And another week begins. Hope everyone had a great weekend! What fragrance are you wearing?
I'm barely awake in Marni Rose.
Reminder: on 5/20 we're doing The Art of the Understatement. (suggested by Anniky, and you can interpret that howsoever you like)
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.
Note: shown is the Marni Resin Bracelet in Lilac, $330 at ShopBop.
Wow, first one out, I think? 🙂 Scary. Hope you all have a nice week!
Starting out with Chanel No.19 edp, lovely!
Here we have had some holidays, and tomorrow we have our national day which means good food, fun tv, and some noise and great spectacle 🙂
You smell lovely! Enjoy the holiday.
I’ve recently realized my life is woefully short of celebration. Enjoy!
Annick Goutal Grand Amour – not particularly understated but a spring favorite. Hope everyone had a good weekend.
I’m understated but don’t know if I’ll manage it all week 🙂
I’ve been reaching for Prada Infusion d’Iris edp the past few days. It’s very easy to wear–exactly what I’ve needed after a challenging week.
You smell great. That’s a very easy scent to wear.
True. Sometimes I need to set aside the challenging perfumes and go for easy!
Lovely, easy to wear and understated- perfect!
I’m in the Absolu version, which nicely melds with the skin.
Sampling Angeliques Sous La Pluie which has a lively refreshing bitter greenness to it. What else would people recommend with a good angelica note?
The one that comes to my mind is Annick Goutal Nuit Etoile, an interesting spicy/citrus/pine perfume. I’m not sure that I can pick out the angelica myself, because I’m not familiar with it, but it does list angelica and I’ve read that the note is prominent in this fragrance.
Papilons Angelique. I can send you a sample if you would like marianna_r in yahhhhoooooo
I’m in Tommi Sooni Passerelle and am devastated that Tommi Sooni seems to have disappeared from the face of the planet! Jinx, TS 2, Tarantula and Passerelle (esp Passerelle) are amazing fragrances. I guess this half bottle is all that remains for me…. so sad….I’m planning to wear it a lot this spring, it’s such a joyful floral. Does anyone know what happened?
I assume he did not sell enough? But just guessing. It’s not an easy business to break into.
Just looked him up- Australian perfumer? I think personal care brand ANYTHING is a tough business to break into and be able to sell sustainable amounts, and being from the Antipodes has to be TRIPLE tough!
Yes, Aussie perfume brand. The quality and scents were stellar!!! So sad. I thought they would make it. Luckyscent carried them and Henri Bendel too in the US. The style of the fragrances were my personal favorite – what I call classic moderns. Classically styled yet modern.
I’m afraid understatement is not my thing in fragrances, besides I’ve just received my sampler of les Parfums de Rosine, so my SOTD is Les Secrets de Rose. It’s lovely.
ditto. understated is not interesting to me. I don’t need over the top, but I need there to be ‘something compelling there.’
I have to agree! I don’t want to offend anyone but I do love getting whiffs of my SOTD.
Guys, Friday projects are not obligatory! Nobody should ever have to apologize or explain why they’re not participating. If it’s fun, do it, if it’s not, don’t 🙂
Jumping in on the “understatement? what’s that?” school of perfume-wearing. But I think I might have just the thing for Friday…
Yep, understatement is not my thing either. I’ll try to convey the concept in my own way, which means perfumes that can be smelled through the day but feel somehow austere os streamlined.
Yes, I love ‘understated’ perfumes and I can smell the vast majority through the working day. But they don’t walk into the room before I do and they’re not heavily sweet or spicy, or dramatically floral.
Having said that I’ve now overapplied Milano Caffe. Top stuff and I do need a bottle.
Monday already. Just 8 more school days left, so that’s awesome news. Considering my middle schooler missed her bus (and Daddy had to run home to get her), and my high schooler hasn’t turned in some algebra assignments, putting her grade at risk…..I’ve decided it’s gonna be a GOOD day anyway!!!!! 🙂
SOTD: Jo Malone Blue Agava and Cacao. Cozy scent on a somewhat chilly day!
Yummy scent. You smell great!
My favorite JM!
You smell like a great hug! And it’s gonna be a great day!
I’m in Journey Woman. It’s brisk out, but sunny, which is nice. We’ve barely seen the sun at all this spring.
Dragging today horribly, but Mondays do tend to go by fast.
Hope everyone has a good week.
And looks like we won’t see much more sun this week! This has been the worst May ever.
It’s ridiculous! It was SO COLD yesterday after Saturday was so nice! Really not a fan of this crazy weather we’ve had.
You smell gorgeous.
Laid low with a disgusting cold and all I can smell are base notes, so I’m at home wearing probably too much Trouble by Boucheron, which really never was anything except the base notes anyway, root-beery vanilla and amber.
Feel better!
Hope you feel better soon. Sometimes, the base notes are the best things about a perfume.
Read, sleep, and hydrate! In whatver order works best for you. And I hope you feel much better soon.
But now I am thinking of what the notes would be for a fragrance called, ‘Too Much Trouble” 🙂
Feel better soon!
Woke up on the wrong side of the bed. Actually, went to bed PO’ed. Find out that my female dog had peed on my bed and she was outside for 30 minute not even 10 minutes before. So, it took a while to change my sheets because the younger dog was going between wanting to “help” and just lay on my bed. My mother and I had planned to do running around yesterday and somethings were getting important but in addition to taking to rambunctious Labs to the vet, we have to add thyroid medicine getting, dishwasher picking out, and other things. I thing after my shower, I will wear Miss Dior.
Ugh. Hope the day gets better for you!
UGH. Remember to breathe, that the dog really did not mean anything, and have a really nice drink after your errands.
Man, that’s a lot on your plate. I hope you’re over the worst of today.
Oh that’s bad. I hope the day gets much better!
Cartier Eau de Cartier Zeste de Soleil. A great wake up for a Monday. I haven’t decided what to spray after if fades. Maybe some Hermes Eau d’Orange Verte to keep the citrus vibe going.
I am drinking some middle of the road Ceylon blend.
Nice mix all around!
SOTD is FM Vetiver Extraordinaire from my 10ml travel spray. It seems to be disappearing at an alarming rate…
Apropos to nothing, Friday I decided to take the plunge and try lash extensions. I have hooded, deep set eyes and the older I get, the faster things fall. I have constant problems with mascara transfer due to eye shape, short lashes, and heat/humidity. I’ve had 4 surgeries in my right eye and I’m paranoid about potential eye infections from contaminated eye make-up products. So I found an esthetician who also is a fellow RN (trying to get out of nursing- no surprise there!) and she did a bang up job for about half the going price. I absolutely love them! Does anyone have any hints/experience with this?
It’s Monday- Boo! But I’m off today-Yay! Plus, I smell great and have beautiful fluttery lashes????????????
Hope everyone has a great beginning to the work week✌????️
Fluttery eyelashes are fun and you smell great!
They ARE fun and thanks! I love Vetiver Extrodinaire! It has a strange duality of being bracing and soothing at the same time.
No experience with lash extensions, but I also have hooded, deep set eyes, and have eyelid primer changed my relationship to eye makeup. Get thee some, immediately! It’s wonderful.
Another vote for primer. Changed my life.
I have tried eye primer but I rarely wear anything other than mascara because eyeshadow just doesn’t show with my eye shape. It didn’t prevent mascara transfer and in fact, seemed to make it worse, strangely. As I age, I’m finding it best to delineate my brows, eyes, and lips with minimal neutral colors and use a very light hand. Thanks for the suggestion!
Eyelid primer is a gift from the gods!
I had my eyelids lifted when I was 54
Perfect birthday gift to myself.
Made a great, but subtle difference.
A friend has been undergoing surgery and eyelash extensions made her feel more feminine. She looks like an anime character, too cute! BTW, any suggestions for eyelid primer? The much-vaunted Urban Decay didn’t help at all and was expensive to boot.
MAC has an eye primer that’s really good. Very long lasting and silicone based so it helps smooth the eyelid if you happen to have crepey eyelids. I forget the name but it come is a small black squeeze tube. ???? I bet your friend is cute as a button!
Did you use the original Urban Decay primer or one of the tinted/shimmery ones? I found, at least when they first introduced the other ones, that they didn’t work half as well as the original, which is the HG in my experience. But I second Deva’s MAC suggestion: as a general rule, their product performance can’t be beat.
I like Nars and Smashbox primers.
The extensions sound great Deva, but I’ve always wondered how long they last (as the real lashes grow out). Let us know!
I have an appointment for a “fill” in 3 weeks. We shall see how they last. My biggest concern is spin class- there’s a whole lotta sweating going on in there, which apparently can wreck havoc on the bonding agent used. Time will tell????
At home sick today……not able to go into work. I assume that once I get up today and start getting myself together, I will probably wear something light. Maybe a light body spritz. I have some VS Pink : Fresh and Clean body spritz that I will probably use. Hopefully I will feel better tomorrow and be able to handle something stronger.
Feel better soon!
Take good care of yourself!
Get better!
Hope you feel better soon!
Alahiiiiine
Sorry to vent: I have TMJ and I am pretty sure last night I was grinding my teeth which I haven’t done for years and years, now this morning my whole jaw aches and I can’t chew. I slept maybe 3 hours last night and then woke up in pain and put some ice but that didn’t help. Sorry to go on and on..I know there are more important things happening in the world then my stupid TMJ
I wear a night guard for the same thing, it’s very helpful.
My husband wears a night guard every night for the same reason. I hope that you feel better!
Night guard wearer here too. Not TMJ, but I grind in my sleep and as a result have lost two upper molars to cracks.
same here! I’m a grinder (clench-er mostly) and wear a night guard to protect my teeth. before I realized I was doing this I had lost 2 molars due to cracks as well. another downside is that I have so many cracks in my teeth (teensy tiny cracks you can’t see) that I can’t do any heavy duty whitening/bleaching since the pain would be unbearable. So I’m miffed that I can’t whiten! The vanity, you know….
Wait, are you me? I have the exact same problem. And yes, my vanity suffers too. 🙁
Too bad you’re not in my area– I do quite a bit of massage on people who have TMJ issues
Come to NY
I was able to find an appointment for someone who does cranial sacral therapy massage today- hope it helps
The night guard won’t prevent you from grinding, but it will protect your teeth from cracking. After my first (and so far only) root canal due to a hairline crack in one of my molars, I’ve faithfully worn my night guard and so far, so good. (Says the wife of a dentist.) 😉
oh, yes, I definitely still grind/clench as the condition of my night guard attests! I tear up the thing and have to replace every 1-2 years.
That is the worst. I am so sorry.
My chiropractor used to adjust my TMJ after he did my neck and back. After a few adjustments I learned to do it myself. It only involves pressing the heels of my hands against the joint of my jaws and opening/closing slowly. Might be worth learning to do yourself. Feel better.
I’m probably going to get a night guard. I just went to a new dentist and he’s the first to tell me I grind my teeth, which I wasn’t aware that I did. I do wake up with a stiff jaw occasionally. My mother had very painful TMJ. Hope your pain is better now.
That’s a bummer–don’t apologize for venting! Hope the pain goes away soon!
Ex Nihilo Oud Vendome. I wasn’t planning on starting the understatement project, but this qualifies. I’m straining to get oud- mostly spice and musk. Very elevator friendly.
Where’s the oud? I don’t recall trying this and I’m thinking I probably won’t! Today, I smelled Angel in the wild on my walk back to Penn station… I can’t imagine being in the same elevtor with that person (hee, when I wear my Angel Muse to the office, I hope to have perfected the art of just enough Angel).
Have you tried others by this house? I am debating if I should get the samples – the reviews are generally positive….
SOTD is Jour d’Hermes, which on me fits “understated” to a T. Very light and lovely grapefruit-over-woods, with light and lovely flowers to follow in a bit. I have a mostly-full bottle of vintage Ivoire EDT coming today, and am looking forward to trying that this evening.
I have a feeling Hermes will get a lot of air time this week 😉
Jungle Gardenia by Tuvaché today. Sweet cool buttery petals.
I’m always happy when I find a tester of JG and get to spritz down memory lane.
I once had a mini of Jungle Jasmine and it was rather diapery. I like this one better.
Grey Vetiver (Tom Ford). 🙂
What’s this one like?
A nice crisp vetiver. I prefer it to the Guerlain.
Oh I will have to try it! Thanks.
It is very cold and windy here in Montreal, we actually had snow flurries last night and this morning. So I took advantage and sprayed on a nuclear dose of A*men. The opposite of understatement. 🙂
Ugh, snow… It’s been going down to the 40s at night in my area. I’m anxious to plant my garden but I guess it’ll have to wait.
UGH ( I am saying this alot this morning).
Sometimes it does snow in April, but come on, in May?
Currently reading Last Night in Montreal by Emily St. Mandel who is the author of my favorite book of the year, Station Eleven. I’m about 2/3 through Last Night in Montreal which is interesting and quirky. Wondering if there’s been any buzz in Montreal about it.
author is actually Emily St. John Mandel
Oh is this a new one? I loved Station Eleven.
I loved Station Eleven; I’ll have to be on the lookout for this one.
Haven’t heard about it, will see if I can track it down.
This weather stinks – and not in a good way.
Have you tried A*Men Tonka?
Yes, it was okay but not really my thing, too much sweet wood smell. I like Feve Delicieuse and Tonka Imperiale better.
I agree with Austenfan. I like to enjoy my SOTD. Hopefully, not like a nuclear mushroom cloud. 🙂 I’ll have to really think about the Friday project. I’m sure that I can come up with something.
My SOTD is Sballo. A smear of the oil with two sprays of the EDP. Definitely not understated.
I asked a co-worker if she could smell my scent. She confirmed that she can’t smell my scent yet I can. Yay!
Sballo is beautiful 🙂
I’m on a bus en route to Philly, wearing some Box of Eels, and thank goodness since it’s counteracting the guy who decided the bathroom needed some freshening up with Axe.
🙂 Ha!
Maybe Axe is better than the alternative 😉 !
🙂
Just got news over the weekend that West Point did NOT receive the $400 cashier’s check and 5 pages of doctor-signed and/or notarized permission forms for Gaze to attend summer leadership that I sent priority mail a month ago. Apologies to any USPS employees here, but ever since our somewhat-local sorting facility was closed two years ago and all USPS sorting goes 300 miles away, the mail service has become so, so unreliable. GAH. And wouldn’t you know it, I have somehow lost the priority mail receipt… (I did all the forms online for the Air Force Academy and the Naval Academy; the USNA accepted a credit card payment online but I had to send the AFA a cashier’s check expedited. I don’t know why the USMA has to be so much more difficult.)
The bank will stop payment on the check if I go in and fill out a bunch of forms, so I’m off to redo the whole thing and send the packet FedEx. GAH.
Apres l’Ondee is keeping me from killing anybody today. 😀
I have had more issues with the USPS in the last year than ever before. I feel your pain. And you do wonder why they can’t all accept credit card payments these days.
I know the USPS is facing serious budget cuts and losing personnel, but the less reliable they are, the less I use them. It’s a vicious cycle.
It is a vicious cycle. FWIW IMO, that’s precisely the desired effect of some interest groups.
THIS!
They returned my IRS refund as “undeliverable” twice this year and tried to say I had initiated the return. Because, obviously I adore spending hours on hold with the IRS and then being told by a recording to try my call tomorrow when they might not be busy. The USPS would not admit that they might have put it in the wrong box/just screwed up. Apparently, they “have safeguards in place to prevent mis-deliveries,” and I must be imagining all those important pieces of other folks’ mail I receive. Being told that my complaints “seem grossly exaggerated” does not make me want give them my business.
I’m so sorry you’re dealing with this. When I’m in the city and can conveniently do so, I suck it up and spend the extra time and money to send things via FedEx. They aren’t perfect either but sure beat the postal service and UPS for customer service (of course, everybody beats UPS for customer service).
OMG. I am so sorry and truly feeling your pain–I was on with Verizon last night ’til 11:15 addressing a similarly byzantine problem that has been going on since, no kidding, August 6, 2015.
Oh no. That’s 9 MONTHS. You could’ve had a baby by now. 😉
I’m afraid at this point it’s really too late for anything to save my marriage to Verizon 😉
So frustrating. I hope it isn’t too late for the application to go in.
Well, it’s the “I promise not to sue the academy, I have insurance, my doctor says I’m fit, you can have me treated for any injury I sustain, and here’s my check.” paperwork for the 1-week summer session. I managed to get it sent FedEx overnight to meet the extended deadline. Fee, $30. Relief, priceless.
The USPS has been terrible here in the last year; I believe it’s due to the dreaded “cost-cutting” measures which are also “service-cutting” measures. 🙁 You know it’s bad when your city does a media blast asking that when its citizens get someone else’s mail that they either give it to its intended recipient or ask the post office to deliver it correctly.
Whoa! Where is this?
Florida. The answer is always Florida. 😉
OH LORD. We are far enough out in the country that our mailbox was half a mile from the house… things got better when we got a PO box, but I can’t guarantee that stuff I send in the mail actually will get to where it’s addressed.
I once returned something…gah… cannot remember what it was but it was some faulty electronic thingy doodad, and I LOST the mailing receipt as well. And of course the item went astray, etc. etc. I was furious at everyone at USPS, but mostly I was furious at myself. About 4 months later the item got delivered…! I always wonder where it went…
That is a (sadly) familiar story. Sometimes they show up very late… and sometimes not at all. 🙁
And I’m sitting here fuming, in a bad way, about Paychex, which handles payroll and FSA claims for my employer. Paychex is the ultimate in antediluvian business cultures and capable of driving an otherwise sane and healthy individual into a frenzied state of rage. Aargh!!
Oh dear. I hope that all gets/got sorted out for you!
My horror story: Just 4 days or so before I was to leave the US for a degree program in the UK, I learned that my loan application had gotten lost somewhere and never made it to my university!! I nearly died. (I should mention that otherwise the USPS and Royal Mail would regularly deliver letters and packages in only 4 business days, which is pretty awesome considering the distance.)
Oh no. I’d have been throwing up nonstop in sheer panic. (Hope it all worked out…)
Regularly four days? Wow.
It turned out OK, but sooo much panic! I called the uni, and the financial aid guy was like, “Don’t worry, I’ve got people who haven’t sent theirs in yet”!! (He had me just sent a new one with a cover note.) What was really funny was that I ended up getting like 2/3 of the way through my degree before the uni got paid, because my check was in a batch that didn’t get sent over until around the third term!!
Yeah, if my mom sent mailed me something on a Thursday or Friday, I’d usually have it by Tuesday!
It snowed yesterday a bit and chilly this morning. Bvlgari Omnia… A comfort scent and somehow I ended up with two bottles so I can spray with abandon as it is pretty soft on me.
That’s a great scent and very long lasting, at least on me. You smell great!
One of my favorites! It seems unknown outside the perfume circle and I always feel as if this one is so unique.
Chanel No 5 parfum
Lovely.
Oh yes.
very beautiful!
Day 4 for Aroma M vanilla& hinoki. I did buy this blind and was expecting a fairly linear experience. But it’s staying power, and ability to give off fresh bursts and it’s NOT sweet vanilla are just wonderful.
I cannot say it smells quite like any onsen experience I have had in Japan, but it is delightful none the less and I will probably wear it a lot this summer.
DAY 4!! Respect ????
I just got a free sample and was happily surprised. It won’t last long!
This is on my short list. I have a $20 Twisted Lily coupon burning a hole in my pocket.
Yeah it is making it on mine as well if you are interested in splits 🙂
I just ordered it too, it is well done. Go for it hajusuuri! 🙂
I’m wearing Voyage d’Hermes and keeping a woody floral musk vibe going after yesterday’s Versense. I wish I had more of this group of fragrances.
I will attempt to do an understated fragrance week. An interpretation of this theme is any fragrance that gives me a “Speak softly and carry a big stick” feeling.
First up:
SOTD = Hermes Kelly Caleche EDP
Quiet rose and leather. I picture someone relatively reticent but has deep thoughts. Whenever he or she speaks up, you pay attention.
Perfect 🙂
So I have my one picked out for Friday. I am having a hard time deciding which ones I consider understated for Tuesday to Thursday!
Excellent interpretation. 🙂
Thanks! That’s the beauty of the Community Projects — interpret it your own way or do the opposite.;-)
You are right. With so many cool sunny days, it is Kelly Caleche weather!
I’m liking the cooler weather and I have more choices!
Ah, this may be a good pick for me on Friday. Or Infusion d’Iris.
You’ve given me an idea, mals!
You smell great!
Why thank you!
Perfect choice! It was great fun to hang out with you on Saturday. Hope you are enjoying your finds!
I had a lovely time, jepster! I wore Angel Mise yesterday and will need to break out the Azuree shortly!
Mmm, great choice! I need to get another bottle of this one.
I think I might take this week as an opportunity to go through my soliflores. Today, it’s the Dame Rose de Mai, which I enjoy a lot.
Dame’s soliflores are a good choice. I think many of his scents are very soft and the Rose de Mai is really pretty.
Surprisingly cold here today, so Vetiver Tonka it is.
I refused to wear my Costco special down coat even though it was cold enough for it!
Oh, I have that coat in 2 colors. It’s great. But you are right- not in May!!
I’m getting a 2nd one next season!
We are almost twins! My hand made a beeline for VT, then did an abrupt turn and grabbed FM VE instead. You smell great????
SOTD Cuir d’Ange. I don’t think I have any ‘statement’ perfumes (I love Ellena, Heeley, vetiver etc) so this will be a great week for me.
Perfect, I might wear that tomorrow.
Une Fleur de Cassie. It may qualify as a understated statement? Anyway it is lovely and I am very happy I have it in my collection.
The last time I wore this (from a decant) I got skank and did not like it. I will try again from my manufacturer’s travel spray.
Hajusuuri I think I have the reformulated version, no skank, at least not to my nose, I think I read somewhere it is less of an acquired taste since its reformulation. It reminds me very much of Dyptique’s Essences Insensees 2014. Happy to send you a sample.
I had a travel spray bought in I think January this year but it was much too skanky/ indolic for me. It might be a skin thing combined with a low skank threshold. I wonder what the old version was like!
I have really low skank threshhold as well!
Thanks for the offer; however. I think the reformulation explains the skank no skank. My little decant sample was from at least two years ago while my travel atomizers were from last year. I’ll have to do the skank test when I know I can scrub it off and not be stuck for the whole day.
Happy Monday!
1) Very nice weekend in Seattle! We were sunny all week in the PNW, and then just in time for Saturday- grey clouds and a bit of rain. But only a bit, and views were rather clear.
2) In my 20s, I was into a fad diet movement called raw vegan, in which you eat fruit, vegetables, seeds and nuts not heated above 118F degrees. It was pretty intense! One of the gurus that I followed, Sarma Melgailis, was just arrested for fraud after absconding with almost $2 million cash. How was she found? By ordering a Domino’s pizza.
3) SOTD: Chilly morning, so am wearing Tom Ford Noir Pour femme. Not understated, but very cozy and comforting and sexy.
#2 made me laugh out loud! I LOVE Domino’s Pizza!
I know! The crust is so salty and greasy but in a good way? And they do vegan pizza if you ask! 😀
One of the problems with very restrictive diets… Eventually you just want a pizza.
I just read an article in the WSJ about the Biggest Losers. Researchers did a follow-up 6 years after the contestants losr all that weight. The majority of them gained back most of what they lost AND their metabolism also slowed down. The only one whose weight is now lower than at the end of the contest had stomach reduction surgery to be able to do that.
Man that article was a rough read.
I read that article, and there is a more in depth one in NYT. It was a very whack way for me to stay slim while claiming health benefits. Eventually you want something warm, darn it, and pizza just fits the bill! 😀
The NYT article was still in my car post-roadtrip.
The article author, neuroscientist Sandra Aamodt, wrote a book titled “Why Diets Make Us Fat: The Unintended Consequences of Our Obsession With Weight Loss.”
You know what? I read it in the NYT and not WSJ. The WSJ article was about fevers!
I read the NYT version and told my doctor that every woman I knew could have confirmed the article’s truth.
Oh yes!
That NYT article about the follow-up with the “biggest losers” re-affirms my opinion that fast weight loss is pointless. It has to be slow, steady, small changes to make the difference over time.
I was astonished at the amount of exercise the contestants were required to do in the four month period at home and how low-calorie their diets were. That small a calorie count is already known to reduce metabolism. Not surprised that their leptin gets messed up as well.
Neither that level of exercise nor that small a calorie intake is possible to maintain over time.
Sad to think that people are, in essence, being abused by reality TV.
Also sad that so little is medically known about how to help people succeed. /rant over
I have personal testimony that steady, slow weight loss really is key to keeping a good weight throughout life. I have seen relatives slowly go down, and at first they were frustrated, but they eat regular smallish amounts and exercise no more than maybe an hour a day, and have kept off their excess for decades now.
And After watching a few episodes over the years, my conclusion is not so much that it is a reality show, but a game show in a reality show format. Those people on the show are really hoping to win money and lose weight.
We were just talking about that case and how they never payed their employees claiming huge overhead and other such nonsense. Were they closet vegetarians? 😉
Well, given how PF&W and Sarma herself touted being super plant based all day erryday, and to always have high quality ingredients in your pantry ALL the time, the ordering of a mass market pizza is just amazing!
Having served my time in vegan cafes as a prep cook and server, I can safely say that overhead for fresh veggies and fruit can be quite high, and the technique deployed by PF&W is very time consuming. That said, the margin on the products was INCREDIBLY high, and there are real business savings to be realized when only deploying blenders, refrigerators and dehydrators. There was no reason for the employees to be stiffed and business to have shut it’s doors- other than Sarma and her spouse stealing cash, that is!
I almost spewed the broccoli I am in the midst of eating 🙂
Ha-hah! 😀
Oh wow, I remember that diet fad. I never followed it because I thought it was whack, but that’s a hilarious story. I don’t know Sarma, but I remember seeing something in the news about the diet and there was this very hippy looking dude (living in CA of course) and doing yoga while being interviewed about how great the raw diet is, etc…. and all I could think was: HELL NO.
It WAS wack! But it really did make people super healthy while eating bushels of greens. At the higher level, there is a lot of Modernist cooking/prepping techniques involved, so it can be really fun.
However, you got a lot of funky folks like the yoga gentleman, who also came with some very interesting views on natural hygiene, pedagogy and other views. And it was a way to hide eating disorders. Sigh.
Years ago I worked with a woman who was/is a raw food chef–I think she has her own business now. She literally glowed with health (also was/is a yoga instructor). I admired her independence in taking such a path in life, but I also found her frequent need to proselytize a little wearisome. I think it is those who spend so much time telling others to be like them, whose falls from grace are so hard not to watch.
You are very thoughtful and wise. And i think that it is also the very nature of discovering the person who you thought you knew is in fact someone different!
If you would care to read the entire story, it’s on The Brooklyn Eagle, where the Head DA for Brooklyn and his team pieced together the whole sad affair.
Weirdly in way, I am so glad I am wearing a fragrance that has notes of kulfi! 😀
#2: ???? It’s the stuff of a Daily Show ‘Moment of Zen’.
Oh god, it really is!
Scent siblings today, Robin. Wearing Marni, apropos after my love haiku to Marni this past weekend.
Marni is so pretty!
Hey (almost) twin!
It’s been varying degrees of rainy all weekend and today, so I’m the opposite of understatement in Coromandel.
You’re smelling great! That would have better suited the weather here today.
Scent twin and for similar reason!
Im at my nieces graduation in Colorado Springs. She graduated cum laude with a degree in creative writing, and landed a job here in CS, working for NPR. I’m so proud of her!
I’m in vintage Diorissimo edt with a few spritzes of PdN LTdF.
Wow! She’s living the life I was meant to! What a great start and many congrats to her, plus Colorado Springs is just a beautiful place to live. Never smelled vintage anything, but quite sure you’re wafting some shockingly beautiful sillage ????
No joke. I’ve been thinking about what I would rather be doing. I don’t totally regret my career choice as I’ve been able to support myself in NYC since 1993. But it’s never too late to switch gears, I suppose. It’s taking that risk, though…
And thanks! It’s so cold and rainy that I can’t smell myself. CS is really nice. We took a little hike in Garden of the Gods which has some really beautiful red rock formations.
Congratulations to the niece!
Thanks, hajusuuri!
She is living the BEST life! Congrats!
Ah, to be 22 and care free. It is the life!
Send her our congratulations, how wonderful for her!
Thanks SicilianaNC!
Congrats to your niece – and I’ve never layered Diorissimo with LTdF, but I bet you smell awesome!
Thanks, Mals! The PdN was an afterthought because the Diorissimo doesn’t last long on me. The layering combo is nice and what I wanted Odalisque to smell like.
Congratulations to your niece Elisa. It seems like she gives you a lot of reasons to be proud.
Thanks, Petunia! I might be biased, but I think she’s a really great young woman.
Envy isn’t an attractive characteristic, but I’m afraid I’ve fallen. The life I might have wished for. I congratulate you and your brilliant niece and wish her even more happiness.
Her mother, her mom’s sister, and I are all RNs and her father(my brother) was an MD. I’m kind of glad she found something that grabs her, rather than just what was familiar-and I’m by no means knocking the medical progressions.
You are so right, and congratulations for your niece. Good for her for having found something that she enjoys doing!
Fantastic! Congratulations.
Wearing Eau Mage today…
Musk, spice and rose…not like most of Diptyque’s stuff I would argue. Quite nice.
Sleepy weekend with friends in the woods and now I am staying out here by myself for a couple of weeks. It’s a little tricky since I don’t drive, but my person and friends are here on weekends so I can stock up on food. After a lousy school year, I crave quiet and days to do nothing but read. Finally here and just wish the sun was out and I was outside. Later this week. Wearing the traces of Mito I put on yesterday.
Sounds lovely. Enjoy your quiet days.
Sounds blissful.
Oh, that setting sounds heavenly to me! Here’s to hoping nature and solitude “reset your clock,” so to speak????????????
Enjoy your week Amy. It does sound heavenly as long as you have hot water to shower. Obviously, I’m not a good camper.
I am so not a camper Petunia! I not only have a hot shower, but a pool. Spoiled by kind friends. And now the sun is out!
That’s my kind of camping, too. Hope you enjoy your “me” time!
I am wearing Joop! Homme. Not because I wanted to but because I accidentally knocked over a boxed set of it at Marshalls and it wasn’t until I picked up the box, that I realized the contents had shattered. Both hands SOAKED. I may have them amputated because I cannot take the fumes.
Oh no! Scrub, scrub, scrub!
Hypnotic Poison. Nuclear yet understated in its cozy simplicity.
(Can’t do really understated frags. I want to be able to smell my perfume.)
“Nuclear yet understated” ????
🙂
When temps were in the upper 80’s here I swapped out the winter comforter for the summer-weight one. Last night I was freezing but afraid if I got out of bed for another blanket I’d get even colder. I’m bundled up this morning like Nanook of the North and wearing large amounts of Un Bois Vanille.
It was chilly last night in Beaverton and I had to fetch my down comforter from the closet! I feel you!
But you smell very cosy indeed!
Ha ha, I felt the same. Thankfully my husband brought me a blanket. 42 in Raleigh, NC!
Hey, you smell great! And being all snugged up and toasty on a cold day is the way to work it????
I did the same thing recently, swapped out the winter comforter for the summer-weight quilt. Was really sorry last night!
I was really glad to have my electric mattress pad last night. So nice to get into a warm bed on a cold night.
Cuir Cannage. I dismissed this after testing it a couple of times, but I’ve recently come around to liking it. I think it would work really well as a warm weather leather scent – it smells like a very elegant purse with a whimsical hint of Tinker Bell. I’m reminded of playing dress-up, and what’s not to like about that? 😉
I’ve smelled it a couple of times and found it really nice, an easy-to-wear leather.
It’s very, very pretty, almost dainty sort of leather fragrance. It’s perfectly understated, yet has a good solid presence.
All my friends in the midwest have been shivering, but here is nearly summer with the humidity intensifying and the A/C going strong, so I brought out my bottle of PdN Eau d’ete. Perfect! And now that I think about it, understated.
I love that one–I’m waiting for warmer weather to wear mine.
I’m late to the SOTD today and had completely forgotten I suggested this theme… Anyone who knows me (or follows my perfume choices) is also aware that understatement isn’t really my thing. It’s going to be quite a chellenge for me to come up with something 🙂 That said, I always find it interesting to try to go against my type, but in a way that is still ‘me’. What I like about the Friday projects is that there are some parameters, but one is free to interpret them any way one wants – maybe subverting the theme or using it as motivation to wear something different from the usual, or ignoring it entirely. I often find boundaries are good for creativity and innovation.
In keeping with the theme of the week, I’m not wearing anything, because my daughter has sprayed Shalimar all over the house and that is quite enough of scent.
I once returned home from work to smell perfume in the stairway, but nothing I recognized. It got really oppressive as I reached our apt. When I asked my daughter (then 10) what it was, she said “Oh, well I tried one of your perfumes. Then I was curious about the next one, and, well, I couldn’t stop. So I tried them all.” Similar to the day she tried to make pancakes – frying them in butter. 10 was a dangerous age.
🙂 Mine is seven. I’m fine with her spraying my perfumes, but I just cannot get over the fact that she picked Shalimar…
Perspective comes with age. 🙂
Ah, life with kids. 🙂
Well, this just goes to show your daughter has clearly inherited your good taste, no? ????
Let’s hope you’re right about us both.
Forgot the happy face 🙂
Tokyo Bloom arrived on Friday, Annikky, and I love it. Perfect for spring and summer when I crave green, but light grassy green rather than the darker oakmoss I’ve also been obsessed with lately.
I’m so glad you like it! And a bit relieved 🙂 But honestly, so happy that it worked out and also happy for Tokyo Bloom, as I think it’s a scent that deserves more wearers.
Take my sage advice- when she turns 10, hide all of your “good stuff”. Cosmetics, perfume, makeup brushes, hair styling tools…everything. Trust me on this! She has been watching mommy and learning ????
Your words of wisdom are duly noted 🙂
It’s been so cold and rainy here the past few weeks I’ve spent so little time out in the garden and have missed it so much. Yesterday I almost missed the little chickadees nesting in one of my birdhouses and the beautiful indigo buntings stopping by our bird feeders in their spring migration – I’m so glad I put on a coat and forced myself to go outside! My lilacs are still hanging tight to their buds but my neigbor’s swath of LOTV are beginning to bloom, and I hope it will warm up enough this week so their lovely fragrance will waft through an open window.
In the meantime, I’m enjoying their sweet and humble presence in my SOTD, Yardley LOTV, perfect for Keep-It-Simple Monday.
Wishing a Monday that gets much better than it seems to have started for many of you!
Jelly of your Indigo Buntings. I’ve only seen one. Probably the most beautiful bird that I’ve ever seen.
What I discovered about the indigo bunting is that they can look like an entirely different bird in sun and shade! In the sun, they look like those beautiful photos that show their striking blue plumage, but the same bird in the same spot in my backyard when shadows arrive or clouds cover can have a dull grayishblackish appearing plumage. I was so surprised when I first saw this occur! So perhaps you may have had one as a visitor on a shadowy, cloudy day without even knowing it!
We don’t get Indigo Buntings in our neck of the woods, but they are so pretty! I love blue birds of any type. In Ornithology news from here, on Saturday we had a flock of about 250-350 Cedar Waxwings in the pepper and oak trees right outside my home office widow. Two to three birds to every little branch. Apparently others have sighted them in the area before, but it was my first time. If you aren’t familiar with Cedar Waxwings: https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Cedar_Waxwing/id
One time years ago when I had small pfitzer junipers with tiny red berries in my front yard, a whole flock of them appeared and landed on them – I immediately got my bird book to identify them as I’d never seen them before and they were beautiful! The junipers are long gone and, although I have many different trees and shrubs including some pines I’ve never seen them again. Although, who knows, they might still visit as they’re passing through and I might just not have seen them.
You smell lovely. Yes, I think going outdoors, even in bad weather, is so necessary for our wellbeing. …How I wish LOTV grew here: I love it, and it’s my birthmonth flower!
They’re such a sweet, simple flower; I love the way they peek out shyly from beneath their cover of green. I love flowers but not floral scents very much, but when I do, I prefer simple soliliflores rather than complex floral fragrances. The Yardley LOTV captures its essence and innocence for me quite nicely, no further fanfare needed.
Snowcake from Lush today, which I wear with enormous gratitude for the swap through which the bottle came to me!! <3 <3 I find the scent actually pretty understated, if you grade on the scale of marzipan perfumes 😉
Love, love, love! Gave the soap as Christmas gifts.
By happy coincidence I am indeed participating in the scent strategy of the week. I have for the second time today doused myself in the perennially understated Brin de Reglisse. Was craving a salty scent and this one hits the spot…. IF reapplied frequently with reckless abandon.
That”s the way to do it!
My brain is bouncing everywhere today, and I just can’t make a perfume decision. And it’s already 1:30! Commando for a while, I guess.
Understated!
Yeah, very. Went with Santal Blush a little while ago.
$330 for a resin bracelet–ouch!
SOTD is some Bath and Body Works Moonlight Path mist as a public service because I’m congested and can’t smell much myself.
In Mugler Angel Muse today. Will venture to the art of the understatement later this week. Though, for Mugler progeny, Muse IS understated. : ) And gorgeous, imo. Its ancestry is there but as if presented through a prism. The facets of Angel refract, scatter, and diffuse into something completely new, yet Muse manages emit the same bewildering effect of its blue star source. #Hatetolove indeed.
I’m still waiting for my sample of Angel Muse to come to me in the mail…
I got a 30 mL this past weekend! It’s a nice one!
Pretty bracelet. I’d probably pay up to 150 for it if it were real bakelite from the 40’s, or maybe not.
So I’ve been trying to cut down to 3 perfumes, but that was impossible so I settled on 7 or 8. Then Meredifay sent me a huge box of samples along a reverse swap item. Last night I had dueling banjos, 10 Corso Como on one wrist and Costume National 21 on the other wrist. Well I’m totally in love with CN 21 and immediately ordered a bottle (you totally screwed up my reduction plan with your kindness Meredifay!). Today I’m wearing the last of the sample and really enjoying the heck out of it. It reminds me of one of the Kenso perfumes (maybe Indian Holi?) only much more dimensional and no play doh note. Like most perfumes it does go a bit powdery on me, but there is enough variety in the notes for it to keep it’s shape.
I apologize for sending you too many! I just couldn’t sort them! Glad you found some you liked!
Very good morning, all. Winter is beginning to stir here–my feet have been cold all night-and the morning is cool. I like cool: I can wear warm perfume and fine merino. Since Friday, I’ve been sequestered at home, working non-stop on a big project. Haven’t left the apartment for days, which is icky but necessary until I get the damn bloody thing finished, which might happen today. No one could call my perfume behaviour or choices understated for the last few days: I’ve been unstinting with spritzing, following a strategy of “There…there…and since I’m home alone, why not there as well?” What I’m doing, I think, is the very antithesis of Understated: it’s Loud’n’Proud for me! Today is Coromandel, the first of all my Exclusifs, and deeply adored. I love its deep, spicy, interesting earthiness. It’s just about giving me enough willpower to fire up the computer and get going again. Ack. Be safe and gorgeously scented, NS-Tites everywhere.
Yum! I hope you finished your BIG project!
I’m wearing Thierry Mugler Angel Eau Sucree.
Mine is missing in action! As soon as I find it, it will get some wear! In the meantime, Angel Muse will amuse me 🙂
Miller Harris Petit Rien which is understated, but present. It got cooler again today and this feels kind of perfect with its wisps of incense and leather.
Eau des Merveilles today; it must be Monday
I wear it on Wednesdays!
I forgot about the theme, but was coincidentally understated yesterday in Prada Infusion d’Iris. I can’t do understated two days in a row, and I’m contemplating Mad Madame this morning – I like the perfume, but love the name.
SOTD: Ineke’s Poet’s Jasmine
Just trying to coax spring to come out and play with a bit of citrus and sweet jasmine. My nephew was graduated from Rutgers yesterday, and his speaker was President Obama. Awesome day but so cold and today is not much better. Where is the warmth!?
Oh that must have been exciting!
Late again. Sweet Lou Lou today.
I started my understated week in Lalique “Hommage à l’homme”, which was very nice indeed. A busy day, so no time to re-apply, and that’s how this perfume ended up being a little too understated. :^)
Champagne de Bois from Sonoma Scent Studios. Lovely. Monday, not so lovely but at this point the grinding part is almost over. I am thinking rice pudding and chardonay for dinner. 🙂
Love that one. Got my bottle from, of course, an incredibly generous NSTer and wore it to my grandfather’s funeral last week. Really lifted my spirits on a difficult day.
Oh no! So sorry for your loss, C.H.!
Oh you are so kind. Thank you. I feel very lucky to have family, fragrance, and fragrance family to comfort me! 🙂
Mmmm…my kinda dinner. Or was. Restarting a cholesterol lowering diet today. Ugh.
Hope that everyone who is under the weather feels better soon! It stinks being sick in springtime. 🙁 That also applies to anyone who is dealing with an Epic Case of the Mondays.
I am wearing Hermes eau de rhubarbe écarlate. I am enjoying my sample more and more, and thinking maybe I need a full bottle. I also tried Hermes Muguet porcelaine, even though the opening was nice, it turned a little sour on me afterwards , I wasn’t crazy about it.
Do they finally have it at Holt’s?
They had the tester but didn’t have the 15mls, I am not sure if they received the 100ml.
Yes, I tried it at Holt’s. Didn’t care for it, it had a big melon note on me. The rhubarb is better.
I am commando today although the accidental SotD here at home is Femme, the Anti-Understatement. An old-ish sample vial of Femme EdP leaked a bit inside a sealed ziploc bag. It scented my closet and bedroom with a breathtaking, bosomy cloud of boudoir fragrance. I like it as an ambient scent, but up close it makes me a bit . . . uncomfortable.
“Anti-understatement”! Yeah.