Happy Almost-Friday! What fragrance are you wearing?
Me: Bvlgari Eau Parfumée au Thé Bleu.
Reminder: on 9/15 we're doing edition 2 of the Picture challenge (you can see edition 1 here). Wear a perfume that matches the picture, which is Portraits of the *** Family, called The Family Gathering, summer 1867 - early winter 1868 by Frédéric Bazille, shown recently in the exhibit Frédéric Bazille and the Birth of Impressionism. You can read more about the painting here, and you can see a larger image here.
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: top image is Hood River Lavender with Mt. Adams in the background [cropped] by m01229 at flickr; some rights reserved.
Love that photo and you smell great Robin! I am in incense heaven with PdE Wazamba.
Yes you are 🙂
Oh, that’s a great incense.
Songes
Feeling beautiful and sexy in this one
tea MF yuzu temple
Lippy Medevil lipstick queen
Day 2 of being alone with the little ones as my better half is traveling
Hope the little ones are behaving!
I have only had a few tantrums so far 😉
wore Songes Tuesday and thought of you! 🙂
Hang in there while your other half is gone!
It is a warm, humid, sticky, rainy day here. Very unpleasant to be outside (sigh!) Wearing AG Ninfeo Mio. It is helping me to keep a good, bright and cheeful spirit.
House cousins!
Also sticky here
What is this one like, should I put it on my to smell list?
Loves, perfumelover describes it perfectly. Songes and Ninfeo Mio are the two AGs I
own. Both wonderful, each in its own way.
2nd day we are house twins!
Ninfeo Mio is a very green citrusy scent. Lemon, galbanum, fig, woods. It is one of my favorites for hot days . I have a bottle from 2010. I can send you a small decant if you want to try it.
sure I would love that! I am sandrabenedict at gmail dawt com
Let me know what I can give you in return!
Ninfeo Mio is a great way to combat heat and humidity. You smell great!
Thank you! Ninfeo Mio never fails!
Thank you for all the anniversary wishes yesterday! To celebrate, we tried a new-to-us restaurant – traditional and authentic Italian – and it was wonderful. I’m in OJ Woman again today because I’m still in the throes of Newest FB is the Best mode. 🙂
I love that mode! Makes one so happy.
Since you’re nearby, I have to ask what restaurant it was? 🙂
It was Mucca in downtown Portland. It’s in a very small, hardwood-floored space, and the bar area and some of the seating is in a loft so the staff all get lots of exercise running up and down the stairs. Their cocktail and wine menus both are full of interesting and unusual things, and the food menu is quite authentic and leans Sicilian rather than more northerly Italian.
You smell amaaaaazing!
I must be the odd man out because I like that painting. They do look serious but the constant muscle fatiguing smiling we are conditioned to do in this country is really a recent cultural thing. I’m not a fan.
Tomorrow I will wear Hiris because I think it fits. SOTD is SSS Forest Walk.
I spent 6 months in the USA ages ago, and I noticed the smiling, it felt forced to me, but then I’m not American. I didn’t know it was a relatively recent thing. Do you happen to know how it came about?
I’m sadly not that educated to really have any statistics, it’s mostly an observation on my part. Not sure how this can even be measured. I’m like a fly on the wall. I’m a keen observer. When I say “recent” I mean in the last 100 years or so. It seems to go hand in hand with this constant “positivity” trend. I see it even in news reporting: “Well, your entire life has been upended, your home uninhabitable, your job and income nonexistent, but on the bright side, you’re alive!” This true and obvious, but please don’t diminish the loss these people feel by throwing the fact that they are alive in their face. It also disables their need to talk about loss, because in light of the “You’re ALIVE!” comment, it seems that they are only allowed to voice how grateful they should be. I find disengenuous conversation beyond annoying. Just one of my many many quirks.
I couldn’t agree more about the need to grieve and the need to have one’s loss recognised.
I think nurses (and doctors for that matter) should be good observers, it’s an integral part of the job.
And I’m with you on disingenuous conversations, I just shut down. Unfortunately I’m crap at hiding my feelings so I do offend people, one of my “quirks”.
I agree with you. Actually, I’m a smiler, but when I was studying to become a chaplain, I really had to learn not to use that smile as a cover-up, and to learn to make my face, my words and my feelings to line up. Clearly I had been taught that smiling should be done at all times, whether it was appropriate or not.
A great, big YES to what you said, Deva.
Agreeing with all of this.
But it’s also regional. There is far more smiling in SoCal than in Washington DC, for instance — it’s very noticeable when you move cross country.
Fun reading:
https://www.theatlantic.com/notes/2016/10/what-its-like-when-a-coworker-tells-you-to-smile/505493/
https://www.theatlantic.com/notes/2016/10/do-strangers-ever-tell-men-to-smile/504590/
Very interesting, thanks!
Thanks, interesting, also slightly depressing, but very much food for thought.
Thanks for those links! I can’t tell you how many times a male physician has made sexual “jokes” about/ to me. Don’t even think about reporting it. I have seen nurses get fired over this kind of stuff. Bottom line: MD’s bring money in, RN equals money out, and we’re easily replaced.
Not just your being a nurse, it has happened to me countless times and I’m an MD.
great links! thank you for sharing those.
I have lived on both coasts and in the middle of the US. I agree the norms for smiling are different from place to place. One city’s friendly-cheerful face is another city’s must-be-drunk face.
I do feel SoCal is much less smiley now than it was a decade or more ago.
And my info is not up to date since I lived there years ago! So thanks.
Lol at I am not a fan. My whole life people always tell me I should smile more, but I find it difficult to force.
Ha, we must be sisters by different misters, because I can’t force it either.
Same here. The constant or immediate smile isn’t natural for me, and many interpret that to mean depressed or stern or unapproachable. I think of it as Scandinavian.
I think of it as human. Smiling is a response, not a ubiquitous facial expression.
amen
Ditto
I get a version of that, but it’s people asking me “are you ok? You look sad” and I usually just say “yes, that’s just my RBF”.
Ha I was going to write the same thing about RBF! I’m always thinking deep profound thoughts, and I’m usually oblivious to my surroundings, so I guess I look serious without meaning to.
There’s also a sexist undercurrent to the command to smile often given to women from men – most often from men one doesn’t know. It’s a common form a cat-calling, but is sometimes disguised as a polite version of the practice. You know, like that harmless older gentleman who sweetly tells you to smile when he passes your workstation. No thanks, sir. I’ll decide what to do with my own face, thankyouverymuch.
Oh my gosh yes! They act like they are doing you a favor, oh it can’t be that bad, smile! Ugh
Sure, but it is a sales technique.
The only time my former boss (owner of the company, computer systems) requested I smile, in a jovial manner, was when escorting a potential client around the mainframe computer room.
I didn’t because its just phoney a$$ friendliness, but there were no negative repercussions for me.
I just look menacing.
LOLOLOL
🙂
Absolutely. I’ve been commanded to smile by men of all ages, races, almost always complete strangers, in all manner of settings. Never, that I recall, has a woman made this demand.
It happened to me constantly in my teens, 20s and 30s. I’m in my mid-40s now and I think those demands ended about the time people started calling me “ma’am” instead of “miss.”
While Bear has one example of this happening to him, I doubt the vast majority of men have been told, “SMILE” by complete strangers while you’re walking down the street minding your own GD business. In fact, I’d be willing to bet the occurrences of this happening is statistically zero.
Not odd. I like it too.
Totally agree about all the comments. Let me be myself and decide when I put a smile on my face and when I do not. Sometimes, I am entitled to complain, to be moody, to have a stone face, to be quiet, May I ?
Having grown up in the country where rather smiling/laughing people would get the “are-you-alright?” reaction, in the day-to-day life I’ll take a faux smile over genuine insolence everyday of the week. I wouldn’t want (or tolerate) anybody commanding me to smile in my private life but I think that there are occupations that require a friendly/smiley disposition; and people who do not feel like doing that just should not be employed at those positions. The ability to smile – genuinely or pretending – is a part of those jobs’ prerequisites.
My job doesn’t require human interactions much, but outside of work I often smile at people I do not know, and they smile back at me. I really enjoy that part of living in the area where I live now.
I feel the same way. I smile when I want to be friendly or just feel happy. If someone smiles back at me then it makes up both feel good. 🙂
I agree. Smiling is also a form of greeting and recognizing the existence of other people. A friend of mine worked on a piece for a local publication where she had to interview the older locals re their feelings about all the young people moving into their neighborhood and a lot of the older folks said they felt invisible which I thought was very sad. So now I try to make a point of making eye contact and smiling at the older natives of my neighborhood. So even if it’s forced or calculated on my part, I usual feel better for having done it and hopefully they feel the same.
That warms my heart. 🙂 A strategically deployed smile can make all the difference in someone’s day.
Smiling is natural to me too. I often smile at people when I’m out and about. It makes me feel happier too. As far as older folks, our smiles may be the only one they see that day. There is really no right or wrong as we’re all different.
I just spotted a coyote in our field behind my house. So glad that I came home from work early tonight and the cat is in for the night.
I can’t tell you how many comments/complaints I got over the years about looking mad/sad/unhappy because I had what I felt was a neutral expression on my face. Out of frustration I finally developed a Mona Lisa neutal smile expression I forced myself to use to stop the criticisms and orders to smile. Admittedly now that I am older I do try to smile more as I feel it makes my jowls less unattractive…
What a perfectly lovely photograph! I adore lavender, both in real life and in perfume, and am wearing my favourite lavender today. L’impacte de pour un homme by Caron, it’s lovely on this cold, rainy and windy day.
You are wafting more lavender than I am.
The whole picture is even better:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/39908901@N06/35383599013/
Stunning! When I’m feeling particularly crap I tend to google images of the Plateau de Valensole, and it never fails to lift my spirits.
Oh! How is it that I’ve never run across this place before? I want to go live there!
I wonder if the smell is overwhelming? Or if you get sick of it?
I never did, it’s just wonderful. Besides, you don’t just smell lavender, you get some lovely thyme, rosemary and oregano thrown in as well.
Almost weekend! 🙂
SOTD: Mon Guerlain + Peony and Blush Suede
Perhaps it’s the fact that Mon Guerlain is nothing exciting but having enough “body”, I find it makes a good layering base for simple, fleeting florals!
This sounds like a really nice combo.
I have the Peony EDT and body cream, and when layered, the longevity is much improved.
Wreathed in Naja today. Osmanthus and apple with added tobacco.
I feel like the mythical snake in the garden of evil, but I smell much better.
Oh, you smell the BEST!! That Naja is quite a ride!
Interesting. I didn’t know this one had osmanthus in it. I will pursue a sample. Realized of late I love osmanthus.
I’ll be interested to know what you think of Naja if you try it…I smelled it this past weekend at scent bar and it wasn’t my thing at all. I didn’t even get a sample. I think it’s well done, but I couldn’t see myself wearing it.
Same here. I think it’s the linden blossom (?) on me, it’s very powdery and drowns out any other notes. I want to love it though, so I keep trying. Maybe when the weather cools down…
I’m in Safari today, because I wanted more heft than Eau du Sud provided yesterday. I always forget how much I like this stuff.
ADORE Safari. Wore it to bed last night. Would probably be wearing it today had Jolie Madame not already been shouting at me for neglect.
And the Madame can should when she feels like it, can’t she??
*can shout*
Indeed!
So… I’m the only one whose blood pressure goes UP when thinking of lavender?
Kidding. A little. I do love looking at pictures of it growing in the fields. So blue, so clean, so almost-otherworldly. And then I think of the smell of it and my head hurts and I get tense.
Wearing vintage Jolie Madame extrait today. Leather combat boots + delicious bouquet of violets, narcissus and gardenia.
????hi Mals! Your fragrance sounds intriguing. Is the perfume in production?
Rabbit trail- I haven’t smelled Jolie Madame but I love my combat boots! Nothing’s easier to wear than worn in leather boots. And I love contrasts- so maybe I need to try this!
The extrait is, sad to say, discontinued, and I did not care much for the eau de toilette. 🙁 I have a stash of five little bottles of extrait via eBay, ranging from 2ml to 7.5, and they are all slightly different. I love this stuff, but it is not, shall we say, to modern tastes.
I will join you in not liking lavender. I tried to use lavender oil once because it’s supposed to be calming and help with sleeping. It had the opposite effect on me.
Oh, absolutely. It gives me headaches, even in its live-flower form. I don’t know why. I have had occasional good luck with it in fragrance — under a certain point of concentration, maybe.
Lavender essential oil gives me an awful bowling-ball-settling-in-a-tight-place-in-the-skull effect too, but, for whatever reason, Pour un Homme de Caron is one of the few perfumes I wear that does not hurt my head or my throat. It’s my signature for that (+ many other) reasons…
Right there with you mals. Beautiful to look at but I’ve never been a fan of the scent.
It’s a shame I don’t do well with it, since it’s generally so beneficial to the system.
There was a article in the WSJ over the summer that told the story of how upset people were in this small town in Long Island where there is a lavender field and get loaded with tourists. There are some big fans out there!
True! Lots of people love it, or at least find it neutral. My sister has an EO blend of lavender and frankincense that she just adores. (And I adore her, so I just stay out of her way until the lavender has worn off some.)
I am the odd man out as I am a lavender fiend..I think your sister and I would get along splendidly 🙂
I subscribe to a newsletter from Persephone books in England that just featured “our” painting as well as a second with this note: “It shows his studio at 9 Rue de la Condamine, painted in 1870 a few months before his death aged 29 in the Franco-Prussian War. From left to right: Renoir, Zola standing on the stairs, Manet and Monet (with a hat) talking to Bazille himself. Edmond Maitre is at the piano.”
I was so surprised to open the letter to that painting. They also comment that the absence of children was a characteristic of the time.
And my SOTD will be one of Ineke’s–not sure which.
I should have known I’d find another Persephone fan here. 🙂
Hello there! Nice to meet you.
I managed to live very near the Persephone shop in London without knowing it until I’d moved back to the US. I’m still mad at myself!
Happy Thursday! Misia for me today, and it’s just right.
You smell great. I need to wear that soon.
In Noir de Noir today and sad it is not Friday…
I am looking forward to the Swapmeet…I’ve got a little list…a la The Mikado…
🙂 You made me smile. I giggle over the peppermint line.
If I may be so bold- what’s on your list?
Ooh a preview list of swapmeet wares to entice or repel the audience! ????
Tonight I will take inventory and write it up in an orderly fashion and I will post it in tomorrow’s comments to drum up potential business. ????
Yay! I’ll be watchin’ with bated breath. ????
Oh, crap! Thanks for the reminder! I knew it was coming up but didn’t realize it was this weekend. I’ll have to do my own inventory as well.
re: Swapmeet– me too, I have several things I’m hoping to swap!
re: Noir de Noir–You smell great.
re: Friday– This week seems to be dragging.
You reminded me I should get a list together!! Re: swap meet!
You smell gorgeous!
Twins! We smell great today!
Summer is back! Its 80+ again. Today and humid.
Enjoying the last fling with summer in my shorts, sandals and Terra-cotta Le Perfume.
What do you call spring cleaning when you do it in September?
Enjoy the moments! ????
Chores? ????
???????? yep! Gotta get organized.
Vintage Y EdT. It’s a long day so I need a structured chypre to keep me upright.
Triple strength coffee.
Workout.
The Smiths, I don’t find them melancholy, I like to sing along.
🙂
Ines de la Fressange, the squat bottle like the best running backs.
Transparent leather, green florals.
Sibling to 19.
Carpe Diem.
Peace.
I don’t smile for no good reason.
I have been told I am intimidating.
Nah, darlin’, I’m just a big ole teddy bear.
LOLOLOL
😀
Bear, I’m such a sucker for your darlin’s, I think I blush every time. Lol
Thanks, lillyjo, that is quite the compliment.
🙂
I love The Smiths. I have forced hundreds of high school students to listen to them (if they want to listen to music during work time, we take turns choosing songs) and although most are indifferent, around 10 of them have become huge fans.
I have no kids, but I still am helping the next generation appreciate The Smiths. That’s my legacy, I guess.
My niece turned me on to them. I was too busy in the ’80s, and when I had a 30 mile driving commute, I borrowed one of the compilation CDs.
Shoplifters, Sheila, William, Bigmouth………..
Boot the grime of this world in the crotch, yeah.
Cheers sistine !
A recent BBC Film Programme broadcast (it’s online) explained how many of Morrissey’s lyrics were taken directly from old, obscure British films. “If a ten ton truck . . .,” “This charming man . . .”, and more — it’s really enlightening and interesting.
Thanks for that, SFguy !
I will search for it.
Cheers!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08zd924
Just wanted pretty and clean today since it’s humid so went with MDCI Rose de Siwa. I tried this a few years ago and it was too soapy and clean for me but decided to revisit thanks to Petunia ???? Amazing how tastes change or broaden as has been my case.
re: tastes changing– agreed, I experienced the same thing. at the beginning of my “obsession” I didn’t care for many of the lighter rose perfumes–I remember I had a sample of Heeley Hippie Rose and hated it, but I didn’t get rid of it. When I revisited it about a year later I thought it was pretty. I think many perfumes are an acquired taste.
I only recently started enjoying fresher roses- and actually am somewhat preferring them to heavier, sweeter ones. Although I liked Hippie Rose, though it’s been a while since I’ve smelled it. I should revisit that one.
You smell pretty today! Sometimes something easy to wear is perfect.
I found a bottle of YSL Paris, almost empty, in an antique store last weekend. I have no idea how old the bottle was but it really reminded me of Rose de Siwa. Of course I can’t be sure from a mostly empty bottle. I also found an old bottle of Safari but there was hair stuck to it so I passed. Ewww….
Huh, I think you’re right about it being similar to Paris. I have an edt mini and will do a side-by-side tonight. And, um, hair. Ewww indeed.
Please report back! I’d love to hear your take.
My Paris is not vintage and their are some similarities, especially in the top notes but the RdS
smells more expensive, more green and white, a little richer. The Paris smells more rose-violet and next to RdS smells kinda flat. I prefer the RdS, unfortunately, lol.
Thanks Elisa! I figured as much.
I’m trying Le Labo Poivre 23 this morning and it’s just gorgeous! Pepper, incense, vanilla. Yesterday I sprayed some over the Baie Rose 26 that I had tried because I found that too cloying. That made for a wonderful combination!
I’m wearing AP Maitress today. I’m going to relate it to the painting, because I’m guessing someone in the portrait is the mistress of someone. I decide to turn them into a soap opera family.
Perfect! ????
LOL! Love this!
Ha! And everytime I see Maitress, I see Mattress.
Ha! Me too now:)
Excellent!
Report from the front: back home from Orlando, sitting in local library because it has internet. My neighborhood doesn’t because Spectrum is an unholy alliance of the worst telecommunications companies around. They won’t respond to us so we don’t have any idea when we’ll get service back, although we do know from an article in the paper that they have no idea how many customers in Florida don’t have service. Doesn’t inspire confidence.
We do have power; Florida Power &Light has been amazing! Cell service spotty (towers down), water must be boiled, gas in short supply, no mail yet. But our favorite Mexican restaurant just reopened, so Yay!! 🙂
Wearing Tauer LADDM, because I love it so. And did happy to be able to get back on NST and read everything here.
I’m so glad to hear you’re back home with electricity! Spectrum does indeed stink.
You smell great – you’ll be the best smelling customer at that Mexican restaurant.
Glad you are safe! Take good care!
Glad you were able to get home finally!
I hope everything gets sorted out as quickly as possible in the circumstances. But at least you smell great!
Glad to hear you at least have power. All the best to you as you wait for the other bits of ‘normal’ life to fall back into place…
Back in your home and having power are good things! Hopefully the other stuff will come in short order and without any major hiccups.
Hallelujah!
This morning: Shalimar satin shower gel, May Lindstrom the Good Stuff, Shalimar EDP. Every time I wear Shalimar, I’m always reminded by how sexy I think it is.
Got a package of lots of Byredo body product samples yesterday from the Wooster boutique, and they are all really nice so far. Before this I’ve only purchased the Pulp shower gel. I am loving the Suede and Vetiver rinse-free hand washes. Really convenient for keeping at your desk or in your purse. That chic minimalist packaging doesn’t hurt…but what I really like about them is that while they sanitize your hands (they contain alcohol) they somehow don’t dry them out, and I have chronically dry hands so it’s especially nice. I eventually want to bite the bullet on the Bal d’Afrique Bath oil…it is heavenly.
Shalimar is gorgeous!
The vanille (madagascar) is my favorite flanker and prefer it over the original
I will wear the decant of the madagascar you sent to me when I get home from work! <3
You smell fabulous!
Ahhhhh you smell fabulous!!!
Best of excellent mornings, NST. I’m having another sleepless night, but the kittens are keeping me company, bringing me little gifts (bits of rustly paper, a bright pink clothes peg, a scrap of material and other treasures) and generally being companionable.
So. It’s Friday, and I have to decide what I’m going to do in relation to The Picture. Here’s the thing: I don’t think the family is looking at the painter at all. I think they’re looking at ME, in varying degrees of interest and horror, because I am an unwelcome first cousin sent back to Europe from the deep South Pacific to acquire some polish and a few social graces. I think major pressure has been brought to bear on the paterfamilias to accept my presence under the ancestral roof, and he’s furious about it: he’s gazing straight ahead, refusing to notice my arrival. The rest of them are mostly appalled, because I am, as they expected, an uncouth and vulgar colonial who is wearing a cheerful smile, a rather out-of-mode RED dress, and two spritzes too many of vintage Femme. I am, in every way, altogether too loud. I think they had all convinced themselves that I’d be lost into the sea off the Cape of Good Hope, but There I Am, turning up and interrupting their picnic, large as life and twice as clumsy, and now they have to put up with me….
It’s rather early (3.00 a.m.) to be applying perfume, but on the strength of my little effort above, I just got up and put on Femme. Yep, Femme is a scent that would certainly cause consternation in that family.
I tried a couple of the fancy new Boucherons yesterday. I applied the vanilla and found that it’s OK; it’s just a slightly noir-ish vanilla of moderate interest and very moderate longevity. We’ve seen similar and the world is not going to be changed by it. The one that surprised me was the amber (Amber of Alexandria, or some similar name). It is very, very similar to my beloved Ambre Narguile. It has perfectly astounding longevity: perfume doesn’t endure long on my skin, but until I put on Femme just now, I could still smell AofA very easily. It’s odd that it is so like AN, but just manages to miss the mark. Something to do with lacking the JCE touch of refinement, perhaps? Or the quality of the ingredients? Dunno. Anyway, I’ll happily buy another bottle of AN, but I won’t be breaking out for Boucheron
Heavens, what a huuuuge post. I should try to sleep. Be well, everyone.
I still don’t like that painting, but I love your response to it. Have a wonderful Friday.
Excellent interpretation of the picture!
Love this! I was contemplating going in that direction too. A scent of which they would not approve, hehehe!
Enjoyed your take on the picture. What brand is The Ambre Narguile?
Hermes, one of the Hermessence.
Thanks hajusuuri.
I like a lot of Hermes line and the description sounds like my taste.
Ambre Narguile is from Hermes (it’s from the Hermessence line, and it’s gorgeous).
Loved your story but now I have to think of something else (I was also considering “red dress” in my mental picture 🙂 ).
I’m wearing Boucheron Jaipur, a mini I forgot I had. Smells like apricots and roses and honey, mmmm
I would like to eat all those things..in one plate!
I also forget I have a mini of that. It’s a great Fall scent.
You might like my experiment then! Last night, I layered Dame Osmanthus roll on (pure apricot to my nose) with Rose Flash roll on. Wow, it was really gorgeous. Eventually, RF took over. But it was a beautiful combo for several hours.
I’m wearing Kelly Caleche today. I wanted cheerful, simple, and elegant, and I think I succeeded.
You’ve inspired my scent today. It is a lovely little gem, and you do smell cheerful and elegant!
I think you succeeded, too! ????
Went with something easy again today, Roja’s Lilac Extrait, although I don’t think it smells like lilac at all (En Passant is much better). But it is a nice woody-floral with a little spice in the opening.
It is astonishing how few great lilac scents there are, esp. given the absolute flood of perfumes we get every year.
I’m wearing Beloved today and it’s pretty close to perfection.
It really is. I’ve been impatiently waiting to wear Beloved but the weather has not been cooperating. ????
Yes! You smell divine.
Cold and gloomy today. Winter is coming.
In Olivier Durbano Pink Quartz right now.
I love Pink Quartz. Summer is lingering here in Montreal but there are big red leaves falling.
I’m wearing Cartier Baisier Vole today and drinking a cup of Twinings Buttermint tea.
We have some friends coming in from out of town to visit with us for a few days, so I’m tidying up the house and cooking today. I’m listening to the Moulin Rouge soundrack while I’m accomplishing all of this.
Sounds like fun, and you smell lovely.
🙂
Wearing Samsara today! Thank you~it’s wonderful. ????
You’re so welcome !!
I almost wore Liu today, and thought of you 🙂
I just discovered Buttermint Tea and absolutely love it! I often pair it with PG Tips in the morning for an extra caffeine boost.
That’s a good idea for when I need a caffeine boost.
My daughter gave this tea to me for Mother’s Day. I also love it! And her 🙂
It is a happy day here and I am wearing really old Box of Eels extrait to celebrate. I got tickets to Bob Seger in November, The Perfume House now carries Carner Barcelona and MFK, there’s a Portland Sniffapalooza in October, and I found a recipe for a tomato tart that used up lots of tomatoes and tasted really good. I haven’t a clue what I will wear for the challenge tomorrow but I may try to work B of E in somehow because this stuff is just heavenly.
Sniffapalooza in October? I would be interested in that, plus I’ve never visited Portland. Maybe I could round up the local NSTers for a group trip.
email me at my username at a oh ell dotty com and I’ll send you info! It’s Oct 7 & 8.
Ooh, a tomato tart sounds like a great idea. I’ve been gorging on (heirloom) tomatoes for the past month or so and don’t get tired of them, but it has tested the limits of my tomato creativity 😉
I was craving BdI for the last couple of days, so I’m wearing it today – though in EdT version since my extrait sample is done. I will probably go for a bottle of extrait before this year is over: it’s such a beautiful perfume!
Unseasonly hot here today, and I am enjoying it with Arielle Shoshana EDP. Such a fun fragrance! If the exchange rate wasn’t so bad I would probably have ordered it right away. As it is, I think I’ll wait till next summer.
Nice to see you back, Vanie!!!
☺️
SotD = Jardins de Bagatelle, it’s a happy scent for me.
Entertaining discussion in the comments today!
I am pro-lavender in perfume, as essential oil, and as fresh and dried flowers. Herbes de Provence is one of my favorite herb blends for cooking because it has lavender.
The Bazille painting pulls me in. The sense of family is strong, it conveys the idea that family is together for important moments, family members takes time for one another, and not everything is about having a laugh.
I do not tell other people to smile (rude!) though I am a chronic over-smiler myself. It is nice when people smile in return. I tone it down depending on time, place, and who is with me.
Hope everyone has a fragrantly wonderful Thursday.
I love lavender in perfumes, as essential oil, fresh, dried and in food 🙂
Go team lavender! 🙂
Yep, JdB is a happy fragrance. You smell great.
thanks! sometimes when I’m wearing JdB I want to go up to random people and say, “Smell this! It’s so beautiful!” Thankfully for everyone I don’t have that kind of nerve. 😉
Love the photo. Pictures of lavender are so beautiful.
SOTD – Sicilian Vanilla attar by The Rising Phoenix. I cannot stop sniffing myself (tobacco and non-sweet vanilla), and I cannot stop thinking how talented that guy is. I am looking very much forward to when he releases his line of fragrances later this year.
This sounds great!
Very still, sunny and muggy today in Mtl area. And wouldn’t you know it, I took the AC down about a week ago… leftover Dzongkha from last night is just right. Going through my first bag o’ samples. This is fun!
Another Montrealer?
I love Dzongkha too.
I continue to do a bad job of following the community project, largely because I am simply not creative enough to select perfumes for that painting. Or because I don’t have any scents that don’t feel like that painting feels.
Instead, I am in Safran Troublant! This is so wonderful. One of my first perfume loves. Still not troublant in any way.
Hey, thanks to all of you for your support for my new Etsy shop yesterday 🙂 Your encouragement is the best. I love the NST community.
Oh! I missed the Etsy shop discussion! Do point me there. The CPs also often requires more creative thinking than I’m capable of, and this week is a perfect example of one where I think, “Huh?” and then carry on with no plans whatsoever to participate 😉
Just click on Koyel’s name….
Thanks!
Thanks for passing along the knowledge!
Haha, all the CPs requiring feelings are difficult for me. I think it’s because people’s feelings don’t map 1:1, and I’m paralyzed by the ambiguity. It’s a good thing I’m a scientist.
It looks like the tree in the painting is a chestnut tree, but only one or two leaves have begun to turn. I think some of the flowers on the ground might be roses…so I am thinking of a chestnut, rose, floral scent ….but failing that due to lack of such a perfume, Alaia Blanche as it is a nice still perfume, a late afternoon heat perfume.
Fun bit I learned today: he had dogs on the ground there, and changed his mind and painted that little still life w/ flowers over the dogs.
I want the dogs, I think! The flowers look odd dropped there on the ground.
I’m wearing vintage Chanel No. 19 parfum. Yes I smell gorgeous!
Yes you do!
Yep, you do!
Rahele, my easy going favorite.
I love Rahele. You smell fab.
As inspired by sistine above, wearing Kelly Caleche today.
Stopped by the drugstore and tried Alien Eau Extraordinaire and another Alien flanker whose name escapes me. Neither appealed to me much, but made me think that we don’t see a whole lot of Muglers on SOTD.
I don’t care much for the Eau Extraodinaire either. I bet though, that I probably wear a Mugler at least 2 to 3 times a week.
SOTD is Louis Vuitton Turbulences.
Good news: I came up with a fragrance idea for tomorrow’s project. Bad news: It was as I was falling asleep last night. Now I can’t quite remember what it was.
Lol!, maybe it will come to you tonight.
I doubt it, but at least I was subsequently able to remember the general idea.
Haha! I’m sure it was brilliant, though 😀
Well, that goes without saying.????
Tee hee! *story of my life*
I hear ya. At least it wasn’t something really important!
I love this challenge. I am wearing Chanel Chance Eau Tendre, which – out of these ladies – might fit the young lady on the far right in the blue.
Yes!
I decided to go with my long-neglected Aromatics Elixir today. I guess I’m in kind of a patchouli mood.
I’m wearing a hefty dose of PG Praline de Santal today (thanks, Deva!), and I smell pretty darn scrumptious.
yes you do! had an FB of PdS until my dad stole it from me!
Indeed! That one makes me want to eat my arm. Need to get a decant of it.
Last day in my current job, my four month secondment has passed very quickly, and I’m back to my home role on Monday. I’ve enjoyed it, worked with some fantastic people, and it’s been quite a ride! Beloved for me today, I think.
Gorgeous choice!
I think the people in the painting look like they are all suspects in a murder and are waiting for the detective to announce whodunnit. Kind of like the ending of an Agatha Christie novel, but set several decades earlier. SOTM was Tabac Aurea because it was cool out and hubby was gone to work (unfortunately, he doesn’t seem to like anything tobacco scented). Not sure what SOT-rest-of-the-day will be. It’s now getting well into the 80’s, but it feels like fall.
Too funny!
Ha!
Reveling in Samsara courtesy of the lovely Barqs. For some reason, it reminds me of a long ago trip to Indonesia. Must be the sandalwood. Would love to go back, but I fear all the development on the small island would make me sad.????
Phlur Greylocke…my mind cannot think with regard to the community project..SOTD the entire week needed to be quick and easy! and I may continue with it tomorrow….
I haven’t decided on one yet either but I am leaning towards something.
I think I will go with Greylocke again tomorrow and let everyone else decide how it fits into the theme! It’s been a long work week and my brain is not up to the task ( I actually just got home from work…yikes!)
SotD was Iris Nazarena (from a sample).
Almost friday….!
I woke up to a beautiful morning – sunny and crisp – and it seemed a perfect day to wear Galop d’Hermes. I found a half-price bottle about a month ago and snapped it up, tested it when it arrived, but hadn’t worn it until today. Is it just me (anyone?) or is it the HARDEST bottle to spray that has ever been concocted??? I had a helluva time spraying with my right hand and with my left I only got a couple of poorly-aimed squirts out. *sigh* Such a beauty, too. (Though that massive box is utterly ridiculous and I really wanted the leather string. How do I get the stirrup?)
In other news, I got my HEATED MATTRESS PAD (!!!) and slept on it for the first time last night. I.Can’t.Even. begintodescribehowmuchiaminlove. Why didn’t I have one of these years ago? Decades ago, in fact? It just might be my best purchase of this century.
Enjoy your heated matress pad! They are heavenly!
“a couple of poorly-aimed squirts”
I believe I have the worst aim in the universe.
I have the utilitarian refill bottle so don’t have an issue.
As to a heated mattress pad, I would roast in the heat. That said, I love snuggling under 3 layers of blankets practically year-round 🙂
Oh man, heated mattress pads are the best. Can’t do without mine.
Wow, a half-priced bottle of Galop. Amazing find! (eBay?)
SOTD is Parfumerie Generale “Coze Verde”, picking up on the trees and greenery in the painting.
Notes are lime, fig tree, spicy notes, licorice, cacao pod, amyl salicylate, patchouli and woody notes.
At first I thought it smelled like a fig leaf perfume layered over a rather unrelated scratchy fake wood. After re-application the scratchiness went away and the chocolate comes forward a touch, but it’s still not something I need in my life.
To be filed under “Now that’s more like it!”, my sample of the new BeauFort London “Iron Duke” arrived and I couldn’t resist a tiny spray onto paper and onto skin. I’m going to need to check it out properly, but first impressions are a resinous animalic with sort of lime/mint top notes. Yum!
Happy pre-Friday!
SOTD = AG Heure Exquise EdP, from a decant a kind NSTer sent me. It is gorgeous. I do understand why several people have commented on a resemblance to No. 19. I would also call it a “grown up” perfume, in the best possible way.
I love-love-love Heure Exquise! You smell wonderful.
Thank you!
SOTD = Guerlain Neroli Outrenoir
So good…citrus, tea, tobacco (smoke, according to Fragrantica), orange blossom, neroli and Guerlinade. I have several 20 mL travel sprays and now also have a FB without the hated puff atomizer so there is no reason why I shouldn’t spray lavishly and I didn’t (shhhh…8 sprays).
Smelled in the wild – Jo Malone Myrrh & Tonka !!!)
As a person who gets coneheadish with her sprays I say spray away!
I’m not trying to save perfumes by using less sprays. I do not even doing it for myself (I mean, I’m not one of those people who’s shy of the scent they wear). But I’m constantly afraid to impose my perfume on somebody in the office: there are several people (including my boss) who, I think, won’t like any excess; and since they are not mean and do tolerate most of my perfumes in the quantities I wear to the office, I’m trying not to provoke them. But I wish I could spray is more lavishly.
I just realized that I probably didn’t try Neroli Outrenoir yet but I’m positive you smelled great 🙂
Thumbs up on both the Guerlain and the JM. In fact I was wearing that JM yesterday!
Twins with She-ra in Noir de Noir today. Been weeks since I wore it and every time I pray it I love it all over again!
Studying the painting thinking of the challenge for tomorrow!