Happy Ada Lovelace Day! What fragrance are you wearing?
I'm countering the autumn chill with Serge Lutens Chêne, from Angie's Top 10 of Fall 2011 (among others).
Reminder: on 10/14, wear one of your Top 10 of Fall fragrances. (And I know I need to update the upcoming Friday projects, I promise I'll get that done this weekend.)
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: the "Side-Slice Wood Block: original zisha sculpted teapot design by Lu Wen Xia" is $2,250 at Leona Craig Art.
It’s a beautiful, bright fall day and I’m wearing Lonestar Memories to match my denim dress and red shoes. Outside the windows in the library the trees are red, yellow and green gorgeousness.
Sounds perfect!
Sounds wonderful!
Same here! Sun and fall colours in Montreal are lovely.
I am In Dior Dune. This is one of my top 10 fragrances for Fall. I know it does not have too much love these days, but I wear it regularly during colder days. The amber and vanilla notes of the dry down are very cozy and inviting. It turns powdery on me with a great velvety feeling which I love. It that lasts forever.
I used to love Dune very much – it was nearly my signature scent for about one or two years in the early 90s. Nothing else smells or smelled like it! You smell great.
I tested a bit of Xerjoff Dhajala the other night and it reminded me of Dune. I may be alone in this, though 😉
I love Dune – it was my SOTD yesterday. This is the best time of year for it too – I get much more of the dry-down. You smell fantastic!
I love your choice of image to go with your scent. Plus you smell amazing.
I’m wearing Mon parfum chéri par Camille today. It’s stunning.
This has been on my to-sniff list for a long time and for some reason I have not acted on it. Must make a better effort!
It’s a unique fragrance and very much worth a sniff.
I wore MPCPC to bed a few nights ago and my robe still smells fabulous! One of my all time favorite perfumes. Do you have the EDP or EDT? I bought the EDT but now wish I had the EDP.
Greedy person that I am, I own both. I got my 2 bottles quite short after MPCPC was released. My guess is that a lot of people blind bought it, didn’t like it, and sold it on on ebay. So, I got mine for a song.
I bought both as well. Not a huge difference between them on me.
I love that teapot. Can’t tell if it’s wood or ceramic made to look like wood.
I’ve been staring at it, wondering the same thing.
I love this one, I haven’t tried the edt tho, which is supposedly more Irisy. U smell ravishing!
I also got mine for El Cheapo on eBay- would u recommend blind buying the edt?
Like Cazaubon above I don’t smell a big difference, the EDP is bigger. With Songes, Heure Exquise, Nuit Etoilée and Grand Amour the difference is much more marked, and there I do prefer the EDP. I think I must have bought the EDT first, enjoyed it and then was able to get my mitts on the EDP for next to nothing.
Great, thanks, will stick with edp.
Such a nice chypre! You smell awesome. And smart. And cozy.
Thank you!
Can I have one of those tea pots..
Just looked at the price. I will pass
SOTD Gaiac 10
I haven’t been outside yet but the sunshine looks inviting.
Had a busy busy weekend. My toddler was not feeling well..she has a fever. On Saturday I went for a Korean body scrub downtown. They keep scrubbing and scrubbing and my skin felt amazing afterwards. I use to go to a similar place when I lived in SF. Glad I found one here in NY
Have a good week ahead.
What’s the place? Always interested in checking those kind of places out.
tribeca spa of tranquility is where I went. they are having a spa month special so its a good deal this month. If you google you can find something close you to you maybe (not sure where you live)
Hope your little one feels better.
We have a couple of those in PDX metro, and my goodness do they scrub and scrub. But you feel great afterwards.
Your toddler will get better, I bet!
I hope the fever breaks and everyone is back to good health.
Poor little monkey- hope she’s feeling better soon!
I hope your little one gets better soon
I hope your little girl feels better soon.
CdG Kyoto. This is a stressful week at work and I need every bit of calm I can muster.
I am drinking a cup of Yogi Tea Kava Stress Relief.
sending you some calm meditative vibes
You picked the perfect de-stressing scent — hope it all works!
You smell amazing and peaceful.
Fougère Bengale (Parfum d’Empire). Haven’t worn this in ages, Autumn in a bottle.
I need to dig this one out. You smell great!
Moschino pour Homme edt 1990.
Leather and tobacco leaves.
Broke out the ceramic heater because I refuse to turn the house heater on this early.
Triple strength coffee, waiting for the Chinese restaurant to open, so I can have Sesame Chicken.
Yummy all ’round! !! 😀
I used to have some Moschino pour Homme and it was so great! Do you have that loopy bottle that’s a pour on one end and a spray in the other?
No, mine is a ‘regular’ spray.
That tricked out bottle I’ve only seen photos of online.
Very handsome fragrance.
😉
Coffee and sesame chicken sound great for breakfast!
I’m wearing the last dregs of my Lolita Lempicka mini and wondering if I want the one ounce bottle, or if I should buy another mini.
I have a mini AND a 1oz bottle. I’d say it depends on how much you’ve worn it or think you’ll wear it? Or if you’d wear it more if you had more of it? Decisions, decisions…
Lovely fall chill this morning so I’m decked out in I Coloniali Mirra e Mirra, bittersweet warmth with just a hint of astringency. I’m so sad that this is long discontinued and I’m almost out: Douce Amere (which I love) is close but it’s just not the same.
Azemour. The golden light was coming in at just the right angle this morning and it was the first thing I thought of.
There is a stomach bug going ’round here. Mom is striken and the husband is looking greenish. Hope I dodge the bullet.
Robin, I just got a rag & bone email that the fragrances are out and the travel coffret is $95 for eight 3.5ml sprays. I have other things to spend my money on but somebody else might want to test the waters.
Sprays! I like these fragrances already. Not going to order anything at the moment, however – I’m completely bankrupt since the trip to London in August/ahead of the trip to Japan in the end of this month.
I have never been to Japan-enjoy!
If I went I think I would clean out one of their beauty stores.. 🙂 and tea shops
Yes, skincare and makeup are definitely on my list, but also tea, other food items, knives (!), paper, incense, fabrics.
Tokyo is such an interesting city. I enjoyed shopping there except for the fact that there’s no size above XS.
So many things to enjoy!
Don’t forget to pick up a few makeup brushes, too! 🙂
Fabric! Do you sew? Japan is a crafter’s dream …
Thats sounds like so much fun!
They have beautiful ceramics as well.
I’m planning to live vicariously through you (okay, perhaps I do that already fashion-wise because you have great style) on your Japan trip. Is it weird that I look forward to the travels of NST folk?
Twins! And wishing you good luck in dodging the bug.
3.5 ml!! Not what I expected for what is basically samples. But huge thanks, will update the post.
Oh, and how rude — do hope everyone else feels better and that you miss it altogether!
Thanks. You can call me the bleach queen at the moment.
I was tempted by the travel set until I saw the sizes and decided they are actually reasonably priced for samples, I guess, but I will wait until someone raves about at least one before I shell out. Too much on my wishlist and I really want to cross a few FBs off before things get discontinued or prices skyrocket.
I’m wearing Feminite du Bois – among my favourite autumn fragrances every year since I tried it.
An all -time favourite, been wearing it since it was launched. You smell great.
One of my Fall favorites. You smell fabulous!
I am doused in Golden Acacia. I have been waiting for a cool day off to wear this — it’s big, dirty and compelling
Golden Acacia sounds wonderful, u smell fabulous!
My little girl has just started school, and one of her new friends is called Acacia, ive never heard it used as a first name before.
SOTD for our first below 30 degree morning: SSS Champagne de Bois. It’s been since last fall/winter that I’ve worn this, and I am really luxuriating in the warm spicy sandalwood.
Oh, haven’t worn that in ages… Must locate my travel spray!
Just pulled my CdB out of storage – I’m looking forward to wearing it soon. I love it on its own, and it also works well to amp up the sandalwood note in other perfumes.
I really like it for layering too. It gives some nice grounded heft to whifty roses like Mille et Une Roses and something like Traversee du Boshpore. But today I wanted it all on it’s own! It is my fav big sandalwood next to Bois des Iles.
Oh, I really want to try that one. Is Laurie’s website back to selling again yet?
You can always email her if it is not yet open. I had a To Dream emergency and she sent me a link to the cart while shop was closed.
That is a beautiful fragrance…and we also experienced our first frost this morning….
SOTD is the wistfully autumnal L’Heure Bleue EDT.
Scent twins! This is definitely one of my favorite fall fragrances.
You smell wonderful. Such a comfort scent for me.
Perfect for the season. You smell terrific!
very nice!
I am wearing L’air du desert Morocain, I actually had in on last night as well, sitting outside in front of a hot crackling fire while hubby smoked a nice cigar. My tiny sample has lasted me 4 usages (is that even a word?) so my skin must amplify this scent?
I am infatuated with it and think it will become my Go-To fall frag.
I love it all the through the dry down. FB worthy!
“Dearest Santa….. can I just have ONE more bottle…… “
Yes, it is on my FB list too. So wonderful. My Lonestar Memories is smelling better with every passing hour, so maybe I should do his 3 pack thing.
l’ADDM has a lot of power in small dabs. Just a little bit goes very far, so I’m not surprised you got a lot of mileage out of your sample. I am lucky to have a very large decant that has lasted me for years now.
I love that one too. Can’t wait to smell the new flanker he’s just made of it called Au Coeur du Désert.
The flanker in my opinion is better than original. It has more smoke. It is very much on my list
How did you get it? I really want to try it but last I checked he didn’t have any available on his website.
I bought something from First in Fragrance and got that one as a sample. He has it in EU, and not in the US yet.
I’m one of those with ‘scent-eating skin’ and generally have to drench myself to get any projection. Not the case with almost every Tauer I’ve worn. A small amount gives off great sillage and lasts hours.
Same for me. I absorb vanilla like there is no tomorrow
SOTD is Histoire des Parfums “Vidi”. I mostly get cardamom and calone (or similar) from this, which is pushing it squarely into non-essential territory.
Top: cardamom, cucumber and ozonic notes.
Mid: rose, cyclamen and saffron.
Base: immortelle, musk, amber, vanilla and blonde woods.
Sounds a bit nauseating.
It’s the right side of offensive but (as with Presidential candidates) that’s really not enough to enthuse me. :^)
Nice analogy????
Really?? Cardamom by the sea sounds marvelous to me 🙂 especially with a touch of saffron. I’ll have to seek this out.
SOTD is Azemour les Oranges. Ahhhhh. 🙂
Mmmmmm. We smell good. Does it count on my Fall Favorites list if it’s also a winter, spring, and occasional summer favorite?
Absolutely! I say it gets quadruple points for being versatile while simultaneously being gorgeous.
Inspired by Kanuka’s description of Musc Nomade ladt week, I decided to finish off my sample. It’s clean and warm at the same time- feels like wearing a white snowsuit.
love that description
Are you feeling better these days?
I am and thank you for asking. I hope your little one feels better soon!
Sounds lovely!
Love the white snow suit and I will join you in Musc Nomade. I watched a Werner Herzog film about Gertrude Bell the other day (Nicole Kidman in the desert). Beautiful costumes, strangely awkward script at times, great scenery. We don’t have netflix and all that so I still head off to the public library to get DVDs. Life is so adventurous!
Does the scent reind you of her? I’d like to see the film, myself. Though, this scent does remind me of another Herzog film: Happiness: A Year on the Taiga. I loved watching that one.
When I watched the film I couldn’t get beyond an image of Nicole Kidman in a desert fashion shoot but it was pretty enjoyable all the same (James Franco was a bit hopeless with his accent). I think I expected something a bit more ‘visionary’ from Herzog (he usually does great empty landscapes – Taiga, Australian outback, Antarctica) and it was basically just a biopic…but still good. I don’t know who I associate with Musc Nomade…well, not true exactly as I associate it with the distant corners of the NST empire.
Another day with Lieu des Reves…I am always going to associate it with Autumn 2016 and great friendships…..
Very pretty! I like LdR in the spring b/c it has all that warmth, and yet some freshness like coming flowers. But I can totally smell it as a fall scent too.
So true! It would be perfect for spring too!
Wow, when you’re stuck on a fragrance, you’re stuck good. (bad grammar)
I am stuck good ! (and who cares about the bad grammar :)!!)
Sotd is Narciso edp. Layered with the body cream. Perfect for fall.
Yum, this ones on my Christmas list!
I hope you get it. They have some nice Christmas sets out now.
Costco also has a really good deal on a bottle
I’d like to try that body cream. Love the scent.
Chene – that’s been on my to-try list for a long time.
I’m in Chanel Allure Homme Edition Blanche – warm today, cooler tomorrow.
In other news, I’m completely in love with the Method Lime and Sea Salt fragrance in some of their cleaning products – anyone else? Any suggestions for fragrances or body products with a similar scent?
sometimes my Limon Verde from the AA Guerlain line reminds me of cleaning products.
I love Method products too, but I REALLY love Mrs. Meyers’ Clean Day spray (rosemary scented)! I used it yesterday in my all-day cleaning marathon, and the house smells pretty good for a change! HA HA 🙂
Ooh this sounds good, I definitely need something nice to motivate me to do more cleaning!
Ditto on the Meyers…I adore the dish soaps for their fragrances!
I have that one too, and it does smell really good. I also just got their honeysuckle hand soap for my kitchen, and it smells so good!
+1 on the Mrs Meyers
Her geranium is my favorite.
I’m new to the Mrs Meyers and am slightly obsessed. We had the geranium hand soap in the bath as well as the spray. I just started the basil dish soap and love it. Trying to decide if more geranium or maybe the fall apple scent….
The Mrs Meyers basil multi surface spray cleaner is my favorite.
I may have to try the dish soap.
The Basil dish soap is fabulous!!!!
Eeek, now I’m lemming a cleaning product of all things!
Oh you must try the Meyers stuff!!!! I get my aromatherapy every time I wash the dishes or wash my hands!
Wearing Marni layered with Marni Rose, thanks to Robin’s suggestion in her top Fall 2014 list. I’m usually hesitant to layer but this combo is perfect.
Can’t go wrong there. Marni Rose is very nice.
Happy Tuesday! And let’s hear it for women in sciences and applied mathematics! (blows noisemaker)
Foggy beginning to the morning, and chilly, too. Am in Belle du Soir, which is lemony incensy goodness and really suited to summer, honestly!
Yeah for women in STEM!!!!! It looks very much like my young daughter who is luckily very good at math is completely infatuated with meteorology and watching radar and graphs and maps et. al. on the weather channel and accu weather online. She just loves the weather, loves sciences, loves memorizing places on the interactive map around the world and checking their weather too. I hope she will keep it up and we keep encouraging her. How about some firecrackers to go along with your noisemaker!?!
*SPARKLING FIRECRACKERS*
😉
Hear, hear!
Twins! But it was fun to read the picks/comments from 5 years ago, before I had fallen into this.
Hey twin!
As well as Ada Lovelace Day it is also the United Nations Day of the Girl.
No fragrance day today until after 9:00 pm. By that time I will need some thing relaxing so it will be Diptyque’s Eau de Lavande which should last until bedtime.
A gorgeous fall day, seemed just right for PHI Rose de Kandahar. I layered it over his Rose Delight body oil and it smells wonderful. This is definitely one of my top 10 fall scents.
The combination is amazing
SSS Champagne de Bois. I’ve had a sample kicking around a long time so decided to try it today. Me likey!
Good choice scent twin!
Remnants of Hermes Doblis parfum, exhibit #1 for it’s always the most precious decants that evaporate.
My leather autumn top ten list:
Knize Ten
L’AP Dzing!
Pd’E Cuir Ottoman
Heeley Cuir Pleine Fleur
PG Cuir Venenum
SL Daim Blond
Canoe Goods Skive
Lanvin Scandal
SMN Nostalgia
Chanel Cuir de Russie
Partial credit options:
L’AP Traversee du Bosphore
AG Vetiver
Pd’E Tabac Tabou
I love Hermes Cuir d’Ange, too, but don’t feel fall is really its season. Doblis should have its own temple in Paris.
My top leather list is similar to yours…the first four and the last two, I would move Pd’E Tabac Tabou to the top ten of my list.
I love Tabac Tabou, too, but I find it hard to pin down to a category. Interestingly, my old H&R Guide to Feminine Fragrance Notes covers leather and tobacco fragrances in the same chapter.
No Cuir de Lancome? Shame.
My SOTD 😉
I know that’s beloved by many, but I’m not fond of makeup/powdery leathers. Have you tried Galop d’Hermes yet?
Not yet!
I’m in on hajusuuri’s split of this one. Can’t wait to try it!
When do you like to wear Cuir d’Ange? I actually like it year-round but love it most in sweater weather.
There’s this connection in my soul between fall and nostalgia, and Cuir d’Ange is so JCE nouvelle. But you’re really right about it working with sweaters.
Thanks for putting this together! I enjoyed reading it.
You’re welcome! Leathers are in some ways my favorite fragrance family but paradoxically I don’t wear them very often. Planning to make up for that this week!
My top 10 leathers:
Bottega Veneta
Cuir Otttoman
Cuir Velours
MdO Cuir
Prada Cuir Ambre
Cuir Cannage
Doblis
Cuir de Lancome
Kelly Caleche
Jolie Madame
Oh, good point: time to get out Jolie Madame, too! Some of these I haven’t tried yet – taking notes, thanks!
Excellent list!
Wow! What a list!
Nice list!
I’m wearing a wine colored sweater with my wine (and scotch) scent: Rudis by Nobile 1942.
I love Rudis, and the weather is just cold enough for it now. I’m travelling home tomorrow wearing light Harrington jacket and when I return it’ll be with a heavier padded jacket and scarf.
I swear by a feather-light down coat that rolls up to 3/4 the length of a rolled up WSJ. I wore this all winter long with the NYC commute that includes walking over a mile each way. Well, plus a fleece hat, scarves and gloves.
What a magnificent teapot! Would that it were reasonably priced.
No perfume on this crisp fall afternoon because I have the most miserable cold, gifted to me by mon chéri (when will I learn not to get near him when he’s sick?). However, I did just come back from a trip to London, where I got to sniff a bunch of things!
We stayed on Regent St, so I dropped by the Penhaligon’s shop to try out the Portraits. I must admit that I quite liked the two male fragrances, though the female ones were pretty meh to me. And I liked the bottles just as much as I expected to in the pictures! Adorable and comfortingly heavy. And then I tried out Vaara because someone on NST compared it to Mohur, and I don’t find them at all similar, but I did find Vaara quite lovely in its own right.
The Jo Malone shop looked a bit too snooty for the likes of me, sadly. I meant to go to the Floris shop, but we ran out of time. On the upside, the hotel toiletries were all Floris branded, which gave me a wonderful opportunity to try out their shower/body products. They were all of very high quality, and I will certainly consider buying their products once I use up part of my huge stock of soap and creams. The room fragrance in the hotel was spectacular! I asked the checkout woman what it was, and she didn’t know, but suggested I ask housekeeping. I didn’t get around to it, but it was such a lovely, spicy, rosy floral that I may write them an e-mail to ask. I expect it’s also a Floris, and would quickly snatch up whatever it was, even though I’ve never before been interested in room fragrances.
I also tried Galop at the airport yesterday, though my very stuffy nose couldn’t make out much besides a warm, sweet citrus. The boyfriend says it smelled lovely on me. Sadly, duty-free at LHR doesn’t give samples, and shockingly, the Hermès boutique doesn’t yet have Galop, so no sample for me to try out once my cold disappears. Those bottles are lovely, though.
So anyway, I’m glad to have gotten in some sniffing in London in between other activities 🙂
Sorry you’re cruddy. Thanks for sharing your sniffing experiences. Sounds like you had a great trip!
Sounds like a fun trip! I came to the Le Labo Santal candle by way of a hotel here in NYC. I was so taken with the smell of the lobby and went out and bought the candle. Spicy rose sounds lovely and if you ever find out what it is, let us know! Hope you feel better soon.
very nice products from Floris…you can have fun using those and remembering your trip.
Wearing Atelier Cologne Oud Saphir.
I had to ran some errands outside after work, now I need a big cup of hot tea to warm up.
I tested this the other day at Sephora. I liked it very much.
It’s pretty nice and not as oud-y as the name would suggest
SOTD – Poisonous Fig by Rising Phoenix. OMG, this fig is amazing.
What a name! Could you say more about it? I’m super curious now.
It is a very spicy fig with a hint of sweetness. When I smell it, I literally imagine candied ginger, but the ginger has been substituted by fig – sweet and spicy at the same time.
This only comes as attar, so you have to like oil based frags (took me a while to get used to it, as I do prefer spraying). I get good 8-10 hours out of it, and more if I put it on my hair or clothes.
RPP actually specializes on raw materials, but they also have a few fragrances: Preda (also amazing btw), Poisonous Fig, More Beauty than the Beast, Green Velvet. All of them are amazing. They also have the most incredible Rose Musk that comes as attar or EDP – and apparently they used some really high quality rose extract – because it smells divine – which presents a major problem as it is way way way out of my price range. You can actually get them by ml, so don’t have to commit to a large volume. I think Luca Turin reviewed their creations on his blog a couple of months ago.
Thanks! I’m definitely intrigued.
Portrait of a Lady today and reminded of how much I love it. Perfect for a cooler fall day.
POAL is one of my co-worker’s all day every day scent. She’s a one bottle at a time person.
I don’t have that kind of sticktoitiveness!
I am heading in that directions but it is more of a “one decant at a time”……
direction….
Frrrrrracas! Because I just got my first bottle of Fracas and I may be wearing it every day for a little while here. Cellier is my god.
A classic! Smelling good!!
you smell great. I had a colleague who wore that at work and then stopped for some reason. I think she got too many compliments and worried it was too much. It wasn’t.
You smell fabulous! It’s funny — I tend to reach for my other tuberose perfumes (Moon Bloom, Carnal Flower) on warm, sultry days, but think of Fracas as a chilly-weather perfume. Maybe because the chill puts a bit of a lid on its mile-high-sugared-neon hugeness? I love it, though.
Congrats on your first 🙂
Some people mentioned wanting to know more about Tuberose Flash, so I’m giving it another shot this morning. Keep in mind I have a dabber sample, so some facets of the perfume are definitely missing – I have a hard time picking up citrus and floral notes from dabbers (Mohur is a rose scent? are you sure?).
Starts off spicy-fruity in a way that makes me think of like artisanal Play-doh or something? There’s a whisper of camphor that might be my lip balm and might be the tuberose. I’ve had it on for about an hour, which included a brief, brisk bike ride to work and it’s become more spicy. Nothing about it says BWF, though! I think I’m going to get the same dry down I got on Saturday – resin-y, patchouli.
I was not impressed by it as much as I was impressed by Rose Flash or Incense Flash. I got a little bit of flower, but you re right, there is no BWF there at all!! It is not Moon Bloom by any means, but it is fairly reasonably priced – I can see myself using it when MB feels like too much 🙂
One of the Fragrantica reviews suggests it’s a jammy tuberose in the way Rose Flash (where, to its credit, I had no problem identifying the rose) is a jammy rose. I sort of agree, except for the “tuberose” part. Jammy spices for me.
Glad you got more flowers than I did!
Thanks for the description. I have been wondering how it compares to Sotto La Luna Tuberose.
He also did Loretta for his Tableau line and that has quite a bit in common w/ SLL Tuberose to my nose. So I am curious where Tuberose Flash fits into this mix.
I haven’t tried those SLL scents, so I can’t offer any useful comparisons.
SOTD is Cabochard. It may end up being a weird day because I could have sworn it was Wednesday already. Why did my brain want to skip past today?…
I thought it was Thursday when i woke up. Weird day here too.
Good to know I’m not alone. Hope your day turned out OK!
Yesterday, I thought it was Friday already because I did not have a proper weekend and I want one.
Oh man, that’s bad. Hang in there!
Jasmin de Nuit which smells like my aunt did in the 70s/80s.
I bought this one unsniffed and love it.
I just look up the notes on JdN. I’ll bet you smell lovely!
I’m trying out Baume du Doge today, and it smells like… so many other perfumes. I’m finding it to be dominated by that ubiquitous Huge Caramelized Wood note that’s almost all I can smell in Coromandel, Ryder, Jaisalmer, Spirit of the Glenn, etc. etc. It isn’t a *bad* smell, but it’s starting to feel like the equivalent of an over-oaked Chardonnay — banal in its bigness and omnipresence. And yes, I’m a bit cranky today. 😉
Sounds like the aroma chemical cashmeran. It’s everywhere! But thanks for commenting as I tried just yesterday to buy a sample of BdD at Surrender to Chance, and they didn’t have it. I just *knew* from the notes that I needed it! 😉
You might love it; don’t let my ennui stand in your way!
Fortunately I keep an emergency decant of Rahat Loukoum in my office desk drawer, so the situation has been rectified. 🙂
After yesterday’s emergency root canal, I’m relaxing at home today. Still haven’t taken a shower yet because I want to enjoy vintage Bal for a few minutes longer. After my shower, I’ll reach for Epic Woman.
Ugh 🙁 hope you feel better and your fragrances are soothing you. Dental work and pain is some of the worst.
are some of the worst that is…bad grammar = not enough caffeine
I wasn’t in so much pain, it was the abcess that was scary. Two hundred dollars later, I feel better now.
$200 for a root canal?? Is that the entire cost?
Emergency anything relating to teeth causes my tummy to do a flip flop. Too many bad associations.
Hope all went well!
Having a root canal definitely calls for some Amouage.
SOTD is MFK Petit Matin…office friendly and no sarcastic remarks from anyone.
I like that one.
I’m wearing Lolita Lempicka Eau de Minuit today. I don’t wear this one often so decided to give it some attention. I opened the box to find that the top of the sprayer stem thing was broken off, but luckily it still works.
Those little stems always look a little precarious to me. But you do smell great. That version is great for Fall.
SOTD is Jubilation XXV. I thought it would be colder than it turned out to be today, but I’m still enjoying it – not going sour like rose often does on me. I don’t remember the notes for it, but I’m getting dried rose, nutmeg, wood shavings, and patchouli about 4 hrs into it. A manly, burly rose indeed.
You smell great. Bought a little decant of that one for the husband and didn’t give it to him because I really like it in cool weather myself.
Yum.
I seem to have picked up the cold my H brought home, so I’m surprised I can smell anything, but I’m quite enjoying Hermes Caleche on one wrist and Dame Leather Man on the other. I’ve not been terribly fond of most scents I’ve tried from Dame, so I’m pleasantly surprised by how much I like his leather.
Love Leather Man and I think it is a great scent on a woman…but I am in the camp of love for everything Jeffrey Dame composes!
I don’t always feel comfortable in masculines (oddly – I wore them a lot when I was younger) but this one strikes me as entirely gender-less.
if you are adventurous you might also want to try Dame’s Citrus Man (which smells amazing on my mother) or Musk Man…..he also has a Chocolate Man , which is odd at first but then has a lovely drydown…..Herb Man is good too but that may veer too masculine for you…
I’m also in Chêne! I find it very hard to wear in warmer weather, but utterly gorgeous when the temperature is right. One of autumn’s pleasures.
Yeah, we smell pretty great. 🙂
Yes we all do!
I’m wearing Aroma M Geisha Vanilla Hinoki today, and currently drinking a cup of sage & mint tea.
I have to wear this soon. You smell great!
I LOVE FALL !!!
SOTD = Rania J. Ambre Loup
IIRC, I got a decant of this in a mega swap with my scent twin clarissa (so you all know I’m in trouble, right?). As soon as I wore it for the first time, I knew I would need my own bottle. It’s spicy tobacco (without using tobacco) amber vanilla – what’s not to love?
Oooh, I just got a sample of this the other day from Luckyscent. Can’t wait to try it now!
Oooh, let us know what you think. My bottle is still shrink-wrapped so if you like it after trying but would prefer not to buy a FB, I can split off a 10 mL portion or you can wait until the swapmeet to see if anyone has a portion to swap.
You smell great. It is such a beautiful fragrance.
Thanks to you, my dear :-). You’re Amber Central!
Just saw a good film over the weekend called “Carol”. OMG the clothes, I just loved everything that the character Carol wore (Cate Blanchett was the actress), and I was trying to imagine what fragrance this elegant woman might have worn. She reminds me of my Aunt Nettie, who wore Miss Dior, so maybe that.
SOTD was Dilettante, I got from the splitmeet thsnks to Foxbins! Its just lovely and lasts too, bliss 🙂
Late today but I can still smell PHI Une Rose de Kandahar that I layered over rose delight body oil at 6:30 this morning. I’m not sure if it’s in my top ten but I do really love. It’s just right today.
Twins! 🙂 We smell great.
I actually caught a whiff of incense from the Rose Delight oil while I was applying it this morning that I hadn’t noticed before. This is good stuff. I think I need a backup.
You both smell great. I am going to try this tomorrow
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I’m wearing Organza Indecence this morning. I wear it, Oro, Safran Troublant, Cinema, and a Guerlain Mimosa Harvest LE as “shoulder season” scents in both fall and spring. This afternoon I’m going to look over my perfume cupboard and see what to put in this Saturday’s swap. My goofs will be somebody else’s treasures! Also, I was getting dressed this morning and for some reason I had the thought that I am so old I remember when Elton John was dating women. I thought it was an odd way to mark time passing and kind of an odd thought to have had in the first place…
I made that same comment a few weeks ago to someone, when Elton John came on the radio. Lol. Pop culture is a good time marker.
Givenchy Organza Indecence is a great choice for fall. Givenchy did the Mimosa Harvest L.E. as well.
Whoops, replied to myself apparently. But love OI and your
Elton John comment????
Nice seasonal picks. I’ve been meaning to try Cinema for years. I own OI but my bottle is a bit flat so I don’t wear it often.
Love OI (and your Elton John comment????)
Wearing not even a full spray of Diptyque Kimonanthe. A warm, milky apricot and sandalwood. Gorgeous and quite potent.
I didn’t realize that Diptyque made strong fragrances. Sounds interesting.
Maybe a new mini-trend for them? Oud Palao is on the strong side–too much so for many, although I really like it. (And to me it’s a less heavy Oud Ispahan, so who knows if I know what’s heavy!)
I am so intrigued by this one, which I haven’t found anywhere yet. I’ll be looking!
I am wearing Chanel No.5 edp and it smells absolutely beautiful. I have several bottles, some vintage, some recent and this one is my favorite, it is a recent (2012) splash bottle and soo wonderful. I find that each bottle that I have is somewhat different. I enjoy any form of No.5 though.