Happy Almost-Friday! What fragrance are you wearing?
My computer is acting up (I'm on the third restart), and I am still looking for my decant of Monsieur Balmain, by Germaine Cellier. Is it going to be one of those days? If it is, I'm probably going to end up in Ouarzazate. Or I'm going to skip the middleman and go straight for the Black Cherry Chocolate Chip.
Reminder: on 3/30, to honor Women's History Month, wear a fragrance by perfumer Germaine Cellier or Josephine Catapano, if you have one. If you don't, wear a fragrance by any female perfumer.
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.
Note: top image is from Balmain's Spring Summer 2018 campaign.
Falling in Love on neck. Tendre on wrists.
Nice!
From the first glance (I haven’t had my coffee yet) I thought you were describing your health conditions
Philosophy Falling in Love and Prada Tendre.
thanks for clarifying !
LOL! I was in a rush!
Today is my “reincarnation day”
Little ones sang to me this morning and gave me lots of hugs and kisses.
I am in my favorite Alahiiiiiiine for my special day and my favorite SipoTD green tea, Nocturne Oriental. Will put on a chanel lippy and meet a friend for matcha later today…
Happy Reincarnation Day!
Happy Birthday! I hope your day is epicly AWESOME!
Sounds like a perfect day, enjoy!
Aw, little singing Buddhas! Enjoy your wonderful Reincarnation Day!
Woot woot! Oh Happy Day!
Happy Birthday! May your day go the way it started!
Thank you! I wish for better weather..but its a good birthday so far
Happy Reincarnation Day! May the wheel spin you ever closer to Nirvana.
Thank you!
Happy Reincarnation Day to you! Sounds like it started off pretty well ????
Happy Reincarnation Day! Enjoy!
Have fun celebrating today !!
Happy birthday!
Nice! hope you had a great day
Happy birthday!
Happy happy day! That’s so sweet of the little ones <3
Wow I’m so slow. I didn’t even get that your Reincarnation Day was your birthday.
Happy birthday!
Have a happy day. One year wiser!
Hope you have a lovely day and get spoiled by your family
Sounds lovely! What does reincarnation day mean?
that is was just my birthday..
A long time ago my yoga teacher said that to me when I told her it was my birthday
Happy Scented Reincarnation Day! ???? ???? ????
I hope you had a wonderful reincarnation day!
Happy reincarnation day!
Sounds like a good day!
Happy Birthday!
Working outdoors since 6am. Grey, rainy day. Wearing Donna Karan Black Cashmere. It always puts a smile on my face!
Raining here too. Keep on smiling ☺
Stay dry and warm! You smell fab!
Thank you KellyC!
I have not smelled it – does it compare at all to black cashmere mist?
They are completely different. Black Cashmere is an incense perfume. Elegant and beautiful, but unfortunately discontinued.
Cashmere Mist is woody and powdery. Liquid Cashmere Black is a syrupy cherry scent. Not my cup of tea.
You smell powerful and wonderful!
Thank you! ????
Dzongkha today. Thursdays are my longest work day so I chose sunbathing that can keep up!
Have a great day, all!
Sunbathing is an autocorrect? But it sounds like the right way to go.
Something* Yikes! It was too early for me.
I still have a few project-relevant perfumes that I haven’t worn yet this week, but they seemed either too wintery (Youth Dew) or summery (Fracas), so I went with VP Mito which smells like a spring garden.
I was not in the mood for Bandit or Fracas either!
Wow – this is the first morning all week that I’m not running ridiculously late in the morning. Haven’t had time to post any of my fragrance choices so far this week, but you haven’t missed much … although yesterday I discovered that I’ve apparently fallen out of love with Equistrius (ohhh noooooo!). Sprayed Eau des Merveilles over it, and that wasn’t half bad. Anyway, today I’m finally participating in the project, although I can’t seem to find a Cellier or Catapano in my hoard. I’m in Daniela Andrier’s Gucci EDP from 2002ish, and it’s lovely.
Before you decide that perfume doesn’t work for you any longer, try wearing it on different season. Though, if you were talking about PdE’s scent, there might be another explanation: last year I thought exactly the same – and a bit later I realized that my decant of that perfume just turned (it wasn’t obvious immediately). Anyway, good luck with figuring this out.
Thanks Undina – it may just be more of a “deep winter” scent for me. I don’t think it has turned … but will certainly investigate further.
Is your SOTD the heavy clear bottle with brown liquid Gucci? That stuff is fantastic!
That’s the one! It is pretty great, isn’t it.
I’m wearing Marni, created by Daniela Andrier. I’m almost out of my mini, so its decision time about a full bottle or not.
Such a nice and easy ‘go to’ perfume, the bottle is gorgeous too!
(+ it’s lovely all year round, more or less.)
It looks like big stores do not sell it any longer. It’s a good and bad news. Good – it means that whatever is sold everywhere online is the original formulation, not quietly changed by the brand but left in the same packaging; and you can probably get it cheaper now. Bad news part – it probably means that it has been discontinued, and if you wait for too long, it’ll get more expensive.
I’ve seen Marni every now and then at TJ Maxx or Marshalls….keep your eye on it and maybe a deal will fall in your lap!
You smell lovely.
In Alaia Alaia.
The last few weeks were spent putting long hours into a work project, which was finalized yesterday literally 10 minutes before a hard deadline. I am very happy & at loose ends today, yay
Good for you!
Haha it certainly is
Good work!
Thank you!
Chin up! Good job
I can’t speak to the quality, but meeting the deadline was a relief!
Congratulations! Now you can relax a little and enjoy your perfume (I never forget to put perfume on, but when I’m too busy at work, I forget to smell it).
Ditto on not forgetting then forgetting
It is so relieving when a deadline is met. Congrats! You smell fantastic!
Thank you! Alaia is so well done!
Congrats – you deserve a long weekend!
I thought about wearing Alaia when I was making coffee this a.m. My H left a trail of Aramis Calligraphy Rose in his wake when he headed out this morning. It made me think of Alaia, but then I forgot all about it. So thanks for the reminder!
You smell fantastic.
Thank you, your husband also smells fantastic!
Happy for you ! You smell great!
A defeated deadline is a good thing! Enjoy time to sniff your scent today!
w00t w00t for making the deadline! Now you can breathe a bit, hopefully.
No Germaine cellier’s in my collection but I have BVLGARI black by annick menardo and a couple of the Prada infusion series by Daniela Andrier which would be good options for this Friday. Today I’m in New York EDT by parfums de nicolai. It’s kind of like a more modern, masculine shalimar. Hope everyone has a great day!
Any of those will work!
I may have to run to Nordstroms tomorrow for a spray of Fracas , as I have a house twin but not a creation of GC’s!
I am testing Arriveè by Matriach and Epiphany this week. Arriveè is a lovely indolic natural jasmine perfume. It has good longevity and a noticeable dry down. They have some amazing incense selections for the week too – no affiliation.
I am on an incense tear!! Wish I had some Quarzazate right now. There is a candle at Aedes…….
Oh, I’d like to have that candle!
I really liked Arrivée too!
“Old formula” Fracas Parfum from a STC decant. Not sure if from late 90s re-release or older. How does the recent compare?
I don’t have any recent so I don’t even know, sorry.
I passed on a vintage parfum Fracas on Etsy- just never know on the condition.
I have a more recent Fracas. Let me know if you would like to try it and I will send you some.
I would happily accept your kind offer ????. Thank you will send an email.
Good morning Y’all….
Smelling sweet and innocent in ELdO Yes I Do. I must be anosmic to the musk note, but the orange blossom is really pretty….
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Offer good thru 04/29/2018….
Nice enabling.
I approve of this enabling post.
“Offer good thru 04/29/2018” makes me suspect they’re gearing up for a packaging change (or something along those lines.) Clearly they’re hoping to sell off their entire inventory, no?
Thanks for the link!
If it makes you feel any better, their last sale was also for a full month (I think end of Nov to end of Dec).
Thank you! I bought Fils de Dieu last time you posted a code for them. This time it might be Fat Electrician…
I might have to buy You or Someone Like You!
Sigh, I have my eye on Fat Electrician too… Their Cologne is also my favorite does-what-it-says-on-the-bottle cologne; it’s just so perfect, but I definitely do not need that many ml of classic cologne.
EdM. Gotta post and run.
Happy Almost Friday!!
woot-woot! you smell fab!
You smell wonderful!
It’s Atelier Cologne Rose Anonyme kind of day.
Has anyone seen Spring? If yes, could you please tell her that she’s needed in Poland? Thank you!
No spring here, cold rain and more wintery mix expected for Easter. As soon as I hear a bird or see anything green, I will send it your way.
I’m still wearing my winter perfumes here in the southern US
Me too! It’s been unseasonably chilly all week in my neck of the woods….
Spring is coming though….2 fawns crossed in front of my car on Saturday, and I posted a pic of a Canada goose tending her eggs in front of my office building yesterday! Isn’t this ADORABLE? #SpringBabies
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bg4Mk3FB2-w/?taken-by=jadainga99
Aww, so cute!
Lovely, lovely choice. I told Spring to go to Poland but she is currently on the beach in California!
I wouldn’t mind to send you a HUGE decant of Spring (though, to my nose it’s more like Summer): it’s going to be 27C/80F here today! The only hope is that with A/C it will be at least office-friendly.
No Spring here either
You smell great!
I’ve seen her…she’s a fickle creature. Last week, she was grey and gloomy, rainy and overall cranky. This week, she’s all sunshine and warm and softness. I assume you want the latter…sending her your way.
Sampling Sex and the Sea today from Francesca Bianchi which is so far not doing anything for me.
That name just doesn’t do it for me. At all. Hope it smells better than it sounds????
SotD = Un Jardin sur le Nil
le Nil works best for me in cool weather, so I better wear it now. On hot days it has a slight metallic edge I prefer to avoid.
Ten consecutive days wearing scents from Hermes. Go me!
JslN is still my favorite from Hermes, though my sister wears JeM beautifully.
You smell great!
thanks, dstsauve! the jardins are among my favorites.
go you!
thanks! I can even go a few more days with Hermes.
very lovely !
aw, thank you!
You smell lovely!
thanks, Lillibet. I’m glad I gave le Nil a few tries and finally found I like it very much.
Heh, I was thinking about Hermes today although not perfume ????
lol! leather, maybe?
Metal ????
I was thinking of getting my annual bangle earlier than the Nov / Dec from me to me Christmas gift.
SOTD Suleko Djelem (owner Anastasia Sokolowa, perfumer Cécile Zarokian). It’s cozy in this grey, misty day.
Robin, did you find your Monsieur Balmain? If so, we are twins! I always say Jolie Madame is my favorite Cellier but boy, I just freaking love this and am so delighted to have it around me today. I don’t wear it often, for the happy reason that my husband does.
Drat, my computer locked up for the fourth time and I just gave up on the MB, and changed my mind about the Ouarzazate too so put on some Theorema instead — I bet you smell great!
Hope your day improves Robin! At least you smell wonderful in Theorema!
Thank you! Could have been better but also could have been way worse, and at least I had the ice cream, ha!
I have had excel crash on me about 7 times. Mercury Retrograde…
Aha, that must be it then!
Wearing Jungle l’Elephant, thanks to the Swapmeet! This stuff is so strange and out of my comfort zone but I like it. It’s warmth is working well on a dreary damp day.
Love that one! my 5ml splash lasted for 3 winters, but it’s gone now, need to find some more for next winter.
You smell wonderful!
The elephant knows how to trumpet, but in a lovely way!
Hahaha
I really like to wear that in the depths of winter but just a touch LOL. It lingers well on clothes so a touch on a scarf will last for evers too lol
Wearing a very small spritz of Hermes 24F. Someone here described it as fancy soap yesterday, and that just sounded so appealing this morning. I think I will like this better in warm weather, it loses some of the soapiness then and becomes more floral.
I think you smell so good!
24F is so so beautiful. You smell fabulous. I got excited about orange blossom after reading Angela’s article here on NST. I just sniffed my bottle of 24F. Today the weather is cool, and I do get a bit of the soapy feeling. So nice.
Joining all you Hermes folks in Caleche. This one is even soapier (imnho) than 24 F, although 24 F smells even more like money than Caleche. Whatever, they’re all great!
I tried Caleche for the first time a few days ago. It is a beauty. You smell wonderful.
And agree, 24F smells even more like money!
First and most important…. Happy Baseball Opening Day! We all start equal today, Go Tigers! Next important, a perfume disaster for me this morning. I sprayed on my beloved Camilla Intrepide, from a new Sephora sample, and within one minute Perfume Headache! It came on so fast and just awful. I took 4 ibuprofen and took a shower, its subsided some, but it will be a long time before I attempt to wear CI again. On the upside, I now have a legitimate reason to lay on the couch and watch baseball, instead of all the productive things I had originally planned lol ????
Ouchie! Sorry about the perfume headache. I get those too. It’s funny/ironic/absurd to love perfume when sometimes it bites back! I take aleve and go to bed when that happens. Hope you feel better fast.
And thanks for the reminder that it’s opening day. I must call my baseball-loving dad today and talk teams.
Dang it! Game postponed due to rain! Grrrr….
Bummer on all accounts ???? Is it a migraine? I never get an immediate headache from perfume. Maybe tension headache from something that grates on me. My husband gets those immediate headaches, though. I have to be careful spraying around him.
No, not a migraine. Definitely perfume headache, doesn’t happen to often. The last time was when I over sprayed a tester of Manifesto on myself at Kohls. Its down to a dull ache now, I’m just happy it didn’t happen while I was working.
Awful! Rest and relax. You deserve it!
Thanks!
Double drat on the perfume headache and your postponed game! Has anyone said when the game will start? ⚾
It got rescheduled for tomorrow, while I will be working ????
I’m wearing Rubj EdP again from my sample.. I am so in love with this. Beautiful.
I LOVE Rubj, it’s definitely on the FB list. Have you tried any others from the line? I personally like Kiki and Mito and wouldn’t turn down bottles of either if they fell into my lap
Hello all!
1) Got my quarterly water bill from City of Portland. Highway robbery, long story short.
2) SOTD is a melange: Rose jam shower gel (Lush) with Almond & Honey body cream (The Body shop) and Lust perfume (solid stick, Lush). I smell the very opposite of my hellish temper.
“I smell the very opposite of my hellish temper”
But I do! Very romantic happy with roses and jasmine. BUT let me tell you I let City Hall have a piece of my mind.
Our water bills are insane, so you are not alone!
Argh! Okay, so Ii don’t sound like such a brat.
You’d think that water would be fairly inexpensive in Portland?
Right? Maybe they’re selling their water to California.
1) We actually DON”T sell water to CA! Many NoCal cities share a watershed with Colorado and Nevada, actually, which is not so great.
2) You WOULD think water would be cheaper so, but we get all sort of fees tacked on our bills, and reads like BS to me, to be honest.
Sometimes pricing is jacked to cover the cost of infrastructure projects. Maybe that’s what’s going on. Or water is just expensive.
Water is precious and expensive, which is why I do water saving measures! But as my friends pointed out on the bill, my usuage is low, but the fees are VERY high, and are due to infrastructure bills from YEARS before.
You may have a water leak if the amount is way above your normal. Also, was it an estimate or an actual meter reading?
This was the actual meter read. I had already checked for leaks before, back when I had hat roof leak, but that does not then mean that one did not spring up.
In Burberry Brit Rhythm (for her) today. I find this one so comforting for some reason. One of the perfumers is female I believe so I am participating.
I need the weekend bad. This weekend is dragging and I am missing my fiance so fiercely for a few days. Trying not to think about it but ugh. Hoping he’s home next week.
I have a sample of Brit Rhythm somewhere, I need to find it and try it soon.
Hope your weekend picks up speed with something fun along the way.
Allergies are acting up, so today’s SOTD is Mure et Musc Cologne by L Artisan Parfumeur layered over the body oil, light and easy on the sinuses…
Today’s my Friday as campus is closed tomorrow for Caesar Chavez holiday. *happy dance*
Hope the allergies pass quickly for you. Last night I sniffed the jar of vicks vaporub to clear my breathing.
Today is my “logical Friday” too so I’m dancing along with you.
Excellent! Let the Perfume dance party commence!
Bleah, allergies!
And The World Is Yours today.
This one is lovely. Hope they release as part of the regular line.
That would be great, I’ve heard good drinks – I would love to smell it!
Things! good things I have heard ????
They should! Shame to waste a glorious Dominique Ropion creation on a tiny limited edition bottle.
Still off theme (the story of my life it seems!) in SB Smoked Ambergris. Never did get any hiking in yesterday because I was in town all day doing “in town stuff.” And it’s still not done since I have to find someplace that has MMR boosters, grrrr!
Otherwise beautiful breezy day full of sunshine. It seems odd to not have to burrow down into my 0 degree sleeping bag. Now that I’m back in the land of sunshine I have noticed two things: 1) I’ve chunked up nicely and 2) my feet are in a shambles! So, time to buckle down on caloric intake and expenditure! I also whipped out the microplane and foot care stuff yesterday to get sandal ready.
My next contact starts 4/9 and I would really like to have the week before out in the woods somewhere with no work related appointments. We’ll see how that goes…
Happy Almost Friday Day✌????
I have to say how much I enjoy reading about your gypsy life, perfumed or not. Giddyup!
Thanks, I’m headed to Napa Ca for 3 months, So if you (or anyone!) wants to recommend something in the area, I’m all ears! ????????
Oh wow that sounds amazing. Never been to Napa but I’ve heard it’s beautiful. And wine ????
Wine! I’m going to try and get a bit more educated about wine. I’m sure I can enthusiastically taste test! I’m just lacking a designated driver…
Oh, nice. I do wonder how the recovery is coming along…
I was just reading up on that…
Have you thought about going to Mandy Aftel’s perfume museum? It’s in Berkeley. I’m dying to go.
Hey now, I had no clue! That’s a great idea and I will add it to my list of adventures!
Have you tried going to an urgent care for an MMR? Or local health department?
Finally found it at a local compounding pharmacy, Thanks!
Good luck to you Deva! Too bad about SSS ???? my grandmother also worked in Palm Springs for many years ????????????????
I know! I would have loved touring Laurie’s gem…!
Congrats on your latest contract! Hope this one goes well for you. How is T-Rex liking California so far?
T-Rex is pretty flexible. As long as she gets to socialize and be the center of attention, eat, and play ball, she’s golden????
Congrats on the new contract! Natural light reveals a lot, as I found out for myself when I had pictures taken outside.
???? I bet you look like a movie star, even in natural light. I always imagine you as very put together with nary a hair out of place. You probably don’t even break a sweat when your work out. Or even during your worst commuter woes…!
Hello, dear NSTers. I’m in the lovely Vanira Moorea from the generous flopper today. It’s not helping me de-stress, though.
A perfume package from eBay was supposedly delivered to a parcel locker for me yesterday at 2:48 pm, but when I got home, there was nothing in my mailbox–no package, no key to one of the larger lockers, no code to the automated package locker. I’ve tried calling USPS a number of times, but the automated system doesn’t have anything helpful to say besides that the package was delivered. How do I talk to a person to get them to help me find the package??? And what recourse do I have on eBay if a package SAYS it’s been delivered but is nowhere to be found?
This is not what you want to hear, but from my experience you have very little recourse if the tracking history shows delivered but you didn’t actually receive it. USPS will be of little to no help, unless you get lucky. And years ago when this happened to me on eBay, there was no help in the matter. The seller had done their part in shipping with tracking but USPS messed up.
I had this happen about 6 weeks ago on a purchase from a fellow perfume lover on FB (a great deal on a partial bottle of Anubis!). I think it was delivered to the wrong address. I left a note for my mail carrier with the tracking number explaining the situation, but the package has never made its way to me. ????
You’re right, this is NOT what I want to hear
Oh no! I think the seller or eBay is more likely to help you than the post office. Also, did you double-check the address you had it sent to? I know that sounds obvious but PayPal autocomplete has tripped me up in the past.
Aside from that I can’t offer much but sympathy! Tell us what was supposed to be in it so we can at least sympathize properly.
Double-checked the address; it’s correct.
It’s l’Artisan Parfumeur Venenum, in one of those gorgeous bee bottles
I am very, very sad. I was really looking forward to it.
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Oh, so sorry to hear this. Doesn’t it drive you nuts? It’s not so much the financial loss, for me, as it is the disappointment in losing something looked forward to that would have been a lasting pleasure.
Yes! Well, both. It was not a cheap bottle (it’s Venenum), but ALSO I was looking forward to it. And ALSO it’s really souring me on eBay
between this and another bottle I ordered over the weekend that still hasn’t been shipped.
Do you live in a apartment complex? Maybe it went to the office?
I called and asked
it is not in the office, and it’s not in any of the parcel lockers 
they said they’d ask the mail carrier when he comes by later today, but I’m losing hope.
You can try calling eBay and see what they say. If they’re not helpful, I’d call PayPal and see if you can get a refund. If you use PayPal a lot, they’re likely to give you a refund. It’s worth trying…
Ooh, Paypal–good idea. Thanks for the suggestion. I’d rather get my money back and have no package than have neither money nor package (though I want my package!!!
).
Yeah, that’s a bummer but I’d also want to at least recoup my $.
Try going to your local post office in person; I’ve had better luck with that than calling USPS centrally.
Ugh lines. Good idea; I’ll try that.
That’s what I’d do, too. Or call the local office, like Petunia says below.
Have you tried calling your local post office rather than calling their automated line?
It had not even OCCURRED to me that they would have their own number. I just timed out in the call twice now, but I will try repeatedly during the day. Thanks!
You know what, everyone? Maybe this was the kick in the pants I needed to curb my spending. I need to add up my expenditures, but I really have been spending an ABSURD amount of money on perfume lately.
The Universe has spoken! I have had delivery issues and once lost money on a Posh Peasant package that was misdelivered by my local mailman. I called the local post office and the mailman went to the house and left a note but the folks never responded to his request to return the package even though it had been tracked as being delivered there by GPS. The local post office told me to contact the vendor (Posh Peasant) to file a claim but she refused to so I was out the money. What I should have done was contact my credit card company and tell them not to pay her but I didn’t. However, I also took that as a sign to stop buying perfume.
Booooo
that’s a good idea, though—seeing if my credit card can do anything useful here.
a point in the other direction: i had a package that showed as being delivered to my apartment, when it hadn’t been. i happened to be home when the mailman was delivering, and let him know the situation. he told me that it had been a different mail person that day, and that he would look into it. a couple days later, the package was delivered! so definitely either call or go in and talk to someone!
Fingers crossed–thanks for the encouragement!
I’m so sorry this happened: what a helpless feeling. I’ve never had the exact thing occur but I’ve had problems with delivery of swaps. So far things have worked out o.k. I go to the post office that services my part of the city. I am VERY NICE, calm friendly when speaking with the clerk. This usually gets a good response because they are used to people being angry with them. Ask nicely if they will look in back for you.
Also, I’ve had amazon packages marked as delivered that arrived a day or two later.
Good luck. I hope the package still makes its way to you.
Thanks for the excellent advice! I would do well to listen to it always. More flies with honey, etc.
Well, in hopes of maintaining a bit of positivity, I sent a package to an NSTer (Flopper, I think) and it was never scanned and tracked after leaving my local post office. I think it was almost 3 weeks later it finally showed up…So, don’t give up and get bitter and scurrilous about the USPS, like I did!
Three weeks, wow! I’ll try not to get bitter. A kind NSTer sent me a package, and the tracking info said it was like…in review or something two weeks later. She sent me a second, similar package, which arrived in just a few days. Then a few weeks later, the original package finally arrived! So, yeah, I’ll cross my fingers.
I.m so sorry! Venenum is wonderful, it would be sad to lose it. I would go to the PO in person and inquire politely if they can help. Failing that, I would contact Paypal and then my credit card company, in that order.
So sorry about your package.m it may yet turn up. My mom’s friend mailed her 3 books almost a moth ago and the package never made its way to her.
THE PACKAGE HAS BEEN FOUND!!!!! Full report to come tomorrow.
YAY!!! Does this mean you will be back to more perfume shopping?
Hahahaha maaaaaaybe?
Oh my! Vintage Bandit EDT is leather and oakmoss overload! I probably should have tested this before committing to wear it to work. I also accidentally used up half of my sample vial when applying. I had to rub a paper towel on my neck when I got to work to dull it a little.
Uh oh! It’s happened to the best of us!
Ooooooh, that sounds wonderful!!!
Saving my final Germaine Cellier for tomorrow, and today I am wearing Cuir de Lancome by Calice Becker and Pauline Zanoni. Two female perfumers, so it still counts. This one is probably the most delicate and refined leather fragrance in my collection.
Oops, I forgot! I’m wearing Neela Vermeire Creations NIRAL today. I’ll dab on a little Youth Dew when I get home tonight!
Oh please do tell, how is Niral?
Jessica posted a review today about Niral that is making me drool!
Niral is beautiful.
You’ve already tried it?? So jealous. Ok I just looked it up and saw that luckyscent has samples. I might cave and break my no-buying-samples rule.
Cartier Baiser Vole by Mathilde Laurent.
Nice choice.
Hello, NST. Best of good mornings to all. And thank you for welcoming me back so warmly— I caught up with everyone’s posts really late in the afternoon and my quick time calculations suggested all sensible people in the other hemisphere would be asleep, so I didn’t post again. Here it’s already Good Friday, and I must say I’ve never been so happy to see a long weekend arrive. The education sector in A-NZ gets the Tuesday after Easter as well, so yay! Five days I have a couple of fiestas planned, but more siestas.
I’m not on track for the project this week, but I am enjoying Traversee du Bosphore very much. It’s sweet and easy and fun, but still quite interesting. It will be lovely for a long walk through the still of the morning. Our summer is grimly persevering and looking a bit tattered now, butvin the very early morning and the evening, if you look hard. You can see the promise of autumn and cooler weather. TdB seems to me to be a perfume for cool weather perfume.
I’m really enjoying smelling nice. I even wore perfume to bed last night! I have a plan to revisit Upper Ten to see if I really do like it as much as my first contact told me I did. I will hesitate to buy, though: it’s 400 eye watering dollars for a bottle!
So, I should go and feed the felines. Eric arrived about three minutes ago dragging Laslo Bear (bigger than he is), and is now sitting on my feet gazing at me fixedly. I think that’s his “What about some bunny for my inner Eric?” look. It behoves me to get up and attend to his needs.
Be well, all
And I’m sorry about the typos and punctuation errors. I know I’m prone to them when I post here, but today is worse than usual, I think. In my defence, I’m using an iPhone, and I find it unfriendly for these purposes.
We are having a beautiful autumn down here with still, crisp mornings. The trees are turning and dropping their leaves, and the rose bushes are covered in rosehips, craggy old crabapples are bright red, the bracken is a beautiful rust colour, lots of conkers on the ground beneath the chestnuts.
Have a good break!
It all sounds gorgeous!
Sounds heavenly. We are having a beautiful spring, if a little soggy right now, with lots of flowering trees. Some of the best are the redbuds, whose flowers are really more on the purple side.
Traversee du Bosphore is nice and easy to wear. Lucky you having such a long weekend.
SOTD is Neela Vermiere’s Rahele. I applied generously this morning but it’s barely a skin scent now.
It’s my favorite NV scent. You smell great! (but yes, it does disappear on me too)
Thanks Suzie Q. I love it too. I went through two or three decants then finally caved for a FB. One of my top ten.
Ed Sheeran is playing three concerts in Dunedin and that means that the population of the city has literally doubled as 105 000 fans roam through town. It’s like a royal visit with special landscaping added to the streets, a big mural of his face on a building, shop windows with ginger haired mannequins , egg sheeran specials in cafes. I’m afraid I couldn’t even name an Ed Sheeran song though I can sort of get the vibe of ‘I’m ok, you’re ok too, but better’. Everyone is happy so it’s cool. I loved the weed day yesterday and paid hommage to all the weeds in my collection ….blackberry, rye, bracken….as I did my morning walk on the hill. Sprocket insists I throw pinecones but it’s still so dark at 7 that he can’t see them and we spend ages sniffing them out (him nit me) Dogs! Micro managers with tails. Honey and Crocus for me on this Good Friday. Happy easter!
“Egg Sheeran” specials, that’s funny. Do they include tomatoes or some other reddish ingredient?
One of my colleagues went to Ed Shearin’s concert and summed it up as “Meh”. I tried to look as though I knew what she was “meh-ing” about, but I don’t think I did a convincing job. I was trying for an expression that suggested informed and engaged sympathy ( sooo expensive! how disappointing!) but I think I probably just looked confused.
I just listened to a song for research purposes and images of Hugh Grant movies from the 1990s sprung to mind
Ack! That bad!
You smell wonderful, I just purchased Honey & Crocus today.
Opened my new bottle of No. 5 Eau Premeire. I am finding it to be a very pretty, accessible version of a classic. If I wear the original No. 5 I always feel a little self-conscious, but this gives the same idea without making me feel like I’m playing dress-up.
You smell wonderful. This one is in my top 5 favorite perfumes.
You smell lovely!
L’heure Bleue, which was a big No when I first tried it, but is now my favorite rainy day scent. Opening Day is a big deal here, too, and the big bosses here gave out free pretzels with mustard.
Always a YAY! For free pretzels! Who is your team?
I’m not really a baseball fan, but if I’m for anyone, its the Mets. How about you?
Detroit Tigers, I don’t think our teams play much. It’s usually the Yankees
This morning on the radio I heard little kids singing “Meet the Mets, meet the mets…” So cute!
L’heure Bleue is soooo gooood on a rainy day.
The edp was a no for me at first too. So I tried the edt and liked it, then went back to the edp and liked it even better. My nose is fickle, hahaha.
I”m wearing Boucheron Initial from an old, old bottle. I unearthed it while I was looking for Zen, thinking I had the original one, but mine is the Zen in the white oddly-shaped bottle, not the black one, but its being white is why I found myself reaching for Initial instead…. I know, long story! Both of those go way back including the white bottle Zen. I used to love Initial, and it’s still quite nice, though I think mine is a bit off by now. I seem to have a poor representation of fragrances by female perfumers, but have a couple I’m saving for Friday.
I tried gold bottle Zen yesterday ( at the shops) but it didn’t remind me of old Zen . It is meant to have a pineapple note but I didn’t get that either.
Fighting what seem to be allergies and a bad night’s sleep (finally gave up the struggle at about 1:45 am and got up and read for an hour…)
I dove into the box of scents my sister left and decided to spray on a Couvent des Minimes Orange Blossom Skin Softening Floral Water. Based on some online research, this bottle may be about 10 years old… it’s actually very nice. Was realistic and dry rather than sweet awhile ago when I sprayed. Seems to be getting a bit sweeter. Trying to figure out how to get this home with me, since I only have carry on (yes, it’s a month long visit with just carry on…) I could leave it here, but have to tell the other sister to not steal it.
Hope you start to feel better soon. Allergies are the pits especially when they mess eith your sleep !
Maybe you can mail it to yourself instead?
So sorry about your allergies!
Wearing Laurie Erickson’s lovely Fig Tree today. She’s one of my favorite female perfumers.
Has anyone heard any news about someone possibly taking over her business?
Last post I got (maybe 2 weeks ago? ) said she still hasn’t found anyone.
Thanks, that’s too bad.
It’s Opening Day! ⚾️
So my SOTD is the closest I can get to a ballpark-y frag: Dzing!
Who cares if it’s one of those days where I’ve been dropping stuff left and right and keep making a mess out of myself?? Baseball’s back!!????????
Got my scent for tomorrow’ project ready, and I’m looking forward to seeing what everyone else picks…
Hey Baseball fan twin! We got rained out, hoping for a game tomorrow.
The Long Weekend is Here! Well here in Australia it is and hopefully it’s not too far away for the rest of you as well. I am sitting in bed with coffee and a small warm tuxedo cat curled in my lap catching up on blogs. Inspired by Easter I am wafting Fort & Manle’s Charletan’s dark chocolate-truffley roses while I scoff toasted hot cross buns and listening to my seven year old boy hilariously voice all the characters in the game he is playing with himself in the next room. Bliss!
Yum, hot cross buns! Wish I had some but they are not available here in San Diego. If I were in Montreal I’d be scoffing them too.
Really? I didn’t realise that they were such an English-centric thing. (At least I presume that’s what Canada and Australia’s joint enthusiasm for them would have in common). They are everywhere here (they start selling them almost immediately after Xmas lol).
Yummy! Our local supermarket is now selling hot cross buns…I bet Charlatan smells great!
I also have a four day weekend
Hope you enjoy yours!
I swear that this Mercury in retrograde thing is real! I’ve had so many typos in emails lately (most of them caught before sending, thankfully) that it just isn’t even funny. Some of them even look like one of the cats walked all over the keyboard. ????
SOTD = Anniebelles Rose, from Soivohle. Yep, I’m back on the wagon again! This is a beautiful, sorta fruity rose scent. Sometimes the roses are pink, and sometimes they are yellow. It’s a great match for the ridiculously warm weather (for my area) that has rolled in. ???? ???? ????
heehee, kitties on keyboards, so cute, you made me lol.
Robin, sorry to hear that you are having computer issues today! Sounds like the Sam Kinison scream could come in handy…
Nothing works as well as ????
Did not have a SOTD until I got my swap package from the lovely Kelly and am trying Slow Explosions from Imaginary Authors. A very elegant, leathery rose. Something I would never have thought to try myself, but it is really pretty. Also indulging in toasted blueberry Poptarts and coffee on a drizzly afternoon.
Ooh that sounds delightful on all fronts!
I haven’t had a Poptart in ages, although I do make it a point to check out the available flavors. In my mental ranking, the worst one so far is Fanta Orange. Oh shudder.
Very late to the party!
SOTD = Prada Infusion d’Iris Absolue
Woman perfumer ✅ (Daniella Andrier). I was inspired by what Robin wore yesterday.
It’s a workday for me tomorrow. I know which perfume I am going to wear tomorrow; it’s a fun one!
Ahh, you smelled fab today.
Thank you. I, ummm, used 7 sprays and whoa, the vanilla came out to play from top to bottom.
7! (I really am a wuss, I know)
House twins!!!!! Well, I was, yesterday -LOL! (while you were posting I was already asleep in bed
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Late check in….again. Participating in the CP in Juste un Reve, by one of my favorite female perfumers, Patricia de Nicolaï.
Thanks to Kelly and the swapmeet, I’m trying something completely different from my usual scent style, and I like it!