Rabbit, rabbit, rabbit! And happy May Day. What fragrance are you wearing?
I'd be wearing Diorissimo for May Day, but I'm not quite ready for fragrance yet.*
Reminder: on 5/5 we're doing May-bee Baby Friday... wear a honey fragrance or one that contains a honey note. Suggested by happy888cat.
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.
Note: the Mr. Maria Miffy Lamp is $199 at Kira Kids.
* I am being treated for Lyme disease and feeling MUCH better than I was last week. Huge thanks to everyone who has commented with messages of support!
Robin, I am glad you are feeling a bit better. I went to the Urgent Care on Saturday night thinking I had a tick bite on my lip (thankfully no) and the doctor told me that he had treated 30 tick bites that day!
SOTD- Saffron Troublant
shout out thank you to lovestosmellgood and Elisa P for all of their great suggestions regarding perfume boutiques on Madison Ave . I also passed by Lauduree (sp???)…those pastries are works of art!
and hajusuuri and Wendysue- sorry I missed meeting you…I was in the AG boutique four hours before you
Happy Monday, y’all!
peace love light
xxoo
Good news that it was not a tick bite! I love Saffran Troublant. You smell really great today.
I did not “think” I would love Saffron Troublant because my nose smells cumin on the opening blast…but I have been wearing it for the past three days and am addicted to it! Tomorrow I start the dive into my sea of samples….very excited about this!!!!
30 tick bites! And, lip! So glad that isn’t what it was.
I know! Can you imagine! I guess we live in an area that is heavily infested. The urgent care doctor thought it might be some sort of skin cancer or just a broken blood vessel. Well, the “black” lump disappeared and so I am assuming it was the latter. Still heading to the dermatologist today for my bi-yearly check up so I will bring it to her attention.
Glad you had a good time and are tick-bite free!
We stopped in Malle and Kilian and Bond and AG but never made it to Drug Loft (just as well for I might have broken my no buy and bought some of those Berdoues at that price!) We had to run out of the AG boutique and take a cab to GCT for fear of missing the train! But then we got there early enough to stop in the Diptique in GCT…my girlfriend said the first thing she did when she got home was take a shower as we were both reeeking!!!!
Eisler Chemist On 79th and 3rd carries Floris & penhaligon testers. They are super nice in there as well
OOH, good to know for future reference! We actually went into SFA and then the Penhaligon in Rockerfeller Center before brunch and then walked up Madison…it was brutally hot on Saturday and at one point I thought my friend was going to fade but she perked up when I told her that our ultimate goal was to get as far as the AG Boutique and then we could call it quits! I forgot we went into Clyde’s too! That Santa Maria Nouvella display was amazing! Got to try Caron Un Homme for the first time….and sampled current formulation Nocturnes de Caron and am happy to report it isn’t that far off from my beloved vintage.
An entire shop that sells testers??? OMG, I hope to make it to this heavenly place someday.
It’s actually a pharmacy that carries those 2 lines and they HAVE testers for testing, not buying. A store full of reduced price testers would be nice.
Ahhhh that’s disappointing.
No more tick bites, PLEASE.
Ah, New York! I am so glad you enjoyed your trip.
it was fun going back to the place I was born and raised. And the dermatologist confirmed it was a broken blood vessel and not any form of skin cancer.
Glad you are ok. There should be a perfume that repels ticks!
So sorry to have missed you. Your day sounds fantastic. I am organizing my report on the Sunday Sniffapalooza. But, I want to let you know I am testing some chocolate covered marzipan from Li-Lac chocolates in Soho. The marzipan is the less sweet and less dense kind like in the Italian rainbow pastries.
I make my own blend of e.os water and witch hazel that Mr. CM8 looked up online to repel ticks (he has had lyme’s twice)…and boy do I wish I had some of your marzipan right now!
Li-Lac Chocolates is my favorite choc shop!
I love it because it’s a local brand and only has NYC shops and they make some unique & delicious chocolate items.
I go to the one in Grand Central more than I probably should.
I’ glad I don’t know where it is at Grand Central!
Once on a Girl Scout camping trip, another mom discovered a tick down in her EAR. FREAKED ME OUT!!!!!! We got it out, but it was not fun in the least for either of us!!!!!
Glad you’re on the road to better, Robin!!!
Those ticks mean business! The doctor at the urgent care center told me that nowadays when you have a tick on you and you remove it you can come in and they start treatment right away..two pills taken immediately…without even waiting for the bullseye rash…good to know….
Rabbit, rabbit, rabbit!. Happy Monday everyone! Wearing the beautiful Iris Silver Mist for a cloudy, chilly morning. Hopefully, it will warm up later on. Robin, You smell wonderful. I hope you are feeling much better now.
You smell dreamy <3
Oh, but YOU smell wonderful!
Happy 1st of May.
In Poland it’s celebrated as Labour Day. Even though it’s was established during socialism times it is still a valid holiday nowadays.
I know many countries associate May Day with muguet but it hasn’t been present in Polish history.
Instead May is for me a month of rose, therefore I’m wearing WHITE by Puredistance.
I think the lily of the valley association is only France? Here, it’s a day for protests as much as anything else.
It’s definitely a French tradition.
In Poland, Labour Day is also filled with protests…
Rose month again! yay.
Haha! But not the way we did it in February
Dang it! Forgot Triple Rabbit again! I think we are on our fourth day of cold and rain. Sotd is Angel. I received a sample of the lotion, and really didn’t need to spray, but I did anyway:). Robin, I’m glad to hear you are on the mend.
Angel is perfect for cold rain!
Angel is great! You smell awesome.
It is terribly cold and rainy here in Montreal too. I wore Ambre Fetiche.
So glad you are feeling better Robin !!
I remembered to say Rabbit * 3 this morning.
It is also the International Day of the Galgo – a day to bring the plight of the Spanish Greyhound into the open and to campaign for more much better lives for these animals – My Gravatar has a picture of Ollie – my little Galgo boy who was rescued from the streets of Spain.
Wearing Iris Ganache from a small decant sent by an amazing friend. Lemming officially created.
You smell wonderful. Shame Iris Ganache might be hard to hunt it down now, after it’s been discontinued
We humans need to treat our fellow animals a lot better, and I always trust a human who cares for, and advocates for, other animals. Thank you.
If you need any help in tracking down Iris Ganache, let me know!
Ede97005 – I am almost scared to follow up, but if you want to email me at t f k 3 1 (remove spaces) in the land of yahoooooodotcaum I would love to hear about Iris G…..
SOTD FM Lipstick Rose. It’s a nice mood booster on a cold rainy day.
Robin I am so glad the treatment is working well. Here’s hoping for great and sustained improvement.
By the way, Happy Labor Day for people that celebrate! I spent part of my childhood in France and have fond memories of exchanging sprigs of muguet / lily of the valley.
I happened to be in Paris on May first sometime in my early 20s, and in late afternoon a vendor who was packing up handed me a few sprigs for free. I vividly remember admiring the white bells and the dark green leaves against the old stone blocks of the Saint-Germain-des-Pres church glowing in the late afternoon sun. It was one of those perfect moments that become engraved in your memory
Sounds very picturesque
What a wonderful memory! Thank you for sharing it! Workers of the world, UNITE!
I’m glad to hear you’re getting better, Robin!
I’m having my wisdom teeth out today (finally!) so I went with the tiniest dab of Pucci Eau Fraiche. I found a mini yesterday and it is delightful. Flash of green, then a flash of flowers, mostly lily of the valley. Then it’s gone. Perfect for a spring day.
Hope the dental surgery goes well.
Oh, very good wishes, hope it all goes smoothly.
Hope it goes well.
Here’s to a speedy recovery! I wore Miss Pucci a lot in the early 2000s but haven’t smelled anything else from the house. Some of their bottles are really fun (looking.)
Hope the surgery went well and you have a speedy recovery!!!
Best wishes for a smooth surgery and a speedy recovery!
Ow on getting your wisdom teeth out! Hope you heal quickly and without incident.
Thank you everyone! I feel a bit gross but so far so fine. The surgeon decided to only do the left side this session, so look for me in a month or two! ????
Glad you are feeling much better, Robin.
I am wearing a honey scent – trying Montale Honey Aoud, a generous sample gifted to me as an extra to my decant order.
It starts as a mix of woods and leather. Aoud and patchouli are definitely noticeable, but they do not dominate. Mostly this perfume smells like (I imagine) a carpenter’s workshop should smell – timber, timber… Then the scent becomes warmer and sweeter, although the woody notes remain quite strong.
But then, several hours later, I suddenly noticed a sweet gourmand fragrance around me. Not a realistic scent of honey (in my opinion), more like a honey dessert. Probably because of vanilla and cinnamon. Then woods and leather again. That’s a fun fragrance.
This sounds good but the bottles scare me and there are just TOO MANY of them!
Well, said, hajusuuri! There are certain brands I will never buy because of the bottles, and Montale is high up on that list.
Wow, sounds like it!
Rabbit Rabbit Rabbit
SOTD-poivre-samarcande
Oh, I love that scent! You smell great.
I like it more than I originally thought I would after sniffing the sample vial first. On the skin the dry down is very nice
Happy May Day Monday Y’all!
Wearing Moschino Fresh Couture (aka Windex!) and enjoying it very much….perfect for Spring!
I have not been able to get my hands on that one to try, but the bottle makes me smile.
It is almost as if the manufacturers were saying “Take that pretentious bottle makers” .
I love it, too. I’ve been tempted to buy a bottle just for the bottle. If they made a spray mini I’d be all over it.
I really enjoyed your Smell Bent video. The Gypsy sounds very tempting! And loved your hair!
I second that (everything you said!)
LOL! Thank you!! The “hair-did” was for charity….a young dad in our community needs a new kidney, so they had a booth offering up crazy hair for a donation to cover medical bills. I would have donated without the hair, but it helped advertise for them as I walked around the festival!
It’s not raining here yet, but I think it’s going to. My wind chimes are very active.
My mom is having surgery on her RA-affected spine this morning; I’m leaving the house shortly to go hang out with my dad in the waiting room. Neither one of them are big LOTV fans so I will skip the tradition today and, probably, put on some Eau Premiere for comfort, since Mom is a No. 5 girl all the way.
Lots of food wishes for you and your family – may the surgery be uneventful.
Speedy recovery to your mom
Best wishes for a speedy recovery for your mother.
Best wishes to your mom for a fast recovery.
Adding more good wishes!
Hope all goes well with the surgery.
Hope surgery and recovery go very well.
Good wishes to your mom and family! Eau Premiere is a good smellie!!
Lots of good vibes are being sent your way. And Eau Premiere is a lovely scent when hugging.
Best wishes for a speedy recovery for your mom!
Good luck to your mom. I hope it gives her s some relief.
Hope all goes well and that the Chanel brings everyone some pleasure.
Sending good thoughts for your mom. You smell wonderful.
Wishing an uneventful surgery and speedy recovery for your mom .
Best wishes to your mom!
Fingers crossed for a good outcome on your mom’s surgery!
Hoping for a perfect recovery! I’ll wear no. 5 tomorrow for you.
Hope her surgery is successful and her recovery speedy!
Best wishes for a speedy recovery!
Best wishes for your mom!
Grey and a bit dreary here. I’m wearing Amouage Lyric Woman. Haven’t worn it in a while and I prefer it when it’s a little warmer out but it’s hitting the spot today. I don’t see it mentioned all that much anymore.
I’m expecting some samples I ordered from Olivine for my white floral explorations and am lookung forward to trying them.
Glad things are moving in the right direction for you Robin !
Ooh, have fun with the Olivine samples! Oils or edp? I ordered the oils a few weeks ago and they are all lovely, but I am especially in love with Gigi! It’s yummy!
If you are a big white floral lover, you should enjoy!
I got a couple of the edps, Gigi and She Belongs There, and I forget the 3rd. I’ve tested a couple in Anthropologie before and remember liking them.
If I fall in love with any, I’d likely get the oil version.
I had a tiny bottle of Gigi perfume oil at one point. Her gardenia is really good too.
I didn’t order the gardenia but I regret it now. I think I remember liking it.
You smell fabulous!
Thanks!
Good morning! I’m wearing Fat Electrician very happily.
House cousins in Putain des Palaces
Love Fat Electrician.
You smell great, too!
Thanks!
I’m starting a week of honey with a sample of Tea for Two. This is the second time I’ve tried it, and I like it much better today.
Twins!
I’m in La Vie Est Belle. I’m wearing a ridiculously ruffly maternity dress and thought I may as well spritz from my sample of this. It’s such a ridiculous scent (on many levels).
Great to hear from you!
Forgot the rabbit AGAIN this month – am soothing myself in Heeley Cuir Pleine Fleur.
You smell wonderful!
Heeley Cuir Pleine Fleur is really a beautiful scent.
So pretty!
One of the best leathers!
I went straight for the honeyest honey I got and am wearing Smell Bent Gimel a Break. It’s raining here so something cozy-sweet is very appropriate.
I love this one. In fact, I love most of what this line makes
Today is my birthday and nothing will do except Chanel No. 22 ☺????.
I’m currently making a cup of shalimar tea and will have my last black & white cookie for breakfast. It’s a leftover from last night’s birthday dinner when my kids came over to celebrate with us.
Happy Birthday!????
Happy Birthday!!
Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday! Sounds like a fragrant way to celebrate and you smell lovely, of course.
Happy Birthday!
Enjoy your birthday
Happy Birthday! Sounds like you had a great celebration yesterday:)
Happy birthday! Shalimar tea must be lovely.
Happy birthday!
+1 for black and white cookies. yum.
Happy birthday. You smell terrific!
Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday! Can’t do much better than No 22 and Shalimar
Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday! Shalimar tea sounds wonderful
Happy birthday!
“Because if I don’t get a Black and White cookie I’m not going to be very pleasant to be around.” Ahhh…Seinfeld.
Thank you all so much!
Happy Birthday Barqs! ????
Happy Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday! You smell wonderful!
Happy scented Birthday Barqs! You chose a classic for both scent and tea.
Happy birthday!
Tea for Two today which is smokey chai on my skin, but has honey listed in the notes also.
Feels like an appropriate choice on this gloomy Monday.
Accidentally on theme this morning with Flora Nymphea. This was a pretty good blind but found cheap at Winners. Pretty and nice for spring. I like it well enough to wear it and probably wouldn’t have bothered to buy it if sampling it first but glad to have it as an option anyways.
Same here but you do smell nice Nd the bottle is so purdy.. ????
Thanks so, so, so much for all the well-wishes and sympathy for my difficult week last week. I’m sorry to say the bad news didn’t stop, but I survived and I’m hoping things get better from here.
I haven’t been doing much sampling recently, and have mostly stuck to the same few scents. I went to Nordstrom yesterday, though, and in the men’s department, they had the Le Labo scents out for people to make their own samples. So, I’m wearing Le Labo Ylang 49, which I like, but is so strangely not ylang-y.
I’m keeping my fingers crossed for you that at the very least, this week is uneventful for you. It’s tough when we get bombarded by life with no break to gather strength.
Sorry the bad stuff continued!
You smell lovely in the not-very-ylangy Ylang 49. It just smells very golden and retro to me.
Drat! So sorry to hear that your run of bad things continued on. That just flat-out sucks.
So glad you’re feeling better, Robin! (Avert your eyes, cuz if you’re still nauseous you know what’s coming…)
Day 42!!! of Reeking Havoc, y’all! I’ve managed to test around 200 samples, and have passed the majority along to my dearest friend who is a perfumista and just recently celebrated her birthday. I have no clue how many I have left to plough through, but it’s still a LOT! It’s been a lot of fun and incredibly educational for me, and I’m so glad that I finally took the plunge into The Sample Sea which was threatening to morph into a tsunami and felt overwhelming on many levels. Thank you to everyone who has cheered me on!
Today I’m sampling:
Un Bois Vanille
Caterina de Medici
CDG Stephen Jones
Dirty Flower Factory
Yikes!
Keep calm and reek on!
You inspire me every day to be a sillage monster
I will be starting my full on reeking tomorrow!
Yay for a comrade!
I have been loving the Reeking Havoc
posts !!
Thank you!
Happy swimming in your Sea of Samples!
Also, I’d like to propose a guest post about your experience going through those samples. Would you be interested?
Shoot me an email, sweetie!
I will, if I can only find your email. You can email me too
Whoo hoo on reaching Day 42 and Sample 200+! As long as reeking havoc is fun and getting results like this, keep it up!
Thank you, Jalapeno! It hasn’t always been fun, but it’s all good!
Hope you haven’t encountered too many impervious scrubbers!
You are incredibly brave. There was a show that always ended in “You stinker” (was it Late Night with David Letterman?). So now I’ll say “You REEK!” and mean it as a compliment.
Aw thanks, hajusuuri. I’m eternally grateful for all you have shared with me.
Wearing Guerlain Chant d’Aromes for May day.
And it’s the first month since Robin introduced us to the Rabbit-rabbit-rabbit practice that I remembered to say it! Yay!! (Well, unless you count my yelling at my cat at the crack of dawn to “shut up!”
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Chant d’Aromes is so beautiful.
If yelling at the cat doesn’t count, then I’m all set too!
If Donatelle doesn’t count gifts, splits, decants and samples, then we don’t have to count yelling at our cats!
Just want to go on record saying someone here introduced it to me, and very sorry I don’t remember who! But do not want to steal credit
I bet that person doesn’t remember either! But it’s a fun superstition.
Heh, in the Miss Read books (did they make it to the US?) it’s ‘white rabbit’ you have to say. But I’ve adopted the NST practice now and for once I remembered this morning!
Yay to remembering!!! at my age remembering anything is cause for celebration
Oh and forgot to say you smell fabulous!!!
Exactly! Makes me wonder if perfume doesn’t have an adverse effect on memory.
Can’t be that we’re “women of a certain age”.
Then again, I’ll bet we all remember exactly what the 100s of bottles in our collections smell like, and can associate each with a specific memory of what we were doing while wearing it.
So I’m going to pretend that wearing perfume is like doing crossword puzzles or playing an instrument and actually improves memory.
kpaint – I do crosswords daily and play 2 different instruments in 2 different clefs on a daily basis, and I still cannot remember where I put my darn keys.
I like your story, K., and I’m sticking to it!
I agree that we all probably remember the smell of every single scent we own! I am always rushing out to work in the morning and although I think about what fragrance I will wear after I shower and dress most of the time I just grab the first bottle I see. So today I am wearing MFK’s Petite Matin. I can hardly smell it now because for some reason I can only smell the Stephane Humbert Lucas 777 fragrance I wore the other night! I have really been into his perfumes lately and wish a few of them weren’t so expensive. ( I only own some of the less expensive ones.)
Kpaint…I love this!!!!
You smell lovely!
rabbit rabbit rabbit! Miffy is so cute.
SotD = Parfums DelRae Debut
It’s easy being green. Lime in the top and vetiver in the base surround the lily of the valley heart. Perfectly lovely.
Robin, I too go scent-free when I’m not feeling well. Diorissimo will wait patiently for you. Take care.
Happy May Day, everyone. Years ago I had a neighbor who would leave bouquets on our doorstep every May 1st. I’ve picked a posey of nasturtiums this morning. The flowers are surprising in their colors – yellow, orange, coral, or red. Their scent is subtle, cool, sweet, and green.
I love Miffy too! You just reminded me that my sister and I would leave bouquets on doors when we were kids. I’d completely forgotten about that.
That’s such a happy memory. My sister and I did that, too.
my little monkeys have miffy books..Miffy goes flying is one that I can recite from memory..”again..mommy read it again” after the 10th time…
I love the Miffy books. Those “mommy, read it agains” will be happy memories some day.
When TOMK and I were walking down from the Gibralfaro Castle in Malaga, we passed a section of hillside entirely covered in self-seeded nasturtiums. Glorious! :^)
Just googled Gibralfaro Castle, glorious indeed!
Workers of the World, UNITE!
1) A big muckity muck is coming from HQ, and I am wearing a suit, of course, and also may flowers in my hair.
2) A big protest is scheduled in PDX later on, so I just plan on getting home VERY late.
2a) Fellow PDXers, lets NOT destroy bikeshares, smash store windows nor beat up anybody (too much). Us workers ultimately pay. Keep your eye on the prize.
3) SOTD: Wild Blue Fig (Anatomy of a Fragrance). The maker is Illume, BTW- I realized that I did not include the maker in previous posts!
2a….”too much”
I grew up with Miffy (or Nijntje, in Dutch) books. And she is such an icon now.
When she turned 60 in 2015, famous artists from all over the world were asked to make ‘their’ Miffy. The results were great: http://www.miffyartparade.com/
SotD is Un jardin sur le Nil, from a sample.
I did not grow up with Miffy, nor did my son. Only remembered Miffy existed when I was looking for a rabbit for today. No idea how we missed this icon so totally!
So glad you’re on the mend, Robin!
I got some samples of the newish Viktor & Rolf Magic line…which, as you might imagine, is actually less than magical…
Today I am in Sparkling Secret…sounds like a Sweet Valley High book kind of…it started out promising with strong citrus and reminded me of Lush’s Baked Alaska soap but within about 10 minutes it went department store derivative.
Yesterday I tried Liquid Diamonds which was a floral musk and smelled like standard department store too. I doubt I could distinguish it from dozens of other similar releases in the past 5 years.
To my memory, Flowerbomb, which a great big bomb of sweetness perhaps to or not to your liking, when it launched in 2005 (gasp!…really? yes, really was 2005) was fairly memorable (maybe in a good way or bad way)…and stood out a bit from the competition on the market at the time.
The above two from this new luxury line priced at $220 a pop are laughable to me given what the really good/interesting stuff you could get for that kind of money. Not sure why someone would pay that from things that smell so derivative.
And I go back to Mr. Turin’s quote from his on-hiatus blog back in Sept about what perfume should cost where he stated, “so let’s say $120 or so for 100 ml of EdP or a half ounce of proper extrait.”
Expect them at the discounters in due time…where they will have lots of company.
Ha, was just wondering if I should go hunt those down — thank you!
Robin, happy to know you’re feeling better!
SOTD is Tauer Amber Flush. Had to bust open my second “accidental” bottle this morning.
That rabbit is adorable????
I would take one of those lamps!
I’m enjoying the cozy, breezy Phoenix Botanicals Vanilla and The Sea. Irina Adam was one of the presenters at the Sunday Sniffa program. The fragrance is a finalist in the Artisan category of the Art and Olfaction Awards. Irina said the oceanic amber was inspired by winter walks by the ocean. She makes her own vanilla and ambergris infusions.
That’s a line I’ve not tried, and now you’ve created a huge lemming! At least for samples. Thanks!
I happen to have two Phoenix Botanicals samples that, unfortunately, were not my style. The scents are Ka Pueo and Peach Tree Garden. I’d love to give them a new home. Might you be interested?
I’ve really enjoyed the posts by you and hajusuuri about your Sniffapalooza adventures. What was the highlight for you?
Ooh! and btw, you gave me a sample at the last meetup which disappeared in my purse and then suddenly reappeared. Very weird! Anyway, do you remember what it was?
I think it was the Tauerville Stories -When We Cuddle I Can Smell Your Perfume in My Clothes.
I’m planning to post more about the second day which featured “emerging artisans” and visits to lower Manhattan perfume and fragrance product shops.
It’s hard to pinpoint a fragrance highlight- there were several new perfumes, but the visit to the new Annick Goutal shop on Madison Avenue was memorable.
Also, hajusuuri and I having the opportunity to meet Edward Bess was great! He is also a perfectionist about the three fragrances in his line, as well as the cosmetics.
Thought about LOTV, but went with the classic, Chanel No. 5, to set a professional tone at work on this slightly bleary Monday.
Always a good choice, if not the perfect choice
You smell wonderful!
It’s a cool and overcast day and I’m sampling Tobacco Vanille. It’s getting better, it was all tobacco at the beginning but now it’s more a spicy vanilla, which is more my thing. Making a Costco run later and hoping it will be not too crowded. Oregon has no sales tax so a lot of Washington residents come across the state line to stock up, making the store almost unbearable on weekends.
You smell wonderful!
It’s SUMMER here this week, all of a sudden! I’m going to have to rotate my winter fumes down to the basement and bring up the summer scents, stat.
SOTM is Pacifica Brazilian Mango Grapefruit which just says ‘summer’ to me. It won’t last long, I know, so I’ll get to play with some other scent later.
Carpe diem, y’all. (Where’s Bear when you need him???)
It is going to cool off towards the end of the week
Ahhh – I guess you’re sending it north to us
I checked the weather on my phone this a.m. and it said 73 on Weds and 76 on Thurs. I was so perplexed I figured it must have been showing me stats for the wrong city. I’ll believe it when I feel it!
Enjoy the dry, warm weather and have fun swapping seasonals
Oh I love Brazilian Mango Grapefruit and agree that is such a great summer scent!
I miss Bear too…if you are reading , Bear, sending you a virtual hug
You smell nice and summery!
Scent free as I am doing a stress test today
good luck
wearing no perfume would be stressful for me
Robin, happy to hear you’re on the mend.
Woke up with a craving for Putain des Palaces, so that’s what I’m indulging in in my pajamas and robe, trying to recover from what was an absolutely exhausting weekend.
Next up is caffeinated tea and more moving, unpacking, and repacking. Fingers crossed that we can get this wrapped up by the end of the week (meaning Sunday next.)
Good luck with the move!
I’m glad to hear you’re feeling better, Robin!
I’m wearing Lolita Lempicka today. I hadn’t worn this in ages, but Portia wrote something about it on Perfume Posse last week and that got me thinking about it.
Oh! I’d meant to pull that one out this week. Thanks for the reminder! You smell good
Robin, I’m so glad to hear you’re feeling better!! You smell lovely in spirit!????
Happy May Day, all! (Pagan, Christian, labor–all of it.)
It’s a Mitsouko Monday for me.
You smell divine…
Thank you!
Mitsouko Monday – I love it! And you smell wonderful.
I love a bit of alliteration! And, really, what better scent to reliably deal with Mondays than Mitsy?
Running a little late today and decided to test Andy Tauer’s Vanilla Flash.
How are you liking it? I think VF is a fantastic dry, tobacco-y vanilla.
I like it. Kind of a SDV/Havana Vanille cross with the Tauer base.
So glad you’re feeling better, Robin
Hoping you’ll be back to normal soon!
Amber Tapestry today! We are in that part of the Bay Area spring where the nights are near-frigid and the days are near-scorching. These may be the last mornings where I can try this scent out! It might be too dirty-pillow-baby-powder-jasmine-y for me though.
You smell wonderful!
Good morning, all. Shocking night: Dakkie yelled every five minutes, and NOTHING would comfort him, not cuddles, not treats, not being allowed into bed, not nothing. I’m teaching in two hours–I wonder what my lecture is about, because I certainly can’t call it to mind after Dakkie’s all-night shenanigans!
I’m wearing a Less Loved perfume today: Courreges Empreinte, the remake, not the original. You know what? It’s a perfectly nice green chypre-ish sort of scent, good for work because interesting but not remotely bedroom-y, and I really don’t know why I don’t like it more. I bought it in Paris in 2012, and I have fond memories of having my hand kissed by the charming sales man. Maybe I don’t wear it often because of its very convenient and obliging nature, but I really don’t mind it –yes, I know, that’s praising with faint damns. However, it’s not enlivening me in my post-Dakkie-debacle state, but that would be a big ask for any perfume!
Be well.
You’ve been having a tough time. I will send enlivening, comforting thoughts your way.
Positive thoughts for you and Dakkie.
Hopefully Dakkie-cat got that all out of his system, and you both can get a good night’s rest tonight.
You’re a better person than I. I’d have had Mr. Dakkie out in the garden to experience where wailing non-stop gets you. :^)
That sounds extreme. I hope Dakkie isn’t experiencing physical pain for some reason. Poor you and Dakkie!
Rabbit rabbit rabbit (I forgot until almost lunchtime, so I don’t know if there’s any magic left). Wearing Ostara for May Day and crossing my fingers for a few more weeks of spring weather before we head into the hot desert summer.
It’ll be interesting to see just how hot it gets this year.
I don’t mind a hot June if we get a good monsoon! But when it’s 100+ for weeks on end . . . oof.
Gray and dreary here again today. I am wearing Rose de Siwa for Manic Monday.
Such a beauty!
Songe d’un bois d’été. It is gorgeous. Still trying to make up my mind whether I need it or not. (As if I ever need more perfume)
Glad to hear that the antibiotics are kicking in as they should. Hope you’ll be able to put this all behind you very quickly.
I still can’t believe I bought two bottles of it. Need to actually wear it one of these days.
Two is a lot of perfume! It’s very, very beautiful. Have you got any of the other Déserts de l’Orient?
Robin, I am glad you are feeling better. Do take your time recovering and take care of yourself.
It’s a lovely, perfect spring day here. I chose Songes to accompany what I’m wearing- a light pink blouse with a bow at the neck and bright pink lipstick. It’s a little more floral than I’m accustomed to, but it goes with my girly blouse perfectly. I am enjoying it more and more as it dries. Most of the AGs I’ve tried fade quickly on me, but this one has some staying power.
Happy May, everyone!
Robin, I’m very pleased to hear that you are responding well to your meds. Best wishes for your continued recovery.
Forgot to say “Rabbit, rabbit, rabbit” this morning, since I was busy asking Mr. Jalapeno if all the cats had exited the bathroom before he shut the door. Having furry roommates can pose some rather unusual situations.
SOTD = Tauer’s Incense Extreme, from the Explorer Set. I like it quite a bit, and can see it becoming a comfort scent when I am feeling under the weather. Incense Extreme is not nearly as big as I thought it would be, but it purrs along very smoothly, doing its thing.
Ack! I have the Discovery Set, not the Explorer Set. The other comment is wishful thinking…
I love Incense Extreme too. It’s very calming.
Agree completely with you about it being calming.
Hello y’all.
Very late to the party today. I have started a week of honey perfumes (and not hiney perfumes as my fat fingers tried to type) with a total and utter cheat. Ineke’s “Field Notes from Paris” has beeswax but no honey:
Top: orange blossom, coriander and bergamot;
Mid: patchouli, cedar, tobacco blossom and tobacco;
Base: tonka, vanilla, leather and beeswax.
This perfume does not suit my scent-eating skin and I would have called it “Notes from a field outside Paris”. But then a perfume based on what Paris actually smells like would be a mixture of traffic fumes, urine and tramps. (Paris the city, in my opinion at least, being more a treat for the eyes than for the nose).
Meanwile here in Malaga TOMK, a Finnish friend and I walked along the Eastern beachfront, which was absolutely chocca for the May Day public holiday. We went all the way to El Candado and found a restaurant with a spare table (not our ‘usual’ place as that had a queue of 20+ people already). Service was slooow as no-one has taken on their Summer staff yet, but you know there are worse fates in life than a leisurely meal of fresh seafood cooked over a wood fire on the beach. (Also it wasn’t a surprise, as the last mile or two of the walk was past restaurant after restaurant with every table full and people sitting waiting on the sea wall.)
I was too busy travelling and having fun at the weekend to post. Saturday SOTD was Annick Goutal “Sables” which is a go-to comfort scent and worked well for the stress of travel (and Ryanair travel at that).
Top: immortelle and cinnamon;
Mid: pepper and black tea;
Base: sandalwood and amber.
Sunday was a sample of Carthusia “Via Camerelle” to get in the Mediterranean mood.
Top: orange, bergamot, marjoram and lemon;
Mid: cyclamen, lily and jasmine;
Base: amber, musk and cedar.
TOMK and I visited the Moorish palace and the Castle, then walked back down through nearby residential areas looking to get a feel for that neighbourhood (Monte Sancha). Yeah. We need to win the lottery. Anything we might want we couldn’t afford; anything we could afford we wouldn’t want. Not a huge surprise for that part of town. As for Via Camerelle, let’s say it was unequal to the task and leave it at that.
Thanks for the travel diary. Fun reading! “Fresh seafood cooked over a wood fire on the beach” brought back memories of eaten the most delicious octopus I’ve ever had. It was many years ago and in my case it was grilled over wood and eaten at a table in the sand in Mexico.
A cold damp autumn day so I’m wearing Coromandel.
SOTD = Tauer Dark Passage
It’s supergood and since it contains beeswax which I am equating to honey-like, it qualifies in my quest to do a work-week long honey-themed SOTD.
It looks like I missed the birthday girls -Laurels and Sistine – belated Happy Birthday! CM8 also celebrated hers and we were like 2 ships passing in the night – next time!
I was too busy to reply to the Sniffapalooza comments yesterday so here:
ElisaP – I left Twisted Lily close to 7:30, just when it was starting to get crowded. I had a train to catch and managed to make it
Chandler Burr was the first one up at the beginning of the luncheon at Brasserie 8 1/2. I suppose I could have walked out on him but that would be rude to the perfumer.
Edward Bess is very soft-spoken and petite but he bas a presence. How could he not with that hair! It reminded me of a.cousin who used to be a hair and band model.
My damage for the weekend – i may confess at some point :-). I’ll just say 4 FBs, 3 make-up things, 2 shower gels, 1 bar of soap and a partridge in a pear tree. I also bought the Nez magazine. Oh yes, wendysue and I stimulated the economy.
I’ll save snarky observations for some other day
I’ll snark here where it will be on record, even though late.
The Byredo visit was the least gracious of all for the weekend IMHO. While they had a lovely beverage table for the group, there were some associates who seemed to disregard members of the group.
My DIL interpreted it as consistent with what she thinks is the brands’ focus on marketing to a very cool privileged young demographic . Also, they used to offer samples to the group but stopped. Maybe by the end of the weekend when Byredo is on the itinerary, people have overspent, and the store hasn’t had the sales that they anticipated.
Will review the Bleeker St. Diptyque store visit later in the week. Amazing store and staff!
This is so disappointing! And I stimulated the economy when I was there for a Sniffa event a few weeks back. I don’t recall if you were at the Sniffapalooza when some genius miscounted and ended up sending the Karens many 12 pack of samples and I was able to get 3+ sets of 5 perfumes. They deserve snark for being discriminatory. Well, they got snark last year from me, balanced by Undina:
https://undina.com/2016/06/04/six-by-byredo-two-perfumistas-impressions/
Looking forward to your report!
Love these Sniffa reports!
Happy May Day! So glad you are feeling much improved, Robin!
My SOTD is Diptyque Geranium Odorata.
I made the mistake of trying Ex Nihilo Citizen X tonight. The notes sounded so nice, but it is blindingly bright and has one of those woody notes I hate. I had to scrub it off with laundry detergent.
If you try it, please test on paper first, and start with minute amounts if you decide to move on to skin.