Happy Halloween! What fragrance are you wearing?
Yesterday it was in the high 70s here, today it will not get out of the 50s. I'm in Fendi Theorema.
Reminder: 11/4 will be Peace Out Friday — wear a fragrance that brings / gives peace. Suggested by Lovestosmellgood.
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: top image is Halloween is coming... [cropped] by Marta Diarra at flickr; some rights reserved.
Encre Noire A L’Extreme (Lalique).
Oh, and Happy Halloween!
And to you! We are prepared — I bought a huge back of candy this year and we don’t usually get that many trick or treaters.
I usually buy mulitple huge bags – for myself. After gaining 5+ lbs last year from halloween through xmas, this year I bought none. (And no trick or treaters here.)
My trick: I buy candy I don’t like or can’t eat due to various dietary restrictions.
coming off a busy weekend..two halloween parties and Diwali celebration.
For last night’s festivities I wore a dab of 10CC and a spray of Samsara just before the event.
Was such a delight to celebrate Diwali with my family & friends and to remind myself of such a peaceful evening filled with light and love, SOTD Samsara again. Happy New Year to all whom celebrate.
Samsara=Sandalwood bliss=Peace
Happy Halloween
Samsara is definitely a good, peaceful scent.
thank you! I am in the Parfum, one dab is very lovely
Happy Diwali! Your evening sounds wonderful. And you smell amazing.
Sounds like a fun weekend! You smell marvelous.
Happy diwali and halloween!
Really looking forward to the community project this week…
For me, peace=essential oils…so I will be wearing my concoctions all week…..and finally making a dent in my essential oil perfume collection!
Today is “Winter Holly”….fir balsam, labdanum, vanilla and a complex amber blend from White Lotus gifted to me by the person who inspired this essential oil perfume.
Poor Man’s Tea= PG Tips with Lavender syrup
And tonight I am having pasta with pumpkin sauce
beautiful!
and thanks for suggesting the great community project!!!!
Oh, how lovely!
And pasta with pumpkin sauce sounds perfect! I may have to copy that!
It is soooooo delicious
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Lavender syrup sounds divine! And thanks for the pumpkin pasta post – it reminds me I’ve got some sweet potato gnocchi in the freezer that needs to be eaten.
the lavender syrup is really good…made by a local lavender farm…it was sitting in my fridge for a while until I decided to use it in my tea for a bit of sweetness and lavender essence…
that sweet potato gnocchi sounds scrumptious! Now I am relly getting hungry!
I had chicken pot pie served inside a roasted pumpkin at lunch and pumpkin ravioli (thank you Costco) at dinner! I haven’t had pumpkin soup yet because every place that serves it makes it cream-based.
wow! that all sounds delicious!!!!!
That pumpkin looks like it’s made out of candy.
I’m in the last of my Forest Walk sample. Brisk, sharp and green – somehow it seems to “fit” today weather wise.
I went running after the intense rain storm last night and the streets were (wet) autumn-colored confetti.
Definitely a chocolate pumpkin!
It is definitely candy!
FW is beautiful and you smell fab!
Happy Halloween!! SpiderMOM here, wishing you all a fun day and evening! (And hey, if you don’t celebrate, I wish you a QUIET, undisturbed night! LOL) Here’s my professional office outfit for the day….Giving out drugs and candy all day!
https://www.instagram.com/p/BMOh90qgkLh/?taken-by=jadainga99&hl=en
SOTD: Prada Candy. Because, well, it’s candy! Duh….
looking good!
You look PERFECT! And of course Prada Candy!
Love the leggings!
Hallowe’en needs more fascinators, if you ask me!
The world needs more fascinators EVERYDAY, methinks! LOL I love ’em!!!!
Cute outfit! I’m also digging the mummy pillow behind you.
You look and smell great. Enjoy!
Wonderful
Too cute!
Great outfit! I’m wearing my ‘costume’ of the last several years: a t-shirt that looks likely mummy wrapping. I’m coordinated with your throw pillow! ????
I could not see the picture from my work computer so just saw it now…Jada, you look adorable!
Second day of testing Tom Ford’s Vert Boheme. I think it’s really, really pretty, but am a bit concerned about lasting power. Then again, I’ve been wearing it to work, which is a real workout for a scent, so I’ll probably need to try it on a day off to really figure out what it’s lasting power is like.
Happy Halloween! Wearing Thierry Mugler Angel. Cacao, honey, patchouly….. Not a fragrance that I wear or like too much, but it is perfect for a “fun and sweet day” like today.
Perfect Halloween fragrance!
Sampling Neil Morris Leather Garden and really liking this airy green leather so far
he has some great stuff but no one really seems to mention his fragrances very often……I sampled a few of his scents years ago and I liked his work…..
He does dark and moody well – I am a big fan of October.
I’m wafting Alahiiiiine today, and (in the words of Maxwell Smart) LOVING it. Happy Halloween all!
you smell fabulous darling
AbsoLUTEly fabulous.
This is on my top 5 list to try!
Am I dating myself that I watched Get Smart reruns as a kid and enjoyed them thoroughly? An ex-boss likes to use “Cone of Silence”.
Happy Halloween and Happy Monday! An especially delightful day if you happen to be having a “no work” day, like myself. I feel I will be much more successful with “no work” versus “no buy,” since the former blends so well with my natural inclinations and is most likely hidden in the depths my DNA????
SOTD is another cheap treat called Eau des Missions, purportedly the poor man’s version of SPIRITUEUSE DOUBLE VANILLE!
Happy trick or treat day to all! ????
Oh I love hearing about cheap treats as once I am off my no buy I am going to be seeking out cheap treats from here on in…..I thought that might be a nice community project….fragrances whose full bottles won’t break the bank…..asking selfishly so that I can get good suggestions
and eating pumpkin sauce tonight while thinking of you, Deva as I know you are also a pumpkin fiend like me
Apologies to Robin!!! just saw your response to my comment yesterday as well as the link….read through it and got some great things to add to my list once the no buy is over
!!!!!
So glad you found some ideas!
And thank you Deva, you just created a lemmin’ as I found it online for less than twenty five dollars for 8.4 oz!!!! yikes!!!! must be strong
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I have plenty if you would like to try it. It is super cheap and while it’s not an exact match of it’s exhorbitently expensive cousin, it’s close. I’m taiga 1 0 1 in the land of yahooooo! Enjoy that pumpkin sauce- it sounds delish!
Deva- you are the best
but for now I am going to pass as I really want to make some headway and work down my fragrant liquids, especially my samples, decants and essential oils….I have adopted a minimalist approach with my clothing and books and am now heading in that direction with my perfumes as well…..
but I may hit you up on that offer some time down the road…so thank you for that
!!!!!
Happy Halloween!!! I’m missing corn syrup and crappy American Halloween candy today.
In Feu d’Issey today. This is just the second time I’ve tried this sample, even though I’ve had it for most of a year, because it is some horrifically potent stuff. I don’t think FdI is for me. Instant headache!
1) Crappy American Halloween is now my new (pretend!) band name.
2) Wow- really? I remember a rich scent- but I wonder if age has concentrated the scent?
Oh, what a shame!
NYC has been celebrating halloween all weekend! Tons of kids in costume, and adults too. One big party. Today we add in the candy!
SOTD: Atelier’s Tobacco Nuit — really lovely tobacco/amber scent..
and great for this time of year
And the parade madness tonight! I’ve never seen that Atelier. Sounds good. Stopped by their counter at Bergdorf’s but left since the SA was too aggressive and pushy.
It’s in their new Orient collection. I’ve only tried this one as it was via a swap. Along the line of Chergui, Volutes, Back to Black.. but still different.
Happy Halloween! One of my 10th grade students is dressed like the Cheshire cat, and she looks so great. My costume is “40 year old science teacher”, and I think I nailed it.
My SOTD is Like This, which I have really been digging lately.
Heehee! Great costume????
LOL!
Happy Halloween!
I rediscovered my collection of incense scents on Saturday when my husband asked me if I had a perfume he could borrow to match his costume(!!!!!). Wearing Heeley Cardinal today… I can’t believe I never bought a bottle of this.
Oh boy……Cardinal is sublime!!! I blew through two decants four years ago in a heartbeat…..
WAIT-
Buried in the lede: what did your husband dress up as?
He was a devil disguised as an angel, and asked if I had anything that smelled like smoke to complete his outfit. I gave him a few options, and he picked Avignon. I’m so proud
Oh, I get it! How cool is that!
Traveling again my companion bottle Wazamba is it for the week. The project I have been consulting on goes live this weekend. So we have a great mix of Diwali, Halloween and Diaz de Los Muertas. That seems to cover everything!
I’m in Reglisse Noire again. It just feels right. Costume: Big mickey mouse ears, long tail, lab coat and horn rim glasses. I’m a lab rat!
LOL
How cute!
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Happy Halloween!
1) No costume unless you count the corporate drag I had to wear because end of month production controls: black blouse, grey slacks, grey short boots, gold jewelry, Chanel Rouge lipstick. BUT after work, will be handing out candy and watching Ghostbusters!
2) SOTD: Drained my sample of Jo Malone Incense et Cedrat A lovely fresh scent for like 40 minutes, then settles down and disappears. taking your housing money with you.
We have unseasonable warm sunshine today, so very unHallowe’en-ish.
I have a week of peaceful (or maybe not) samples selected, starting today with Phaedon “Rue de Lilas”.
Notes: white lilac, lily of the valley, rosewood and powdery musk.
It might be out of place on a more typical end October day, but it’s okay today. Not really my thing though.
This sounds really good! I’m always on the look-out for good lilac and lily-of-the-valley compositions.
I was trying to decide between Theorema and Scherrer 2. The honeyed spice of the Scherrer 2 won out.
No worries, I took up the Theorema flag so we are covered
Yesterday’s 75 degree weather was so nice, but such a tease. My husband went to the beach!
Back to cool today which is perfect for ELDO Bijou Romantique. So cozy.
Happy Halloween!
That is Shalimar’s cousin- you smell great!
Thanks! I definitely see the similarities, though this is more ambery to me.
The weather was gorgeous here too. Then the clouds rolled in and it rained.
It did pour and hail in the evening, and right as we were about to go out.
I’m wearing my early birthday present, SSS Equestrian. It smells so good!
Happy early birthday!
Happy early birthday Elisa! Did you tell your husband what he bought you? ????
Thank you both!
And LOL Petunia…this was actually a surprise from my mom who knows I LOVE SSS.
Wow, mom has great taste!
Early happy birthday wishes!
I’m in Black Vines today, in honor of Hallowe’en and my abiding love of all things licorice. I’m afraid this afternoon/evening’s predicted rain will wash away the trick-or-treaters, but we’ll set out our pumpkins and hope at least a few of our little neighbors can stop by.
Sandalwood Cologne Crabtree & Evelyn, from the mid ’90s.
Balsamic, powdery, and clean smelling without being soapy.
Magic! LOL
Carpe Diem y’all!
You smell great!
I remember sniffing C& E Sandalwood in Newport when I was very young. It was amazing. You smell great!
Wearing BPAL Snake Oil as I wanted a vanilla lift this AM
As I live exactly in the middle of Snowfluff Nowhere, I likely have much more candy than I need, but I am certain I can deal with that.
I received my shipping notice for my 2 Tauer body oils yesterday – super fast!!!!
Forgot to mention that as the judge of the office costume contest, I am proudly sporting a Where’s Waldo look
I never get tired of Waldo costumes
Theorema as well, orange perfect for a rainy Halloween here.
Love Theorema, you smell fantastic!
I will wear that tomorrow.
Oops Robin too! LOL
More coffee! !!!! STAT!
Hey twin!
Hey hey
Not celebrating Halloween here in Poland, we have All Sants’ Day tomorrow instead.
I’m in Prada Infusion d’Oeillet. A floral to keep me warm.
Is it tonight (All Souls) or tomorrow night (All Saints) that everyone lights up the graveyards with candles and lamps? I saw some photos while visiting friends in Wroclaw, and it looked really beautiful.
It’s on All Saints Day (1st of Nov.) when people light up the graveyards with lamps and decorate them with flowers.
For that I will be visiting graves of my grandparents tomorrow together with my mum & dad.
SotD = Zoologist Bat from a sample. It smells intriguingly strange: animal, vegetable/fruit, and mineral.
You all smell fabulous.
I had an electrinic 20 Questions game that was eerily accurate-it correctly guessed “hairdryer” after about 10 vague questions!
My son had a sports-themed 20 questions game like yours. It seemed like it could read our minds. Spooky!
Oh, we had one of those! It was difficult to stump.
Happy Halloween!
Several sprays of 31 RC today…
Does anyone want to weigh in on the EDP of this one please? I have seen bad comments on the boards about this reformulation sadly…
Oh, no, I hope that’s not true. I’ve got a bunch left of the edt but eventually will need more!
You smell fantastic!
I saw negative reviews of the EDP on Fragrantica saying it smells quite different, etc. That’s really worrying!
But you’ve got your humongo bottle so you’re set! I have the smaller bottle and since it is still quite full, I couldn’t justify getting a back up….although, who am I kidding? I can justify anything – bwahahahahaha…
No, I’ve got the smaller one, too, so it’ll take half as long to use! I hope it gets sorted before I run out!
SOTD is Orchidee Vanille. We never get trick-or-treaters in my area because parents have to drive their kids. I buy candy anyway because you never know! Happy Halloween!
Mmmmm, love that perfume!
I’m in ELDO Like This. Pumpkin! Caramel! Smoke! All the good things.!
Bought a tub of candy yesterday in case any of the neighbours’ kids come trick-or-treating. But they didn’t come! I ate half of the stuff myself. For my teeth and waistline’s sake, I hope they come today and I can get rid of all that chocolate.
Also, turns out, my new cat was entirely unruffled by fireworks which some people let off at the end of our street. He barely even twitched an ear at the noise! Maybe he’s deaf? He can certainly hear the food rattle from far off…
Hope you got to give away some of the candy! Or not
Finally in the mood for Forest Walk, despite the chemical-sweet edge I get from it. Then I made the mistake of putting Cannabis Santal over it. Yuk. Still can’t get past the feeling that they belong together though, so post shower will be FW on tops of feet, CS on wrists. Why am I so insistent on this?
Anyhoo, Happy Halloween all!
Oh, and a pox on whoever mentioned Whoppers last week. Bought a bag for trick-or-treat and polished it off myself over the weekend. ????
Heh, that be me and Dame Chocolate Man
I knew it was you but did not want to get you in trouble-LOL!
At the dentist right now due to a filling falling out. I am wearing Guerlain SDV. I love SDV but don’t have the money for a full bottle.
Ugh — hope it is an easy fix.
Happy Halloween Everyone! My SOTD is Santal Blush by the oh so gorgeous Tom Ford! I have just drained my bottle. Will definitely have to replace this one. Hope everyone has a fantastic day!
SOTD is Aftelier Cuir de Gardenia. I’m going to dress up as a spider witch to hand out Halloween candy later. I don’t know what a spider witch would smell like, but I can imagine spiders crawling around a gardenia bush.
I am prepared for trick or treaters – we get bombarded! We have 17 bags of candy, and it will probably all be gone by tonight!
17 bags! You must live in one of those magnet neighborhoods
We do, and it’s awesome. So cute to see all the kids
Peaceful scents sound good for this week. Today I’m wearing Dzongkha, which I’ve been enjoying a lot this fall, enough to almost run out of my little decant. So this morning I ordered a bottle.
. Fragrancenet has 30% off everything for another 12 hrs or so, if anyone is interested.
Oh, gosh, and Happy Halloween, Diwali, Diaz de los Muertes, and All Saints day to all!
Nice sale, thanks!
I’m wearing Omnia Paraiba, which I blind bought at Ulta yesterday. I had seen a few mentions of it around here and was curious. They never have a tester, so I finally just decided to buy the 10ml, since it’s only $25. Thankfully I like it. It doesn’t seem to have much sillage to speak of, but the passionfruit note in the top kind of reminds me of Calyx a bit (at least older Prescriptives Calyx.. I don’t know what the Clinique version is like). I like that they included the kind of musty edge that passionfruit has to keep the scent just a bit off-kilter and not just straightforward fruity, like Calyx did with guava.
I am planning to give out candy tonight. I bought a bunch of candy yesterday. It’s my first Halloween in this house, so I don’t have any idea how many kids I’ll get.
RE form Calyx is not like the original Calyx….
I figured that was probably the case. The bottle I have is pre-Clinique, and I haven’t smelled the more current version.
SOTD = Guerlain Habit Rouge Dress Code
It’s a flanker to the original Habit Rouge, definitely unksex. Perhaps my nose is broken as I do not smell any leather at all. If you have not read it yet, head on over to Kafka’s blog to read all about it:
http://www.kafkaesqueblog.com/2015/09/25/guerlain-habit-rouge-dress-code/
If you’re at all curious about it and hate to pay small sample prices, there’s a split going on in basenotes.
I’m certain I’m not the first one mentioning it. If your reading comments fromnthe bottom up, do head on over to STC’s Halloween 20% off flash sale today only with code HALLOWEEN. You’re welcome
I love HRDC! It took a few wearings to really grow on me, and trying again in cooler weather helped. Now I find it pretty addictive.
And the bottle is nice, too!
L’Ambre des Merveilles. My pretty Amber. Love that Hermes makes 15 ml bottles!
You smell great!
No little kids here, we are all old on my street!
Everyone from the weekend who commented about Andy Tauer’s Amber body oil gets an enabler pin from me, I caved last night. Today I’m wearing Musc Ravageur. I get mostly spice from this and thought it was a good autumn choice.
Another rainy day…Portland has had more than 8 inches of rain this month (usually it’s about 3) and although I love the rain, I would really like a couple of sunny days to get some Vitamin D and some yard work done.
I’m in Seattle and it seems like we’ve had rain every day since the end of September. I do not like rain and would be happy with a couple hundred days of sunny weather. *sigh*
Am about to cave on some Tauer oils myself, and considering buying some as xmas gifts. Hmmm.
Same same here in Vancouver. Sigh.
My boys are high school age and we never ever get trick-or-treaters. I live half a mile off the main road, but then the “main road” is a divided 55mph four-lane in the country with houses pretty spread out. I miss living in a *neighborhood*, but my husband grew up with no nearby neighbors and he doesn’t like living all crowded up, as he calls it. One year in an apartment complex when he was a college student apparently did him in, and even when we lived in town on a 1/3 acre lot, he hated it. Boo.
Rant over.
sorry. Wearing the very-classic chypre Pierre de Velay No. 11, which is a lot like Mitsouko with more rose and jasmine instead of peach.
Am testing Alahine on one wrist and Barkhane on the other and am swooning in gorgeous wafts of… not sure which one? Possibly it’s the combination of both. Either I should have tested them separately or they should always be worn together.
Wore YSL Cinema to a fantastic production of A Raisin in the Sun yesterday. Whenever I wear it I feel like I’d be perfectly happy if this were the only perfume in my wardrobe. Always gorgeous; very versatile.
Am having uncharacteristic indecisiveness about whether to buy a 5 or 8 ml decant of Poudre de Riz from the STC sale. Will make a decision before day’s end.
Won’t be handing out candy tonight but will be getting a soup delivery. There was a soup guy at our farmers’ market this summer who delivers now that all the markets have closed. It’s all we’ve been eating for the past month or so. If I actually had to cook dinner, I’d be lost!
I should try them together. It sounds interesting. Which one do you like better?
I’d have to give them separate wears to make that determination. Both are beautiful and smell expensive.
Soup delivery! That sounds marvelous and also healthy! I’ve been making cabbage-white bean-ham hock soup for the past couple weeks, but (a) a good soup is lots of work, and (b) there’s only so much cabbage you can eat.
Right? I usually make my own but if someone else will do it for me, I’ll happily pay for it. He also makes the stocks where I rarely do. I love white bean soups with smoked pork. And cabbage, though I suppose you’re right about overdoing it. I love it sauteed with lots of thyme & pepper, served alongside pork. Okay, now I’m getting hungry.
Good idea for the cabbage! Maybe I’ll try that. I make my own stocks, too, because I don’t find store-bought to be very flavorful. It freezes quite well, so it’s not really that time-intensive.
Testing LM Parfums Cicatrices. This one is dislodging Khol de Bahrain from my #1 Iris.
Will make note of that one. I tried the Suleko line today. I think I remember a short thread about Baba Yaga a while ago so it made me think of you. Anyway, it’s wonderfully smoky and dark. And Djelem, which may be in my future, reminds me of Khol dB. I knew it smelled familiar but you just jogged my memory
Yay!!! Baba Yaga was pretty good
Diesel loverdose tattoo for me. Trying it alongside Zadig& Voltaire This is Her…I like them both. Z&V is less retrained that the Diesel…but I like it. I wish the chesnut was stronger in Z&V. Bith good if you like sweet, creamy musks or Philosophy Fresh Cream.
I liked the LT, and I do need to try the Z&D.
Happy Halloween everyone! It completely passed me by that yesterday was Halloween here, it’s not such a big occasion here, and there aren’t many kids nearby who might have been enthusiastic participants.
Wearing Le Galion’s La Rose today, to go with my dress – blue with yellow and brown roses. I’m determined it’s spring, but the spring look will be a little undermined by the winter jacket I’m also wearing
Happy Halloween…. I am currently wearing Lolita Lempicka EDP, and considering mixing it with Thierry Mugler Alien later.
Happy Halloween!
SOTD is Anna Sui. I thought the slightly Gothic bottle was a good fit for Halloween.
Wanted to wear Like This today, but completely forgot. On the other hand I picked Encens & Lavande, which fits mists and spooky things rather well! Happy Halloween everyone
Happy Halloween everyone! I’m being a total dork and wearing Heiress Paris Hilton! I totz smell like bubblegum/candy! Haha!