Happy Almost-Friday! It's also Sun Day. Birthdays today: James Brown and Bing Crosby. What fragrance are you wearing?
I'm in Guerlain Terracotta Le Parfum, from a cute travel bottle that a very kind reader muled back from Paris for me.
Reminder: on 5/4, May The Fourth Be With You...it's Star Wars Day. Do what you like with the theme!
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 Dove and papaya [cropped] by Winniepix at flickr; some rights reserved.
I love that picture!
I’m wearing Patou 1000 myself. It provides some much needed spine stiffening.
Isn’t that a great image??
Keep that spine straight!!
The colors in that photo are fabulous.
Your sotd makes me happy. 😀 The weather here will approach “hot” tomorrow. I’ve moved my neglected bottle of Terracotta to the front of the perfume cupboard to ensure it will get some love very soon.
We got to hot today!! I am in shorts, and quite pleased.
You smell lovely. I had a vintage mini and never thought of it a spine-stiffening scent though. I would probably describe it as ‘exquisite floral’. I hope it helps you!
It does, I find it quite austere, but in a good way.
It is helping! And exquisite floral is just as good a description.
Why change a good thing…back in Chanel Allure Homme Edition Blanche.
That’s my favorite Chanel for men
That flanker is a mouthful
I am wearing SL L’Eau Froide. It was not on my original list for this week, but it’s been so hot here since yesterday… I had to come up with fresher scents which fit the project. I think L’Eau Froide (incense, mint, aquatic notes) is a good scent for jedi – purity, spirituality and no personal attachments.
Good link to Star Wars! I need to come up with something for tomorrow….
I really like L’Eau Froide. Good job connecting it to Star Wars too.
Very nice. ????I wore some yesterday before my shower, it makes me think of the caves of Hoth. I ended up in Penhaligon’s Empressa for the evening, which feels like something a galactic senator might wear.
Wafting Uncle Serge’s Encens et Lavande.
It is the cool mauve of the lower atmosphere of any water-dominant planet. It also smells amazing
You smell good!
Oh I love that one. Instant calm in a bottle.
Mmm Encens et Lavande…you smell so good.
You smell great! 🙂
One of my favourites! You smell lovely!
Oh that’s a great one. It was on my short list when I was trying to decide on bell jars on my Paris trip. It didn’t make the cut, but maybe someday….
SOTD Cire Trudon II (Deux). That sounds kind of Star Wars-y and that’s probably gonna be my best try for the CP (I’m not a SW buff, which is an understatement).
And it’s good enough!
House cousins with Robin
Feeling very sexy in this hot weather in Encens Mythique, thanks to a very kind NSTer
Today my 3 year old little monkey made my matcha latte from start to finish
Wow – I know nothing about matcha lattes, but I do know coffee lattes and they’re not that easy. Good for the little monkey!
You smell pretty darn good 🙂
I do! What the sidewalks of NYC smell like today 😉
I am so grateful for this decant!!!!!!
I bow to your parenting skills!!
Budding barista!
That’s awesome! Little monkey matcha maker…?
Anything that involves tools (like the bamboo whisk) and pouring she is interested in. I have a very expensive ceramic matcha bowl, and when she is moving it around my heart is thumping in my chest..but I am able to step back and let her lead…
So impressive! I’m just now getting the hang of it myself at 41 ha!
Its really great that both of them are interested, but as you know, matcha is not cheap!
Mmm matcha latte.
You mentioning espadrilles yesterday convinced me I need those as well. They are summer-y, comfortable, go well with jeans, long skirts, short dresses, shorts etc., and they are sturdy enough for the cobblestoned dusty Mediterranean towns I soon hope to visit.
So I bought a pair of flat suede espadrilles in a beautiful deep red colour. I am so happy with them!
ah!!! Great do you have a photo?
Here is the link for mine
https://shop.nordstrom.com/s/caslon-cain-ankle-tie-sandal-women/4783974?origin=keywordsearch-personalizedsort&fashioncolor=NUDE%20SUEDE%2F%20GOLD%20LEATHER
no affiliation to nordies
Oh those are lovely! Perfect choice.
These are mine:
https://www.lkbennett.com/product/SFELSIESUEDENAPPARedPoppy~Elsie-Suede-Espadrille-Sandals-Poppy
(No affiliation)
wow! those are super cute!
I need some red shoes…
SOTD is The girl by Tommy Hilfiger
Not very StarWarsy, in my opinion. Maybe the maids of Queen Amidala would have worn it, or else Rey has found a bottle in the desert and wears it at night to imagine a kinder life 🙂
Nice tie in!
Enjoying this public holiday of 3rd of May (Polish constitution) and wearing new Aedes Musc Encensé. It’s animalic and smoky yet clear and transparent at the same time.
Enjoy your day!
Oh. I’m looking forward to try that one. I love the Signature Aedes scent.
That new Aedes scent sounds gorgeous!
I’m in Cristalle EDT today, just because.
You smell fabulous!
You smell terrific!
Perfect!
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Thank you all for your support and encouraging words yesterday. They helped me immensely. It was a tough day, but I survived. Still hoping for better days to come.
I am in a big, gorgeous cloud of Bvlgari Au the Bleu …. Shampoo, gel shower and many, many sprays of the perfume (thanks once again Downtown Scott!). Today, is very hot here and the tea note is very strong. I can get some lavender also. However, in colder temperatures the iris and lavender are very pronounced, especially the iris. In any case, I am loving and enjoying this fragrance. It gives me so much peace, comfort and puts a smile on my face. Beautiful!
I haven’t been around this week but I hope things continue to improve for you ????
Still haven’t tried Au The Bleu but your description is lovely!
Thank you! Hope things get better for you too. I can send you a sample if you would like to try it.
monica67@aol.com
Such a wonderful description, I’ve only smelt it on a paper strip, must remedy that soon!
So glad u got through yesterday, and are feeling positive about better days to come, they surely will!
Thank you. It is indeed a very lovely scent!
I love to layer. Glad you are enjoying!!
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I bet the shower gel is amazing! Here’s to better days!
It is. Give it a try whenever you have a chance.
I hope it gets better for your. All those layers of Bvlgari Au The Bleu – wow! I think I would especially enjoy the shower gel on a hot day.
It is very refreshing and comfy for spring and summer time.
I missed your post, but sending you positive thoughts and hopes for better days to come.
Thank you Cazaubon. Hope so too!
sending you peace! om
Thank you. So much needed!
Hugs your way! Enjoy your cloud of Au the Bleu!
Hugs back. I am really enjoying Au the Bleu in on this very hot day.
Tea and lavender. Stand next to me!
Coming over now! ????
That’s a perfect, refreshing scent for today. Wishing you much better days ahead. You’re a survivor!!
Thank you Elisa P. Not easy, but I am trying my best.
Hope you are enjoying the weather.
Pleased as punch to hear that you made it through yesterday!
So relieved I made it!
Keeping my fingers crossed for those better days <3
Thank you!
I’ve been commando for a few days so wafting Shalimar today, coincidentally an homage to Bing’s Deep Purple since that’s the color of Shalimar to my nose. My elderly mother has been ill so I stayed with her for a couple days and had no perfume with me!
Sending good thoughts for you and your mom.
Hoping your mom feels better soon.
Hugs for your mom. And you smell terrific.
Thanks everyone y’all are so nice 🙂
Sending comforting hugs to you and your mom. Hope she feels better soon.
Fingers crossed that your mother is feeling better now. ????
Wearing Azemour today, this is my go to fragrance when I have a cold.
Great choice!
You smell gorgeous! Hope your cold gets better quickly.
Get well soon!
I’m wearing Zoologist Elephant today. Almost out of my sample.
I ordered samples of Hyrax and Moth yesterday. I’m excited to try them out.
It took me awhile but Elephant really grew on me.
Spritz lightly with Moth, it packs a real spice wallop. I suspect it’s more of a winter-appropriate scent.
Oh, that’s interesting, since I get more of the florals like heliotrope, plus honey, and have been spraying it (Moth) on thick the past few days here in 80-degree Houston! I plan to order it tomorrow, the first day the travel spray and perfume will become available!
Also–I too began to like Elephant more when I tried it on the weekend. I didn’t give it enough time before to develop because I was rather put off by the juicy green stuff at the start. I quite like it once it’s gotten calmer.
PS I think this interview is interesting, plus, you’ve got to love the cute dogs!
https://www.zoologistperfumes.com/blogs/news/an-interview-with-tomoo-inaba-perfumer-of-zoologist-moth
Wow, good for you! I never got past all the spice, and I just did one tiny spritz from the sample vial. It went straight from spicy to smoky honey for me. It smells good, but on my skin it’s not a warm weather scent.
Yes, I’m not even a honey scent lover, but something about this one just wows me. I find it very complex. The interview DOES mention all the spice, so you’re right. Funny I hadn’t really noticed that except for pepper. I find the heliotrope very prominent.
My Elephant sample is almost gone too and I will definitely be getting a little bottle. I love how long the crushed-leaves greenness lasts
I’m in Apres l’Ondee. Fairly drenched myself in it this morning. Am feeling really ill with fever and a bad headache, and I think I would find almost any other scent unbearable today. Apres l’Ondee smells smooth and cool, like a cold compress against the forehead.
Feel better! I woke with a terrible headache too, they are the worst.
Thanks – hope yours clears up rapidly!
Very soothing.
Hope you are feeling well soon!
You smell great. Apres L’Ondee is one of just a few scents I can bear to wear when I have headache.
Thank you. It is very pure and light, I don’t wear it nearly enough 🙂
allergies?
No, a nasty bug, I think. Managed to avoid them all winter too!
Feel better soon Kately. You smell great!
Sorry you are sick, and hope you’ll improve soon.
Boo to the Sping fever. Hope it passes soon!
Apres l’Ondee is lovely and soothing. Good choice.
I’m wearing Wood Violet from my last SSS order. Perfect for an overcast spring day.
I grabbed some of that as well. Perfect for gray
I’m in Diptyque L’Ombre Dans L’Eau (EDT) for the 90 degree day. I have a feeling this perfume will be in heavy rotation this summer. I sniffed it in a store years ago and was too bowled over by the sharpness of it to give it a chance then, but fortunately I tried it again. It really settles down beautifully. The first five minutes is still challenging though.
I actually really love that sharpness. You smell wonderful.
I do too! Nastywoman, be careful, it might grow on you!
Last weekend I wore it when I was outside gardening, and the first blast was perfect mixed with the outdoors and dirt!
Gorgeous!
Alas, I’m not very knowledgable about Star Wars (but I do like the Fast & Furious movies if you need another movie-theme idea). Wearing Ostara on what looks to be the last nice spring day here in the desert (they’re predicting 100 degrees on Sunday!).
I’m thinking that goes with Naboo…a green, verdant planet. (I know, I’m getting geeky).
I’ll take it!
All of the beautiful spring greenery has brought out the best of my spring allergies. Sneezing, stuffy nose and headache. Omg, the headache.????My morning cocktail of ibuprofen and extra strength Tylenol has at least taken the edge off. I’m going to have to seek out some actual allergy medication. Benadryl renders me nearly comatose, so there have got to be some non drowsy alternatives.
SotD is just a spritz of Atelier Cologne Clementine California from a Sephora freebie. I am failing miserably at this CP, but I have my musks lined up for next week!
I’ve had pretty good luck with Zyrtec. You can even take two w/o getting drowsy, so there have times I’ve resorted to one in am and one in pm.
Good to know! I figured I’d check out Zyrtec, Claritin, and Allegra and ask the pharmacist. I hate taking anything that I can “feel” the effects of.
I second the Zyrtec recommendation.
I’m a Zyrtec user. No drowsiness. My cat takes it too! (Those newerfangled antihistamines don’t cross the blood-brain barrier so no drowsiness.)
Good to know. I’m kind of a freak about the whole blood-brain barrier thing after pharmacology class. I went to Walgreens and talked to the pharmacist and she said all those meds take about 5 days to really kick in. She recommended Claritin since I’m quite sensitive to side effects. My main problem is really the headache which none of them listed as relieving. I got so overwhelmed with the choices, I ended up leaving with nothing, so back to square one. Ugh. ????
…handing you a matcha latte and a cold compress..
Thanks ltsg.☺️Much appreciated!
Ugh headaches are so horrible. Feel better soon. I need musk recommendations. I’m sure I have some, just haven’t put much thought into them yet!
Thanks KellyC! A few of the musks I have lined up for next week are: Musc Ravageur, Dame New Musk, Mure et Musc, Narciso White Cube, Diptyque’s Fleur de Peau and PG Le Musc & La Peau. Even No 5 L’ eau has some white musk in the drydown.????
I take Allegra all the time and it works really good for me.
????thanks!
My son takes Xyzal. It was prescription a few years ago when he started with it, now over the counter. Feel better!
Thirding or fourthing Zyrtec; it’s a life saver for me! Non-drowsy and effective.
Allergies here in Houston can be brutal, and my family has had reasonably good luck with Claritin. If it’s the front of the head type headache, it might be relieved with an OTC nasal spray like Flonase or Nasacort, but that too takes a few days to kick in. They help prevent all the congestion that makes your sinuses hurt.
I hope you feel better!
In honor of my 1st. iris blooming this morning, Hiris. My favorite note. My irises were dug out of my daughter-in-laws, late grandmothers garden. Perfect for Mothers Day memories.
I wish I still had irises from my grandmother’s yard…
Hi, scent twin! I shall join you in wearing Hiris this morning.
Your first iris blooming made me smile. 😀
I love iris notes and I especially love Hiris, one of my favorite fragrances. However, sadly, I have never smelled the actual flower.
You smell great and I love the reason you’re wearing it!
I had an early morning appointment at the school today. I put on a few sprites of Black Perfecto. Very dreary and Rainey today. Also, I’m pretty sure I have a dead animal under my porch. My house reeks of rotten garbage. I know someone else here recently had that problem. Is that the smell?
Oh ick! It’s dreary and rainy here too. You smell great though!
Total ick! and thanks!
Eww! Hope the smell goes away soon!
I hope so too. I can’t afford to get a removal guy, but I’m pretty sure that’s what it is because the smell is strongest right by the door with the porch. I’m just going to have to wait it out, i guess.
We had several dead rats in the crawl space under out eat-in area. It took a weeks of having the windows cracked in the kitchen for the smell to go away once we located the offenders and disposed of them (although I’m pretty sure one remained inside the cinderblock wall which meant it took longer.) It’s so gross. Is there any access to the space? It is better if you can remove the bodies, but the smell will go away eventually.
There’s a hole in the front of the porch, i don’t even want to look inside of it. Calling someone isn’t an option. We’ve had high humidity this week so it made it worse i think. Good to know it will go away though.
Bletch on your dead animal issue. I’ve only ever smelled dead mice up close, and they stank worse than any garbage.
I haven’t put it on yet, but I’ll be wearing Pacifica French Lilac to celebrate the lilacs in bloom. Also to have the scent on me all day, as their bloom is all too fleeting. I live on a fairly steep hill, and in the alley behind my building there is a courtyard from the next apartment building over that has trees hanging over about 20 feet above the alley. There are two gorgeous lilac trees (or bushes, whatever), BUT they are flanked by those stinky bradford pear trees. And they’re in bloom at the same time as the lilacs, so I’m lucky to get any clean whiff of lilac as I walk under the gauntlet of the stink trees. What a cruel landscaper to have planted them that way.
That’s just criminal.
Isn’t it?!
My lilac has smelled so amazing this year, but it didn’t have as many blooms on it as I’d like. I think the previous owner of the house (we’ve only had it since January) pruned them at the wrong time. But I’ve still loved them. A neighbor, however, has a bush in their yard that is TO DIE FOR. Soooo many blooms! Every time I walk the dog and round that corner I take a deep breath and smile!
I love lilacs. Somehow I have never yet gotten around to planting any.
You smell fantastic!
Thank you!
My dorm room one year I was in college (Michigan State) had a view out over a pretty courtyard that was completely lined with lilacs, and in the spring, the scent through the open window was just incredible. Because MSU has a big horticulture school, the campus there is quite beautifully landscaped with numerous gorgeous trees and flower beds.
Wow, that sounds wonderful.
That’s such a perfect, uncomplicated lilac scent. Sometimes I spray it on my pillow.
Yes, it’s very straightforward and lovely.
In my cheapest of cheap tricks, bargain basement perfume thrill–Canturi. Which, you have to admit, sounds like a planet likely to appear in the next chapter in the Star Wars saga! Bonus points for the bottle looking vaguely like the Death Star.
I’ve never even heard of that one! Do tell!
It’s sort of an oriental… plummy and warm, with spices… I think it is way underrated, but perhaps it has a bit of an 80s vibe, which may be why it doesn’t get more love.
I am sending you a sample, like it or not!
No complaints for me! And I love spices and 80s vibes ha!!!
ooooh, I like that Death Star-looking bottle!
A bit of Kilian Black Phantom on this grey rainy day. So far this spring has been the pits.
This was the worst spring ever, but we finally have some good weather and hope you get some soon!
A bit of Smell Bent Cocoa Rose from a sample. Doing some homework, so it’s my pre-shower scent…
Goes with the Pacifica Persian Rose candle I’m burning. Yes, it’s a relatively hot day, but I need some flower scent in here….
The Persian Rose candle and perfume are so pretty. It is time to unbury mine.
And we’ve moved on but stayed floral. Showered with Wash Behind Your Ears, mixed in lilac body mousse with my lotion and then sprayed En Passant. Even after that, I think you’d have to stand real close to even notice….
Good morning Y’all!
The weather is just soooooo beautiful at last! Wearing Body Shop Italian Summer Fig to celebrate warm weather at last….
its so beautiful! Enjoy
I am wearing Panier des Sens Rose today. Its a pretty blend of roses and lily of the valley.
SotD = Hiris, once again, for good measure.
Hiris helps me feel centered. I think my mishaps on Tuesday were mostly the result of a hurried and harried state of mind. It is a good reminder to stay aware of the present moment.
Hiris’ blue bottle reminds me of R2-D2’s blue accents, that will be my Star Wars nod for the day. I think tomorrow call for the transcendence of L’air du desert marocain, it smells both familiar and otherworldly.
Yesterday I asked a group of 1st grade students if they knew of a holiday coming this weekend. Their unanimous answer was Star Wars Day, LOL. I was looking for the answer “Cinco de Mayo” before teaching a lesson about mariachi music, then we learned to sing an upbeat version of “Remember Me” from Coco. It was fun.
Thanks for being here, NSTers. I’m always excited to read the perfume chat around our virtual water cooler.
Such a good reminder to stay in the present. I’m bad about worrying about yesterday or tomorrow. You smell great!
thanks, KellyC! Hiris is giving me balance today. 🙂
I adore Hiris! Such a beautiful rooty Iris.
I like the way Hiris pushes into carrot-y territory without going too far. 😀
I had to smile about the first graders and Star Wars Day. Too cute!
Yep, little people can be adorable at times. I hope they enjoy the “holiday” tomorrow AFTER they go home. No light sabers at school please, hahaha!
I am in No. 19 today. Trying to think of a good Star Wars reference, but failing ha! Maybe because it’s steely like the Vader and the Empire?
I’m so bummed. I went to a new family doctor Monday for a checkup (had to find one since moving to NM). My bp was high. I wrote it off as a fluke, though they were concerned about it. Well since then I thought maybe I should check it so I’ve been checking it every day and it has been running SO high! I called them yesterday and they had me come in this morning and they checked it and want me to start a low dose of meds. I just don’t get it. I feel like I’m fairly fit, not terribly overweight or anything (in fact, have lost about 25 pounds in a year). Ugh. I feel old! Boo!
Be patient! I hope your bp goes back to normal with the meds soon.
My blood pressure typically runs to low, except when I’m stressed, it gets crazy high. You’ve had a big year of events, so maybe it’s that? But hope the meds help. And you are not old!
That is so frustrating! I hope your BP returns to normal soon.
I am having the same issue with my BP. I’ve always had normal blood pressure, but at the last few specialist visits, it’s been very high. I’m pretty fit, eat mostly well, but it does run in my family. My brother is on meds, both dad and grandmother had it as well. I have a feeling I will be on meds too after I schedule my next regular doctor appointment 🙁
Yes, it runs in my family as well. My father and grandfather, who are/were always extremely thin and fit for their ages had high bp. My doc said sometimes you just can’t fight genetics. Boo!!! I’m still going to try and eat less sodium, jog more, etc and get it down.
Totally genetics. I’m in shape, that is plump and pear-shaped 😉 and I have great bp.
LOL
Oh no 🙁 🙁 Mine is a little high, too–not nearly high enough for meds yet, but also, I’m only 30. “Luckily,” I’m not in good shape, so I’m hoping that getting back in shape (for the first time in like 1.5 years…) will get things back under control. Getting older sucks.
It sure does!
How’s your sleep? Mine runs high when I sleeping poorly. I got it back down by cutting sugar and flour, which also helped my sleep.
MMKinPA,
Mine too, I also found cutting sugar reduced hot flashes, both in frequency and intensity.
My sleep is so so! Some nights good, some not. I will cut out the sugar and flour and see if that helps though…I don’t eat a ton of either but it can’t hurt to try!
Just remembered — my dad had high blood pressure. For many years he lowered it without taking medication by donating blood as often as the blood-mobile would take him! 😯
SOTD is Bvlgari’s Au the Blanc, amber, orange blossom, musk, coriander and ambrette seed. Very comforting and snuggly. 🙂
Oooh you make this one sound so good! I think it might be the only Bvlgari tea perfume I haven’t tried so far, I’ll have to check it out 🙂
It’s one of my favorite scents and the one I chose to wear as my wedding scent.
It is also surprisingly long-lasting. Just when I think it’s worn off, I catch a whiff, which could mean I am anosmic to the middle notes??
My bp was high earlier this week, too when checked at the eye Dr.’s, so I’m monitoring. I may need to go on meds, too. I was also surprised.
Mt SOTD is L’Artisan Histoire D’Orangers for a nice sunny day (temperature: 72 degrees – perfect).
I recently got a sample of that and it is lovely.
I had a short period of high bp’s when I was sleeping very poorly. Fortunately they returned to normal when I cut out sugar and flour, and started sleeping better.
I hope yours goes down without meds!
Diorissimo! I’ll have to catch up on the comments later.
Bellisimo! You smell fantastic.
Vanira Moorea for me on this startlingly overcast day. I wish the weather better matched my scent.
All my friends are getting Invisalign. I hope my dentist doesn’t suggest it to me!!
I hate it when dentists suggest cosmetic procedures. It’s one thing if you ask, but their job is to keep your teeth healthy. My mom’s dentist recently offered her (unsolicited) a botox injection.
Yeesh! That’s pretty egregious.
In the defense of some of my friends’ dentists, they said that their misaligned teeth would cause problems (pain, further misalignment that would make chewing difficult, etc.). I don’t know how true that is, but at least on the surface, the dentists were not offering Invisalign as a purely cosmetic procedure.
Botox? At the dentist?????
I think anyone who legally can may try to get on the Botox train – I guess it’s easy money? I remember a friend of a friend who was an Obyn who opened up a clinic on the side with botox injections etc.
Side note – I remember hearing about a study that when you paralyze your muscles with Botox, you in fact feel less empathy for others because in order to feel empathy for others, you need to be able to mimic their facial expressions. Or something like that.
Yeah, whut?!? Unless they use it for TMJ or tooth grinding or something.
I wish! Today went to an ENT about an on-going earache. She says I have TMJ and that I have to:
1. Take regular Advil (not a problem)
2. Drink much more water (not a problem)
3. Get a mouth guard thingy (sounds pretty gross to me)
4. Stop drinking caffeine (already climbed that mountain)
5. Keep a humidifier in my office (hmm.. okay)
6. Stop eating a carbohydrates (AAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. No effing way!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
7. Heat pad on my ears (no idea what #7 is, as I am still reeling from #8)
Errrr.. . that was #6 🙂
I never had braces as a kid, so that dentist would probably suggest them. I’m happy with my mostly straight teeth, though, and thankful my current dentist isn’t into that kind of thing. My previous dentist pushed the whitening treatments pretty hard… I tried it once and it was so painful I vowed never again.
Chypre Mousse for a glorious spring day. I have no idea what to do for tomorrow’s project, I’ll probably cheat and twin with someone.
I am planning to cheat too!
I slept so well last night! For those who have sleep issues, you know this is a reason to celebrate! It was a dark, deep, dreamless, and restorative sleep and I didn’t wake until 10am!
No scent yet, but can smell a beautiful melange of perfumes wafting off my flannel shirt.
Yesterday, on our hike we came across a beautifully patterned snake with its head buried in a hole after it’s prey. We watched for a bit and then continued our hike. It was a California red sided garter snake about 2.5 ft long and it was just gorgeous! A half hour later we circled back and it was still there, working hard. Ran into a hike later who told me the snake had ???? for lunch. He stayed to watch the whole thing, which took about an hour…!talk about working for your dinner!
Yay for sleep! I don’t know that I’ve ever experienced dreamless sleep. The frog eating snake though… uh gross, i just couldn’t have watched!
Hello dearest, Imsaw your comment yesterday. No, I haven’t written up the Sniffapalooza post yet….I hope this weekend!
My SOTD is Premier Figuier. No Star Wars associations that I know of, but on Monday when a friend drove me to my bank, we passed an enormous fig bush or shrub that was so lush and green, it made me want to smell it, and I’ve had figs on my mind all week. I might just complement it a bit later in the afternoon with Zoologist Bat… kind of following along with the fruity theme. I seem to have been on a Zoologist kick lately. However, I thought of something (non-Zoologist) VERY clever to wear for tomorrow’s project!!
I am jealous, of the figs and the clever idea!
Star Wars SOTD is MMM Replica Jazz Club, for Canto Casino in Canto Bight.
Have a terrific Thursday, NSTers.
Perfect!
Dune, which I believe someone else suggested was Tatooine? Anyway, just the tiniest spray is so long-lasting. It’s quite warm today – don’t get me wrong, I’m happy it’s nice, but it feels like we’re going to skip any kind of spring weather and go straight to summer. Not really ready for 90 degrees, not least because my classroom does not have air conditioning.
Gorgeous!
SOTD is a tiny leftover sample bit of l’artisan fleurs d’oranger (from the last freebiemeet) and a leftover sample of Ciel d’Opale (generous sample by fellow Nst’er). I really do like Ciel d’Opale. The Fleurs d’Oranger is nice – I think there was too little left in the vial, to be honest. In any case, 2 samples used up! Star Wars reference – hmmm – I got nothing. Will try harder tomorrow.
SotD was Madagascan jasmine, by Grandiflora, from a sample
SotE is Maai, by Bogue
Have not done anything with this week’s theme.
I really like the Star Wars Universe, the costumes and buildings, space ships, the lore, the landscapes.. but no SW movie has ever made a big impression. (Ive seen them all though, some of them more than once)
Been MIA with work & life stuff, but popping in with my SOTD: vintage Samsara
Mmmm….you smell lovely!
Waving hello!
Roasty toasty where I am at, plus red flag warnings to boot. I’m looking forward to the promise of rain and cooler weather for the weekend. Hope this isn’t a sign of the summer weather to come… if so, it’s going to be a scorcher!
SOTD = Caron Tabac Blond EdP, from the sample stash. As a Princess or as a General, Leia would have smelled like this.
Still roasty toasty here too. One more day….. and the weekend looks like is going to be beautiful!
The Pour un Ete, which I plan on being a regular broken record with until the fall. Wins my vote for Prettiest Lemon.
Oooohhh I love lemon. Will have to try.
Well, you’ll smell lovely every day until Fall then!
Coco Edp for a cold blustery Friday. Feels like the end of summer just crashed hard into winter yesterday but at least we have some cold-weather-scent weather now…was almost Chergui weather today 😉
Oooh Chergui is so nice in cold weather! Just thinking about it almost (but not quite) makes me wish it was colder outside 🙂
SOTD = Dusita La Douceur de Siam
Out of this world, nice perfume.
I know what to wear tomorrow and the association will be unique to moi. Can’t wait!
Too hot too soon – yuck!
My SOTE is Vol de Nuit, the edt (vintage). It feels like a force-field when sprayed. Crazy busy day so I am thankful the week is over for me.
Planning on getting all my bedding plants in their respective pots and and baskets tomorrow and do some pruning and tidying with the perennials. Yay Spring!