Blink, and it's another Monday. It's also Animal Crackers Day, if that helps. What fragrance are you wearing?
I'm wearing Hermès Le Jardin de Monsieur Li. Tea at the moment is Upton's Richmond Park blend. My goal this week is to finish off a good portion of my rapidly proliferating tea samples.
Reminder: on 4/22 we're doing What's in a name, part 2 — we'll be wearing "misnamed" fragrances. You can interpret that howsoever you wish. The project was suggested by Dilana, who noted that Jardins d’Écrivains Orlando smelled like traditional honey cake instead of a modernist multi-gender novel or hero/heroine. If you like, tell us what your fragrance should have been called, and/or tell us what the fragrance you're wearing should have smelled like in order to fit its name.
And for those of you who like to plan ahead, see Scent of the day ~ Friday community projects 2016, where I'll try to always have the next five or six weeks mapped out in advance.
SOTD is Seville a l’Aube, which I’m exploring this week
And do you like?
I like it but it’s different from what I was expecting: something “darker”, I get the lavender but not the smoke/ashes. Probably I was expecting something more Timbuktu-ish.
Ah, interesting. I can’t remember now what i was expecting when I smelled it!
I wore it yesterday, and maybe it was the weather, but it was just to sweet, and possibly too indolic for me. I think I like it better in cooler weather.
Horrible weather here in Houston, TX. Got up this morning, took a shower and was in the process of going to work when I found out that almost all of the school districts in my area closed school today. Not that I mind having a 3-day weekend, I just wish I would have known before I started getting ready. Once I’m up, I’m up. I’m sure we will have to make up this day. Since I had already sprayed on my SOTD, I will share what my selection was. I am wearing “PooPoo Pidoo” by Ego Facto. The name for this scent definitely doesn’t fit the fragrance (thank God, LOL!) Its a pretty scent, but too soft and light for my taste.
I will be spending the majority of my day in bed since the streets are flooded and it was recommended that folks stay off the roads today. Here’s wishing better weather for the rest of you.
Stay safe. My partner’s family is dealing with this as well, saying they’ve never seen this much rain and flooding in such a short period of time.
I will. Thanks.
That’s crazy weather you’re having. Hope everyone stays safe there.
Me too. Thanks.
Wow, that sounds bad. At least you are home safe. And I liked PooPoo Pidoo!
Yes, glad I hadn’t gotten to the point where I had left the house yet. I probably would have been stranded somewhere. Safe and sound in my bed.
I LOVE Poopoo!! It’s on my long-term “will get a FB when I save enough pennies” list…. 🙂
It is pretty……but not enough oommpphh for me.
Well wishes for Houston!
Thank you.
Glad you’re ok.. I didn’t realize how bad things were til I got in the car to go to work and was hearing on the radio how many areas were flooding. There isn’t any flooding in my immediate neighborhood, but I got a little ways down one of the main roads and saw a car coming up the wrong way. So I took that as a hint that I needed to turn my butt around and go right back home.
Yes, the city has shut pretty much everything down. The airports are cancelling flights. The mayor has advised everyone to stay in. So, please don’t try to risk it…..not worth it.
My brother is supposed to be flying in from Miami tonight; hopefully it will be somewhat better around nine tonight. Watching people on the news trying to chance it, their cars are being sucked into the water….people not realizing how deep the water is. This is crazy!!!
Stay dry & safe!
Thanks.
Echoing Hamamelis’ comments, sending well wishes your way. I heard that your area got over 16 inches in 1 hour! I can’t even imagine! Stay safe.
I know, its crazy. They said that we will get about a five hour break and then it will start back up again and storm through the night. So, possibly a repeat tomorrow.
Meant to say, 16 inches in 24 hours, 3-4 inches per hour, an incredible amount!
Yes, my little complex on Richmond is completely flooded in, still! Thankfully UH emailed us early to cancel classes, which didn’t surprise me since that thunder is loud! Hope you stay dry.
So sorry to hear about your area. Although it floods a lot over here in my neck of the woods, my house has never gotten water damage. I have some friends who just finished renovations from water damage during Labor Day. Now, here we go again. 🙁
Yes those poor people from that flood! Houses in my old stomping ground in Meyerland still have dumpsters in front of their houses. Very sad.
SOTD: Oud & Bergamot (Jo Malone).
While animal crackers do hold a bit of nostalgia, I tried them a few years ago and decided I don’t need to eat them anymore.
I’m in La Panthere by Cartier today.
Tea = coffee, and needing a second cup…
I think the last time I ate animal crackers was when my youngest was in preschool (i.e., more than a decade ago). I still liked them, but haven’t bought them since.
They tasted like slightly sugared cardboard and not even the cute shapes could get me to finish eating them.
I still love animal crackers but I don’t purposely buy them.
sotd: Annick Goutal Eau du Ciel
The old stuff? I’m pretty sure I bought my mini a few years ago because of your review. I didn’t get “violets in an English cemetery,” but I got “sheets dried in the sunshine,” and that’s really lovely.
Yes, old bottle, this isn’t the newest (likely reform) which I haven’t smelled yet.
I don’t get violets (as in powder/candied). It’s very green – crisp linden, iris and almost what I’d call an “ivy” note.
Love it.
Worried about trying the reissue, but will eventually when my bottle is gone.
That sounds gorgeous! And I love the smell of ivy, even if it’s a super nasty invasive plant ’round these parts.
I don’t get violets in my bottle either – it’s the old formula. I get the linden, rosewood and some sort of green. It is a very unusual scent IMHO. I would like to test the new version with the hopes that it is a very nice fragrance in its own right.
I’m just remembering Abigail’s review as mentioning violets, maybe? perhaps wrong?
Yes, definitely linden and green stuff in there.
violet leaf are in AGs official list of notes (of the original version). so it isn’t violet flower, but the leaf, which is essentially a green note.
Linden so often goes wrong on me, but not in this one.
Giving Amazon’s Prime Pantry a whirl, just because I haven’t seen the soda Surge in years and trying it out for old times sake. Wearing vintage Mitsouko today.
I should probably go investigate Prime Pantry.
Really like the dichotomy of high vs. low culture here!
(No judgment, of course; Diet Mountain Dew is part of my daily regimen!)
SOTD is Amouage Fate Woman because I have to act like an adult today and do all kinds of adult activities- like paying bills, housework, and other equally joyless adult enterprises. Fate reminds me that being forced into adulthood is not all bad, since I’m sure my younger self would not have appreciated or worn this lovely scent.
Sorry for the bad weather some folks are having. Being an adult in times of bad weather is not at all fun either. However, if you are seven, it a huge and amazing adventure. Hoping everyone has a minute or two today to revert to being seven years old again ????
Sometimes I jump puddles, if I think no one I know can see me…these days, I usually jump IN the puddle!
Just waking up here and have yet to shower and dress, so no sotd yet… but as random luck would have it, a while back I somehow ended up with a bottle of Philosophy Pink Frosted Animal Cracker shower gel! So I guess that’ll be it, whenever I get myself moving.
You must use that shower gel! Perfect day for it 😉
Perfect! I confess, I do like the Fresh Cream shower gel! 🙂
I just picked this up in perfume form during the latest Sephora sale- it’s a great bedtime scent.
Isn’t it cuddly and lovely? I can totally see this as a bed time perfume!
I’ll stick to the perfume – so good and so office and scent-phobe family safe. The shower gel was totally meh for me.
Wearing Wild Strawberry & Parsley. I can even smell it a little (it’s past 3pm here)!
I tried so hard to like this one, it was my favorite out of the new line, but it didn’t last long on me. Hope you are having better luck with it.
The lasting power is dismal, that’s why I was surprised to smell something seven hours after applying. Then again, it really was the faintest trace. I have a small bottle and just carry it around and reapply, this is the only solution.
I had hoped for more strawberry in this one.. it’s a good combination idea but for my money it did not deliver.
It works well enough for me, but it’s surely not going to change perfume history.
I imagine I’ll use up the small decant I just ordered very quickly this summer and won’t replace. Always hoping for something fresh and cooling in heat and humidity.
Yes, in this case I’m not too sad it’s limited edition, but I will enjoy my small bottle very much.
Hello, NST world. I’m awake with the rest of you, so I’ve made myself a cup of tea and in solidarity, I’ve put on a perfume–a pale marshmallow-y cloud of Narciso. I don’t wear this as much as I should–it’s really very pretty, and it feels like the perfume equivalent of a warm cuddle. It’s a Dakkie of a perfume: sweet, soft, simple, and essentially boneless.
Well, rather than getting agitated about not being able to sleep, I’m going to work out what to wear tomorrow (won’t take long–what’s clean and ironed?), I’m going to seriously contemplate the need to lose three kilos (what a beastly bother! but I do look a bit porky round my middle) and then read until my eyes are tired. Hope your Mondays are deeply cool in every way. Be safe out there.
Ack, hope you fell asleep!
I did! And now I feel guilty because I’ve only just woken and it’s almost seven. I’m usually up around five doing housework-y things before blinding off to work. Ah well — the housework will be. with me tomorrow, unless some useful elves happen by!
Using up the last of a sample of Dior Gris Montaigne, and contemplating a larger decant, or perhaps even a FB. It’s tax day here so I shouldn’t be thinking about spending money on nonessentials … but I have little self-discipline. Was up in the middle of the early hours unable to sleep, and now am wondering if it was insomnia sympathy for Waterdragon. 🙂
Oh, heavens! I hope insomnia’s not catching! I could be worse off–I bought the first of The Southern Reach trilogy, recommended here at the weekend, though –forgive me–I can’t remember by whom. It’s very absorbing. I won’t get stressed while I have it to read. I’ve washed off Narciso–it didn’t suit the book. Am enjoying Silences instead.
By Amy 🙂
Thank you, Annikky, and Amy for mentioning Southern Reaches. I don’t know whether it’s true to say I’m enjoying Annihilation (that sounds odd), but I won’t stop reading until I get to the end of the trilogy.
Wow, the description of Annihilation on Wikipedia is fascinating – a bit like a conglomeration of parts of Jurassic Park, parts of Myst, and parts of the Andromeda Strain, with a little bit of one or another of various “utopia gone wrong” novels (This Perfect Day, Earth Abides …). I can see why you’re absorbed, but doesn’t it tend to keep you awake rather than allow the drowsies?
No, not this time– I was righteously tired, and the warm tea and tired eyes pushed me into dozing. I must have entered deep sleep at some point, because I slept at least four hours, until nearly seven. That’s rather a good haul of sleep time for me.
If you live in the US, I’d be happy to send you some Gris. My email-
laugsb at sbcglobal.net ????
So kind! Emailing you now. 🙂
Fat Electrician today. The end of my semester is in sight, and I really enjoy the rest of the things I’ve got to lecture on. So, I feel okay with this Monday.
I had crepes maronette for breakfast; probably helps. (And coordinates with the perfume!)
Ha, crepes for breakfast would have helped my day!
They’re very easy to make and they keep well, so I do recommend giving them a shot if you need a pick-me-up. You can even plan it ahead! The hardest part is measuring out the batter, ime.
Is that crepes with chestnut cream?
Yes! It was a favorite snack-treat of mine as a child, and chestnut cream has become easier to find in the US these days, so I get to have my Proustian moment.
Yum! I love chestnuts, and wish they were easier to come by and utilized more frequently in U.S. cuisine. I made my own marrons glacée a few years ago, but it was so much work that I was almost afraid to eat them — they seemed too precious!
I saw marrons glacées for sale several tony places this holiday season, so I’m sort of wondering if they’re the new macarons. I also love them! Even the kind of cheap and not very good ones. I’m really impressed that you made your own – how did you find the right kind of chestnut? (And I guess now you have a special appreciation for the labor that contributes to their price, haha.)
A wonderful NSTer sent me two tins do chestnut cream. I think I’ll eat it as a condiment to frozen waffles!
Love animal crackers carry them on airplanes for a snack
SOTD Tauer desert marocain to fit in with dry hot weather today.
Mmm. You smell good!
Love LDDM! And good animal crackers!
Caron Narcisse Noir
Yum!
dreadful dreary grey monday so I’m wearing Dior Dune, a teal coloured pencil skirt in scuba material and bright lavender lipstick. 80s cheer! Dune is a real gem, I’m always overcome with love for it whenever I think to put it on. Plus it wears like iron!
That sounds fab, i love how a spritz of perfume and some bright clothing or a scarf can be so immensely cheering.
the spine-stiffening properties of a good outfit and a fortifying amount of perfume have saved many a dull day! I remained pleasantly unruffled through the stiff breeze & accompanying spiky drizzle on the walk home from work too 🙂
Could I get the details of that lipstick, please :)?
Your outfit sounds epic and Dune is a great match for it.
it’s a real cheap thrill! Lumene True Passion Lip Colour in no 4 Charming Breeze. Good formula: satin, pretty long-lasting, comfortable. Leans kind of pink on me but I have fuchsia lips & warm colouring!
Love Dune! It always makes a statement, and therefore sounds like a great fit with your ensemble today!
I love the subdued but distinct 80s glam of Dune! I can’t really pull off Poison or any of its ilk on a regular workday but Dune is somehow appropriate despite its power.
Love Dune, and your skirt description inspired me to wear my gray wrap pencil skirt. Thanks!
More pencil skirts to the people! You look great!
I love Dune and I have the same reaction when I wear it, which is pretty often these days. Viva la 80s 🙂
I don’t know how, but Dune keeps slipping to the back of my collection. I have to consciously fish it out from the depths, so I wear it rarely and whenever I do I wonder why I don’t wear it more frequently…
Your pencil skirt sounds great, and I say so as someone who is generally kind of baffled by the scuba and neoprene trend.
I’m with you on the scuba trend skepticism! I got the skirt on a super sale mainly because of the colour; turns out the weird spongy thick fabric is very durable and comfortable AND makes me seem a whole lot cooler than I am. It remains my only foray into the lands of functional fabrics for conventional fashion, though.
Good for you! I often appreciate the prints that scuba clothes come in, but, frankly, I’ve already embraced jumpsuits and I think that might be enough for one wardrobe. . .
Two cups of coffee today and I just can’t seem to get myself in gear.
I think I shall continue with roses this week, until Friday. I do have a candidate in mind, but since I’m going to reorganize Mt. Sample, I might run across a couple more. Today I’m wearing Teo Cabanel Early Roses, just so so so pretty.
You smell great!
I tried this one yesterday, and I find it very lovely too.
very pretty!
I wore Early Roses over the weekend. Very lovely!
Early roses is very lovely! It’s a big caffeine morning for me as well now that allergies are ramping up for spring.
L’Artisan Fou d’Absinthe for me today. I am exploring the perfume cabinet “back catalogue.”
I am drinking some unbranded Lu An Gua Pian.
Love Fd’A, wore that yesterday! 🙂
I like Fou d’Absinthe more and more each time that I wear it. You smell great.
I bought Fd’A at Ari’s Saturday at the DC meetup. Had a sample last year, gifted it, then missed it. True it’s light, but in allergy season that can be a blessing.
Today is supposed to be in the mid-80s in Portland, which is REALLY odd for April (or used to be). I am wearing A La Nuit and just giving in to the early summer. I’m in meetings all day today, but maybe I’ll get lucky and they’ll release us early.
You smells lovely.. !!
Yes – April is the new August around here the last couple of years! Remember when we would NEVER see sun until after July 4th, or at least until after Rose Festival? This year we got summer in February and April. Bizarre.
Oh good, maybe it won’t be so hot when I’m there in August!
Iris Poudre today, I’ve got an interview for the next stage of my studying this afternoon and Iris perfumes always seem to work well in these situations.
Good luck!
Thanks!, they told me I’ve got the place straight after the interview, so feeling very happy and relieved.
Oh yay, congrats!
Congrats! Iris for the win, works like a charm 😉
Awesome!!
Congratulations!
good luck! I’m sure the iris’ll work its magic!
Thanks, I think it did!
No scent yet today, but I did douse myself in Dior Addict in my dream last night.
I’ve never yet had perfume in my dreams.. too funny!
I dreamed last night that I had a bottle of Tea Rose (I don’t).
THen I dreamed a peacock that turned into dark blue-green smoke.
I’m interpreting your dream that you need to layer some rose fragrance with some vetiver. Or you just need to get a peacock already.
I had never seen a peacock in flight (it may be an overstatement, actually, to say the thing flew) until Friday. There’s a flock (is that the collective noun? A display? A boasting?) of wild pea-birds living on the Parapara now, and one idiot peacock launched itself across the road in front of us. Handsome creatures, peacocks, but there’s not a lot brain in relation to the amount of bird! I bet the peahen was marching up and down on the other side of the road saying to all the little pea-chicks, “Now DON’T do what your father just did…William! Come back here! Rangi! There’s a car coming! Miriam, Matilda, stay with me! Good girls!”
Umm, it doesn’t take a lot to entertain me….
Ha ha!
Oh, that was fun!
I’ve only seen peacocks at zoos… we have a flock of wild turkeys wandering around the farm, though, and they’re always a sight.
Yes, animal crackers do help. Great idea for a Monday!
I’m in Cuir de Lancome today.. decided to go all out and spray vs. dab and I’m loving how I smell.
Gosh, you smell great.
You smell very lovely & elegant!! I need to put CdL on rotation soon.
You know I got a new decant and this one is very sparkly vs. heavy and dense. I’m enjoying it immensely.
Animal Crackers: The snack of choice in my 3-4 year old Sunday school class!! 🙂 I don’t mind a few ever so often myself!
SOTD: Vera Wang Embrace Iris and Periwinkle. This is totally sweet on my skin….I don’t get any floral. Just sugar! But it’s light, breezy, and office friendly….and cheap! Love it!
I tried that tester at… gosh, it might have been Walmart!… last week and loved the first ten minutes, which smelled very much like Iris Poudre (which I adore) to me. After that it got way sweet, yeah.
Your SOTD sounds nice. I’ll have to sample that one.
Happy Monday All! I’m wearing Alaia Paris today. My allergies are bothering me and I wanted something easy to wear.
It’s that time of year for sure.
SOTD is Bottega Venetta Knot….so very pretty. It is a citrusy floral, very elegant and I had just received a mini bottle over the weekend, I may need a FB of this, it is cheering me up after doing taxes yesterday (UGH), and it is so elegant.
It is an elegant scent. I just put mine away as I’ve not worn it in a while, but this is a good spring/summer scent.
I like this one a lot too. I haven’t worn it in a while. May have to break it out sometime this week.
Me too!
Happy Pizza Week!
SOTD = a secret (unreleased fragrance that smells like a mojito – perfect for the current summer-like weather)
Just finished the 10 desert fragrance challenge at BdJ. The thought of having to leave my collection has me fully awake now!
Pizza Week??? Really? I can do this.
Pizza week? ooh.
I wouldn’t mind smelling like a mojito! Sounds like pure summertime joyfulness.
It’s so wonderful I don’t even mind re-applying every 4 hours.
Yup, pizza week! But only in Portland? https://www.facebook.com/events/996464263742371/
I had pizza at lunch today so I am off to a good start!
Wearing the punch in the nose Kouros YSL.
Dirty/clean, off-putting/attractive, it truly is a masterwork of “masculine” perfumery.
It’s a beautiful thing. 🙂
Yes it is!
I think that’s such a great name for a perfume. Has anyone done a Kore?
Good on you! I think it is a great scent and I would wear it with a floral dress ( if I owned one ) or pearl earrings ( if I had some) . Kevin’s review is a classic.
I misplaced my hard earned sample…will have to acquire more! Maybe the perfume gods are telling me not to go near it!
I copied monkeytoe and went with Fou d’Absinthe. I’ve got the 15 ml bottle and while I found it uninteresting at first, it has grown on me steadily. The other day I was surprised to see Chanel No. 5 EDT for sale at Costco. 50 ml bottles were going for a mere $62. I’m sure that being sold by the pallet load at a cut rate price is the last place Chanel wants their merchandise to end up, ha-ha.
1) You smell delicious.
2) GIRL SAY WHAT.
Sorry, my inner Brooklynite came out. I am surprised sometimes at the deals you can find at Costco. I have found Chanel skin products and Estee Lauder color products on the online portal BUT I have never seen Chanel products in the warehouse.
So, did you buy a bottle? 🙂
I considered getting one for a Mother’s Day gift but my mom much prefers the EDP so I gave it a pass.
Well, that’s $62 saved! 😀
I was just at Costco running errands for work. It’s kinda amazing the things you find there. It scares and fascinates me in the worst of ways.
Costco is DA BOMB!!! 🙂
I saw the biggest bottle of Dolce by D&G, for $49…..Didn’t buy though!
Chanel at Costco?!! I’ve seen some quality things on the Costo “Perfume Pallet”, but it’s usually a mixed bag of mid-range department store scents, with the occasional higher end thrown in.” I know they’re buying up “leftovers” but I thought Chanel kept really tight control over their line and demanded that leftovers be returned to them.
When I see something that incongruous, I always think that a pallet fell off a truck somewhere, you know?
😀
My Costco never has a perfume pallet! At least not when I’ve been there. (My TJ Maxx never has anything interesting, either!)
Wow, I would have bought one without a 2nd thought! I much prefer the EDT to the EDP even though it has the longevity of a gnat on me — 3 spritzes from my twist up travel spray last < 2 hours.
SOTD is OJ’s Champaca. It was one of my early perfumista purchases. I was amazed the first time I smelled basmati rice in a perfume. Haven’t worn it in a while but was inspired by Tara’s blog to wear it again. I think my cold is still somewhat negatively impacting my current olfactory capacity because I had to use Hajusuuri’s La Pausa spraying regimen and it is still faint. But nice. Nice rice.
Champaca is really lovely! I hope your nose is better soon.
Thank you Ann, I hope yours will not suffer too much from your allergies!
Not yet at least – the trees are just starting to bud here. We were thoroughly enjoying outside activities yesterday, sans allergy meds. In a week, I’ll be an allergy zombie though.
I was just daydreaming about the idea of a basmati rice fragrance yesterday! I’ll have to sniff this one out.
Do you have easy access to it? If not I am happy to send you a sample.
That would be wonderful, thank you! You can reach me at calinda 4 at hawtmale. 🙂
Just mailed you. Hope I got it right.
I really enjoy this one. I was wearing it the day my handbell ensemble was trying to name a new piece by one of our members and we ended up naming it “Champaca”- the right amount of percussiveness in the pronunciation to match the music.
I wanted something cozy with our nasty weather today, so my SOTD is Tea for Two. I’m home on my couch with my laptop and a snuggling kitty and a cup of Tazo Russian Twilight.
You smell great. I love Tea for Two. It smells quite churchy to me, like a rack of flickering votive candles. It doesn’t put me in mind of tea time at all.
yum! tea for two is delicious! It smells very tea-and-marmalade on a nice old mahogany table to me but I seem to smell fruit whenever there’s a trace amount used…
I love Tea for Two too. At first it reminded me a bit of Dzing! in the dry down, which I love, but somehow it changes every time I wear it.
Goodness! Another Monday!
It was my birthday this past weekend- and yikes, I am 3&! How in the heck did that happen?
It was also a super sunny weekend in Portland metro, kinda reminding people why we live here- beautiful shades of green, loads of flowers and spring produce already happening.
SOTD: Wow- scent twins with Robin! Monsieur Li is a perfectly light fragrance for the hot weather today (86F! WHAT) I am wearing paired with Nuxe dry oil on the limbs.
OOTD: White cotton lawn dress, pink silk scarf, clogs, sunglasses (but not indoors.)
Happy Birthday! The 30s are the best years!
Happy birthday!!
Ha ha, wait till it’s 6&something!
I think I am gonna be like some of the older women I admire. They are in DGAF mode- they hike, lift weights and lead fitness classes, go surfing, go to dance clubs (where they get VIP service) and travel all over. Their kids seem envious!
Happy Birthday, wishing you a wonderful year ahead!
Thank you! I think this year is gonna be good!
Happy Birthday!
Thank you so much!
Happy late birthday! Hope you have plenty of leftover cake on hand — it’s good to drag these things out!
Oh, my goodness, I had a birthday donut, and birthday pudding, birthday tempora, and birthday Champagne (Veuve Cliquot) with friends….
Today, on green juice, yogurt and big leafy salads, because lord have mercy!
Tempura and champagne sounds like my kind of birthday!
30’s are good! So far I can report even 50’s are good!
HUZZAH! That’s awesome!
Every year, I think to myself that NOW is the best time! I love my 40’s and look forward to what’s to come! 🙂
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!
ditto that!
🙂
I don’t mind my 60s, except that I can’t read without glasses. Honestly, I don’t care about lines or grey hair, but not bring able to read at will is a massive nuisance. But JardainGA is right: all nows are the best time.
Auckland and glasses! Every time I go to Auckland my glasses steam up and it drives me nuts. I have to make a conscious effort to walk slowly, especially on your hills.
Have a wonderful birthday week. Scent triplets.
Happy belated birthday! Sounds like a fabulous way to celebrate. I can’t believe I’m not 3& anymore-that time does go.
Happy belated birthday! The waterfront it gorgeous right now, but any hotter and it will be too much. Enjoy!
The waterfront is perfect and 86F should be the limit, honestly!
Happy Birthday! I think there should be a store called Forever 29
LOL! There really should!
Ha!
Chanel No. 19 EDT is my SOTD. And, I’m drinking a cup of jasmine green tea with two mint leaves floating around in the cup along with the tea.
You smell fabulous! I was thinking of wearing that today.
Now that spring is here for sure, No 19 will be quickly a regularly on my rotation. You smell fantastic!
Wearing LUSH Ladyboy, drinking Earl Grey, eating yogurt, resolving to break my compulsive newsfeed-reading habit for the good of my mental health, planning to sit under a tree outside my workplace on my lunch break. Have a peaceful Monday, all.
I know exactly what you mean, especially at election time (US).
Yes! To quote Marlon Brando in (fittingly) Apocalypse Now, “The horror… the horror…”
True that!
Trying to stay well informed these days is bad for your health and your mental state! All these articles. It is hard to keep up! I am trying to reinstate my internet free weekends now that the weather is better. It’s for my sanity.
I feel OVERinformed. I devour news like… well, like animal crackers 🙂
Phew! I’ve been too busy to post this weekend and still haven’t had a chance to read up on everybody else’s adventures.
I’m wearing L’air de Rien with a few spritzes of Wild Strawberry & Parsley over it.
Hope all the East Texans are on dry ground. Most of the rain missed us again here at Mom’s 🙁 I know it sounds completely unnatural but we really need our river to flood so that it gets a good clean out. It’s running but just barely and we were hoping for non-catastrophic flooding around here. The storms mostly just split and went around our little canyon.
I’m sampling the newest by Kilian, Moonlight in heaven. I must say that they have a great sampling policy, since I ordered a L’oeuvre noire discovery set they have always sent me their newest samples – good marketing! I’m still on the fence about moonlight, I’ll probably try it again, I like the way it starts, but the dry-down is hmmm-ish.
Oh that is really nice. I know Jeffrey Dame does that, but he’s a little smaller than By Kilian.
Which reminds me that I should let them know I’ve changed my address. I’m really impressed with that policy too.
Nice of them to do that. I’ve bought 2 items from the NY boutique and I had never received any samples in the mail. I may need to rectify that!
SOTD is Kelly Caleche.
I was eyeing my KC yesterday thinking about getting it on spring rotation asap.
The new Balmain Ivoire, so fresh and pretty. This one only works for me when the temperature is 72F and above. Been waiting months to enjoy my soft pretty fresh love 🙂
That is lovely and I can see that EASILY being a beautiful summer fragrance!
Ivoire is GORGEOUS!! I bought this blind, based on comments here, and so glad I did….
Ivoire is lovely. I have a friend who wears it. It is a great summer scent.
I’m wearing Lush Sikkim Girls, a mini that came home with me from a truly fantastic meetup and swap this weekend. Now that the tuberose has cooled its jets, I’m really happy wearing it.
🙂
House twins!
SOTD is Diptyque Essences Insensees Mimosa from 2014. It seems perfect for a lovely spring day!
I am still considering to blind buy the last remaining solid of that here in the Netherlands. Is it anything like Une Fleur de Cassie?
The reason I’m wearing it, is because I tried another desperate attempt to decant some of this fragrance for you. Diptyque got very smart with these atomizers that are impossible to decant because they literally release a “poof” of fragrance, not a stream. However, I am very happy that I was covered in wet puffs of the EI Mimosa. I managed to get just a tiny bit – maybe .5 ml – in a vial for you. I would imagine you’d like it very much, but oy, what work! I am hoping to send off your package in a few days. On the other hand, if you blind buy the last compact and you hate it, I’ll buy it from you. How about that?
Thank you Ann, and I am glad your generosity had the lovely side effect of your smelling gorgeous today. And this is the best enabler push ever!
😉 Glad I can help! If you love mimosa, I can’t possibly imagine you not liking it. It is the loveliest mimosa fragrance I’ve ever smelled.
I’m wearing Zegna’s Haitian Vetiver from a sample. I love it and I’d like to own a bottle, even though I have many vetivers and I’m slowing down purchases.
I was wearing vetivers all weekend as an homage to spring! Guerlain and the “new” Carven.
Nice! I have yet to try the vetiver from Carven.
It’s really very wearable and has a nice smokey accord. It would never replace Guerlain IMHO, but still very nice.
Jardins d’Armide since it’s one of my favorites
That’s a really fun scent. It’s a floral powder bomb on me, but I like that about it.
I like it too.
We had a lovely SoCal meetup yesterday at South Coast Plaza complete w/ strong Santa Ana winds. It was great meeting everyone and rehoming samples. 🙂
I am wearing Eau des Sens today for the continued Santa Ana we are having and seem to be enjoying it more and more with each wearing which is a pleasant surprise.
I’m also wearing eau des sens today!
It was a fun meetup, thank you all for coming out and relieving me of my massive amount of samples! 🙂 And thank you for sharing your goodies with me!
I am wearing my sample of Hermès Santal Massoia today.
Lavande Ombrée by Au pays de la fleur d’oranger. It’s not great. Often it takes a not very great take on a note to realise the brilliance of other fragrances. Or maybe it’s just a matter of taste.
I trust your taste. 🙂
http://www.cafleurebon.com/niche-perfume-review-au-pays-de-la-fleur-doranger-figue-fruitee-tubereuse-rosee-jasmine-reve-bergamote-boisee-and-lavande-ombree-collection-inedits-draw/
Others definitely liked it more than I did. It might just be some woody or amber note that I’m more sensitive to.
Today I’m in Annick Goutal Gardenia Passion. I’m getting really close to finishing the decant that I’ve had for 6 or 7 years. 🙂
We can cheer you on if you like. We’ll gather around and chant, “Spritz! Spritz! Spritz!” the way frat boys chant “Chug!”
(rummages through torn concert tees)
Teeheehee that is a lovely offer, but after looking at the decant again, there are probably 2 to 3 more wearings left in the bottle. I share an office with someone who is sensitive to scent, so I have to apply my week day perfumes very lightly.
😉 I am chanting along with everyone else! Gardenia Passion is one of my fav “happy” florals.
Wearing Adr_ett today. My inner monologue protested that today wasn’t enough of a special occasion–then I reminded myself that I bought the perfume to wear it, not to hoard it, and gladly spritzed some on.
Good thought – I have to remind myself of this frequently too.
You never know which day will be a special occasion…..sometimes till well after it’s
passed. 🙂
I went to a great Bonnie Raitt concert last night and got home late, so I am waking myself up with a double dose of caffeine this morning. SOTD in honor of the sunny and hot forecast is Chypre Mousse, my favorite green perfume.
Love Bonnie.
That is a very unique green perfume. I liked it, but I think I’d have to be in a specific mood for it.
Oh I like this one a lot. It starts out a little mean on me, but becomes lovely five minutes in and then lasts and lasts. You smell great!
Bonnie is one of the best.
How fun!
Apres l’Ondee for me, a little mismatch with the currently 76 degree weather outside. Adorable hubby, who stayed home to do some chores, had the gall to call me right before lunch and tell me it was too hot outside to work. I said, Well, then play honey! LOL.
Soon enough it will be 93 degrees and 98 % humidity in our little patch of temperate rainforest, and then it truly will be too hot to work.
I dread summer.
It was 28C here today! Way too soon for this kind of heat.
Eau des Merveilles for me. I tend to reach for this on Monday mornings, it seems. I love it to bits and am actually close to finishing the bottle which is unheard of at my house.
I was just thinking that I should wear Eau des Merveilles for my walk on the sea wall today. 🙂
Today I’m wearing Yves Rocher Neroli. I’m due to go to a convention in Houston tomorrow. I’m driving, and now I hear that there is flooding and road closures to deal with. Wish me luck.
Oh dear, good luck!
Hello from cloudy Birmingham, where a day of half-hearted administration means I’ll be working well into the evening (all my own fault of course). Is anyone else a star at their paid job but hopelessly ineffective at private admin?
This week I’m trying out perfumes that I think will have dome difficulty living up to their names. Today it’s Penhaligon’s “Endymion”. Endymion, according to the ancient scholar Googlius, was a shepherd so beautiful that the moon goddess Selene fell in love with him, and either he or she (it hardly matters which) requested that he be granted eternal sleep so he would always be so beautiful. And then they somehow and nevertheless contrived to have 55 children and he fought/ didn’t fight giants and he both lived forever and contrived to be buried in 2 different locations.
Endymion the fragrance lists notes of lavender, sage, coffee, incense – depending on your mood you could link the herbs to the mountain pastures, the incense to the divine goddess, and so on, which would be just great if this were, say, a Beaufort perfume and almost painfully faithful to its described notes. There are even reviewers on Fragrantica who claim to be able to smell these notes (mmm-hmm…) On my skin, I get dishwasher rinse aid (original not even lemon scented).
Pretentiousness score 3/5
Incongruity score 5/5 (I sincerely doubt Selene loved Endymion because he smelt like he’d been through the Eco cycle)
Perfume score 1/5 (unpleasant)
That sounds interesting, but it doesn’t seem to follow-through well.
I just think it’s funny that Penhaligon made a perfume based on a Sailor Moon character 😉 (Ok, so they really didn’t, but Usagi/ Sailor Moon’s boyfriend Mamo-chan/ Prince Endymion is all I can think of.)
Sounds awful but I enjoyed the laugh!
I love my Keep-It-Simple Mondays, especially the extremely rare ones that follow a wholly Simple weekend. For the first time in a very long time, we had no commitments, no events, no grandkids, nada, for the entire weekend, plus incredibly perfect June-like weather. Spent most of the weekend outside, alternating gardening, bird-watching, and reading in the swing. Simple grilled meals and salads and open windows! Pear trees and magnolias in my neighborhood are in full bloom, my forsythia is in its third week of bloom, and my daffys, tulips, and fragrant hyacinths are open to the sun and sky.
I’m keeping this going one more day with Anthousa Fig & Vetiver. Despite a myriad of notes listed, it’s light and crisp, then it’s juicy fig with a little bit of green. Will add some AG Ninfeo Mio later when Simple fades away . . .
Sounds lovely! We ran around like mad on Sat with chores and errands so we could have a lovely low key Sun. There is a lot of good bird watching right now since they are all jockeying for mates. Lots of different wood-peckers, birds of prey, etc. Watching my garden grow. My 8 yo finally got her wish to fly a kite. Lots of fun.
Which birds did you see? We’re having an invasion of bramlings. Gorgeous birds.
I saw some hairy woodpeckers struggling for territory around one of our large eastern hemlock trees. I love woodpeckers! (Last year I actually saw two pileated woodpeckers doing a courtship dance!) I saw some tufted titmouse, mourning doves, cardinals, lots of crows as per usual up here. And likely an immature bald eagle circling very high up. (We have bald eagle nesting sites about 30 miles from where I live and they migrate by our lakes in the spring and summer.) I did see a bird of prey in silhouette carrying something small right near my house in it’s beak above the trees, which was likely a sharp shinned hawk. I guess it was stealing nestlings. Before we bought the house, we lived near an open creek/bog and the birds were much better over there. We’d see migrating peregrine falcons, wood ducks, canada geese, red winged blackbirds, etc.
Love this virtual co bird watching. We have quite some woodpeckers too, the red/white ones, amazing how far their pecking noise travels isn’t it. We get the big black one which is rare in the Netherlands. How special to see a bald eagle, what a gift. I had to look up what cardinals are, we don’t get them. Spectacular! One of the more spectacular birds that visits our garden is the hawfinch.
Now I am looking up hawfinch. How pretty! We don’t normally have birds with such variation up here. I really enjoy bird watching. They are such amazing creatures.
Do you mean bramblings? I had to look that one up, hadn’t heard of it yet but I don’t think these visit the U.S.A. midwest, where I’m at.
We didn’t see any migrating birds here yet, which is surprising, as the first ones to arrive, without fail when our forsythias bloom, are the ruby crowned kinglets, and our forsythias have been in bloom for 3 weeks now with no sign of them. The cardinals that are here year round are nesting and sing continuously, and the male goldfinches are in full yellow glory. The white crowned and white throated sparrows are still here and join the chorus each day and, of course, the friendly robins wait patiently each day while we fill the birdbaths, seemingly just for them, and also wait patiently for us to rake out a new section of the yard and make it easy for them to get their dinner. We live not far from a park district lagoon, and the mallards were flying over our house yesterday. Each year, a pair of them visit my yard each day and nibble on the corn we put out for them. (My grandkids have named them Chuck [Duck] and his wife, Flower, and delight in their visits. I’m not sure how many generations of Chuck and Flower we’ve seen thus far). Chuck loves to sit in a large flowerpot saucer we fill with water. Poor Flower never gets a chance for a relaxing bath, she just waits patiently for her man to finish his toilette before they depart. It’s interesting to watch and listen to them converse – they come very near us when we’re in our covered swing – they say a few words to each other, simultaneiusly pivot in the same direction, test their wings a bit, then take off together. It’s a sight that never fails to make us smile!
Yes, I meant bramblings! I Dutch they are called ‘keep’ but we pronounce it as cape.
How strange your birds are late, I think ours if anything are a bit early. We get kinglets too, but they don’t migrate but stay year round, and ours have a yellow/black stripe instead of a ruby crown.
When I am late with putting birdfood out the robins come and sit close to the kitchen window and look at me. Patiently, but persistently!
Chuck and Flower were here last year, Flower made a nest. I am afraid her offspring did not last long (a fox?) and this year they looked for a safer place…
Great to read your watchings, thank you!
I love both your bird stories. I think the very warm winter has messed up with some of the bird movements this year. We can’t put out any bird seed because of the black bears, so I miss watching them congregate.
Fou d’Absinthe today. I bought this even though I have Nasomatto Absinth. I’m finding that looking down into drawers of perfume (at the tops of lids), rather than at eye level labels, hampers my recognition of what’s there. Can’t wait to get out of the hotel and reunited with my furniture! Material beast that I am.
Our weather continues to act like a yo-yo here, but since it’s supposed to continue to be warm and sunny for at least another couple of days I’m celebrating the actually-feels-like-springtime with as many lovely orange-blossomy, cheerful, or just plain *pretty* scents as possible. Today I’m in Thé Pour Un Eté, definitely one of my desert-island bottles.
AND: thanks to Mohur, Une Rose, and I suppose my fifteen years of experience in my field, I got the promotion I interviewed for last week! It all happened so fast; I feel like I tripped and fell into this one!
Congratulations Isabella. I hope that you are very happy and fulfilled in your new position.
Congrats!
Lovely, congrats!
Congratulations, Isabella! What perfume will join your collection in celebration of youf promotion?
Congrats to you!
Congratulations, good for u!
I will try to do misnamed fragrance week. It is subjective, as everything is when it comes to our impressions.
First up —
SOTD = Guerlain Cuir Beluga
The only thing that fits is “Guerlain”. Perhaps there’s a back story to the name but since I usually don’t pay attention to them anyway, I won’t bother looking. If you aee looking for leather based on the name, you will be waiting even after the cows come home. If you are looking for whale, well, I can only imagine how yucky a whale could smell and Guerlain would not subject us to THAT! What Cuir Beluga is is fluffy vanillic suede made more powdery by heliotrope. I debated about wearing it today as the temps are supposed to get to the 70s, or maybe even low 80s (too hot too soon), but for science, I’m wearing it. Let’s see how I feel later today when I have to be outside walking to Penn Station.
Is ambergris in this fragrance? Maybe that’s the whale connection… or it could be all smoke and mirrors on Guerlain’s part with the title.
There is amber in the notes list but I am willing to bet ir’s the smoke and mirrors type 🙂
suede caviar?
When I think caviar, I think salty but I cannot detect anything salty. “Beluga” sounds luxurious but that is covered by the brand IMHO.
I got it. The inspiration. I just remembered something from when my kids were toddlers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjUYAom5i4c
Cute! Thanks for sharing Baby Beluga!
When I tried it, I felt its true name should have been “Guerlain Crème Anglaise aux Bananes”. I did like it though, and will get a decant at some point. :^)
I hope you love it as much as I do. It is a comfort scent and one I would never want to be without even though it is not as versatile weatherwise as, let’s say, Chanel No. 19 EDP.
Aha! I am in the process of reorganizing my ton-o-samples and came across a sample of this that I didn’t know I had. I’m making notes on misnomers.
I should think that Le Labo will get a lot of wear on Friday.
Agreed although some are pretty true to the name — Cuir 28 as an example.
Some of the fresh greasy whale bones I sniffed at the museum had a buttery, burnt sugar, milky saltiness to them. And the ambergris also had that sweetness plus a sheep-shed urone/manure/ grass scent. The whale oil was more like cod liver oil. So, possibly beluga?
I don’t want to encounter ambergris in the wild…Give me synthetics any day 🙂
Good choice – totally misnamed. Does not smell like leather or ambergris to me.
Getting close to the end of the Penhaligon Lily & Spice cream, and layered it with a spritz of Guerlain Ylang & Vanille. The latter is usually a bedtime scent, but fortunately it’s not making me sleepy. I could have spritzed up a storm, as I have no officemates today, a most unusual circumstance.
Watching the Boston Marathon on TV this morning. I haven’t gone to watch at the sidelines in many years. Very inspiring that the winners mostly use their prize money to help people at home.
Yesterday I caved in to evil bay bidding and got a Chanel 19 EDP 50 ml refill for $35 and free shipping. Now I’m looking at an auction for just the silver case to put it in.
It’s such a beautiful soft fair weather day, I think I will enjoy En Passant, acquired in the last swap, today.
SCORE!!! I have one of those older No 19 and it smells divine!
Yup you can still get some really good deals on eBay. There were several Chanel 19 auctions expiring at the same time, so there was more of a chance to get one without too much of a bidding war. I found a silver case for ten bucks plus 6 for shipping so the whole thing will be just over 50 including shipping. Chanel 19 EDP is really my favorite of all the concentrations. I used to have a bottle of it in the silver case years ago and for some reason sold or swapped it, one of those regrettable mistakes.
I meant to say Chanel 19 EDT is my favorite, not so keen on the EDP for some reason.
WHOA. $35? Whattadeal!
I have an older No. 19 edt and it’s gorgeous. I love the edp, too.
I know, the older 19 s are really beautiful. I think it’s that creamy iris/oakmoss combo that is just the ticket.
I know I talk about scrubbers, but cannot recall actually ever scrubbing a scrubber beyond a soapy wash of my hands and wrists when I didn’t like something… but last night I sampled Lubin’s Akkad… I fell asleep thinking it had been a mistake. But when I woke up this morning I kept thinking I smelled unwashed hair. I finally realized the smell was me. Yuck. Jumped in the shower, which says a lot since I am girding myself for the gym…to be followed by another shower.
Spritzed a refreshing blast of Encre Noir on my wrists to erase all memory of the Akkad. Whew.
The trials and tribulations of a perfume addict.
Oh no! I wore that Friday night to a concert. I liked it but not FB worthy- I got mostly amber and incense. I hope no one around me got dirty hair! Although, the smell of pot in that little venue overwhelmed any other other possibilities.
I looked up the notes and am still mystified… But you probably smelled great and it is just my broken nose!
It’s been a long time since I’ve been haunted by a terrible scrubber. Yikes. I hope the Encre Noir solved your problem.
Oh no! I love Akkad, hehehe????
I’m consoling myself with Gris Montaigne post shower (second one). So I am doing alright!
Although I haven’t yet tried my Akkad sample on my skin, it smells “just my thing” so I hope it doesn’t turn out a scrubber. But I can believe it could be awful on another person, simply because some of the scents that are dull (or worse) on me work fabulously on others.
Let me know how it goes… !
Scrubbers are why I would never sample a perfume before going to work. There may have been 1 or 2 exceptions but only after intense sniffing on paper over several days.
I usually test first thing in the AM so I can shower afterwards and then apply my SOTD.
SOTD is Tom Ford Tobacco Vanilla from a small decant purchased on sale. Animal crackers, yeah. I bought a box of honey rabbits for my son yesterday, they kept him happy all the time we were shopping.
Pre-shower I wore some B Balenciaga that I received at the local meet-up and it was a lovely happy way to start the morning and play with the babe outside. Post workout/shower, I’m trying Oud Ispahan which I also got at the meet-up. I am really really enjoying this one now that it’s settling in.
Today is my 3 year wedding anniversary, so dinner tonight will call for something really special. Since I didn’t really wear perfume at my wedding (it was pre-perfumista days), I will probably wear Ne M’Oubliez Pas which has quickly sprung to the top of my favorite fragrance ever list.
Happy Anniversary!
Happy anniversary!
Happy Anniversary!
Have a wonderful anniversary! Ne M’Oubliez Pas will be such a wonderful scent for the occasion, too.
Have a wonderful day
Happy Anniversary! Have a lovely dinner!
Happy anniversary, and many more. 🙂
Happy Anniversary, Sun Mi!
thanks everyone! 🙂 it was lovely!
Beautiful, warm day here. SOTD is Laura Biagotti Roma. Citrus, incense, aromatic spices, and an am very/vanilla base. I’m really enjoying it but had to apply heavily to get some oomph and lasting power from it. Otherwise it’s pretty airy and fleeting. Will do well in the dog-days of summer, I think.
Hmmm, I don’t believe I’ve ever tried anything from this house! It sounds nice!
Wearing Papillon’s Angelique on this lovely spring day. This one’s name might be slightly off, but I really like it. Maybe a fierce but fashionable archangel?
I need to get my hands on these Papillon fragrances…
And a late reply to your question from yesterday: I have read the first book in the Southern Reach trilogy, but not sure I’ll read the other two. Vandermeer is masterful when it comes to creating the atmosphere, but I was frustrated by its vagueness. I can handle books that consist mostly of atmosphere and/or have an ambivalent ending, but I crave *some* explanation. I felt a bit the same about City of Saints and Madmen, but much less. Then again, it’s more than possible that I’m just not intelligent enough to decipher his cues.
No it is a book high on atmosphere and short on answers. Some of it gets worked out over the three volumes, but there are still mysteries. I tend to remember the feel of a book as much as the plot, it didn’t bother me, but I can see how it could.
I always remember the feel much better than the plot, in fact generally I do not mind books that don’t have much of a plot. But I think my need to make sense of things, to be analytical sometimes makes it difficult to enjoy books where no answers are forthcoming. This is not a critisism of Vandermeer, really, just an acknowledgement that not all styles fit all readers. And sometimes the difference between a book working or not working for you might be almost nothing and I wonder if I had been in a different mood… Anyway, I’m very glad Vandermeer exists and is read. Makes me feel better about the world.
Oh you smell wonderful. I love this and glad I have a FB!
SOTD is Airport. Waiting to board my plane to Las Vegas, then Austin, evil weather permitting. Nice to have NST to read while waiting. Could be reading work email, I suppose… Nah
Enjoy Austin! That’s were I grew up. It’s no longer a college town…????
Austin is soggy today but most of the bad weather should be past for now. In fact, it’s quite nice out if you can dodge the mosquitos. It is getting pretty steamy when the sun peaks out so if your hair tends to frizz, expect the worst.
Austin! Nice! I had been there for work once and for fun another time! The for fun visit was … more fun!
Wearing my sample of Back to Black which is so unlike the name as to be confusing. It’s very sweet and fluffy.
Ooh, animal crackers. I could really go for some of those.
SOTD is Elie Saab Le Parfum.
Have a good Monday, everyone.
Hey Creosote, I saw that gold butterfly clip at Sotheby’s! Surprisingly, given the No Touch protocol on a previous auction housee visit, I could have requested to touch, feel and mock try on any of the items on auction with likely the exception of the Shirley Temple ring. The paper clip was a no go for me.
Glad to hear the viewing was enjoyable. I imagine those items were stunning in person. Wow! I just nearly fainted at the thought of touching any of those things. Though I’d probably make it look something like this:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3vo4gzSabCk
Mitsouko for me today. I need a powerful perfume for a busy day. I took Monday off to have a long weekend away, and will consequently have a lot to catch up on at work.
Go well, Ms Gaynor. BTW, I love La Rose more and more with ever investigation. I think that very soon now, an enabler pin, with three stars and garter, will be on its way to Wellington.
Good morning again. I’ve decided to work at home today, and will alternate Uni stuff with housework, will potter out and have my hair pruned, and so on. My hair, short though it is, behaves like a wilful, uncooperative mop. Silences has drifted away now and I’m wearing Tom Ford Noir…love this. It puts me in mind of creamed butter and sugar and cocoa and vanilla. I’ll make the dear man some chocolate chippies today, I think.
Haircut twins! I am off to the hairdressers to read copies of 2012-2014 New Idea and Women’s Weekly while hoping that I won’t have to lie about how much I’m ‘loving’ my look…worst case scenario: Tilda Swinton is reinterpreted as Hilda Odgen. Have a happy day up there.
Curlers and scarf? Nah, not buying that for your look! Something chic, individual and interesting for you, I think, uncoloured but well- conditioned. My “style” is an all over chop, almost, but not quite, to bristles. Five weeks later, it starts producing curls, and we do it again. My hairdresser has Harper’s and the Dog and Lemon Guide. I suppose it’s a useful combination– if you can’t find a bag to lust after in Harper’s, you can spen a merry five minutes working out why you should simply NEVER have bought that Prius/Merc/Toyota Startle. Rather than read, I chat to people. The women are responsive; the men are surprised.
Chic!!! Thanks for the laugh.
I’m about to be Robin’s scent twin …. But not yet. I have to wait until 9am so I can drive to the courier depot to collect my bottle of Monsieur Li, a blind buy. Have to say that my purchase was influenced by Robin’s review but also because the name reminded me of the title of Philippe Claudel’s novel Monsieur Linh, so I kind of have that in mind, too.
Oh no, hope you will like it or I will feel bad!
SO DISAPPOINTED. Can’t believe it. I went racing off to collect Monsieur Li from a South Dunedin warehouse…thoughts of wistful beauty (and all that) and was handed a parcel from Durable Medical Equipment containing a thick red rubber tube ( reminscent of a Soviet sex toy) that’s going to cure my tennis elbow (enabler pin Nozknoz! Cheers!). What is wrong with this world??? This is like the time my mother took me to a record shop as a special treat after my first eye operation (I was five) and promised I could buy the album of my choice….only to persuade me that Dr Seuss stories would not be nearly as much fun as a double album of traditional English sea shanties. Sobs.
The good news is that it means you will experience the joy of receiving Monsieur Li!
LOL!!!
SOTD Ateliers des Ors Rose Omeyyade. It’s a very pretty rose-oud scent, but the question is, do I need any more rose/oud scents since I already own several (Rose Nacree du Desert, Epic, Gucci Oud, SHL Oumma). I think I like it better than the By Killian Rose Oud though and the bottle is quite pretty!
Sampling Histoires de Parfum 1826. I used my Sephora VIB discount on samplers this time. I’m finding this one pleasant if not terribly exciting.