous 🙂
I didn’t get anything Outrageous when I sampled it either. Pleasant and clean.
I would say outrageously priced for what it is, however.
Unfortunately no Sophia Grojman in my fragrance arsenal so I am finishing up my bottle of Evening Edged in Gold! Yeah! Another one bites the dust!
I am also bringing home my bottle of Chinatown to “use up” this weekend….luckily I was the only one at work this morning for I was literally standing on my desk holding my Chinatown bottle up to the florescent lights to determine how much was left…..it looks like approximately 1/5 of the bottle….I won’t be draining this one completely down as I am going to save the bottle for my niece…I had originally bought the bottle and she loved it so much that I gifted it to her…but then recently she returned it and told me that I could use it up if I wanted to….but I think she would appreciate having that bottle with some juice left for memory’s sake some time down the road…
Finally (sorry, Robin…I know my comment is ridiculously long today!) Vitacost is having a bogo on their essential oils and it ends today…I have used many of their e.o.s and they are good quality…today I picked up their sandalwood essential oil…it was already marked down and on sale and then I got the second bottle for half off…it is diluted in a carrier oil BUT it is santalum album(Indian) and NOT santalum spicatum (Australian) so I am really excited! I plan on blending it with lavender essential oil and making a moisturizing body oil. It would also be great alone as a body oil paired with Bois des Isles.
Happy Friday, y’all!
Nobody ever has to apologize for a long comment!
That has got to be one of the most beautiful perfume names ever. I want to try based on the name alone- so romantic and poetic????
Each one of Ineke’s perfumes follow the alphabet- After My own Heart, Balmy Days and Sundays, Chemical Bonding, Derring-Do etc. I love the name also but, honestly, I have a bottle fetish and bought the fragrance for the bottle (which has a moon etched in it)….lucky for me the fragrance is beautiful too 🙂 !! A romantic soft floral leather on my skin….
Oh you know I should give that one another try. It wasn’t my thing at first but I mean, soft floral leather, what was I thinking!
It is actually categorized as a “Floral Oriental” but leather is listed in the basenotes and my nose is definitely picking up the leather!
Evening Edged in Gold is a good one! I got the Ineke sample set in a swap, and that was the only one that I really considered buying a FB. (I never actually did it, mind you, but I thought about it!)
OMG- gonna check this out NOW! Thanks for the tip!
Yeah I was actually thinking of you when I posted the public service announcement above…based on your layering combo yesterday!
My essential oil collection is probably as large as my perfume collection 🙂 but I use them in many, many ways!!
Okay! Enabler- but in a good way! Some excellent essential oils and massage oils (sweet almond oil at a great price) and stuff for the face (Acure) at rock bottom prices. Plus pumpkin seeds and such for snacking throughout the summer!
I have no Grojsman in my collection at the moment, but that nice picture of the Paris bottle brings back memories! Maybe I get some of this to wear on occasion. Has it been reformulated recently? Which is a good era to get, does anyone have an opinion?
Oddly enough, I don’t remember smelling Paris on *anyone* in the 1980s (Giorgio was ubiquitous. And Poison. And – GAH – Obsession), but when I bought an edt mini, unsniffed, off ebay, I thought it was fabbo. And I snagged a parfum mini recently that was labeled “vintage,” and it is absolutely heavenly.
I can’t tell you specifically what to get, but I remember March at Perfume Posse discovering that the current version of Paris smelled very thin to her, as early as 2009. http://perfumeposse.com/2009/02/15/well-always-have-paris/
Was going to wear my Paris parfum, but my vintage Tresor parfum mini (a 2nd quarter purchase, not reported to Donatella yet!!) came in the mail yesterday, so it’s that. Gosh, this is good! Heretofore, I’d only smelled Tresor at the mall, and there’s a plasticky note to it now that I find quite off-putting.
Apparently I feel comfortable in that “pink ostrich feather coat.” 🙂 Really, though, it feels like a velvet dress jacket in a rosy peach color. Lovely, warm, tres femme.
Tresor smelled plasticky on me the last time I tried..
I wonder if I would like the parfum better too, I should look for some.
I paid $5.54 including shipping for a slightly-used 5ml bottle. There was another on teh ‘bay for about $15. (I never feel like using someone else’s perfume is unsanitary, though I know some people are bothered by it.)
There is alcohol in the base (albeit perfumer’s alcohol) so that should “sanitize” it 🙂
Good buy, thanks!
Well, there shouldn’t be any *backwash* in perfume, right? 😉
Some people think it’s icky to use a splash bottle that someone else has used, because there could be the other person’s skin cells transferred to it.
I’m not bothered, meself.
Trésor is not what it used to be. Vintage is glorious stuff, I think probably Grojsman at the height of her inventiveness — familiar ingredients but used in an amazing way.
I do really tend to like Grojsman’s stuff. But it strikes me as… er… bosomy.
“Bosomy” is exactly the word she’d use, too. Trésor was meant to smell like a new mother’s cleavage: Grjsman made up accords that she called “cleavage” and “headless” to conjure up that idea. It’s all described in the Scent section of Diane Ackerman’s A Natural History of the Senses.
Oh, interesting!
That is marvelous.
Yes! Precisely.
I haven’t smelled Tresor in probably 30 years???Not sure…I did have a full bottle when it first came out and loved it….I would agree the vintage would be the way to go….
You smell great! That’s what I was going to wear today too but I’m a little under the weather and hoarding my mini for when I can fully appreciate it!
Hope you feel better!
Thank you! Luckily just a little cold and I’m on the mend, just still a little too sinussy to appreciate Tresor properly! 🙂
Yes, vintage Tresor is truly loveley, and your description of ‘a velvet dress jacket in a rosy peach color’ is spot on! A ‘pink ostrich feather coat’ is much too frou-frou a description for this womanly, luxurious fragrance.
I am wearing a bit of White Linen from a solid perfume in a slightly battered sleeping cat compact.
I am drinking a cup of Organic Malty Assam from Tao of Tea
My tea at the moment is a Satrupa Assam. With cream.
I’m wearing Bulgari pour Femme. I used to wear this quite often but not of late. It is still a very lovely scent and wearable to the office as well.
Agree — that one has stood up to the years so to speak.
No SG for moi
I am sampling Grain de Soleil, much better then Soleil from yesterday.
A nod to Canada: Another Montreal bagel & some Sloane Cherry blossom green tea.
Tea cousin….I am drinking The Republic of Tea’s Beginner’s Mind Spring Cherry…( a cherry blossom green tea which I love)…wish I had one of your bagels 🙂
I wish I could give you one..we took one too many of these bagels back from our Montreal trip!
You tea sounds de-lish, cheers!
Thanks for the reminder about that tea! It was a staple for me for years, but I can’t remember the last time I saw it in a store, and had forgotten all about it.
They stopped carrying it in my store so I just ordered it online directly from the Republic of Tea.
Nothing better than a Montreal bagel. Had the chance to eat fresh made ones from St-Viateur during a stay in Montreal. Friends’ requests would always be “bring some home for me.”
All my SG’s are in my apartment in Montreal – so I wore 31Rue Cambon instead. Wish I had a Montreal bagel!
I had one choice… Bill Blass Nude…and I’m happy to wear it. It has been in my cabinet, and I haven’t worn it much. Acquired via a meet up here, when everyone seemed to agree it was quite nice on me. So thanks, ladies!
Scent twins, LizzieB! BB Nude is also the only Grojsman I have. Really enjoying this.
And yes, it was very nice on you!
Scent twins! Nude is very subtle and I rarely remember to wear it, but when I do I enjoy it very much. I think it would make a nice bedtime scent, too.
Actually triplets . . . (sorry missionista)
Kashaya de Kenzo, a super sweet peach-jasmine-tuberose-amber perfume.
I have to say, the original Kenzo bottles are some of the most beautiful I’ve encountered. This is asymmetrical carnival glass with a leaf motif, the cap wrapped twine. ????????????
Gah. It sounds like something I would like.
Yes, I bought mine partly for the bottle. ????
I was going to wear White Linen (which I swear I’ve either worn or considered for like 5 or 6 Friday challenges), but in looking for another sample I discovered I still have some Boucheron Jaipur, so I’m wearing that. It’s a very bright rosy apricot/peach.
I had a sample of that once, and could not smell it. That happened with Peau de Peche, and with Nahema too… could not smell either of them at all, then later trials proved that I could. Maybe I should dig up that sample and have another go.
Oh interesting, maybe the peach accord is mostly a musk that you had to “learn” to smell? I think there are aldehydes in here too — it has a touch of “80s hair products” to it, but I do like it. It’s also slightly buttery, maybe from a little tuberose.
I bought a second hand bottle off eBay a couple of years ago… and it smelled like…. nothing. Nothing at all. I gave it away.
Oh, I like that one! It smells like an apricot tart to me 🙂 .
Spellbound. I’ve tried a lot of Grojsman scents over the years and this is my favourite — no roses, but a big warm enveloping oriental.
That one is my favorite of hers. My mom always wore Beautiful, but she also had Tresor and I had Coty Exclamation. Spellbound was fascinating to me.
I really liked Exclamation.
Eternity, in all its 80s glory! That is fun, I used to love it in the 90s, but don’t remember the last time I wore it. Boy this perfume is strong, the rest of my collection seems so anemic now.
I wonder if there will be anybody else wearing this 🙂
I don’t have anything by Grojsman and – possibly through sheer ignorance – I don’t feel the lack. Her perfumes read as rather feminine for my tastes.
I’m in Serge Lutens “Arabie” today, which smells lovely but could have better lasting power. Flying back home tonight and feeling slightly stressed about it, for no very good reason other than it’s a route and an airline I haven’t flown before. :^)
You smell fab and hope your flight is on time and uneventful????
Thanks Deva. It was an uneventful but cramped 2.5hrs flight on a low budget carrier. I slept a little and from time to time caught a little trace of lovely dried fruit and spices. Might have to get myself a small decant of Arabie after all. :^)
Agree on the Grojsmans seeming very feminine, despite the fact that fragrance has no gender in itself.
I have to say, it is quite funny sometimes when people look around for the voluptuous woman wearing the ‘feminine’ perfume, and realize it is bearded muscular me.
I love defying stereotypes! 😉
That makes me happy 🙂
I love florals on men.
Well, okay, I just love florals, period.
I find they’re a bit hit-and-miss on me. But usually because they lack lasting power on my skin. I did give away my La Chasse aux Papillons (sample) though, as I couldn’t imagine myself enjoying it.
Awesome! I loved getting compliments from men back when I only wore “men’s” scents!
I am always gifting my parents bottles of fragrance for special events (Mothers day, birthday, etc) as they both love to wear scents…however, over the past year all of the bottles I have gifted to my father my mother hides from him as he will continuously move from one bottle to the next and never drain one…this infuriates my mother so she has been hiding all the gift wrapped bottles (both those I give her and those I give him) and only allowing a few to be opened at time…so for a while now my father has been forced to wear both feminine and masculine fragrances…I don’t think he realizes and I don’t think he cares! He just goes with what smells good! (case in point…he drained a bottle of Attar de Roses which was meant for my mom)
Nice story! I wish my father was that adventurous, he has been wearing Lagerfeld for men since I was a kid.
There is a strong sense of fidelity in their marriage(they have been married since 1957) but not in their perfumes….both of my parents are very adventurous in that sense and the idea of a signature scent does not exist for either one of them! My mom wears masculines as much as feminines!
Love it 😀
Thanks for the love !!! ❤
???? You must have people looking around today!
I once mentioned to my father-in-law that I love and wear many perfumes marketed to men. It was after I had given my sister-in-law’s BF a bottle of Encre Noir (pour homme)–a favorite of mine. My father-in-law, without a hint of irony, looked at me with consternation and asked, “Why do you think you do THAT?” I shrugged, “sometimes the perfumes are confused.”
Bear, I love that!! I’m all for undermining and defying stereotypes!
Yeah, but it’s less fun if you look like me – no witty incongruence to play with. ;^)
Thanks, Bear and Oakland Fresca, for the dinnertime chuckle. 🙂
I would love to get a whiff of a burly manly man wafting something floral. 🙂
Serge will take good care of you and in a couple of hours you will be home safe and sound. Have a happy weekend
Thanks, you too (I guess you’re well into yours already?) :^)
Thanks for the love, Everyone!
And thanks Koenigsberg for being gracious when your thread was hijacked. LOL 😉
I am in Champagne (Yvresse) today. I really like this. a Lot of people think tht this is too strong, but I just dab it on pulse points, and it is a lovely , peachy fruity springy fragrance to me.
I have a few things that are too strong but as they say, the dose makes the poison, do I just wear tiny tiny amounts of them and all is usually well. I’ve never found Yvresse to be too strong but no doubt some would disagree.
I love Yvresse and had a bottle of Champagne many moons ago. Wish I still had it now. You smell lovely!
Twins! Just a dab is smart and sophisticated. It’s bright and comforting simultaneously.
I have a sample of the original. How different is the current version?
Triplets! You’re so right about the light-handed application. It’s a must for this frag.
Quads! Champagne parfum, from an adorable mini. Have a FB of the edt too. Lovely peachy-ness.
A spritz of Calyx today….the only Grojsman in my collection.
I have no Grojsman, currently. I used to have several made by her when I was younger.
After checking the label – 5 times – I’m in Ormonde Woman. I still have that immediate reaction upon smelling this: MUST BUY BOTTLE NOW. However, I will wait a little. Need to set some finances in order before I can splurge.
is it sweet?
A little. I think the sweetness comes from the jasmine, amber, and sandalwood notes in it because those are the only ones that could cause it to smell sweet. I get more woods and powder with violets here and there and a little sweetness. It’s REALLY hard to describe in general.
Thanks Jenkr..Maybe I will just have to smell it for myself!
I tried on some White Linen, but that fragrance smells like enraged Ivory soap to me. Even layering a bit of St. John’s White Camellias couldn’t help. Twenty minutes in I scrubbed down with Dawn and spritzed myself with Pharrell’s “Girl.” Thanks to your review, Robin, that was an instant buy when I saw it yesterday at Ross. The wood notes make me think of a warm Florida afternoon spent in a small, bright room with well-loved and resin-y wood furniture. I really enjoy it. A FB purchase is in my near future.
“Enraged Ivory soap” is a great description, but some of us just love that massive soapy-clean rose-and-vetiver construction. I wore White Linen in the eighties and it was so amazing: big like everything in the mid-eighties but otherwise poles apart from the orientals and attack florals of the era.
I agree pyramus. Back then White Linen was my signature. Compared to many other scents during that era, it was downright demure. I haven’t smelled the modern iteration. I’m too afraid.
And I am seconding that! White Linen was demure, clean and lovely….I also wore it in the late 70s and early 80s…..I try not to revisit my old loves as I have always been disappointed by reformulations….
I *think* the small bottle I have is a vintage? Though it can be hard to tell.
I get the same screaming soap smell from the current version of Chanel no. 5 (which disappointed me terribly; I really wanted to like it!) and personally, I blame my inexperienced nose. I’m trying to smell as much perfume as I can to help my olfactories gain a little ground. I’m sure a day will come when I appreciate White Linen much more than I currently do 😀
If it is vintage it could be that the top notes are off…sometimes if you wait for the drydown the fragrance bears more of a resemblance to what it was in a more pristine condition….(ie: not 20 years old!)
SuperSugar, some people (including experienced perfume lovers) just don’t care for aldehydes, hence the distate for White Linen and Chanel No 5. They are often perceived as screaming soap. No need to learn to like them.
Love the idea of an attack floral!
Nice find at Ross!
Enraged Ivory soap or Attack Florals? Both are suitable for a my imaginary all girl punk/hiphop band.
hehe this reminds me that in college a friend and i almost started an all half-asian girl punk band! 🙂
For a VERY short while I was in a KISS tribute band that took the songs and sang them R&B style. We did the makeup and costumes but did R&B stylings on the songs themselves. It was ridiculous and fun.
Giggling at “enraged Ivory soap” and “attack florals”. 😀 I agree with Ede that “Attack Florals” might be a good punk band name.
YSL Paris shower gel to start my day layered with a rose scented cream.
I don’t have any YSL Paris left in my perfume bottle. I still saved it though. The bottle is so pretty. It was a Mother’s Day gift from about 8 years ago.
You smell lovely.
No SG in my arsenal either so I went with Lipstick Rose because it was supposedly inspired by Paris. My bestie wore Paris back in the day. Back then, I wasn’t into floral scents so it wasn’t on my radar. I do remember that it was a big scent only eclipsed by Giorgio. 🙂
Paris wasn’t on my radar either in the 80s. I don’t really remember smelling it around. There was that pervasive cloud of Giorgio, some Paloma Picasso, and Ysatis.
I don’t remember smelling it back in the day, either. (And I should have, both because it was big and because it was beautiful.)
I read that in one of your previous posts. Back then I worked in the city and there where a lot of people around my age. Several people I knew wore it at that time including a good friend of mine. We still talk about Paris occasionally. Coincidentally, her signature at that time was Chloe. But then, she always had great taste.
Unless Chloe came out later, but It was a favorite of hers.
No Grojsmans in my cabinet, either, so I’m wearing Box of Eels parfum and looking forward to tonight’s meetup at the Imaginary Authors workspace.
Ooh! That sounds like fun! Enjoy!
Very cool night planned!
Hope everyone has a lovely evening of sniffing fabulous stuff with like minded folk. Sounds fab????
No Grojsman in my collection, and I needed something comfy and soft, so I’m wearing Bottega Veneta today. I’ve been up since 2:45 with my weepy little boy, which is actually an improvement over the past several nights in which we all got basically *no* sleep. Night before last I hallucinated the sound of my husband opening a beer in the middle of the night, and I was so angry that he would wake me from a delicious ten minutes of sleep with something so weird and frivolous… until I realized that it hadn’t happened at all. When does the sleep deprivation ease up??? He’s going to be eight months old next week; I thought things would be better by now, but they just seem to get worse and worse! 🙁
Isabella, I feel your pain.
I don’t know if this will help, but my doc said that they CAN (doesn’t mean they WILL) start sleeping through the night when they hit 17 lbs. Mine didn’t reach that til just about 12 mos. Perhaps this is also relevant for you?
Another thing (one of many) that can happen around 8 mos to disturb sleep is teething and of course, a growth spurt. Either way, this too shall pass. You will sleep again one day!
My first child did not sleep through the night until she was thirteen months old. I think I stumbled around sleep-deprived for at least a year.
I feel you my dear!
My toddler who is 16 months started to sleep through the night at 3months. My 2month old, is just easing into sleeping longer, he goes from about 8-4am, and I give him a dreamy feed (I am breastfeeding), and he eases back into sleep. Everyone has different opinions, but our doctor said that at 14lbs they don’t need to be fed at night. Just try your best and take deep breaths. This too shall pass. BV is beautiful, and at least we smell good while being sleep deprived.
Every baby is different, that’s for sure!!!
My Baby #1: Around 6 months, she starting sleeping all night reliably.
Baby #2: 8 weeks!! She has ALWAYS loved her sleep! 🙂
Baby #3: 1 YEAR. 1 very long, sleep deprived, crazed year! HA HA We rocked him. We put him in the car for drives. We took shifts. We tried to ignore him. We put him in bed with us…..HANG TOUGH Mom!! This too shall pass!!! 🙂
Thanks, all! We’ll make it through, but it’s been a VERY tough week, and it seems like everywhere one turns there are “experts” telling you that your babe’s sleep troubles are ALL YOUR FAULT because you’ve been so foolish as to follow your instincts and, you know, feed and comfort your child. Regarding the BV, I should mention this was a very happy addition thanks to the swap meet! It’s so lovely and salty, and I hope it’s as gentle as I think it is because this morning I just kept spraying and spraying and spraying… 🙂
Deep Breaths-and maybe a nice glass of wine, or stout if you are BF (helps with the milk I tell myself) or a warm cuppa tea. Take a few moments to yourself to save your sanity
Don’t let the “experts” make you feel bad, there is certainly no one right way to deal with the problem. For some babies and parents letting them “cry it out” works, for others it doesn’t. I found it was usually best for my family to comfort and feed a baby who wakes in the night, but other times for my sanity I just needed to step away (or tuck my head under the covers) and let them cry for awhile.
I agree..its good to step away..
Sometimes there is nothing you can do
Just remember that YOU are the expert when it comes to your own baby and it’s really clear to anyone reading your comments that you’re doing a terrific job of loving and caring for your child, and that you are a brilliant parent. Good luck and deep breaths!
Hopefully this won’t be the case for you, but my 22 month old still doesn’t sleep through the night, and has only done it once or twice. His sleep WAS getting better – but now his 2 year molars are peeking through and he stirs to nurse every 2 hours or so. If I wasn’t still nursing I’d probably get no sleep ever. :/
I forgot about the project, but I don’t have any Grojsman except for a bit of White Linen, and it is too chilly for that. Looking back pre perfumista years I wore a lot of Grojsman, Tresor, Vanderbilt, Eternity, Beautiful, Paris, Spellbound…but today I started with Osmanthus Yunnan, followed by Fils de Dieu. Both shortlived, so I will end up with something else.
LOVED Vanderbilt and hardly see anyone mentioning it!
I also like FdD and was sorely tempted to buy one of those cute 1oz bottles at Sephora with my 15% VIB discount…but I refrained 🙂
Well done for refraining!
PSA: saw mention of a CNN special this Sunday about Gloria Vanderbilt (now in her 90s) with her son, Anderson Cooper. Not sure about the time…
I should refresh my memory of Vanderbilt. I have a vague Idea that I liked it.
You might have liked it as I have seen it compared to Oscar de la Renta…..years ago before online shopping I used to go to overstock perfume sample sales in the city and would get Vanderbilt for dirt cheap…despite its low cost it smelled like an expensive perfume…..
NOTES- aldehydes, bergamot, green notes, neroli, pineapple, jasmine, orange blossom, tuberose, ylang ylang, cinnamon, civet, musk, opoponax, vetiver, sandalwood and vanilla…today it would probably be sold as a high end niche!
It has been reformulated so what is available online is probably not the same as the original from the 80s….
Ah, right – I’d probably go for a vintage mini on ebay, if I could find one. But it looks like it would be up my alley.
It was so popular in the Netherlands in the 80’s. I have a clear scent memory and remember the pinkish box, it featured a swan.
In the States the box was lavenderish and yes, it had a swan motif!
I’m a big fan of Sofia Grojsman, so I have a bunch to choose from. Today I’m wearing vintage Tresor, one on my favorite scents.
Twin!
Hello Anna,
Did you buy your scents because they were by Grojsman, or did you look through your scents after the fact and notice that many of them were by Grojsman?
No, I realised that I had an affinity for her scents a couple of years into perfumistahood. I owned and had gone through bottles of Tresor, Paris, Eternity, Kenzo Kashaya, Biagiotti Sotto voce and Lagerfeld Sun moon stars by the time I found this out. I do love a big peachy note, swaddled with roses, jam and vanilla.
The discovery of your affinity for SG sounds lovely! I think I have gone through something similar with Olivia Giacobetti and Geza Schoen. These are the things that make life sweeter.
I don’t have any SG in my current collection. YSL Paris was one of my first true love perfumes. I had a mini, when I was about twenty. ( seems like yesterday, but, Ha! was not ) I eventually bought a large bottle and shower scrub, which was Amazing! Paris made me feel beautiful. So, today, I went with another perfume that makes me feel beautiful, Tendre Poison. Although, not the same kind of beauty.
So, I am also wearing Calyx. My version is Prescriptives. I found a .5 oz spray at Ross two or three years ago. I left it behind and bought a bottle of Eau Parfumee au The Rouge. Then I changed my mind and exchanged it for the Calyx. I don’t know if it was better choice
or not, but I’ve enjoyed the Calyx.
Scent Twins! I got my Calyx in a NST Swapmeet a couple of years ago. I love it at in early spring.
YSL PARIS eau de parfum, delightful!
Hey twin!
I’m wearing Paris EDT from a vintage mini, just a few little dots on my wrist. Whew! It is powerful stuff. I got a perfect box of YSL vintage minis a while ago, and was saving trying each for the right moment. Today I am a giant, clean rose apparently.
It was BIG. And we used to wear lots of it — now I wear a dab or two.
Is the cap a greyish pewter color or a muted clear? The former would be the original…the latter the reformulation…curious if you have the original now the notes have held up?
That comment was meant for PriscillaE!
I got a .5 oz bottle at Ross as well. Mine is the greyish cap. It was a blind buy so I hadn’t tried the original version earlier, but as far as I can tell it’s held up quite well.
Happy Friday, everyone! (And it’s about time!)
I didn’t have a single thing for today’s theme, so I picked Rubj EDP. After showering with a ton of Rose Jam products, I kept imagining I was smelling Rubj. It was kind of like having a song stuck in my head; I really had no choice but to wear it. 🙂
Ha, I love that!
You smell fabulous! I’ll have to try that layering, as I have some sadly-diminishing Rose Jam shower gel, and Rubj edp.
I wish I had some Yvresse/Champagne because it sounds like something I would loooove! However, a quick search on EvilBay showed prohibitive prices (900$ ?!) for a bottle, so that probably won’t happen (especially unsniffed).
Instead, I’m wearing a dab from a mini Tresor from the late 90s. I feel like a fraud! One of my aunt wore it when I was young so the association with her is too strong for me to wear it comfortably.
It is weird to wear a perfume you associate strongly with someone else, isn’t it?
Yes, when I put it on this morning, it felt like my head was resting on her ample bosom…!
Hi Vanie, you might want to search evilbay again (“yves saint laurent champagne”). Partial bottles of the edt are listed for much much less. I paid about US$60 for my 50ml FB a year or so ago. 4ml mini’s of the parfum can be found for less than US$20. I saw that $900 bottle; seems like an, uh, overly ambitious seller 😉 — plus it’s a large-ish size of the parfum.
You can also look for Yvresse; early bottles of Yvresse are the same juice as Champagne.
Oh thanks Pixel! I saw the 900$ one first and thought “Nope!” and closed the window. Should have investigated more!
I have nothing by Grojsman, and none of the Fifi Award finalists either. Sigh. Oh well, SOTD is BV Eau Legere and I’m loving it. Happy Friday!
Another in Paris and happy to conform. It was that or White Linen, which might have chilled me to the bone on yet another wintery April day.
Joining the “No SG in my Collection” camp. My brother’s girlfriend in college wore Eternity and I loved the way it smelled on her. I ended up with a mini and couldn’t wear it. It made me sneeze.
I’ve been roving the Bay for a vintage Paris mini, which I’ll get someday. Reading about SG and her background makes me want to have *something* she made. Interesting woman.
Went with Un Bois Vanille today. Another swap success. Perhaps a FB in my future…
I remember a lot of men wearing Eternity when it first came out (Men’s version). It was nice.
You smell lovely today Elisa. I hope that your boxes pack themselves.
Thank you! And it came in a lively atomizer 😉 It has a power sprayer! It squirts out like 1ml per spray! I’ve been haunting Fragrancenet. After I move… We’re moving the Kitts in today so we can go back and pack without their “help”.
Sounds like a good plan. Sometimes little helpers are more of a hindrance. I can just imagine them jumping into boxes as you are trying to pack. So much to explore!
Sorry about the atomizer. I guess you are a coconut/vanilla bomb today.
I love the atomizer. And it’s super cute. I just wanted my decant to last. But I’can unscrew and dab so there are options.
YOU smell lovely…and if you decide to go with a FB I have seen it heavily discounted online…..
I saw it on Fragrance net for around $50… No affiliation…
Thank you! One day soon…
No SG for me, so I’m getting a head start on next week’s project, wearing La Fille de Berlin. Off to the doctor soon, as I’m almost positive I’ve gotten ringworm from an infected cat. An occupational hazard of working at a shelter.
Poor you. Hope they can treat it quickly. You smell lovely.
Oh dear. 🙁
OH my!
When I lived in San Francisco I got ring worm from a cat from a shelter.. As soon as you treat it, its should go away fast.
Yick. I was a child consistently plagued with ring worm due to cuddling any stray that would hold still. I recall having to go to elementary school in long sleeves and some horrible, puffy pink plastic pants that were an early eighties precursor to wind pants. It was like wearing a neon sign.
Hope it clears up quickly. At least you aren’t likely to be jeered at by your peers!
I contracted it many many times as a child too. I was always at a dog show or a stable. Mine always manifested on my scalp which resulted in significant hair loss and made me enormously self conscious! Thankfully it’s easily eradicated with medication.
You smell great! Good luck at the doctor’s.
So SG so today I sampled some Robert Piguet Rose Perfection from the generous swap with Hajiisuri. It’s a gorgeous in-your-face, knock you down rose. Surprisingly, the kids love it.
Sounds like my kind of rose!
I’m wearing Rose Rebelle Respawn from A Lab on Fire today. It is the third (fourth?) iteration of a fragrance that I didn’t care for at all, 100% Lovely, which I found sour and unpleasant. RRR however is transparent rose, ivy, and mint dusted with cocoa powder, and I enjoy my decant very much, though I won’t ever need a full bottle.
Make that 100% Love.
I really disliked 100% Love too. Bleargh. (But I tend to really, really hate cocoa/chocolate notes in perfume – not in real life! – so I don’t know that I’d get along better with RRR.
I generally don’t care for chocolate or coffee notes in perfume, though I love the actual items (especially together!). Do coffee notes bother you, too?
I don’t think that I’ve actually smelled a coffee note, so I don’t know.
Scent twin!! This was my first foray into niche parfumerie so it holds a special place in my heart. Well actually of my bottles do 🙂
Wow! I’m surprised no one else is wearing RRR — it’s a great scent!
Love to get my hands on some more.. but it is too fleeting to just justify the cost.
Yeah, it doesn’t last that long on me either.
Sounds like I need to give this a sniff at Twisted Lily!
TGIF!
SOTD: Spellbound
Oldie but absolutely goodie!
Twin! I was starting to think I was the only one who had any love for the incomparable Spellbound.
Yay!
I am sure there are many more of us out there 😉
Paris for me this morning. I wore this for a few years back in the 90’s and this morning’s experience reminds me why I don’t wear this anymore…it smells as great as ever but Too Many Memories.
Too Many Memories…I have that with Bvlgari pour Femme I still love the way it smells but when I wear it I start feeling depressed and start crying. No need of that!
I feel like that about my old Chloe. Wore it for a good 11-12 years, but they were tumultuous years! Even though (the vintage stuff) smells lovely, I just cannot wear it.
Oh that is too bad! Original Chloe is gorgeous…I have the perfume at home in that gorgeous bottle…sitting in my basement…I really should revisit….
That would be an interesting poll.. scents you cannot wear because too many memories.. ha! But the contest would be to overcome those memories and wear it anyway! Bring a box of tissues to work, and plan to head to the bar post-work hours.
Yes – Eau de Givenchy. Fortunately now it’s reformulated and the packaging has changed so I can just move on and close that door.
When I first read of people having strong associations with perfumes, I felt bad that I’d never felt that way. Now I feel fortunate. Associations with songs, now those are another story.
I have never really affiliated strong emotions with my perfumes either. Well, other than a general sense of fondness for those scents that I wore when I was young and having fun. Nothing specific though.
Like others, I don’t have anything by SG, so today I’m in Dzing! It seems similar in spirit to some of her work.
I’m so excited to be able to follow today’s theme by wearing EL Beautiful! I feel like I ought to be wearing pearls. It’s very grown-up.
Twins!
No SG in my arsenal, which is a pity.
Another beautiful day here in PDX metro. We set a temp high yesterday-87F! Woo Hoo! Everyone was out and about, showing off their hastily purchased summer clothes and crowding restaurant patios. Maybe I had one too many G&Ts! It was wonderful!
SOTD: Lashings and lashings of Eau Universalle straight from the fridge, and a bit of Bois Des Iles on pulse points. It’s gonna be another warm day, 80F!
Beautiful, dabbed from a vintage mini. Not my usual style, so I was happy to have an excuse to wear it.
Ditto me on Beautiful. It’s my only SG fragrance. I am actually really enjoying it – the second time I’ve worn recently.
Beautiful on my skin makes me nauseous the same way a number of other EL scents do – that is, it smells FINE, but two hours in, I’m queasy and stay that way until my perfume wears off. (White Linen Light Breeze doesn’t bother me. Neither does PC Tuberose Gardenia. Shrug.)
But for an experiment, I gave a winter scarf a hefty spritz of Beautiful, and it was just really lovely for days.
A great parfum d’ambiance! It does have a time when it gets rather soapy. I am totally hit or miss with EL fragrances. The only one I really loved a lot was Knowing.
Knowing! What a beautiful, classic-feeling scent that one is. It makes me think of a black dress, darted just enough to hint at your figure. Professional and alluring all in one.
*fights the overwhelming urge to bid on another vintage mini*
Twins. I wish I still had my mini, which would now be ‘vintage’…
In Encens Mythique, although it might be a little warm for it.
love that one!
SOTD: Calyx of course!
Had to dig deep for it, but it still smells pretty great. Brings back a flood of memories-I wore the hell out of it back in the day.
So what’s everybody buying with the 15% off at Sephora?!
NOTHING !!!! ( if my willpower holds out 🙂 !!)
I also wore the hell out of Calyx back in the day……it was my summer staple for 8/9 years…..
Sitting on my hands..no sephora no sephora is my mantra
I was demoted after not spending enough at Sephora last year, so I’m actually sitting on my hands trying not to look at the website until tomorrow when the regular BI coupon kicks in. (I wish I could say I were being responsible and not planning to shop at all)
After my Donatella confession this week….NOTHING!!! I deleted the email as soon as it came!! 🙂
That was very proactive of you! ????
It might still be in the trash can if you didn’t empty it — just sayin’ 😉
Lol!!
I have a couple of things in my cart, but I hate having to spend $50 for the free shipping plus! you can only use one promo code.. I know, complain, complain..
I may just stop at the shop and do my shopping.
I did a wee bit of damage, but nothing Donatella ever needs know about ????
LOL!! I forgot to list 212 VIP in my buys last quarter….but what’s another $20 in the scheme of things? 🙂
???? Donatella can’t heaaar you!
Seriously you guys. Donatella KNOWS.
Hourglass powders, Fresh Sugar lemon lotion and lip balms, plus a few lipsticks from Dior and Marc Jacobs. I’m on a purple lipstick bender.
No SG in my stable, so I’m out. Woke up super late today and now I’m wearing vintage Chanel no 5.
I don’t have many Grojsmans in my collection. I went with Tresor from my mini today because it was either this or Calyx and I just wasn’t feeling Calyx this morning. So I figured it’s as good a time as any to revisit Tresor. I like it more than I remember, though I still get the plasticky thing that a few other people mentioned above. I think I’m just letting my brain reinterpret it as a bitter herbal-y note rather than plastic. I’ve never smelled the older version so I don’t really have a frame of reference for what it used to smell like.
I am wearing Paris Premieres Roses from 2003…
It is lovely. Lots of violet and rose. These were big 3.3 oz bottles so I am still in no danger of running out.
I imagine Premieres Roses versions in subsequent years have been reformulated and/or tweaked but am not really sure.
I have a different one of the Printemps limited editions – Pont des Amours – but it’s really lovely.
Happy Friday. all day today!
I’m a 100% fail today on the community project and guess what? It’s perfectly fine. It does point to a hole in my collection but I am pretty sure it is holier (err more holey) than just missing a SG fragrance.
SOTD = Le Labo Vanille 44
It is a very easy to wear fragrance and is a great layerer with the heavy ambers or leather. I like it best in cool weather.
The Le Labo SAs in SFA scared me so I never sampled any…maybe just as well as I AM trying to downsize 🙂
Lol – did he try to soray you with somethibg else without your consent?
I thought that only happens in movies? 🙂
No actually I got really dirty looks from both the male and female SA standing by the counter as I was about to approach (mind you I was visiting in the city and after a two and a half hour trip and wearing old jeans and sneakers I looked like I did not belong in SFA…they probably thought I would just come over and ask for free samples and not buy anything) so I backed away…..the SA at the Guerlain counter was nice, though…I approached and grabbed the bottle of Jicky to spray and said to him “I am just testing” and he smiled and said “Go right ahead as that is what they are here for!”
Meanwhile at the Chanel counter I sampled and sprayed all the while the SA stood there glaring at me not saying a word…..
Classic Chanel…..
Assessment of buying power based on clothing is such a foolish approach. I was browsing estate jewelry at a high-end jewelry store many years ago, and commented to the SA that I wasn’t going to buy anything as she must have assumed from my low-end clothing. She said, you never know from clothes whether someone will buy or not, nor how big an amount they will spend.
Same no judgement on purchasing power at the Malle, Hermes counters in swanky department store, recently.
The smart SAs treat everyone well. I used to send my husband who dresses like a scruffy engineer into fancy European perfume shops. The young girls ignored him until finally the older manager approched to offer assistance, upon which he whipped out his shopping list and proceeded to buy piles of niche perfumes. Hehehe… The young girls got a good lesson.
The only Grojsman I own is White Linen, and it’s just not a White Linen day, so I’m wearing PdE Ambre Russe. It’s probably my last chance to wear it before our hot as blazes summer weather starts up.
Wish I still had some Boucheron Jaipur to wear today; I drained the last of my decant a few months back. All of you who are wearing it today – you smell wonderful!
I have a bunch of samples of Judith Muller Bat-Sheba parfum so I chose one that doesn’t particularly seem off and that’s my SOTD
I tried the DSH version of it, and that was really lovely. (She doesn’t make it anymore.)
I’m in the beautiful-scent-but-not-quite-right-for-this-grey-drizzly-cold-day L’Etrog. I meant to pull another sample from my box, but noticed too late (post spray) that I had grabbed L’Etrog. Beautiful citrus. Fans of Hermes Concentre d’Orange Verte should definitely give this one a whirl. They start out very similar, but then L’Etrog follows a more ‘floral perfume’ trajectory (although the only flower listed in the notes is myrtle… hmmmm). Thanks to the lovely Laura, I am still working through her amazing samples…
I really liked L’Etrog when I sampled it last year; it is beautiful. I think it would be perfect for our autumn, too.
Estee Lauder Beautiful – comparing the EDP and parfum once again.
The musk in the parfum makes all the difference – without it, the EDP is a generic floral. Wish I knew what it was like with oakmoss, but the musk in parfum lands in squarely in chypre territory while still being approachable.
Happy Friday!
Maybe you can layer it with Bergamoss or even an oakmoss EO?
Agreed…decant into a smaller bottle and add a drop or two of oakmoss e.o….I do this all the time….
also, for other vintage perfumes you could add some bergamot e.o. to “freshen up” the top notes….
Twins (on the EDP, anyway)!
Good morning , all. I have one SG perfume on my shelves: Bill Blass Nude, which I bought untried on the strength of Angela’s review not long after deciding that I was no longer a single-perfume girl. Nude is softly floral and gently green. It says one thing persistently but only in a whisper, so that I have to stop what I’m doing and concentrate to catch what the words are-something about happiness being the best kind of sexy? That’s a good message for a perfume to send, I think. It’s getting colder here, and I’m finding Nude is perfect for this still-dark early morning– it feels like warm hands on cool skin. Nude is the kind of perfume that catches on clothes. I bet that the next time I wear this little jumper, I’ve got on, it will be holding the memory of today’s conversation with Nude.
Love, love, love what you said about happiness being the best kind of sexy.
Yes, well said!
Me too. Great quote.
I have a craving for a rhubarb scent but can’t find one here in town, so will have to consider a blind buy. I don’t think I can get the Hermes ( which would probably be my first choice) . Any suggestions, please? Last night we went out to dinner and had rhubarb tarte tatin with marscapone. I wish I’d chosen it for my starter and main, too. The flavour was intense, and a wonderful sweet/ sharp contrast. Daim Blond today as I think I have to go mountain biking…and I am not keen.
There is a CdG Rhubarb by Bertrand Duchaufour. It’s not long lasting but also not expensive, and it fulfills the role of a summer cologne.
You should check ebay though. The last time I looked, ShopFrance was offering single nomad vials of the Hermes Rhubarbe.
I 2nd the Hermes Rhubarbe.. it’s really delicious smelling.
Britt Red was the very best rhubarb for me ( not sure if it is still around )…Britt Gold was stunning too but there is no rhubarb in that one
Flashback also has a rhubarb note and Tocca’s Brigitte (which is sweet and spicy with other notes aside from rhubarb)…and the Brigitte bottle is stunning and hefty in weight….
Ditto on the Brit Red. I believe the first Aedes house scent and maybe Byredo Pulp have some too.
Oh, yum! When I was young, I used to love my mother’s rhubarb crumble and ask for it as the pudding for my birthday treat. The contrast between the tartness of the rhubarb and the rich buttery crumb was just gorgeous, and the memory is making my mouth water all these years later. I can totally see why you would want a perfume of the taste. Maybe I’ll see if I can find the Hermes in Melbourne–another entry on my “To Try” list.
Profumi di Pantelleria’s Maestrale has a lovely rhubarb note. Nice and tart.
Amouage Honour Woman has a rhubarb note, but I’m not sure I’d call it a rhubarb scent.
I love the rhubarb note in Rose Ikébana, but as that’s also Hermès I’m not sure it leaves you any better off.
Great suggestions and tips. Thanks everyone.
I guess I must like Sophia Grojsman without even thinking about it, because I have 8 FBs of her perfumes and two minis. Truth be told, I can’t stand to wear Tresor, but I’m not counting Calyx, which was one of my signature scents back in the day but that I no longer own.
Today I’m wearing EL Beautiful from the big 1980s bottle with the brass stopper. It was a partial bottle on ebay that I took a chance on, and it arrived in excellent condition. It’s a cold day here in the DC area and Beautiful is taking off the hard edges. 🙂
Quite a few of us in Beautiful today! Glad it’s having a positive effect on your day. ????
Great choice if I do say so myself, Creosote! 😉
Why, thank you kindly. And right back at ya! ????
I don’t have anything by Grojsman either, and to be honest, the only one of hers I wish I had is White Linen.
I’m wearing Santa Maria Novella Acqua di Colonia, which is about to become my ‘signature’ scent, and for all the wrong reasons. This spring hasn’t been kind to me, every day it’s either a headache, or, if my head is fine, I’m too busy with various chores to pick up a ‘right’ perfume. So on most days I just give myself a mindless splash of SMN. I have to dig out my bottle of Eau d’Orange Verte, really, before SMN starts to annoy me, because for me it’s a ‘winter cologne’, and winter is definitely gone now.
I’m in Beautiful for the Sophia Grojsman project. I had a mini of it waaaay back in elementary school. I don’t have any of her frags now, so I sprayed myself at today’s grand opening of my new local Ulta. I wanted to go with White Linen, which I used to own, but they don’t stock it. Darn.
Oh ULta! that is a dangerous place for me! Luckily the closest one is a three hour drive away!
Ha! Between Sephora and Ulta, I have ample opportunities to demonstrate restraint. Or not, as the case may be. Turns out you can ‘accidentally’ reach VIB status at Sephora: “What? VIB? Did I really spend that much?!?” ????
$300, I think?
I think it’s $350. It’s just a bit of a shock to realize you’ve racked up that much in a fairly short time when you’re trying to be thrifty and have only been buying 1 or 2 modest items at a time. Guess that’s just what happens when you go through a period of skincare emergencies! ????
I could play today but am refusing on the grounds that it will be a cool day in the hot place before I wear 100% Vomit. Apologies to its fans, my skin does something atrocious to the scent that doesn’t happen in the vial and it is truly nasty. In fact, it smells just like the garbage disposal when my spouse hasn’t run it properly. I also have a sample someplace of Parisianne but can’t find it and don’t care for it. I would totally wear Paris or Tresor but have neither.
Imate as I’m enjoying a light cloud of Dame Gardenia layered with Mimosa as I clean this filthy house.
I didn’t like that one, either. I did like the first 15 minutes of Parisienne, but it got very generic afterward.
I was on the lookout for a bottle of Paris in the local stores because of this week’s theme,but only found a tester. It used to be sold everywhere but now it’s disappeared even from the airports (noticed the same thing with Dune).
SOTD is Lace Garden from a broken sample.
Yes, I only ever see Parisienne around.
I have several SG fragrances, but most are warm-weather scents, not very enticing on yet another day of cold, rain and snow showers. (Looks like I’m one of the few here who doesn’t like Paris, although I do enjoy and own several of the Paris Premiere series. And I love Tresor). So I chose one I haven’t worn in a year, KL Sun Moon Stars, in its lovely deep blue round bottle. Soft florals, peachy-vanilla, powdery heliotrope, and woody base notes offer the sweetness and comfort I always look for on cold, ugly days. The song “I feel pretty!” from my favorite musical comes to mind as I enjoy my choice today.
That reminds me that my sister’s old mini of Sun Moon Stars is sitting here unused. I can’t remember what it smells like at all! I’ll have to try it out tomorrow…
Kerosene’s Pretty Machine is really a nice fragrance…
Rummaging through samples yielded a spray vial of Beautiful, with many thanks to a generous NSTer. It is quite pretty, though I feel it is wearing me down somehow. Not heavy, not loud, but slightly overwhelming. If the longevity were no so great I might be more comfortable wearing it after half a day.
I could have spritzed less, but simply sniffing the sample vial gives me the sensation of being gently smothered, so perhaps application makes little difference for me. The room where I spritzed Beautiful does smell amazing, and the scent is drifting down the hall in an appealing way.
Great challenge today, and I enjoyed all the comments.
Especially 100% Vomit! LOL!
In a rush this morning, I lightly spritzed Sycamore on my wrists, dreading its interaction with the remnants of BV on my tee shirt. I think of Sycamore as the smell of dried, yellow ginko leaves, and was ready to be repulsed. But a couple of whiffs throughout the day proved otherwise. The Sycamore seemed to add spice to the BV – not sure how. If I can work up the courage I’ll attempt a more deliberate layering one of these days.
Have a good evening, folks!
I wanted to wear White Linen which I enjoyed so much in the early 80s, but couldn’t find my mini.
So I am wearing a dab of Tresor. I agree with Mals that it is lovely and a rose, peach dress rather than a pink feather boa.
I never wore the scent, but it reminds me of a lovely, sweet-tempered receptionist I used to work with. She had the most beautiful smile and always answered the phone with that smile. Tresor suited her perfectly.
Grinned at Grojsman’s comment about her scents having “cleavage.”
SOTD was Bat-Sheba from a bottle I picked up on ebay. I don’t know how well-preserved it is, as I have no frame of reference. I don’t really love it. I don’t know if it is somewhat “off”, or if it is just not me.
That’s a good one, and such a great bottle!
Wearing the beautiful and underrated Elizabeth Taylor Black Pearls by Grojsman though you have to do some research to discover she was the nose behind this beautiful sueded apricot. Soft, pillowy and entirely comfortable, I really should wear this more often.
I’ll have to sniff this one soon…..I’ve seen it around town several times and didn’t really pay attention!
Well after several days of saying I would, I’m *finally* wearing Ne M’Oubliez Pas – sprayed and dabbed several times. Unlike my previous wearings, it opened up with what smelled like a heavy dose of cumin and I was worried since I just bought a decant, but the cumin has faded out and I just looooove loooooove loooooooove what remains. I don’t know if there’s another fragrance I love as much as this exorbitantly expensive thing. I’d sure love a bottle, but I know that is a lofty dream!
Well I missed out on all the fun of the Friday project today. Embroidering like a fiend to complete an art piece, I pretty much stayed away from spending time at the computer. But this afternoon a box arrived from Dame Perfumery with a 5ml of Dark Horse (this is my third, I should just buy a damn bottle!) and 5ml of the New Musk cologne for men. I dowsed myself with New Musk before going out on my walk and kind of stenched myself out with it – it goes quite sweet on my skin and smells like a medicine I had to take a spoonful of every night when I was a kid, sort of sweet and minty. Not my thing, but when my husband tried it, his skin amplified the vanilla along with the white flowers and it’s quite do-able as a Spring cologne for him. In addition, there were four dabber samples included in the box. Desert Rose and Cedar Neroli something (smelled like gas station bathroom soap to me) got tossed, but I kept BFMV and Leather, both of which are scrumptious! I guess I prefer more of the herby/vanilla scents from Dame over the florals.
Just to feel a part of things, after my shower I will put on a little vintage Paris EDP for the evening.
I really don’t care for the Cedar, Neroli, and Sandalwood, either!
I’m so late to the party, there isn’t a single canape left. 😀
With an all-day library workshop ahead of me, I applied the most sparing spritz of Sun Moon Stars (Sophia Grojsman’s sweet little nothing for Karl Lagerfeld) at breakfast. It faded by lunch. Before dinner with my BFF, I dug around in my purse and came up with yesterday’s Miss Dior. Finally, we took a few laps around the mall, where I finished off with a top coat of L’Occitane Cade. At this point, doused in layers of pink candy roses, leather and woodsmoke, I smell like a Old West whorehouse. No wonder my husband and cat jumped a mile when I swaggered through the front door. 😛
I love a good skanky smell on myself, if I got it testing new smells around town! 🙂
I almost forgot– we also poked our heads into Victoria’s Secret, with its 400 competing perfume testers. Even if you don’t try out a single scent, somehow they ALL end up hitching a ride on your clothes and hair. Oy!
Hilarious! 🙂 wish I could get a whiff!
Just woke up and it’s still there! Go outside and sniff the breeze… What you smell is most likely moi! 😀
Heck, pardner, you’d fit right in ’round these parts, in the Old Pueblo and just a bit a way in Tombstone! ????
Why, mighty obliged! (Starts yodeling “Way Out There”, Raising Arizona-style)
So yesterday, I wore one of my all-time favorites : White Linen, a vintage perfume version from the early 80’s when I discovered this masterpiece. I was a teenager then, a virgin for sure and I discovered Karen Graham in white as a modern Plantation Belle. I was hooked and I needed to discover the perfume. I was wearing Anaïs Anaïs at the same period but the ad had me. Needless to say that such a thing would probably not happen to me now, I mean being seduced by a perfume ad, seriously ? But in that ad and the perfume itself, I could see me as a young greek Vestale as I was very much into Greek and Roman Mythology. Wearing it nowadays is like being a teenager again. We are blessed with a lovely spring here in Austin so it felt absolutely right to wear it. So crisp, pure, white. Aldehydes, rose and vetiver. I was working for Kilian when I still lived in Paris so I was very much into new niche perfumes. I am so happy to be reunited with the perfumes of my past. They feel like home.
A little late to the party, but it was Diamonds and Rubies for me. I didn’t see that anyone else wore it, so I had to chime in.
It’s a true Grojsman for sure. Peach and rose and lots of carnation too – plus spicy.
I find that I can tell her fragrances by how smooth they are, sort of like cabochon jewels with all that very ripe fruit and rose, usually. I’m a fan!