Happy Monday (yeah, I know) and happy National Saxophone Day! what fragrance are you wearing?
Last time we did a Playlist Friday, I wanted to do a fragrance for Van Morrison's Did Ye Get Healed but I didn't get to it. So that's how I'm starting this week. The fragrance happy enough to match: Parfums DelRae Wit.
Reminder: 11/10 will Playlist Friday...name a favorite song, and wear a perfume that fits the song. (Yes, I loved this project so much, we're doing it again. If you want to see the first one, it's 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 Yamaha Flugelhorn via Wikimedia Commons.
Songes and Field of Gold by Sting
But not the regular version, this version https://youtu.be/qaTIw8MGFyg
At about 2:30am I was up and super sick, feeling better after a cup of tea and some advil.
No matter how hard my head was pounding this morning I lite some Nag Champa incense for the people of Texas.
Ugh, you must be exhausted! Hope the day goes quickly and you get some good sleep tonight.
Feel better!
I am and I can’t take a sick day from the kiddos.
You smell great. Love the perfume/song combo.
I hope you feel better soon. Hugs.
Thank you
This version of Fields of Gold is my favorite version. I saw Sting twice in concert..amazing artist & performer.
Nice choices. I hope you feel better. I remember having the flu (the real flu) one year with three little ones and Mr. SpringPansy out of town. So hard.
Oh, no! I hope you feel better and nice song.
Triple strength coffee
Long workout
Joop! Femme redux
Orange blossom
A balsamic aroma that is incense/evergreen on my skin
What are words for?
When no one listens anymore ?
It’s no use talking at all…..
A woman with a silver lame mini skirt
A horizontal line of blue eyeshadow across her entire face
Maybe I’ll try that look today
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Carpe Diem
Peace
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Bear, I just bought a nice big bottle of cold-brew coffee and I am going to join you shortly!
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Cheers Robin!
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Too much is never enough.
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Let me know how that look works out for you. I have some blue eyeshadow you can borrow
ALMOST had an earworm from your quoted lyrics today.
SotD is Iris Nazarena (from a sample)
Was not aware this morning it was Playlist friday this week. But if I had to choose a song…hmm something quiet, minimal, but also inviting and warm.
Oh, and the showergel Hinoki by Le Labo I bought last week, is awesome! Its like taking a shower in a Japanese mountain temple
and you only need a very small drop.
I still have to find out if it fits CdG’s Hinoki…will try soon!
OH, hello lemming!!!
I was lemminged into buying it right here on NST (cant remember who exactly, but according to Hasjusuuri it was ElisaP).
I am glad to pass on the ‘lemmingness’ haha.
22 euros is not cheap but its also not outrageous, and its a tiny exotic getaway in a bottle
I talked about getting the discovery set but I didn’t love any of them that much. I actually just gave the little tube of body cream to my brother. So doubt I was the lemming creator since I wasn’t that enthusiastic. But if you like fresh, woody you’ll probably like it.
Maybe it was someone else then,
or i just read “hinoki shower…” and that was probably all that was needed to create the lemming haha. Because I really like CdG Hinoki, and other Japanese woodsy smells (incense!!!).
I am spreading rumors again?
Oogling that body cream…but maybe need to wait til Santa is in town haha
I bought a small tube of the LL hinoki hand cream to try out. It’s wonderful – fresh and woodsy and very moisturizing.
Oh they have a whole body care line up…maybe its a good thing my local le labo retailer does not sell them all…
……erhm noooo, its a bad thing…!!!
I am your lemming.
I’m in Dior Cuir Cannage today and feeling scrumptious.
You smell scrumptious too
I just bought a mini of that, and I haven’t worn it yet. Tomorrow for sure.
Phlur Siano and Piano Man (only because of the name and because I can’t think of anything else to go with my scent on this dreary Monday morning)
Hey, it works! I tried, and came up empty for Piano Man.
Wearing Chanel No 22 EDT
Playlist match – Long cool woman in a Black Dress – this scent always makes me feel like that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lP94PlEtsEQ
Me, too!
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So perfect! Whenever I wear 22 I feel like I’m stealing your perfume.
Steal away – I was so late coming to this one, I feel the need to spread the word !!!!!
Listening to this song now..I remember my Dad playing this for me! Memories …
Great song to kick up a low energy Monday. Thanks for posting the link!
I’m super excited about this weeks project! I’m wearing Bottega Veneta today. Song match is Aerosmiths Back in the Saddle. I have a couple of leather scents to choose from for this song, but BV has the most rock n roll feel, to win out. Sending love to the people of Texas this morning.
I love that song! !!
That, and Last Child, are the only two Aerosmith songs I wanna hear.
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Rock on, lillyjo‼‼‼
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Not much can beat 70’s Aerosmith. Rockin with you, Bear. Hey do you have Dio “rock n roll’ pinky and index emoji? How cool would that be!?!
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It would be cool, but not on my menu. ????
But then again, neither is Badfinger !!!!
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That could get dangerous!
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On this rainy Monday, I’m wearing Halston. Picked up a vintage set recently of dry oil spray and mini parfum. Good grief, what a difference those banned and restricted ingredients make. Nitro-musks and boatloads of oakmoss… sigh. This thing is gorgeous and will carry me through the day like little else can.
It was gorgeous!! Congrats on your vintage find.
I’ll play in reverse, since I had to wear Bois des Iles today because last night I had a dream about wearing Bois des Iles. I’ll pick Coming Home by Leon Bridges for its smooth beauty, and its mention of bitterness which reminds me of how there’s just the hint of bite in BdI which makes it not cloying.
Playing in reverse is always fine! Great song.
SOTM is Alamut, but something about it isn’t agreeing with me. About to hop in the shower, so I think it’ll not be the choice for the rest of the day. Lately, I’ve preferred soft leathers, so may go that direction.
I’m really starting to have a yen for that Hinoki shower gel…
+1 on the Hinoki.
+2 for me. Ugh.
Grey, rainy day! Wearing Yves Rocher Accord Chic. I bathed myself on it and also sprayed on my clothes, but it is almost gone after 1 hour. So bad. I really like it but once my bottle is finished (2 more wears, I guess) I will not replace it.
SJP Stash, song match “Bright Eyes” by Art Garfunkel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGyQmH9NZcw
I smelled my arm, and thought of a rabbit taking a drink of water from a stream, so I googled it, and this came up.
I’m not very good at matching songs to perfume, but I’m wearing a great perfume today. La Panthère, because I noticed it on someone else last Saturday and that pushed me to wear it myself.
The Circle of Life from The Lion King?
Somehow Big Spender presented itself.
I’m afraid I’ve never (consciously) heard any songs from the Lion King.
Big Spender is probably a better fit for your scent. ????
I’ve not smelled La Panthere, but maybe Eye of the Tiger?
Excellent!
Samsara for me today. I’m wearing the edp, does anyone know if the edt is good, different, better? The reason I ask is that I love Mitsouko edt, but the edp, not so much.
I love Samsara in all its forms! Look for older bottles on the evil bay, clear coffin like bottles
Samsara is wonderful! Vintage even better, do look for it. EDT more jasmine and EDP more sandalwood…
For some reason when I read about this Friday’s project, I began thinking about Elvis songs, but I didn’t come up with any good ideas. However, I thought it would be a fun challenge to assign perfumes to “Heartbreak Hotel,” “Jail House Rock,” and especially, “You Ain’t Nothin’ but a Hound Dog….” ha ha ha. Now I’m trying to figure out one of these to do on Friday.
I suspect “Heartbreak Hotel” will be the easiest.
Suspicious Minds would go great with a big 80s powerhouse like Poison.
I didn’t match with a song today, but I’m wearing A*Men Pure Tonka. I picked it up over the weekend at TJ Maxx. It was a blind buy but thankfully a successful one.
It also occurred to me.. if tonka beans were transported by truck, it would literally be a Tonka truck.
Tonka Trucks! Hilarious!
Yeah!
My boys were obsessed with the toy Tonkas when they were little. But Taz couldn’t say “tr” until he was about five, and his pronunciation of “truck” got, well, interesting. I was always having to apologize to people over it.
it is very developmentally appropriate and common for the little ones to replace a “tr” with an “f”…double consonant blends are much trickier to pronounce
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Ha!
I love the sound of saxophone. Jazz is one of my favorite music types.
In VC&A Moonlight Patchouli today.
Quick music choice for this one: Ariana Grande Moonlight.
I have to try this one. I just received a bottle of Jovoy Psychedelique in the mail from Luckyscent and am loving patchouli at the moment. At least the right ones!
To me Moonlight Patchouli is mostly about iris
Ah that just makes it more enticing.
I’m in Ormonde Woman and to go with it, I listened to Santana’s Black Magic Woman. I am so so so in love with this perfume. It’s one of the many perfumes on the Christmas list I’ve compiled for my guy.
That is great GREAT song
my scent today too. I could not think of a song. Santana is not my usual but I get the connection
I’m wearing and comparing some Cierge de Lune and When We Cuddle. I like them both.
The latter is available for only a month via luckyscent I think so I have to decide if I need a full bottle or not.
The limited run and being available for only a month marketing tactic somewhat annoys me.
Would it help if I bought 5 mL off of you? I know the splitmeet is over, and you might not want the hassle of splitting, but I’d very much like to try it, and am not at all interested in a FB (and I am most definitely not allowed to buy any more samples, though 5 mL decants somehow feel exempt). If this does interest you, please e-mail me at ko bhatta at jee mayl daut caum.
Andy Tauer seems so lovely that I don’t know if it really is a marketing ploy or just him thinking that putting it into full production would be more work than he wants to put in for this fragrance.
I assumed he did it as a nice thing for Luckyscent’s anniversary, and not for his own purposes? But of course I have no idea.
She-ra, I think he sells these at all of his personal in-store appearances, and I do understand wanting to have something special to offer fans. Maybe if you don’t decide in time to buy it online, you could find a mule to pick it up for you next time he does an appearance?
Oh, of course your explanation makes more sense. I was just thinking about how he explained (in his blog) that the 5 mL LADDM bottles were a lot of work for not that much payoff, and wondered if perhaps the When We Cuddle line was the same.
Yes, I didn’t realize he only sold them in person. I knew they were limited runs/editions but not distribution as well. Thanks for clarifying.
Hi Koyel, I would be happy to send you a bit of my split. ????It is a comforting vanilla you should try…will email you shortly.
I’m testing When We Cuddle… today, too! If I’d smelled it blind, I would never have guessed Andy Tauer as the perfumer. It’s so soft ambery vanillic musk (and I get cardamom, but not listed in the notes), without Tauerade. It also wears close to the body. Is Aedes’ Cierge de Lune similar? Let us know what you experience.
They both are lovely and prominently feature vanilla and spice. The CdL is sweeter and has some flowers making it more feminine. WWC is spicier, has patchouli and wears a bit more masculine. Both have great longevity.
How did you find it please? Agreed that it is softer and has none of the Tauerade. My nose can’t get enough vanilla lately for some reason. I don’t know if it is the time of year with cooler weather or Robin’s write-up on vanilla perfumes.
I enjoyed it but When we cuddle…seems to fade quickly, even poured generously from the vial.. It lasted maybe 3-4 hours. Most vanilla scents are tenacious and last all day for me. I tried CdL this summer in NYC and agree it is more floral. I think it lasts longer, but would have to locate my sample and retest. YMMV!????
Sonoma Scent Studio Yin & Ylang. I am in post vacation mode today, and trying to get back into the swing of things.
Ah that mode. Not the funnest, but perhaps new post vacation energy will emerge!
Wearing Papillon Dryad from the recent splitmeet. I really really like this. The drydown reminds me a little of the Art candle by Bella Freud, which also has what I’d like to call dusty eraser notes
I tried some of this from a sample yesterday – I LOVED the opening, but then I got distracted and forgot to pay attention to it. Will have to give it another try soon!
You smell great!
Ah that mode. Not the funnest, but perhaps new post vacation energy will emerge!
Dryad is really nice. Where’d I put my sample?
Jasmin de Nuit…. and we know that’s not a saxophone, right?
Yeah, I was wondering where the saxophone picture was. (I think flugelhorn has more in common with trumpet or cornet than with saxophone, but if I’m wrong somebody can bop me on the head.)
Wow, I feel so oblivious. I can’t believe I didn’t notice that until reading your comment!
Ha!
SOTD is Rahele for Just Another Manic Monday. Unfortunately, I didn’t choose the scent to match the earworm. It’s about to rain and humid here. Temps back up to 70…
Love your perfume and song choice even if you didn’t pick them to match.
☺ Thanks KellyC!
You smell lovely! Looks like it might rain here, too, and I forgot my umbrella ????
Oh no… hope you stay dry!
You smell amazing.
It’s overcast and chilly and I’m in Noel au Balcon. At least, I put it on this morning – but then I put on a sweater, and I think the sweater might be overpowering my perfume. Oh well.
Do you ever have the experience where a sweater smells like perfume and so you want to wear the same thing, but can’t remember exactly what it is? This leads me to endless sniffing of bottles until I get the right one, but sometimes if the dry down is different, even that can be tricky. My scent memory for some perfumes is really good, for others . . . terrible.
A perk of a small collection, I guess, is that I pretty much only have two perfumes that cling to clothes (in a way I notice), so I don’t have to guess. But I can imagine the treasure hunt you get sent on might be quite frustrating!
Dear Texas.. it’s been a tough few months for you. My heart goes out to the lost lives who were simply attending a Sunday service.
Gourmand Coquin for me today. Dreary weather calls for cozy fragrance. Connecting this with a song is too much brainpower for a Monday. It’s sweet, boozy and yet elegant.. maybe a Robert Palmer song: Addicted to Love
So heartsick for Texas….
This.
Still in Opium since I heard it is dangerous to quit cold turkey.
From the same era is Tantra’s 16 minute+ Hills of Katmandu (1979), a heady Hi-NRG Disco track that must have heated up late nights at Studio 54 back in the days.
https://youtu.be/erBfSrecnrM
It has aged well just like Opium and sounds futuristic to this day.
LOL — yes, you’ll have to taper off now!
Wearing Andy’s Hyacinth and a Mechanic, where the oily note in hyacinth joins hands with the oily air of the car repair shop. Song: Talking Heads Nothing But Flowers.
I have a sample of this coming to me, and I am so excited !!!!!
I wore that to see Blade Runner 2049. Seemed perfect to watch the replicants. I was fascinated by flower + garage notes. You smell fascinating ????
Ok, I haven’t managed to participate in this CP before because it’s a little too creative for me, but…here we go. Today, I am wearing Cafe Tuberosa, to go with Bach’s Coffee Cantata. Yes, Bach wrote a coffee cantata. It’s worth it to find a recording of the English version (I can’t seem to, in a few minutes of Googling), but listening to the original German and reading along with the subtitles should give you all a kick. I’ve never performed it, but you can bet I learned the soprano arias from it.
Learn all the arias in your voice part. Yaaaaaas.
Ahaha. That is indeed my goal!
Ambre Narguile for me today. I don’t have a song, though. I only have a dabber of this one, it seems quite soft.
I’m in Lolita Lempicka this morning, to rake more leaves.
I also caved and bought that 5ml L’ADDM. It’s all I’ll ever need.
L’AdDM is some nuclear-powered stuff.
Dry leaves are awesome. (I mulch ’em with the lawnmower. #lazyhomeowner #notsorry)
Lolita smells good.
Carry on.
You really can’t rake acreage. We do the same! ????
Still working on a 10ml decant of L’AdDm; it will likely last me a long while, given its sillage and longevity.
I caved and bought it too.
I bought L’ADDM as part of a travel set 3 years ago. I’ve used less than a quarter of the 15 ml bottle. Great scent but a heavy base.
I’m wearing Robert Piguet Calypso today, mostly because I could still smell remnants of Oriza Legrand Jardins d’Armide from last night and this matched well with it.
Song choices:
1) Literal association: Day-O Harry Belafonte
2) Calypso mythology: Prisoner if Love Russ Columbo
3) Scent association: La Vie en Rose Edith Piaf
I <3 Edith Piaf
You smell lovely and your scent associations are perfect.
Monday!
1) In Eau de Soir- a bit of freshness on this chilly morning!
2) Am still recovering from head cold + surgery- will be going to the doctor for 1 month check up. Honestly, although I do feel put upon, I honestly feel better day to day. My belly is smaller- a shocking 2 inches smaller – a sign of fibroid tumor death. And despite the cold, I do have more energy to go about my day, which is a sign that my thyrorid is not as stressed. The eating plan does help.
You smell gorgeous today Ede. Glad that you’re feeling better everday.
Thank you so much!
Very good news!!
I hope the healing continues rapidly!
Good news!
That is wonderful! I hope things continue in this positive direction!
Glad you are feeling a bit better, and that the surgery was a success!
SOTD: Chanel Sycomore
I’m being decadent and wearinG TWO sprays of the fantastic edt. I love this stuff but can’t think of a good song to go with it.
QUESTION FOR THE GROUP — any recs for scenting an office? I recently started working from home (it’s challenging since it’s fairly isolating). I want to make it more enjoyable by scenting the space, which I can’t do at work. I’ve burnt some scented candles, including one I’ve hoarded for 13+ years from Crabtree and Evelyn. I was thinking of trying Papiers d’Armenie? What else? I know that someone recommended something recently for a desk.
What do you guys love?
I love scented candles — something about the flame flickering where I can see it focuses me — so I got nothin’ else.
I love the scented candle too. I have young children, so I find that I never burned them in the last 5 years— but when they are at school, it’s fair game!
I actually like those aromatic mist humidifiers. They can gently scent an office with scented and/or essential oil mixes. Here is an example of one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LR8Cl9T3Ua0
Oh! Very good idea! Thanks!
Hi Gvillecreative!
I am not a fan of scented candles, instead I love to burn incense.
This one is my favorite so far
http://www.shoyeido.com/product/moss-garden-nokiba/daily-incense
Oh, I’ve been wondering about Shoyeido ever since someone said that IUNX Eau Sento was modeled after one of their incenses— but I haven’t known where to start.
I bought a Papier d’Armenie candle ages ago, and put a lid on it. For a long time, I did not even burn it, I just took the lid off for a hour or two when I wanted to scent my office. Then when the scent faded a bit and that didn’t work anymore, I started burning it
If you don’t have lets and you can find a place where the kiddies cannot get to it, I would use a reed diffuser. My brand / scent of choice is Antica Farmacista Vanilla, Bourbon, Mandarin.
Some aromatherapy scents can help clear your head. Don’t ask me which one because my head was not clear when I read about it
Not lets, pets!
Yet again I realize that you are my scent twin.
I adore the Antica Farmacista Reed diffusers and used the limone and cedar one religiously—- until they changed the formula or something else a year ago and they completely stopped having any throw. I threw it away, bought a replacement and then contacted the company (which I never do) when the second was equally terrible. They claimed it wasn’t reformulated but the scent doesn’t WORK any more. You can’t smell it. It’s bad enough to seem defective to my nose (and someone else in my family reached out independently and asked me, since she started using the same in her home after smelling it in mine). Are the other ones losing their throw too? Or is it just that scent?
Hey gville! There are two factors that may have caused the scent to behave as if it had been reformulated:
1) the reeds for the newer ones are shorter and possibly be made of a different type of wood
2) halfway through the bottle and until the very end, the scent kept getting more and more intense. If you are comparing a freshly opened vs the previous bottle, the new one will inotially seem weaker.
My solution when i discovered the difference in reeds was to transfer most of the old reeds to the new bottle and added some new omes in the mix.
I strongly associate perfume with colour, not so much with music, I’ll have to think about the music side of things. Meanwhile, Bois d’Armenie for me today.
Do colors then! It’s all just for fun anyway.
Like Regina, I’m playing in reverse today. I came across a decant of Ginestet Botrytis (oh so good) and now I have a Van Morrison earworm: Tupelo Honey. If you’re going to have a song running through your head all day, it’s a good one to have.
LOVE that song, and Botrytis, too!
Botrytis is a new love for me. You smell wonderful!
Yes it is!
I’m wearing Prada Candy Kiss and my song pairing is Siouxsie and the Banshees “Kiss Them for Me.” I went literal and tried to think of songs that mention kissing. This was the first to get stuck in my head.
I am trying to adjust to the work week after seeing the band Goblin last night. They scored a lot of Italian horror movies from the 70s and 80s, including Dario Argento’s Suspiria, Deep Red, and Tenebre. The concert was so much fun!
I ❤ Siouxsie
Hermes L’Ambre des Merveilles (sp?)-yum!
SOTD is Bandit Extrait. For (a)nother day of interviewing candidates. I’m so glad the process is nearly done!
Ooooooh, you were smelling oh so good today!
Trying something new from the sample stash to brighten up a gloomy grey day. SOTD = Amouage Fate Woman. I totally understand why Waterdragon describes this scent as “golden”. No song for it in my mind, though.
Again, something I have not smelled, but the name feels Stevie Nicks to me. Oh, and theres the song Silver thread and Golden needles by Linda Ronstandt. Sorry, I just love this project, lol.
Something unusual about Fate, or at least, how it wears on my skin is that it starts out dry and ends up somewhat sweet. Not candy-sweet or Twinkies, but definitely does make that progression.
SotD = MEM
MEM again, for the fun of it. The lavender is delightful and strange up against the tropical ylang and floral bouquet. I’ll pair it with Schubert’s Die Forelle (The Trout) played on oboe and piano (no voice), because that is another unusual combination, and it was just played on the radio.
Wit is a beautiful scent, and Robin is clever. To wit, Did Ye Get Healed includes a flugelhorn part. The flugelhorn is based on the saxhorns. The saxhorns and saxophones were created by a Mr Sax. Today is National Saxophone Day. And I am a music nerd.
You may be a little nerdie but your posts never fail to make me smile.
aw shucks, I’m so glad.
Hey music nerd, I learned something today. The first thing I thought of when I saw today’s picture was:
http://www.cambridge2000.com/gallery/html/P2262143e.html
wow, that’s wild, now I know where the old horns go, heh heh.
SOTD = Prada Purple Rain
Song association – Prince’s Purple Rain
Not original but it fits Keep it simple Monday
The bottle has a nice heft to it and the cut glass looks very elegant. The juice smells like a combination of the Absolue and the EDT but the resemblance ends there from the standpoint that Vetiver actually elevates the iris. Pricey, but so worth it.
yes, it is so good, I think Purple Rain may have finally made me a fan of vetiver.