It's Hump Day! Plus, happy International Dalek Remembrance Day or happy Humbug Day, take your pick. What fragrance are you wearing?
I'm still in Fendi Theorema, and may I never, ever finish it up. I did find another tea sample I could finish: Upton Thé Mélange Russe, gone.
Reminder: 12/23 will be Just Finish It Friday — finish a sample or decant you’ve been hanging onto for a long time, OR wear from a precious bottle that’s getting low. Big bonus points if you finish a bottle! (Suggested by Elisa)
And for those of you who like to plan ahead, see Scent of the day ~ Friday community projects 2016 (or Scent of the day ~ Friday community projects 2017), where I'll try to always have the next five or six weeks mapped out in advance.
Note: the Fendi Flowerland Strappy Skimmer Flats are $990 at Neiman Marcus.
SOTD: L’Envol de Cartier.
I am such a failure this year — STILL have not smelled it. Any day now I will drag myself to the mall.
Oooh, up early enough today to see the SotD poll without comments! Woohoo!
I don’t know what I can finish this Friday. I truly live off samples, despite my bottles. But today I’m dabbing on vintage Opium edt from one of two minis (actually the one that smells better AND the one with the least left. Isn’t that always the way?).
I could live off samples for years, I’m sure! But probably I’d discover half of them are spoiled
Love the shoes
SOTD is Tihota over Lord of Misrule shower gel. I can never, ever run out of Tihota, but I am trying to use up the shower gel before I order more, so I give myself 1/4 point towards this week’s challenge.
Patchouli, vanilla and musk follow me everywhere.
I love the picture of the shoes! Pretty sure I’d never wear them.
My immediate thought was of the strange tan lines you would get if you wore them outside.
That too.
Lord of Misrule is WONDERFUL! I love how it fills the bathroom- and then the house- with lovely patchouli- pepper fragrance.
Lord of Misrule and Tihota – wowzers!
Wearing “Hajusuuri’s Armpits” all over my body with a lavish spraying of “Kanuka’s Juniper Jumpers”
Happy Winter Solstice!!!!!!!!!!
that would be “Kanuka’s Avalon Jumper”-LOL! (amyris essential oil with a spray of Pacifica’s Avalon Juniper EDP)
Please tell me I’m reading that right. I clearly missed the joke on this one. I know I’m on cold medicine, but I don’t think I’m THAT out of it.
Ok. I am obsessed with amyris essential oil and I wrote in of the comments that I am addicted to the smell of amyris and Hajusuuri read it as “I am addicted to the smell of my armpits”…yesterday when I wrote that I would be wearing Pacifica’s Avalon Juniper all week Kanuka interpreted that as ” I will be wearing Avalon jumpers all week” which she assumed was some odd American Christmas tradition ….hajusuuri jokes that my comments have a way of being interpreted in very amusing ways….I was “trying” to be funny in my comment today but then again comedy was never my strong suite :)!!
Hope you feel better…gargle with warm salt water for the sore throat!
ack!!! that would be “strong sui”t….oh goodness, get me another cup of tea!!!!
suit! suit! suit!!!! (middle aged fingers, why don’t you work for me anymore ?)
Lol, I saw some of that yesterday, but didn’t read thoroughly through it. That’s hilarious!
Enjoy your armpits and jumpers
I need to run to the store for another nasal rinse bottle and then will gargle. I was diagnosed with acute chronic sinusitis, so whenever I get ill it’s usually affected to my sinuses being set off. I can tell it is this time because I’ve got a seriously post nasal drip going on.
yes the nasal rinse is great! My person uses it daily to clean out his sinuses…..
I was trying to teach my toddler how to do Moon salutations for Winter Solstice – she just did the side to side in mountain poise and then gave up
Oh that is adorable!!!! a little yogini! I turned on family members to yoga when they were very young…it was the best “gift” I ever gave them
I swear my brain is NOT functioning today…that would be “I turned family members on to yoga”……
That is very cute! A friend/yoga teacher said her dad started practicing with his kids in the 70s and it was his gift to them.
That must have been adorable. Toddlers trying things are the best – they may fail, but it’s so cute to watch.
OOPS — can’t believe I forgot to mention Winter Solstice!
LOL- that’s a great re-labeling!
we have cuirass hajusuuri and kanuka to thank for those
I always laugh so hard whenever I read an interesting play on words on NST….this really is a fun place to be !!!!
It really is!
Have you tried layering with Black Cashmere? Ha ha ha…or Snuggler’s Soul
hysterical!
Good thing I wasn’t drinking anything when I read that, or my keyboard would’ve died!
Chocolatemarzipan8,I’m so glad to “know” you on NST!!You must be very fun in person!!Thanks for the laughs today!!Needed that!X
hee! you just made my day! I am a very quiet, reserved introverted person in real life but y’all bring out the “goofy” and “zany” person that must exists within me….and I enjoy playing along with the play on words game!
LOL
That shoe is cute, but something about it looks very uncomfortable. I also somehow think it should have Hello Kitty on it.
I’m in Iris Nazarena today – just because it was the closest perfume to me this morning.
I survived yesterday’s shenanigans, but am suffering today. I woke up yesterday with a sore throat and it just got progressively worse as the day went on. I only had a little wine with dinner and mostly drank hot tea all day.
I’m not much better today and keeping the sore throat at bay – barely – with medicine making me sleepy and a large cup of hot tea. Luckily it’s a half day here in the office. I can go run one last xmas shopping errand this afternoon and hopefully get everything wrapped before the husband gets home. Then – I’ll be in bed until xmas.
Very good luck beating the sickness! (And it would make a perfect Hello Kitty shoe.)
Thank you. I’m so glad it’s an easy day and then I can chill out.
Seriously, that shoe screams SANRIO.
I hope you recover really quickly! Feel better soon. Drink all the tea.
Gargle with warm salt water – thanks to Creosote and my mom
I am finishing Boy by Chanel sample
My husband is home late today so I am without the babies at ⭐️ $ (Starbucks) sipping a pumpkin latte and reading the WSJ in peace with a gingerbread cookie as well
* $…LOVE that! and send some of that latte my way
How do you like Boy? I’ve been wanting to try.
Enjoy your me-time!
It’s very subtle, I can hardly smell anything on me. Reminds me of a fragrance from the 90’s , not sure which one. I will get back to you in that.
You should sample it, citrus and powdery on me
It’s definitely on my try list. I am miles (and miles) from a Chanel counter, but have found samples on eBay. Thanks for your impression.????
Ah, adult relaxation! Enjoy!
SotD: the last of a sample of SSS Sienna Musk–objectively it is perfectly well-made, wearable without being dull, but it does nothing for me. It is easy for me to imagine someone else loving this.
S(ip)otD: MF American Breakfast Tea. I wanted something sweet this morning.
I love it…and it is now discontinued
Sienna Musk is very nice.
How did your son make out yesterday?
He may need a waiver for his vision.
Oh crap-a
SOTD is nearly the last of my sample of Histoires de Parfums 1804. It’s supposed to feature pineaple but I can’t find any. Mind you I’ve had the sample for a while now. It’s soft, sweet and nice.
Tea is Earl Grey Fleurs again, but I’ve added some chestnut oolong to liven things up a bit.
Chestnut oolong! Where is it from, please?
This one was bought in Brussels at L’Univers du Thé, but Damman frères has virtually the same tea.
I will be finishing my sample of Anne Pliska today and will definitely be purchasing this one. Maybe birthday gift to self next month????I don’t know how this has been around for 30 years and I just discovered it this year…it feels less dated to me than other big guns from that time (Obsession, Poison, Coco) and I love it!
Hmmm… Thank you for reminder! Adding AP to my to sample list.
I tried to finish up a sample of Malabah by Penhaligon, but didn’t quite manage it. I may have to see if I can get a decant of this.
I like that one – a nice sheer spicy scent, IIRC.
Feeling seasonally appropriate in Vert D’Encens today
I really like Vert D’Encens. I like the other two Vert scents as well, but D’Encens is my favorite.
SOTD is Chanel 19 to help me cope with this morning’s surprise – a totally clogged shower drain, discovered at the point when the conditioner was mostly, but not entirely, out of my hair. Tried to clear it the way that usually works, but the cloggage is deeper than I can reach with the tools I have available. Aaarrrrggggghhh.
Oh yuck. Hope you can get it unclogged.
Yuck indeed. The hubby found some drain unclogger liquid and I guess we’ll see if that works. I would have called a plumber, but my darling spouse is a tightwad.
But on the positive side you will have super soft hair
Hah – way to look at the bright side!
Hi there! Ugh, what a pain! I am having plumbing related new home owner blues (the stopper in my sink is stuck!)
I have found that the Zip It tool is very helpful for drain clogs when I was at the apartment. It looks like a long plastic line of teeth, but it’s very effective with clogs.
And if Zip It doesn’t work there’s a drain snake/auger thingie that’s more expensive, but cheaper than a plumber.
Thank you both! It looked like the drain clearer combined with 5 or so gallons of very hot water did the trick, but we won’t know for sure until someone takes the next shower.
That Zip It tool sounds like something I need to invest in pronto.
I have learned SO much here. I’m shopping for a Zip It next time I’m out.
I love the zip tool. It’s so effective, and available at the drugstore.
The drug store??!
YUP! You can find Zip It at CVS/Walgreens/Rite Aid as well as Amazon. Super cheap and you should have two, at least!
SOTD ELDO Like This. I haven’t worn it much so put it on to see if it was a candidate for selling or swapping but no, it’s lovely.
None of my bottles are near being finished but I should see off my 5ml mignon of Milano Caffè this week.
I forget to wear it too, and it *is* lovely.
Good Morning! The 1st day of winter definitely feels like it! Brrrrrrrr
School is out this afternoon, my shopping is done, and we can finally relax for a few days! Then again, my in-laws are coming, so I really need to clean the house (again)….I’ll relax at some point!
SOTD: Chloe.
You smell good and are really organized. I may bathe in Chloe to see if it works for me
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You smell elegant for teh first day of Winter!
At doctor’s office with Gaze for his official military service academy physical. OY, my nerves. Pass or fail, either way points to pitfalls…
However, it looks like I’m fairly close to killing the second of two 10ml decants of Iris Poudre, and I smell good, and I have a bottle, so there’s that.
Also, Bookworm finished her exams and will be home tonight YAY
OK- so disregard my question above!
You smell wonderful, and I envy your whole bottle!
Iris Poudre is gorgeous, u smell lovely! (as always, I think we share quite a few favourites, I’m in Heure Exquise today).
Wow – big day! You smell amazing, and your kids sound amazing.
Let us know how it all went!!
Update on Gaze’s DODMERB physical: he did fine. He has two physical issues which we thought might disqualify him, but as it turns out, neither is a thing the military cares about. (He did not do as well at the eye appointment, so I don’t know whether he will pass that portion or not. We’re a long long way from the kid whose uncorrected vision was 20/80 in one eye and 20/200 in the other… but his depth perception still sucks because of the amblyopia, and his left eye’s vision is 20/40 corrected. So. I guess we’ll find out soon whether he passed, or if not, whether his vision is even good enough for the USMA to pursue a waiver. And then there’s the question of whether they want him enough to pursue a waiver… It’s a long process.)
That still sounds very positive,Mals!Plus he did get a good recommendation from a congressman,and obviously he has you on his side,so two thumbs up!And the other fingers crossed!His vision sounds way improved,corrected with specs?Did he have lasik as well?
Solstice Greetings! Wearing 31 Rue Cambon, which has nothing to do with the weekly theme as I have plenty of it but felt an appropriate choice to welcome the rebirth of the Sun.
Lovely!
Amen to longer days!!!!!!
Haha, “rebirth of the Sun”. YES.
And you smell great.
You smell great! Great choice for the solstice: I associate the scent of 31RC with the color of afternoon sun.
Hiram Green Shangri La. I was looking for my almost empty samples, but had to spray this luscious chypre instead. I need distraction from holiday family
issues pulling in different directions.
Sorry about the issues, but you smell great.
Oh, I have a partial sample of this. Thanks for the reminder, I think I might wear that Friday
Very sorry about the issues. I have those too, and always have to work to remind myself to make my own comfort (? lack of stress?) a priority. Your distraction sounds divine.
Wearing Amouage Ubar from sample and will finish it tomorrow. The only Amouage sample I have left is Lyric, which I can’t stand due to a massive dose of sandalwood.
It’s rare that I find somebody that doesn’t like Lyric but I don’t like Ubar and I’m sure that is blasphamy. Ubar smells like flowers and bug spray to my nose.
Ubar is all about the bug spray for me. I had to scrub it. If Lyric is a sandlewood bomb, I might have to try that.
I love bug spray that smells like flowers.
That’s funny because Ubar smells *exactly* like a scent sachet that a friend in Egypt had attached to his AC unit. So, no matter how much I might like it, I just can’t justify spending an Amouage amount of money on something my brain swears is air freshener. If only I’d smelled Ubar first!
This did make me laugh. Isn’t it funny how we decide stuff?
I’m trying Lyric for the first time today – I agree that it’s more sandalwood than rose, but such a nice sandalwood . . .
That’s so interesting because I don’t really detect sandalwood in Lyric, despite my sensitivity to it. Go figure. In fact, Lyric is one of my favorites!
Ditto. Sandalwood usually isn’t migraine friendly for me at all and I have no problem with Lyric except that I wore too much on a hot, humid day a couple of years ago and haven’t craved it much since. To me it smells of Ylang Ylang and cardamom custard.
Oof, I think that’d put me off it for quite a while too! “Cardamom custard” is so spot-on!
That sounds lovely to me..
I don’t remember who it was, but someone mentioned a while back that Indiescents is offering free shipping and that person deserves a huge enabler pin. I ordered a significant amount of samples, including a full set of Kerosene ones that I’ve wanted to try for ages. I’m wearing my Hanbury sample from the same order and I see now why it’s so popular here on NST.
So I’m not really following the theme, but as Austenfan said – wearing a sample is already good.
Hanbury is really beautiful. Indiescents seems to be one of the last places to carry MCG in the US ???? Most others have dropped that line. I’ll be curious to hear how you like the Kerosenes.
Hanbury is pretty in the cold, and really wonderful when it is hot. One of my favorite summer scents.
I can’t wait to hear your thoughts on the Kerosene samples!
I finished a 15ml bottle of vintage Allure edt this morning. I sprayed generously to finish the bottle .
Yum! How did you like it?
It was my favorite years ago, I still love it
Way to take one for the team!
You smell marvelous.
Good for you!
I used up all but maybe 1 spritz of my MDCI La Belle Helene sample today.
I don’t always want to smell like a pear tart. But when I do, this one really hits the spot!
Poire Belle Helene is one of my favorite desserts. I’m imagining you smelled marvelous today.
Hey NST, I blinked and it’s Wednesday. End of year busy-ness and whatnot can get in the way sometimes.
ScentofthePastFewDays = Guerlain Cologne du 68, the citrus is the perfect olfactory boost when I’m wilting. It is as good as Orange Sanguine and I prefer 68’s drydown.
I’ve not finished a sample, decant, or bottle recently, but I liberated a grand number of unloved samples by foisting them onto willing coworkers. Tis the season of excess, fragrant and otherwise, after all.
You smell great.
Winter Solstice!
1) New homeowner blues- of all the things, my bathroom sick stopper is STUCK in the sink. Worse yet the nobs to make the stopper move do not seem connected to the stopper, so I can’t move it from the bottom of the sink. (Insert Charlie Brown yell)
2) And finished a sample of Tom Ford Rive Ambre. I will quote from my review on Fragrantica:
This is a fresh, citrusy and herbally fragrance that dries down to a warm, orange-y zest and warm musky scent.There is a teensy bit of spice, which I think is the reference of the amber, which grounds the fragrance. Absolutely beautiful in composition and perfect for heat, which makes the scent bloom!
Alas- this has the half life of a fruit fly. You enjoy all of the above in about an hour, just long enough for your work commute or a coffee date. This fragrance would be better served in a larger bottle, and sold for about half the current asking price.
3) Office potluck, y’all! And because I am that person, I brought a veggie tray with bagna cauda.
4) Daleks? Yikes! Too bad there is no new Doctor Who special this year- but can make do with the Husbands of River Song.
Wish you were here for Christmas…that Bagna Cauda is such a brilliant idea and your perfume sounds wonderful. In return you could get a clog-free shower and something like 3000 hours of Dr Who dvds from my son’s collection…and it’s summer.
Oh my! That sounds lovely- lots of sun, Doctor Who and plenty of bagna cauda with lots of really good cold lemonade or wine spritzer!
Count me in!
and me too! I will bring Kanuka her very own American Jumper
My bathroom sink did that, too. I replaced the stopper and the hardware that connects it to the nob thingy. It wasn’t an awful job and was a little faster than waiting for the plumber.
I like to bring veggies and hummus to work for potluck. I’ll do bagna cauda next time. Sounds delicious.
The bagna cauda was really wonderful! We have a group fondue set, so it was nice and fragrant and hot all afternoon. Everyone enjoyed it and it went quickly!
SOTD is Arquiste Ella. I like it but it’s more fruity than I expected (at least to my nose).
I tried it the other week and enjoyed it but I think I preferred El but maybe I would really just like a meeting place of the two. Or Nanban. Those 100ml bottles are a bit of a deal breaker.
Trying to Just Finish my decant of Noir de Noir, though I don’t actually want it to end.
Have you ever tried Armaf Club de Nuit Intense for women? It’s a very good clone of NdN and very inexpensive. I actually slightly prefer it as the rose phase lasts longer.
Ooh! I have not, thanks so much for the rec!
I have a lifetime supply if you want to try it:
Pretsky 35 at haw male
Wearing vintage Coco and Vanilla Flash today…
I stumbled upon this combination last week with a cardigan still wafting Coco when I put on Vanilla Flash so today I am trying them together in earnest.
They work quite well together…kind of a mega oriental.
I don’t typically layer perfumes…but maybe I will start tinkering more.
Any good perfume combos to recommend please?
Wowza!
I can’t recommend a combo, but I really want to walk past you!
Mm, sounds great!
That sounds like a great combination–I like both of those!
No.19 EDP and 31RC
I’m trying out Ray of Light from my April Aromatics sample set. It’s beautiful! Very fresh and citrusy. I don’t get any of the deep notes that it’s supposed to have, but it seems refreshing and high-quality. I’m really enjoying this set and definitely recommend it!
Yum, you smell great.
SOTD is Shalimar Ode a la Vanille (the Mexican one). I hopped over to TPC since STC doesn’t have Guerlain anymore and got the Madagascar version of Ode a la Vanille. I want to try them both to see what the difference is.
That sounds like a great comparison. I have been curious about both of those frags. Let us know what you think of them!
In the bosom of my family, although I am currently the only one home. Wearing Elixir, and some LUSH Smuggler’s Soul body cream or something? (Not solid perfume.) The cats are keeping me company as I try to get work done.
You smell lovely.
Cats can be the best company, especially when they have you all to themselves. =^..^=
$990? No way! That’s like three month’s salary for a middle class family here in India. I think I would just rather grab some maryjanes at payless and stick my own home made daisies on there with a glue gun…
SOTD: AG Hadrian. For some reason, what seemed to be kind of a boring ish citrus frag in Massachusetts is a super sophisticated lemon spice cologne here in South Asia. Very refreshing in contrast to some of the other er um “smells”.
This morning I discovered a huge (at least 6 inch long) black centipede in the bathroom. She looked like she might bite, so I squeegied her into the toilet. I tried to wash her down with a bucket of water, but she disappeared into a crack. If she comes out again I will definitely photograph her. The bugs grow really big here, but they are pretty non aggressive and just want to be left alone usually.
Ha! Yeah, I thought the shoes either looked really cute and expensive, or like Easter shoes in the girl’s section at Target. It was a fine line.
We get some pretty massive centepedes or millipedes here in our apt sometimes. From the corner of my eye I’ve mistaken them for a mouse! My cats love them but they seem to give them intestinal troubles when they’ve eaten them.
That reminds me of this spider that was in our hotel room once in Vietnam…
In Mexico there was a cockroach behind the toilet that was so big, I thought it was a lobster.
Wish David Attenborough would do a show about that…you can just imagine him speaking to the camera: who would believe that now, after four hours of crouching quietly in the bath, we would finally get a peek at one of nature’s most astonishing and sadly misunderstood creatures…the Mexican Cockroach Lobster….marvelous!
Yes, he’d be perfect. I can just hear his learned disquisition on the habits of the Mexican Lobster Cockroach!
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Hahaha!!!We call those “Parktown Prawns” in a certain part of Johannesburg!!Hahaha!
Ugh, centipedes!
Actually, if the shoes were black boots instead with the chain of flowers, I would buy a pair
Not emptying out any perfume vials/bottles this week, but might be finishing off some hair conditioner and face wash – half points? Trying some vintage No. 19 a perfume pal passed along, and waiting for the first bit to burn off. Wasn’t on the ball enough this morning to do a side-by-side comparison with the new stuff.
I am also finishing facial/beauty products as well.
I like this weeks challenge
me too! I would love to do it again some time in the future
Solstice and yule greetings! I am doused in Amouage Epic for the occasion.
Speaking of epics, one of the French Vendee globe sailors has just arrived down in Bluff after his yacht hit a container. It looks like it was almost cut in half . Must have been nerve wracking.
Poor fellow, he was on the verge of tears in the video they posted of him after the impact. Thank goodness he was able to make it to NZ safely – blessings on the NZ coast guard and sailors who went out to escort and help him to Bluff.
They will take good care of him down there
Nice!
U smell wonderful, and festive!, I think I’ll wear Epic tomorrow, but not to finish off thank goodness!
Happy Solstice, everybody! I finished off a mini of Elie Saab Le Parfum today, and I don’t think I’ll be seeking out more. I mean, it’s okay, but it has that raspy “wood” thing that is kind of annoying at best and can be an ice pick to the nose on the wrong day.
Raspy, screechy woods are a real deal breaker for me but kudos for polishing one off!
It’s gray this morning and I wanted something cheerful while I wrap presents. I picked Orange Sanguine. It is perfect and I should wear it more often than I do.
OS is indeed perfect for any occasion…..I have a huge 6.8 oz bottle of it and only have about 1/3 left…..
Me too! I also have a 30ml in a monogrammed leather case that I got at Goodwill for $10. The monogram doesn’t match my initials but I don’t care.
wow! that is a steal!!! The hunking bottle I have came with a free monogram leather case as well which I gifted to a family member.
Attempted to finish my travel bottle of Byredo Gypsy Water but there was WAY more in there than I thought!! I used easily 8 sprays and I am not overwhelmed, so that’s good. One downside of all my sampling is the wrist support on my desk is contaminated with so many perfumes it taints my wrists!! I have scrubbed it but it still has the lingering hodge podge of a thousand things
Cozy today in a sky blue cashmere tunic, navy leggings, a pair of splurge Ralph Lauren “equestrian fashion” high boots (as opposed to real riding boots) and a liberal dose of by Killian Amber Oud, which is the first niche/overpriced but worth it/OMG Yum! sample I got from a generous NSTer early on here. I look cute and smell great, if I do say so myself…
This sounds pretty amazing.
Gorgeous outfit and perfume, go girl!
Happy solstice, everyone! I’m still on a Theorema bender, too, and crossing my fingers that my bottle never runs empty!
Yay, glad to have company!
I need that finish it Friday discipline for the stack of almost-read books by my bed. I get so close to the end and the get distracted…and now I’ve drifted into Nozknoz’s Hillybilly Elegy when I started the week reading about a North Island missionary botanist which took over from Mandy Aftel…and can I read the books i bought as Christmas gifts for my mother etc. without bending the spine, splashing with coffee or otherwise messing. I definitely need a few good sprays of discipline…or Cristalle. Wishing you all a happy day up there….at least your days will soon be getting longer.
This comment took me back! My late mother, who would have been 95 today and died over 20 years ago, used to buy me wondering books for Christmas – the complete Dickens or the Oxford Jane Austen. BUT she would read them first, with considerably less care than you, and I still find ashes and spaghetti sauce or bits of Welsh rarebit!
Oh, good. I’ll be interested in hearing what you think of Hillbilly Elegy, which I haven’t actually read it. I don’t get around to nonfiction very often, so I’ll need a lot of motivation.
I end up doing that all the time! I’ll start one book and then another until I have several going at the same time, and sometimes one or more will be abandoned for a time. I think the worst was when I got about 4/5 of the way through ‘My Name is Red’ and then didn’t get back to it until like 5 years later. (Not one of the best books to do that with!)
That happened to me. But I loved Snow…That’s my favourite and it’s shorter.
Snow! It’s pretty brilliant that the poems aren’t there to be read–because it’s infuriating.
In Geisha Rouge again today and the cat will . not . get .OFF. me.
Geisha cat
Well, other than the fact that he is male. But both my cats have Japanese names: Hoshi (Star) and Kokoro (Heart). Koko is the one that loves this perfume.
Okay. Now I’ve gotta get a new sample of Geisha Rouge and see if it works on Haineko (ash-cat) or any of the other twerps, for that matter. I’m always interested in what they are attracted to and I remember liking GR when I tried it before anyway.
SOTD is one spritz of Amouage Opus IX. It would seem that one is all you need, too. Wowzers.
Hi Creosote. After reading your comments the other day I happened upon the trowelblazers site and spent a couple of hours browsing through …it was so interesting, so thanks for that!
Cool! Thanks again for mentioning Freda Du Faur: I’m chasing down a copy of her book.
Its on NZETC as a free digital copy: NZ Electronic Text Centre
http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-FauConq.html
Thanks!
I was lucky to be in the right place to hear acapella Christmas music a short while ago. It was fantastic and gave my day a lift.
I planned to wear something else today, but my hand wanted L’Air du Desert Marocain this morning. I really like wearing it on cold days. ????
It’s nice to hear good music in unexpected places. My unexpected music memory was waking up to two concert calibre musicians playing. At one point in my life, my family lived in a duplex with two uncles and their families and one of the uncles was a marimba player; he and a master pianist were rehearsing for a gig.
I love serendipitous musical treats! One of my neighbours in Montreal is an opera singer, in the summer he practices with the windows open occasionally.
That sounds wonderful!
My SotD is Phaedon Tabac Rouge
SOTD is Coco, from a small sample (probably 1.2 or 1.5 ml). I haven’t quite finished the sample yet, but maybe 1-2 more uses. I smell so retro, it’s kind of fun.
Gidday. Promises to be a warm Thursday here, and I’m going out play all day with a friend. She’s very sweetly planned me a mystery tour Christmas present, starting with morning coffee, followed by–well, it’s a mystery. So, I’m dressing cool and easy, wearing a happy smile, Ninfeo Mio , and a straw hat in case the mystery is largely outside in a rose garden or a park or something. The dear man says I look about 12, which would really be quite a feat if it were true…in other news, I’ve started making bread again, and I’m happy to report that it’s been successful. So successful, in fact, that despite being full of roast chicken and vegetables last night, the dear one managed to squeeze in the crusts from BOTH ends of the freshly-baked loaf. When I pointed out that the loaf now has no structural integrity, and squishes when it’s sliced, he actually said, “Good crusts are worth it!” And him an engineer!
That sounds like a fabulous friend! I hope you have a wonderful time. I also would have eaten both crusts – so yummy.
Oh do report on your day out!Sounds perfect,good friends and sunshine!(and possible roses by the dozen!)
What a great idea! Have a wonderful day. I bake bread every week, but my husband fortunately has no interest in the end pieces.
I almost finished my sample of Daim Blond, but have enough for one more wearing. I smell gorgeous – I sniff my wrists at least once every 5 minutes. I’ll miss this one when it’s gone!
Used up my Midnight in Paris decant, which is nutty, warm and delightful, and one of my first decant swaps with the even more delightful AnnieA. I have a hair appointment and then have to sign a contract with a noted perfume hater, so we’ll see if it or assorted Aveda-school smells hang around long enough to offend her later…
I don’t think I’ll finish any bottles in the next decade! I have been trying to use up samples, and now I’m largely down to ones where I want to keep a drop in case I want to compare it to something similar that may come along in the future, or where I keep thinking something might grow on me. That certainly happens!
It’s a windy gloomy day here, not cold, but not the sunshine I was hoping for. I think I’ll treat my colleagues to Ubar today. I saw the bugspray comments – I don’t think of that, but I can absolutely understand why some do. I hope my colleagues are in my camp
Or are too polite to say anything…
I keep buying bottles too, and won’t use up anything before I die, I should think. The rellies who clear out my house eventually will be puzzled indeed by what to do with the two book cases full of perfume. Perhaps I should add a note to my will to tell them to get in touch with you and Kanuka…
I thought this was pretty funny. If I died now people would ask themselves “why does he have have so many bottles of the same things?” I’m glad I wouldn’t be around to have to explain my reformulation paranoia.
Another scorcher of a day,sunset just happened with another awesome highveld thunderstorm!The air is cool and smells of wet grass and leaves!My spiderlilies are beginning to bloom as well!Life,is actually awesome.
SOTD!smellbent Celebrity Garden Party.My word this is a great,cooling green fragrance.I’m torn though:should I finish all my 4ml smellbents and then just get the 50mls?They are so precious!!Lol!
Happy….Just had to think what day it is for a minute…Wednesday!!Lol!X
Whichever ones you love, get the 50 mLs now because you never know how much is left in stock.
Iris Cendre today for no reason other than I love it.
You smell great! That’s a sample I’ve long since finished…
SOTD is Maris Candida Gentile “Exultat”. A very pleasant mix of incense (in a sort of ‘Encens Flamboyant’ style) with violets.
Top: lime, bitter orange, orange and olibanum;
Mid: violet and violet leaf;
Base: woodsy notes, vetiver and virginia cedar.
Another thumbs up for MCG – I can see myself putting together a little collection oif 15ml bottles. So far the candidates are this one, Elepehan & Roses and Sideris, and I have a few more MCGs to sample.
A colleague was delivering stuff after work to a friend working off the Champs Elysees, so I came home that way with her. A cold, damp night where the rain turned to flurries of snow for one brief moment. I walked all the way from the Arc de Triomphe at the top to the Chrismas Market (from the Franklin D Rooselvelt stop to the Place de Concorde). There I had a raclette sandwich on sourdough (hi Marianne!) and a spicy Toulouse sausage (hi Koyel!) plus some beers. Then walked onwards past the Tuileries, crossed rue Cambon, looked in the windows of Jovoy on rue Castiglione, past the Palais Royale (hi Serge Lutens, hi Parfuyms de Rosine) and so back to my tiny AirBnB around the corner from the Oratoire.
Meanwhile at work (2 more days!) the ‘end client’ and my client their supplier seem to have agreed a way forward for the New Year after some extremely fraught meetings. They may well fall out again in Spring, but I should be long enough gone by then to be out of range if the writs start flying. So I can feel the stress just starting to move, getting ready to fall off my shoulders during January.
Where is your next job? I hope you like it better than this one. Although living in Paris sounds wonderful, even if the job is awful…
I have no idea foxbins – I’m taking January off and will hopefully pick something up in February or March. Most of the kind of work I do is in London, but there are other occasional opportunities in Germany or the Netherlands.
Every now and then there’s a programme that is a beast, and the likelihood of 2 in a row is slight. :^)
Ugh, thanks for this walk down memory lane. It has been sooooo long since I’ve been to Paris!
It’ll be there waiting for you, for better or worse. ;^)
The food paragraph was my favorite part of your comment…and now you have made me hungry
Oh, the raclette sandwich was so good. I’m supposed to avoid carbs and tried eating the filling without the bread (melty cheese with air-dried ham, yum) but, erm, it was VERY nice bread and in the end it was all gone. :^D
Great imagery of the walk! Sorry the job was so dire, but next time you come back to Paris you can just enjoy it as a fun place to visit!
I hope so cazaubon. In fact, throughout this adventure I never thought Paris was the problem, but I was very rarely in a mood to be charmed by the city. My favourite apartment was in the most anonymous neighborhood, where I didn’t feel I was wasting the opportunity to get out and about.
I was commando this morning for a crowded yoga class (where a participant announced to the class that she had a terrible intestinal bug yesterday but since she was feeling somewhat better decided to join us). GAAH! *in unison class members move mats away from hers*. This afternoon I put on a preventative spritz of Coromandel, which simulaneously reminds me of medicine and of Christmas.
You smell great! How selfish of her to be potentially spreading her germs around!
There oughta be a law! I was at a class Saturday where one guy showed up with a cold and proceeded to snot and hack the whole time, then half way through another girl starts threatening to throw up. I could not get out of there fast enough.
Stomach bugs are mostly not spread by air, so you were perfectly safe.
I went scentless for a morning of shopping. I went to Sephora but it was frightfully crowded so I did not do much testing of perfume. I tried Philosophy Fresh Cream and it smelled just like Pink Sugar to me – which reminded me I do like Pink Sugar now and then.
Bois des Isles, EdP, from sample procured yesterday.
Gorgeous, of course, but so quiet! I hoped for an increase in projection from new formulation. If that happened, i don’t smell it.
But when i do get a whiff it is superb.
I really have to try this. I adore the extrait but find the EDT quite meh.
SOTD = Hermes Kelly Caleche EDP
This was one of my earliest loves right around when I fell into the rabbit hole. Hermes had proven time and time again that the bottle aesthetics is just as important or sometimes more important than the juice itself; after all, it is in the business of selling a luxurious lifestyle in a recognizable but not in your face way. I not only fell in love with the perfume, I also love the bottle with its twist up atomizer and the little lock adorning the rim. I covered the lock with a plastic wrap to prevent scratch damage. Anyway, I am down to my second to the last wearing and the juice at the bottom must be at least 4 years old and had a chance to get so concentrated that it now has more ooomph than the parfum extrait.
I should have mentioned that I have a back-up bottle so techically I am not running out of it; I am just finally switching to a new bottle.
My bottle is low too, but not low enough to finish. You smell great.
Thanks!
You smell great! I love KC, although I’ve only ever owned some Sephora samples. (I like the bottle, too.) Hmm, I wonder if I have any left…
We could be twins if you find it tomorrow. I will have to wear Friday’s perfume tomorrow since Thursday is my Friday (yay!). I feel like hottie Kyle Chandler’s character in Early Edition…getting tomorrow’s news today
Ha! I watched that!
I must try Kelly Caleche soon, I think I saw a tester at Nordstrom or Sephora. Completely agree about the Hermes bottles. What’s inside matters, but I can still remember how my heart skipped a beat the first time I held a bottle of Jour d’Hermes. And Eau des Merveilles.
Now I know why I don’t like Lyric! Thanks. Sandalwood and I don’t get along all that well in big doses. I was expecting rose, but it’s such a distorted rose. Plus it lasts for 24+ hours, which is about 23.5 hours of misery.
I do love Ubar, and wear Fate nearly every day to work.