Happy Almost-Friday! What fragrance are you wearing?
I took a long time to decide, but I'm in Serge Lutens Rousse.
Reminder: 12/22 will be 'Tis The Season Friday...wear the perfect fragrance to celebrate, share joy and look forward to a new year. Suggested by happy888cat.
And for those of you who like to plan ahead, see Scent of the day ~ Friday community projects 2017 or Scent of the day ~ Friday community projects 2018, where I'll try to always have the next five or six weeks mapped out in advance.
Note: top image is We are the gingerbread guys [cropped] by poppet with a camera at flickr; some rights reserved.
Mmmm! That picture is making my mouth water????
Back to grindstone after 4 days off in wonderland. Super cold today, so a spritz or two of Ummagumma is warming me up.
Happy Almost Friday Day ✌????
Made me hungry too!
Ummagumma!!! ????
Just read the description of Rousse and sounds like a good winter soltice/Christmas scent.
Today I am in Perfumes de Nicolai Rose Royal which is fairly priced but not as lovely to me as Hermes Rose Ikebana unfortunately as PdeN are easier for me to get and easier on the budget.
It is very warming! (And I like RI better too. I buy it in the 15 ml travel bottles.)
I’m wearing Goutal’s Songes layered on top of the lovely Vanille-Narcisse bodylotion from l’Occitane. Very comforting on yet another grey and dreary day.
Songes is one of my favorite white florals!
I’ve nearly finished my first bottle 🙂
Hey twin, we smell good don’t we?
We smell delish!
Wearing 4160’s Centrepiece Extrait – lovely honey musky flowers.
Ray & Bone Oddity for picking up those last few a Christmas items.
Rag & Bone. ???? darned typos.
Ray & Bone Oddity woke me up though! Couldn’t think of what that might be.
Ray & Bone is the knockoff version. ????
This made me LOL and almost spew my chicken noodle soup (cafeteria emergency menu choice).
Merry Winter Solstice to all my NSTers
To conjure up the light, I am in Songes.
Enjoy the shortest day of the year
Twins! Songes is wonderful in winter.
Happy solstice to you too! I am always happy to see the days get longer.
Happy Winter Solstice, Lovestosmellgood!
Triple strength coffee ☕☕☕
Extra long workout ???????????????????????? because Eggnog is my frenemie ????????????????LOLOLOL
Thanks to perfumelover67! ????✌ I am wearing Parfum Sacre Intense, which has more black pepper, myrrh, and musk on MY skin, but is still floral and creamy and true to the original EDP.
I enjoy both, they are similar yet different, “regular” people would not need both—–I ain’t regular people! ????????????????????LOLOLOL
Interesting tidbit, hot candle wax makes an excellent hand cream. While futzing with my Vanilla Balsam last night, I spilled a puddle on my hand. Not wasteful, I massaged the molten liquid into my skin.
Voila! !!
Hands as smooth as a baby’s bottom today! ????????
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Eggnog with Jim Beam Black, here I come! !!!! ????????????????
Carpe Diem
Peace ✌
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You better watch out
You better not cry
Better not pout
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Bear, I am sure you smell awesome! Which one do you like more? I am tempted to get the Intense…
Let me put it this way, if I upheld traditional gender roles, the Intense is the more butch of the two.
But it is a soft and cozy butch, and probably more versatile.
If you find a good price, buy it and Enjoy! ! ????
Cheers! ☕☕☕
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Thank you Bear!???? I will look for it! ????????????
Yes to wearing candles, lol! I have a small vial of the fragrant oil siphoned off of an Arquiste candle (the gals at Twisted Lily did that for me).
They do make those hand lotion candles, but I suspect they’re not much different from the regulars as you have researched already ✌
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Yes! Dr. Silkman’s. I just found mine and am lighting it this minute. Warm, oily, scented wax actually sounds like just what I need. The scent I have is Euphoria–cannot recall what is in it.
I love my lotion candles! I just got a couple more Dr. Silkmans at the holiday shops. Silk Road and Red Ginger. Not too strong, scentwise.
>>Extra long workout ???????????????????????? because Eggnog is my frenemie ????????????????LOLOLOL
I can relate all too well! Have been trying to eat healthier the past half-year, but the holiday season is making things very very difficult…
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‘Tis the season to be jolly!
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1) Holiday drinks are my frenemy as well- especially hot toddies! I am getting back into workouts but not as long and intense as yours! 🙂
2) You smell GRRReat!
3) If you enjoyed your happy accident, just know that you can get professional manicures/pedicures with ‘parrafin dips’. Your hands will so soft!
Thanks Ede! ????✌
Any kind of motion can be a workout, dancing is one of the best! ????????????????????
Enjoy! And thank you! ????????????????????????????????????????????????????
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I like my eggnog in cookie or fudge version.
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Or Cheesecake version….. 🙂
???? you sound as if you’re having a ball there. Getting in the spirit of things. Wohoo.
Good Morning Y’all…..
Just ONE MORE DAY until the Christmas weekend begins! Just a few more packages to wrap, cookies to bake, and pharmacy work to get thru….I can do this! 🙂
12 Days of Christmas Gourmands continue: Wearing Emporio Armani Stronger with You. It’s for guys (whatever!), but the candied chestnut note is perfect for my project. And it smells darn fabulous! Got this sample in the mail just yesterday…good stuff!
Cheers JadainGA! ☕☕☕
I still can’t figure how to copy and paste on my phone, so please Google:
Lana Del Rey, Diet Mountain Dew. ????????
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Holy moly I LOVE IT! LOL Never heard that one before! #DoTheDew!
Someone here (Creosote?) taught me how to copy paste a link. You would want to paste the link first before writing anything else to avoid losing your post.
To copy a link:
1. while you are on the web page, tap on the square with up arrow icon
2. Scroll through the action menu until you find Copy. I don’t know if it is standard so YMMV. My Copy icon is on the third row, after “Add To Favorites”, “Add Bookmark”, “Add to Reading List” and “Add to Home Screen”. Tap on Copy.
3. Go to the NST comment box, then double tap to paste
4. Voila!
I really like Stronger for You. You smell great.
I’ve put on Lush Buck’s Fizz conditioner (boozy citrus), than dabbed Future Primitive Soap Winter Solstice aromatic oil (mix of essential oils, mostly citrus, spices and resins) and then sprayed a little of Theorema, which needs no introduction here. It’s all about spicy and boozy citrusy notes for me today, and I think I smell very festive.
Happy winter solstice!
“Future Primitive” – what a great name.
You smell amazing!
Wow, Rousse sounds wonderful, and I don’t know why I’ve never run across mention of it before – is it discontinued? SOTD is Azemour les Oranges over a Molten Brown shower gel that smells somewhat like Eau Sauvage (it was a sample, and the name is escaping me). Turns out Azemour fits with the holiday theme pretty nicely!
Molten Brown products are wonderful, especially the shower gels.
I knew something didn’t look quite right – it’s Molton, not Molten (Bear’s candle wax story apparently got stuck in my brain). Anyway, the scent that reminded me of Eau Sauvage is called Bushukan. Thought you’d all want to know. 🙂
They still make it! No idea if it is one of the many reformulated SLs though.
I believe it went into the bell jars.
Thanks.
Azemour is so, so good. You smell great.
Thank you!
That sounds like a really good combo!
It really was! I left the shower gel on Mr. G’s shelf in the shower – let’s see if he takes the hint. He’s not much on wearing scent, but when he does it tends to be more on the citrus-y side.
My SOTD is vintage Chanel No 5 edc – my first gift from a boy (a Christmas gift) many years ago, probably 1981?
I remember when we embraced, he smelled like Polo, wood shavings (he was a carpenter) and freshly fallen snow. One of my favorite holiday memories.
That is such a sweet story. My dad wore Polo in the 80’s, and I will always have a soft spot in my heart for it.
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Nice 80s memory!
Clouds of Polo and Poison filled the halls of my high school.
You smell great. My mum has a vintage bottle of No. 5 EdC in her dressing room. She doesn’t wear it, but I like to open the bottle and let it waft about when I’m visiting her.
That bottle may be more precious than all the fancy ones in yesterday’s gifts post.
SF guy – It is!
Christmas, carpenter… what a fitting scent memory! 🙂
You smell great!
Super busy day. We are having our office holiday party tonight. Last week was our structural unit party. No complaints! I wish there were more…. ????.
Wearing just one spray of SL Arabie. Another good perfume for the holidays. Tonight, I will wear Guerlain Encense Mythique d’Orient, thanks to Elisa P. who generously sent me a sample a while ago. I am in absolute love with it. If it were not so expensive I would have bought a fb long time ago. I definitely need to save for it.
I love Arabie but I haven’t worn it in ages. Thanks for reminding me to take out my bottle…
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You smell great, perfumelover67! ????
Enjoy the party, and have a bourbon for me! ????????????????
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Thank you Bear! I will have more that one bourbon for you 😉
A while ago one of the discount sites had it EM for sale and it was a good price. Needless to say it was sold out!
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Arabie is wonderful around the holidays, you smell lovely!
Thank you! 🙂
Both of your perfumes for today are my favorites as well. Should I wear one of them today? I’ll see, maybe just a tiny bit – not to scare co-workers.
Not easy to choose! But I would go with Encense Mythique d’Orient 😉
Take it out and enjoy it! ‘Tis The Season!
I did and I was right with my initial doubts: a co-worker who’s sensitive to some of my perfumes complained to me that it was too strong for his headache 🙁 . Since he’s not mean or two fussy, and it’s only the third perfume in 2 years that he was sensitive to, I feel kind of bad. But I love how Encense Mythique d’Orient smells on me! I’ll just have to enjoy it outside the office 🙂
If he did not have a headache, would he still have the same reaction?
It is in fact pretty strong. I had two sprays and was pretty concern that anyone else could be bothered with it. I guess that since we were at the party, people did not paid attention to it. But I enjoyed with absolute delight. I just wear one spray when I have an outside activity.
hajusuuri, I’m not sure. We just have an agreement that he lets me know if a particular scent bothers him – and I’ll avoid wearing it to the office. Yesterday was one of those few cases when he did (and I felt it was stronger than my usual office perfumes/application) so I didn’t investigate further 🙂
I’m in SDV today, going to the grocery store for all of the holiday supplies.
The hubster says I smell like a bakery. ????????
Does anyone else get a bit of licorice from this, or is it just me?
It just might be you (lucky you!) and unfortunately, SDV is very saccharine/chemicals on me, smells wonderful on everyone else though! 🙂
Okay, glad I’m not alone in smelling wonky in SDV. It’s better after a couple of hours, though. It’s quite rich.
Twins! I am trying to finish my bottle, one more wearing I think. It will be my fourth bottle finished this year, after not finishing anything for 15 years. Rousse is next on my hit list!
I do not smell any licorice in SDV.
Hey, twin! I’m inspired by your four empty bottles. That’s awesome!
Happy Thursday everyone! Haven’t been able to drop by as often as I’d like (or wear fragrance for that matter) because work has been insane… but at least I have the three-day Christmas weekend to look forward to.
Today I’m wearing my sample of Tom Ford Noir de Noir, which I’ve discovered – to my consternation – I love. Does anyone have recommendations for similar fragrances that don’t cost nearly as much?
The closest I’d found from Fragranticans’ suggestion was the inexpensive Armaf Club de Nuit Intense for women. The rose note is a bit brighter (and longer lasting), but essentially they are the same to me. I blind bought it many moons ago and loved it, but got tired of it after about 30ml so ended up rehoming it. But it’s worth trying, IMO.
+1 for Club de Nuit
I would suggest instead of looking for a substitution, try to look for a much better priced split – I saw it several times on FB split groups.
Agree with Club de Nuit Intense!
Had to take a couple of days off- couldn’t smell a thing. Sinuses starting to clear. Randomizer picked OJ Woman for me so I’m rocking my sample. Someday, a bottle, or at least a large decant!
You smell great, scent twin! I love this one at the holidays for all that pine-y, hemlock-y goodness. I’ll probably wear it tomorrow too for the Friday project.
Glad your nose is clearing! Hate when I cannot smell anything.
Hello lovelies, I’m equipped for my transcontinental flight in PoaL again 🙂 my bra smelled of roses from the Pacifica soap + Colle Noire card tucked away in them, so I decided to stick with the theme. It really is a scent to spread joy.
I am looking forward to getting to read through the SOTDs of the past few days from the cached versions I’ve got. I miss reading about your lives! Happy Thursday!
Bon voyage! You smell wonderful!
Thanks! I got lovely gusts of PoaL all through the flight.
Safesnd lovely smelling travels!
Thank you! The flight went quite smoothly 🙂
Safe and fragrant travels to you!
Thank you! And you too—are you going anywhere this season?
Nope, staying home nice and quiet. 🙂
Koyel, I was very happy to read that your cough is gone! Have a safe and easy trip.
Thanks so much, Jalapeno 🙂 it went just fine! Happy holidays!
It’s that sunny, cold kinda day that had me craving a white floral, so went with a bit of Carnal Flower, in office-friendly dosing.
Floral twins!
Glad the sun is out! It is suppose to be a gorgeous weekend
White floral twins! It’s supposed to be close to 60 on Saturday ???? We’ll be in the car most of the day ????
I am hosting this year…my the culinary Gods be with me
It will be great for my family driving in this weekend
Here comes the sun..lil darlin
Good luck! I’ve no doubt you’ll make a lovely holiday.
You smell fab. Carnal Flower is beautiful at high or low volume, a great scent for flying under the radar.
Thanks Tiffanie! The green is really coming through in the cold and it’s glorious!
Hey twin! Smelling good! 😉
I am super excited about Winter Solstice! Really, really glad to see sunset happening progressively later.
I’m totally off-season today: ElizabethW Sweet Tea with a couple dabs of AG Le Chevrefeuille on one side, and Osmanthus Yunnan on the other. Tea + flowers!
More appropriate to the season: I love the smell of conifers. So…
This fall (October, maybe?) I got some Slumberhouse samples, and really, really like Norne. According to the site: fog caked needles, lichen, fern, moss, hemlock, incense. If you are into the smell of conifers, this stuff is lovely. Not in it today, because as much as I like it, it’s intense, and I’m a perfume wimp.
I also have Serge Lutens Fille en Aiguilles. Similar, but with some fruit and sweet elements. I haven’t done a side-by-side, though, so can’t offer a reasonable comparison. But again, lovely.
Have a great day!
Yummy descriptions, now I have that wonderful feeling of “I want to smell all the things!”
I love Le Chevrefeuille. You smell beautiful. 🙂
Thank you!
Your Dame combo sounds interesting-I’m going to have to scout out my Dame samples to try this out!
I am wearing Parfum Sacre today also, the edp (Lord forbid I should smell butch!). I found it when I got into my perfume cabinet to dig out Nuit de Noel, for this weekend. I only ever wear that once a year! Yesterday I wore MFK Ciel de GUM which is my new favorite. It has amber, jasmine, rose, and cinnamon—a distant cousin of Rousse, perhaps? I would like a Christmas fragrance that smells like a cinnamon-clove pomander orange. Is there such a thing?
My shopping is all done and the trip to mail packages went surprisingly well. We have summer weather, autumn leaves, and Xmas lights on the palm trees. It’s always a strange mix of seasons here in Texas in December! Last year it was 80 on Christmas and I remember people in the water in Galveston. This year it’s forecast to be a more seasonable 50, chilly for us.
Incidentally I want to urge you to go see The Shape of Water! It’s a horror, spy, fantasy, romance—original and wonderful!
You smell great!
During the freebie meet Elisa P sent me a small decant and it was an instant love for me. Perfect for this time of year!
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Butch is just a state of mind.
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I loved The Shape of Water. I thought it was really beautiful.
That’s good to know. I’ve been curious about it, having seen the preview so many times.
I want to that one and The Post.
Yes, I want to see The Post as well!
The Shape of Water and Phantom Thread are both on my list for next week. Sad this is supposedly Daniel Day Lewis’ last film.
If that fragrance exists, I don’t know it. But CdG Harissa is at least related.
SsotD = Dame Black Horse + Black Flower Mexican Vanilla, dabbed from samples.
Cinnamon + vanilla, these smell delicious together. I should bake snickerdoodles today. And gingerbread cookies. Mmm-mmm-mmm.
In my family some people like crispy cookies, some prefer soft and chewy. I like them ALL.
What say YOU?
hahahahahah, its DARK Horse, gosh I’m tired and my daughter and I watched the movie Black Beauty yesterday. 😉
I like them all too! Gingerbread is delicious as well. I didn’t make anything ginger focused this holiday but I do love it.
I haven’t baked any gingerbread yet this year though I do love it. I decided to be lazy when I saw that my favorite bakery had 8 inch tall gingerbread people. I bought a bunch for the kids in my life (and one for me).
I’lleat them all, but if I had to choose, I’m a crispy gal. Nothing like a satisfying crunch.
Biscotti! I love a good crunch too.
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But if they’re crisp, I dunk ! ☕☕☕????????☕☕????????????
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I dunk the crisp ones too! We are equal opportunity cookie enthusiasts. 🙂
Soft and chewy please.
If the cookies are homemade, they can be either! Yummy!
Chewy and gooey for me????
I like that perfect state of crispy, but chewy in the middle.
Exactly.
I love a chewy cookie usually. Yours sound great!
I didn’t have enough flour to bake my Toblerone shortbread on the day I was ready to bake (on Sunday). Then a huge snowstorm blew in so we never got to the store; still no cookies. Maybe I’ll try for tomorrow after work as we leave on Saturday for our Christmas visit!
oh goodness, I just googled Toblerone shortbread, and now I’m drooling. Yum.
Camp chewy!
I love all cookies, whether crisp or soft. But if I were forced to choose one or the other, I would be camp chewy too. 🙂
DSH Perfumes Gingembre today. Something ambery for the afternoon. Ambre Russe maybe? Lots of errands.
I had an errand day too! Hope you finished more than I did.
Brrrrrrr. need. cozy. Heater not working. so. cold.
Okay, so compared to folks who have real ice and snow winters, I am pretty pathetic. But this balmy 53 degrees in the house is getting old. Heater mechanic is now in our basement tapping and banging and I am really hoping we get some warmth soon!
Perfume today is part of my sweater get up to warm up: Musc Ravageur from a sample I picked up yesterday at Nordies.
Last time I tried it I was “meh” about it, but in this freezing cold it feels just right under the wrists of my warmest cashmere.
It also gave me an idea for a community project–Musk day. I know folks are all over the board about musk, but there are so many iterations of it, and then there are perfumes with musk in the name that aren’t terribly musky, and vice versa.
That’s cold for indoors! We have the opposite problem of not being able to turn off our heat and so last night we turned on the AC for some relief. Kind of nutty I know.
I like the Musk day idea! I agree, lots to choose from.
Agree. That is chilly for indoors.
In normal conditions, we’d be like Floragal in stifling, NYC building radiator heat. But…we had the valve turned off, so our only heat is ambient from hall or surrounding apartments. As long as we don’t have an extended cold snap, we are good.
My apartment in Cleveland has that stifling radiator heat. Sometimes I throw open the windows in the dead of winter just for some relief.
Oh brrr, hope the heat gets fixed soon. Our furnace refused to work at the beginning of the cool season. It took 3 weeks to get the parts in… then we had the appointment all scheduled and the county decided in the name of ‘efficiency for the road repair crews’ that they would close all the roads in & out of my area all day every day except Sunday for 2 weeks. We had to get them on the TV news to make them stop that nonsense. Delayed my furnace repair even further! Hope your repair goes faster.
Poor you! Hope you have heat soon! At least you smell good.
Ugh. 53 is chilly for indoor temps! I hope that your heat is on now and working just fine.
Musk day is on the list! And 53 is COLD. Did they fix it?
I am wearing Shalimar today, and currently drinking a cup of Buckingham Palace Royal Afternoon Blend tea. The tea was a gift from a dear friend from when she visited London last month.
Very lovely and seasonal!
SOTD Jalaine Amber.It is a perfume oil and one or two drops go a very long way!I was gifted a beautiful 6ml bottle of this years ago!Stunning fragrance!
It sounds really nice!
Wow, I forgot all about Jalaine!!
Best of good mornings, NST. I woke super early because of knowing that we have to get up and get going down to Whanganui, you know, that tension that happens when you’re waiting to get started. It’s too early even for the kittens. I offered them breakfast, but the simply sniffed it and went back to knocking an old plastic bottle top around the floor. We would buy them any toys they wanted, but they make their own, and at the moment, the bottle top seems to offer endless fun.
So. A six hour car trip looms. That is, it will be at least six hours— it may well be longer if the kittens travel badly. I’ve chosen La Pausa as my SOTD: it’s such a civil perfume, unobtrusively elegant, dry with all that iris and vetiver, but not so much projection that it will bother the dear man, not that anything ever does, but you know what car trips are like. I’ve packed Narcisse Bleu, Vanille Galante, and a random handful of Chanel samples. We’re only away for a week or do, but I like to be prepared for a range of perfume eventualities. I’m set. Now I want to get up and get going. Come on, world, wake up.
I’m a bit uncertain of my connectivity in Whanganui, so if I cannot post again, please all accept my wishes for a wonderful end to this year. Lots of parties or rest, depending on how the time takes you. Or both, if that works. Be well.
Have a safe and quick trip! Happy and fragrant holidays to you and your fellow-travelers 🙂
I’m embarrassed to admit how much money I spend on cat toys, treats, trees, beds, scratchers, etc. What they really love? Cardboard boxes, big sheets of crumpled paper, and piles of clean laundry.
Safe, uneventful travels. The calming pheromone spray might help if you find they are too disrupted.
I hope that you, your dear man, and the kittens all have a safe and quiet trip. ????????
First day of vacation, yay! Not going anywhere but have lots of fun things planned starting with meeting a good friend and her visiting sister at Bryant Park later today to check out the holiday shopping stalls and grab some hot chocolate.
SOTD: Carnal Flower
BTW, my chocolate chocolate chip biscotti were a hit! I made one batch, and then 2 days later another batch. Very easy recipe and so delicious. Great gift idea too. Anyone interested it’s a Union Square Cafe’s recipe.
Hey twin! We smell great! Great day for Bryant Park. I haven’t been this year-only went to the Union Square one. Lots of fun stuff-I walked away with a bottle of truffle oil. Yum.
Enjoy Bryant Park! I too have only been to Union Square. Got some nice soaps for gifts.
I made it to Bryant Park Thanksgiving Week. It seem like there are more food stalls this year. I’m not as enamored with the gift selections this year.
I’m wearing The Snow Siren’s Song from Smell Bent.
Another great name.
Profumum Vanitas and Kusmi Prince Vladimir tea.
Yum on both accounts!
Today I’m wearing No.22. I’m dressed in jeans and sweatshirt, and over worn snow boots and puffy coat. I look like crap, but I smell exquisite. That’s really all that matters.????
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I tried on puffy coats – way too Michelin Man meets the Pillsbury Doughboy ! LOLOLOL ⛄⛄⛄⛄⛄
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You smel great and you probably look very wintery!
You smell wonderful. And you’re right: that’s really all that matters! ????
That’s the best combo- the “I need no effort to be fabulous” look/smell. You smell divine!
Hey, if you smell great and are warm and toasty, that’s the important things covered!
Thanks everyone! It’s such a bummer, that there is no way to look put together here in the winter, if you want to be warm. I see young girls try though, in their fashion boots and barely there jackets.
Smellin’ good, lillyjo!
At the dentist and gently wafting Jicky.
I’m enjoying thinking about what scent to wear for Christmas—so many lovely choices! In the end, though, I might have to go with something a bit less ‘wintery’ than usual since the temperature is supposed to be in the 70s on both X-mas Eve and Day. (That is, of course, after the swing from recent warm weather to tonight’s hard-freeze warning and cool temps tomorrow.) Sheesh, make up your mind, climate!
Have a happy Almost-Friday all you fab NSTers!
Wish we were expecting your weather for Xmas!
It’s my Friday and I am doing the happy ????????
I hate the big swings in temperatures.
I miss you in these here parts!
Happy Solstice!
1) It is frosty cold here in Portland , OR. When the dawn hit the ground was revealed to hate a silvery coating of frost, and the air was very clear. Lovely.
2) SOTD: a combo of Sandalo soap, The Body Shop Satsuma Body Mist and V&R Spicebomb. I smell very spicy and orangey and boozy, yet fresh.
3) Big cream color cashmere sweater, jeans and short boots today. Work party, but people are getting on my last nerve, and I can’t wait to leave on my winter break.
That combo sounds yummy.
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You look great too! ???????????????? I can’t wear cashmere, always makes me itch even with a cotton layer between.
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Thank you so much! What a fine compliment! 🙂
It’s really nice and feels very seasonal! 🙂
I went to our holiday party for approximately fifteen minutes–then was like “out of here”!
Ha! Totally understand the “last nerve” bit. I’m in Salem and was introduced to “freezing fog” this morning. I don’t like it. And neither does T-Rex. Poor thing hopped in the grass to piddle and was shocked by sharp blades of frozen grass. She hopped right out, and piddled on the sidewalk. Oops! Is this kind of cold normal for here? Me no likey ????
Another busy day ahead, this time wearing Une Rose, for no other reason than I’ve had a large sample for some time and it would be a shame to let it evaporate.
Love Une Rose! You smell wonderful.
You smell amazing!
I’m back from the Caribbean where nature smells wonderful. The spice island of Grenada in particular smelled great – nutmeg and cinnamon and cloves, oh my!
Wearing Frapin Speakeasy today. Boozy wonder.
Ooh, sounds like a great trip, welcome home!
Did you bring some Caribbean weather with you? It’s a bit chilly here, which I never thought I’d hear myself say…
Oh how cool — it actually smells like spices in the air?
Wearing a DSH creation again today–Oeillets Rouges, for spice and everything nice. Custard pie for breakfast.
Oeillets Rouges is so nice.
Pass the pie!
Cleaning a perfume shelf and am wearing some old Emeraude I found. Perfect for cooler weather.
I need to revisit Emeraude; it was one of the first estate-sale vintages I found at an estate sale and I didn’t love it, but now that I’ve spent a good long time down the vintage rabbit hole I bet I would like it more. I still have that bottle!
Decided to use the last of my Messe de Minuit today. I think I will need some more next year.
Twins! Though I never can decide if I like this or not. Earlier today, yes; now, not so much. I might be willing to part with my bottle 🙂
Is it the vintage or the new? They are quite different.
I bought my bottle 2 years ago, so: new. What bugs me is the honey note, which I tend to struggle with in general. Gets all pissy on me.
Today I’m wearing 4160 Tuesday’s Eau My Soul. My “soul” has been tried today at work…in fact all week.
Sorry to hear this and completely sympathize. I’m thinking I may need to go get a job at Mc Donalds…
Waiting at overcrowded, overheated airport to board a plane, sigh….
California, I’m coming home…
A few dabs of Shanghai lily.
I blind bought Aesop Hwyl. I kept reading reviews and waiting and wondering but it just felt right.
Have a safe trip home!
Waving from San Diego! Welcome home.
I am wearing l’Heure Bleue extrait, working today and looking forward to staying ar home during Christmas time
Here is the pic of my bottle on instagram
https://instagram.com/p/Bc7-Ml6jQRj/
Nice!
Arz El-Rab. Enough waiting for the sinuses to clear…although, I definitely want to overspray.
Twilly last night as we headed to a Christmas concert…our final outing for the season. Absolutely lovely time. Interestingly, this was the first time I got the strong tuberose in Twilly.
Silly cats. They normally ignore the tree, but are now lurking about it. They have clean water, but I think they’re lapping at the tree water. Only solution is to actually wrap presents and get them under there to block access.
Yeah one of my cats likes to drink the tree water (yuck). He dips a paw in the tree stand and then slurps the water off his foot. We call it ‘foot drinking’ (and yes, both cats do this from their regular water bowls too).
I had a kitty who loved to paw-drink. She’d just dip her little foot into her water bowl and the lick it very assiduously. She had to be really thirsty to drink with her face!
I smell of a lot of different things today. In the morning I layered Cuir Ottoman & Belles Rives – they combined nicely into a powerful leather-iris concoction.
But then I started cleaning up the house, so a top layer of violet bathroom cleaner was added as well as some lemon polishing paste fragrance.
At least it’s clean, ha!
I still have to try Belles Rives!
Sweet Redemption today. I smell like flowers AND candy.
Just finished the last of the Christmas gift shopping. WHEW.
I will brave the mall tomorrow….
I love Sweet Redemption!
SOTD = Copious Lavish Lashings of No.19 EDP
It’s my Friday! I am off starting tomorrow and back in office on January 4th.
No.19 is helping me cope with someone above my pay grade who claimed to have done many projects similar to what we’re working on now (nope, because I worked with her on THOSE projects and they were the total opposite of what we’re doing now and she had the audacity to ask am I sure when I reminded her as to what we did). Today, she had me on the phone with her team making changes live to a document and despite asking for my help, she only listened to a few of my suggestions. Anyway, all these to say I will let her flounder.
Back to work!
I agree, let her flounder! Enjoy your vacation, turn your phone off. 🙂
I knew I could count on an NSTer to understand! The phone will be on for my convenience.
I almost wore No. 19 today, too. Does that make us virtual twins?
Enjoy your vacation and I hope you don’t hear from that annoying person you had to work with.
We are virtual twins. Your comment reminded me of a bar in New Brunswick that serves maybe 25 types of martinis. Given that foul-tasting vermouth is an ingredient in traditional martinis (someone correct me if i am wrong), one of the recipes included “a glance at the vermouth bottle”.
As to the annoying person, even if she contacts me, I can choose to get back to her when I return from vacation.
Depends on who a person asks about martinis. Some people claim that only gin and vermouth are a proper martini, while other folks are OK with vodka subbing for the gin. I have heard from more than one source that vermouth can go off easily, making for something kind of nasty tasting.
Relax, forget about job – you’ll have more than enough of it the next year, – and enjoy your vacation.
You smell great! Aren’t you addicted yet to No 19? That’s how it starts. First you spray it once in a while because it’s beautiful and makes you feel good. Then you need it to help you to deal with unpleasant work situation. And next you know, you’re a signature-scent-type person who doesn’t wear anything else ;-P
Me? Addicted to No.19 EDP? Nah…. 🙂
There’s something to be said about wearing it often. I used to wear 3 sprays max, maybe 4. Then, I upped it to 5, then um…8…today was the ultimate at 10 sprays.
The work will multiply, sad to say!
Wearing Monsieur Balmain from my husband’s bottle today. I love it just as much on me as I do on him, ha! I’ve been more into classic masculines lately – I think it’s something about how they are comforting without being sweet?
Yes! And MB is a great example.
Wearing L’Attesa for the festive champagne accord opening. Looking forward to a 4 day weekend after today!
You smell amazing. I love love love L’Attesa.
Still at it with “Oakmoss week”, although I am tempted to wear one of a couple of other things tomorrow that do not have that note. Yesterday’s SOTD = Cristalle EdT, from the sample stash. Good stuff, but I think it feels more like an autumn perfume to me.
Today’s SOTD = vintage Rochas Auduce, also from the sample stash. I hope that green perfumes DO make a comeback… I’ve been enjoying all the old school chypres I’ve tried lately.
Shhhhh….don’t tell Chandler Burr. I looked up the NOTES. Wow! I have have to find me some to try!
Ack! That should be “Audace” up there. I am getting bad at catching typos before I post. ????
I think you might like it, if you can find it.
We had our office Christmas party today. My office does a tacky gift yankee swap. Afterwards, we vote on the tackiest gift. I am proud to say that I finally won the prize today.
SOTD for the festivities was a spritz of Calling All Angels over Ancient Resins oil.
Congrats on your prize! I hope that it was something nice…
Not really. We all throw a dollar into the pot. It was $11. ????
At least you got something. I was supposed to get a prize for making the least healthy “cookie” but the organizer forgot and gave away the extra gifts to the people who helped organize the event!
Hopefully the prize was not anything that you really wanted. Your cookies must have been really good, if not good for you.
A few sprays of Samsara after work to inspire me. Need to get the energy to make an appetizer/snack. I think it will be Spinach Dip with a bit of cream cheese added to make it more like a spread.
What was with today? Everyone was getting on my last nerve too! 1 more day!
You’re probably just tired. A symptom of having too much to do!