Hump Day! Plus, Rum Day and Madonna's birthday. What fragrance are you wearing?
Huge thanks to everyone who offered sympathy yesterday! I am commando, again. I did wear Diptyque Tam Dao last night and will probably put some on again this afternoon. We do not return home until tomorrow morning so posting will be light today.
Reminder: 8/18 will be Fugly Friday. That's the opposite of bottle porn Friday...wear a perfume you own (or just like) despite the ugly bottle. Suggested by Nebbe.
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.
The current humidity here is approx. 120%, so wearing Ava Luxe Morrocan Mint Tea EDP for a bit of bright, fresh relief.
Her bottles are very meh – simple round, clear glass bottles with a black screw-on top, but the scents are wondrous.
That sounds perfect! I never heard of that brand. I wonder if it bears any resemblance to Cire Trudon’s Abd El Kader candle/room spray? I use the room spray as a body spray 😉
Happy birthday to Madonna!
Spending this Wednesday wearing Un Air de Bretagne again. My liking of it is growing they longer I wear it.
It’s raining today so perhaps I’ll stay at home this afternoon instead of going swimming.
I am excited to hear good things about Un Air de Bretagne 😀
Have some patience and you’ll read about it on my blog 😉
OOO I can’t wait 🙂
And another curious reader here 🙂 looking forward to it
Thank you, thank you. It’s great to know someone is waiting for it 😉
Madonna! I’m old enough to remember her controversial MTV Awards number way back in the 80’s!!
Back home due to previously mentioned ickyness (think I’m fighting a sinus infection) and feeling better. Started the day with Paleo Pancakes in an effort to avoid sugar (which weren’t half bad). Keeping with the cave man/woman theme, I just spritzed a goodly dose of PdE Musc Tonkin. I smell “aú natural” with just a tad bit of floralcy on the side. My hypersensitive nose seems to not mind at all.
Wishing all good health vibes ✌????
ha! I am old enough too!
Hope you feel better and fight that sinus infection 🙁
Thanks! It might be time to get a neti pot????????
I have the 1984 mtv video award show where she performed like a virgin on VHS . No way to play it now though.
I think there are places that will transfer it onto blueray or DVD….????? Does anyone remember Betamax?! I’m really showing my age today.
There are places that will do that! I work at an academic library where you can bring in your VHS tapes and convert them to digital files or DVDs. What a time to be alive!
Yep, that’s the one I’m talking about! We had a cousin visiting from Ireland at the time and he was APPALLED????
I too am old enough and imho, 80’s Madonna is the best Madonna!
LOVE 80s Madonna!
I really like all her stuff. She’s such a chameleon and I really admire how bold and brash she is, and does her own thing. Don’t think there was anyone quite like her before, such a trend setter.
Lovely new avatar, Deva!
And yes, I am also old enough to remember 80s madonna (the best madonna). Had posters of her on my wall and badly wanted a lace top and lots of bracelets.
But I was still a little girl, and sometimes asked my parents to translate part of her lyrics for me from english to dutch (“what is a virgin exactly?” hahahah).
Thank you! And I’m sure parents everywhere were a bit flummoxed when their litttle girls asked about Madge and her music!
Love your avatar!
Thank you!
A possible sinus infection? Yuck! Get well soon.
Yuck is right and Thank you!
Still honouring the hous of Nicolaï. My SOTD is Nicolaï pour Homme, a gorgeously complex lavender.
SOTD NVC Bombay Bling. I oversprayed a little and was surprised by how intensely creamy and sweet it gets. Thank god the weather is chilly 🙂
Bombay Bling is great but I wear it mostly in the summer. Thanks for the tip 🙂
SOTD Scherrer I EDP – love the galbanum and hyacinth. The bottle is OK, unremarkable. I wore Habanita (current edp) last night though; gorgeous scent, quite fugly bottle. I don’t tend to buy anything with a really hideous bottle though.
I really need to hunt up some of that Scherrer to try.
Scherrer 1 is a glorious dry chypre. Scherrer II is a hot chemical mess ( on me)
I love Scherrer I, such a glorious galbanum bomb!
Triple strength coffee.
Happy Birthday Madonna!
With my Birthday two days ago, and yours today, we are both 59 !!!!!
=-O
Cardio soundtrack today:
Express Yourself.
Into the Groove.
Diamond Dogs.
Custard Pie.
Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin).
Material Girl! !!!!
LOLOLOL
😉
Onda EDP Vero Profumo, no fugly stuff goin’ on – I am comparing and contrasting with yesterday’s Habanita.
Carpe Diem.
Peace.
When I look around- baby you just can’t be found………….
And Vogue!
C’MON VOGUE !
😀
I heard they are making / have made a documentary about the Vogue dancers…
Strike a pose!
let your body move to the music, move to the music.
You smell great. Last week I wore a sample of Onda EdP, it was a fun ride.
Happy 2 days late birthday, Bear! Hope there was much celebrating!
PS. “Celebrate” — one of my favorite Madonna songs, go ahead and play it 🙂
Expressing yourself rather well today, Bear!
Happy Belated Birthday! I hope it was excellent!
Thank You Everyone !!!
My Birthday was Happy and Introspective.
🙂
I’m wearing Lili Bermuda Petals. A very sweet friend traveled to Bermuda last week and brought me a sampler box of Lili Bermuda fragrances a souvenir. I’m having so much fun going through these ☺
What a wonderful friend! Please do report how you find them, I have been interested in Lili Bermuda and would love to hear what you think!
Ditto here! I have been eyeballing the line and would also like to know your impressions.
So far I’ve tried South Water (reminds me a little of Estee Lauder Bronze Goddess), Fresh Water (very pretty after a shower) and Petals. I’m very impressed with the longevity of Petals. I put a dab on each wrist and behind each ear, and I can still smell it hours later. Its a very pretty scent. It reminds me of a Hove Parfumeur scent I have called Carnaval. Both are great for the heat down here in New Orleans.
thank you! these sound like they would be great for the summer.
SOTD is Chanel 19 EDT from the boring (but not fugly) spray bottle with the integrated sprayer top. I think it deserves a prettier bottle to match the very lovely scent.
Just was gifted with a bottle of No 19 shower gel, I adore it, another lovely very green perfume that reminds me of my youth!
I LOVE No. 19 shower gel!
Still smelling the Adjatay I wore last evening, from an ugly decant bottle. Although I think the real bottle may also qualify for ugly week…I really don’t like those Devo hat caps!
Planning on sampling Dryad later. First wearing was a revelation– how can something be green and powdery at the same time?? Looking forward to seeing if it wears similarly today.
Adjatay is interesting. The idea behind it I love but there’s something “off” as in rotten I smell.
It definitely has a sweetness in there that I can imagine could veer to the decay side of things. Fortunately, I don’t smell that, or my skin muffles it. I just get exactly what it’s supposed to be…tuberose left in a leather handbag!
Vintage Bal PdT – powdery amber. It’s glorious.
Vintage Bal is glorious.
I am wearing O de Lancome for the first time today. This may turn into a full bottle. I really like it. It’s not love yet. We’ll see how it lasts on my skin. I was going to wear Au Coeur de Desert from a sample I’ve had for months and never worn, but I couldn’t get the sample’s cap off.
I do like O de Lancome and have a fb of it but somehow I never wear it. I think it just seemed a bit too one-dimensional. Will be interested to hear what you decide.
I was in a hurry this morning and I grabbed a small thing sitting on the edge of my dresser, which happened to be Floracopeia Rose and Vetiver attar. (I know there was a post about it few days ago but I only saw it only yesterday and I missed my chance to respond there.) It’s the new version in the roll-on bottle, different from the old dab-on version: slightly less rosy and the rose itself seems to be of more common variety, not the gloriously rich Rajasthani Bourbon Rose, but it’s still a great, unique scent, and it works really well in the stifling, swampy D.C. heat.
A belated thank you for the description!
Happy birthday Madonna! I’m playing “Lucky Star” in honor of the occasion.
I’m back to my Prada Infusions sample set today with Infusions d’Amande. It’s a lovely and ultra-soft, floral amaretto scent. It’s probably the most romantic perfume I own.
Today’s tea: Pistachio Lime Mate.
You smell wonderful. Infusions d’Amande is my current favorite from the group. I have worn it often this summer.
YUM to everything!!! Perfume and tea 🙂
I am so sorry I missed that set. Haven’t found it anywhere.
I think fragrancenet carries it….
I’ll check! Thanks.
I want it to last longer! Too fleeting.
You smell pretty! I love almond.
Copying Robin in Tam Dao today. My life is kind of like not in the mood for Tam Dao not in the mood for Tam Dao not in the mood for Tam Dao not in the mood for Tam Dao not in the mood for Tam Dao not in the mood for Tam Dao not in the mood for Tam Dao not in the mood for Tam Dao not in the mood for Tam Dao not in the mood for Tam Dao MUST HAVE TAM DAO IN LARGE DOSES not in the mood for Tam Dao not in the mood for Tam Dao not in the mood for Tam Dao
Well played fellow stream-of-consciousness person.
😉
Ha! yes, exactly. You smell TAM DAO marvelous.
I’m wearing Truth or Dare Naked in honor of Madonna.
Fabulous! I hoped someone would wear one of her scents today.
SOTD is Coqui Coqui Eucaced
i’m trying the whole Coqui Coqui range after reading Kevin’s review here and ordering their very nice 15 ml
very enjoyable in general, very summery also, and perfectly suited for summer 🙂
Still sampling today; this morning is Parle Moi de Parfum Woody Perfecto. The notes are coffee, leather and vetiver. For such a simple list, this is really rich and almost creamy. I would say it leans masculine. My daughter says it smells like my sister’s car; she’s a big coffee drinker and has really nice leather interior, so little lass may be onto something with that comment.
Ooh that sounds wonderful, I would love to smell this one! I have been searching for a beautiful coffee scent.
I like it. I wish I had it in a spray rather than a dab sample
Have you tried Mugler Hot Cologne? It has a coffee note, too, and is really amazing.
I smelled it briefly, on a strip and it reminded me of Regular Mugler Cologne, but maybe I have to go back to the store where it lives and cadge a full-fledged sample!
I would say if an old fashioned cologne is a clear yellowish green (I have to use colors or fabrics to describe scents because I don’t have the words) them Hot Cologne is an opaque deep golden orange. And Woody Perfecto is a deep chocolate color.
That does sound nice. I’ve been curious about this entire line because of Michel Almairac.
I am definitely going to try more from this line now!
That sounds good!
There’s a couple of coffee scents looking to try this fall: the new one by Atelier (possibly out all ready), and also one by 4711.
Yes, I think the Atelier is out already in limited release. I am also interested in coffee scents. If you try any please let us know….good, bad or neutral 🙂
Oooh, I need to check this out.
SotM = Masque Milano Tango
Tango is a bit much for this early in the day. Thankfully the weather is cool, so I’m enjoying the dark golden cloud of scent.
During a drop off at the airport this morning I noticed quite a few fragrances in the air. Nothing I could identify, but it was lovely to walk the concourse with my nose twitching.
It’s always a pleasant surprise to smell perfume in the wild, regardless of what it is.
I smelled Angel this morning..a quick whiff and I am happy the woman went to the other end of the car.
Wearing Frapin 1270 today. I had forgotten how lovely 1270 is and how boozy. I have tons of packages arriving in the mail today and I am arguing with Amazon. My Prime membership is going to be expiring on the 18th and I can’t afford the $99 today but tried to purchasing the gift of Prime (3 month subscription) and Amazon won’t let me check out saying that I have to wait until the 18th to renew. Well, I would like to renew it today.
Well, if you don’t “need” it on the 18th, then wait until you need it to renew so your Prime clock starts later.
It’s humid already and will be hot. Hiram Green Shangri La is rich for the weather, but helpful for today.
You smell marvellous! I love Shangri La in the heat.
Yesterday evening I trief Bond T by Sammarco (sample). If this is a gourmand, then I finally found something in this genre I really like. 🙂 Cacao, tobacco, vanilla…and the patchouli in here is da bomb.
And today:
On my left arm: aeon 001, from a sample. During first hours there is a citrus note and another fruity smell that does not work for me, it gets better after a while though. Ends up warm, cuddly and musky.
On my right arm:
Gucci Bloom (bumped into it in the department store)
Tuberose and jasmine are my favourite flowers. But not like this 🙁
Its very clean and soft. Almost soapy. With a hint of something sour fruity.
Booo.
I hoped Gucci would do something more daring (like with Guilty Absolute). But no.
I’ll stick to Moon Bloom, my favourite tuberose/jasmine combo.
The box and bottle of Gucci Bloom are quite lovely though – and I am not even a big fan op pink. Especially in the smaller size. I think I spotted 30 ml…
Started the day in Tom Ford Neroli Portofino, but now, after a shower, I am wearing L`Artisan Parfumeur Verte Violette.
Saint on one wrist and Sinner on the other…I happen to think the bottles are cute but others may find them in the “fugly” category.
I think those bottles are pretty but neither scent appealed to me enough to try on skin. If those bottles were sold empty as refillable atomizers, I just might be tempted.
I am preferring the Sinner over the Saint..it is richer and deeper…don’t know why but I am smelling oud in it….or maybe that is in the notes? don’t know as I haven’t looked them up yet!
I’m wearing Fracas in honor of Madonna 🙂
Also it’s one of my fave perfumes, ever!
Tam Dao is such a wonderful scent..I haven’t tried the edp version yet, but I hope to get around it soon 🙂
Oh, good idea with Fracas.
Oh yes, I had read that is her signature scent! Also read she is a fan of Olivine Atelier Gigi perfume oil which inspired me to try it- yummy.
She (Madonna) Instagrammed a picture of her Fracas bottle, some rosé wine and candles. So we know it is valid…lol 😉
I have read in her brother’s book about her, that she on Girle show tour wore Annick Goutal’s “Gardenia Passion”. I also heard from insiders that she was a huge fan of Goutal’s Folavril, Eau de H’ardien and Grand Amour.
She also lit Diptyque’s Gardenia scented candle 🙂
But I think her true passion is Fracas-I remember seeing her in 09 and I could smell Fracas on her…that’s how close she was to me 😀
I have no idea if she is fond of other fragrances, but I can easily imagine 🙂
A cool morning so I went incense-y: the last of the body oil made from a batime de feu sample+petite rien. I have a feeling it’s going to warm back up, but I think I went light enough.
wow! I just love your body oil concoctions 🙂 What a cool way to wear fragrance!
thank you–though the petite rien was just sprayed on old-fashioned style
Good morning!
Hope Robin and family adjust to the college years quickly and happily! I’m facing that with my oldest before I know it!
Wearing Bvlgari Omnia Paraiba…this was a favorite last year, and I kind of forgot about it! It’s pretty and light….
You won’t believe it when it gets there — I really didn’t!
Got up early this morning to go see the sun come up over a nearby field of 500,000 sunflowers. So pretty.????
Eau d’Hadrien today. I dumped the last of my sample all over my forearms and even with that I know it will be gone in a few hours. I love citrus scents in the summer, but wish they would last a bit longer.
Wow! that must have been gorgeous!!!
I adore Eau d’Hadrien, used to douse myself with it in the 90’s when I lived in South Florida.
Oh, I bet that your sunrise this morning was something special with all those flowers. I’m smiling at the mental picture I’m getting.
Family discontent making me unhappy today.
Long story short: Mom’s mom lived with my parents for forty years, until she died, leaving THREE METRIC CRAP-TONS OF STUFF behind in the apartment they built for her in the basement. Eleven years after her death, a metric crap-ton of stuff is STILL THERE, despite multiple offers of help from me and my sibs; Mom feels a giant deep need to “go through” and “sort” the metric crap-ton, and further, not to dispose of any of the remaining metric crap-ton until she’s found it a “good home.” She keeps finding reasons to hang on to the (mostly junk) items my grandmother collected, not because Mom wants them herself but because… okay, well, you got me. I don’t know why. She has sixteen different reasons which really seem to add up to guilt.
In any case, my siblings and their families came for a visit from out of state last week, and due to the crowded conditions in the house, nobody slept well and unpleasant words were passed (especially between my brother and Mom, mostly about the junk still sitting around ten years after it should have been packed up and either thrown away or taken to Goodwill). Now Mom feels that everybody is against her because we’re all frustrated about the Metric Crap-ton. Clearly this is an emotional issue for her, and we get that… but really. Eleven years, and the apartment is still packed with furniture, bookshelves full of books, decorative items, ceramic bird figurines, ugly china of unknown provenance, cookware — and this is *after* most of the pretty things and items of sentimental value have been dispersed to family members and friends.
GAH. I need something for patience and comfort and the ability to start over with offering to go through the metric crap-ton with Mom, with the caveat that if we touch it, it HAS TO GO. If she insists that it’s good enough to be salvaged and she has a friend who might want it, that means I put it in my car and drop it by the friend’s house on my way home. (I live an hour away from my parents.)
Sorry to vent on you all.
Maybe vintage Emeraude…
Argh family troubles 🙁 so sorry for you. Sending some luck, positive vibes and strength your way!
I’m a contender for leaving about half a crap ton of stuff behind. ???? I keep warning my kids and doing nothing. You have my sympathy.
Physical stuff can be such a challenge to deal with. I hope things start looking up.
Oh lordie!!! That is indeed a challenge…I hope it all works out in the end with no hard feelings amongst family members. I have already decided that when the younger CM8s are all out of the house they must claim their items so that I am left with very little…I don’t want junk left behind for anyone to sort through.
and vintage Emeraude is insanely gorgeous…I had a vial gifted to me from Barbara Herman and drained that sucker lickety split!
I’m so sorry to read this 🙁 it sounds really tough. My sympathies.
That’s a tough spot to be in, I hope things smooth over eventually, my sympathies to you.
Maybe if she could approach it like losing weight. Rather than trying to get rid of it al at once ( impossible) she could lose a little bit at a time. Ask her to talk about the things in the pile. Anything with a ‘story’ attached (remebering the story might make her feel good) goes on the ‘keep’ shelf . Items with no ‘story’ are taken away, to a good home. . Start slowly…twenty minutes a day….until she gets the hang of it. Once the fear has gone she might find it easier . Also, get her to write her me ories down, so she has something to keep once the junk has gone.
We’ve gone at the task over many many months (ELEVEN YEARSSSSS 11 eleven), and we’ve done what I would think would be the hard part: clothes, photos, favorite books, furniture, jewelry, dishes, that sort of thing. Now we’re down to things like fabric and sewing patterns, a nondescript shell-and-rock collection and those d*mn “collectible” ceramic figurines (there are literally hundreds of them).
We recently moved my mother in law into a rest home and went through forty years of junk: receipts, bank statements, letters, scraps of material, wool, books….all of which were “worth keeping just in case”. It would have been easier to burn the house down
LOL..I feel your pain. I have a hard time letting things go but force myself do so periodically since I don’t have kids of my own to torture. ????
My sympathies–what I’ve seen is that no one really wants old stuff.
If possible, could someone outside the family say something to her–i.e, items take up too much space, clutter is a hazard, etc? These suggestions are a lot less fraught when not expressed by relatives.
That’s a tough situation that most families have to deal with at some point or another. When you’re not on the same page – for you and your siblings, it’s a question of practicality, for your mother, one of emotion – it’s very difficult to resolve. Maybe it’s best to move on if she’s really not ready to let go.
I know.
What’s troubling us is that we think the clutter strewn across the entire lower floor of Mom and Dad’s house is adding to their general level of stress (plus some issues of failing health for both of them). And… eleven years since my grandmother died. ELEVEN YEARS. We’ve been giving Mom a pass on it because of her emotions, but all of the clothes/jewelry and most of the furniture has been passed on to family and friends, and what’s left is mostly junk. Eleven years should be enough time to deal with disposing of things that were not significant possessions.
I’m sorry you’re dealing with this. I hope your vintage Emeraude helps clear your mind a little. Hugs for you.
So sorry! Very hard situation. Hope you make progress soon.
I just want to say I’m sorry, because I know how difficult and delicate a situation this is. Is there any way to pack things up and stack neatly in the basement?
I feel your pain. Dealing with all the years of collected, acquired things is not easy. I’m a 1-800-GOT-JUNK kinda gal. My husband is a go-through-each-item guy….
So sorry to hear that this has been going on for so long. Hugs.
What if you give up and let her keep what she wants? If it’s so incredibly distressing for her to part with the crap ton, why pressure her? If other family members find it unappealing or inconvenient, maybe they should stay in a hotel? Maybe it’s more about control than about the crap ton? Just saying…
That’s…an interesting point. That hadn’t even crossed my mind. What does that say about me and MY need for control?
If there isn’t a legitimate health hazard, why upset the poor woman? After she has stepped off the planet there will be plenty of time to get rid of stuff. If it brings her comfort while she’s alive, why not just let it go? People deal with loss and grief in different ways, and there’s is no “right” way. Maybe she is coming to grips with her OWN mortality and the crap ton helps her to do that? I know it’s probably not the popular response, but I think it’s better to be kind to her than cause distress by making get rid of a crap ton of comfort. No offense intended.
Oh what a situation. My mom is a hoarder and we used to try everything to get her to throw things away (her issue was mostly paper – old catalogs and magazines, and containers! So many fake tupperware containers!). Finally, she got remarried and moved out of the house and they had to get one of those dumpster bins outside the house to handle all the trash that was inevitably thrown away.
Agree to try and enlist anyone outside the family that she might listen to – maybe they could offer to take the stuff and then you just drive it to the dump/salvation army instead? I’m sure in 11 years you all have probably tried everything. Recently had to empty out my dad’s house after he passed away. We had to pay a hauler to come and take a lot of it away since it was just trash after family took the nice furniture and sentimental objects. Sorry that you are having to deal with this.
You are not alone. My mother’s dementia drives her to go through the bags of “stuff” ready for Salvation Army et al. and pull out items, insisting that this will absolutely *NOT* be thrown out because it is useful, money doesn’t grow on trees, I want to throw out everything she loves, etc., etc. Maybe I will have to dump the stuff at night, that way there’s no fear of her going down into the basement to rootle about (and breaking her neck in the process). Like living with a racoon… Suggest wearing the most glamourous, breathtaking scent you have–Calgon, take me away!
So sorry to hear you’re dealing with this. A 63 year old neighbor recently passed…much too young but it was probably a relief for her given that she had been in failing health for the past 20 years. Anyway, their house is the same size as mine and week after week, I kept seeing large garbage piled up. I can’t believe what else they were able to fit in the house with all that stuff having been in there!
I need to do some serious editing and I know I can and have to be merciless.
Thank you. The one-in, one-out rule should prevail chez moi, but… isn’t it marvellous perfume does not take up much space? Wheeee!
No fugly bottle for me–SSS Champagne de Bois, because I needed a little sparkle in my morning. Still probably my best blind swap.
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Question: has anyone had trouble applying shoprunner to fragrancenet? What do you do if it doesn’t show up automatically?
You are smelling fantastic!!!
Are you using an American Express credit card? I shows up automatically for me whenever I use Amex, but I can’t remember how I signed up for it.
I think there’s a phone number you can call for support.
Good luck 🙂
Oof…ok, thanks, I’ll try that!
So glad that you like it.
Aha! I couldn’t remember what your screen name was 🙂 thanks again! Une Bois Vanille is also still working out magnificently. I’m especially happy for it with all the SL changes.
Don’t know about Shoprunner. I am more of an eBates person myself. I got a $59 Big Fat Check this quarter and I said “Self, what the h-ll did you buy?” And then I stopped beating myself up when I realized it was from using Expedia to book my hotel in Vancouver. Woot!
Tuberose Flash today. Indeed, I don’t like the bottle very much, though I’ve never seen it in person. Not exactly ugly, of course!
Have you seen that mystery Tauer perfume sample offer? I was reading it from my iPhone and did not click through to read more about it. Thanks for the reminder with your perfume choice.
I haven’t! I’ll have to investigate – thanks for bringing it up.
SOTD is L’Artisan “Nuit de Tubereuse”.
Top: pink pepper, clove and mandarin;
Mid: tuberose, rose, ylang-ylang and mango;
Base: woody notes, musk, resins and angelica.
It’s fine, but I’ve got tuberose covered with Fracas I think. “Woody Notes” always makes me think of a fictitious folk singer or jazz musician. Off now for ein Bier. ;^)
Oh I would love a beer myself 🙂
A wonderful Weizenbier perhaps?
I’m wearing African Leather today. Also, I’ve fallen insanely in love with garlic Triscuits. I could eat them by the handful. They are even better with good cheese melted over them.
Where do you fall in the Triscuits v Wheat Thins debate?
Team Triscuit all the way!
Ha! Great question!????????
Sampling Hana Hiraku today which is probably the only perfume with a melon note that I like. It’s also salty/musky and with a delicate but full creamy floral. It’s fascinating and would probably be really good in high temperatures
Heh, I have never heard of this perfume…but melon? I don’t mind it but I am not a fan either!
Wearing Kate Walsh’s Boyfriend, love the musk, amber and woods.
Great scent
Inhave that one too. You smell great!
There was a but of a fuss when Bob Dylan got the Nobel prize for literature but I’m going to match Forever Young with Lush’s Breath of God…both good on this blustery dark spring(ish) morning.
Hope things went well yesterday Robin.
Thank you, a day late, and any mention of Bob Dylan of course gets my vote. Plus, Lush, so you get two thumbs up from me!
Hello, from Horrible Thursday Morning. I don’t know why I’m so down, but I am. Work has turned pretty bad, but I can cope, day-to-day. Dakkie came through the crisis, but is still very ill. He will mend, and we will rejoice. The kittens are in riot mode, and are both funny and exquisite to watch. I have a splitting headache, but it will likely respond to pills. I therefore have no good reason for not having perfect equilibrium this morning, so I will attempt to bring my mood into balance by wearing La Pausa. Again, because I love it. It is beautiful, dry iris and vetiver, and I have some samples as well as the FB, so I can touch up during the day.
I didn’t go to the launch of Gabrielle. There were too many things to organise for Dakkie and I just wasn’t in the mood for champagne and making small talk with strangers at a rather sterile party. And then too, Angela’s review made me feel that I probably wouldn’t like it all that madly. Instead, I finally ate scrambled eggs on toast in the late evening and fell into bed about 8.30. Gabrielle can wait, probably indefinitely.
Hope the La Pausa did the trick! Love the power of fragrance.
Continued good wishes for Dakkie-cat! In the meantime, you are smelling marvelous.
I am so glad to hear that Dakkie will recover and the other purrs are a comfort. Work…soon it will be over. Feel better, my friend.
I wish for Dakkie-cat’s speedy recovery.
I’m wearing Taylor Swift Taylor. An underatted celebrity scent imo. Crazy stupid people work day, but i smell sparkly and peppy, lol. Happy Birthday to Maddona. It took me a few years to be a fan because when she first started I was all about headbanging metal.
So maybe you are the reason I was listening to a Metallica CD earlier today? 🙂
Ha! Would love to have that kind of magic power.
Yo, fellow headbanger here????
“Rock hard and ride free” Deva
Apom, not sure how I feel about the newer version, did it get more streamelined-synthetic?
Eau des Merveilles Bleue for me today. I’m liking this more on further tries and am feeling like I would like to get the super cute 30 ml bottle.
I think you should! You saw how cute it was and you can get it from your super fancy Nordstrom (I may just be a wee bit jealous).
Not on theme, as I awoke needing peace and serenity and BdI. About to shower then dab some Samsara.
I hope you are feeling more peaceful as the day goes on 🙂
Best wishes on this very exciting and yet hard transition for you, Robin.
Still visiting with family but getting ready to head to the airport soon.
So many lovely smells down here away from the city. Spritzing a little scent here and there but mainly enjoying what comes my way from being on the lake to moms cooking to fresh cut grass. Summer, ah…
Plan to dab a bit of Neroli Outrenoir before I head out.
Sounded like you enjoyed a relaxing vacation other than the incident this past weekend! And thumbs up on Neroli Outrenoir.
You know, it really was relaxing. Sometimes with mom it can not be relaxing, but I managed to get some time on my own or with my brother and just chill. Best was out on the lake in a canoe where it was so peaceful. Thanks!!
I was digging through my sample drawer this morning. I may have been looking for something specific, but I don’t remember now. I found a mini of Le 3 Homme de Caron that I had totally forgotten I had, so I decided to wear some today. I don’t think I had ever worn it before, but now I’m glad I did. I like it a lot. The base is kind of reminding me of something else.. maybe multiple something elses actually.. but I can’t quite put my finger on it.
I always worry about wearing something new that I haven’t sniffed before on a workday? What if I hate it?
That is a risk! It doesn’t happen often that I absolutely hate something, fortunately, but I have on occasion suffered through the workday and/or run to the bathroom and tried to wash off as much as I could.
Oooooh, Rum Day! I have a few to choose from, so I think that is tonight’s order of business.
SOTD = Bottega Veneta EdP again. Yesterday’s drydown was so appealing that I decided another wearing was in order. It is also distracting me from the cat scratches that Spooky inflicted on me last night. We were snuggling on the couch, and something startled her, so… OUCH! Fortunately I have a Band-Aid big enough to cover all the swipes.
Do you have any rum recommendations? I like the Flor de Cana silver (or seco? I haven’t actually read the label in a while!) for cocktails, but I’m interested in branching out into “sipping” rum.
Sure! I guess the first thing is to ask how dark you want to go? IMO, a good “sipping spirit” can be any color of rum, from white to gold, to dark. Some of my personal favorites are Anniversario Pampero, which is incredibly dark but oh so smooth; Ron Centenario Fundacion XX Anos Reserva Especial, which is an extremely nice gold rum from Costa Rica; Ron Zacapa Centenario 23 years, another lovely gold rum, but from Guatemala this time; Saint Augustine Distillery Pot Distilled Rum, yet another gold rum, made with locally (Florida) sourced/grown ingedients; and Olo Brazilian Silver Rum.
It’s been a while since I’ve had to shop for rum, so I hope that all of the ones on my list are still easily found. I do have a couple of others I love that I won’t recommend to people anymore since they aren’t being imported into the US or being produced anymore. Sounds familiar, huh?
I’m sure I don’t know what you mean. 😉
Thanks for the list! I’ll see what’s available at my liquor stores. I live in a university town in the Midwest, in a state with a state liquor oligarchy, so sometimes we have plenty of stuff (we have armagnac now!) and other times it’s just things that people want for football games. Persistence helps! It will be like a scavenger hunt.
No fugly for me. Fragonard Tilleul Cedrat from atop my sister’s dresser. A light, sweet floral…linden! It’s very nice, especially after a hillside hike in the sun to an overlook of the Ojai Valley. Heading out now to do a tour of the local olive oil company. I could live here….
Sounds lovely. Enjoy your tome there.
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Had an appointment today so, of course, vintage Cristalle. I seriously love this stuff.
We seem to be comment-adjacent these days. You smell nice!
Thanks! ???? Too much work and never enough time. I could use a clone.
SOTD = Diptyque Volutes EDT
Not so fugly bottle but I prefer the square one. I kept smelling something wonderful and it was I, Me and Myself. Why don’t I wear it more often? To make up for it, I almost gassed myself with 6 sprays! My usual dose was 3 sprays. With 6, the perfume became creamier, as if vanilla was lurking in the background but it was probably the combination of benzoin and saffron.
Commuting Woes No. 380:
There was a signal problem on the way home. The train was packed to the gills. Given the more frequent sudden stop and start, I had no choice but to grasp a pole firmly. Unfortunately, someone with long frizzy hair was next to me so I had to turn my head / face towards, you guessed it, a smelly armpit.
Riddle me this: Why is it that when 15 people come out of the train, only 5 or 6 people can manage to get in? For goodness sake, it is not a clown car!
I’ve never tried Volutes but I am sure you smell fantastic! It seems to get a lot of love here.
So glad that I don’t have to ride on a train or subway. OTOH, clearing off my car AM and PM and driving in the snow is no fun at all during winter.
Trade-offs! I still have a short drive to the train station and have a need to clear my car; however, I can work from home if I feel that the commute would be too unpredictable, possibly dangerous and/or inconvenient.
At least you have an option.
Signal problems are the WORST!! Such a bummer that you had to deal with that tonight. 🙁
I missed the connection I wanted to catch but the next one was only 10 minutes later. It could have been much worse.
I’m sorry I know the commutes are awful, but the way you tell the events make me literally laugh out loud!
I am suggesting to you again ..write a book! “Hajusuuri’s 1000 Commuter Woes”…
and your Volutes sounds divine…have never sniffed that one but now I want to 🙂
Happy Birthday to Madonna!
No frag as I am weathering some sort of mutant sinus/throat thing.
I think I caught it in the subway darn it! 🙂
Yep, subways are Petri Dishes Extreme. If I have to hold on to a pole, I always do so with a paper napkin barrier between skin and pole. I hope you feel better.
Thank you! It is progressing as expected. But I’ve turned this into a ggod excuse to eat a lot of mint-honey drops 🙂 have a nice weekend!
Madonna!!! And rum! Sounds like a party!
Where’s the party
I want to free my soul
Where’s the party
I want to lose control
SOTD is Cabochard.
Excellent sotd.
Any opinion out there on Le Labo candles? has anyone tried the Laurier one?
Quick PSA, not sure if anyone else has mentioned this. Twisted Lily has 20% off with the coupon Twistedsummer. I think free shipping too. I just bought a travel size (10 mls) for $36.
I forgot to say the scent is HG Shangri L. ????
Good choice! 🙂
Super late to report in but SOTD was Bandit EdP.