Happy 'Tis The Season Friday! Our community project for today: wear the perfect fragrance to celebrate, share joy and look forward to a new year. Thank you to happy888cat for the suggestion!
What fragrance did you pick? As always, do chime in with your scent of the day even if you’re not participating in the community project.
I'm going for a low stress holiday in Diptyque Tam Dao. I will probably spend the weekend back in Fendi Theorema, though.
Reminder: on 12/29 we're doing Best of 2017...wear one of your favorite fragrance releases of 2017.
And for those of you who like to plan ahead, see 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.
Lancome Cuir today. This scent always makes me feel pulled together, and it smells amazing
You smell wonderful!
Did I read this week that good health news came your way?
I will need laser surgery – precancerous cells were found, but caught amazingly early, and chemo will not be required.
All in all, the best I could possibly hope for.
I am so relieved
Oh, I’m so happy for you! (I didn’t mean to pry) Just wanted to send congrats on the good news! ????
Knowing others care is not prying – it is kindness.
I hope everything goes as easy as possible. Get the best from these holidays to support you when you need it.
You smell good!
So happy to read your good news.
Best news! So happy for you.
Very glad to hear your good news.
Oh, that is wonderful news! I am so very happy for you. And can imagine the relief you must feel. Best wishes for the holidays and for an express lane to good health.
You smell fantastic. And I’m so glad to hear you got that good news health-wise!
Good morning, so glad to be home even if I did get up at 5am for an east coast call.
All my bottled children are saying pick me!
Post shower I think my hand will land on Dzing!
You are going to smell glorious! I hope your bottled children are well behaved today.
Little bursts of fragrant joy, Sistine!
You smell fab! Even Dzing!’s name is joyous, no!?
I did one drop of Sa Majeste la Rose on one wrist
a drop of Mitsouko on the other
and a drop Ambre Fetiche on my neck.
I couldn’t decide which one..so there you have it!
Crazy morning the CEO and I went back in forth about how much food to make for the holidays, since we are hosting…He accuse me of never making enough when we have guest over. His responsibility was to order a cooked turkey, and he told me he only got 7lbs which in his mind is enough (him and I are vegetarian) and I said..7lbs for 12 people?
I’m thinking Mitsouko myself today…
Hilarious about the turkey. Where does one even find one that small? Maybe order a second one.
Maybe with plenty of side dishes, it will be enough turkey…?????
Depending on how many dishes you have, the turkey served in small portions might be ok…….
I think you’re definitely going to need a lot of appetizers and side dishes. Is a 7 lb turkey still a baby?
HA!
Seriously, I am not sure what he is ordering. Maybe the Turkey is already sliced or something like that…Not my problem! That was his only responsibility…he will have to figure it out..
Gravy, just have lots of gravy. Covers a multitude… ????
Ha! It’s the best part, anyway.
What Elisa P said!????????I’m a notorious gravy/sauce glutton in our family.????
It’s a chicken????
Maybe get a ham too?
Yes. Or get a 2nd turkey — I’ve cooked 2 turkeys at once before.
Sa Majeste la Rose, Mitsouko and Ambre Fetiche – that’s a very interesting combination. You smell amazing.
Your turkey story made me smile.
He’s Indian though, right? Indian people think “enough food” is where you have at least twice as much as you need. You should see my mother panicking over whether 20 lb goat curry will be enough for 40 people who will also be served nine other dishes. As I’ve started hosting parties, I’ve made the mistake of asking her how much I should make for x number of people. I’ve ended up with leftovers for the next couple weeks.
This made me smile! I’d love to attend one of your mom’s feasts!
Her cooking is excellent
even her healthy, daily, non-party offerings are splendid.
My former neighbors were Indian and my son was best friends with their son/grandson (multi generations living in the house)….the grandma was an AMAZING cook and used to always send food over to us. I miss them and especially her cooking!
They sound like great neighbors
I won’t even say how much food my Mother prepared in our Italian American home.
But Lasagna was the appetizer…….LOLOLOL ????
Enjoy, Lovestosmellgood!
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Thank you!
I am hoping it will be a success!
To eat Lasagna as an appetizer..I would want to know what your workout would be for the next morning
Heh heh, I would want to know what the main course would be.
I’mr eally bad at figuring how much to make. My husband is an over-is-better, and I tend to go a little under. Agree that it might be fine with enough other dishes. I tend to like sides better anyway. Good luck and you’vegot 3 beautiful scents on to get you through!
I think you made the right scent choice! Why pick just one when you can’t seem to decide? I bet that smells great!
I love a theme today!
It was hard for me to pick as I believe many perfumes are suitable to celebrate but in the end I chose MFK Grand Soir.
Stunning! I recently ordered a sample and was blown away.
Thank you! It’s one of those chic & glamour perfumes you want to wear on special occasions. I did a split last year to get a bottle as soon as I finished my sample.
Oh, you smell fabulous! I need to wear that app .
*soon*
ASAP would work too
You smell great lucasai! ????
Merry Christmas! ????????????????????????
Thanks! So do you in Shalimar.
Thank you!
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Merry Christmas Lucasai! You smell fantastic!
Excellent choic! You smell wonderful!
I’m wearing Smell Bent Lady Dreidel perfume oil.
Perfect!
Too much going on and getting ready to travel so I grabbed the first thing available which was Missoni Homme. Good enough but need to move to the Spring section.
Happy Holidays and safe travels to all.
And to you — have a lovely trip / holiday!
You smell great anyway – have a safe and enjoyable trip!
Happy holidays and have a safe trip. Enjoy!
Safe trip!
Merry Christmas Downtown Scott! ????????????????????
Have a smooth trip and a very happy holiday!
Happy Friday everyone!
Working until 12:00pm and freeeee until Tuesday. I will be wrapping presents today and meeting my friend for dinner tonigh. I still hope she likes the Tom Ford Vetiver and the rest of vetiver samples I have for her.
I am wearing Donna Karan Black Cashemere. One of my big favorites for the holidays. It puts a smile on my face every time I wear it and makes me feel relaxed, happy and in peace.
I wish all NSTers who celebrate or not the holidays a peaceful and happy long weekend. ????????????????????
I hope noon comes quickly and you enjoy a well-deserved break. I’m sure your friend will love your thoughtful gift.
Thank you Sistine! Looking forward to it!!!
Wonderful! Have a great weekend and happy holidays!
Thank you Springpansy! The same to you! ????
Merry Christmas perfumelover67! ????????????????????????
Black Cashmere is fantastic! ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
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Thank you Bear! A very Merry Christmas and a wonderful and Happy New Year 2018 for you too. Enjoy the festivities!????????????????????????????????????????????
Ah, lean this way, you smell fabulous! Happy Holidays!
Thank you Pixel. Leaning your way. Happy Holidays to you too! ????????????
Happy Holidays, PL67! You smell great and I’m sure your friend will love her vetivers!
Thank you KellyC! Happy Holidays to you too! ????????????????????????
You smell great! I only just smelled BC for the 1st time. Enjoy your holiday!
Thank you Elisa P. You too smell beautiful in Un Rose!
Another one for the list of things to sample… sounds lovely.
It is indeed beautiful. Let us know what you think about it when you sample it!
I hope noon arrived quickly for you! Merry Christmas/a lovely weekend to you!
Thank you Creosote. The same to you! ????????
Hope you have a wonderful dinner tonight with your friend! Happy holidays to you.
By the way, Jasmine et Cigarette is so good.
Happy Holidays to you too Gail. My friend and I had a really nice time!
Jasmine et Cigarrete is a great perfume. I have become addicted to it. Glad you like it!
Smelling good, PL67! Wishing you the best of the Season!
Thank you Hajusuuri! Wishing you and yours the best Holidays ever!
We are off today to celebrate an early Christmas with my MIL, so my SOTD will be No. 19. Enough said.????
Yesterday was my first day of 8 days off from work and I made the 250 mile round trip to get the boy from college. I was so happy to see him, and he would never admit it, but I think he was happy to see us too.☺️
The next few days will be a whirlwind of activities, I look forward to the r&r after the holidays are over.
Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend and holiday!
You smell wonderful in No.19!
Thank you!
Enjoy the celebration. You are ready for anything in No. 19!
Thanks- indeed!????
Smelling fierce in 19!
I hope that with the help from No 19 everything goes better than you’re prepared for.
Enjoy your time off and all the activities.
Twins!
Got up early to check the pipes and pool equipment, courtesy of a hard freeze (24 degrees at my house!) here in southern AZ. Now I’m drinking coffee and wearing Wrappings from my newly purchased bottle. Hope everyone has a great holiday weekend!
Oooh, please tell me your thoughts on Wrappings!
Wondering if the patchouli is very strong?
I LOVE Wrappings! The patchouli doesn’t really stand out on me – I’ve always thought of it as primarily a fir/balsam scent with some aldehydes up front. It also has good staying power. Haven’t tried the lotion yet.
Thanks!
Wow — that’s darned cold!
Hope your pipes, etc. were OK. Thankfully, it won’t be that cold again tonight! A great holiday weekend to you, too!
Everything was fine (though we haven’t been so lucky in the past). Hope your plants and pipes made it & happy holidays to you too!
Everything here was fine, thank goodness. Were you here in 2013(?) when it went down to 17°? That was so wrong!
Amouage Lyric Woman this morning. But as much as I can appreciate its beauty, it’s not really me – glad I didn’t go for a full bottle.
I will switch later – probably Dzing! Lots of little loose ends to tie up today and some cleaning and baking.
Happy Friday, all!
I am not into Lyric Woman either, although I only tried it once, so I am going to give my sample another chance. Pretty in its own way, but not my kind of pretty.
You smell great—in both scents!
Wearing Dior Feve Delicieuse, and happily sitting in a near empty office eating a chocolate turtle that was part of a gift sent by one of the firm’s contractors
Happy holidays, I hope everyone has the happiest coziest weekend!
That sounds like a lovely way to spend a Friday at work – I love turtles, and free turtles are the tastiest ones! I hope you have a great weekend.
Agree re: free turtles. Another one is tempting me…;)
Thank you and have a great long weekend yourself!
Is the Dior very powdery ? Gourmand ?
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Not very powdery, but definitely gourmand. Must love tonka.
Agree with Cazaubon
I don’t usually gravitate towards gourmands but like this one very much.
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Here’s my nondescript description. I get some powder, but I love it because I find it to feel both dreamy/ creamy, and still manages to smell bad a$$. Helpful/ not helpful, I know????
Thanks lillyjo! !
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I’m furious about a work situation that’s not fitting into the seasonal theme of Christmas.
Nevertheless, I’m smelling good in Ummagumma. Again. ????
Hope your work situation resolves quicky! No doubts you smell terrific. Ummagumma is my new love!
I’m sorry to hear about the work situation. I hope it resolves as quickly and painlessly as possible.
You are killing me with all the Ummagumma talk – I have two samples waiting for me at home, and I won’t be able to try it for another week. Anticipation…
Uh oh, hope it resolves quickly!
Hope it passes quickly! Smelling good is definitely bringing some good energy!
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Hope the situation get resolved quickly.
Merry Christmas Deva! ????????????
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Thank you Bear! A very Merry Christmas and a wonderful and Happy New Year 2018 for you too. Enjoy the festivities!????????????????????????????????????????????
Definitely I am not Deva! ????. Don’t know how this comment ended up here…..
Ugh. Un-Christmasy situation begone!
Eeek about the work situation. I hope it gets resolved quickly!
It’s a beautiful snowy day, so I will be pairing Dries van Noten with my favorite cashmere sweater and drinking lots of hot beverages. Tonight my brother and I are going to watch Star Wars (episode 4) with my niece, who will be seeing it for the first time ever. I literally grew up watching that movie (my parents would take me to the drive in with them while I was an infant to watch it because it never failed to put me to sleep), and I can’t imagine what it would be like to see it for the first time.
Have a wonderful evening weekend everyone!
Enjoy the movie! You will smell wonderful!
Enjoy!
You smell wonderful! DVN is perfect for cashmere and snow. Makes me miss Montreal.
Ah, I might wear that this weekend too!
Dries sounds perfect for your day. I think I’ll bring my sample with me this weekend.
How fun—enjoy!
TGIF!
Wearing 2 happily named scents today: Jour de Fete & La Vie Est Belle
May joy and happiness fill our everyday lives!
Ooh, great names! Have a very happy day.
Amen to that and thanks for the spirited project idea! JdF was a nice comfort scent.
Wearing Yosh Ginger Ciao. What better end-of-the-year scent than one whose name means both goodbye and hello?
I wore this a lot last summer after picking it up on a whim at an online sale. Now I wish I’d gotten more. It layers very nicely with all manner of things, extending its seasons of use. Today I’m wearing it over Roger & Gallet Gingembre body lotion for a bit of extra warmth and spice on a cold, gray day.
This is one of my favorite perfumes but I din’t Think I ever wore it in winter. But you smell great!
Beautiful scent.
Caron Pois de Senteur vintage extrait
Wow, there’s an oldie but goodie!
I’m trying to translate that and my bad French gives me “Smelly Feet” or “Peas of Thought”!
Sweet Pea (the flower).
Happy Friday!
Hot,muggy overcast day here in Africa,it is that moment of the promise of rain in the air and then it doesn’t…
I started out in CognoScenti 17,its amber note smelled quit Christmassy.Described as a civet chypre,I don’t get much animalic from it though.
Test day at Lush was fun.When I bought Amelie Mae a while back(love at first sniff!!) I smelled something there that stuck on me,and the drydown was so awesome I needed to go back today to find it.Rentless came home with me.Cardamom Coffee is also really really nice.Twilight Showergel also in the bag,that malt note is awesome.
Happy Looooong weekend alll!And Merry Christmas to those who celebrate!I am spending Christmas alone by choice.Did not accept any invitations and booked Christmas lunch for one at the Country club on the estate where I live.
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Merry Christmas Johano! ????????????????????????????
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Thank you Bear!Merry Christmas to you as well!Happy to “know”you through NST!
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Have a wonderful Christmas. I’m glad you had such a successful day at Lush!
Thank you sistine!I hope your festive season is awesome as well!x
Happy summer to you! Your Christmas Day plans sound perfect.
Thanks Kanuka!I hope you have a wonderful time too!My SO is taking a well deserved break on the farm so Christmas at the Country Club it is!Haha!x
Merry Christmas Johanob!????????????????????⚘
Merry Christmas perfumelover67!Thank you for taking the time to regularly say HI here!X
Sounds like a very relaxing Christmas indeed! Enjoy!
Hi KellyC!Yes,after the drama of last year with death and moving house this year will be wayyyyyy less stress!Hope you have a wonderful time as well!x
I spent December in Johannesburg one year, it was hot during the day and poured rain at night. Loved it! I also liked Rentless, but couldn’t find the edp, only the solid.
You just described a typical day here during Decembers!Hot days and mostly rainy nights!I live in the sister city Pretoria,15 minutes from Johannesburg.I did sniff the solids of the whole Lush range,I guess they’re good for travel but definitely not as fragrant!Hope you find an edp asap!
Lush twin! We’d probably smell like a whole store if we were standing next to each other.???? A Merry Christmas to you too, johanob!
Wishing you a Merry Christmas Johanob! I really like Twilight, which I guess has lavender, which I normally don’t care for.
Have a happy Christmas Johanob! I’ll join you in spirit if you don’t mind spirit company ????
Merry Christmas, johanob!
A bath with Royal Bain de Caron followed by my SOTD – Guerlain Aqua Allegoria Winter Delice. I think it’s one of the most Christmassy scents in my wardrobe.
I have never smelled it but I can only imagine you smell like the holidays…
I think I do.
It’s a realistic pine + spicy cookies (and maybe something like a church incense). Separately “pine” theme and “cookie” theme would probably be too much for me, but they work together very well, balancing each other. It’s like sitting next to a freshly cut Christmas tree and a plate of freshly baked cookies.
I have Royal Bain de Champagne (before they had to rename it Caron), and it, Nuit de Noel, and Parfum Sacre, all have a “Caron-ade” base.
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Champagne folks took their trademark seriously – there’s YSL Yvresse/Champagne and this Caron. Too seriously, in my opinion.
Cool smilies!
I am not such a connoisseur of Caron as you are, Bear, but I notice that Carons tend to have a solemn elegance, even austerity in their dry-down. I think modern Royal Bain has less of it than Sacre and Nuit de Noel, but it still makes a luxurious old-style bath.
I agree Glannys, they are all quite elegant. ????????????
I haven’t taken a bath in 30 years (wait! let me rephrase that! LOLOLOL ????), but I’m sure it is relaxing, luxurious, and reinvigorating. Enjoy! ????????????????????????
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Taking inspiration from you earlier in the week, R, and wearing (my old, early 2002s EdT) Box of Eels. Smells delicious.
Smelling wonderful Erin!
2002s — that’s still real sandalwood!!
Oops, meant to type early 2000s, but it might be from 2002, and yes, ain’t nothing like the real thing, as they sang.
Happy FriYAY at last!!!! If I can push thru this busy afternoon at work, then I’m free to get home and relax for a few days. Time to bake bake bake!
12 Days of Christmas Gourmands continue…..Wearing ONE light spray of Demeter Sticky Toffee Pudding. I have on my Mrs. Claus dress, and I smell like a sugar plum!
Today’s Friday challenge was easy! I could have worn ANY perfume that I own. Perfume brings me joy, and is “my thing”. I look forward to trying new scents, collecting them, and talking about them!
I love the way you think
I agree with you completely. I am so grateful for the portable, accessible pieces of art that I get to wear every day.
I would love to go to the pharmacy and see Mrs. Claus. Keep rocking this holiday!
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There ya go! HA HA HA HA HA Can you tell I’m in a super good mood? It’s been a loooooong week here; lots of people getting discharge or going on pass, so I’ve been a busy Mrs. Claus! Just 4 more hours…..
Merry Christmas EVERYONE!!!!
You look cute! Happy Friday and Merry Christmas! I’ll be baking too (butter tarts, a Canadian specialty).
Yay to butter tarts!!
I had a lovely surprise on my desk this morning from a co-worker of her homemade tarts. She’s Italian, so jokingly she says she should be a great cook but all she can make well are butter tarts.
Her Mom makes her own red-wine vinegar! I’m still amazed by that.
Awwww!!! You look amazing! Thanks so much for the photo.
Merry Christmas!!!
You look super cute! I would love to be as fun as you!
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Such a great picture..thank you for sharing!! Merry Christmas.
You look adorbs!
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Merry Christmas! Enjoy baking! And eating! ????????
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Oh so true about every perfume bringing joy! That’s a great thought.
I love the outfit! Merry Gourmand-Scented Christmas!
Today I am wearing Sotto La Luna Tuberose by Andy Tauer. I hope work won’t be too horrific today.
I hope your work is peaceful and calm. You smell absolutely incredible!!
You smell beautiful, sending you serenity vibes.
Amouage Ubar, just because I seem to crave big fragrances at the moment
I will probably join you in wearing Ubar tonight to the friends’ house for dinner. It is so beautiful, and I think of it as a celebratory fragrance. Thank you for the idea! You smell wonderful!
A great celebration scent!
Wearing Azemour les Orangers, to remind me of the oranges we always got in the toe of our stockings growing up. Happy holidays to everyone!
Azemour is so wonderful – you smell great!
I remember that!
In MFK Grand Soir on this frigid day in DC! It really gets cold outside of CA, huh? This scent is just so over-the-top that it makes me joyous and giggly
so even though I love JadainGA’s philosophy of all perfumes bringing joy, I think I am extra within the parameters of this week’s CP!
I recently skimmed an interview with MFK in which he purportedly spouted such nonsense as “don’t put perfume on your skin because it won’t last as long.” Piffle, that’s what I have to say to that. Just because it’ll last longer on my scarf doesn’t mean I want to miss out on the interaction between the scent and my skin. Harrumph.
I read that same article and had exactly the same reaction – harrumph indeed!
You smell…dare I say?…“grand”!????
Hi everyone,
Its been a while!
Remember the story about my mom who ended up being in Intensive Care 1,5 week ago, and almost lost her life due to an inflammation?
Well there was another problem with her liver. That almost took her life as well.
She is now stable and no longer in IC, but still in hospital, also long term perspective is vague/unknown.
So i am tired, and kinda worn out argh. But still wearing scents!
And my mum complimented me twice on Fille en Aiguilles wednesday.
SotD is Sarrasins
Take care, have a great weekend and hug your mom!
I am so sorry Jiji
All I can say is that the liver is an amazing organ, and with the right treatment it can heal
Sending you healing thoughts…
Thank you!
Unfortunately the liver damage has been developing for a long time and seems irreversible
But our first concern is to see her grow strong and fit enough to be able to leave the hospital (something we probably will not see before xmas).
Best wishes for your mum.
Abdominal problems take a while to heal, but I think it’s great that she is out of ICU, and isn’t it also great that she is able to take an interest in what perfume you are wearing?
Yes thats great, she loves perfume as well, and when i was a young girl she encouraged my interest in perfume by gifting me Anais Anais and LouLou
That is really tough. Thinking of you!
I am so happy she is stable, and I send my best wishes for her recovery!
Thank you for letting us know how your mom is doing. You and your family are in my thoughts. Hugs to you.
Peace and good wishes to you and your family, Jiji.
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Wishing you well Jiji…one day at a time
Thank you, and indeed…one day at a time!
I hope your mom recovers soon Jiji. Thinking of you both and sending hugs! ????♀️????
I’m glad your mom is doing better, and they caught this before it got worse. May there be no more nasty surprises!
Sending warm wishes to you and your mother. Hugs.
Thank you so much!
Wow Jiji. Sounds very frightening. Sending healing thouggts and prayers to your mom. You do smell divine today
Stay strong Jiji!Having gone through that myself last year,I know how you feel!(((((((Positive Vibes)))))))!x
Thank you so much!
I hope it ended well for you and your loved ones (sorry, cannot recall if you mentioned it here).
So sorry to hear about your mom. Sending healing prayers for your mom and calming vibes for you.
Thank you!
Thankfully I have a lovely family and a great husband, we all support each other all the way. I cannot imagine what its like going through this all alone.
Thinking of you both, Jiji!
So sorry that you and your mom are going through this. Prayers for her recovery. Sweet that she complimented you. Hope you can get some peace and rest.
Jiji, best wishes for rejuvenation and recovery, to you and your mom!
Sending healing wishes to your mother. Peace to your family.
Glad your mom is out of ICU and on the road to recovery.
Triple strength coffee ☕☕☕
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Went to a Christmas/Cocktail Soiree last night (how many Chorizo Bacon Biscuit pigs ???????????????? in a blanket dipped in Sriracha Cream Cheese can a ???? eat ? A Lot !!! ????????????) and actually had an interesting conversation with a fellow attendee.
We were making small talk chitchat and he asked What is your favorite cologne?
Shalimar, and thus my SOTD (His is Green Irish Tweed, handsome Dr., quite charming, and happily married ????????????, of course! ! LOLOLOL ????????????????, story of my life ????)
Shalimar is very civet and musk today, on my skin. I’m wearing the PdT .
Merry Christmas to All ! ????????????????
A Joyous Healthy 2018 Everyone! ????
Carpe Diem
Peace ✌
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We were almost twins today. I was debating between Shalimar and Black Cashmere (tough decision!). Glad to hear you are wearing Shalimar and smelling super goooood! ????
Chorizo Bacon Biscuit……. You made me very hungry Bear! ???? ????????????????????????
Calories don’t count until the New Year! ????????????????????
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Ooh, I want to try those pigs in a blanket! Sorry that the handsome, nicely scented doctor is off the market.
You smell gorgeous. Have a happy, healthy and joyful holiday!
Thank you sistine!
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Happy Holidays to you and yours! ????????????????????
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You are smelling so wonderful, Bear! You know I love me some Shalimar! Merry Christmas!
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Shalimar! Fantastic! ????????????????????????????
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There is always more fish in the sea and I am sure you are a good catch..
Take care and Shalimar blessings to you for many many more bottles to come.
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Lovestosmellgood! ????
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Totally Lol!!
Your comments always make me smile!Happy Festive Season Mr Bear!????????????????????????♂️✌????????????
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Quite the compliment !????
A Festivus for the rest of us! ! ????????????????????????????????????????????
1) You smell great!
2) Chorizo/bacon/sriracha/cream cheese?!? I would have had a contest with you to see who could inhale more of those things!
3) Your gloriously generous use of emoji makes me ???? like a ???? person.
4) Merry Christmas to you!!!
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Thanks Creosote! ????✌
You’re on ! Biscuits and pork, ????????????????????????????????a match made in heaven! ????????????????????????⭐⭐
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Love this post! Merry Christmas, Bear????
Thank you lillyjo! ????????????????????
Merry Christmas to you and your family! ????????????????????????????
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Smellin’ fab in your Shalimar, Bear! Your comments always make me laugh.
Happy Holidays!
Thank you Gail ! ????✌
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I’m happy I can bring a smile ????and laughter ????????into people’s lives! ????????????????????????
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Goooood morning! I have heat!!!
Beautiful heat.
Furnace is very good.
The Lolita Lempika I applied last night is still going strong–sorry not sorry to my fellow gym folks. Post shower I think I will go for something celebratory and glamorous– Chamade parfum.
In other perfume news… so on Thursday I was in Walnut Creek (a wealthy suburb about 25 miles east of SF) with my mum who wanted support while shopping for make-up. (Despite her declarations of “knowing nothing about make-up” –clerk complimented her on her eye shadow that she arrived in and then my mom spent $500+ at the Chanel counter–yes I felt like I was 16 again, but THAT is another story!) Anyway, we were at Nordstrom’s, which even out in the hinterlands of Walnut Creek is now stocking Le Labo, Frederick Malle, Creed, all the Tom Fords…. you get the picture. While the truly fancy Neiman Marcus, where sometimes I don’t even have the nerve to enter, has stopped carrying all Guerlain’s except Shalimar, had only a handful of Chanels, stopped carrying MFK except for Baccarat and A la Rose, and on and on… Neiman Marcus was the one place you could find really high end French perfume east of SF…not anymore. Perfume department looked like a large empty closet.
Hooray for heat!!
Yes!!!
I got central heating… and I’m alright!
Yay!
Oh good. The roughing it was losing its novelty!
Wow, that’s too bad about Neiman Marcus. Our local store also got rid of its Gueralin and Van Cleef and Arpel sections, but increased the Creed and House of Silliage sections significantly. At least your Nordstrom has an exciting selection now!
Hooray for heat! Our furnace was broken for a week last year, and it was dreadful. I love our new furnace so much.
The furnace dude said we will have to replace our furnace very soon. I am not looking forward to that bill, but gosh I love heat!!
Amazing how suddenly Creed and House of Sillage are everywhere now, well everywhere being extremely relative that is! Both selections seem to frequently have a dedicated salesperson as well. Maybe it is a new marketing thrust, or maybe it just t’is the season.
OMG…Re: Guerlain and Neimans..Crazy!
I am familiar with Walnut Creek..its very beautiful there with great restaurants! I was there was Bing Crosby’s was open and that place was fab..oh well..
Oh ya. Bing Crosby’s! Never managed to eat there. But I remember it. The restaurant closed about 5 years ago. With the economic upswing, lots of new shops are moving in again and the streets and parking lots have been spiffed up. But it is almost all chain and name brand stores now.
Yesss!!! to working heater. Only after you live through not having it you realize how unpleasant it gets even in our mild CA winter.
Where I live it’s the opposite: Nordstrom’s perfume department is pitiful but the closest NM (Palo Alto) has improved significantly in the recent years (though, it’s not even close to the SF one).
Did you try anything new this time?
I don’t think I realized you also live in the South Bay. I just assumed most of the Bay Area people here lived far away from me. Cool! (I’m in Mountain View, so that’s probably my closest NM too! And I’m over there all the time for Stanford stuff anyway. I’ll have to check it out.)
Naw, I was with my mum and she is not into trying perfume. I did check out new to me Chanel Gabriella and the latest J’Adore flanker as I was standing next to the testers. Nothing to write home about. Also sniffed some Pradas. If a bottle of Infusion d’Oeillet fell into my lap, I’d happily wear it–soapiness and all.
Interesting. I have outdone myself in avoiding the mall this year, but now I need to run to King of Prussia and see what everybody is carrying.
It is also interesting to see which counters have dedicated salesclerks. Tom Ford perfumes had two at Nordstrom’s! (No one was dedicated at the Le Labo and Frederic Malle counters.) I was told I could not make my own sample of Neroli Portofino (that Nordstrom’s has little, empty spray sample vials near many of the testers for customers to fill if they choose). But the clerk made me a sample in a TF glass sample sprayer that looks over 2 mls, which has a pretty gold top and a pre-printed gold label with the name of the perfume on it. They handed me the whole thing in a Tom Ford box. Labor and product together it was all very extravagant–and lovely!
Huh. So the Tom Ford is like its own little franchise, probably staffed by its own employees. (I am nosy, I often ask who people work for when I am shopping fragrance. Or, you can figure it out anyway by asking them questions about other brands.)
Yay for heat! They spiffed up the La Jolla Nordstroms, it now has Le Labo, Byredo and Atelier Cologne, although sadly no Malle. Still have to go to South Coast Plaza for that. And they added Le Labo to Fashion Valley, along with Tom Ford. The FV Neiman Marcus is very small and not much perfume of interest there. I noticed last week they had removed Jo Malone, Guerlain has been gone for a while.
Removed Jo Malone? Gosh, I would think that juice makes money hand over fist. I am sad about the Guerlains! I make it into the city for perfume sniffing once a year if I am very lucky. My go-to Guerlain fix has been that Neiman Marcus in Walnut Creek.
Yes — my local NM gave over a quarter of its fragrance space to Creed and Jo Malone. Now I am very curious! But even last year, Guerlain had lost most of its space, and expanded in Nordstrom.
The Fashion Valley Nordstrom has Le Labo?!? Aw, nuts, I was there just recently and didn’t bother going in! (I’ve visited the NM a few times, but the perfume selection is, as you said, pretty small.)
That’s too bad re the N-M in WC. I used to stop and try out the VC&A scents there. I’m heading out soon to visit my Dad and haven’t seen the renovations, so maybe I’ll take a day of wandering.
The renovated plaza and main street area look terrific, if a little too name brand-y. I wish they kept a few places with low rents for innovative new shops that aren’t chains. There used to be a sort of funky frozen yogurt place (Yogurt Park) where I’d grab something midday—and that is gone. In its place (well near the old spot) is a very pretty Godiva Chocolate shop, however. I mention it because you wouldn’t know it from the outside, but that place sell Godiva soft serve chocolate ice cream… a new destination for moi!
Heat goooood! ????
After today I’m off work til Jan.3! Yaaay!
I’m wearing Coromandel today and smelling pretty yummy if I may say so myself.
Yes, you do. Coramandel is perfect any time of the year, I think.
You do smell good – if you need another vote
Last day of work until January, yessssss. Now if only everyone will behave today… no dramas, please.
SOTD is my most Christmas-y scent: Vagabond Prince Enchanted Forest. Pine & black currant. I do love this stuff, but it’s so strong, my little decant will last me ages.
Oh, for me it’s a summer scent, but it has a magical, fairy-tale atmosphere. One of the few black currant-centric scents I like. You smell lovely.
Hooray!! Have a wonderful holiday
Last week, the boyfriend and I drove south past what he says is around where your house must be! (We were going down to LA.) So I thought of you. Also thought of you when we were down in Santa Barbara and we saw the terrifying fires in the mountains, then saw firetruck after firetruck zooming down the streets.
I really like Enchanted Forest but also have just a decant: I just don’t need that huge bottle of this great but not an everyday-wear perfume.
Enjoy the holidays!
You smell great. Vagabond Prince sadly went pissy on me, as black currant often does.
It was 17 degrees when I was getting dressed this morning, so that made my choice easy: Burberry Brit Red, a go-to holiday fragrance for me at the holiday season when it’s cold. The House of Burberry and I have been of frosty terms since it committed the unforgivable sin of discontinuing this spicy rhubarb custard masterpiece (and also the folly of releasing mostly mediocre fragrances since).. I have carefully hoarded my last few bottles in a dark closet, and live in fear of them going off, which would devastate me! I’m off work today – too much use-or-lose leave that must be burned up before the end of the month – so Brit Red is the perfect companion for today’s cookie baking, candy making madness (7 different cookies, 3 different candies….why do I make things so complicated every year…ack).
Looking very much forward to a trip up the road to Boulder tomorrow to visit DSH at her studio, and trying her newer scents (Habibi, Tsukimi, Chataignes du Bois, L’Etole de Vison, and Arabesque), finally getting myself a bottle of the delightful Foxy, and buying a big ole refill of the perfectly named Divine Gardens, my HG of 2017 that I completely drained over the course of the last 10 months.
Safe journeys to all traveling over the next two weeks, and best wishes for a peaceful holiday season. May all of your fragrant desires come true! ☃️❄️????✌️☮️
I have about half a bottle of Red, delicious, but once in a blue moon ????????????for me.
Gold is my jam with its silky sandalwood! About 10mls left in my first bottle, but I have a backup! ! LOLOLOL ????????????????
Cheers!
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Gold is fantastic! I had a mini that I nursed for several years, but it’s long gone. I’m almost afraid to see what it’s going for on eBay ????. Why oh why did Burberry d/c these??? ????
Gold is better than anything Burberry has made recently. They should give it another name and bring it back.
I have Red and Gold as well, and also prefer the Gold. Great scents, silly to make them LE.
Happy Holidays to you too LisaInDenver. Enjoy your visit to DSH!
Lucky you, say hi to Dawn for me! I just received my shipment from her today, body oils of Shaman and Hinoki, plus samples of Foxy and Habibi. Happy sniffing!
So many comments today! I’m at work and crazy busy. I’m wearing Casmir for the holiday theme because it was given to me by my dearest friend, and it makes me feel loved☺ plus it smells wonderful. Hope you all have a great Friday!
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I bought Casmir this time of year about 25 years ago! ????
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Thanks Bear! I used to wear it back then too. It disappeared around here very quick. I can tell this new version is reformulated, but imo, they did a pretty good job.
I hope your day goes very fast. You smell wonderful lillyjo!
Thanks! I don’t have time yet to read the comments, but i know you smell great too!
Jo Malone French Lime Blossom has become my easy summer scent of the past ten days or so. we have so many lime/ lindens around here in full bloom at the moment and yesterday I snuck off for a walk in the park to take in the scents. I have also been won over by Gabrielle which surprises me as I was so luke warm about it. It’s just very wearable, a bit Jour d’Hermes like ( I’ve never worn Coco Mademoiselle so can’t compare with that) and it is pleasant and relaxed and good in the heat. Also, life is a bit hard on Alex at the moment and he’s not feeling too good so it’s a tolerated perfume. Also been wearing Gris Clair in the evenings…nice. Happy solstice!
I love linden smell both from the trees and in perfume. I envy you a little: linden in full bloom is probably one of my most favorite nature smells (and we do not get it where I live now, so it’s not just a question of the season). French Lime Blossom is my all-times favorite perfume – you smell wonderful!
I wish you could come and sit in the park with me…there’s a small lawn encircled by huge lindens and it’s amazing. I would like to come back as a linden or oak in my next life (and spend my days sniffing my branches and leaves)
I thought of you last night as I was testing the new Grandiflora Boronia scent. Lovely scent, although never having smelled an actual boronia flower I can’t say how true to nature it is.
Sorry to hear Alex is feeling bad, please tell him your perfume friends around the world are wishing him well and sending healing thoughts!
How lovely – I must go and see if the boronia is in flower in the gardens. We have the red flowering one – so jammy.
Thanks for your kind thoughts re. Alex. It’s been a cycle of pain/lack of sleep . It should start getting better soon, I hope.
Those trees sound lovely. Concerned for poor Alex. Hope your baby feels better soon. Agree…he does have honorary aunts and uncles throughout the world thinking of him.
I love Gris Clair – I find it acts as a hug in a bottle for me. I hope that Alex is more comfortable soon. Your parks and gardens sound so beautiful right now – thank you for always taking time to describe them so vividly.
Thumbs up to wearable scents! I think Gabrielle would be a great one for those whose skin it it loves. (Didn’t work so much for me when I tried it. Maybe I’ll give it another go to make sure…)
Best wishes for a speedy recovery to Alex!
Right now have too much of a migraine to contemplate any fragrance, but hoping I feel well enough this evening to wear something, maybe Cuir Ottoman.
Feel better jirish!
I was in Cuir Ottoman yesterday. So wonderful! I hope your head feels better soon.
Hope you feel better soon, Cuir Ottoman is lovely.
I hope you recover quickly!
Oof. I hope you’re feeling better!
Today, for my last shift at the bookstore before Christmas, I used an entire sample of MFK Absolue Pour Le Soir. Rich, animalic and smoky and probably too bold but one customer said “you smell so soft and pretty.” Some days, perfume eating skin is a blessing and I think this fragrance is beautiful.
How nice!
SotD = Cologne du 68, a celebration of the cologne style, and it gives me great joy. Hope that satisfies today’s project well enough. Really enjoying the citrus goodness in this fragrance as I peel and eat a delicious clementine.
Woke up craving Cd68 because I planned to wear it last night before bedtime, but was tired and forgot about it until I was under the covers. Then I fell asleep. At 9:30 pm. And that’s how I roll on winter solstice, lol.
In “things may be looking up” news: I was wandering online at Beauty Encounter and noticed a bottle of Roger & Gallet Lavande Royale for under $25. The picture shows the old bottle, so I hope it is the pre-reform version I love so much and have longed for over the years. After I placed my order I noticed it is a 6.8 oz ml bottle! 200 mls! Perfumath free, yes indeed.
Best wishes to all for a fabulously fragrant Friday!
Good luck on the Lavande Royale, and you do smell lovely!
Thanks, Robin, Cologne du 68 always makes me smile. Fingers crossed that the Lavande Royale is the old stuff!
Good luck with your purchase! I just lucked out myself on ebay with a vintage bottle of Micallef Vanille Aoud. It’s so thrilling to find an old friend.
Yay for your Micallef find! That is a gorgeous line of scents.
I’m keeping my fingers, toes and eye crossed that you receive the vintage you were looking for!
thanks, hajusuuri! If the Lavande Royale turns out to be the old stuff it will be a happy holiday miracle. Will know either way by Tuesday evening, about 30 seconds after the UPS truck drives away.
Yesterday I ran a few errands and stuck my nose into a TJ Maxx. I never find anything good there perfumewise, but yesterday there was a Stash gift set from last season with no price tag. I took it to the register, fully expecting to pay $25-30, but the clerk says, “Oh, these were $9.99.” Now I have a backup!
I’m in one of my favorite scents for any time of year, Slumberhouse’s Norne, but it seems fitting today to smell like a forest of fir trees.
Great find!
I have GOT to give Stash a good try. I sniffed a friend’s perfume oil once and found it lovely but meh, but I feel like I need to find myself a sample (or a $10 full-bottle-sized sample) to see if I actually like it. You all sound like you adore it! And it worked out when you all raved over Pharrell Girl and I ended up liking it.
Wow! What a great deal! Enjoy it!
Great find! I enjoyed a couple of drops of the Stash oil in my bath for this morning shower.
Wow! I love days like that — enjoy your Stash
Great find. I took a pass at $30, but maybe I should toddle up the street to see if it’s in clearance….
My Marshall’s still has the gift sets at $30.
Posting again to ask for book recommendations for an eighth grader? I know very, very little about her except that she likes to read. I’ve never met her. So far, my list (with help from someone who actually sometimes sees children) is:
Anne of Green Gables (L M Montgomery)
Redwall (Brian Jacques)
Percy Jackson & the Olympians series (Rick Riordan)
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë)
Dracula (Bram Stoker)
The Time Garden (Edward Eager)
The Martian (Andy Weir)
A Wrinkle in Time (Madeleine l’Engle)
The Secret Garden(Frances Hodgson Burnett)
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
I’d appreciate any other contributions!
The Lost Cities series by Shannon Messenger; anything by John Green;The Giver series by Lois Lowry; And Then The Sky Exploded by David Paulsen; Fish in a Tree by Lynda Mullaly Hunt; Once, Then, and Now (3 separate books) by Morris Gleitzman ; Freak the Mighty by W.R. Philbrick. If you send me your email I will send you a bibliography I just made up. Mine is Luanne dawt teall at gee male dawt com.
Oh wow, this is amazing. Thanks! Will do!
Thanks so much, everyone! I knew I could count on you
Based on limited data (my son & my niece at that age) I would say kids today are more sophisticated readers at a younger age. So Anne, for instance, and Wrinkle in Time, etc, I would gear towards a 4th or 5th grader, and at 8th grade I’d be looking for teen lit fiction.
Sometimes anthologies can be good for dipping into…could be fantasy, science fiction, nature writing, travel writing, and lots of poetry (of course).
Also… (she’s around 12-13 years old?)
The Mare by Mary Gaitsill
Women and Power by Mary Beard
Caitlin Moran How to Build a Girl, or How to Be a Woman
Arundhati Roy , God of Small Things
One Hundred years of Solitude
The Lost Words , Robert McFarlane
In the realm of classics, The Three Musketeers is a good read. Rebecca, by Daphne du Maurier is one I enjoyed back then.
My students love borrowing the Ms. Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children books from my classroom library. They’re by Ransom Riggs. Coraline and The Graveyard Book (both by Neil Gaiman) are also really good.
Oh, yes, Ms. Peregrine’s is a good one too. And the Graveyard Book.
I’m in Lonesome Rider today. One of my favs this time of year. We have two holiday parties this evening, one a tacky Christmas sweater party. I don’t have a tacky sweater, but got crafty with a tulle skirt, some Christmas tree balls, a bag of bows, and a hot glue gun. To say I’m excited about this little festive creation I’ll be wearing is an understatement.
Also good news, we bought a house! We’ve been renting a townhouse since we moved here in September. It’s sufficient, but in a very busy/noisy area. Anyway, we found a wonderful house and we close on January 19th!
Congratulations KellyC! ????
Enjoy the party ????????????????????????????????!
Onward and upward, 2018!!!!✌
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YAY! YAY!
Congratulations!!! And you smell amazing, and I wish I could see that skirt. (Please feel free to e-mail me a picture of it!!)
I will send you a picture. I’m unreasonably proud of it haha!
Hey twin, congrats on the new house! It seems like 2018 will start off with a bang for you and your sweetie.
Oh, wrong place. This was meant for KellyC. ????
That’s a wonderful way to start the year!
Exciting!Congratulations!????????????????
Congratulations KellyC. Good start of 2018! Have fun at the parties! You smell terrific! ????????
Oh yay!!
CONgratulations on your house! Love the Christmas skirt idea.
Congratulations on your new home!
How exciting! Congratulations and wishing you happiness in your new home!
Awesome! Congratulations!
Hooray!!!! Congratulations on finding a house, making an amazing skirt, and smelling darn fantastic. I love Lonesome Rider!
Great Christmas present, congrats to you guys! And sounds like a great xmas party getup!
Congratulations on finding a great house! And your skirt sounds so fun. Enjoy your parties.
Great news on the house. Congratulations!
You smell great. Congrats on the house and Merry Christmas!
I’m wearing FM Une ROSE today (and may have overapplied). Rose is used in Ayurveda to create balance and a sense of inner well-being and joy, though my dosing of this one may scare some people away, lol. UR is so velvety and lush and exuberant! Wishing everyone inner-peace, well- being, and joy in the upcoming year.
I haven’t tried that one but is sounds wonderful. I bet you smell amazing. Happy Holidays!
Same to you!
It’s quite the rose. I was hesitant to wear it to work, but I decided to live on the edge today ????
I follow some Ayruveda as well (I try too) when it comes to cooking and try to make a dish with all the tastes in it (…salty, sweet, astringent..) so that it is more satisfying
I love your description of Rose for balance which I need right now!
The dietary principals were helpful and I was more mindful of them in the past. Mostly they make you pay attention to yourself.
Sa Majeste la Rose is also a beauty-I wore a spritz last night. Very dewy and cooling! Here’sto balance!
Peace, happiness and health to you and yours Elisa P.
Thank you and same to you pl67!
You smell great! I’ve been wearing my rose quartz jewelry for the same effect.
Thanks! I hope it’s working! It’s a soothing color.
Wishing the same for you Elisa! Your scent sounds lovely!
Thanks Petunia!
You smell incredible. If you over applied, just waft some towards western Canada.
I once generously applied Une Rose in August without thinking. It was a LOT of rose in 100 degree heat.
Ha! Yeah, I can see that being stifling. I can still smell it pretty well in myself so maybe it’s made it’s way up to you by now. How do they get this kind of longevity?! Most rose soliflores I’ve tried fall kind of flat at some point.
Wishing you all the same, Elisa P!
You smell fantastic in Une Rose! That is one amazing scent. ????
I’m smelling spicy in Geisha Rouge and have gotten 2 compliments on it this morning. When I pulled up to the drive-thru window to pay for my coffee this morning, the cashier informed me that the person in front of me had already paid for mine. Great start to the day! The family that owns the NoFrills Grocery Store in the town where I work donated all the food for our Christmas dinner so we had turkey, stuffing, potatoes, corn, gravy and buns for the entire school, about 400 people. There is much good in the world.
I love your post. Beautiful acts of kindness and love! Be well ScentSpirit!
So Nice to hear these heartwarming stories. Joy to the world! You smell great too.
What a day full of love
I loved reading this today
Nice to hear about such generosity!
How beautiful! I’m glad to hear of such generous people. Having Christmas dinner with your whole school sounds amazing! I wish my school would do something like that.
Rocking Chergui today and enjoying a day off. Wishing happy holidays to all NSTrs who celebrate!
Yay! for Chergui. Happiness and health to you Petunia!
Happiness and health to you perfumelover67!
You smell great in Chergui! Happy Holidays to you!
The same to you and yours KellyC!
Hope you have a wonderful holiday Petunia!
Thanks Elisa! Wishing the same to you and your loved ones! I hope you have a chance to relax and enjoy!
You are smelling amazing in Chergui! Glad you got a day off to relax a bit. Happy holidays ????.
Chergui rocks, you wore Chergui, therefore, you rock!
Wearing Cuir de Russie on one hand and28 La Pausa on the other. Just finished the end-of-year, let’s-clean-everything, and now have nothing to do errand-wise this weekend except get my hair cut and run out to the grocery store.
You smell wonderful! Sounds like a perfect relaxing weekend. Enjoy!
What a great combination of scents! Beautiful
I went all out and am wearing Memoir Woman since I have the day off work. So far I’ve slept in and have been watching Outlander (I’m pretty far behind on this season.) Soon I’ll go out for lunch with my book and/or podcast depending on how loud it is in the restaurant. Then some Goodwill shopping. My perfect day spent on my own.
I love Memoir but it is huge! Small doses are necessary.
A good day alone is fantastic.
Yes it is huge! One spray to the throat and one to the wrist.
I love days like that! Enjoy????
Me too! Sounds perfect!
I had a wonderful albeit cold time. I ate a lunch of collard greens and a biscuit sandwich and sat at a table in between two other single diners. Got to read a little and listen to music.
Goodwill was fruitful. I brought home a bunch of books, a few gifts for a co-worker, and found a little Estee Lauder solid perfume in a gold seashell compact. I think it might be Knowing. Will do some research.
It’s White Linen! There’s a sticker on the bottom that was underneath the Goodwill price sticker.
Nice find!
Wrapping presents and baking today in Musc Ravageur. Love getting to wear my cool weather scents!
Joining you in wrapping presents. My baking is done. The temperatures could not be better for cold weather favorite fumes!
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Love Musc Ravageur, cazaubon! ????????????????????????
Enjoy!
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Joining you in wrapping presents. My baking is done. The temperatures could not be better for cold weather favorite fumes!
Christmas present to myself arrived early a couple days ago and has been on my skin ever since, Narciso Rodriguez for Her Amber Musc. When I tried a sample a few months ago, I was put off by it, too oud-y for an oud newbie like me. Then it morphed on skin into this gorgeous, sexy, warming, calming, confidence-building scent. Had me craving it after day 1. It’ll now & forever be linked to the holidays for me. ❤️
What a wonderful connection of a gorgeous scent and your holiday memories. I’m glad you found a special scent that fit you so well!
Happy holidays!
My scent of the day is Lili Bermuda Paradise. This is such a cozy scent for me.
I finished wrapping the presents today, but I bought gifts for my dog, my grand-dog and my grand-cat, and cannot find them anywehere. We can’t let the pets off Santa’s nice list.
I’ll keep looking
They’ll turn up!
I just found them! Thank goodness. I couldn’t let the four legged children out of the Christmas day fun.
So glad! I have been known to misplace presents until February.
Mitsouko for me, as it was a Christmas gift from my husband a number of years ago. I resolve it wear it more this winter.
Still knitting. I swear, it’s all I do right now. I really want to make cookies, but the husband is out so I must take advantage….
Gorgeous! I think receiving Mitsy as a Christmas gift from a loved one might make her smell even better, if that’s possible. ????
Scent twin! Well I am in many today
Wearing Andy Tauer’s L’air du Desert Marocain, which never fails to bring me joy.
You know what else if bringing me joy? All the windows and doors open as we finally get the weather we love in Florida. Ah, the joy of fresh air!
House cousins in Lonesome Rider! You smell great!
You smell fabulous. I will wear L’air du desert marocain this evening. Perfumed solidarity!
Congrats on the weather! I know what a relief it is to breath fresh cool air after months of recycled A/C air. Enjoy✌????
For today’s project I’m in a scent that so many of us stock up on this time each year:
Rose Jam! RoseJamRoseJamRoseJamRose JamRoseJam! ROOOOOSE JAAAAAM!
I finally got my hands on a bottle of the body spray earlier this week, and I’m still overjoyed. I have all the other RJ-scented products Lush makes, but there’s something about the perfume/spray that just seems so much better….
Have a lovely weekend, all y’all!!!
Let me guess – you LOVE Rose Jam!!!
Ehh, it’s alright. ????
Nice, glad you got your hands on a bottle! I wish they’d do a body spray for Happy Hippie, I’d buy that in a second.
That would be a good one! I think they if they offered more of the scents as body sprays, they’d sell like hotcakes.
In Lonesome Rider today. I had planned to wear Anima Dulcis, but it is warm and humid here, so . . . change of plans!
I need to figure out a way to justify a full bottle of this beauty. My birthday is in March. C’mon, March!
I hope everyone has a safe, happy and fragrant holiday weekend!
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You found a great justification! That wasn’t too hard, was it? I think you’re also entitled to an advance on your Bday gift ????
Have a wonderful holiday! It’s only been cold for about a month here, but I can’t remember what hot & humid feels like anymore!
It’s never very hard for me to justify just a leetle bit more perfume. ????
I would love to be able to send you some warm, balmy weather. Just go to Kauai in your mind! ????♀️ ????
I hope you have a lovely holiday as well, and stay warm and safe!
Wearing Creed’s Angelique Encens and dithering about whether I can find all the presents I’ve hidden all over the house. I do this every year- Happy Holidays!
Lol! I do the same thing, hide and forget! Happy Holidays to you too!
Happy Holidays Eldora!
Well, 2017 is all over bar the shouting. Hurrah!
I have not been fit for much this week, exhausted by doing (or failing to do) the work of 3 people when the other 2 quit. I am not disheartened, merely worn out and unable to function properly, so the Christmas break comes in the nick of time.
I was pretty much on theme all week:
Mon: Annick Goutal “Encens Flamboyant” for sproce and incense
Tue: BeauFort London “Lignum Vitae” for ginger spices
Wed: Serge Lutens “Arabie” for dried fruits and spices
Thu: Rundholz “whatever.whatever.1968” for more incense
Today: 4160 Tuesdays “A Kiss by the Fireside” for cozy smoke.
Take care all! Next week we fly out to Malaga to sign the paperwork and buy our new apartment. It will likely be February before work starts to make it habitable.
So glad you will be getting a break. Congratulations on your new home! Will this be your new permanent residence now?
Congratulations on your new apartment. Hope your break comes very fast. You really deserve it!
It must be a relief to be done for the year. Congratulations on the Malaga house – it is beautiful part of the world!
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Congrats on the new apartment! Enjoy the break and Happy Holidays!
Late again! I’ll have to play catch up with all the comments a little later on tonight.
SOTD = AG Noir Etoilee EdP, from a generous NSTer. Oh my! This totally smells like Christmas! I might have to wear it again on the 25th.
Oh my is right with Nuit Etoilee!
I put on Nuit de Noel today even though it’s early because I was packing to come down to Galveston for Christmas at my Mom’s, and the bottle would be too fragile to pack. All the Carons tend to smell alike to me. I wear this one because, tradition. Traffic was abominable and my mom’s memory issues have tried my patience. I do not feel much in the Christmas spirit. I’m sad and resentful to have to leave behind my own house, cats, and decorated tree. The. I feel shame at being resentful. I will try to put a better face on things.
Chin up!
I’m sorry things are hard for you right now. Putting a better face on things is good and I understand the need to want to do that. However, I think honestly addressing the feelings you have, like you just did, is super important. Thanks for sharing here.
Ditto this. Sending you hugs, Calypso.
Sending hugs and positive thoughts. Peace, love, understanding and patience to you on Christmas day.
Hugs to you, Calypso. Does your mom have perfumes she likes or used to like? Perhaps having those around may help.
I’m sorry you are having a tough time. It’s OK to have the feelings you are having. We all get resentful sometimes, it doesn’t take away from the love that you have, or the good that you do. Wishing you a peaceful Christmas.
I’m sorry things are a bit difficult for you. But it is ok to feel that way as we can’t turn off our emotions very easily.
Wishing you peace and comfort. Hugs to you (and your kitties)!
That’s understandable, Calypso, so don’t be hard on yourself. Hugs to you and Merry Christmas.
Being a caregiver is not easy by any stretch of the imagination. Many of us have been in your shoes, dear. We’ve all felt frustrated and sad at one time or another, and I think the holidays exacerbate the situation since we remember the way things were “before”.
It’s okay to vent a little, and as others have said, this is a safe place!
I hope you can find some time for some self care this holiday season. Hugs to you. ????
Wishing you peace, Calypso — that all sounds hard.
Thank you, thank you to everyone who responded in such empathetic and kind ways. It means a lot to me. I need to find a support group of some kind. But thanks for letting me lean on people here. My mom did used to wear perfume, Youth Dew because my dad liked it, and L’Air du Temps and Tresor, which I detest. When I mentioned some of these to her, she says, “Oh no, I’ve never liked fragrances.” I never contradict her, but wow it’s tough. I will now just try to relax into the season with some nice cookie baking and so on. Neighbors in her condo building are hosting a big barbecue tomorrow and I think it’ll be fun.
SOTD = Chanel No. 19
Today is the start of my vacation and I spent the day doing Saturday’s activities (shopping with Mom – Costco and Target today because tomorrow would be a MADHOUSE).
I didn’t I was going to get scented gifts (not counting the from me to me gifts) but lo and behold, my niece and sister-in-law decided to make stuff. My mom and I each received a beautifully packaged set of soap, lip balms and candle. The soap is Charcoal Rose Clay that is gray on top and pink on the bottom; the ingredients are goat milk soap base, rose clay, fragrance oils (orange blossom, oak moss & Amber and rose) and activated charcoal. The lip balms were made with beeswax, coconut oil, sweet almond oil, avocado oil, sweet flavor oil and mica; the Sugar Cookie has buttercream flavor oil while the Candy Cane has peppermint essential oil. The First Snow candle is mad with snowflake❄️ magic ????✨ and fresh air ???????? ????.
Still lots to do preparing gifts!
Looking forward to reading everyone’s picks!
That soap sounds fantastic! I have a friend who also makes lip balms; they seem better than what you can get in the stores. I think it’s the wonderful oils. Enjoy!
I’m wearing Sensual Orchid today and it’s very soft on me. Thanks again!
Happy Holidays to you and your family.
Thank you Gail and right back at you! I’ll probably end up using the soap and lip balms. I think it may be time to retire another soap.that.would.not.die (Kiehl’s ultimate man body scrub soap).
Good call on shopping today. Just the thought of having to venture out to those places tomorrow…????
What lovely gifts from your niece and SIL!
It was super late last night when I saw your comment. You’re so sweet! Right back at ya! I’ve just been AWOL for no good or particular reason…
Good luck prepping your pressies. Merry Christmas!
Leaving Costco was nuts…some cars were going the wrong way just to get out of the parking lot!
Today is my Parfum De Marly Delina day… delish , long lasting and makes me happy.
At night for my sexy night party I will wear PDM Athalia
I also love La Labo Santal and Killian Good Girl gone Bad
Have a wonderful Holiday!