It's Hump Day, and it's Thanksgiving Eve! What fragrance are you wearing?
I'm wearing Lush Silky Underwear. It was $1 per ml when I bought it. I keep hoping they'll bring it back, along with Flying Fox.
Reminder: on 11/25 we're doing Black Friday cheap thrills, edition 3 — as we head into the holiday spending season, wear something that costs $50 or below, double bonus points if it costs $25 or below. No points for wearing something expensive that you bought cheaply via a sample or decant or somesuch! We're trying to find real bargains here.
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 Sheer Romance tap pant in peach is $175 (ack! that's a bottle of perfume, at least!) at Between The Sheets.
I am trying to do cheap trills week, so I am wearing CK Eternity today. This was one of my first perfume loves , I have so many memories attached to it.
Enjoy the nostalgia!
Those pants are lovely. I discovered the joy of silk pants quite recently, but like the ones shown above, they have a habit of being prohibitively expensive.
What is it about Rose Delight that makes me want to bathe in it? My wrists are enrobed in it, because I couldn’t resist it after making a decant of it. This counts as a cheap thrill. I know it’s an oil, but it’s just 25 CHF for 50 mL.
Closer to my head sits Daim Blond–not cheap by my standards, but it is by many of yours!
Rose Delight is absolutely a cheap thrill!
Gotta get me some of this Rose Delight.
Rose Delight has the same effect on me. I don’t even use it as a perfume; I use it in place of lotion all over my arms and legs 🙂
That is what I usually do, immediately after showering! This was a special occasion, though 🙂
Also mixes well with lotion — I mix it with Cerave for my arms & legs.
Me too – I told Andy he needs to sell bigger bottles of the stuff for us power users.
LOL on “power users”
Oh, your post has reminded me that Arlésienne is back on the L’Occitane site! I don’t know if they changed the formulation or anything, though.
It doesn’t smell any different to me! (I tried it in a job earlier this week.) If I had realized they were simply repackaging, I would not have stocked up like that >.<
Arquiste for J. Crew 57. A nice boozy way to start the holidays (even though I’m at work today)
Perfect choice to kick off the season!
I’m planning to wear this on Thanksgiving!
You smell fabulously boozy, in the best possible way????????
I’m layering my two most recent cheap thrills again, Stash and Fresh Cream. Expect a repeat of at least one of these on Friday.
I can’t wait to get my hands on Stash
Stash sounds really good!
You smell perfect!
Wow, I have to try this. I got Stash last week but have not worn it yet!
Today is my 49th birthday (yes, for the 1st time) so I said to heck with cheap thrills and wore one of my absolute favourites – l”eau d’hiver by Malle. Body milk and EDP.
Happy Birthday! Enjoy!
Happy 49th birthday
Happy birthday!
Happy birthday!
Happy birthday!
Happy birthday! You smell amazing!
Happy birthday!
Happy birthday! You smell delicious.
Happy birthday!
Good for you! Happy Birthday! Its your day, so wear what you please! I always say, “Go Big or Go Home”. You smell divine! 🙂
Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday! You smell wonderful.
Excellent decision. And Happy Birthday!
Heck yeah! Happy Birthday! and you smell like a Queen!
Enjoy the first 49th!
Have a very happy day!
Happy birthday, you smell amazing! 🙂
Happy Bday!!You smell perfect!x
Happy Birthday! And next year you can celebrate the 1st anniversary of your 49th birthday! 😉
How wonderful! Have a happy day.
Happy birthday. To heck with cheap thrills!
Yes Birthdays are for pulling the big expensive guns out!
Happy birthday! You smell great.
Happy Birthday!
Happy birthday! Life gets only better after 50!
Best wishes on your Birthday!
Happy Birthday!
You shouldn’t wear/eat /do/etc. anything less than your favourite thing on your birthday. Enjoy!
Happy birthday!
Happy Birthday, hope you’re having a wonderful scent filled day!
Happy Birthday!
SOTD is Frapin “Caravelle Épicée”.
Top: nutmeg and coriander;
Mid: chili pepper, pepper, caraway and guaiac wood;
Base: sandalwood, amber, patchouli and tobacco.
This one goes on with a disconcerting note of plasticene – not a note I detest, but it doesn’t add much to my world. Once this burns off it’s fine, a sort of mildly boozy, mildly spicy, mildly woodsy perfume. Do I need it in my life? No, I do not. I have, or have tried, other things that cover those bases better than this one. Lasting power is only moderate, else it might have got longlisted.
Do you have a favourite Frapin?
I’m working my way through my samples this week. This one and yesterday’s Terre de Sarment are fine, but that’s not enough for me to buy them as I already have an embarrassing number of ‘fine’ perfumes.
My favourite is the original, 1270. Deliciously boozy.
Si Lolita for me today. Lolita Lempicka product are so inexpensive these days.
I like Si. And LLs are such a great, cheap thrill, adorable bottles and all.
if I remember correctly, you deserve the enabler pin for my purchase of this one! ???? You smell lovely!
Wearing a dab of cozy, amber-y Agent Provocateur Strip (discontinued a couple years back, I think…found it online for a song). Perfect for the cold rainy day we’re having here. Oh my but those tap pants are lovely! I just visited that site and I think I should stay far, far away…also, as a confirmed lingerie addict, I can’t believe I had never heard of it!
I have been trying to avoid the Journelle sale, but those Mimi Holliday Cherry Drop sets are so enticing. . . Trying to remind myself I don’t ACTUALLY have any money.
Anyway, enjoy your AP!
Oooh, yes Journelle is dangerous! They are having a sale right now though, I think it’s 15% off $100 or more and the percentage off goes up the more you spend…or maybe I shouldn’t tell you that ha! I know the exact Mimi Holliday set you are referring to, so gorgeous and so NOT in my budget either lol 🙁
Sorry duh, just saw that you said you knew they were having a sale…not enough coffee today ha ha
Lucky you! I love Strip. Came to trying it a couple of years too late, though.
It really is great…wish they would bring it back!
Niice! I don’t have more than a smidge of this left, but you made me want to bust out the original’s DD flanker. I haven’t aired it in a while. Thanks for the inspiration. You smell wonderful!
I was running for work this morning and grabbed the first bottle that came to my hands. So I am in Donna Karan Gold EdP. Nice and pleasant for a super busy day. I am glad I am working only half of the day today and I will be home for the rest of the week. Tomorrow we will be celebrating Thanksgiving at my sister home. This year no cooking for me!
You smell great, and enjoy your afternoon off!
I love this one, and haven’t worn it yet this year. will remedy that tomorrow! Such a cheap thrill too, I got mine very cheaply on eBay.
U smell lovely!
Not a cheap thrill, but just a lovely Goutal: Grand Amour which I wear more often in spring than in autumn. It’s nice, and I can pretend that it’s a sunny day in April in stead of a rainy day in November.
These Goutals are worth every penny!
Jo Malone BlackBerry & Bay.
Nice!
A great fragrance! One of my faves!
Perfect.
Cheap thrill SOTD: Gucci Guilty. It was my first or second perfume, purchased about 10 years ago 😀
Nice one!
SOTD is Gucci EDP, a longtime favorite for warm, spicy comfort.
Perfect!
It really is!
Testing Shalimar Cologne. The dry down is a little weak, but is this the best opening ever or what??
I’ve never tried the cologne version. I’m only familiar with the extrait, which has this gloriously filthy opening.
Hum, filthy is great in my book. Never tried the extrait.
Would you like some?
That weaker drydown (sometimes it reads almost incense-like on my skin) makes it great for warmer weather.
You smell wonderful!
I’ve been wearing cheap thrill Perles de Lalique on one hand and discounted but not cheap Theo Fennell Scent on the other. They are somewhat similar and complement each other because Perles is slightly thin and sharp, while Scent is richer but a little flat. I’ve had vintage AG Passion parfum beside my computer all week and sniff it occasionally, planning to switch, but haven’t yet.
I like to put something a little smoky or leathery with TF Scent, but you’re right, it doesn’t smell cheap.
Smoky or leathery sounds complementary, too. I’ll have to try that!
Inland Fog China Musk.
You always have the most interesting scents.
*Wanders off to research Inland Fog*
Why thank you! Although the prices have increased everything is reasonable and I would recommend just about all of the products…..last year I bought 12 tangerine lip balms because they were 2 dollars a piece and 100% natural and the best thing going for my chapped lips…I think they are now a dollar more but still reasonably priced…body washes and soaps are good too as well as the variety of essential and fragrance oils….
http://www.inlandfog.com/
here you go 🙂
Thanks – unfortunately, she will not ship to Canada – Oh well – next time I am in the US
You’re such an enabler :-). I feel like buying one of each item except for the pet stuff!
and happy bday!
I’m celebrating with the opposite of a cheap thrill: Trayee. My interview yesterday went very well and I got the promotion! Woo-hoo! Thank you NST’ers for your words of encouragement. Having so many fragrant friends from all over the globe wafting good smells and good wishes seems to have done the trick.
Congratulations! That’s definitely worth celebration!
Congratulations on your promotion and the Trayee!
Congratulations! Celebrate!!
Oh, congrats to you. I will have a phone interview next week for the crisis counselor in my school district. It would be a promotion for me as well if I were to get it. So, I may seek out some “scented” good-lucks as well.
Again, congrats, and I hope the new position is everything you hoped for.
Consider it done. Good vibes coming at you!
Good Luck on your interview!
Congratulations! You smell divine!
Yay for you!
That’s wonderful news! Congratulations!
Congratulations Luna!
Woo! Excellent!
Congratulations!
Nice work!
Congrats on that!x
Congratulations!!
Congratulations!
Congratulations!
Congratulations!
Yay!!!
Congratulations !!!!!
Well done!- Trayee sounds like a perfect scent to celebrate in!
Congratulations on your promotion!
Was supposed to be off today but ended up working. Thankfully I was able to work from home.
I’m wearing Bulgari Red Tea today, which I got on Fragrancenet for under $30.
Oops.. that was supposed to be a separate post, not a reply.
Well done! More perfume money!
Congratulations!
Congratulations on the promotion!
I’m still enjoying the musky civety drydown of Salome from last night. But after showering I will put on some of Amma’s perfume (rose and sandalwood oil). I bought it many years ago for $40 and some of the proceeds went to one of Ammaji’s many charities. I met someone in India who was an ashram work dog for many years for Amma, so I have mixed feelings about that organization, but the perfume is really divine.
I thought you were talking about YOUR amma and got really confused for a while.
Hahaha, no it’s the hugging saint. I guess my real Amma was one of those too 🙂
After my shower I used a ton of Smokey Poppy scented lotion from the body shop and found I didn’t need to wear perfume. The scent on that stuff is very strong but in a nice way. It reminds me of an old school chypre and I like it very much.
She. She’s the hugging saint. Not “it”. 😛
My gosh, I love those silk panties! Wow!
Wearing Modern Muse today. IMO, Estee Lauder puts out some really great fragrances. And the best part, they don’t break the bank.
Although MM isn’t my favorite EL fragrance, (that would probably be Sensuous Noir) it is still nicely done.
I recently saw a nature show on big cats. In one segment, a fellow was talking about pheromones that cats respond to and sprayed three tree stumps with three different perfumes. The ocelot that they were testing went absolutely nuts over the stump that had Estee Lauder on it. He didn’t specify which particular perfume he used.
I wish they said which one. I think I read that Obsession has a similar response with cats.
I saw the big cats nature show and I think the scents were CK Obsession (for men), EL Beautiful, and a generic-looking bottle that was said to be a Chanel. Perhaps it was a decant, or maybe a copycat. >^..^<
OMG thank you so much. I tried really hard to ID the perfume from what I saw of the bottle the guy was holding but I wasn’t able to do it.
I saw it too and thought it looked like Beautiful, but I wasn’t sure. I swear they showed the guy spraying Obsession on the chosen post, but since I was squeeing over cuddly ocelot I could be wrong.
Hahaha I think I was distracted by the spotted kitty cat too.
Wow. That’s interesting!
Whatever it is, it is also in Sonoma Scent Studio Rose Musc. The first time I wore that, my semi feral barn cat spent 20 minutes sucking on my arm purring away with his eyes closed, slobbering all over. Kitty paradise in spray form. 🙂
I can’t WAIT to try this on my cats!!!
Do give us updates! I wonder if it works on all cars, or only some…I presume it is some synthetic civet fraction. My horses where the opposite of intrigued by it. The snorted in disgust and acted suspicious of me for several days…
Mine lick a few from SSS-especially Tabac Aurea. Maybe it’s the musk she uses.
I’m interrupting the cheap thrill week to wear Fleur de Chine because I’m meeting an ex. No intention to change the status quo (we are good friends), but I admit I prefer to look and smell good in these situations.
Here, here! Always remind them of what they could of had. And always wear a fragrance that no matter where they are when they smell it, it brings thoughts of you to mind.
I don’t do that, I have no wish to be cruel or complicate things. But I don’t want to look drab or feel insecure either, so I like to be polished and on top form. I really, sincerely enjoy the company of all my past significant others, but there is always an element of vulnerability, I think.
My husband is friends with a few of his exes, and I actually enjoy getting together with them when they’re in town. Everyone has moved on so it’s easy to enjoy them.
We also have family friends (one on each side) like that, both married now with kids and there are no issues. I remember Jane Fonda talking about divorce once and how come they all get together for holidays. She said: “Gather the clan!” and made the point that these are people you have cared about – probably still care about – deeply. I really liked that sentiment and the generosity of spirit (I do realise things aren’t always that easy, but we shouldn’t make them more difficult than they need to be.)
True. Not always easy. I guess it depends on how it ended and one’s own resilience, but that is a great sentiment and something to strive for in any relationship, really.
I do the same 🙂 Have fun!
It’s always fun, we mostly talk about fiscal policy and sport 🙂
Penhaligon’s Elixir today, to keep me company as I tidy up for festivities tomorrow. Can you prep green beans ahead of time? We’re not casserole-ing them, since together with the salad they’re one of the spots of crunchy green relief in Thanksgiving dinner, and they won’t take long to sauté, but it would be nice to get them washed and trimmed ahead of time.
Yes, you could certainly wash and trim them. You could also blanch them, rinse them in cold water, and then refrigerate until you’re ready to sauté.
That’s what I do.
Restaurants blanch vegetables days ahead of time with undimmed results.
Thanks, all!
Not a cheap thrill if you add up cost/ml, but another brand that thrills me for making 15ml bottles, and really cute ones, at that. HdP Ambre 114, which is my perfect amber.
Congrats on finding your perfect amber! I have never found my HG amber, instead I have several that I like/love.
114 is lovely! And those tiny bottles are very cute.
Tauer Amber Flush Body Oil: Mmmm-mmm!
Sitting in the dental waiting room: Boooo!
Aw! But least you smell lovely!
Thanks! I got another compliment on this one today, too, at the dental office. Bystanders seem to enjoy it as much as the wearer does ????
Here’s an update on my adventure yesterday with Rihanna Rogue. It started out super jammy sweet. I understand it’s comparison to Botegga Venetta which I’ve sampled a few times. I agree with reviews, it’s not nearly as refined as BV and is definitely more brassy and seriously tenacious. I look forward to wearing it again, it will be a good cold-weather scent choice when I want to be just a little bit bolder.
SOTD Marnie, soft, pretty and easy to wear.
Brassy and tenacious sounds pretty on-brand for Rihanna! I’m glad you like your bottle!
Love Marni! You smell great!
SOTD is Chergui. I am enjoying the powdery amber dry down.
Chergui sounds lovely for today. Enjoy!
Yum! You smell great! ????
You smell GREAT! It is very different from Coromandel but I always have this thought that they are cousins.
Wearing Chypre Fatal today from the lovely Cazaubon…and I smell great.
A thrill…just not a cheap one. 😉
Hehehe… wish those Elixirs Charnels were cheaper, I would like to get another set to keep in my Montreal condo.
SotD = Hiris, which gives me a feeling of steadiness and centered-ness. My magical never-ending sample vial of Hiris is finally empty so I went FB, no regrets. Well, just one. I wish I had bought the blue bottle.
Today I will spend all day with my mum. We will tidy and clean her already spotless house, and I will bake two pumpkin pies. Late this evening we will set 12 places at the table with my paternal grandmother’s Noritake Nuana from the early 1950s. My grandfather was in the US Navy at that time and brought the set back from Japan. We only use these dishes for Thanksgiving because my mum doesn’t really like the pattern, and my paternal grandparents were beloved but persnickety.
The dishes are a fine reminder that after a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations. Or so says Oscar Wilde.
You made me google Nortake Nuana. That brown and grey leaf pattern seems perfect for Thanksgiving. I hope you enjoy your time with your mom, and that the rest of your celebration is fun. It sounds lovely. Your Hiris is so elegant–I aspire to that level of pulled-togetherness Be well!
Elegant is the right word for Hiris. I am wearing jeans and a t-shirt, so I hope I’m striking a balance somehow. 🙂
I googled it too — we probably have the same china problem 😉
Have fun! I love pumpkin pie. May need to make one just for myself as no one else in my house likes it.
Oh, and I love bith Hiris and Oscar Wilde. 🙂
We must think a bit alike, in food and fragrance and literary favorites. 😉
Long ago, when I lived in a house where I was the only one who liked pumpkin pie, I baked it without a crust in a baking dish or 8 small ramekins. I reduced the amount of sugar by half and increased the spices a bit. Then I would eat it every day for a week. Pure delight without a bit of guilt.
I do that frequently when I want butternut squash. My husband hates it so I bake a large one and eat half as squash and the other half as pumpkin pie filling.
Hiris is a summer favorite of mine. I searched high and low when I decided to get a FB and finally found a cobalt blue one a while back. That stunning blue with the gold cap is seriously gorgeous! You smell wonderful????
Good luck was with you! I looked for a blue Hiris bottle but was impatient, perhaps my next bottle . . . lol.
Nice! I am going to a friends house and we’re a divided bunch when it comes to politics and I may need to play peacekeeper by distracting two vocal hotheads with shiny objects!
Hope your puss turned out well. And thank you for the Wilde quote.
Pies! I am going to try to turn off auto-correct. The other day I accidentally hit the g instead of the h, and it very logically corrected “right-ganded” to “right-gabled.”
Holiday Wednesday!
At work and will be here the entire day- but since I start early, I am usually off in the early afternoon.
1) Combo of low and high: in The Body Shop Satsuma body mist topped off with a tiny spritz of Jo Malone Incense & Cedrat (from a sample). Interestingly, I smell very Holiday appropriate.
Incense & Cedrat is beautiful. I had the chance to test it at Saks about a week ago and it’s on my to-acquire list. Enjoy!
Here’s to hoping you are able to leave even earlier than planned!
Oooh, I like Insence and Cedrat, too. I need to get my promised sample from the SA at Macy’s!
I started with a moderate application of Tauer Un Elle pour Maroc, or is it Maroc pour Elle? Anyway, it smelled great, but got to the incense and disappeared. That’s never happened to me before. This is a new sample. Did he change the formulation? So topped it off with Commodity Wool, from the little spray I keep in my purse. This is a very interesting smell, and I like it more and more.
Wow, Le Maroc pour Elle is nuclear on me. Even my husband comments on its potency and he usually doesn’t say anything.
Andy told me he did have to reformulate it several years ago to reduce the jasmine levels because of IFRA, but I bought a new bottle last year and it smells fine.
It smelled the way I rremembered, it just disappeared after 3.5 hours. The older sample I had lasted 6 to 7 hours. Weird.
I was rereading Kate Chopin’s The Awakening the other day and taking notes of all the scent references as part of some research for a bit of writing . I found around 15 of them: the sea, lemon and orange branches, roses in bloom, jasmine, mysterious and witchy night-scented gardens, crushed geranium leaves, rose petals and musky pinks. So, i thought I’d do a Chocolate Marzipan and try and blend some oils ….and sadly I ended up with Hurricane Katrina. Typical. The good news is I got the funding for a month at Auckland Museum so now I will be able to read the diaries of the 1840s missionary who collected plant specimens and made a reference to the Grand Maori Perfume. Cheap thrill Dark Horse rollerball oil.
As you are rereading it, I presume you like it? I read Chopin’s short stories a little while back (the Little Black Classics edition) and have been considering reading The Awakening since.
(And congratulations on the funding!)
It’s one of the books I first read at university when I did American Studies so I had memories of all the scent refs. It is one of the classics … Languid and sensuous, great imagery but also rather overwrought from a modern perspective…so you have to adjust for that …. A bit like watching the movie Death in Venice. But I like it, and Edith Wharton, and all those gals. Plus, she wrote it as a single mother ( widow) with six kids and that, in itself, is impressive. The Storm is a great story.
That sounds exciting! BIG congrats!!
Sorry your experiment was disappointing, but congrats on the funding!
I should re-read that one. Scent references weren’t on my radar when I read it. Such a haunting story.
And congrats!
“so I thought I’d do a chocolatemarzipan”…..hee!hee!
don’t give up on your blend…give it time to marinate and you will see it evolve and change….and if you don’t like it within a month or two tweek it with more essential oils….sometimes it helps to add more top notes (usually a citrus of some sort)…
you brought back a flood of memories….Death in Venice required reading in high school and I loved it…the Awakening required reading in college (and loved that one too)…my favorite author when I was in my young adulthood was Thomas Hardy..now that i am much older I find his and some of my other favorite authors (Warton, Bronte sisters, etc) too dark for my tastes….my favorite author now is Alexander McCall Smith…I am on my third round of the Isabel Dalhousie series….his books are lighthearted and whimsical but also incredibly philosphical…..
and congrats! and you smell good (LOVE Dark Horse and that is a great cheap thrill for sure!!!)
Here’s an Edith Wharton challenge for you (House of Mirth)
“Everything about her was warm and soft and scented: even the stains of her grief became her as rain-drops do the beaten rose.”
+1 on Alexaander Mc Call-Smith. The only series I have not gotten into is the No.1 Ladies Detective Agency.
Oh, that’s a good one! I read it in a female lit class and was dumbfounded and amazed by it, simultaneously.
In the Expensive-Thrill Encens Mythique. Almost finished a bottle, but fortunately have a back-up one in the wings.
We should do an expensive thrill Friday!
Yeah!
Yes and maybe we can call it Break the Bank Friday! I went to the Frederic Malle boutique downtown and the SA showed me, and I tried it on skin, The Night = Oud + Portrait of a Lady (- Patchouli). Wow! And break the bank expensive … I think it was a little over $800 for 50 mLs in a nice presentation case.
I think this is THE ONE for johanob…
Haha!You are running out of space for all your enabler pins!!This does sound incredible.Will seek it out next time I’m at the Malle counter!! X
Oh, and speaking of seasonal, a Montreal friend made a trip to Yves Rocher to test the remaining Noel scents. The standout to her was Cranberry & Almond, but Clementine & Spices was pleasant if fleeting.
No cheap thrill today.A thrill nonetheless:Chinatown.Fortified me for an extreme day at work!(19 surgeries in 5 hours,my feet are DONE for the week)x
Yikes!! Bless you AND your feet. Do you wear Dansko clogs? They were great for those 12 hour shifts on my feet.
I do have a pair of Dansko’s yes,but they tend to make my feet tired after a while!I have Nikes in rotation at work these days.Air Pegasus keeps me sane and hurt-free(more or less!!Lol)
I worked in a hospital that had archaic rules so sneakers weren’t allowed and uniforms and shoes had to be white. This was the late 90s early 2000s. Surprised they didn’t make us wear caps!
Lol!Or capes!I do love those old uniforms though.They look special and regal.I have to add,having the latest technology and an AWESOME Ophthalmologist,we are able to do cataract surgeries with lens implants in less than 15 minutes these days.I was a first year student in 1996,so I remember the oldschool uniforms too!Lol.
Ha! I could do cape, not cap. Yes, there’s a certain romance to those days of yore, ala Call the Midwife. And I’m sure you could pull it off better than I could ???? 15 minutes!? Good to know for future reference.
I’m wearing En Passant this morning as I have a dental appointment this afternoon and need to wear something discreet. I made pumpkin custards yesterday (like pie but without the crust) and will take some around to a couple of neighbors.
En Passant, another beautiful perfume name that makes me sigh and smile.
And “Yay!” for pumpkin custards. I was just thinking of those. 🙂
Thanks for that idea! My husband doesn’t eat the crust, just the pumpkin.
Pumpkin custard sounds divine.
I made a little one tonight inadvertently, after the filling wouldn’t quite fit in my crust. Very tasty, and much less hassle than making the blasted crust. It would be nice with a gingersnap or piece of shortbread, too. Hope things went smoothly at the dentists.
The pumpkin custards sound nice! My dog had a rough morning and I am feeling stressed as a consequence, wearing Passage d’Enfer to calm down.
Hope s/he will feel better and you too.
Aw, hope puppy’s feeling better.
Hope things get better for you both.
I hope it got better as the day went on!
Thank you all for the kind thoughts, she did improve. Went to the vets for some meds, things are calmer now.
Glad she’s doing better.
Thursday already here, not quite as exciting as Friday, but the weekend is definitely in sight. Celebrating that Trayee.
Beautiful way to celebrate almost Friday.
Osmanthe Yunan, which won’t last forever, but will be delightful while it does. Writing at home anyway, so I can put on something else later.
Lovely!
Long busy day at our company, tiring but very useful. Cristalle EdP kept me sharp. I love call Cristalles but sometimes only the salty vetivery overripe melon of the EdP will do.
You smell great!
SOTD = Chanel Coromandel
Today’s my Friday and it feels like one! I even expected our cafeteria to have the normal Friday stuff!
There was talk of Hiram Green Arbole Arbole last week. Two reviews came out today from Chemist in the Bottle and The Scented Hound. I smelled something very different but loved it in the way I smelled it – green, earthy. I did not detect any vanilla or benzoin. The next time I wear it, detecting either or both will be icing on the cake!
I love it when a day feels like a Friday. 🙂 When I was part of a computer programming staff years ago, we liked to sneak in secret programming language that noted today as a “logical Friday.” Geeky good times.
Ha, the Easter Eggs!
Cheap thrill Organza Indecence isn’t as thrilling as I’d hoped.
This week has taught me that my collection is replete with cheap thrills. Today’s is Lush Lust. But it could have been plenty of others from the line: Sikkim Girls, Orange Blossom, 25:43, or Karma.
PSA: The Different Company Bois d’Iris 3oz bottles are on sale for $45(!) on Gilt dot com, along with Rose Poivree. Other TDC scents are in the $65-$95 range.
I’m doing a week of Cheap Thrills, or at least five days of them. Today it’s Molinard Habanita, the modern edp. I got mine in a swap (thanks, Elisa!), but I see that it’s widely available for less than $50. It is definitely not for everyone, but its spicy, smoky, powdery loveliness, and serious sillage, are certainly for me.
Monday was the mighty Queen Latifah Queen, and Tuesday the less mighty but still plenty interesting, and probably more universally wearable, Queen of Hearts.
Will now read everyone else’s posts. I’m wondering whether any other celebrators of American Thanksgiving made pie tonight. I made a gluten-and-dairy-free pumpkin, and remembered why I never used to make pie even before the dietary restrictions.
And am I the only one who can’t tolerate women’s underwear with a seam down the middle? I always think those panties must be designed by someone unfamiliar with female anatomy.
I am right there with you! While everyone is commenting on how lovely they look my first thought was “they look incredibly uncomfortable!!!”