It's Hump Day! Birthdays today: Todd Rundgren, Bill Blass, Kris Kristofferson, Meryl Streep, Prunella Scales. It's also Onion Rings Day and Chocolate Eclair Day. What fragrance are you wearing?
I'm in my old favorite Parfum d'Empire Azemour Les Orangers. And I thought I'd be done with Pantone by now, but I'm still having fun with it so apologies to anyone who is sick of the daily colors. I'll move on to something else eventually.
Reminder: on 6/24, we're doing A House Divided — wear two fragrances from the same house, but don't layer (one on each wrist, or whatever). Suggested by Lisa D.
And for those of you who like to plan ahead, see Scent of the day ~ Friday community projects 2016, where I'll try to always have the next five or six weeks mapped out in advance.
I like the Pantone colors. Are we going to have a color chip community challenge where we have to match our scent to whatever color you choose for us?
SOTD– Milk of Flowers
Oh, that would be fun!
It would because our idea of what color is a scent will vary so much in some instances, and be eerily the same in others.
That sounds like fun!
That would be fun!
I like it! 🙂 (Lately I’m totally addicted to browsing color palettes on Pinterest. Once you start, it consumes you…)
Awesome idea!
Hear hear!
Yes, I’d love to see how differently (or similar!) everyone interprets a color. You know, Chanel has three lipsticks that have the same names as perfumes – coromandel, misia, and boy. They don’t match what I’d pick for those perfumes …
Yes, yes, that would be great. You could have several weeks with different colours.
Hues-day Tuesdays!
🙂
Chocolate Eclair Day! YUM YUM!!!
Attended a benefit last night with my husband-With all the postpartum “symptoms” it felt good to dress up-I wore a jumpsuit despite the fact that I am still doughy and got my hair blown out even though I am loosing it..(all thanks to postpartum “symptoms”) I rocked my look with a sexy berry lipstick and wore a sample of Aquarium Rose as my perfume.
Today I am in a House Divided: one write Ananass Fizz on the other Violette Verte.
Good for you! (And boy do I remember all the hair falling out.)
I’ll bet you looked–and smelled–great! I’ve moved on from the hair-falling-out phase to the hair-growing-back-in-a-Bozo-the-clown-penumbra phase. Sort of like I cut bangs all the way around my hairline, only sticking straight out like the petals of a flower. Only less lyrical.
Well, I will keep you posted when that happens to me 🙂
I read that the hair falling out is the extra hair that you’ve grown during pregnancy because of hormones, so you are basically going to normal…at least beleiving that stopped me from worrying about my hair. Not that I had a lot of time to worry.
Sounds like a lovely evening – glad you got to enjoy! I’ve recently been drawn to berry lipsticks too.
How goes life with the toddler and the meatball? Hope I get a chance to meet him while he’s still meatbally.
I love orange, obviously being Dutch. Wearing Number One today.
My daughter has a orange giraffe from Holland-cutest stuffed animal ever
I am missing the Netherlands’ zesty orange kits in this year’s Euro tournament.
We are currently supporting the Belgian team. I’m not much interested in football actually, but when the Winter Olympics in Sochi went so well for our skaters, I was seriously tempted to wear some orange.
I used to love our soccer team’s yellow shirt. Now it’s ruined forever, lol.
I still have one orange t shirt that I used to wear on our National Day at the end of April. However our King changed the date of it to honour his own birthday instead of that of his grandmother, plus he changed the name. I still need a little readjustment to these changes so I haven’t worn my Orange costume in 2 years.
My great-grandmother was from Arnhem. She loved orange. 🙂 She also loved to sing. I have fond memories of her teaching all the great-grandchildren to sing Slaap Kindje Slaap.
That is so sweet!
Love the pantone images!
SOTD: Terracotta Le Parfum by Guerlain from a Basenotes buddy sample. This stuff rocks! I smell *so* tropical and yummy.
Good. It’s amazing how many there are — I could keep it up another year if I wanted.
And you do smell great!
Brecourt Farah (Haram) – finished my sample. A nice but simple fragrance. Date and honey.
I’ve not given it a lot of thought before, but I think orange is my least favourite colour, after brown of course, but that’s not really a colour is is? More like the sludge that results from mixing all the colours together..
In SL Douce Amere today. At various points during it’s mid-progression I got whiffs of what my mind registered at Nuit de Tubereuse. Huh :-/
(Not that that’s a bad thing- yummy either way!)
Shame it’s only a non-export, as bell jars are not available by any means here. I though SL released a non-export into the export line every year as a ltd ed. Have they stopped doing that?
Yes, now they are doing it through the Vapo Tout Noir collection, where you get a black 30ml atomizer with 2 perfume refills (60 mls total). This year’s release is De Profundis.
Douce Amere was available for a long time in the export bottle, I would be surprised if you could not find it online.
Oh of course, last years was Rahat Loukom which I’ve seen occasionally. I’m far more excited by De Profundi though, as it’s on my non-export wish-list 🙂
Yum! Douce Amere is one of my desert-island perfumes!
It is very pretty. Love the anisey opening.
I guess I’m your evil twin, color-wise– I love browns and oranges. 😉 What are your preferred colors?
PS: You smell great!
My favourite colours are green- preferably peridot green or olive green (with not too much brown!) and dark reds like burgundy. I used to hate pink but now like it so there’s hope yet for orange! 😉
I like those colors too, so perhaps we are “cousins, identical cousins!”
Identical cousins 🙂 im happy with that..
I remembered that in pre-school when we took turns in choosing pencils etc to colour in, I’d always pick green and purple, so often that my teacher used to comment.
Me too. My grandmother’s flat in Manhattan was full of orange– bright synthetic orange fabrics on chairs, orange throw rugs from Mexican tourist gift shops, Swedish toys in red and orange, fake African prints in fake block printing in bright yellow orange…. I thought it was an eye-ache when I was younger…but now I think I would love its cheerful defiance. My living room and my office, which are next to each other and can be connected by opening sliding doors are full soft cocoas, grey-browns, and darkish wood furniture. It feels cool in the summer and warm in the winter.
Flashing back to the 70s right now ????
Re: orange – Me too, though I try to be open minded and equal opportunity with colors. And yet I am always drawn to greens and blues.
Im open-minded and equal opportunity in appreciating their qualities and what they have to contribute to colouring the world, I just appreciate it a little less in my own decor and even less on me… it makes me look sick.. (I had a ginger cat, Gabby, who rocked it, and Hermes wouldnt be the same without it!) 🙂
We probably have the same coloring – I look horrific in orange.
Did you see that news story going around about the Pantone color that was voted ugliest color in the world? (It’s a greenish brown) http://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2016/jun/08/stylewatch-pantone-448c-ugliest-colour-world-opaque-couche-australian-smokers-fashion
Lol! That’s interesting. While I would choose orange over that as a more visually pleasing colour, I’d choose this one to wear easily.
looks like the color of poop
It’s not as ugly as the colour of the pattern next to my name! I should work out how to do a gravatar.
I used to feel that way about orange, then inexplicably painted 2 of my LR walls in New Mexico a burnt orange (landlady said MAX 2 walls), with the other 2 walls and lots of deep set window trim (think pueblo) a pale stone white. We all loved it, and the first person to look at it rented it immediately after I left. Its all in the context, really. Though I think I’m over it. 🙂
I’m boringly wearing Moon Bloom again, from my brand new bottle. But I did put some Voyage on as well, for the challenge, and they work very nicely together/divided.
Also, I just love the sound of this challenge! Epic. Could be a name for a Game of Thrones book or a Shakespeare quote. But it’s the Bible, of course, as Google helpfully tells me.
I get a lot of similarity from the 2 scents, even as they develop quite differently.
Oh, and please continue with the colours – love them.
Yes, I think there is something quite similar in all three, although they are clearly distinct scents. It’s the signature of the creator, I guess. Anyway, great scents, all of them.
I have a sample of Moon Bloom coming my way, can’t wait to try
I hope you enjoy it! I certainly do.
And thank you for reading, I hope you don’t think me totally insane now 🙂
I also read you blog on shower gels 🙂
I’m going to be in Corfu, Greece, next week (I’m sure I must have mentioned it) so I’m on day 3 of my Giacobetti project – Drôle De Roses.
We all hate you. Unless you offer to smuggle us onto Corfu in your luggage – then we all love you.
ha,ha,ha… 🙂
Love Drôle de Rose, such a fun scent!
Where are you going, again? It keeps slipping my mind . . .
Oh, had you mentioned it before? I must’ve missed it. ???? Ha, ha. Have an excellent trip!
You might have mentioned it, but we all forgot.
Sounds glorious, Bob, enjoy.
I do love orange and wear it often, both in clothing and fragrance. Today I’m continuing with Hermes and wearing L’ambre des Merveilles for the first time.
Oh, how are you liking L’Ambre? It always reminds me a little bit of caramelcorn. Not that there’s anything bad about that!
It is a little too vanilla scented to be my favorite of the three Marveilles that I own, but it isn’t so much that I consider it a scrubber. I just can’t wear vanilla comfortably. But this vanilla isn’t overpowering the other notes, just adding an undertone of sweetness, so I like it.
That is a good one! You smell great
You smell gorgeous, Robin. I nearly wore Azemour today, but my hand went straight for the bottle of Le Galion Iris again. Blessings upon the head of the perfume fairy who introduced me to this one! (That’s you, hajusuuri – yet another jewel in your tiara. 🙂 )
She can hardly hold her head up for all the diamonds 😉
LOL!
I’m trying to find an iris perfume which I can smell… not sure it exists 🙁 But I have not tried this one yet; goes on my “to sample” list!
I still owe you and a bunch of other people, a package so I will include it 😉
I should find an emoji with a crown. And you can thank the unnamed (unless she wants to out herself) NSTer who muled it back to me from Paris. It was a successful 100 mL sample purchase 😉
Well, whoever s/he was, thank you! It has become one of my top five of all time, and I’m immensely grateful to all who had a hand in my introduction to it. 🙂 Natalya, I do hope it works for you.
Orange! One of my favorite colors and under appreciated by the masses. Also, eclair day and onion ring day together? Are you trying to kill my willpower? Thank God my husband has my car and I can’t go anyplace.
I’m still doing my initial sampling of the JM Rare Teas and my first impressions of the second and third scents are better than the first (thank goodness).
Silver Leaf Tea is my favorite so far. I know I’ve smelled similar before and it reminds me of Elizabeth W Sweet Tea (I think, but my memory may be hazy side it has been 15 years or so since I wore it) and even more so of the pre-reformulation version of one of my favorite candles. If the price didn’t make me literally laugh aloud, I might buy one of those silly huge bottles and drench myself in this linear but very pretty fresh tea scent all summer. It would be a lovely office-appropriate scent and I can see it being a big seller at a less ludicrous price point. This is just a first wearing of a little smear, but I can see myself buying a decant during one of those late-night last-minute end-of-a-sale frenzies, when I’m justifying things left and right because of a discount.
I also tried the Oolong last night and found it nice. Light, of course, slightly gourmand but not at all a heavy sweetness. The notes list makes it sound rich and cloying, but my impression was of puffs of light, sweet steam. I need to test it again with a bigger dose, but this might go on my decant list too. I really wish they would do a 30ml flight of these. I’m sure it would cost more than is rational (no, I won’t stop being annoyed by the $), but so far I could wear them all except the green tea, which would be easy to gift.
Ok, so wearable, but are any of them worth the $?
Wow, and did not mean that to sound so combative…any underlying combativeness is not directed at you, at any rate.
Not combative at all, IMO. A valid question and the more I consider it, the less I approve of the pricing. I won’t buy a rayon tee-shirt for a hundred-fifty bucks for the same reason. In ten years, when this cost is the norm I might kick myself but I just don’t think they’re worth that much.
I did, however, feel compelled to buy another Gilles Dewavrin Thé Noir candle and found that they are not available in the US at the moment 🙁
You really think it’ll be the same price in 10 years? Optimist. 🙂
Nope. I think that over $300 will be a bargain in ten years and expect that my income will not show any noticeable cost of living increase.
Not to me. If I had an office job that paid handsomely I would gladly shell out about half the asking price for a bottle. They smell less synthetic than most tea perfumes I’ve tried. Not sure they’re perfumista bait unless you really have a gap in your wardrobe, but I would probably opt to spend my money on something else unless there was lottery winnings involved 😉 I expect I will drain my samples though at the very least.
Thank you! That is what I figured. I have not smelled them. There are fewer & fewer collections all the time that I am willing to go smell — overpriced plus limited edition pretty much kills my interest!
SOTD is Gucci pour Homme, surprisingly nice in warm weather (in small doses)
Lutens Fleurs de Citronnier again…
Sotd Passion Fruit Orange Blossom and Vetiver. Perfect for the nice weather today. It’s my daughter’s birthday today, So more chocolate cake is in order.
It’s a big week in your household Lillyjo. So many birthdays close together. Happy Birthday to you daughter!
Yes! We have four in one week, including my sister.
Right? Lots of cake and celebrating for you guys! Enjoy!
Happy Birthday to your daughter! Have a lovely day.
Happy Birthday to you and yours. Your family reminds me of mine with all the chocolate cakes.
I do not like orange for my clothes, but I am obsessed by a tomatoish-orange car that I see on the road every once in a while. I seriously considered re-painting my car, except that I would need to ask the owner what is his/her color called, because any other shade just won’t do.
SOTD is Leather Krem by Soivohle, the one that started my obsession with leather, and still much loved!
I can’t wear orange either, but the orange Honda Fit is darned cute.
Yes, can’t they start making more cars of fun colors? When I was buying my car, it came in white, black, dark grey, light grey and brownish-grey. What’s with that? I remember time when I was the only one around preferring fun colors for my nails, and it was really difficult to find any, now they are everywhere and nobody would look twice if your nails are lilac or green
Yeah. When I bought my car the best they had was a limited-edition red (that is now a standard color, grrr). Had I waited a year I could have gotten a lovely metallic avocado green (better than it sounds) or a beautiful electric blue. When Mom bought her car, the options were two silvers, maroon, navy, or black. Blah!
I think that it probably depends on the model of the car. I imagine cars that are marketed to the younger set come in all kinds of great colors. Like the Kia Soul, I’ve seen that car in every color of the rainbow.
Yeah, well, the rebels of yesteryears are the ones who comprise the older generation now…now grandmas have full body tatoos and grandpas split tongues…and WE WANT COLORS!
I didn’t say that was my opinion, just my thoughts about available colors for cars.
🙂 I was just trying to be funny 🙂 you’re perfectly right
I’m sure you would rock a tomatoish colored car Natalya. 🙂
That’s true.. my last car, a 2012 Hyundai Accent came in at least a couple of fun colors. I remember a bright green and maybe an orange.. don’t remember if there were others. But when I got mine, do you think the dealership had any of those? No. All they had was metallic bronze or black. Maybe you have to special order the fun colors.. I don’t know. So I got the bronze. I currently drive an Elantra hatchback (metallic gray), and I don’t think that model comes in any fun colors, other than maybe a couple of blues.
When I looked at Nissan Rogues last spring, they had some very cute colors on the next size down – Versa. I finally got my car back from the body shop today. I SO appreciate my car….
Although my dad did have a Ford Zephyr in the late 60’s that he called ‘chunderous green’. My mum actually thought that was a real colour 🙂
Totally agree. Do not understand why there are so few colors, even for “young” cars like the Fit. They need to get on the Pantone wagon!
Ah I remember those days when nail colors that weren’t on the pink/red/brown spectrum were hard to find.
Lonesome Rider for me today, enjoying the light rain here. it will be a quiet day at home.
Enjoy the quiet!
I find myself thinking about wearing this, and then reaching for something else. Maybe I will like it more come fall, but I don’t have that ‘Oh, Wonderful” response I had to some other Tauer offerings. Do you wear it often?
No, which is why I chose it today. I like it but on me it has a less distinct personality than my other Tauers.
It finally really feels like summer around here, and I’m as happy to be able to wear my warm-weather fragrances as my warm-weather clothing, both of which have been languishing for far too long. I’m in Le Chevrefeuille today, a perfume I always seem to wind up binge spraying — one spray is so good! Two is twice as good! Three is divine! Don’t forget the back of my neck! Why stop now?!
Yum!
That’s the spirit! Spray with abandon is my motto. I find this works for everything I have, except for Elephant and Salome. Those two, one little squirter on the wrist rubbed by the other wrist then run both wrists over my hair is way enough!
No scent yet; we are expecting massive storms and the possibility of tornadoes so I am panicking. I think maybe Coromandel will help….
We had that yesterday. I was working from home; my toddler’s strategy for dealing with weather was running to me and coiling himself around me like a python… it needs to be seen! When tornado warning was issued, I was kind of half hoping that it will drain the water from my pool…it’s in incredible state of grossness, because the cover got suddenly all rendered and torn in winter, and now I need $$$ to have it drained and cleaned…or at least that’s what they tell me, because I don’t know the first thing about pools and I am an easy target for pumping money.. if only I had some, ha-ha.
Ha! Thanks for the giggle!
In the house I grew up in we had a huuge custom-built pool, plaster lined. Never had a cover on it and as the years went by Mum would just give up keeping it too clean over winter. The same duck couple would use it over winter (we knew this because one had a split beak) and come warm weather Mum would turn on the kreepy krauly and give it a heap of chlorine and other pool chemicals and voila! Within days all crystal clear and swimmable.
Yeah, mine has at least one half-decayed corpse of a drowned squirrel in it..I did not want to look too closely after seeing that…I would be totally grossed out to swim in that water even if it was all chlorinated and all the dead bodies removed!
Ok. You win. That’s gross. I’d pay someone to drain every last drop!
You two make me glad I don’t swim.
Hoping for a tornado to suck the water out of your pool! I guess there is a silver lining in anything if you look hard enough… 🙂
I hope Coromandel helps. Do you have a safe place? Good luck!
It is totally helping, actually! I smell goooooooood. We have a huge crawl space that should be perfect… But it’s creepy so non of us want to go in it unless we have to! But thanks!!
Coromandel is comforting. Be safe!
Thanks!
Stay safe!
Thanks!!!
Hope the tornados remain in the realm of the purely possible for you. 🙂
Thank you!!!!
Send you some good vibes. Hope everything turns out ok.
Thanks! It seems to have blown right past us!!
Hope you will weather this! Stay safe!
Thanks!
Enjoy sniffing your Chanel and stay safe!!
It totally helped!!
Hope it passes you by!
Yes! It looks like it did! Thanks!
I’m in Divine L’Etre Aime- a lovely peachy, immortelle oriental. Kind of retro, a tad powdery. Probably better for cooler weather but I’m enjoying it anyway.
I love all of them..try not to fall in love with all of them..
Ha! Well, I liked, but didn’t love, Spirituelle, so I’m safe so far.
Geranium Pour Monsieur. What a lovely, refreshing minty-but-not-in-a toothpaste-way scent.
Don’t be afraid of the Monsieur label if you don’t identify as one – this scent is definitively unisex.
I have GOT to sample that one. I keep forgetting, but I expect it’s what I smelled on someone once who wouldn’t reveal what he was wearing.
That’s exactly how I described it in an article on geranium I’m writing!
I’ll look forward to reading your article, Elisa! I don’t have a lot of experience with geranium but do find it comforting when I come across it.
I LOVE geranium and think it’s underappreciated because a lot of scents that contain geranium just list it as “rose”
I’m in one of the few vintages I have – Rochas Femme extrait. I was going through my perfume stash, trying to decide what to wear for Friday. I could go Amouage Gold / Homage / Ubar. But that might end up being a bit too overwhelming. Or I’ve my Chanel Cuir de Russia with uh, Rue Cambon? Both exclusives. I have five Nicolais, all well- loved. I could do Arpege and My Sin! Or Bandit and Vent Vert! Or I could do Onda and Rubj! Anyway, I have to thing about it fast.
Femme extrait is still lovely, I should totally dig it out more often.
Looking forward to what you decide!
Wearing Bois de Rose by Lothantique now called Eau de parfum Josephine: Rosewood
I haven’t spritzed yet, but in honor of that delicious mandarin orange Robin chose, I’m going to wear YSL Opium Vapeurs de Parfum in all its satsuma splendor. Happy Hump Day, all.
Mmm satsuma.. yum! I Adore that smell.
To that, add tea, vanilla, and orange blossom, and you’ve got Vapeurs.
Haven’t tried any of the Opium flankers, but that sounds lovely!
It is!
Wearing Andy Tauer’s Ingrid. I had bought this unsniffed earlier this year and I don’t regret it.
What’s it like?
Heavy in the plumeria but it is definitely a Tauer
I had a sample of this, gave it away and then missed it. It seemed heavy on me for some reason. I think I would like it in real cold weather…
Heretic here! !
31 Rue Cambon Chanel on left hand. Nice but JUST nice.
Antaeus on right arm. Strong herbal resinous tanned leather.
Now this is more like it, Chanel.
YMMV. 😉
Heresy is always welcome!
😛
Too much consensus is boring, anyway. 😉
I put on 31 Rue Cambon last night and my person announced: “Not one of my favorites.” It’s more of a work perfume for me anyway, so all is fine.
You get an A++ for Antaeus. Interesting dude, that Antaeus….spent a lot of time wrestling with grammar.
😉
Timbuktu. In an incense mood lately.
I also really like seeing the colors everyday!
You smell great!
Good! (and you smell great)
I missed being your scent twin, Robin, by one day. Today, though it’s Bronze Goddess, which seemed to epitomize the summer of 2015 but isn’t mentioned this year. When I walked into the bank, however, the teller told me she loved my perfume, and when I told her what it was, she exclaimed, “I remember that!”
I need to start wearing it! I think it’s because the weather has been so weird this summer.
Every time I put it on, my husband looks around and says, “What *is* that lovely smell?” Not sure if he’s putting on an act…….
Prunella Scales birthday and Onion Ring day? Oh that would just be too good! (Ed Grimly voice).
Ah so I wore one of the perfumes that I put up for sale, Rose Anonyme, last night and this morning WOW it’s so gorgeous in dry down. The balsamy rose kind of backs of a bit and the oud, opoponax and patch come forward. So smooth and delicious. I think I’m going to keep that bottle around.
Exactly!
SOTE: refreshed Rose Anonyme sprayed behind the knees. This one is totally different in the warm weather, much rounder and the base notes seem to be more prominent. I think it’s a keeper.
Waiting at the nice new terminal at JFK for my flight to the West Coast after completely dousing myself at the duty free. They had Songe d’un Bois d’Ete and even though I’m flying domestically and would still have to pay tax, I was sorely tempted. I love that one.
Also sprayed some Hermes Rouge (really like this one), Amazone (also really like), and the newer version if Courreges Empreinte, though by that point I’d run out of skin space.
I splurged (for me it’s a splurge anyway) on internet service for the flight, so I should be able to hang here today.
Hope everyone is well!
Love smelling perfume at the airport, feels like a little ritual. Have a pleasant flight!
Thanks! I hadn’t been to a duty-free that had such variety before, and I’d never seen the Courreges line being sold anywhere but online. So enjoyable. And they left me alone to smell!
When I flew Virgin America from JFK, that terminal’s duty free had a great perfume selection. Such a treat and pleasurable time-killer. Safe travels!
Agreed. I also love the duty-free shop in SFO international when flying VA. That’s where I would like to be trapped should the zombacalypse come…
Perhaps I need to take a stroll in that direction when I land 🙂
Another one for me to look out for at JFK – thanks!
Enjoy!
I shall – thanks dear!
Have a good flight!
Thank you!
Last call for passenger Ihadabrilliantidea. Your plane is ready to depart. Put down that perfume now and proceed immediately to Gate 23. No, you can not have one more quick sniff…..So now we know why flights are often delayed. Mystery solved.
Songe d’un Bois d’Eté is almost too beautiful. I recently made the stupid mistake of trying it. I shouldn’t have, because I could have known I would be hopelessly smitten.
Wait, weren’t you going to Greece?…. (just kidding, I’m jealous of you both)
Chocolate éclairs are my favorite sweet treat. Will I walk a mile to get (a decent) one?
Washed my hair with Godiva, which is the best shampoo I have ever used, and now I’m wearing Lust, which I’m hopelessly addicted to. It looked like that little solid would last me forever, but this thing is worse than crack!!
I love Godiva! I need to get myself another one of those. You’re a lovely jasmine bomb today!
“Worse than crack”! I think I love you. 🙂
I love you back!
Chocolate eclairs and Lush Lust? You have great taste!
SOTD is Safran Troublant, which is pleasant and discreet even it hot weather. I’ve got a haircut today, so discretion seemed important.
Lovely, and to my nose, orangy and ochre coloured.
I think of it as cream or ivory, but that might be because I associate it with kheer.
I’m wearing Bond No. 9 Chinatown body lotion today. I had a dental appointment earlier, and needed a comfort scent.
Oooh Chinatown body lotion! I saw the candle which I so want, but seriously, A$190 for a candle? I just cant do it.
The Chinatown body cream is possibly even nicer than the perfume itself, and very long lasting. I want the Chinatown candle too! A local store was divesting itself of the Bond line, hence the body cream, as well as a Little Italy candle for ca. $45 , but alas, no Chinatown candle…
Wasn’t that a great sale ??
I bought the Chinatown lotion too 🙂
Scentless today! Got distracted leaving the house! 🙂 I do have a little Prickly Pear hand lotion from the Grand Canyon giftshop, which is pretty fragrant….
Smell Alert: Had an apt in Atlanta yesterday, so of course I had to stop by the big mall on the way back. Body Shop had a bunch of shower gels and other goodies marked down to $2 and $3 each! It’s a good time to stock up there….I found some fabulous passionfruit and cranberry gels. Also had a few bath bombs, 3pk for $5.
Finally got off the waitlist for the Sephora Play! monthly subscription….we’ll see if it’s worth $10 a month or not! 🙂 Comes with a fragrance sample each time…
Prickly pear lotion sounds nice! I saw your comment on yesterday’s thread: That was a great trip! It’s been so long since I’ve been up in Northern AZ I’m jealous. ???? I’m glad you made it down here to Tucson to visit the Desert Museum and Saguaro NP, too! (Oh, gosh, were you here when it was around 117??)
It got to 101 according to my phone last Sunday…..I think we got out before the real heat wave hit!
As amazing as the Grand Canyon is, I have to admit that Saguaro NP was just as beautiful, in my opinion! Y’all have some weird, beautiful plant life over there! LOL! 🙂
Yes, and pretty much everything here–plants, animals, insects, weather–is out to get you. ???? Glad you were able to enjoy it before the worst of the heat! (We had 2 foreign tourists and 2 other out-of-towners die outdoors this past Saturday.)
I’ve received two of the Sephora Play sample boxes so far. Last month was Atelier Orange Sanguine and this month was Tocca Florence. They were nice, but nothing exciting.
Wearing Promenade des Anglais today from a sample I received at the Guerlain event. Marie Line recommended it for me. It’s apparently a re-issue of AA figue iris. She also recommended Muguet and said Rose Barbare should be my signature scent. Her most repeated phrase was “Remember, you perfume the perfume, the perfume doesn’t perfume you.”
I just received a very generous decant of Rose Barbare from a lovely NST’er…I’d be happy to send you a bit.
I had a sample a couple years ago and I have enjoyed revisiting the honey and rose goodness. 🙂
ooo–thanks! 😀
Dying to try this one! What’s your impression of it?
On my skin it’s very sweet. A mix of iris, violet, and fig with heavy doses of vanilla and tonka. Wouldn’t wear on an extremely hot summer day, but for a warm summer night it would be nice.
Wearing Wild Strawberry & Parsley on one arm (thanks to the lovely Annikky and her sister!) and Wood Sage & Sea Salt on the other (thanks to Annikky too!). I liked the Strawberry very much as long as it lasted, will spray with more abandon next time to see if it helps. Wood Sage is growing on me in the course of the dry down. I am sure I will end up with at least one Jo Malone.
Note to self: if I have fallen deeply in love with a scent (as I did this week with AdP Iris) wait with sampling others till the craving for it has subsided a bit. Wishing everyone a good day, evening or morning (Kanuka and Waterdragon)!
Happy day to you!
Bois des Iles today. I forgot to take a decant with me and it’s already faded away. So pretty while it lasted.
I just oversprayed with a sample Sunday Cologne thanks to the generosity of ihadanidea. First time trying this one. 🙂
Yay! What do you think?
IMO, it’s perfect for hot summer days. As Deva says, my nose is a blunt instrument but here goes… To me it smells like a very nice cologne. Lemony bergamot, light and airy, a little bit mossy. It sort of reminds me slightly of Eau de Rochas but less sweet and perhaps more complex? I find it refreshing. I like it, plus this is my first Byredo so I am excited to have the opportunity to sample this line. Thanks again!
So glad you like it! I have often referred to my nose as a blunt instrument as well, but I think you did a great job with your description.
I have allergies year round so I’m not always sure that I get the full picture.
Wearing Fleur Narcotique today…
Lychee…lots of lychee…flowers and musk. I am enjoying it so far.
It may be too much lychee for me in the end but we shall see as the day progresses…
Love that one. It’s so not my usual thing, and yet there really is something a bit addicting about it.
I’m doing the challenge today with Une Rose Chypree on one arm and Incense Rose on the other.
That’s a good pairing Elisa, very smart! Some houses have only very brave combos but 2 Tauer roses sounds nice. Is it?
Works very nicely but the URC is winning from a sillage perspective!
I did that challenge a few months ago! It was really tough, but Incense Rose won, and I bought a bottle ???? I’m so impressed with its sillage and longevity!
Still craving woody scents, today, it’s the lovely Byredo 1996
Yum.
Robin, I’ve been enjoying the Pantone colors. Today’s orange is a great one–happy and energizing.
Onion Rings Day!? That’s my kind of holiday!
I’m at the endodontist with a family member so my SOTD is low-sillage D&G Dolce for sitting around in the waiting room.
Good! Because I’m out of other new ideas at the moment anyway. It is harder than you’d think to come up with new images every day.
I’m pretty sure I would just use the 4,500 or so photos of my cats or my garden with captions such as, “this looks just like yesterday’s photo, but if you look closely, Haineko is just a hair to the left and even cuter.” 😉 Good thing you’re in charge!
Ah, but a month or so of cats would probably make lots of people happy!
Today I’m directly comparing O d’Lancome on one arm with Chanel Cristalle EDT on the other (to me there are a lot of similarities between the two). They both smell great, but the Lancome lasts quite a bit longer. I think once I run out of this bottle of Cristalle I won’t replace it, I’ll just stick with O.
The original Cristalle had more oakmoss than O. No idea if it still does, and quite possibly not.
Great combo/battle. I haven’t smelled O since the 80’s when It was my one and only for a while. I have wondered how it has held up over the years…(hopefully better than I have!)
Opened the bedroom doors that go out to our back deck, got myself a cup of Major Dickison’s, spritzed on a little Shalimar, and am now hunkering down with NST. I’m taking the day off starting now!
Excellent!
Sounds perfect.
Yay.
Wearing JM Velvet Rose and Oud – it really does smell like the perfume incarnation of dark-rose velvet. Might be better for the winter – we’ll see.
I have a decant of that and love it. I agree – definitely gives a feel of velvet.
Keeping it pretty with Songes. Thanks again to the generous NSTer who sent me a practically full, cute little bottle of this. NSTers are the best!
You smell great! I think that one of my favorite AG scents.
This settles very nicely on my skin. I need to try more of this line…
In honor of chocolate eclair day, I am wearing Gourmand Cocquin – tried it yesterday and ended up with a nice sample. I think I know what I will be posting for the splitmeet 🙂
A diet-conscious way to celebrate!
Gourmand Coquin is fabulous!
SotD is Mandarin Basilic, as it is both humidity- and dentist-appointment appropriate.
Am I right in thinking that ELdO Like This is made entirely of orange “ingredients”? Or did I make that up?
I think that might have been part of the theme — had forgotten. They did use orange visuals, that’s for sure.
Wow – I was not expecting to like Amazone this much. Fragrantica describes it as a floral aldehyde, which I usually wouldn’t think would be my style, but apparently I was wrong. I’m betting its the oakmoss, or whatever it is they’re using that smells like oakmoss.
Aaaand there’s another bottle I’ll want now.
So many perfumes and not enough wallet. Seems to be a problem generally shared around here. 🙂
Indeed – *sigh*. First world problems.
The aldehydes don’t stick around very long in Amazone, if you ask me. Such a pretty green floral (and yes, oakmoss – at least in the vintage)! If I ran across a bottle I’d snap it up.
This Amazone was sprayed from a tester at the duty free, so it’s not vintage, but perhaps they’ve found a good substitute? Or maybe my nose is too unsophisticated. Either way, I am loving it.
interesting. while I would never wear that color it doesn’t seem to be the ugliest to me! it’s a natural color – color of mud and other outdoorsy stuff. I would rather look at that color than shrieky yellow….
I got back from my Shakespeare Festival/rescue dog trip last night and this morning I’m wearing Carnal Flower after sweltering in 111F heat in Southern California. The dog is a sweetie, she will be great with a bit of training but everything is new to her so it’s like having a 75lb puppy. I ache in places I didn’t know had nerve endings.
Dogs are the best! Except when they hog up the couch/bed.
Enjoy getting to know your dog!
Lol, love your pain description ????
This orange is my favourite, and though it doesn’t suit me for clothes, it’s well-represented in my apartment. I’m not always for orange in perfume, either, but I better wander over and put on Theorema…
Morning, all. Huge storms here last night. They’ve blown out to sea for the time being, but apparently they are due to return at just about the time we should be taking off for Melbourne. Oh well, you get that in winter. Yesterday I was busy with work stuff. and in the evening I come over all lackadaisical, so I didn’t pack, and now I’m scrambling. I have this feeling I’ll get to Oz and find I’ve packed just one sock, or 12 bras and no knickers. I feel distracted and really rather batty, but perfume is helping. Yesterday, I received a care package of gorgeous samples from a perfume fairy and I’m rocking Maharinih today. It’s gorgeous! Another enabler pin to Gaynor!
I always feel like that when I pack. Making a checklist helps some, but still…
Happy travels!
Thank you – I’m always happy to encourage perfume buying for others because then I feel better about my own lunacy 🙂
In relation to packing, I always reassure myself that it doesn’t matter what I’ve forgotten as long as I have my credit card. Not that I want to spend money on boring things like socks when perfume might be at hand…
Dior of our Lives: A House Divided. Episode 3:
In previous episodes, Eau Noire managed to get Dune Dior fired and take over control. But her plans to have her brother Granville succeed to power seemed jeopardised by his erratic performance as her side-kick.
To today. Granville has inherited and surprised everyone by pulling himself together and giving a coherent performance. Notes of lemon and pine suited a blisteringly hot day. In fact, it was Granville’s choice of partner that raised eyebrows in the end. Everyone expected Fève Delicieuse to rule the roost with her smooth and assured manner, but so far she has been a bit of a sweet nonentity. Tomorrow Granville isn’t around and Fève will be left in charge – will she be up to the job, or will everyone remember her as a has-(tonka)bean?
Tune in and find out!
Ah, Granville’s making a surprise run! Like many of the Dior’s in the big giant bottles, I think I want to like Granville more than I actually do like Granville. But perhaps it depends on what’s on the other arm.
*clap clap clap*
Love this comment.
I know this isn’t quite what you wrote, but I think I might try and use “tonka has-bean” in conversation.
Once again- ???????? I’m rooting for you Feve! Gird your loins and apply yourself heavily to yourself.
Don’t know how I feel about what I just wrote ????
LOL
Fabulous perfume soao opera! And so much more informative!
Today it’s 101 degrees, so I’m wearing my favorite hot weather scent: Escentric 2. Stay comfortable everyone!
Ugh.
I am wearing vintage Lubin Nuit de Longchamp perfume. I have no words for this one, it is absolutely stunning and the bottle is an artwork. I wasn’t sure if I should use it but finally I cave in and opened it, I am happy I did.
That sounds lovely. I’ve got the new version, I have no idea how it compares, but it’s rather nice.
I was eyeing a vintage bottle on the bay of Evil. Managed to talk myself out of it, but now I feel my willpower slipping….
Wearing Tobacco Rose today, which I think I have been quite a lot this summer. I love the little wafts of rose and hay that come up off my arms through the day.
Bois des Iles for me today, because that’s all I brought with me. I’m in a lovely little town called Martinborough on a two day strategy session for work, and I brought minimal things with me, but I’m missing my collection after only a day away!
Finally in Honolulu… after a scare in which The CEO left his work computer ON THE PLANE but we were able to get to United and retrieve it! Now heading over to the conference. I’m wearing a little $10 plumeria body mist I found at the store. Nice. Like Sand & Sable Lite.
OTOH I don’t think any actual plumeria were harmed in the making of it…
???? I hope everything settles down now that you’ve arrived and you can do some serious relaxing.
It does seem to have been a fraught trip so far! Hope you have a wonderful time now that you’ve arrived.
How is it that you are all having these fabulous holidays to Corfu, California, Hawaii, and Melbourne and here I am at home with a couple of permanently muddy dogs, a pile of damp washing and a cluttered desk for company. It’s not even warm!
Okay…perfume….Cristalle and Number 5 Eau Premiere. Not too shabby. Isn’t life grand!
Shalimar (older version edc) pre workout. Sweat definitely made this one sing!
I should add, Robin, that I love the Pantone colors! I also need to vent: I am having an incredibly frustrating work couple-of-weeks with layers and layers of incompetence making it extremely difficult for me to do my job. OK, end of rant. I still smell like a rich, rich-and-even-maybe-syrupy-without- being-at-all-sweet, rose and so that makes me happy.
A belated thank you, and belated sympathy — keep smelling great and hope it gets better.
I’m sorry to hear that you’re having such a frustrating time. At least you can take pride in being the most competent and best-smelling person at work. I hope things get better soon.
SOTD 28 La Pausa, which made the usual disappearing act after 30 minutes. This one will not go on my list of FB Chanel exclusives that must be bought before september.
The weather’s finally turned sunny and slightly warm and I’m enjoying the midnight sun. I absolutely adore the midnight sun- how come there is no perfume with that perfect name?? I’m thinking a soft green floral to go with the season-possibly with iris or lilac…
8 sprays lasts all day on me 🙂
That should be last, not lasts!
🙂 I’l try dumping my entire sample of that on me and see what happens!
I’m wearing Tea for Two today, and I have exciting news.. I got the house!! There was a little negotiating back-and-forth but I still got it below asking. Inspection is scheduled for tomorrow. I’m so excited!
Congratulations!
Congrats!
Oh! That’s so wonderful, how exciting! Congratulations, sweetgrass. 🙂
That is so exciting! So happy for you.
????????????????????????????????congrats to you!
Woot! Congratulations!
Home sweetgrass home!
I hope the inspection shows a sound and safe house and you complete the deal with no drama!
Fantastic, good for you!
Today’s SOTD should have been the same as yesterday’s (Cristalle). But I decided to try a Tocca sample instead. It’s pretty, but not what I really wanted to wear today. 🙁
Left SotD = Eau des Merveilles
Right SotD = Muguet Porcelaine
They work nicely together.
JCE/Hermes scents I have tried together seem to be complimentary. I always enjoy it when the drydown from one scent amplifies or subtly shifts something in a newly applied scent. Accidental layering is a pleasant surprise. It’s as though there is a secret conversation between the fragrances.
SOTD has been Nicolai’s Musc Monoi.
SOTD = Chanel No. 19 EDP
Looks like a Chanel week but I am racking my brain for Friday’s project. I don’t want to wimp out with No.19 EDP and EDT. I have an idior and may go with that instead!