Like it or not, it's Monday again, and Blue Monday at that. What fragrance are you wearing?
I'm countering the gloom with Lush 25:43.
Reminder: 2/3 will be Lemming Friday — you acquired a sample because you kept hearing about it (here or elsewhere), now you think you might just have to buy the bottle. A variation on a theme suggested by SheriG.
And for those of you who like to plan ahead, see 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.
Lo and behold, there is actually some sun today! Not as much of a citrus fan as I used to be, but wearing a bit of MH Tangerine Vert, in an effort to use some up before it turns.
Shout out to NST commenter and BdJ contributor Elisa–think that was you mentioned in NYT’s By the Book column–what an honor!
We have a tiny little weak bit of sun, that’s it. This has been the gloomiest January EVER.
And GO Elisa!! Here is Roxane Gay:
Which writers — novelists, playwrights, critics, journalists, poets — working today do you admire most?
I love Zadie Smith; Emily Nussbaum; Marcy Dermansky; Lily Hoang; xTx, Dana Johnson; Alexander Chee; Terry McMillan; Toni Morrison; Celeste Ng; Claudia Rankine; Saeed Jones; Rickey Laurentiis; Robin Coste Lewis; Lindsay Hunter; Cynthia Bond; Elisa Gabbert; Cristina Henríquez; Jesmyn Ward; Laura Lippman; Eduardo Corral; Alissa Nutting; Meg Wolitzer; Randa Jarrar; Alicia Erian; Catherine Chung; and Vanessa Veselka, to name a few.
That list is a ray of sun too.
Thank you Robin!! 🙂 <3
THANK YOU!!! That is so nice that you noticed!!
Congrats Elisa!
That’s awesome! I just read this yesterday.. (love getting new author ideas from actual authors). So happy for you. Keep up the writing!
Congrats Elisa!
Tangerine Vert is new to me – I just looked it up and now I am a lemming, just in time for lemming week . . .
Thank you so much lovely NSTers
It is coolish today, so I am wearing Ambre Narguile which can be a bit much in warm, humid weather.
S(ip)otD: Keemun Mao Feng which has a wonderful toasty, cocoa taste with just a hint of something rose-like in the finish.
One of my favorite teas but they vary so tremendously — like all teas I guess. I have 3 right now and only 1 is really excellent.
Blue Monday indeed.
I may have subconsciously known before even seeing this since I’m wearing all black with the exception of a blue top – covered by a black cardigan.
I definitely have a lemming and it’ll most likely be worn a lot this week. I wasn’t told about this scent at all. In fact, I got it in one of those mixed bag themes Lucky Scent does. It’s from a couple years ago but when I first smelled it I loved it and raved about it so much on here another NSTer said, “a lemming is born….” Due to how ridiculously expensive it is (and can’t be found on discounter sites) I only had that one precious sample. I hadn’t worn it in a while, but then put it on last week and was reminded of how much I really wanted it and was trying to figure out what I could save out of my tax return…. when I found a manufacturer 10 ml sample on STC. Sure, it was expensive for just 10ml but still cheaper than a FB and it’ll hold me over for a while.
My lemming and STOD is Esquel by Xerjoff.
Blue Monday…there is sun here
Lemming Community Project: Gaiac 10 Le Labo
I have a sample of this, I just finished it today. Would love full bottle but I can’t because its not offered all year round. So there you have it! Money saved.
Tea is homemade chai, I will miss my father in law when he is gone. No more chai no more vacation.
My heart goes out to Quebec this morning.
Scentsplit offers decants of the city exclusives year round????
shining off an enabler pin for Madtowngirl..hahaha
If you’re willing to wait, Monica over at basenotes offers them at fantastic prices year round . You do have not o commit to at least 50 mLs.
It is a cold but sunny day, so it does not feel depressing at all.
25:43 is a great cheerful scent for winter and early spring. I miss it!
My SOTD is Eau de Guerlain – fresh, green and slightly spicy. In summer I found it a bit too spicy and earthy, but today it works well. The only downside is that the lasting power is rather poor.
Mmm..I love Eau de Guerlain! That’s one of my favorite winter citrus scents.
I can see why – it is very nice in winter.
I used to think that a winter citrus perfume should be sweet. Now I know that it can also be earthy and savoury.
❤️ EdG!!
Blue Monday! Pish posh !
I will channel New Order, and loudly, instead of depression.
Begone Demons !!!! 🙂
Can you tell I’ve had 3 mugs of triple strength coffee already?
The frankincense, black pepper, and Iris of Andy Warhol Silver Factory wafts from the serenity of my being. 😀
Carpe Diem. Peace. Resist.
I love Andy Warhol Silver Factory. I need to look for my sample later on. You smell wonderful!
I’m with Bear. In a less highly caffeinated sort of way. 🙂
Me too!
Equally caffeinated and dancing along with New Order (in my mind)!
HA! Thanks for reminding me of New Order. I’m gonna listen to it when I get home. There was a metal remake that was pretty good too
Lillyjo, your post inspired me to go digging thru my CD collection and see if I had said cover of New Order. Sure enough, I do have a metal remake!
If I’m honest, I think I like the remake better. It’s more edgy. I’m more of a Headbanger than a dancer:)lol
Humming along with the rest of you…
Excellent musical selection for the day, Bear!
Lollia Relax for me before I have to go deal with my bank — apparently someone was using my card number to go on a wild spending spree in Miami. It’s a debit card so I’m sure I’m pretty broke at the moment until my bank restores my funds (at least I get paid Thurs). The thieves even contacted the bank ahead of time to put in a travel advisory. Grrr….
Wow. My bank makes me jump through a zillion hoops if I call ahead about a purchase, then usually flags my account anyway. Last time the security questions were things that even I couldn’t guess.
I’m so sorry that some jerk has ruined your day. May the thieves be stricken with rheumatoid arthritis, chronic migraines, IBS, and a stubborn infestation of bedbugs. Maybe lice too, and a good case of Lyme disease.
Mikas, may I never, ever cross you! Lol.
I like the way you think, Mikas. I get all fire and brimstone on those who have stolen from me as well.
Sorry you had to go through that Rena. It’s such a pain in the butt to deal with the bank when that’s happened.
It’s happened to both my dh and myself a few times with our credit cards. Excellent curse.
Lollia Relax is really lovely, I’ve been tempted by it every time I walk thru Anthro and sniff their scents. How does it wear?
So sorry for the debit card troubles!
Oh, no! What a drag. Also has happened to me and my husband who had his account used in Florida ???? Fortunately the banks are pretty good at catching these thefts pretty quickly. Disruptive, for sure…
Oh dear, so sorry and hope it works out quickly.
Sorry to hear this, Rena. I’ll add Eternal Psoriasis to Mikas’ Most Excellent curse list.
That really stinks, I’m sorry. Hopefully you will get things resolved quickly.
Horrible! This is why I gave up using Visa/MC debit cards. I only have a plain ATM card, hoping that this will protect me more (crossing fingers). Good luck with the bank!
Ugh, that awful! Hopefully your bank resolves it soon. The gall of those thieves, it is just amazing 😡
Ugh, so sorry to hear this – hope your bank is kind and helpful!
Random anecdote: I once called my credit card company to put in a travel advisory and wound up arguing with a rep who insisted that Latvia was not a country and that I was “making things up.” Sigh.
Oh, dear.
This reminds me of a story from a friend who was working at a Seattle tourist site one summer. She mentioned to some (American) tourists that she was from New Hampshire and one replied, “Oh, you’re European? Isn’t that in Amsterdam?”
Thud.
Yikes! I have many friends from New Mexico, and every one of them has a story about showing their ID while traveling around the U.S. and being told, “No, you need American ID.”
That’s one ballsy thief. I’ve had this happen numerous times and always been reimbursed, less $40 or $50. Apparently banks have some kind of deductible. *eye roll*
Hope you get it worked out. I have to wonder how the thief got past the security questions on the phone with the bank? You might want to flag all of your accounts and put a temporary prohibition on credit and loans in your name. I went through this process last time my wallet was stolen as I was concerned about long-term identity theft issues.
That’s awful, I’m so sorry. I also want to add hives to the list of afflictions they deserve.
That sucks so much about your debit card. Hoping along with everyone else that you can get it straightened out ASAP. And adding prolapsed hemorrhoids to the list of curses on the hackers/thieves.
Oh no. I hope it got resolved quickly. To the list of afflictions I’ll add gum disease and cankersores.
For sure it is Blue Monday. Cold and grey here. I am going thru my samples once again. Today I am wearing Marc Jacobs Decadence. A woody amber scent with a very sweet vanilla drydown. After 3 hours it has become a skin scent. A regular department store fragrance that did not catch my attention at all. Let’s see from all the samples I will try this week, which one will make it to my FB future shopping list. Hopefully none….
I purchased a tester of Decadence, so the tacky a$$ cap is nonexistent. 😉
Trashy fun, for me, like a summertime pool party with a fully stocked bar. With lots of b!tchy, but not mean-spirited friends.
You smell great, or did. Or something. LOLOLOL. 😀
Seeing it that way, it might make it to my fb list 😀 😀 😀
I really like Decadence and Divine Decadence. (Same drydowns but different topnotes, DD is fresher and more floral.) Enough that they have made it to my to-buy list although Im not sure which one I’ll get yet.
DD smells like PdN Kiss Me Tender to me. And both smell like banana cream pie!
DD is my next try. I have a sample of it. It might work for me.
I really like Decadence, but it requires a certain mood, and weather for me.
Countering Blue Monday with L’Artisan Rose Privee. Lovely.
We got snow here, so it’s pretty even if it is Blue Monday. I’m wearing Lolita Lempicka, which seems to fit the day well.
I’m wearing blue. Does that count?
I’m actually just about the opposite of depressed. Horribly intimidated and nervous would be a better description of my mood. I start my new part-time job this afternoon and I really hope I can keep up. They are just too busy to properly train me and I’m being dropped into chaos. I managed a spectacular mistake during my working interview and hope I don’t do anything so embarrassing today. I’m wearing a discreet dose of Cuir de Russie EDT since I don’t know the policy on scent (they have those Scentsy things everywhere so I think I’m safe, but I don’t want to offend).
Good luck today, and you have my deepest condolences – my workplace is currently interviewing for a very similar situation … and I’m the person who is too busy to properly train whoever we end up hiring.
Good luck! You’ll be fine and they know that they can’t expect instant perfection from a brand new hire who wasn’t properly trained.
The first few days of a job are always nerve racking but they know you’re the new girl
So I’m sure any less-than-perfect-first-time moments will be considered as just that. Big hug though and good luck!
You will do good for sure. Sending you positive thoughts!
Bon courage to you!
Best of luck! New jobs are stressful.even with adequate training.
Good luck! Knock ’em dead!
Good luck on your first day!
Good luck!
I hope your first day went well.
I needed a blast of Spring. I’m wearing Gucci Envy edp.
So jealous, you smell great!
You smell great indeed
Good luck with your new job. Try not to worry too much – they still gave you the job despite your mistake, and I am sure everyone understands you are new and need time to adapt. Cuir de Russie is a great scent and hopefully it will make things easier on this stressful day.
The above post was meant to be a reply to MikasMinion. I must have clicked the wrong link.
Thank you! The well-wishing is much appreciated. I made it through 😀
I woke up at 4 am so I’ve been dressed and caffeinated for a while. The new countertops look great and today I’m seeing two painters, a plumber, a lawn maintenance guy, and some tile contractors. I hope they like saffron, because I’m wearing a boatload of Safran Troublant.
Yay for new counters! I bet it looks great!
SO much better! The old ones were yellow Formica with gold speckles. They had been wiped and scrubbed since 1952 and most of the gold specks had worn off!
By the boatload is the best way to wear it!
Hope all your tradies do a fabulous job and yay for new kitchen and reno’s. Such fun. Once it’s over 😉
SOTD is my old friend, Gucci EDP (or “Gucci Brown” as my mom and I call it) – delicious orange blossom and slightly sweet cumin.
You smell freekin awesome Sheri! Fabulous stuff that is 🙂
Thanks perthgirl – I do love it!
Yummy!
It definitely is!
SOTD is AG Vanille Exquise!
Very nice!
One of my favorites!
I have a bottle of that! Should wear it more often
SOTM was TF Vert d’Encens which I think may be my next Big Perfume Purchase.
Then I forgot to apply a work scent but remembered a sample of Tocca Amelia in my work bag. Chemical coconut fail. Awful.
So on my break I raided my locker stash and am now in Laura Biagiotti Roma and all is right with the world once again 🙂
Yay! Love Encens Vert.
I had a craving for Chergui this morning. The second time sampling was the charm for me with this one. I decided to give it one more try before passing on my sample. It was instant love and I ordered my bottle the same day. Also, I’m wearing my blue sweater for Blue Monday. Who knew?
I am sampling this for the first time today. An instant fan! Wondering why I waited to long (probably the price point, I’m always afraid of falling in love with something that is out of reach.). You smell fabulous!
Not sure where you are located but its very afforable through US discounters. I think I paid under $75 at Fragrancenet if you might be interested? Love the drydown! ????
The tester bottle is even cheaper!
Chergui can often be had at much friendlier pricepoint at discounters… ????
I got an ear worm as soon as I saw “Blue Monday”, so I had to fire up Spotify and play New Order.
I’m wearing Zoologist Bat today. It’s delightfully weird — fruity and earthy at the same time. I’m not sure how much I would actually wear this, but I think I’d still consider buying at least a travel spray.
Bat sounds intriguing!
I’m enjoying it. I think it’s easily the most unusual of the line.
Bat really reminded me of a hair salon. not in a bad way, but that’s exactly what it made me picture
That’s a perfect picture, I can imagine a hair salon when I think of Bat as well, the dank fur smell (wet hair) with fruit (shampoo & conditioner). Agree it’s not bad thing at all.
Oh, I agree with you. I really love Bat also despite the banana. I’ve tried everything in the sample set and am now debating whether to buy more of one or two–it’s between Bat and Civet, which will probably win–Bat just doesn’t seem to last on me, and Civet lasts forever. Do you like it at all? Bat is weird but pleasantly so–I expected something way more off-putting with the damp earth and all.
Blue Monday would be perfect for the new EdM Bleue. Since it’s not out yet, I will settle for the original.
I’ll be playing some New Order Blue Monday today for sure!
It was my birthday yesterday, so I brought some blueberry, almond and violet sugar cake to the office. I’m wearing Fleur de Chine, because I want to smell like the most attractive version of myself while still being office appropriate 🙂
No party this weekend, as it was also my daughter’s birthday yesterday and I spent most of the day trying and failing to locate 17 kids (around 8 years old) in an indoor adventure park filled with what felt like 1000 and probably was something like 500 kids. Everyone else seemed to have excellent time and I’m positive several children touched my bum because I wore a short and colourful sequin skirt.
Happy Birthday to you and yours
How special that you and your daughter share a birthday! How fun! Happy belated Birthday!????
Happy Birthday to both of you!
Happy Birthday to you and Lil.
I wished people with your fantastic taste worked at my workplace Anniky that cake sounds divine.
You wore colour and sequins amongst a zillion little people I’m not surprised you got touched you must’ve been like the magical unicorn 😉
Happy Belated Birthday to you and your daughter. 🙂
Happy Birthday Annikky! I hope you celebrate your own day later. You must have been the most stylish mom in the park.
Oh wow! Happy B day to you and your girl! How lovely to have a child on one’s birthday. What a beautiful gift!
You smell great!
Happy birthday! And I’m cracking up about your skirt comment. You must have had the most magical bum in the building!
Happy Birthday to you and your daughter. You smell divine!
Happy belated birthday to u and you’re little girl. The cake sounds heavenly, and a good way to celebrate!
Happy Birthday!
What they said! 😉
Happy Birthday to both of you!
Happy birthday!
How sweet, a mother daughter birthday! Happy birthday to you both!
Happy Birthday to you and your daughter, Annikky!
Happy Birthday to both of you!
Happy birthday! Your cake sounds delcious!
Happy birthday! That cake sounds fantastic!
Happy birthday and what a wonderful combination of flavors in that cake!
Happy birthday Annikky – wishing you the best for all your 2017 new adventures
Belated birthday wishes to you and your daughter.
Happy birthday (a wee bit late). Have a healthy and happy year!
Happy Birthday. The cake, the day and the skirt sound fabulous!
Happy Birthday Annikky! You smelled wonderful! (I know since I wore the same perfume 2 days ago :))
No brainer Monday for me with Balenciaga Paris. It’s too soon to start craving spring weather, short sleeves and sandals, but that’s where I’m at.
Love Paris. One of my spring favorites!
Since I can’t think of a lemming that I have fulfilled, this week I am trying to use up as many of my Possets and BPAL perfume oils as possible. Today I’m wearing Possets The Moon, which when I put it on smelled of coconut, but when I read the notes is really musk and beeswax.
I could do the Lemming challenge for weeks! I have so many samples purchased because it was talked about here, and a wishlist a mile long! 🙂
SOTD: Atelier Sud Magnolia.
Have a great Monday!
I’m wearing Neroli Dore again, which I’ve decided is a perfect scent for a Monday in January.
My initial impression of Neroli Dore was that it smelled, not unpleasantly, like wheat germ, but I gave it another whirl a few days ago and really enjoyed it, and got a lot more neroli out of it than the first time around. I think I could find use for a 15 ml bottle…
SotD = L’eau de L’artisan as the temperatures here are predicted to reach the high 70’s. I love cologne and this one fits the category, green with a bit of a bitter edge. Uplifting and ephemeral, I shall spritz throughout the day.
Love seeing that cheery bath bomb and enjoyed reading the review for Lush 25:43, such a clever name though I have a hard time imagining a Lush fragrance as a wedding scent. Yowza!
Agree today feels like a blue Monday. When I have the downward spiraling feeling January can bring I make lists of things to-do. First thing on my to-do list? Make today’s to-do list, and I feel better already. 😉
Have you seen any of that reality tv show Four Weddings? Or Gypsy Weddings? Lol. There are a lot of things happening at weddings that I didn’t imagine to be..er.. imaginable…
I love weddings, will have to watch those. 🙂
I’m in Passion Boisee by frapin and yes, I remember how I said I would never wear it in public. Yet here I am.
Has anyone died, fainted, or grabbed you by the “p***y” yet? 😉
Monday!
1) Have been asked to give a pep speech to some colleagues who are consultants from (deleted)) countries. Sigh.
2) SOTD: TF Noir Femme body lotion (excuse me, emulsion). Outfit of the day is a grey suit with a pink blouse and brown heeled shoes, with extra strength Spanx underneath. I need something to hold me up.
Ugh. These are scary times. Courage!
Guerlain L’Instant de Guerlain Pour Homme Extreme today. I don’t think I have many lemmings left that haven’t already turned into either FB or large decant purchases already! Except maybe HdP 1899 which I might consider once I finish my sample.
Funny! In Polish media they said it was blue Monday last week. Guess we have our special blue Mondays here 😉
I’m in Parfum d’Empire Ambre Russe, Undina generously shared 5ml decant with me so now I can enjoy it once in a while.
I’ll be off on a business trip tomorrow afternoon so you won’t see me posting until Friday.
Well who knows…every Monday in January might as well be Blue Monday to me 😉
You smelled great! 🙂
Just did my taxes last night and I am a happy camper right now because I get something back. I’ve been lazy this morning and haven’t taken a shower yet. So yes, I’m sitting in the original Lolita Lempicka. After my shower I am probably going to switch over to Jubilation 25.
Both of those are among my favourites, u smell lovely today!
My plan for today, after I scrub off the sample of Tubereuse Rosée that smells unfortunately like grape soda pop, is to try out a new bottle of Guerlain Cologne du 68 that I became lemming-esque over after a recent review by Persolaise. I found it at a discounters, of which I’m always leery, so I ordered a sample of the bona-fide product to try alongside. Here’s to no regrets!
It’s one of my summer favorites! Hope you love it!
Nice! I can see that one being an easy one to become a lemming. Hopefully your discounter order is genuine!
I’m a big fan of Cologne du68, it’s such a comforting smell. I’d be very surprised if it wasn’t genuine. With so many popular fragrances to be counterfeited I can’t see why they’d go to all that effort and expense to make a fake version of a scarcely available and scarcely known not too fashionable cologne.
Fortunately, it seems to be the real deal, and also fortunately, I like it! I’m a sucker for citrus colognes in general, and the whiff of l’Heure Bleue in the base is just lovely.
Congrats on your new bottle of Cologne du 68. I love citrus too and the Guerlain base is one of my favorites. I almost bought Orange Sanguine but found I like Cd68 much more.
I won a brand new sealed bottle from the BdJ Doctors Without Borders fundraiser!
Hello, good morning, all hail and good health–all the happy greetings I can think of! I’ve spent the last several days sequestered with That Thesis., and emerged from it yesterday afternoon a mere shell of myself, having written over 75,000 words of feedback on the thing. What I wrote was not far short of the length of the thesis itself, in fact. All that remains now is to see if the candidate accepts my advice, but even if not, I think I’m done. If I come across Heideggeriam phenomenology again in my lifetime, I’ll probably get hives. In the brain. No, wait, I have them there already….anyway, it’s nice to be back. Summer arrived decisively this last weekend when I was stuck to my computer chair, so I’m wearing a blue summer dress (it’s Tuesday here, but I feel the spirit of Blue Monday) and Narcisse Bleu because it goes with, and because I want to give the impression of being cool and crisp and alert at a meeting, when in fact I feel like half a yard of limp pump water. Illusion is everything today, so I’m also sporting a bright happy lippy and sort of smoky eyes –they’re not deliberate: I’m so tired my hand wobbled when I was putting on liner and then tried to make a virtue of it by smudging it round a bit. Looks surprisingly OK. That Thesis! No, not thinking of it again….the dear one returns today–he spent the long weekend painting windows in Whanganui. Dakkie and his new knitted mouse, Auntie Mildred, (very dashing, scarlet with black tail, but sadly, only one eye) kept me company. Isabella supervised. So that’s me, returning to the land of the living. Yay for living!
Good luck with the thesis water dragon! Hope u get a good nights sleep, and no wobbles tomorrow!
Wow! Wore me out just reading what you’ve gone through! Sending all the best to both you and your candidate. Take good care.
Oh Waterdragon hats off to you for being such a trooper. That sounds positively painful. You deserve to be taken out a long lunch. Or a day at a day spa getting every last speck of the memory of that phenomenology thing massaged and soaked and slathered away.
Welcome back 🙂
Good thinking, 99! Maybe I will skive off from tomorrow’s all-day staff meeting and do ALL of those things!
Sounds like you need a good shot of No. 18
Congrats on powering through your student’s thesis! Hope you can relax and celebrate properly now that it’s done.
Another Monday? Where did January go? Wearing Nutmeg & Ginger today. Off to physical therapy this morning, so wanted to wear something that isnt too overbearing. Hope everyone has a great week.????
You smell lovely. Perfect choice of fragrance to wear for physical therapy 🙂
Phone started ringing at 7:15 this morning. My husband and older son have long commutes and were long gone by then. So I was a worried one of them had been in an accident… It was recorded message from Oakland Unified School District informing me that parents are not to fear bringing their kids to school as the school will protect and secure all children regardless of county of origin.
In Hummingbird from a sample. Very pretty. I had trouble picking out the notes, except the honey note. Normally I have trouble with honey, but this one is lovely.
Oakland, I’ve been out of touch with everything except writing feedback for my student, so your first paragraph has no context for me, and alarms me hugely. Has something happened that necessitated your son’s school’s to contact with parents in this way? I’m obviously missing a vital stepping stone here. I hope all is OK in your neck of the woods, because I’ve never before heard of a school sending out that sort of message!
Ignore above. I’ve now re-surfaced into the lifev of the world upside my computer monitor, and I think I’ve found the likely reason.
Goodness! Oh, my word!
I just wanted to share what was in my morning coffee… I am respectfully declining to editorialize.
Warmly waving!!
I’m glad to hear they’re sending that message out! But that’s CA. I’m sure there are states who aren’t providing that guarantee????
I did not get that message this morning!
I’m not wearing any fragrance yet since I’m waiting for a big sample order to arrive in the mail today! I think I’m most excited to try Iris Silver Mist. We’ll see if it turns into a lemming!
Well??
Ok mail finally came! First impression is…. it is every bit as gorgeous as I wanted it to be! It takes me back to gardening with my Mom (or playing in the garden while she did all the work…) in early Spring. I find it very ethereal. The name is very fitting. I try not to make decisions on first sniff but I think I will end up wanting a bottle of this. The longer I have it on the more I am falling in love! I can see why it’s so highly regarded, it’s truly a remarkable perfume. Luckily I am planning a trip to Paris in the not too distant future so hopefully I can snag a bottle without the US mark up!
One of the perks of living in NorCal is not having winter blues (we have our own related to real estate prices but it’s a different story 😉 ). But it’s still Monday… Montale Blue Amber for the official Blue Monday.
Amouage Beloved is cheering me up today.
Beloved is wonderful, isn’t it?
It is! Wonderful and lovely!
You smell beautiful!
Thank you! Just what I needed!
One of my very most favorites. Enjoy!
Thank you Luna Green! It is becoming of my favorites as well, especially after I transferred the juice from mini to an atomizer. Spraying makes a big difference and Beloved is really blooming and radiating.
Happy Monday! SOTD is Parfum de Therese. In addition to just loving it, whenever I wear it I feel like I’m secretly the coolest and most sophisticated person around… anybody else have a fragrance that gives them that feeling?
Must retry that one–was overwhelmed by it in early perfumistahood, but now I enjoy Une Fleur de Cassie, which indeed makes me feel sophisticated.
Parfum de Therese might actually be my favourite Malle. I never really thought of a description before but cool and sophisticated are pretty spot on imho.
I think it’s mine too, but it took me a long time to realize it was.
That would make an excellent community project!
Another of my Top Five. NST is bringing it today!
Amoureuse does that for me.
Adding it to my to sample list 🙂
The term Blue Monday means something entirely different here in Ky. and it’s now created a craving:
http://www.atasteofkentucky.com/shop/ruth-hunt-candy-ruth-hunts-blue-monday-candy-p-76.html
SOTD: SSS Ambre Noir
That sounds delicious.
I am assuming “pull candy” is taffy?? Definitely a regional description!
No, not at all. They made a typo – that should have been “pulled” candy.
It’s a butter cream that’s not gooey and creamy like a truffle center or cream candy, but is more solid with a soft “crunch” (for lack of a better description) that then melts in your mouth.
Someone will have to tell me if I’m wrong, but I don’t think the term pulled candy is used all over the country either? I don’t know it, at any rate, as you can see!
Just googled it and it looks like it’s not even regional, just Ky. Learn something every day. I assumed it was everywhere!
So nice that regional terms like this survive, though!
I’m in jungle l’elephant. I have a mini and will definitely consider a FB when it’s gone. However it’s pretty powerful so that may not happen anytime soon.
Dug out my old sample of Pivoine Angel and I’m wearing that. It’s not as good as the rose Angel but it’s reminiscent of it at least.
I’m feeling quite prickly today and so I am wearing La Myrrhe to broadcast that olfactorily to everyone who enters my personal area.
the sharpest aldehydes I have ever smelled. I love it!
I was feeling prickly last Monday. I’ll have to remember the aldehydes next time that happens. 🙂
Blue Monday! Coincidentally, i’m wearing a baby blue boiled wool jacket over a cream short-sleeved satin-trimmed T from JJill…speaking of which, I think they have taken vanity sizing to new heights but did not take into account proportions. For example,
I was swimming in a medium T everywhere except for the boobies where it was designed for someone wearing a training bra or at most a size 32AA…my assets are, ahem, bigger.
SOTD = Chanel No.19 EDP
It qualifies as a lemming from an NST exchange between mals and Marjorie Rose.
BTW, Lucas over at Chemist in the Bottle is doing a month of rose-centric perfumes. Yours truly was assigned 3 days and I look forward to my participation. Go check it out 🙂
Yes, I have similar clothing issues here – as they say in French, it’s crowded on the balcony. 😉 Frequently I have to order a size up which results in things looking loose/baggy around the waist. Stretchy fabric is my friend.
Hah, that is the best description! I’m totally going to use that!!
“Crowded on the balcony”–I love it! I have to figure out a way to use that!
LOL. I love that expression! I am certainly not big in that department but the old medium fit just right. They haven’t messed with the pants length yet as it is still the perfect inseam.
Oh, that made me smile. I remember learning “Il y a du monde au balcon” on a day when my French teacher was feeling generous and let us spend an entire class learning slang and idioms. Such fun.
I hear you! I am nursing so you could imagine how tops fit me.
The wraparound look works nicely for a range of sizes.
I will!
Woo hoo!
Ooooh, roses….I am there! I spent all of last week in roses. Today a quick spritz of Andy’s Amber Flash–excellent and still lively hours later. Rose Flash is still my fave, but this Tauerville line is big bang for little bucks…
I agree that the Tauerville pricing is wonderful!
SOTD is SJP Stash for a cold and windy day. Cheers all!
I guess it must be Ruby Tuesday here so I’m in Hypnotic Poison…my deepest red bottle. I had never heard of Blue Monday and didn’t know what it was so lucky I missed it yesterday ( I know the song,however). I always have a similar problem with daily horoscopes from US…I discover that yesterday was the best day of the year, that kind of thing.
I’d never heard of it before today, either, or saying rabbit, rabbit on the first day of the month. I learn more than perfume info here on NST.
Wanted to wear something strong this morning so I reached for Kilian Pure Oud. Unfortunately the sprayer died on my atomizer bottle after 2 spritzes and I was in a hurry so I put it down and grabbed the other Kilian at hand, Black Oud. I don’t really love the barbecue smoke opening but the drydown is better and it definitely meets the requirement of strong. 🙂
Broken sprayers are my nemesis but thank God they are on easily replaced atomizers, mostly decants.
At the dentist, so wearing something well-behaved today: Dior Bois d’Argent.
Lovely!
You smell great!
Still waiting for summer here – sigh. Wearing an orange dress, so will wear an orange perfume. Alien Eau Luminescente from a few years ago has a mandarin note and is in a bright orange bottle. That should cheer me up.
I like things in orange boxes 😉
One of the few Alien flankers I haven’t smelled. I don’t even remember seeing it. I bet it’s wonderful.
Encre Noir, I hadn’t worn a vetiver in ages, and this one seems to suit all occasions very well.
I also haven’t worn vetiver in ages
To celebrate the snowfall we had, I’m wearing Nuit Étoilée edp. Love the peppermint and balsam fir in the winter! I love snow and have really missed it this winter. ????
I’ve never tried Nuit Etoille edp, but I love wearing the edt very much.
I wish a store around here carried AG. Then I could try out the edp.
I’m happy to send you some:
laugsb at sbcglobal dot net
Thank you ! I’ll email you.
I’m wearing Samsara today. After a workout, and shower. Phew, glad to have the workout over with!!
you smell like bliss! love samsara
I was going to douse myself with my new decant of (vintage!) Messe de Minuit, but then I remembered that: 1. I have to go to the dentist, and 2. we’re having dinner with my husband’s cousin and her family. So I went with Lauder’s Pleasures.
Speaking of lemming, I’ve read so many references to Smell Bent that I think I’m going to spring for a sample pack. Any recommendations? I like a wide variety of notes, but don’t love vanilla/gourmand stuff or linden.
No recommendations off the top of my head (well, except Florist’s Fridge). Insuggest signing up for the newsletter and wait for a promotion.
Wearing my first lemming today – Infusion d’Iris. Kept reading about it, had to try it, then had to get it. No regrets, it is always wonderful.
You smell fantastic!
Yes to this. Which formulation?
Teaching Mondays, scent-free policy, will be living through you all. Yesterday I wore Safran Troublant to the rainy Chinese New Year Parade and saw our mayor, but not our Prime Minister, up close. Was a little heartened to see people out with signs that read Welcome in many languages.
Blue Monday indeed. It’s one of those days when it’s so gloomy out drawing the blinds seems pointless.
I’ve had a hard time wearing sandalwood in the past year or so (it smelled overwhelmingly sweet to me) but spritzed some SSS Champagne de Bois last night and decided to wear it today. I’m thrilled to be able to wear this again – gorgeous, and so elegant. I love the heavy dose of aldehydes. I’m having a full-on nose-to-wrist day.
I’ll have to pull out Samsara (thanks for the reminder, Barqs) and Bois des Iles this week. I have a feeling I’ll be glad I kept 10 ml of BdI when I swapped the rest of my decants away. Since I bought Champagne de Bois because people here raved about it, and *just* found myself looking at FB prices, it even fits this week’s theme.
I’ll also say that my most successful recommendations have been from SOTD threads. I’m not great at picking out samples on my own, but when a perfume comes up here over and over again and gets love from a wide swath of wearers, it’s almost always worked for me, too. Thanks, NSTers!
Starting this week early in Chanel No 22
I had been hearing about this scent since I was quite young, but when I started in the fragrance world, the raves became so frequent, I had to try a sample, then a decant, then a FB, and now exploring vintage.
You all know how that one goes…….
Great, which 22 are you wearing?
It is a lovely perfume
The Les Exclusives EDT.
Such a polished scent
Indeed we do. I managed to find some vintage at a very reasonable price, so good luck!
Wearing just a tiny spritz of Mimosa & Cardamom on each wrist as I have a pesky cold do not feel like smelling anything dramatic. I almost went commando, but I don’t feel THAT bad.
Hope you are better tomorrow!
To ‘celebrate’ being back in the gloom of the UK, I’m doing 4 days of D S & Durga’ HYLNDS series. SOTD is “Bitter Rose, Broken Spear”.
Top: embers, thyme and cubeb pepper;
Mid: rose, thistle and nutmeg;
Base: hot iron, amber and larch.
I like this one, although what I smell has little to do with the official notes. On me it’s a kind of smoke-and-booze-with-flowers (there’s no booze listed). TOMK gets patchouli (there’s no patchouli listed). Longevity is decent and different notes come to the fore as the day goes by.
Wonderful name for a scent. The images of bitter rose and broken spear suit the mood of January. It’s delightful to get your perspective plus another from TOMK’s nose.
Wearing one of the Halston scents–can’t even remember which one. Clearly I won’t be re-purchasing when the sample is done.
I was too depressed yesterday by recent political developments to post anything, too worried about two of my graduate students who are from Iran and one it turns out is now stuck there after going home for the holidays for the first time in years. 🙁 Here in Houston we have 78 degrees, and a surreal juxtaposition on the news of Super Bowl events with protests. My academic disciplinary organization is facing boycotts from all foreign members for next year’s conferences. The outlook is so bleak. I am trying to keep my head above water and focus on goodness and beauty. To that end, today I wore Rahele which must just be a gift from the gods. So beautiful and I have looked at the notes but it just wafts up to my nose in a seamless blend of some citrus, florals, and spices. Recently I’ve ordered a lot of samples because I felt I was in a scent rut and I found many that I liked a lot but this one is just plain transcendent. So far I am only dabbing it from a mini-sample but I hope it will pass the test when sprayed as well.
I feel very sorry for you, this must be ghastly.
Oh no, my sympathies.
This brought tears to my eyes. Utterly horrific. Some days my stomach has been so tied up in knots it’s hard to function. Stay vigilant, informed, active.
Sending my thoughts your way, and all my best vibes to your students. I’m glad you’ve found some beauty in Rahele. Your description makes me really want to try it!
Hugs and positivity.
I am wearing old full bottles to see if I need to part with them…and original formula Miss Dior Cherie will be sent packing w/ her bags I fear…
Sometimes I like to hunt vintage/old formula perfumes on eBay just for the thrill methinks. Or perhaps my nose has changed. When I was little I didn’t like dark chocolate, for example, and now I love it and can’t do milk chocolate. Perhaps I am becoming more refined…at least regarding chocolate and strawberry/popcorn/patchouli liquid confections…that is what I shall tell myself I think… 😉
I’ve been doing exactly the same thing – wearing some FBs to see where I am no longer “in love”. Surprising sometimes – I’ve gone both ways. A big change for me is that I seem to have lost my love of greens. Ahh… Chamade.
I tried Chamade last week for the first time from a lovely NSTer. I had mixed feelings. I liked certain aspects but found it a bit uneven. I liked the aldehydes but maybe the green was off putting. I shall have to revisit it.
I decided to pull out some of my tunes this afternoon after seeing Bear’s post. So I’ve been listening to Aldo Nova and watching the snow flurries.
Congrats to Elisa on the NYT shout out! That is awesome. Keep it up.
SOTD = CK Euphoria. On a slightly different topic, I have discovered that I really like pomegranate notes. I “might” have JM Pomegranate Noir on a wishlist thanks to a generous NSTer who sent a sample of it to me. I can understand all the love it gets here.
Happy you’re jammin’, partially, because of me !
Rock on, Jalapeno !
OMG- Aldo Nova- what a blast from the past! I’ve got that one on vinyl!
I have it on cassette.
Super late to post, but I love New Order, and was thrilled that today is Blue Monday, because it meant the soundtrack in my head was guaranteed to be excellent. I always thought the term came from Kurt Vonnegut – the first time I heard it outside the song title was in “Breakfast of Champions”.
SOTD is Kelly Caleche – not blue in any way.
mmm… love Kelly Caleche
I’m almost always late to the commenting party, but I did finish up a small decant of Arquiste Infanta en Flor today. Boy, it really wasn’t what I remembered it to be. I didn’t get much orange blossom or white floral, just an odd cold cream or lotion smell. Luckily, it didn’t last terribly long, just about 4 hours. Now I’m looking forward to getting home from work and applying something else!