Ack, it's Monday again! What fragrance are you wearing?
This time I really overslept. My apologies, I know I'm late! I wearing Estee Lauder Bronze Goddess whipped body cream on my hands, but that's it so far.
Reminder: 7/22 will be Flashback Friday — wear a fragrance you wore "back in the day". I think this was suggested by Bee and MikasMinion?
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: image is Hydrangea [cropped] by Henry Hemming at flickr; some rights reserved.
I just hope you are feeling better for it, and your hands are beautifully fragrant. I’m wearing Biagiotti’s Roma which was a staple when I would have about 4 or 5 bottles at one time. It’s still really nice.
I stayed up too late, and so yes, I needed the sleep, thank you! And you smell great.
You do smell great! I need to wear that one soon.
I know that Dune is the better fragrance but Roma is just so likeable. I’ve since added some Balle de Match on top and that works just fine.
I like both, but they don’t really remind me of each other. Do they smell similar to you?
Roma is a Dune sibling, like Allure. I can smell the kinship, but they are very different in overall effect.
I overslept yesterday, and am still somewhat disoriented today as a result. SOTD is Le Galion Iris, hoping it will help get my brain back in my head. Happy Monday!
Good luck with the brain — mine is still floating around somewhere 🙂
Tying those things down is so difficult.
SOTD Le Galion Whip – sister! Whip is a good brain-reviver actually.
Soivohle Rosa Sur Reuse for me today
Such a nice one. I never bought a bottle, but I have gone through at least two sample vials of RsR, with three more samples floating around here somewhere…
A*Men Pure Zest. Pure Breakfast, more like: the sweet-coffee note of A*Men intensified and then punched up with orange juice. It really is a great wakeup scent.
And of course it’s actually called Ultra Zest, which means I did not have enough caffeine today. Working on it….
Pure Zest sounds so likely that nobody would have objected 🙂
I’m wearing YSL Paris. I didn’t wear it back in the day, but I could have!
In retrospect, shocked at how much we used to put on! We were floating in the stuff. When I wear it now, it’s a dab or two.
Trying to compete with all the other loud, overapplied perfumes at the time maybe!
That must have been it 🙂
I feel the same way about Paris – somehow I never ran across it when it was new, and yet I am sure I would have fallen in love with it immediately.
I’m so happy I found a vintage bottle in good condition.
My all time favourite! Glad you were able to find a vintage bottle.
I recently bought a vintage bottle, too. And I still drench myself in it 🙂
Still scentless, but I have a Cire Trudon Abd El Kader candle going. Currently scrolling through Pugs of Instagram while Zelda glares at the computer suspiciously.
The (free!) app “Mathe Alarm” has been nothing short of life-changing for me in terms of oversleeping. It makes you solve math problems to turn off the alarm. You choose the number of problems and their difficulty (my current settings are 8 medium problems). I wholeheartedly recommend it to the sleepyheads among us!
Wow, great idea, but that would be too much stress for me — one easy problem, maybe 😉
It’s not a very gentle way to wake up, but I haven’t slept through the alarm once since downloading it about 2 months ago! Which gives me so much more time in the morning to catch up on my favorite perfume blogs! 😉
Wow – kind of brilliant, but I might need tea before I attempted to try any.
Having time to make tea in the morning is a big part of my motivation for using the alarm! 🙂
I can see how effective that app would be. But, man, an alarm going off *and* math problems? That’s like my idea of Hell. ????
Right? Isn’t getting up enough work already?
I kind of had a crap week/weekend and had to miss half the fun things I had planned, and am trying to turn this week around. Currently having a scoop of crunchy Jif peanut butter (so nutritious, I know) and sniffing my Bottega Veneta to keep me going.
Hope all are well
A big spoonful of peanut butter does help, though!
Gave me a shot of energy for a bit, which helped for sure. And it was also delicious.
Peanut butter is good for you due to having good fats in it for your heart, so technically it is nutritious!
Sorry you had a crap weekend. Hopefully this week will be smooth sailing for you.
Thank you! And I’m relieved to know I’m making the healthy choice 🙂
Hope your doctor’s appointment went well last week.
Thank you so much for checking! The pain disappeared by the time I went to the doctor, and while we did all sorts of tests to check, everything came out normally. Just a fluke I guess, but I’m grateful it was that and not something serious.
Thanks so much for the good wishes!
I wonder if i was work stress?
Sorry about the crappy weekend. We missed you. But yum to the Jif and the BV!
And I missed you guys. 🙁 But CB I Hate Perfume was good, no?
It was fun. All totally new to me, so even better. The location kind of sucks, as it’s only near the L. Probably would have been a hike for you.
To top everything off, there were no Manhattan bound trains anywhere near me this weekend, so getting anywhere at all was a huge hassle. (Yay?)
So glad you had fun!
Hope the rest of the week goes better!
Thanks Robin!
Hope it is a better week. You missed our brief discussion on peanut butter at CB I Hate Perfume… It is apparently something unique to the US as far as liking it goes. I grew up on Jif, but adapted to Skippy after marrying. I admit that sometimes a spoonful is my dessert…
I’m in the UK and have acquired a taste for peanut butter and banana (or apple) sandwiches. Peanut butter with jelly/ jam, though – that is definitely a US perversion.
I can *only* eat PB sandwiches if they contain sliced apple.
Almond butter in apples is excellent, so I imagine the sandwich is good too.
And I like the natural sort with no added salt or sugar.
I grew up on the natural kind and my health foody parents would pour off the oil(when all fat was still bad for you) so it was just a dry paste and I hated it. I loved going to friends and eating “junky” peanut butter.
I grew up on health food store peanut butter too, (salt-free, of course), spread on heavy, dense, homemade whole wheat bread that felt like a brick. When I saw it in my lunchbox I wanted to cry (and was so envious of other kids eating wonder bread, oreos and sodas.)
I’ve only come around to enjoying peanut butter recently but prefer almond butter as I don’t seem to digest peanuts well. Trader Joe’s makes my favorite of both, and I eat nut butter sandwiches all the time 🙂
I know it’s kind of “junky” as Elisa says, but yes, I love it too…
Well, I don’t mean to be judgemental, but after living in several different countries I have come to the conclusion that peanut butter outside of North America tastes kind of weird to North American taste buds.
Wishing you an excellent week, this time around!
Thank you Creosote!!
Wearing a copious amount of NU YSL.
Third consecutive day and it is wonderful ! Black pepper, incense, and the fantasy orchid accord, which is a dark floral smell. Difficult to get a handle on.
Hopefully no one sees my white cotton undershirt stained orange amber. The bottle leaks (now empty) , and I sopped up the leakage.
Looks awful- smells GREAT! !! 😉
That reminds me of old television shows when a man would kiss a woman’s cheek and she would claim that she’ll never wash it again. 🙂 I guess you’re going to have to do the same with that T-shirt. You can use it as a pomander in your drawer.
Yes Petunia !
I once wore Cinnabar while working out and hung the clothes in the basement for the two days until I did laundry.
Smelled fantastic! Better perfuming the basement than me !
Better to smell good than to look good! I have a small decant of Nu. Maybe I’ll give it a try on a hot evening-wouldn’t have thought to wear that in the heat.
Yes Elisa, try it in the heat it blooms wonderfully!
You smell great. I have to bust that one out, now that it’s semi-summery weather.
Thanks jjlook ! It is a well-balanced perfume!
Nice in any weather.
Couldn’t help laughing at the mental picture I got of your shirt: that it might look like you’re sweating out some weird substance and cause other people to do a double-take. (“OMG, is he OK?”)
But if you smell good, so what!?! ????
???? Creosote! !
Good morning all!
SOTD: Vera Wang Embrace: Periwinkle and Iris. Smells like candy on my skin….
A little candy never hurts 🙂
Wearing a rose scent at the suggestion of my 8 year old. We are both in SL La Fille de Berlin, such a beautiful opening!
The little one has excellent taste!
You both smell great!
Love the scent and that you get to share it with the little person. Too cute. Girl likes her roses, huh?
That is so sweet!
Too cute!
Thanks! She is so much fun to take perfume sniffing; she sprays the paper strips and waves them dry before smelling… It is so cute to watch!
That’s so sweet! You both smell fantastic.
I’m wearing Beyond Paradise. I was looking through my basket of unboxed minis and rollerballs, which I haven’t touched in a while, and Beyond Paradise struck me a good fragrance to wear this week. We are supposed to break 100 degrees this week, for the first time this summer. We’ve had many heat indexes that hot so far, but this is the first time it is supposed to hit that in actual temperature.
Ooh thanks for the reminder – I have a mini of Beyond Paradise that I should pack for my Hawaii trip! You smell great in the heat, though hope you can stay cool!
Happy Monday!
1) Went house hunting yesterday and (rather impulsively)told the agent to prepare a contract. A funky little townhouse that is well maintained but needs updating of appliances and carpet. Great price and a great set up for roommates. HOWEVER, it is clear across town where I currently live, and it would increase my commute time considerably. I would need to get a scooter or a car, so there is that extra expense. I think I am going ask the agent to not submit any contracts yet until I can see something in a similar price range a bit closer to transit links.
2) Am wearing Molinard’s Jasmine, which I picked up on sale from Anthropologie. It’s very lovely, and dries down to a warm skin scent. It’s been cool in the mornings so this scent clings to the skin, but when it warms up in the afternoon the scent rises beautifully.
House hunting really is stressful and commuting is SUCH A HUGE part of the decision. Good luck finding a nice place!
Oh, thank you so much! 🙂 It’s nerve wracking; I really like the place but mapped my commute again and again this past hour (when I should have been working!) and ugh, at best it’s an extra 20 minutes each direction- so extra 40 minutes a day, every day. Oy! But at this price I can get a scooter, so that is something.
One question to ask yourself, I suppose, is: will you have the job for as long as you’ll have the townhouse? And if you got a different job would the commute be the same?
Very smart and I’m impressed by your rationale. It’s hard to be logical when you fall in love.
Location Location Location is the cry of agents everywhere- and the thing is, for where this is located in Portland, it will be the next hipster hub in 5 years (maybe). But I work in Wilsonville. So I have set myself up: I will ask for $3K in closing costs in addition to the full asking price- and wait. If it’s meant to be, it’s meant to be, inshallah que! If they counter or say no, then I will be backing out.
Commando at the moment and debating between Jicky and Shalimar today. It’s going to be hot and humid today, so I don’t exactly want anything bombastic.
My two cents: Jicky.
And I vote for Shalimar 😉
Both? 😉
Popping from my staycation on my girlfriend’s computer to say hello. SOTD- Assam of India which I have been wearing religiously since July 1st….hope everyone is having a great summer!
That sounds like a scent I would love, but where might I find a decant?
I actually bought the bottle blind from an online apothecary called Smallflower because of the notes (lemon, assam black tea and MYSORE SANDALWOOD), the gorgeous bottle and box (I happen to love elephants) and Robin’s positive review last year…I am pretty sure that Smallflower sells samples of Assam of India for about three dollars and I don’t think that they charge shipping for the samples. Also, if you sign up for their emails you get 10% off so if you want a full bottle that is a nice savings.
Oh and that would be “popping in” NOT “popping” from my “stay-cation”(well, at least I did not mistype it as “pooping”-LOL!)
I have stuck with Assam for almost three weeks because I am also doing Angela’s one bottle challenge AND the Assam fit into the Friday “cologne” challenge for that week and the Friday “best summer scent” challenge for the subsequent week…so even though I am not commenting on a regular basis I am still participating 🙂 !!
However, I am still sampling as I got a great package from a very generous NSTer ( Holly , you are the best!) and have finally had the opportunity to sample five from Providence Perfume company!!!
Lolita Lempicka Sweet is my SOTD. And, I am currently drinking a cup of Numi White Rose tea.
I’m in a jasmine dose today: Flying Fox shower gel (just a little, as the bottle’s not really mine) and Jasmin et Cigarette.
Has anyone tried any Red Flower products in the Spanish Gardenia scent? I tried their rose-scented salt scrub and I really liked the way it performed, but it didn’t smell like rose AT ALL to me. It smelled a little like the YSL Glossy Stains, actually (those smell kind of grape-y to me).
I saw Hautelook is having on sale on the Red Flower products this week. I’ve not tried, but there are stand alone shops here in nyc I believe.
The Hautelook sale is what prompted me to think about it! But they might not have the scrubs, and there’s still shipping to deal with . . . we’ll see, I guess.
You smell like a queen, and we are scent cousins! 😀
One happy jasmine family!
Houbigant Oranger en Fleurs
Lovely!
You smell great!
SOTD – Hard Leather. Completely weather un-appropriate, but feel it should be OK in the A/C building. Feels like it goes well with my black ‘fake’ concert type punky t-shirt
Today’s I am wearing Jo Malone’s Carrot and Fennel – nice and light.
But not the stereotypical light floral SAs always try to foist on women. You smell great!
Happy Monday Everyone!
My SOTD is Ysatis by Givenchy. My mom used to have a huge bottle of this years ago. I loved the way it smelled on her, so I would always spray some on myself. I bought myself a bottle a couple of months ago and I’m so glad I did. Hope everyone has a great day.
Ysatis is amazing. I love to say the name.
It is a fun name. I always feel so sophisticated when people ask what I’m wearing. I say, ” Its Ystasis, darling”. Lol!
I had a friend who wore that in high school and she always smelled so good (and different). I have a mini but haven’t smelled it in a while. You’ve inspired me to break it out soon.
Yay!
Completely forgot to put on scent today, so I’m commando and I don’t keep anything in the office/purse. Oh well.
I had a I-need-a-weekend-from-my-weekend type of weekend so I’m all sorts of scatter-brained today, which probably explains why I forgot scent. (I feel so naked now!) I did have a lot of fun though. Pool party on Saturday where my husband and I were terrorized by a chicken (he was bitten, I was chased) and then tea with my girl friends on Sunday and an evening movie with friends (new Ghostbusters – not great, but a good laugh out loud summer flick).
I sympathize with your scentless state.
My parents kept chickens for years. Our hens didn’t chase people but they would peck our hands when we tried to gather their eggs. Could it have been a rooster? They can be scarey.
No, it was definitely a hen. Apparently, my husband was trying to treat it like a cat/dog and put his hand out to it and it may have thought his fingers were food so it gave him a good hard chomping bite and next thing I know everyone is laughing and he’s walking around with a bloodied napkin wrapped around his finger. It took quite a nip of him. Later the owner of the house we were at was tossing some pizza crusts and the chicken and dog were fighting over them. I then got pizza and the chicken started chasing me for it.
Chickens take their food pretty seriously and it really hurts when they peck. That story is priceless! 🙂 Although, it sounds like you both had a great time despite the chickens.
Loose chickens in my area would end up on the menu for neighborhood dogs, coyotes and foxes among other predators.
It was a large pool party and many people complained of having their toes nipped at by the chicken as well, but my husband got the worst bite.
I had the best time in New York over the weekend, and am so glad I got to spend time sniffing at CBIHP with some of you!
Wearing Smell Bent St. Tropez Dispenser because it’s oppressively summery outside. Such a fun, happy scent
Sorry I missed this! Glad it was such fun for you. It’s a great group of perfumistas!
And we missed you! What does it take to drag you into Brooklyn?????
hahaha! I go maybe once a year. So bad, I know!
It was fun and great meeting you????
It was fun! Keep us posted on wedding scent.
Wearing Covet which I still love after dreading 100ml in high school. Whenever I see a bottle at TJMaxx or wherever, I always hesitate: do i need a backup? I never wear it but I wound hate to run out.
Draining. My my
I guess it will disappear eventually? I’m sort of surprised it can still be found anywhere.
I see it infrequently but never at the “Gotta Get it” price. Still I think I’ll get another bottle this year so I don’t miss out. Wearing it today made me love it again.
SOTD is Seville a l`Aube.
Nice and quiet working from home with the AC pumping.
That is a yummy scent.
Don’t know whether this counts as “back in the day”, but I haven’t been wearing much of BP’s PC01, which used to be a summer favourite. Dusted it off and spritzed it liberally.
I guess “back in the day” will vary quite a bit on how old you are, and how you define “back” 😉
I’m in a good dousing of ELDO Jasmin et Cigarette topped of with Diptyque Jasmin. Ahhh.
Hi, twin!
I missed that. You do smell fantastic! I’m jealous of your Flying Fox. I need to pick up another Godiva shampoo bar. Love that one, too.
Jasmine Monday! Makes all Monday’s just right.
So in love with jasmine et cigarette lately. FB is definitely in the offing; luckily Sephora has those little ones. It is a dream.
Beauty habit has the little ones for less than Sephora, fyi. 🙂
DO TELL. Thanks!
I couldn’t decide which scent to wear this morning because it’s hot and humid. Since I couldn’t decide, I finally grabbed Beige which is easy to wear and always right.
Outrageously humid here too — good choice.
So far it’s been a really great Monday, since I have a half day off and got to sleep in. Wearing Dzongkha to help me focus later when I get to work.
Half a day off and sleeping in is the right combo for a great Monday!
Wouldn’t that be nice if all Monday’s were this way (and Friday’s too!)
Wearing Alien Eau Extraordinaire today…
Going to the dentist for a teeth cleaning this morning and it always seems prudent to avoid edgy and/or loud scents for dental visits.
Hope everyone is off to a great week!
Chanel Beige for me today. I’d received a decant from a kind perfume pal and noticed that it is evaporating rapidly so better use it up! It is lovely.
Hey twin. I have the same problem with my decant of Beige. Guess we’ll have to use them up fast.
I’m doing Pretty Florals week, at least as long as it stays cool-ish here. SOTD is VCA California Reverie. Hope those of you in the heatwave aren’t melllllllting.
You smell great, pixel!
SOT morning has been one of the Aqua Allegorias, but I’m switching to another one, Herba Fresca, this afternoon. It is SO dark outside right now, and I wish we’d get a few inches of rain accompanied by some t&l.
Generous dousing of Diorissimo. Need to do general apartment cleaning after being gone. Hoping this keeps me cool and fresh. I am a Muguet bomb at the moment. I swear I can taste it. It is way more forward LOTV than it was when I wore it back in the day.
Our AC in bedroom isn’t working but we are hoping it gets fixed by this evening. There are benefits to a small apartment. The living room AC combined with fan has made sleeping okay. But…we are in for the official heat wave this week, and it would be nice to get it fixed.
Welcome home! Yes, back in the heat!
Diorissimo is gorgeous. I’m eyeing a vintage mini bottle of this one.
Do hope your AC is working soon!
Oh, I hope they come to your rescue soon.
Bedroom cleaned and reinstalled. Working on living room now. The Diorissimo disappeared quicker than I expected….
Tom Forde Neroli Portofino. I seem to be majoring in neroli this summer.
That is a good major.
That’s a nice fragrance!
Best of good days to NST. As an act of will, I’m not remembering yesterday– Baiser Vole just about kept me afloat, but I could feel the air leaking out of my life raft. Today I need a perfume that will patch the leak and help me with the foot pump–I’m wondering if Black Cashmere is the one, or whether I should bring in a real heavy and wear The Elephant…yes, I think so. For all its size and presence, the elephant is good natured. I rather need an infusion of good nature at the moment, because I seem to be perpetually cross. Pity I have to spray it on from a bottle, though! Be well and safe, everyone.
I hope today is a better day for you and Elephant works it’s magic.
Vinty No. 19 edt today, trying to cope with busy-weekend aftermath.
I was wearing bijou romantique all weekend…I have a spray and a dab sample from awesome perfume pals, and I might just prefer this one dabbed? Usually it’s the opposite, but I think it’s less powdery that way.
You smell great!
I like that perfume a lot.
Ah, Monday. Wasn’t it just Friday? What happened to the weekend?
SOTD is AG Quel Amour!
Have a good one, all y’all.
It seemed like a quick weekend to me too! And as usual the summer is flying by too fast.
Looking at an amazing orange sunrise right now, and it’s reflected in the windows of a nearby building which is glowing against a dark sky – stunning. I think this calls for a particularly stunning perfume, so I’m going Encens Mythique d’Orient. I’m on an interview panel today, so hopefully it won’t overwhelm the interviewees!
You smell gorgeous. 🙂 Love Encens Mythique.
Started the then-sunny day in Hermès Eau de Rhubarbe Écarlate but it’s about gone. Now it’s cold and grey and am undecided as to where to go next. Am eyeing Shalimar Souffle, Kelly Caleche, Terracotta, but may well end up in YSL Paris, which I am loving this (cold, not-yet) summer.
Finally decided I wanted a change from citrus-based scents, so today I’m in Florabotanica. Not bad at all.
LADDM to celebrate (?) my birthday. It’s the one that started me down this rabbit hole; I blame Andy Tauer for all that came after. 😉
Happy birthday, and you’re wearing a classic.
Happy birthday!! Can we know what kind of cake you are having?
I still haven’t had a chance to try LADDM (shame on me!), but I imagine you smell wonderful!
Happy birthday! Great one to start your perfume journey. I think the first one I ever bought for myself was Sand and Sable after obsessing over a magazine scent strip.
Happy birthday and great fume choice!
Happy scented birthday!
Happy Birthday, Aparatchick!
Andy has a lot to answer for… but he certainly didn’t steer you wrong with ALDDM!
Happy Birthday! You smell great!
A very happy birthday, and Tauer deserves plenty of blame 😉
Happy Birthday! Hope all your wishes come true. 🙂
Happy happy birthday!!
Thanks for all the lovely wishes. No cake for me, but there was a perfume purchase. 😉
Wearing Tauer’s Zeta which lovely Natalya sent my way. What a nice fragrance for this summer day — so airy and truly flowery. I was immediately disappointed to learn that this is not in production any longer.
Hot and humid, after big thunderstorms and hail this morning – Paprika Brasil is just right.
LOVE Paprika Brasil!! I should wear this tomorrow!
Summer hail! We have not seen that here for years, knock on wood.
The last of my sample of La Chasse aux Papillons spilled in my purse, so I’m wearing the last tiny bit that was in the spray tube. On the bright side, my purse smells fantastic!
Oooh opening your purse and smelling La Chasse does sound heavenly. It probably lasts longer there, too.
I too am wear EL Bronze Goddess , so hot and humid here it is just delightful