Happy Almost-Friday! (It's also Pecan Pie Day, I guess because all of the appropriate days in October were already full?) What fragrance are you wearing?
I am wafting the remains of last night's Quantum Health Deet-Free Buzz Away Extreme Towelettes, described by more than one Amazon reviewer as smelling "horrible". I don't find it quite horrible, but it is not lovely either. It does have amazing staying power.
Reminder: 7/13 will be Aquatic Friday...wear an aquatic or something meant to evoke the sea.
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 Mt Lyall Von Te Anau [cropped] by Thomas at flickr; public domain.
Wow , Robin you are early today
Hope you are still enjoying your vacation!
Melograno x 3 chez Marzipan…looks like this bottle will be finished quicker than I thought.
Go, team effort!
I am, thank you! Made all the better by not getting eaten by mosquitoes
Ha! Bug spray is working good then!
The mosquitoes and flies have been so bad here this summer (lower Great Lakes). I get eaten alive unless I am covered in deep woods Off. Need to look into deet free options, thanks Robin, I didn’t know they existed. Glad you are enjoying your vacation
Great! ????
YUP!!!
SOTD is SL L’Eau Froide. Maybe it is not an aquatic scent but it definitely has water notes. Love mint in it.
Definitely watery.
SOTM = Terracotta, day 4
Still love it.
Ugh to bug repellent smell. It’s always the stinkers that linger.
Last night I wore 8 spritzes of Cologne du 68, thanks to Robin for mentioning it yesterday. It is a delightful scent for a quiet evening.
Day 4 !!!!!!!!
and I am loving that you are keeping it interesting by adding another fragrance here and there
With so much inspiration here at NST, who could resist another? and another? and maybe one more?
It’s fun to decide what might go well with the dry down of Terracotta. Several Guerlain scents have been winners.
The scent combining definitely is loads of fun….I am so glad that you are enjoying this experimentation!
take it from me, Volutes goes with Terracotta!
8 spritzes! You smelled way better than me.
Day off today, so going into fancypants Zonda Nellis to sniff the Otrigias oh and buy a $2000 dress or something.
Go for the dress!
Good luck with that.
Smell them for me, too!
Do report back!
Is it coincidence that on my way to work, I heard Loverboys Turn me loose and Kelly Clarkson Break away? I think not. Sotd is AP Maitresse. The last time I wore this to work someone said I smelled old fashioned, lol. Hoping if I smell like an older relative people might remember their manners. Fingers crossed.
LOL! Fingers crossed! ????
Thanks????
Oh no! Ever since I’ve read this, I can’t get Turn Me Loose from running in my head.
It’s best heard loud!
That’s an interesting concept…choose perfume to control others’ behavior towards you. I like it.
I would buy a behavior control perfume in a second ! Then I would paint my car with it to control other people’s driving, LOL
I used to have a bottle of this and I too thought of it as old-fashioned. I loved that type of scent when I was younger and also went through bottles of Chanel No 5 and the original Norell – wonder if you can still get that one.
The original Norell was stunning, imo. As far as I know, it’s not available anymore.
Update: I had a twenty something female customer ask me what perfume I was wearing, she said it was “so soft and pretty” ????
Ha! She has good taste
Really cool story!
I agree with tiffanie. Isn’t it surprising how scents one doesn’t like, seem to linger forever around? I still smell Rien from ELDO on the hoodie I wore a month aogo when trying it. Even after washing it!
Today I’m wearing PdN – Juste un reve combined with just a small splash of Signorina . A bit too sweet for my personal taste, but seems to be quite likeable for the rest of the world.
Thank you all for the suggestion, I love finding new perfumes through you 
Unrelated : I bought What would love do as a gift for a friend , after seeing how liked it is here
And some of the most delightful scents are gone – pfffft! – in seconds.
Sorry about Rien hanging around, must be a heavy musk in there.
musk and pepper . and as much as i like musk when i sniff a bottle or a sample. it STINKS on me!
lol, musk can make me nuts. Sometimes a musky perfume makes me feel like I’ve grown fur, other times I can’t smell it at all!
Signorina didn’t last an hour on me. It is quite pretty.
My boyfriend (who got me the bottle) says it smells like old lady on me
It’s pretty but doesn’t really stand out (even if I discard his n00b comments)
The Misteriosa version is more memorable, but I had longevity issues with it too.
SOTD is Eau d’Hadrien. It’s supposed to reach 95 degrees here today. Eek.
You picked the right scent for it! Stay cool.
Definitely – this has been my hot weather scent all summer.
You smell lovely!
What a beautiful lake Te Anau is.
SOTD is Penhaligon’s Orange Blossom. I bought a split portion several years ago and then promptly stashed it when the envelope arrived… and lost track of it for, like, four years. (!) When it came to light, I was pleased to find that I liked it, a lot, which is unusual for me since I typically find orange blossom very soapy on me. (It does bring up the question of why I bought it in the first place. I still don’t know.) ANyway, this one isn’t soapy; it’s somewhere between fresh blossom and candy, and it seems that I like that effect.
I seem to have recovered from my vaccine aftereffects.
YOu lost track of it for FOUR years???? LOL!!!
Glad you are feeling better.
Robin, I have loved all the lakes pictures this week. They are so beautiful and peaceful!
I am wearing Carthusia Corallium. I thought I could finish this mini today, but there is a note that annoys me horribly, and I cannot wear it anymore, perhaps patchouli? I am not so sure. To the unwanted perfumes basket has gone and I will say another “mini” is done.
That definitely counts as being “done”…..any perfume in my collection that gets confiscated by another family member I consider to be “done” as well. And just think, there may be someone who absolutely adores Corallium
I am sure Corallium will be welcomed somewhere else!
Yeah, it’s done. Why wear something you don’t enjoy, when there is something you love waiting to be worn.
that’s a great mindset
i feel guilty for spending money on stuff that i end up disliking…
Especially when there are so many other perfumes that need to finished.
Glad you are liking them! I want to go to today’s lake
I just finished my sample of this the other day and agree, something in the drydown really bothered me and I didn’t want to smell it anymore.
I also had the same problem in the drydown. It makes me feel very uncomfortable.
Yeah, if I have tested something, and it’s in the “Give” pile, that totally counts as done!
And I feel many will end in that pile!
Robin, any day can be Pecan Pie Day in the south. Today I’m wearing Somei Yoshino from Berdoues. No opinion yet.
You’re in Texas, right? I grew up in Austin, with pecan trees in the yard. Live in the Midwest now, but dh would like nothing better than to have pecan pie every night for dessert. I make him wait for special occasions, hehe.????
Ah, probably true. I think of it as a winter dessert.
Pecan pie was a Thanksgiving staple when I was growing up, along with mince meat pie, which I never cared for. No one in my family thought much of pumpkin, I guess . . .
SOTD is Heeley Figuier. Loved it, at first, but not so much now. Someone brought up the melon note and now its all I smell. Not a huge fan of melon.
Pecan pie- its “PEE-can” around here. I’d love to try one made with bourbon.
Any kind of pecan pie is good!????
Funny, that’s how I day it. Not sure why, but people make fun of me pronouncing it that way.
I love that line in when Harry met Sally when Billy Cristal says
“And partake of the PEEECANNNN pie.”
I love that movie.
SOTD is Volutes.
day 11
Good morning
I am wearing L’Artisan Oeillet Sauvage and drinking Jasmine Green Tea.
Yum to both.
Seconding what Robin said!
I am drinking vanilla tea from Mauritius island
Still sampling Fo’ah, maybe I will finish it soon
Oh, thanks She-ra, eBay purchases yesterday
Full application sampling of Fat Electrician and not loving it. I usually really like vetiver but not this one. Should have dabbed first. ????
Oh no, sorry!
Uh oh… I have a sample of that also and have been meaning to try it.
You should try it anyway. You might like it. Fat Electrician is the first vetiver-centric fragrance I purchased.
I wasn’t feeling the aquatics today, so I rummaged through some samples and ended up with Agonist Dark Saphir. It’s a rose-oud.. It’s well done, but there isn’t really much more to say about it. I feel like I have a couple of al-Rehab oils that smell very similar, and for which I paid next to nothing.
I really love By Kilian Rose Oud. Might be an interesting comparison.
Might be. I haven’t smelled that one.
You smell great!
I’m in aedes de venustas copal azur today which is technically a day early for aquatic Friday but oh well! Currently lusting after a bottle of Heeley Sel Marin.. how apropos. I really enjoy a well done salty/aquatic perfume but they can be really terrible when not done right. Oud minerale by Tom Ford would be an example of this.. it smells like fish. I don’t want to smell like fish thank you very much!
Sel Marin is a good one!
Hey twin. I’m sampling Copal Azur today too. The opening is great but it fades fast to a boring linear scent.
That’s my experience with it exactly. The opening is even better sprayed
That’s why we need the big bottle so we can spray repeately throughout the day. ???? (For me that would be every half hour; It fades fast!)
Drinking lemon spearmint tea, and wearing Keiko Mecheri’s Gourmandises. I forget how much I like this one, even though it is very rose-centric. Not that I don’t like roses – I do. For whatever reason, though, I don’t have a lot of rose perfumes in my collection. This, like Bois de Paradis, strikes me as being very jammy, and is both sparkling and deep at the same time.
Tea sounds yummy
GOurmandises is a nice jammy rose!
must try it. full blown roses feel “too much” on me, but sweet roses are lovely
Day 2 of Annick Goutal Neroli.
I also have a deet-free natural bug repellent recommendation: Herbal Armor. My aunt used to bring it to our family camp trips when I was kid, so I’ve tested it out and found that it actually works pretty well. Plus I kinda like the smell. I remember it being sort of a citronella/lemongrass/herbal smell.
When I was pregnant I used skin so soft from Avon as a big repellent
My dad swears by it..has been using SSS for years. Plus, it smells really good.
Yes! Some of the gas stations in the tiny town where I grew up actually sell it. Plus, like CM8 said, it smells good.
A friend of mine uses Victoria’s Secret Bombshell perfume as bug repellent.
hahahah. does it scare the bugs or kill them?
Lol
I kind of like the smell of citronella. My grandmother used to have a big bottle of citronella oil and would dab it on my sheets every night in summer.
I like it too – the candles especially.
I’m so ignorant, I don’t know what the problem is with Deet. Can someone tell me please?
Controversial because of its potential toxicity (nervous system side effects which are rare). I use DEET when I’m in infested areas, especially places where deer ticks are present. I do NOT want Lyme’s disease and essential oils are not effective for this. There are also concerns about effects on the environment and wildlife, but when used on one’s person, there’s not much actual evidence that there’s mass harm happening.- unless you’re using mass quantities or drinking or huffing it, of course.
I’m loving all these lake photos , they remind me of the summer holidays we used to have as a family in Norway, another gorgeous country.
Wearing the distinctly unaquatic Péché Cardinal, which I’m hugely enjoying. It’s no doubt the trashiest of the MDCI’s that I’ve tried, but loud and proud!
Great description!
I forgot to put on any perfume this morning, and once I got to work, I had a mini heart attack when I discovered that all my data had disappeared from its usual location–data that I need for a presentation this afternoon!!! After a half hour of panicking and trying to find the right people to talk to, everything has now been fixed. I’ve also anointed myself with the dregs of my Incense Rose sample, which means it will no longer be an EBP at work
unless I make myself a decant from my gorgeous newish bottle. All this to say that the day is back on track.
I pushed myself pretty hard at the gym for the past three days (I’ve been taking Insanity/Boot Camp-type classes at the work gym), and my body is one massive ache. I would not like to work out today, but the boyfriend insists the worst thing to do for muscle soreness is nothing. A hair of the dog-type situation. Maybe I’ll go for a walk.
That’s my kind of nightmare–the disappearing data. So glad it got sorted out. (Though it’s a good reminder to up my back up paranoia to the point of absurdity.)
Aye, “active recovery” really does help. (I ache in sympathy: getting back to weight training after nine months out with injury and some muscles are now making their displeasure at being woken from sloth known, even with these teeny weeny weights. Which means I am being extra conscientious about doing my daily bodyweight work, between gym sessions. Even if it’s horrid.)
For super hard workouts, I always loved an easy swim, 15 or so laps. The stretching and gentle resistance the water provides worked the lactic acid/soreness out like a dream.
It WAS a nightmare! I’m contemplating saving local copies of everything to my computer, but…that’s a LOT of data to save locally.
Daily bodyweight work between gym sessions! That’s really impressive. I’m in a similar position–I stopped working out for two years because of a broken foot + writing my thesis/defending, and I’m still not back in the same shape I was in three years ago
My body actually feels much better now than it did this morning, so I might be able to persuade myself to work out again this afternoon. We shall see!
they are only *little* bodyweight sessions these days. Ten minutes when I get up. Ugh, though, to broken foot and thesis writing combos. I find exercise really helps my focus when I’m writing. (Phd time in the morning before work, gym in the evenings when I don’t need brain.)
Can you get an external drive for back ups? 2Tb ones are run to about 65-70 quid, and that’s a lot of peace of mind.
I find that yoga is a nice alternative on days when I’m sore or just don’t feel like doing an intense workout. It keeps me in the habit of being active, but it’s easy on the body and gives me a good stretch at the same time.
for me, the dog walks replaced any form of active recovery in the last year. the pup does need 2h of walking every day, it almost replaces the active days too in some weeks
Wow, 2 h walking every day! That’s a great way of keeping you moving even on days when you don’t want to!
and on top of that I live in Montreal. 6 am walkies at -20 degrees for half a year :))
but hey i was never in better shape! and dogs are great regardless !
That’s actually a really good idea! I dislike yoga (by which I partly mean I’m no good at it at all!), but it would be really beneficial today.
wow that’s a rough start of the day. on the up side, i bet you didn’t need coffee to feel alert!
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taking a walk is a good idea, that sounds super intense! are you preparing for a beach vacation
Haha, I wish
Nah, I’ve just been super out of shape for the past few years because of injuries/thesis-writing, and I’d like to get back in the shape I was in three years ago. Oh, and I’d like to fit into all my beautiful dresses again. *wistful sigh* I refuse to buy many pretty new clothes in my new size.
that’s a worthy goal!good luck getting that 6pack back
Data loss provides the worst kind of adrenaline EVER. I’m sorry that happened, but hopefully your afternoon meeting goes smoothly!
Thanks! I’m just glad I found it, or this day would have been much more miserable
i am super impressed how many perfume ladies are also active hard working in the gym as well around here! for some reason i’ surprised
maybe because gyms aren’t good smelling?
I know, right?! This is inspiring me to work harder at the gym!
Hey, it’s good to hear that you are back on an exercise regimen! Too easy to fall off that wagon.
Thanks, Jalapeno! It really REALLY is. And now that I’m 30 (almost 31!!!), geting back on the wagon is harder than it ever has been.
Good for you for exercising! I have fallen off and got back on the wagon a few times. It’s very easy to stop and not exercise, otherwise everyone would probably be in good shape.
I start work early mornings so I’ve been trying again for the last month or so to do something at home before work. I’m with you, my muscles are sore!
And I’m glad you found your missing data! I’m sure you will sleep good tonight.
Thanks, Gail
and my meeting went fine!
I’m very impressed by your morning workouts! I just can’t make myself do it
I just keep reminding myself that sore muscles are good!
Thursday!
1) SOTD: Molinard Jasmin over Korres White Jasmine shower gel . It is gonna be a scorcha today, so I think jasmine would be nice!
2) Iced coffee, yogurt and fruit and some database process writing. Fun times, guys, fun times.
I’m sampling L’Artisan’s Histoire d’Orangers and really enjoying it.
It’s very well done!
oooh, very nice. I enjoyed sampling Histoire d’Orangers. You smell wonderful!
I thought it was very nice too, you smell lovely!
Cooler and cloudy today, so went with Iris Nazarena from a decant which seems to be evaporating, yikes!
You need to get on the use it up train if the decants are evaporating ????
I know! It’s not even that old. I was saving it for cooler weather since it’s a bit much for me in the heat, but I’m sure I can get some night-out use out of it this summer.
That one is perfect for a cloudy day. You smell great.
Thanks! It’s holding up nicely today.
Today’s SOTD is Miller Harris Figue Amere, lovely fig with woods, narcissus, salty/seaweed notes and amber.
I made a new gluten-free recipe for banana nut muffins, it turned out pretty tasty! Served with a double-shot of Cuban coffee and I’m officially radioactive!
Oooh, that Figue Amere just went on my “To Be Sampled” list.
I love this one, it’s perfectly balanced woods, amber, and salty notes. It doesn’t get milky-sweet as most figs tend to do.
For a refreshing green fig perfume, I like Roger & Gallet’s Fig or FIg & Poppy by Speziali Fiorentini, both are fruity green pulpy florals with a distinct fig note.
I love Cuban coffee. I bet it was great with the banana bread!
I haven’t sniffed that scent, but you make it sound so wonderful.
I spritzed Jour d’Hermes absolu for my interview today, but it’s long gone now, will respritz with something soon, maybe Tam dao for a relaxing evening.
Best wishes on the interview!
Best of luck with your interview!! I went scentless last year when I had a series of interviews, felt quite naked and made me nervous at some point. But I have read so many articles about interview and fragrance, all of them suggest no fragrance, just in case anyone doesn’t like or allergic to perfume. I didn’t have a job then and couldn’t afford the risks… best of luck with your interview!!
Good luck!
Good luck!
And I adore Jour d’ Hermes, despite how fleeting it is.
Best of luck!
Good luck!
Best of luck with your interview! ????
Good luck!
All I want to wear on sunny days lately are dry, spicy orange blossom scents? In the absence of my favourite, emptied samples dilletante and Tuberuse 40, I have been digging around…might be SL Fleur d’oranger or Dior Gran Bal today.
Dry spicy orange blossom sounds right up my alley
How is the Fleur d’oranger in comparison to Dilettante?
Wearing Jacques Fath Vers le Sud I got in the Swapmeet awhile back. It’s a salty marine with a hint of something floral. Smells wonderful in hot weather.
About as far from aquatic as I can get, chose Au Masculin Midnight (Lolita Lempicka) today. Yum!
Wearing Soivohle Bottleneck Blues from the perfumes that are no longer in storage. After so long, I’d forgotten how skanky the opening is. It does eventually calm down but now I’m remembering why this is strictly a day off scent.
I will be having a live swap in the Boston area a week from today. If interested my screen name is my yahoo address
Wish I was in the Boston area – your swap meet sounds fun!
Ditto!
Taking a break from the Use It Up quest today, in Bois Farine, courtesy of the lovely Regina. ????
I have David Lebovitz’s banana bread in the oven right now. It was supposed to be a somewhat lower fat recipe, but I bucked the system and added a heapin’ half cuppa mini chocolate chips to the batter.
????Hey, World Chocolate Day should be celebrated all month. ????
Yummy, I saw that recipe and was greatly tempted. I even have ripe bananas on hand. Your mini chips addition may push me over the edge to do some baking today.
I just sliced into it and it was wonderful! Hubster and I ate the crunchy ends of the loaf. ????
I love those ends! Fresh out of the oven with a little slab of butter-yum! They’re the best part.
Just made chocolate chip banana muffins myself
Yum! We should exchange bakers enabler pins. ????????
Good morning from sunny San Diego! I just finished up a sample of Jardin de Monsier Li – since finish it up seems to be the theme around here lately! I was thinking it was slightly aquatic, but realized I was thinking of Jardin Sur le Nil. Ah well, I smell good nevertheless!
I actually do have a few aquatic fragrances – I don’t mind it unless it is super overpowering. I think I’ll wear Missoni Acqua tomorrow, since it’s right in the name! Also have Pacifica Lotus Garden, which is a dupe for the aforementioned Sur le Nil – I did a side-by-side and actually prefer the much cheaper Pacifica!
You’ve just reminded me that I have a decant of Sur le Nil around here somewhere, that I can wear for the Community Project tomorrow!
I’m trying out Zoologist Camel for the first time. The opening smelled very leathery to me, and it’s developing in very complex ways, with both sweet and dry aspects. Not sure what I think yet.
Just realized that Camel is pretty much the opposite of an aquatic scent – whoops!
Camel reminds me of El Attrine . You smell wonderful
I haven’t sniffed El Attarine in ages, but I was interested in this one because of all the comparisons I’ve seen to older SL fragrances. Definitely getting the fruit/spice notes.
Thursday! Yay! Happy to be nearer to Friday than I was yesterday.
Work is picking up and soon it will be at an absolutely maddening pace. Oh, well. I’m grateful to have work and work that’s interesting and to have a great team.
SOTD: Sublime Vanille by Creed
I don’t much care for the Creeds I’ve tried, but that one is an emphatic exception. You smell marvelous!
Thank you! It’s really beautiful, but a simple scent for sure.
Yes, I have had the same experience with Creed.
Wearing Prada Infusions d’Iris EDP on a perfect summer day.
So perfect! You smell wonderful.
I have been on vacation in Colorado with the kids. It’s been blistering hot but so dry and I have realized that I can’t smell much of anything! I have been wearing Guerlain Baiser de Russe but I have to put my wrist up to my nose to smell anything. Made me wonder, are there any NSTers in this area?
Where in Colorado was your vacation. if you don’t mind my asking?
We have been in Parker and outside Boulder
DSH has her shop in Boulder! I wish I’d known back when I lived in Colorado. Have a lovely vacation.
Oh! Thanks!! We are heading out in the morning but I will be back, so I will have to be sure to check it out!!!
Elisa (the writer and poet, to differentiate from elisap.)
It almost felt like Spring today!Sunny and warm,no clouds in the sky.Perfect Winters’ day
SOTD!Lush Orange Blossom.This little black 30ml bottle is a bottomless pit,it seems.Oy…Nevertheless!I smell lovely!
My neighbor is on a quest to find something similar to Paris Hilton Can-Can,or something with a good Candyfloss note.Any recs?My suggestions were Prada Candy and Pink Sugar,if anyone else has a suggestion I’d be all ears!✌????☺️
Jalapeno,you asked how many bottles this week,so far only two!Valentino Uomo and Ginger Biscuit.????????
Nice job! ???????? BTW, agree with Pink Sugar for cotton candy and/or candyfloss. Victoria’s Secret might have something along those lines, too, but it’s been ages since I have been in one of their stores. So I can’t vouch for what any of their perfumes smell like.
Those 2 are the main ones that come to mind. Angel also, but that is so much other stuff too. There’s always Demeter for straight cotton candy. https://www.fragrantica.com/notes/Cotton-Candy-237.html
Thanks for the tips and link!Yes,Angel might be bit much for her,lol.
Katy Perry the red diamond shape one, I think it’s called revolution. Also, BonBon.
Btw, I know I’m sweltering hot right now, but I’m still jealous of your impending spring!
CANNOT WAIT FOR SPRING!!You have noooooo idea!!Thanks for your suggestions!X
I most certainly understand waiting for spring. I’m already waiting for it!????
Ah yes,Bon Bon!Completely forgot about that one!I have the Katy Perry,bought unsniffed…Still don’t know what it smells like,lol.I’m just a big KP fan!Now I’m curious to smell it!
You crack me up that you buy blind and then don’t even open them- LOL!
I am the opposite…I have ZERO restraint!!!!!
Haha!I was weird like that,once!Now I just can’t wait to JUST FINISH IT.Lol.Trying to find a good equilibrium between using/losing/buying.
Try it! It’s pretty nice. I bought it for my daughter, but I also wear it. Nice bottle too.
If she wants to shell out loads of $, Profumum Roma Vanitas. She will smell delicious, though!
I’m wearing LVNEA Parfum Crème Nocturnal Bloom, which I smelled in some hippie witch shop in Toronto, loved, didn’t buy, and later tracked down online. My jar has nearly melted down in my non-air conditioned apartment!
I like that line. I’ve owned the one that smells like woods and ambergris(name escapes me) and I have Nuit Desert, which is smoke and jasmine and was on sale at a local hair salon which also sells body products. What does yours smell like?
A sort of spicy/smoky/earthy smell that reminds me of marigolds – a little bit assertive, maybe not even that pleasant. I put some on in the shop and walked back to where I was staying with it (about half an hour) and by the time I got there I couldn’t stop smelling myself. (It says it’s “osmanthus blossoms, carnations, patchouli, petitgrain, orange blossom, clove.” I think a lot of what I’m smelling is the clove.) I also got a handful of samples, and ended up ordering a bottle of Bois de l’Obscurité, a really interesting dark loam smell with a strange minty hint.
Thanks! Both sound interesting.
I’m in Odalisque today, which is pretty far from an aquatic, but it’s what I wanted ;-).
You smell amazing. I love Odalisque but don’t wear it as much as I like it. Too many perfumes, too few days!
I am commando so far partly due to laziness and partly to allergies. Can’t smell much. I know I have some samples of aquatics but haven’t bothered to pull out the various boxes they might be in. (That would entail getting involved in an entire closet clean-out. Good idea but it’s too hot.)
My friend with the missing sister says she no longer expects a positive result, and the search just is for a “recovery” now (I.e. a body). Very sad. There have been developments on the news just now after noon about homicide police searching a house where some of her stuff was found. I just feel so awful for the whole family but especially their mother. Sorry to be glum but thank you for letting me share.
Calypso, I am really sorry that you are so near to this terrible circumstance.
That’s so very sad – your stories have had me rooting for her, and I always like it when you share.
Calypso, I am so sorry to read this. Very sad news indeed.
I’m so sorry Calypso.
I am sorry. I am without words. Still praying for the whole family.
So very terrible. I can’t even imagine what they might be feeling right now.
I was so hoping for better news for the family. I’m very sorry.
So sorry to hear that the latest news.
… should have been “about the latest”. Ugh.
I’m so very sorry. It’s just heartbreaking.
I looked up the latest article. I was really hoping that somehow, some way, there would be a good outcome.
This is incredibly sad. I am saying prayers for your friend’s family.
Feminin Puriel for me today, from a sample. Feeling a fair amount of sinus pressure, so something soft is good. Wonder if it was dust from going through and tossing papers. Will use the neti pot later and more allergy meds.
The neti pot is really working well for me. Hope it does the trick!
I always get super stuffy when I go through old papers and such. I hope it doesn’t last long.
I’m wearing Eau de Fleuriste which is only aquatic inasmuch as cucumbers are, but I plan to go jump in a lake right after work and then I will smell very lakey, and fascinating to my cat.
I love lake swimming. Enjoy!
A photo of Lake Te Anau – how lovely! We had a few holidays there when I was a child. I’m going with the very off-theme 24 Faubourg today. It’s Friday here, and feel quite drained, so my perfume needs to create some presence that I’m lacking right now
Well, It’s only polite that I match a photo of Te Anau with a NZ perfume, Lakeland Flora which is a really nice, light scent …kowhai, pollen and pepper and water. My understanding is that the Mt Lyall in the photo was named after the botanist/surgeon aboard the survey ship Acheron that carried out the first coastal survey of NZ in 1850…gave us the first recorded sighting of NZ’s hughest mountain Aoraki/Mt Cook. Te Anau , in the photo, was inhabited by Maori , lots of traces of hunting sites ( food gathering of flightless birds) and also on the route to the west coast to gather pounamu ( greenstone/jade) for tools. Very remote at one stage….A flightless bird, the Takahe, believed to be extinct , was rediscovered near those mountains in the 1950s. I have to write a submission today opposing the building of a massive luxury hotel in the national park at the other end of that lake…we keep losing parts of our public lands to developers, really soul destroying.
Is that flightless bird still around the lake?
Hey all. Late today. Madtownkid and I spent the morning on the road and will visit with my parents for a couple of days. We drove thru some heavy rain and now it is pretty dreary out. Tomorrow is supposed to be nicer and we will have a literal aquatic Friday- spent at the beach and then a dinner of grilled steaks.
SotD is Bois Blonds. 6 sprays on each limb. I may be able to finish the bottle by the end of the month. I brought along something Bleue for the next couple of days.????
Good to hear that the rainy weather didn’t mess with your travel plans! ????????
Glad you made it through the rain okay. Jealous of your aquatic day tomorrow! Enjoy it enough for me too!
Robin, do your “not horrible” smelling towelettes actually work to keep off mosquitoes? If so, I would definitely be interested in something like that. Last time I was near a lake, all the body parts that weren’t covered with clothes were VERY well bitten.
SOTD = back in 2 sprays of Dame Passionfruit, Orange Blossom & Vetiver again. It does smell kind of water-y to me after wearing it for a few days in a row…
It is very hot and humid here, so I am wearing D S & Durga Coriander, which is good in the heat.
I am commenting very late in the day! Please forgive me. How are all my fine smelling friends? I have missed commenting here but have continued to lurk. I stopped by my Nordstrom here in Norfolk, Virginia, the poorest performing store in the entire chain. The fragrance counters are gutted. I was hoping to find Cartier Declaration in the parfum concentration but no. There is no more Chanel No. 19. When this store opened and until this year this was a very well stocked counter. I have a Nordstrom card and have been paying full price for several things per year to try to contribute to the local perfume economy but I left this evening without buying anything. Hermès Twilly, no thank you. And Gucci Bloom just bloomed on my skin until I felt like the white floral monster from Hell, and I like white florals! Yes, we have Ulta and Sephora but I just do not like either place very much. I beg your forebearance, kind and sweet smelling comrades, but I would love to smell some new smells! If you could recommend just one fragrance from 2017 or 2018 that you loved, I will order a sample.
Hey stinker_kit, no need to purchase samples. Please email me and I will hook you up!
You are very kind! Thank you. Perfume people really are the best. I have emailed you.
Very late but wanted to report in —
SOTD = Kilian Noir Aphrodisiaque
From a sample. I may need a bottle. Even though it’s a Paris exclusive, it is (was) available at the downtown NYC Kilian boutique. Maybe tomorrow’s the day!
Super long day so just checking in. The shoot for that show got pushed until tomorrow night due to weather so tried to clean house and do things after work I’ve been putting off. Made a yummy dinner from Blue Apron (no affiliation, I just love them lol). J had to work late, a night flight, and won’t be home until after midnight. I took the opportunity to douse myself in Shalimar (not his fav, but y’all know I love it). Two sprays of edp on my chest/neck and some extrait on my arm. I smell awesome IMO.
Sycomore yesterday, but a first try of Diptyque’s Tempo last night (thank you hajusuuri. I think this is going to get a lot of wear once things cool off a bit here. I particularly like the way the violet leaf dance through the patch…)