Happy Friday! Our community project for today: how far does the apple fall from the tree? Wear a pillar fragrance on one arm, and one of its flankers on the other. Hat tip to Happy888cat for the idea!
What fragrance did you pick? As always, do chime in with your scent of the day even if you’re not participating in the community project.
I went with an apple pretty close to the tree: I'm wearing Prada Infusion d'Iris on one arm (yum!), and Infusion d'Iris Absolue on the other (yum +1).
Reminder: 9/9 will be Tea Time Friday: wear a fragrance with a tea note.
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 Apples [background extended] by Ed Ivanushkin at flickr; some rights reserved.
Ahh, September! Cool morning and a perfect one for a spritz of Cuir de Lancome. Yes, fall is still 3 weeks away but still….
(no flankers here. Darn!!!)
I couldn’t come up with an idea for the project, so I’m wearing Parfum de Therese (for the nth time) and rtying to prolong that summer feeling.
I have always believed that summer starts on the 1st day of June and autumn on the 1st day of September. But after years of living in the UK I was slowly ground down by the arguments. I now concede that may, maybe, summer starts after the third week of June. What difference does it make in this climate, I said to myself, it’s not even properly summer in July on a bad year. But – autumn still starts 1st September! I wake up on Septemerb1st and I think, autumn is here. 3 weeks of summer, stolen from me, that’s how it feels.
In the northern hemisphere, according to meteorological seasons (as opposed to astronomical seasons) summer is from June 1 to August 31 so you are correct.
If only the UK would make up its mind which hemisphere it’s in! One of the reasons the other Mr Koenigsberg and I are looking to move to Spain is we’ve had one too many years where a wet Spring and a dull Autumn decided to meet in the middle of July. So often we seem to get a Northern hemisphere Winter followed by a Southern hemisphere Summer. ;^)
We’re having a great summer this year tho, and set to continue into next week!
Ah, Mayfly, the one year I get a contract overseas for Summer and you end up having a good one. (And I was in Paris for their worst June on record. Maybe the bad weather is following me!)
Last night I wore Diorella and got some Therese on my fingers while spraying it on a friend… while these are not technically flankers I think of them as relatives 🙂 I love Therese so much (my friend did too). It’s one of those I scrimp on because my bottle is tiny, but really it would be worth saving up for.
A meteorologist in Seattle proclaimed the first day of summer here is July 15, from which time we can expect sunny dry weather through the end of August. Most years that’s spot-on. Sometimes nice weather extends through September, but the quality of light changes and there are leaves on the ground beginning in late August, so I’m with you on September 1 being the official end of summer. Sadly.
You smell fantastic!
TGIF!
Thank you for accepting my suggestion Robin!
Prada twins today too!
Prada Candy on the left and Candy L’eau on the right. 🙂
It was a great idea, and obviously, great minds think alike 😉
Have you tried the Prada Kiss? I didn’t like it 1st sniff, but I have a paper sample in my purse, and it’s growing on me!
It’s a wonderful suggestion!
Go Prada! You smell fabulous.
I don’t have any perfumes to play in today’s challenge.
Finishing up reports in the office and wearing Ta’if today. Hope everyone has a great holiday weekend (in the US).
Ah, you smell great anyway! Good luck with the reports.
Apparently I do not buy flankers, at least that I could find. Instead I grabbed Grisette, which complements and extends yesterday’s rose fest. I’m feeling the pressure to wear all my summer stuff while I still can, and Grisette falls into this category. Last blast for the white pants too. I know we can supposedly still wear them after Labor Day, but I just can’t.
I thought about wearing white jeans today but it’s cold and pouring down rain, and that just doesn’t seem right. (Plus there’s a good chance they’ll get splattered with mud.)
I’m wearing Rien and it’s “flanker” Rien Intense Incense, which I find to be less Intense than the original. It wears much closer to the skin and feels somehow softer. Both are wonderful, but the original is my favourite.
What a great pair of scents!!
My plan was No. 5 and Eau Premiere, but my EP sample isn’t where it’s supposed to be and I’m not sure now if it even made it home with me. I wearing my only other option, La Danza delle Libellule and a dab of the “Exceptional” (exceptionally boring) version on my wrist. It is actually a very appropriately cozy scent for a day to be spent at the antique mall.
Isn’t the original a much nicer scent??
Much. I have no idea why they released the flanker. It’s disappointing and flat.
Not in the community project this week, although I already have my 5 samples featuring tea notes lined up for next week, and 5 nuts & grains for the week after, ;^)
SOTD is one of those vindications of the process of trying new things day after day. I’m in Paul Schütze “The Tears of Eros”. Listed notes are ambergris, benzoin, cardamom, cedar, incense, green orange, guaiac wood, hyacinth, labdanum, orris and pink pepper – no pyramid is implied.
I get cool hyacinth with iris, over a background of ashy incense and a hint of citrus. It is very cool-toned, and has good lasting power even on my skin. It actually reads somewhat green to me, although Fragrantica lists it as Oriental Woody.
It’s not remotely erotic (hence those tears, I guess) and in fact is rather a ‘solitary’ scent if that makes any sense? I think people who like greens or iris scents or cool scents might enjoy this a lot. I’m testing it on a warm day and wondering if it would be even better in hot heat to act against the weather, or in Winter cold to blend in with it? But for a perfume that is miles away from my own comfort zone, this is very good stuff.
Oh, and a PSA: up to 33% off Tom Ford decants at Scent Samples. :^)
I’m excited for nuts & grains week. I have very few but I always get a big craving for them when fall approaches.
Curious…what constitutes “grains”….??? Wondering what I have to wear for that community challenge???
Could be anything with any sort of cereal or rice or grain note (or nuts, obviously).
Thanks for clarifying…off to see if I have anything with rice notes 🙂
How’s your back?
You’re going to have a very nutritious two weeks of perfume. ????
Wearing Chanel No. 5 (EDP on one wrist, extrait on the other) and Chanel No. 5 Eau Premiere on the crooks of both elbows. Eau Premiere is lighter on aldehydes and flowers, and I can definitely smell vanilla in it. But the similarities are noticeable, too. I’d say that if Premiere is a flanker, it is a flanker done right: it is definitely a different perfume, but it still retains a lot of notes of the pillar.
Almost twins, Eau Premiere and vintage no 5 edc. They each have their charms!
Agreed! So now I don’t have to do a full response! 😀
Idole EDT and EDP! The spicier EDT still has my heart, but the boozier EDP is fierce competition.
Ended up with just one piece from the M.A.C Star Trek collection yesterday: the highlighting powder in Luna Luster. Alas, I was too pale for the more excitingly named Highly Illogical. 🙁
Wear it as eye shadow!
I really want those lipsticks.
I’m wearing vintage Miss Dior on one arm and Miss Dior Cherie L’Eau on the other. Let’s just say this apple rolled away to another continent 🙂
This made me laugh.
SERIOUSLY
LOL! 😀
Guessing you will win the prize for “most distant apple”.
Ding ding ding – we have a winner!
A chill is in the air this morning, decided on Tom Ford Extreme, it reminds me of Autumn. TGIF! 🙂
Shalimar Ode a la vanille & Shalimar
So good!!
Almost twins! I’m wearing Shalimar and the Mexique flanker.
Good combo.
I considered Shalimar/Shalimar … Mexique and/or Shalimar Initial L’Eau, but eventually went with Chanel.
Drat, that’s what I should have done!
I love SlRdM. I wish they still made it.
Yes, me too. Great combination courtesy of Hera and Sapphire. The weather flipped from Summer to Fall in 1 day.
Both are so awesome!
I was tired and cranky this AM and completely forgot about today’s challenge.
I am in Chanel No 18 – cool and subtle for a person who is too tired to feel either today.
Cranky Fridays are hard! You smell marvelous. Hope your day has been on an upward trend. 🙂
gorgeous scent!
Hope your day improved! Saw your post late about your clarinet playing! I saw the Benny Goodman Story as a kid, and wanted to play the clarinet. Didn’t happen. Glad you enjoyed your cello lesson, though.
TGIF
No flankers here just SL Fumerie Turque from the ever diminishing bottle.
Hi Robin, we’re twins! Irissy goodness.
Besides the Infusions, the t-shirt I’m wearing is scented with no 19 soap, like many of you I keep (still to be used) soaps in my wardrobe. This shirt is so strongly scented with no 19 that I might as well have been going commando, I think it is even stronger than EdT spritzed directly on fabric!
I agree that the Absolue is yum+1…
Agreed, the Absolue is great.
Hey twin!
Go Team Iris! Just lovely.
Happy Friday everyone!! Hope everyone in the US has a fabulous Labor Day weekend!
Well, I could have done the challenge…after brainstorming I realized that I have Glow and Miami Glow….but I just wasn’t grooving on those scents today. Too beachy for a gray rainy morning! But this was a cool challenge!
Parfum du Jour: Etat Libre d’Orange Fils de Dieu. I must have a full bottle someday….
Ooooooh!! Just remembered I have Queen and Queen of Hearts, but that combination would blow the Perfume Grinch right out of the office! HA HA HA 🙂
do it!
DO IT AND FLICK YOUR HAIR WHILE DOING IT!
I wasn’t sure if QofH was really a flanker, or I’d have done it. It would be quite a combo!
Is it too late to say “go for it!!!!” ??
I’m half-participating, in Bottega Veneta Eau Legere. The pillar scent is dreadful on me … but I thought about applying it somewhere. Does that count? 😉
But of course! Spray it on paper if you have to.
Same here. The original goes sour on me, but the Eau Legere is lovely.
I do actually have two: L’Eau des Merveilles and L’Ambre des Merveilles. Comparing arm by arm they do have a familial resemblance, but I like the ambre cosy-blanketing better.
I was going to go with that combo today but it’s just not the day for a cozy blanket. I like the L’Ambre and all of the Merveilles but the original is my very favorite and a summer staple for me.
Eau des Merveilles is so great in the summer. It’s like a palate cleansing burst of salty goodness after having too many sweets.
Good one! I love both of these.
Oooh, great combination. Les Merveilles for the win!
I meant to do Eau des Merveilles and Eau Clair des Merveilles today, but was in such a fog this morning that I completely forgot! You’re representing 🙂
I’m in Hermes anyway (Cuir d’Ange)
D’oh! I could have done that combo, too. Maybe Sunday.
Wearing YSL Paris extrait, from a mini bottle, which I’m guessing must be vintage (and man, this stuff is rich) and Paris Pont des Amours, one of the Printemps LEs.
I’ve only smelled one of the other Printemps editions and can’t even remember which one (Eau de Printemps maybe, or one of the Premieres Roses). Both it and PdAmours smell like Paris, except lighter, like they’re wearing gauze sundresses instead of a dressy suit in silk twill.
Some of them were really so nice — now I can’t remember which one I almost bought, but it was very green (in smell) and light. Gauze sundress is exactly right.
That extrait is almost thick to enough to travel in to the North Pole. Gorgeous though. Even though I’m Paris biggest fan, I’ve never even tried any of those flankers. But I’m sure you smell great.
Half twin! I’m in Prada Infusion d’Iris Absolue, but I don’t have its mother. I haven’t worn this since the winter. Forgot how much I like this one!
Happy long weekend to those who have one!
+1 and Yay for Infusion d’Iris!
Not much flanker representation in my collection, but I did find one, so I’m wearing Stella on one arm and Stella Nude on the other. I haven’t tried either in ages, and I remember liking Stella more than I’m liking it now — I’m pretty much getting conventional fruity-floral out of it, with enough rose to pull it in a more interesting direction. Stella Nude is a bit too clean for my tastes, but pleasant nonetheless.
I suppose I could have done vintage Apres l’Ondee parfum and vintage EDT, but really, it’s just going to be a day of working from home in my sweatpants, you know?
I think I used to like Stella more too…that ground has worn thin now with what was released since. Wish I still had some of the slightly darker Stella Rose Absolute.
Glad to know someone might understand why I was forlornly sniffing my empty Rose Absolute bottle this morning!
Aw!
Is your Stella the original formulation and you just like it less now, or is it perhaps the newer reworked version?
no project today. Pulp shower gel and perfume.
Delicious!
Smell awesome none the less!
Great choice, I want to smell that shower gel. Can’t wear the perfume but maybe the bath products could work.
I decided to try Shalimar EDT on one arm and Shalimar PI l’eau on the other. Both nice perfumes but not really similar, to my nose, and no surprise the original smells so much better than the flanker (or flanker of a flanker). I do enjoy wearing the PI l’eau in hot weather, though, esp. for the grapefruit note.
Almost twins! I’m wearing Shalimar EDP and Shalimar PI (I have some PI L’Eau somewhere, but couldn’t find it this morning), and I completely agree that these are definitely not similar at all.
I don’t have a single flanker!
It’s bright and fresh out today – we are getting a break from the humidity so I’m wearing AC Silver Iris, two sprays on each calf.
No clients so my project is to hang up some black out curtains. Our neighbor has odd work hours, so at 1AM or so the lights go on full blast in their kitchen and front room which is just steps from our bedroom windows. I was wondering why I’ve had insomnia for years and realized that the light coming in the windows is messing with my circadian rhythm.
Black out curtains (or blackout lining within curtains, if you’re having them made) are an absolute godsend if you’re at all light-sensitive. And ought by law to be applied in children’s bedrooms so the little horrors sleep longer! :^)
“the little horrors” nearly made me spray Mighty Mango Naked Juice all over my desk. 😀
hahahaha! I liked “the little horrors” too.
The black out curtains are up and totally block out even the daylight. The cat spent most of the day lounging in the darkened room.
Salutations to all!
I’m “flankless” as well. Scentless too at the moment. A very tense night with incredible storms and a highly stressed T-Rex pacing hither and yon, panting and running to safety under the bed with every crack of thunder or blast of wind. A few potted plants in the back yard succumbed to the storm, but other than that we lucked out. Again. ????
I’m planning a soothing bit of Bvlgari Black as soon as I get motivated. In the mean time, I’m sipping coffee and slowly waking up, while trying my darnedest to forget I’m working the long holiday weekend…
Hope everyone has a happy and safe holiday here in the US.
Glad to read you are safe.
Glad you’re doing well! Hope T-Rex gets some rest now, poor baby.
Sending stay safe wishes to you and T-Rex.
One of my dogs is terrified of storms and fireworks and I have found that swaddling her helps a lot. Either wrapping her in a blanket so it ‘ contains’ her ( works best if I can keep her next to me on the couch), or putting on her winter snow coat and tightening the straps so it is very snug on her body, and then putting her in her cage and covering the cage with a heavy blanket so it is like a little safe den. Both seem to help with easing the shaking and cowering. Poor things.
Glad you’re OK!
I only have a couple of flankers of anything, so I chose my favorite Jour d’Hermes and Jour Absolu. I almost went with Eau de Merveilles and Elixer de Merveilles, but I love the Jours more.
Jour d’Hermes is so beautiful. I imagine adding the Absolu is stunning.
Yes to Hermes! 🙂
Kouros and Kouros Body. Nothing in common IMHO, Kouros always feels mostly weird and Kouros Body pleasant but definitely not weird
You win 🙂
Donna Karan Gold and Donna Karan Gold Sparkling. Sparkling is a lighter, more summery version, with a bit of citrus. I like them both 🙂
Never heard of sparkling! That sounds so lovely.
I actually like Gold Sparkling better than Gold. (shhhh don’t tell)
I’ve wondered about Gold Sparkling. I find Gold quite heavy, even in the depths of winter.
Have you tried the Gold edt? It’s much lighter and greener, but still very lovely. It disappears in about two hours on me, though.
Heresy! I don’t even get lily from Gold Sparkling.
Nice — you smell fantastic.
I have fully embraced the apple theme and am wearing the original Be Delicious on the outsides of my arms and Delicious Night on the insides. Delicious Night is surprisingly nice, much more of a woody scent than a fruity floral.
You smell great. Every time I see a Be Delicious tester I give it a sniff. At first I thought they were a bit silly (those bottles! so many flankers!), but they are growing on me.
If Delicious Night is the one in the purple packaging, I admit I was in awe of that bottle.
Will you include SSS Equestrian in your apple theme post?
Kenzo Flower on one arm and Kenzo Flower Oriental on the other. I have always loved the Oriental more than the original.
Me too!
SOTD = Perfume Melange
It is a scent from Chez Moi. If you post in this blog, you already have a scent from this house, guaranteed!
Ha! In all seriousness, I am WFH and commando. My at home work desk is in my bedroom and my bedroom has a chunk of my perfumes (FBs, decants, samples) and it smells like a combo of the perfume molecules that are escaping from their containers.
I love that smell.
Ditto. It is right up there w/ the candy-filled pillowcase post trick or treating on Halloween night…a glorious melange…
This! Even with wrapped candy, the smell wafts out!
As I do but I am of course dying to know which perfumes are making up the fragrant bouquet.
The best perfume I have ever smelled was the bubble wrap from an order of samples. Samsara and Fracas were definitely part of it, but neither alone was nearly as heavenly.
True dat with the bubble wrap. Half the fun of getting swap packages is smelling and popping the non-recyclable bubble wrap!
My nightstand exudes this scent and it makes me happy every night as I settle down to bed.
A corner of my bedroom smells like this and wafts at me every time I walk past it. *swoon*
I assume that’s the corner where you either keep your perfumes, spilled perfume or wear perfume 🙂
🙂
I’m looking forward to cooler weather so I can move my fragrance stash back to my bedroom closet which backs up to an exterior wall that is warm in the summer. I love the perfume fumes when I open the closet door every morning.
Yes! My closet is scented by the Roja Dove Christmas candle and I know it is part of the mix I am smelling. I hope he makes a Christmas Candle perfume!
too cute! and one of these days I will take you up on no 22!
Uck! I see that my avatar has changed colors ! I know this was discussed yesterday or the day before but I was hoping I would stay blue 🙁
It looks blue to me.
Do do!
Your Melange sounds heavenly!
I’ve randomly remembered that my email was acting up way back in June, so I was wondering if you got the message I sent on 6/8? I had a few emails apparently not send, so I’m just checking/curious…
Yes I did..and I am behind in my shipping packages 😉
No worries. Like I said, I was just checkin’. ????
I am still trying to love Shalimar, it always smells like vinegar to me, but Sublisominem gave me some extrait that smells better than the EDP and the EDC that I’ve tried before. Still not a convert, but I love, love, love the Mexique one.
I tried SJP Stash yesterday at Ulta. You know, if I were still buying my fragrances in department stores, I would have grabbed this. It’s not fruity or flowery or gourmand and smells unlike most of what’s out there, but for somebody who has been exposed to Comme des Garcons and Uncle Serge and the other niche perfumers it doesn’t have the depth or the intricacy to prompt me to buy it. For the price point, it’s really nice, though, and I’ll be happy if it causes someone wearing Modern Muse to switch.
I tried the Stash also and liked it, but then smoky/woodsy/spicy is my favorite kind of fragrance anyway. It reminded me of the original Organza Indecence w/o the sweet pudding note I get from OI that I enjoy alternating with its smoky/woody notes. I’m not a fan of Lovely or any of the other SJP scents except for Covet, which is one of my shape-shifting favorites. I’d agree with you on hoping someone wearing Modern Muse would switch to Stash.
My comment above is based on a paper sample I rubbed on my skin yesterday. Today I spritzed some on the top of my hand and, while it still reminded me of OI st first, as I went about my errands and the fragrance dried down, it reminded me quite a bit of Halle Berry’s original fragrance, Halle. It also shares a strong olibanum note, although the fig in Halle makes it sweeter.
OK, NSTers are tempting me…anyone know where to smell Stash in Canada? We don’t have Ulta. 🙁
Yes, I want to know too!
I think I saw a print ad that said it was exclusive to Ulta. How long can that last, 3-6 months? When I tried it, it struck me as a light oriental topped with cedar/sandalwood a la TF Santal Blush. Lasted maybe 2 hours.
forgot all about this & am wearing kenzo jungle l’elephant since it’s a rainy, windy sort of day. it’s extremely delicious and I anticipate heavy rotation for it all autumn and winter 🙂
Love the elephant and you smell fab!
I am wearing Opium on my left arm and Belle d`Opium on my right…
I wound up w/ a set of YSL minis when I was passing through duty-free a few years back and they were too cute to resist and I haven’t really dipped into these.
The BdO bears almost no resemblance to the original. I am happy to sniff both on an almost cool, overcast morning today.
September is here!!! Break out the strong stuff. 😉
Also confession and the soul and all…
STC is doing 55% off Guerlains now and I abstained for the first round but went a little nuts today.
I bought:
Le Plus Beau Jour de Ma Vie
Mayotte
Vol de Nuit
Shalimar blah blah Route du Mexique
Carmen Le Bolshoi Vetiver pour Elle
Mon Precieux Nectar
Nuit d’Amour
Haven’t tried any of these before…a bit like Xmas in Sept.
nice haul!
I meant TPC…not enough coffee…
I did meant STC…oy vay…happy Friday!
Heh! I did too! It’s hard to resist guerlain55 🙂
I got:
Shalimar Parfum Initial
Chamade
Vetiver EDT
Mon Precieux Nectar Pure Parfum
Resistance is futile. I bought Samsara, Jardins de Bagatelle, and Mitsouko Pure Parfum.
I went to the site again last night and there were only 2 pages left of stuff.
Precieux Nectar I like a lot!
Good for you! The email arrived just when I had to leave for work this morning. Otherwise I would have done some damage. If anything is left at my lunch break there’s no telling what could happen.
Good choices – I have full bottles of Nuit d’Amour and Mon Precieux Nectar.
Chanel No. 19 Poudre on right arm, and No. 19 EDT on the left arm — layered with No. 19 lotion. Oh so nice!!!
I really enjoy both of these scents, and I know the Poudre is different enough that I can justify a full bottle at some point. For right now, I’m using a decant of it. No. 19 EDT has been full bottle worthy for a long time now 🙂
Poudre is wonderful. You smell great.
I am wearing Guet Apens on the left and Vol de Nuit Evasion (an EdT forumation of Guet Apens/ Attrape Coeur) on the right. Both are fantastic.
I am drinking some iced peppermint tisane.
A gorgeous late summer (or early meteorological fall) day here – bright summer sunshine but cooler fall temps in the mid-70’s. In a nod to the change of seasons, I’m wearing EL Sensuous extrait and EL Sensuous Nude edp. The Sensuous line works well for me, and I have at least minis of all of them in extrait, edp, and edt form and enjoy rotating them through the seasons. The original Sensuous edp is my favorite and I enjoy it in the fall.
I didn’t have many options: 1) Shalimar and Shalimar Parfum Initial – couldn’t bring myself to it, because I strongly dislike PI, 2) Iris Nobile edp and Acqua Nobile Iris – have no idea which is a flanker of which (or are they both flankers to the original edt? or is edp just a different concentration of the original edt and doesn’t count as a flanker?)
Of course, I had to cheat: Shalimar on one wrist, Jicky on the other. If Shalimar is a result of Jacques Guerlain’s dumping a bottle of vanillin into a vat of Jicky, surely Shalimar is a flanker to Jicky. Right? Anyway, they are really fun to wear together. They are pretty close, especially early on, and in their sillage. Later, and closer to the skin, the nuances appear, and it’s easy to miss these nuances when wearing only one fragrance.
It so doesn’t matter, but I think the EdP is just a different concentration, and I never did decide if the Acqua Nobile things were flankers to the original Nobile series, but I guess so. Talk about crazy naming systems.
No one beats Dior and what they’ve done to Miss Dior, I guess.
Every time I see “Jicky” my brain translates it to “Licky”. I have to learn Jicky…I remember not liking it but don’t recall why.
Oh, brilliant choice with Jicky and Shalimar. Must try this!!!
I didn’t expect it to be that interesting! When one has *ahem* quite a lot of perfumes, one starts to take some of them for granted. It’s nice to start paying attention again.
Oh, that sounds good and quite interesting! I’m going to have to try it.
No flankers for me today. SOTD – Gourmand Coquin.
I should pull mine out. You smell great!
Thank you 🙂
Love it!
They aren’t flankers at all, but the Aedes de Venustas line all seem like variations on a theme, so I’m wearing mostly Iris Nazarene, but Oeillet Bengale on one wrist. I like these a lot but they may make me cough. It may also be something atmospheric though. I hope so.
You smell great. Iris Nazarene is on the FB list for me 🙂
Keeping it simple today as I’m heading to the dermatologist 🙁
I dislike seeing any dr.
Wearing a touch of Bohea Boheme from a recent sample I purchased. Not bad.. smoky, for sure, and some amber too.
Happy Friday and long weekend!
I feel the same way.
Bohea Boheme sounds fabulous. Smoky Amber? Sign me up!
No flankers for me. Wearing Amouage 25, and feeling like I should have dressed up more. Trying to get bids from general contractors to do some work on my home, and the economy must be doing better because no-one is returning my calls.
If you live anywhere near Southern Louisiana, you may need to fall behind people who have to re-build.
Forgot about the challenge today. Right now, I’m at the county fair wearing vintage Bal.
That combination (the county fair and vintage Bal) sounds very glamorous. I picture you looking something like this: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-HeiurMcRAxk/TVd99cPd8MI/AAAAAAAAABw/gEX2gad8lew/s1600/Elizabeth+Taytor-2.jpg
I’m feeling grateful for samples and decants so I can play along today. 😀
Following Robin in a dab of Infusion d’Iris with a lovely spritz of the Absolue. A few years ago I would not have thought I would enjoy these scents. Now they’re my catnip.
In the evening I’ll switch to Chanel No. 5 parfum + EdP + Eau Premiere. I thought about wearing these this morning but couldn’t do it. My nose craves them in the evenings.
I love Prada Infusion d’Iris!
And thank you for your response to my question about Apres l’Ondee. I will give it another try!
For me the best part of trying Apres l’Ondee was recognizing the iris buried under so many flowers. I felt a bit clever. 🙂
You are clever all the time!
The original Lolita Lempicka on one arm and her lighter, sunnier little sister on the other, Lolita Lempicka Fleur Defendue. Pretty.
I wore LL last night. good stuff.
LL is a great line for this poll!
A really good combo is Angel and Lolita Lempicka. For some reason that defys logic and noses, they are smashing together. Wear Angel in your hair and at the sides of your neck. Spritz Lolita Lempicka wherever else you would like. Ridiculously delicious.
Did not want to wear Alien and its flankers today. Ditto with Angel. All the flankers I have seem to be built for cooler weather. So today I’m testing a sample of Elizabeth and James’ Rose. I definitely get the geranium and the rose, which is a honeyed one on me. Pretty!
Ha! I was originally going into the office today but because of a 6AM call, I decided to WFH. Had I gone to the office, I would have worn Angel and Angel Muse because an elevator is required (according to Wendysue).
I have a sample of the Rose waiting to be tried. I was not impressed with Vanilla Bourbon; it’s not bad but with so many better choices, I would not waste any skin time for one that is just average.
Do the Nirvana Rose and Bourbon count as flankers cause then I could have participated???
I think I read somewhere that the Rose and Bourbon are considered pillars and not flankers.
Yes — they’ve got nothing to be flankers to, since there was no one original “Nirvana” scent.
I agree with Jalapeno that they are no flankers but then again, I am not a perfume expert 🙂
But you play one on TV!
Fantasy Flanker Friday – wear a perfume you wish had a flanker and what would it be? I think Lucas had called out Prada Candy Man so perhaps we did this project already.
We did!
https://nstperfume.com/2015/05/15/friday-scent-of-the-day-515/
I find the rose honeyed get the geranium too. I’m going to have to give it more trial runs because I’m beginning to suspect vetiver isn’t my skin’s friend…
Coco and Coco Noir. I find the Coco Noir a bit harsh when first sprayed and a little unadventurous overall, but worth trying all the same…like Venice itself ( crowded with tourists and souvenir stalls but still beautiful nevertheless )
Good simile. I like both.
I don’t think I’ve actually smelled Coco Noir, which is just plain silly of me, but I have looooved Coco since I was a kid. Yet I’ve never had a bottle…which is doubly silly of me!
Don’t have a situation where I have both the pillar and its flanker (but count me among the Iris Absoloue fans). Instead I’m continuing my How Fall is It? week and pulling out Belle en Rykiel, which is kind of like the lavender version of Iris Absolue, if that makes a bit of sense.
It’s also more fall-into-winter, but it’s kind of gloomy here, so it works.
I’m partially participating in today’s project in that I’ve only got a flanker to wear. My first choice would have been my Stella and Stella Rose Absolute, but I used them all up. So I had to be a little creative, and I ended up choosing Habit Rouge. It may be ‘unofficial’, but it’s a Shalimar flanker.
Everyone stay safe from hurricanes, earthquakes, etc. and have a great weekend!!
I failed, you passed 😉
Well, I don’t know… If I only half-participated, that’s a 50% at best, which is an ‘F’. So I think we’re actually in the same boat. ????
Ended up wearing Yohji Homme because I’m trying to decide whether or not to recommend it to a friend.
Re the poll, I’ve been wearing SL La Myrrhe recently, so I might have worn La Myrrhe on one hand and its violet variation, SL Bois de Violette, on the other, had I not gotten distracted.
I think I’ve only got one set of original and flanker, so I’m wearing Alexander McQueen Kingdom on one wrist and a limited edition on the other (2004, I think). It’s not working too well – the original Kingdom overpowers everything in a 5 kilometre radius 🙂 , and I’ve got a cold, so any nuances are passing me by 🙁
It’s still an interesting exercise. This is the first time I’ve compared them side by side, and I can smell the relationship between them, even through my sniffy nose.
Elizabeth Arden Green Tea and Green Tea Camellia. Green Tea is a citrus cologne, Camellia adds something sharp and spicy that is not like a camellia at all.
Ahhhh, this reminds me that I could have done a L’Occitane The Vert and its flanker(s)…
I did not participate today. I started the day in Safran Troublant. Now I sprayed on some No. 22 EDT. Have a great weekend everyone!
No 22….you smell heavenly!
I was afraid I was going to comment too late last night for you to see it, so I wanted to say: Happy Birthday!
I thought your birthday was Monday!! But I read it was yesterday. Happy (belated) Birthday, dear Petunia????
Do you have the current formulation or vintage? I just got the current formulation this week and so gorgeous. You probably could have worn No. 5 and No. 22 since they are kissing cousins in my opinion.
Happy belated birthday, hope you have a wonderful birthday weekend and year ahead!
No flankers in the house and I ran out this morning naked and lucky for me had some Oud Al Sahraa at work….so that was my SOTD. Ugh, hate being back at work!
Only flanker choice was two flankers… Sensuous nude and sensuous noir. But wasn’t in the mood.
So, SOIKEA is Reveal. I was tempted to do Poudre de Riz again but I’m hoarding my sample.
Wearing a large dose of Coromandel today as I wanted to compare it to the new Louis Vuitton Matière Noire scent. They both have patchouli but the LV is much sweeter.
hm good to know. I’m getting to the end of my decant and thinking of getting a fb of Coromandel.
Ooooh, do tell…sweet as in sweet good or sweet as in toothache-inducing I hate it sweet?
For me it’s good sweet. 🙂 Their vanilla scent Contre Moi on the other hand is toothache diabetic coma sweet, not my thing.
As for Coromandel, it seems to be out of stock already, they are waiting for the edp versions, but no eta yet.
So there is hope for the LV fragrances – yay!
I’m glad I got my BUB of Coromandel back when the rumors first came out.
I own no flankers, and I only own one that might possibly have a flanker (azuree). So after overthinking how I could almost participate in the project, I just sprayed on Guerlain Derby (current version). A good choice, it turns out; air conditioner at work was off.
Lots of you were much more creative!
I was going to participate today by wearing Omnia and a flanker. But when I pawed through the sample pile the only flanker I turned up was Omnia Jade, which I just couldn’t bring my self to wear. So I bagged the Omnia idea and just went with No. 19 edt instead.
Happy weekend to all!
I don’t even remember what the Omnia smelled like. Thumbs up for No. 19 eventhough you are wearing the EDT 🙂
So, so late to this party. And I can’t say that I actually participated; I’ve had a cold all week and can’t smell a thing, so…..
But if I had, I would have had Estee Lauder White Linen (vintage!) on one wrist and the flanker Pure White Linen Light Breeze (surely they could have made the name longer) on the other. The vintage White Linen is big and bold with plenty of aldehydes and florals. PWLLB is a bit citrusy, a bit green, and very prettily floral. It’s nowhere near as memorable as White Linen, but it’s a good “no-brainer” scent, the kind you’d grab and give yourself a quick spritz before you walk out the door, knowing it would be suitable just about anywhere.
I had and wore them both…and agree the Light Breeze was so pleasant and a no brainer whereas the original could be challenging in tight quarters if overdone (which is exactly how I used to wear it!!!! Don’t ever get in an elevator with me-LOL!)
I’d have liked to try Baiser Vole/Baiser Vole Essence, but I only have a bottle of the Essence, and my sample of the original BV was dry. So I was left with only one option: L de Lolita Lempicka and L de Lolita Lempicka Coral Flower. They don’t have very much in common, except that both are fairly sweet. I was afraid they would clash, but the combination was pleasant enough. I tend to wear Coral Flower in the summer. It smells like sugared grapefruit to me, but with something odd and inedible and a little like bug spray (the driftwood?) underneath it. It was a blind buy, because I like the bottle so much. (A charm with my initial picked out in seed pearls! Frosted blue glass! My little-girl heart is melted every time I see it.) I hadn’t worn the original L in a while, and I’d almost forgotten how much I like it, with its warm, sweet (but not candy-like) vanilla, underlaid with a well-judged amount of cinnamon and a hint of something herbal that I assume is from the immortelle.
Fun community project, and for once I checked on Monday to see what it would be, instead of waiting until the last minute and drawing a blank, or checking the night before and being paralyzed with indecision, or having a plan but completely forgetting it was Friday. (I may be a little scattered lately.) Even when I don’t post, I always read about what everyone else wore, although I sometimes keep it to read offline at a later date. (I have a super-cheap cell phone plan.) Occasionally I mean to post a response to something, but by the time I have the Internet access and some time, I’ve forgotten where and to whom.
Which is to say: If you, dear reader, are the person who was looking for “an airy tuberose,” I have a suggestion for you. Fragrance Republic 01/02, Vapeur de Tubereuse, is indeed a vaporous, ethereal, possibly kind of wimpy tuberose. (As it turns out, that’s how I prefer my tuberose.) The list of notes sounds a little heavy, but it really is a light, summery perfume.
Hey, my Gravatar changed! I used to be blue.
Yeah…we are all lamenting the lose of our originals…mine was dark blue…Robin says it has nothing to do on her end…I guess we just have to go with the flow and get used to our new colors 🙂 !!!
I for one am glad! You are welcome to my former blue as I am not a blue person at all; I would love your deep red but I’m quite happy with my sunshiney yellow!
It is something at Gravatar.com, and I have no idea if they will change again, or change back, or … ?
And “they” are “identicons”, which are assigned to people who didn’t go to Gravatar and upload an image. An option, if you like yours, is to turn it into an image and go upload it at Gravatar in case they change them again — or, of course, you can find any other image you like (even just a flat color) and go upload it there.
Maybe I’ll try again. The last couple times, it told me that my email and username were both being used, although I don’t remember signing up for an account. I couldn’t reset the password, and couldn’t do anything without one.