It's the weekend at last, plus, if you're reading this on Saturday, happy Star Trek Day and happy International Literacy Day, and if you're reading on Sunday, happy Wonderful Weirdos Day!
1. You're leaving on a Star Trek voyage, where no one has ever gone before. The replicator won't be up and running for a few weeks, and you need to pick ONE perfume to tide you over until then. What is it?
2. What book are you reading right now, and what's the best matching perfume?
3. Name a perfume that's a wonderful weirdo.
4. You can have one bottle of perfume from any store in the world, top price $250. Don't overthink it, it's just a fantasy — name your pick!
5. Share something wonderful with us! It can be anything — a fantastic TV series you're binge-watching, something delicious you ate, something fun you did recently — really, anything.
Note: top image is Sunflower Kaleidoscope [multiplied] by garlandcannon at flickr; some rights reserved.
1. Le Cri de la Lumiere — up there with Thirty Three by Ex Idolo as an insanely real rose. Replicator be dammed, this ain’t no hologram.
2. OY — reading Cartesian Meditations by Husserl. Best perfume for that? The smell of a burning car that just crashed into a divider on the 5 Fwy.
3. I’m here for weirdos — L’oudh by Tauer gets close to that burning car.
4. Constantly running out of Salome; smelling like a slut ain’t cheap.
5. Ten hours of sleep last night without any nightmares of nuclear war. 2018!
“The smell of a burning car that just crashed into a divider on the 5 Fwy” — excellent!
Why on earth are you reading Husserl, if I may ask?
Actually rereading, have been though it in depth once before.
Working on some projects and I have spent a lot of time thinking about how perfume and phenomenology serve each other. 🙂
That sounds great! Have you read Mzerleau-Ponty too? I really prefer him… that is, I should say, find him more intelligible.
I have, and he is much more intelligible, although I ultimately don’t agree with much of his perspective.
That said, Phenomenology of Perception is incredibly influential in the arts, and there’s nothing wrong with it as a font for creativity. 🙂
Much, MUCH more intelligible than Husserl! LOL
If you are hankeringnfor more Salomé and are in the US, hit me up at taiga101 in the land of yahooligans. I have some to share. ✌????
Yasss!
Wearing cjscents Skin Deep to make up for yesterday when I forgot to wear something cedar-related. This is my very favorite cedar fragrance – after it dries down it’s just a lovely my skin but better, warm cedary musk.
1) Something to tide me over: Fendi Theorema
2) Book and perfume: Ha, well, I’m reading The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, so I’ll choose 1000 Flowers Reglisse Noire as something to keep my nose entertained.
3) Weirdo: Bvlgari Black
4) One bottle from any store: Today, Frapin Caravelle Epicee. Tomorrow, who knows?
5) Something delicious: google recipe for Burst Cherry Tomatoes and Pancetta Bruschetta from Food and Wine. We love it and make the original recipe as well as all kinds of delicious variations!
VDoQI is such a good book, especially the beautiful hardcover with the grey outer wrap. Good for when you need creative inspiration, but with a dry edge. Lovely!
Yes, it’s the beautiful hardcover as it was a gift from our lovely slightly nerdy middle son (who is more of a history, Latin nerd and didn’t think he was a numbers guy until he read this!). I’m enjoying it more than I thought I would.
There’s also a little coffee table book, less intense but similar realm, called “Q.E.D.” that has a lot of splendid graphics of math’s inherent beauty. Nerd favorite over here, perhaps your son will groove on it, too!
Thanks! *adds to list*
I think we need a perfume named Q.E.D. How about it?
Adds “Q.E.D.” to list… 🙂
Oooh, yes! I’ve got that too!
Love Reglisse Noire…nice to see it mentioned !!!
Yes, it’s a favorite!
For me too!!! It’s in my top five.
I <3 Tufte, and his magnificent work.
(And oh, the book design and printing of the three/four related volumes.)
Great list! Wearing Theorema would be perfect in space, while reading genius Tufte’s work of course. And agree, Bvlgari Black is an odd one. I sniff my bottle from time to time but just can’t wear it.
: D Yes, it has to be the right day for Bvlgari Black. I had a bottle, gave it away, swapped for another. I only wear it once in awhile, but it’s just so fun to sniff.
(5) I’ve made that recipe many times! And now I just have burst tomatoes with everything. They’re great 🙂
Yep! Sometimes we use the slightly larger tomatoes and grill them for a different version. It’s more of an idea than a recipe, right?
5) I’ve not made that particular recipe but I’ve made the NYT Cooking burst cherry tomato pasta & variations on the theme. I recently made a very similar sauce by roasting tomatoes tossed with olive oil and parm at very high heat, then tossing with pasta & basil.
I bought a massive amount of cherry tomatoes yesterday at the farmers market and will probably do something similar.
Yes, so great at this time of year!
1. I would probably go for Shalimar. I’m not a Star Trek fan, more of a Lord of the Rings and Star Wars kind of gal.
2. Just finished Mr. Rochester by Sarah Shoemaker. I couldn’t get Habit Rouge out of my head for Mr. Rochester.
4. I would go with either a bottle of Une Rose Vermeille or Au Coeur du Desert.
Just spent almost all that I had for the week for dog food. Managed to get my mother to back down a little bit when I showed her the money I actually had. Had to get rid of all my credit cards but two. Credit cards can be expensive but the cull was necessary. Wearing Lyric today after yesterday’s Nassomatto Nuda, I had forgotten how incredibly potent that stuff is. I got no idea why having extrait de parfum needed to be a spray bottle.
Sorry funding is low, Dawn!
I think the only reason I prefer sprays is that they allow you to avoid some evaporation. But if something is strong, I just decant into a dab vial.
JMHO: get rid of all of your credit cards. Permanently. Had I done that at a much younger age, I’d have been in an entirely different (and better) situation at all stages of life.
I completely agree. Credit cards caused me many years of agony.
1.)Bendelirious of course.Celebrating going where no-one has gone before needs cherries and champagne!
2.)Currently reading The lost boys of Bird Island,which is tragic and based on true events,and the investigation into the abduction,rape and murder of teenage boys on Bird Island.No perfume comes to mind,maybe something dark,desolate and depressing that smells of sea-air and despair…suggestions?
3.)Stephen Jones is a wonderful weirdo.Violets on fire.
4.)Speaking of CdG,a back-up of Hysteria Wisteria!
5.)My hair is Pink after today.Deep shocking Pink.Lol.
SOTD was Jo Malone Cologne 154.Great stuff for inbetween weather.
Be well all!
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#5 love it.
Tell me more about 154. Thinking of that one possible when the youngest turns 18 next summer (every marzipan has gotten a big Jo Malone when they turn 18…first one got Peony & Blush Suede and second one got Ginger Biscuit but they are girls and no 3 is a boy)
154 is a pretty good cologne,methinks(although it got one or at most two stars in the original guide).Pretty masculine leaning,but I always get compliments when I wear it.Woodsy citrus,longevity is about 6 hours max on my skin.Hope that helps!I can compare it to Acqua di Parma colonia,just as a side-note.You might consider Wood,Sage and Sea salt for the mini-marzipan.I enjoy that one a lot more(layered with Red Roses cologne “something” happens!Love Love
He already has Wood Sage and Sea Salt in one of those travels sprays. Also had Neroli and Basil and Pomegranate Noire. He thunked Orange Bitters and Basil, Mandarin Neroli and also I think the vetyvr and is about to thunk Sweet Lime and Cedar. I was thinking either 154 or Amber and Lavender for a big bottle. I like the way you’ve described 154 so when I see it in the wild I will give it a sniff.
I think it’s worth a sniff!Let me know your thoughts if you do!
And I don’t agree with Turin that it is a “sporty” fragrance,IMHO.✌????
#1 – love! #2 – so sad. #5 YOLO, right?C elebrate it!
Thanks Springpansy.The saddest thing about the book is there are people mentioned in it that my parents knew quite well,and were even friends with,when I myself was a young boy.Shocking and scary.
#5: welcome to the pink hair club! It’s pretty good here.
(Ok, mine’s pink-purple-and-magenta but mostly pink at the moment.)
Oh wow that sounds pretty cool!Mine is like pink with a touch of nectarine…Lol!
Oddly satisfying to look different.
that sounds like a gorgeous combo.
yaaaaaassssss to pink hair! 🙂
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Johanob, Bird Island in Algoa Bay? Pretty desolate out there. What an awful story. 🙁
On a lighter note, I’m sure you rock that pink hair. ????
Yes,Algoa Bay.The book is based on allegations that were made,and one of the writers was a policeman who followed leads about it in the 80’s.It’s become quite controversial as it names high-ranking officials from the old regime,and also one of the authors was found dead shortly after publication.Rumors of murder/suicide,still being investigated.
Love pink hair! Looking different is always exciting!
Haha!Let’s see what the colleagues and patients say on Monday!????✌????????????♂️????
I am sure they will love it too!
Let’s hope!Haha!
P.S,check your email.✌????????
I’ve always suspected pink hair is universally flattering. A few years ago I had long hair and decided that when I cut it all off, I’d have a pastel pink bob before the big chop.
But I forgot, and that opportunity will not present itself again for many years to come 🙁
I did kind of the opposite: I was about to cut my very long hair back to a bob, and then decided to muck about with colour instead. Because why not, if I was going to cut it anyway…two years and many colour variations later, it’s still long. Too much fun to cut.
Can you not go for the pinkness now anyway?
I specifically want a pastel pink bob 🙂 And that would be years away of growing out if I ever wanted to do it. A wig is always an option 😉
ah, hadn’t realised you were fully-cropped.
Wigs! Yes!
1. Songes
2. Oscar Wao by Diaz
3. Sous le Vent, smells like an animal in heat to me.
4. Amouage Gold
5. I am going to see the Gipsy Kings live this month in NYC
Jealous of your #5, I bet they are great in concert.
Oh how fun! Enjoy the music for me too! ????????
I love #3! The question is, is this a good thing or a bad thing? Inquiring minds want to know!
I think its a GREAT thing! Meow!
Gipsy Kings….oh how wonderful!
After you told me about the recent Junot Diaz scandals, I went down a rabbit hole of reading his essays and then accusations and essays on the accusations and his essays, etc etc. I’m still heartbroken about it 🙁 He was such a great freshman advisor to me. What’s saddest is that I am not at all having a hard time reconciling the man I know with the man I’ve read about. I’m having trouble deciding whether it’s ok to still have fond feelings towards him.
It puts you in a situation that’s not easy to reconcile. I don’t want to get into it too much, and I’m not specifically speaking to this situation, but it strikes me that the airing of dirty laundry leaves everyone dirty, including bystanders. But nonetheless we feel obligated to take a side, when we perhaps should not have been privy to the intimacies of some relationships in the first place.
Well, I’m sure that some will disagree with me, but I think it’s okay to have fond feelings for the positive interaction that you had with him. Most of us are a mixture of good and bad and inbeween. You got to see a good side and that’s great. But it doesn’t mean you condone or feel fondly about any of his bad side (meaning misconduct, etc.), assuming it’s all true.
I agree with this completely.
Hi LTSG, I left you an email about your Soufflé Intense in the swapmeet, but I don’t know if you got it. Thanks!
1. You’re leaving on a Star Trek voyage, where no one has ever gone before. The replicator won’t be up and running for a few weeks, and you need to pick ONE perfume to tide you over until then. What is it?
Sarrasins, but only because I get to pick Box of Eels in #5.
2. What book are you reading right now, and what’s the best matching perfume?
I read more than one thing at a time. Presently I’m reading a Susanna Kearsley novel, a murder mystery, a book about hikes in the Columbia River Gorge, and the APA Code of Ethics (license renewal coming up). The Kearsley novel has a protagonist who is a cryptographer, so I’ll pick Tauer’s Data Miner soap to match.
3. Name a perfume that’s a wonderful weirdo.
Stephen Jones is pretty odd.
4. You can have one bottle of perfume from any store in the world, top price $250. Don’t overthink it, it’s just a fantasy — name your pick!
Bois des Iles parfum. Backup bottle #3. Wish they made bigger bottles.
5. Share something wonderful with us! It can be anything — a fantastic TV series you’re binge-watching, something delicious you ate, something fun you did recently — really, anything.
You know, everything here is pretty wonderful. Rain is forecast for next week, my chorus started practicing for the winter concert, the pets and I are doing well. I did eat fresh-made, piping-hot cinnamon donuts from a place called Pip’s. They were really good.
I am usually reading several things at a time too. Usually there is a mystery I’m whipping through and a more serious thing I’m reading at a snail’s pace, plus my old frenemy the New Yorker which I’m always behind on. Today I finally started on July issue so that is making me happy!
Glad to see Stephen Jones getting so many mentions 🙂
I read very little outside of novels (and the news, and research papers, neither of which counts for me), and I can’t read more than one novel at a time or I get terribly confused. I don’t know how other people do it! I guess your method of reading very different books at once is a good one.
It is interesting — I don’t know how other people just read one thing! So it is probably genetic 😉
Do you get bored?
You mean, ever, LOL?
Or do you mean with reading more than one thing?
1. Eau des Merveilles – I’ll surely be seeing a lot of marvels out in space.
2. I’m reading Design Revolution: 100 Products that Empower People. I’d pair it with Lampblack, and I have no idea why.
3. Dzing!
4. Eau des Mervielles. My travel spray is almost empty. Or else Insence Rose.
5. My father’s health has improved enough that he can travel! He and my mom are headed to Berlin tomorrow, a place he has always dreamed of visiting.
Wearing Smeraldo by Sylvaine Delacourt today – this sample is quickly winning me over. It’s just gorgeous on my skin – there’s a light smoky note in it that I didn’t notice in the other 4 from the set.
Smeraldo reads very green on my skin. It’s definitely unique. Glad you are enjoying it
That’s great about your father!
Good news about your Pa! Hope they have a wonderful time in Berlin.
(also: mmm, lampblack!)
Good news for your father…hope he enjoys his travels.
Love your number one!
1. D.S. & Durga Durga.
2. Introduction to Permaculture by Bill Mollison.
3. Door Dune.
4. Echoing someone else here, Wisteria Hysteria.
5. Just got back from a jaunt to Grand Rapids where we visited Fredrick Meijer Sculpture Park and viewed the 24 foot tall bronze casting of Leonard de Vinci’s Horse. That is a thing, 500 years in the making, since Leonard ran out of time and funds to actually cast it. This version is made from all the original drawings. An amazing thing. If you ever have free time and need a destination, it would be good to see this thing in person.
I used to live in Grand Rapids! If you like beer, I hope you went to Founder’s . . .
I love the Meijer Sculpture Park, and love that horse! The Japanese Gardens there are also very beautiful, though they’re still in progress, in the sense that they’re relatively new and need to mature–i.e., the plantings do. It’s got such a lovely cafeteria and is fun to visit. I went with my mother last fall, and we rode the little train around, since she can’t walk that far. They had a big chrysanthemum festival going on and the arrangements were wonderful, and were also having a special exhibit of work by Ai Wei Wei. Grand Rapids is turning into a pretty interesting little city for art.
SsotD = Eau des Merveilles and Walk the Sea
The comparison makes Walk the Sea smell ozonic. Worn alone, WtS smells like a parfum version of EdM. Nice! but I won’t need more than a sample.
replicate – Eau des Merveilles, of course!
book – Pachinko, so good I’m reading it again. Pair it with the ephemeral Eau de Fleurs de Cedrat, a reminder that the beautiful things in life can be fleeting.
weirdo – Beau Kwon Tuberai, I’ve been sniffing a sample. It’s intriguing.
$250 – Bogue MEM or Masque Milano Luci ed Ombre, hard to choose, probably the 2nd
wonderful – I’m thinking about going back to school! again! it’s early days so I won’t say more, but it’s fun to think about. 😉
Fun questions! Have a fun fragrant weekend, NSTers.
I want to go back to school, waah! It really is fun to think about.
What would you study?
I’ve thought of taking courses too, once I’m fully retired. I believe I’d study music, musicology, and/or music theory.
I would love to take more history and material culture classes.
Is material culture an autocorrect? Or an actual thing?
It’s an actual thing! The history of stuff — objects, architecture, design. What do humans make, what do they do with what they make, what do those things mean to them, what can objects tell us about historical cultures. It’s often part of social anthropology, intersects with history, archaeology, sociology, etc.
I see. I’ve never heard of this line of study but it sounds fascinating.
yah, thinking about school is fun, but until I write a check to register, it’s all in my head. 😉
It’s crazy expensive these days. Although CA schools have sometimes been a bargain for residents.
I was wearing MEM today 🙂
And, though I might complain about my studies sometimes… going back to it was one of the smartest decisions I made this decade. Hope the thinking leads you to the most interesting paths to choose.
thanks, crikey! those are the words I need to hear. And you smell fabulous in MEM. 😀
Loved Pachinko…one of the best books I’ve read this year.
isn’t it JUST SO GOOD?!?!? 😀
I hardly ever read a book twice, and I never think about buying books anymore, but this is one I might want to have on my shelf forever.
Back to school! That’s very exciting, and I look forward to hearing more about it. That said, while I may take isolated courses again from time to time, I will never again go fully back to school. I was in school until the age of 29 (elementary, middle high, college, MS, PhD, with one-year gaps between a few of those), so I think I’m good on the school front 🙂
Good to hear about Pachinko. I think it’ll have to be bumped up on my to-read list!
I went back to school at 40 (though not because I wanted to.) It’s more fun as an older adult. I also discovered that I am really good at school. Too bad it’s not a paying gig. I find it much easier to be academically successful than real life/real world successful.
Agree, would much rather go to school than be in the real world.
I’ve gone back to school this fall! Just two courses: one at the university where I work, and one through a seminary, for lay people. I’m not getting another degree, just taking them to nourish my mind. The one at my university is an undergraduate course; it is great to be among, and learn from and with, these gifted young adults.
5. Had my custom DSH scent made yesterday for my 50th birthday tomorrow!
So for everyone wondering what it’s like
When I called to make the appointment, she asked me if I had anything in mind so I told her “slinky carnation” and her voice immediately lit up and she got even more excited when I mentioned that I liked some of the animalics that she’s been doing recently. I like Fumee d’Or and Foxy and Chinchilla more than the one named after sable so she was ,”so a musk armature rather than an Ambergris armature”
I show up yesterday and get greeted with a hug and then we spent the next four hours creating my scent. First I elaborate a little more on my vision that I wanted something like red satin, the kind that flows rather than the stiffer kind used in ballgowns, then we discussed my favorite notes and perfume styles and least favorites.
She then starts pulling bottles for me to sniff while we figure out what I like (she says I shouldn’t play poker because everything is evident on my face). I tilt towards mostly real stuff–Indian sandalwood, Tonkin musk, civet, Jasmine, oakmoss with some synthetics.
She applied her Formula X to my skin and sniffs and declares that I have almost neutral skin–I go slightly Woody and a pinch sweet (hajusuuri–this may be why you think I have unicorn skin because things smell fairly close on me to how they smell from the bottle)
She starts putting together the scent and Everytime she adds someting, she puts a drop on a coffee filter strip for me to smell. It takes 23 mods to get it right. We then do a 2nd one with plum instead of peach and deepen some of the base which takes 9 mods and which I name Lounging Aound. We also do a 3rd version with some spices which we call Silk which took 3mods.
We finish and I get a bottle of parfum, a bottle of edp and a container of body creme in Slinky Carnation. More hugs. I can still smell it on my skin.
That sounds WONDERFUL!!Glad you had an enjoyable time at DSH!
And Happy Birthday for tomorrow!Hope it is an awesome day and a Wonderful year!
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Wow thanks for the share! That sounds amazing. Congratulations on your slinky carnation perfume!
That sounds A M A Z I N G! Halo Birthday, indeed!! Enjoy!
Marvelous! Slinky Carnation is such a great name and concept. Happy Birthday tomorrow!
Wow – that sounds fantastic!
A very happy 50th, and that really does sound like such a fantastic experience, good for you!
Happy 50! Excellent gift for yourself. 🙂
how wonderful, that experience–and perfume–sounds like the best present. Happiest of birthdays to you, and many happy returns.
(I *love* the idea of slinky carnation…)
Thank you so much for telling us about it in great detail. It’s just so interesting! I bet she loved having you because you had pretty definite ideas on what you wanted before you went, and your images and label were descriptive and evocative. I now and feeling an urge to try this some day, so perhaps a trip to Denver is in my future! Once she’s created it, can she make you more if you want it? I hope that you’ll really love it as you continue to wear it. AND, happy birthday!!
The formula stays on file and I can always get refills. I also took home samples of Lounging Around and Silk in case I decide I want those too.
What a wonderful birthday gift!!! Slinky, indeed…..
That sounds incredible. Happy birthday!!!
woot woot! that’s a perfumista dream come true.
Congratulations on your Slinky Carnation, and happy 50th! It’s a good decade. 😉
The whole experience sounds amazing! Happy birthday and enjoy your new beautiful perfume!
Happy birthday! Sounds like a great time making your perfume.
Wow, what an amazing experience! Thank you for sharing.
Happy Birthday, fellow Virgo and enjoy your new treasure.
Happy Birthday! What an awesome experience!
This sounds wonderful and like great fun! Happy birthday, and so happy you were able to have such a marvelous experience 🙂
Happy 50th! Thanks for sharing your experience; that sounds like so much fun!! “Slinky Carnation” sounds wonderful, I love carnation as a note. I sometimes spritz L’Artisan’s Oeillet Sauvage before bed, as it is a cozy carnation, and I’ve given SL’s Vitriol d’Oeillet to my husband. He smells even nicer than usual in it! (He’s an Old Spice kind of guy).
Wow! Happy Birthday and thanks for sharing the experience. It sounds fabulous. I admire you knowing what you wanted. And Slinky Carnation sounds delicious.
Chiming in to say how jealous I am and happy for you for the cool experience and what is, I’m sure, a lovely perfume that you have for yourself.
Ooooh tomorrow will be my day! I’m quite a weirdo. Though you all, as perfumistas, are at least a little weird, too. <3
Currently wearing An Evening with the Mobster from Dua Fragrances, from a decant sent to me by a kind NSTer. Dua appears to be mostly a dupe-producing company, and this is supposed to be a dupe of Roja Parfums Creation-E. I've never tried the Roja one, but the notes are meant to be whiskey, tobacco, smoke, and spices. I, however, get a wonderful and raucous cotton candy and buttery popcorn 🙂 Maybe I'm broken. I quite like it, though.
1. Star Trek voyage perfume: Passage d'Enfer! Never wrong.
2. Book/perfume: Young Jane Young by Gabrielle Zevin. It’s wonderful! Guerlain Vétiver to go with it. The book is in no way cold or cologne-like! It’s warm and intimate. I think it’s more that…Vétiver is the right perfume to wear if you are one of the protagonists of the book, maybe? And since the book spans generations, I picked something that seems ageless.
3. Weirdo perfume: Sycomore! (I know that might seem tame to most of you.) The first time I smelled it, from a decant hajusuuri sent me, I found it dirty and revolting (obviously this was early in my perfume “career”). Now, I can’t imagine life without it.
4. < $250 bottle: Eh…Hermessence Cardamusc? Does that squeak in? Probably not. If that's too expensive, then Passage d'Enfer.
5. Something wonderful: There's a street fair on my street today! It's an Art & Wine Festival. They have these every year, and my boyfriend seems to be in Boston every time it rolls around. This means I get to explore all by myself, which is great, because I explore art slowly. I bought a few small things to support local artisans (yup, that's why, not because I'm indulgent), and then sadly eyed $800 wooden bowls and $3000 wooden inlay tables and $700 flower paintings and thought about how nice it must be to be wealthy. Sigh. Anyway, it's delightful.
Ha – I posted before reading everyone else’s answers, and we have pretty much the same response to #1!
Hahaha 🙂 It’s a great one, isn’t it??
I love Sycomore, even though I am still convinced there is a strong note of damp cardboard in it.
Really?? Hmmm. I associate iris with damp cardboard, and I don’t get any iris OR cardboard from Sycomore myself. Perhaps your nose is just more sensitive than mine!
more sensitive? highly unlikely because I was daft enough to smoke for way more years than was good for me. I think we all just pair up associations differently.
(This note is really specific for me: it’s *corrugated* cardboard in sycomore. And for me iris has the texture of the dust on top of books at the back of neglected bookshelves. Not the smell, though. just the feel of it. That weird soft, powdery, silky but dry greyness… Brains are weird/wonderful beasts.)
Are you a synesthete? You sound like one. I am, and I also describe things in those kinds of terms. (My parents just thought I was a weird kid.)
That said, I don’t get the same texture from iris that you do! I had a sample of Naomi Goodsir Iris Cendré that I think had gone a bit off in its plastic spray vial, and that one smelled specifically like damp corrugated cardboard 🙂 Which is funny, because I spent a long time trying to figure out why the cardboard was corrugated and came up with nothing.
Hmm… I think I might be, in a very small way. I’ve never really thought about it properly because I don’t do the standard colour or sound matches, just textures and object associations…
I am very entertained and heartened by your matching insistence on corrugation, btw 🙂
1. Chamade. Almost always Chamade.
2. D.V. by Diana Vreeland (her 1984 autobiography). I think Luca Turin said she wore narcissus absolute. I bet she liked Chamade too. 😉
3. Feu d’Issey. I’m only thinking about it since I bought a bottle of the Light version and an itching to wear it (probably tomorrow!)
4. I think… Narcisse Noir. Even as farback as 2010 I could find the EdT at Nordstrom. Now it’s impossible to find! I’ve never tried the parfum, so that would be my preference.
5. I just paid off a credit card, but I got there by eating breakfast at home the past month. I’ve been making two hearty slices of toast, one spread with a sweet pepper and eggplant spread and one with kalamata olive spread. I get tired of eating the same things over and over, which is why my food budget is always overspent, but this combo is so tasty!
Congrats on paying off the card! I’m sure it is healthier to eat at home too.
My husband ate lunch out everyday (always something of a point of contention between us) until very recently. He took a job where he wasn’t allowed to physically leave to go eat, so I offered to start making lunches for him.
He lost 15 lbs in the first month of eating home-cooked lunches. (He’s also found he prefers it to eating out.) IMO, this is not so much a testament to the lunches I’ve been making, but to the fact that (most) restaurant food isn’t designed for everyday eating and is massively calorie-laden (and fat-laden, etc.) (Though as the person who cooks the lunches, I can attest to my cooking being more healthful than most restaurant meals in terms of nutrients & fiber.)
It also saves us about $50/week in food costs.
Which is a huge number to save! My boyfriend refuses to cook, but I always point out how much we save.
Thank you! Next step is dinners. I’ve been trying to do that at home as well but it’s not always convenient. But yes, I eat tons more veggies at home.
My H and I have recently been having that conversation, re: cooking meals in rather than eating out. I’m with you in that I tend to eat more veggies when I cook. My home-cooked meals (and those my H cooks, though perhaps not to the same degree – he’s got a heavy hand with the butter) also tend to be less calorie-dense.
Anyhoo, I started really micro-tracking exactly what we spend money on about a year ago. (We’re also a household of 2.) When you’ve got a larger group, it’s pretty clear that there’s an economy of scale thing that happens when you cook rather than eat out. When I was single, it was more or less even either way. (I should add that I tend to buy high-quality and expensive groceries, while eating out usually means some takeout from a low- to mid-range restaurant.)
I suspected that 2 people might be closer to breaking even, and that in the months where we spend less eating out it’s balanced by buying more groceries and vice-versa. As I actually have a year’s worth of data to check whether that theory bears out, it turned out not to be the case for us. It’s more than marginally cheaper to cook. (My husband eating lunch out everyday was already obvious to me; now that I have some data to pinpoint, I can say exactly what the weekly savings has been.)
For myself, I’ll say that I hate cooking every night and that there are all kinds of foods that I crave on a regular basis that I will ALWAYS eat out and not attempt to cook at home. But I also get tired of eating restaurant meals. So it’s all about balance for me. I also like good food and am not willing to make certain sacrifices, so it’ll always be a financial category I’m not willing to be spartan with 😉
We mostly eat dinner at home and we’ve gotten good use from one of those meal subscription services, where they send you a box with all the ingredients and recipes for two meals/week. It’s worth it for four people. The food is healthy (esp. less fat and sodium) and the quality of the ingredients is very high. We’ve also tried a LOT of new but simple recipes. My husband takes leftovers to work for his lunch (I usually get soup at work). Buying daily meals at work really adds up — like that daily Starbucks habit I’ve broken.
I eat way more veggies when I eat out because I hate to cook, so I end up eating cereal or toast for supper at home, whereas in a restaurant I would order a salad or vegetable dish.
Do you make those spreads yourself, or buy them somewhere? I’d like to try them, in either case, though for me they’d have to be lunch not breakfast. Congrats!
Thank you! If I remember correctly, you’re in Houston, right? I got both of them at Phonecias. One is Kalamata olive spread (the brand is Castella) and the other is Vegetable Spread Mild Ajvar (the brand is Zergüt.)
Yes, Phoenicia is great! I’m not too close to their locations but if I get to the downtown one I’m going to look for these.
Isn’t it amazing how small savings add up? Congrats!
Thank you!
Also true of actual savings. For the longest time I thought it was stupid to put small amounts of money into a savings account. But if one does this regularly – even if it’s $10/week or $25/month – it really does add up to something more than $0. Duh!
1. Chanel Coromandel
2. Reading Fashion Climbing by Bill Cunningham. Perfume should be Chanel Paris – Venise because it’s new, light, happy yet classic.
3. Favorite weirdo at the moment is Zoologist Rhinoceros
4. If I could run out and buy anything it would be Slumberhouse Sadanne but since that is no longer available, Dior Ambre Nuit.
5. Last night, we watched Train to Busan. If you like zombie movies, this one was an edge of your seat thrill ride! My 10 year old daughter kept making fun of me for jumping and gasping. Totally worth dealing with the subtitles.
I RODE THE TRAIN TO BUSAN!
No kidding–two summers ago. Nothing bad happened! But, naturally, I had to watch the movie later.
Have you seen the really good documentary about Bill Cunningham?
Cool!! I have not been to Korea, but it is on the (very long) list!
I did see that documentary; he really was such an interesting guy.
1. Passage d’Enfer is one of the few scents I like in all weather so I’m thinking it would work in space too.
2. I just finished Patricia Wentworth’s Grey Mask – I was hoping to love it, as it is part of a huge mystery series, but it was so-so. The characters were all either rich and glum or rich and duplicitous; one of the stuffier Penhaligon’s would probably work for them.
3. I want to like strange scents more than I do – Bulgari Black and Dzing are probably my weirdest favorites.
4. I keep dithering over a bottle of Iris de Nuit so I’ll take that and end the suspense. Hmm, though, maybe I’d rather have some real sandalwood oil from India, if I get to pick from the whole world . . .
5. We recently went on a quick trip to Santa Fe – I highly recommend Meow Wolf!
My husband really likes classic cologne and sandalwood scents, and hates patchouli – he doesn’t comment on my perfume much, and when he does the comments generally reflect the above preferences. HOWEVER this morning he said “Well, whatever you’re wearing right now is AWFUL.” The culprit: Byredo’s Pulp. At least I only have a sample . . .
The day I tried Pulp, my husband told me I smelled like the dumpster behind a smoothie store during a heat wave. It’s one of two fragrances he asked me to never wear again.
The second is Chanel No. 5. He hates it with a burning passion.
Pulp is not a love for me, but it’s also not particularly objectionable? Just very fruity.
I’m always surprised by how polarizing No. 5 is. I really enjoy it, but I know several people who hate it.
Ahahaha what a great and enthusiastic description!
I’ve never smelled Pulp, but I do strongly dislike No. 5, so I’ll guess he has good taste 🙂
I’m guessing the Chanel No 5 polarization is that almost everyone has some kind of association with it.
Yes, I think almost everyone has a grandmother/great aunt/mother-in-law who doused themselves with it every morning.
1. Diptyque Fleur de Peau. Kind of a ridiculous choice, but I think those big manly klingons might secretly love kitten musk.
2. I’m reading A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry. Perfume match would be Gul rose oil from the Aurobindo ashram perfume store.
3. WW perfume would be Byredo Elevator Music
4. I’d go with a bottle of Hindu Kush. Love that stuff.
5. I just binge watched “Sacred Games” on Netflix and then wished I hadn’t. It’s super violent, but I loved the hero.
you know I started Sacred Games but did not get too far. I get sidetracked very easily 🙂
I binge watched Deadwind which I really enjoyed.
Yeah I stuck with it because I love India, and especially that the female detective was so badass and intelligently played. But yeah it was super violent and there was a lot of gratuitous potty mouth which just isn’t convincing coming from Indians who are usually so quiet and polite.
Very disappointed with Elevator Music. And Eleventh Hour, too. What do you get in the former?
Hi Chris, I’m not really sure what it was about Elevator Music that caught my attention. I just sniffed it from the bottle at Barneys the other day and was like “wow that’s different and quirky” Might have been the combo of violet, green notes and hedione?
I’m envious! I did not get any violet or green or hedione at all, just fruity unicorn vomit and then sweet powder.
Byredo has a lot of scents that seem to match that description.
Is that the rose oil you sent me? I want to tell you now, because I think I’ve forgotten to before, how much I LOVE that rose oil! It’s soooo beautiful.
Aw I’m so glad you love it. Me too.
1. Star Trek voyage: MFK Grand Soir.
2. What book are you reading right now, and what’s the best matching perfume? Aristotle’s Parts of Animals, bwah ha ha , in Greek no less, bwah ha ha too….. Maybe…. ELEPHANT! He’s got a lot in there on elephant trunks!!
3. Name a perfume that’s a wonderful weirdo. BAT
4. You can have one bottle of perfume from any store in the world, top price $250. Don’t overthink it, it’s just a fantasy — name your pick! April Aromatics Calling All Angels–I keep wanting it and not pulling the plug.
5. Share something wonderful with us! It can be anything — a fantastic TV series you’re binge-watching, something delicious you ate, something fun you did recently — really, anything. Went on a splurge at a very cute little French fashion boutique in Houston (if anyone here wants to know I can give you the info) because the lovely owner had sent me a 20% off birthday discount. I bought everything in wonderful shades of blue from medium to pale including two sweaters, one T, and a fun scarf… All intended for when I go to Toronto next month (and I hope there at least I’ll finally be able to wear sweaters). 🙂 I don’t have that much in blue as I tend to wear gray, black, or various wine-reds, but I declare, blue suits me!!
Oh, Bat! That’s a perfect choice. I should have gone with that! 🙂
OMG I can’t believe I didn’t think of Bat!!!!
And, heh, look at you getting to show off your hoity toity book choice 🙂 I was briefly worried I was reading something embarrassing (I’ve been known to read, say, Outlander and Twilight and the Devil Wears Prada and such), and was happy I was reading quite a normal book–one I’d recommend to other people, even! But you really hit the fancy book jackpot. Are you enjoying it?
Ha ha, yes, that was a bit over the top wasn’t it?! Somehow the combination of a pile of Zoologist perfumes sitting on my table and that book, really and truly, being the one right next to my laptop, made me do it. You don’t quite read Aristotle for pleasure (or if you do you’re weird!) (whereas you could read Plato for pleasure), and I’ve read it before, but I’ve had to go back into it for a scholarly article. In fact, some parts of it are quite beautiful, as when he encourages students not to shy away from animals or their parts, thinking they are ugly; he says this would mean you’d find humans ugly too, and besides, “in all natural things there is something of the marvellous (ti thaumaston)”.
Hahaha 🙂 I myself no longer read even Plato for pleasure! I’m over my classical phase (that was late elementary school/early middle school; I was a precocious child), and now am so lazy that I’ll wait for more patient people to tell me which specific passages to read. But good for you for slogging through it and finding those beautiful passages! You’re helping out people like me.
Reading Aristotle in the (original?) Greek is pretty impressive!
Fun to find and wear colors! My winter (slash spring slash fall) wardrobe is entirely bereft of color – it’s all black, grey, and camel. But I noticed this year that my summer wardrobe is all about color – including shades I wouldn’t think of wearing any other time. What’s up with that, anyway?
Yeah, what is? Wardrobe colors vary a lot in different parts of the country. In my profession, those dark colors are more or less the uniform, but since I’ve lived in Texas so long, I’ve begun branch out. It’s possible just the warm climate and multiple tropical flowers of summer or a hot place make colors seem more appropriate.
I think I might also have some kind of mental block where it’s okay to have “fun” clothes for summer but otherwise need to be practical.
My summer wardrobe also has prints, embroidery, patterns, etc. while the rest of the year I wear solids almost exclusively.
1) it’s about to be autumn, so I think vintage Donna Karan Chaos will get me through!
2) ugh, I feel like all I consume is my Twitter feed and political news, which is totally unhealthy. I am thoroughly enjoying the new Luca Turin & Tania Sanchez Perfume Guide, however!
3) I just bought a bottle of Comme Dean Garcons EdP, the original, and it’s so much weirder than I would have imagined. I adore it!
4) oh, vintage bell jar of De Profundis, no question. I think that the original price would have been around $250? lol
5) let’s see, Harlots is back on Hulu, and I love that! For Chicago-ans, I just ate at Pearl’s in Edgewater, a wonderful neighborhood Cajun/BBQ joint last night! Don’t forget the White Chocolate bread pudding, yum. And I’m going to see Crazy Rich Asians later today, very psyched for that!
uh, that would be “Des” and not “Dean”
You’re right about those things being unhealthy. I signed off Facebook recently for a few weeks to focus on recovery from surgery, and when I got back on, the things I most noticed were the postings about politics, and how upset and depressed they all made me get.
I trimmed the accounts I follow on Twitter to those based on art or books or animals. It’s now a far less stressful experience.
I don’t actually think those things are unhealthy. It’s almost all I consume as well, but I do take a break from it throughout the day. (I’m also excited about the new Masterpiece series to break things up.) I don’t do social media, but my feeling about it is that the negatives far outweigh the positives, thus is overall unhealthy. It seems to be something people are not able to do in moderate doses, which is never a good thing.
De Profundis! Excellent choice. I was heartbroken when I went to the shop in Palais Royal and they didn’t have it this spring 🙁 I bet they have it back in stock by now!
1. Hiram Green Shangri-La.
2. Just finished “The Orchardist.” Perfume match – Be Delicious.
3. My beloved SJP Covet is an odd perfume which works perfectly on my skin.
4. Right now I think I’d choose Ormonde Jayne Woman.
5. My husband won the 50/50 raffle at last week’s high school football game (I was selling tickets!) While part of me felt like we should donate it back to the boosters, I wasn’t unhappy that he gave me part of the winnings so I could buy a new zoom lens for my camera – I take photos at my son’s freshman games and can’t wait to play with the new lens. Would not have otherwise had the cash to do so. And as I write this, I smell his chili on the stove – always great when someone else cooks in my house.
Congrats on the new lens for your camera and the lottery win!
I was at a charity event about 3 years ago and bought a lottery ticket and won a couple of plane tickets–you could’ve knocked me over with a feather, as I’ve never won anything before. But the real reason I wanted to reply was because I wondered why you think Covet is odd? Maybe so, but I’m wondering why?
The whole lemon/chocolate thing in Covet is a little weird to me but I absolutely love it. I don’t think it went over well since it was discontinued fairly quickly..
Lemon/chocolate?! Wow, now I’m sad I never tried it! That sounds great, and I love Stash.
Greetings! I’m in Taklamakan and sweat. Out here in the desert doing van things (more like watching van things) get done. Blessedly, we have a pop up for shade…!
Have a great weekend all!
Forgot the questions…!
1. Naja
2. Book: Evil: Inside Human Violence and Cruelty by Roy F. Baumeister
Perfume to match: none, thankfully!
3. Eau de Crypt
4. Onda VdE
5. Finally getting my van professionally done by the nicest 25 year old ever. I’m so grateful and lucky to have found a gem to do this work.
Wear an Evil Perfume.
Now that would be an interesting CP!!
Indeed! Can’t imagine how that would pan out…!
feeling the vero love!
3: chypre mousse, right? (yum yum)
Right, yum! ????
I wonder if one of the indie oil places (Sixteen92, BPAL) would have something to match your book?
Oh, good call! I have a 5ml of “Arrival at the Sabbath and Homage to the Devil.” You’re brilliant! ????????
Wow!
1. Aeon 001. Seems like a good fit for infinite space, and shifts and changes enough to keep my interested on a long journey.
2. Kate Flint’s “Flash: Photography, Writing, and Surprising Illumination”. This is a pretty remarkable cultural history of the flash gun in the way that she examines the social effects of a new technology. Hmm… something with old school synthetic compounds like heliotropin, ionones, or coumarin that were also invented/isolated in the mid 1800s.
3. Byredo’s M/Mink
4. Naja, please.
5. There’s an amazing new art space about ten minute’s walk from where I live–a particularly grim-looking part of the edges of Leith docks is now glowing with art and colour and invention and life. Over 70 graffiti artists worked on both sides of a very long wall last weekend in a two day painting jam. I love it.
1. ONE perfume to tide me over on a space voyage? Why, Vol de Nuit, of course.
2. Right now I’m rereading a Nero Wolfe mystery called Gambit. It’s set in the early 60s, iirc, and I think something by Chanel would be just the thing. I almost said Diorling, but I think that would freak both Wolfe and Archie out a little too much.
3. Wonderful weirdo? Kerosene Broken Theories.
4. One fantasy bottle of perfume from any store in the world, top price $250: it changes daily, and today the one that’s on my mind is Oriza Legrand Jardins d’Armide.
5. Something wonderful: well, Mr. G and I just finished season 1 of Stranger Things and are about to start the second season. We’re really looking forward to it far too much. Oh, and right now he’s making me a leftover steak and avocado sandwich – that’s pretty wonderful too. 🙂
SOTM was Mediterraneo, and I might just go spritz on some more for the afternoon.
Mmm that sandwich sounds delicious!
1. Hmm not sure I could wear any one scent for weeks straight without hating it eventually, which would be sad. Maybe something that doesn’t stick around for too long… Chanel Paris-Deauville perhaps. (Yes it’s still hot here, my brain cannot process cool weather scents yet)
2. I’m reading Winnie the Pooh which is so soothing. Perhaps Idyllwild to go with the Thousand Acre Wood. And I’m reading Revenant Gun by Yoon Ha Lee which deserves my #3
3. Lubin Vetiris which I just pulled the trigger on today. As you might guess, it’s vetiver and iris, earthy dusty and strange. Like!
4. Dunno. Though I’m sure something will occur to me the moment I click ‘Post Comment’ lol
5. Not a lot of wonderful going on around here lately. Husband gets the staples removed from his elbow surgery next week, so that’s good. Binge-watched ‘The Marvelous Mrs Maisel’ this week, that was quite fun.
And now, it is time for a NAP. I remember hating naps as a kid. What was I thinking? Naps are outstanding. And it’ll take about 30 seconds after I lie down before I have Kooky the cat wedged up next to me. He has Nap Radar.
Love Idyllwild, and perfect for the Thousand Acre Wood!
Mrs Maisel is hilarious. I watched a few episodes then forgot about it, thank you for the reminder. The bawdy talk had me laughing out loud. I’m usually a language prude, but her delivery is perfect.
I love that you’re reading Winnie the Pooh! There’s just something about those older English children’s books …
Congrats on your new acquisition!
There seems to be a spate of Pooh-themed movies these days. Did that bring on your reading of it?
Yes, we recently watched Goodbye Christopher Robin, which was quite sad, I hadn’t known the backstory. But it made me want to pull out my old books; Winnie the Pooh is a great bedtime read even for old folks 🙂
I’ve re-read some childhood books and agree! I saw the trailer for that film and wanted to see it. I’ll make a point to do so now.
Happy Saturday everyone!
1. I can’t pick just one perfume, but perhaps Cap Neroli.
2. Our book club is reading sing, unburied, sing for September, and it’s on my Kindle, but I started the prequel Salvage the Bones over the summer and got stuck and haven’t been able to motivate myself to read.
3. I smelled this really odd scent in Berlin, I thin it was called Fun Fair. It smelled like a bad churro.
4. Maybe I would blind buy a bottle of Castana by Cloonkeen, which Luca Turin reviewed highly and which sounds intriguing.
5. Almost wonderful: I tried that Cuban coffee recipe someone posted – ran out to the thrift store and bought a $2 moka pot. Spent a lot of time staring at the pot as the water that I poured in the bottom did not match the output whatsoever and I kept waiting for more coffee to appear. I will try again as soon as the pot is cold enough to unscrew and refill!
Cap Neroli, yes! So, so good. Just picked up a bottle this week. You’ll smell great on the spaceship. 🙂
You’ve got me wondering what a bad churro smells like. I’m imagining oil that hasn’t been changed recently or is at the wrong temperature..?
You’re thinking about this more analytically than I did! Air thick with the smell of fry oil, popcorn butter scent layered on top of that – that’s what I recall.
I read Salvage the Bones but didn’t realize it had a sequel. I think it’s a brilliant book, one that truly makes you look at things in a different way (for example, the dog-fighting scenes). But it’s a really tough story to deal with and not one I’d want to recommend to most of my friends.
I will charge my Kindle today and start reading Sing Unburied Sing – maybe after that, I’ll dare return to Salvage. It’s exactly the dog fight scenes that are tough for me, especially as you realize how silly it is to worry about the dogs when the protagonists have problems much more acute.
Yes, they were truly tough, and I never in a million years would have thought I could read a treatment of that “sport” that would make me at all sympathetic, and yet that book managed to do it. It’s worth it to get to the end, and I’d encourage you to forge ahead. I’ll wait awhile though to try the sequel.
1. Chanel 28 La Pausa EdT.
2. I am not reading anything right now. No time for it lately. Any free time is just to collapse in bed to sleep since I am so tired or try to keep up with house work. Hope to eventually get some time to myself.
3. Dzing without any doubts.
4. Guerlain Encense Mythique D’Orient.
5. When I stopped at the bank this morning, I unexpectedly met one of my teachers from school many, many years ago. It was a happy moment. We went for some tea and pastries at a bakery store and catch up on things for approximately 1 hour. Good memories of old times. We promised to keep in touch.
SOTD was the last drops of my full bottle of Parfums de Nicolai Week-End A Deauville. Very sad to see it go, since it always brough me good memories of my childhood. I will not look for a replacement since the reformulation does not smell the same.
Robin, is the next freebiemeet this month or in May/June as you mentioned in the Swapmeet post?
Happy weekend everyone!
28 La Pausa is a beautiful perfume!And Dzing is awesome!We definitely have some similar tastes M!
Happy Weekend!
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Happy weekend to you too J. I got your email. Thank you! I will respond to you later my friend!
#4 fantastic!!!!! Nothing more wonderful than unexpected surprises that turn out lovely.
OOPs I mean #5
It was inded a wonderful surprise after many years.
Wow, I wonder if I’d even recognize a teacher from many, many years ago. I suspect I wouldn’t.
I’ve recently thought about some college professors I had good relationships with and realized it’s entirely possible that said persons are no longer alive. Aging is a bizarre thing sometimes.
It was not difficult to recognize him. He was a very young teacher those days and despite the years there have not been very drastic physical changes on him fortunately. A group of school students which I belonged to used to attend many cultural activities with him after school hours or the weekends. We all had a very simple and rewarding friendship. We hope to keep in touch so next time we meet we can still recognize each other.
Ah, I understand. I had a few relationships like that, but I’m convinced I’d neither recognize the teacher nor my fellow students. But that’s because 1) old and 2) terrible memory, particularly for faces and names.
I’ve also had an actual experience where I sat a few tables away from some friends (not close ones, but closer than casual acquaintances) from high school. Despite my table partner pointing out multiple times that a table-full of people across the room were people we’d known in high school, it took a good couple of hours to go from saying, “I’ve never seen any of those people in my life,” to saying, “Oh, crap – I was actually friends with all of them!”
But I also went to 3 different elementary schools, 3 high schools, and at least half a dozen different colleges in different states and cities, so maybe that’s a good excuse 😉
I was walking in the mall one day,and this beautiful red-haired girl came walking towards me.We locked eyes and simultaneously said “I know you Johanò/I know you Elaine”!It was my first friend I made during first grade,Elaine.And she looked basically the same,just 23 years later!Haha!
Argh — freebiemeet is later this month!
Hmm, I tend to start hating anything I have to wear day after day, so let’s pick something I don’t really care about: YSL Cinema.
I am reading A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara, loaned to me by a friend.
My weird scent is Byredo M/M Ink.
My perfume wish is Cèdre Sambac.
Things are quite un-wonderful here right now so I am just going to wish a happy new year to my fellow Jewish NST colleagues, may the new year bring us only happiness and good things!
That book was so sad.
That is a very smart pick for #1! In a similar way I have found that I stop loving fragrances that I get shower gels of, because of overuse.
I am the opposite…perfumes tend to grow on me the longer I wear them 🙂
I love polls!
1. BoE. I think I could happily wear it for a long time.
2. I’m reading a cookbook again, The Love & Lemons Cookbook, by Jeanine Donofrio. It has fruit and vegetable recipes, organized alphabetically; I’m trying to find some culinary inspiration! Fragrance pairing: Arielle Shoshana, light and airy.
3. Dzing! comes immediately to mind, but also Gucci Guilty Absolute…warm, cognac scented leather + the greatest bandaids you’ve ever smelled. It’s weird, but it really works.
4. I’d love to have Masque Milano Hemingway. Ginger, rhubarb, leather and vetiver – what’s not to like?
5. On my walk yesterday morning, I went a different route than usual, and I found a mini labyrinth/maze created in a hedged area. It had the same round style of the Chartres labyrinth, but was smaller, and had three rock benches in the center so one could sit and reflect. I had no clue this was in my neighborhood, but it was really a wonderful thing to find.
SoTDs were: Noa, Kashan Rose, Un Air de Samsara, Chanel Chance Eau Tendre. Been busy. 🙂
Dzing! was my weird wonderful too
1. Thé pour un Été will tide me over nicely, it’s one of the few I could wear every day and it’s light enough not to torture my shipmates.
2. I’m thoroughly enjoying the first book in the Veronica Speedwell series – try it if you like fun historical mystery adventures! Veronica is certainly headstrong, so I think she’d wear Cabochard. And maybe Salome when romancing.
3. Bat is my wonderful weirdo!
4. Oh, salivating… I think I’ll finally get that FB of Salome, to keep Veronica company.
5. Wonderful new fruit in our CSA share this week! They’re called “ground cherries” and they come in a papery husk like a tomatillo, but are sweeter.
We have ground cherries here in Quebec too!
I’ve seen ground cherries at farmers markets where I am. I’ve never eaten one. Do you just eat them… as fruit? lol
Yes, it’s almost like eating a very tiny tomato in texture but it tastes like a sweet fruit.
It might be an exaggeration to call this wonderful, my supermarket has a section of frozen fruits intended for smoothies, and I’ve found that the frozen tropical jackfruit is easy to eat straight the bag, without blending or thawing. It has an unusual flavor that I enjoy, and its creamy texture makes this sort of like eating a fruit ice cream, but healthy!
The $250 limit is cramping my fantasy style, Robin, but I’ll go with Iunx Splash Forte, which is only available in two Paris locations, the Boutique Iunx and the Boutique Costes. I have the small spray, but the container is opaque. I’d like the big 150-ml bottle so that I can enjoy the pretty red color that matches the spicy scent.
I’ll check a couple of places around because a fresh jackfruit I recently got was soooo far away from what I’ve tried in Hawaii that it wasn’t even recognizable.
It’s worth a try!
The caveat is that I’ve never had fresh jackfruit, so I don’t know how the frozen compares. I hope you’ll report back!
1) Box of Eels, EDT
2) The latest perfume guide. I stare at a couple of computer screens all day so my eyes are too tired at night. I used to read constantly.
3) Niki de Saint Phalle
4) Parfum Satori, Satori
5). I went to the farmers market yesterday with a perfumista friend. Then we headed over to Providence Perfume. Charna has a wonderful new perfume that she hasn’t lunched yet called Sedona Sweet Grass. It’s fantastic and something completely different in her line. My friend bought a FB on the spot and I bought a 5 ml mini but may need more in the future.
Good to know about the new release! Does it smell like it sounds?
I love it but, as you know, perfume is subjective. It opens with resinous pine needs then becomes a little smokey, but not campfire (which is a big fat no for me). It settles down to that wonderful dried sweetgrass scent. It opens strong but settles down to a light projection. I haven’t tested it fully. I literally had to hose off when I came home because I had on way too many perfumes. It’s totally unisex and probably good for any season. Her assistant said that this is Charna’s interpretation of Sedona. I would recommend for test when it launches. In the meantime, you an probably email her if you are interested.
That should have been pine needles…
Thanks for this mini-review! The notes don’t speak to me as much as some of her other creations, but I am grateful that talented natural perfumers like Charna exist!
This sounds really good, Petunia!
It”s worth testing.
BoE was a contender for number one spot for me! Tough decisions were made, and it wasn’t easy. That perfume sounds wonderful. I don’t think I’ve tried any from her line and I NEED to, but there are so many I want to explore, and I have such limited perfume space, that I just get overwhelmed by the choices and give up. Keep smelling fine my friend! ✌????
It’s so hard to pick a scent for a fictitious extended period. Why is that? ????
I guess those limitations are real for you. I hope your van build gives you more storage, however you decide to use the added space.
Temps finally dropped here, the high is only 69 here today. I’m actually wearing a long sleeve shirt and jeans. Feels good.. I think of you whenever the weather cools off. Keep on truckin!
1. Lea
2. The life-changing magic of tidying up by Marie Kondo
3. I’m stumped by this one. I would call Byredo’s Elevator Music weird, but I definitely didn’t find it wonderful.????
4. Arbole Arbole
5. I survived the first week of my daughter being gone to college. She’s even texted me a few times, so I know she hasn’t forgotten about me yet! lol
Sotd is Lea. Happy Sunday everyone.
LOL on “yet”. My sister asked my nephew to text everyday once he’s back at the dorm to sleep for the night. He also came home Friday night (he has a class at 4:30PM every Friday ???? – I want to slap the person who scheduled this) and went back Saturday. At least the school and where my sister live are just a short train ride away AND the train station is within walking distance to my sister’s place.
LOL that barely counts as “off to college,” no? Though I’m assuming that short train ride is really short.
I’ll bet the 4:30p Friday prof wants to slap someone, too. Good lord. This is certainly a waste of time for all involved!
True! At some point they will remove that requirement. He’s in an Honors program and live in a dorm set aside for program participants. I would worry more if he was with the general population.
Oof. Having been in an academic situation as part of a group that was “set aside” from others, that’s a situation I’d probably not be supportive of. (Odd for college, too, no? Why can’t they live where they want? Or are they younger than that?)
At the end of the day, they’re really just “special interest” type groups. For example, there’s a Spanish house and there are all sorts of other honors type programs. Some classes are exclusively for the honors program but he is also required to take other classes. He also gets guaranteed housing so it’s actually advantageous.
Oh oh oh -gotcha. I have no objection to that whatsoever and it surely makes life easier for newcomers.
I remember reading the tidying book and then attacking my clothes with gusto a couple of years ago! Have since found that teenage daughters will happily take most of your clothes off your hands and stash them in their closet, so that works for me, too.
But I still roll my clothes ever since reading the book.
Ha! Since I am the smallest in the house my teenage marzipans do the opposite…they give me all of their old clothes whether or not I want them!
Would it be too much to ask you to spare me reading this book by explaining what “roll my clothes” mean? 🙂
The author recommends, in order to save space, that you roll your t-shirts etc. instead of folding and store them standing up. This is hard if your drawer isn’t deep enough. She even shows a specific method of rolling your underpants (fold the bottom up, then roll from the side and store them standing up in a cute box in your closet, light colors in front, darker colors in back). At any rate, that’s how I remember it!
Clearly written by a petite woman! I’m 5’10” and pretty sure no dresser exists that would make this possible. I am not a fan of stacking, though – either in dressers or kitchen cupboards, et al.
I really like the idea, though. I’m kind of hyper-organized by nature and appreciate that kind of order. My closet is organized such that I can visually see all of my clothes, and when I can’t I know it’s time to thin the herd. I’m assuming that’s what she’s getting at – being able to visually access one’s entire wardrobe.
Currently all of my pajamas, underwear and socks are stored that way, but vertically in hanging basket thingys rather than in drawers. It is driving me crazy, but our tiny bedroom is too small for a dresser. I need to find a narrow but tall dresser for my closet.
Thank you! I do not have too many t-shirts to play with but I’ll try this approach with my panties – just out of curiosity, not that I need to do it since I have identical ones in different colors stacked like that – so I do not need to see more than top ones. But still it’s an interesting idea, and I’ll try it out.
1. The one perfume I would pick is Providence Perfume’s Veniatiane. Hands down the best sandalwood scent – this stuff is amazing guys! Very calming.
2. I am lucky because I get to read (mostly) interesting books as part of my job. Right now reading a book about about the intersections of religion and scent to see if I will adopt it for teaching later – I would match it with Incense Flash? Maybe too obvious… I love incense perfumes but need to smell more. My bedtime reading is Hilary Mantel’s Bringing up the Bones – loved Wolf Hall and this is just as good! What scents would the aristocrats of this period have worn?
3. Dzing! is such a weird perfume that I can’t stop sniffing although I have no desire to wear it.
4. SDV for sure.
5. We started binge watching Westworld – disturbing. Made schlumpf today – blueberry goodness. Google it!
SOTD is Cuir Beluga. Looking forward to reading everyone’s list!
Hey yasmina! Religion and scent – sounds like a match to me.
And I ❤️ Cuir Beluga❣️
2) Hold up. So you can use your perfume purchases as a tax write-off? *considers new career*
Ohmygod – I never thought of that! Making note to ask tax accountant ASAP!!
I tried Veniatiane again yesterday. I liked it much more than the first time that I tried it. It is really well done.
Cool and breezy today, wearing a sample of Givenchy Encens Divin.
What do you think of it?
Nice, but not original. No need to purchase.
1. Chanel No. 19;EDP
2,. The Quiet Side of Passion by Alexander McCall Smith. The main protagonist, Isabel Dalhousie will wear something classic like L”Heure Bleu,
Alexander McCall Smith is a prolific writer. I think I’ve enjoyed every single one of his books and I’ve read them all except for The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency which I am saving for when I have nothing else to read (as if) and then I will binge read them.
3, Oriza Legrand Chypre Mousse reigns supreme
4. Egads – Les Eaux de Chanel Paris – Deauville
5. Great customer service shout out to::
– Surrender to Chance – I lamented the fact that some people who work do not have time to participate in the flash sales like the most recent 20% off entire purchase. I received a reply back that they will honor the 20% off and of course I placed an order
– Starbucks runs challenges / promotions where you can get bonus points that turn into free food or drink. I usually participate in the ones that I will do anyway (e.g. get a breakfast sandwich). I was not credited for an item I purchased and I wrote them. I got my bonus points which was particularly nice since it was the equivalent of something free.
SOTD yesterday = Guerlain Tonga Imperial (i’be Only ever seen cazaubon mention this, I think)
SOTD today = Kilian Do It for Love – will report back later.
Is 2) a series? If so, where does it take place?
Oh, and also, if you haven’t seen HBO’s The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series, do. It’s as charming as the books are.
Thanks. I want to wait until I’ve read the first few books before embarking on the HBO shows. Something to look forward to!
Yes, it is part of the Sunday Philosophy Club Series. As with most of his serials, they should be read in order.
I see Isabel D. in essential lavender oil.
I see that too!
I always almost check out from the library the no.1 ladies detective agency and then don’t – will have to rectify that soon! You smell great – I love these Guerlains when it gets grey and cool
I may have bought the first 2-3 in Kindle format at a bargain price. With all good intentions to start reading the first one while on vacation, I don’t due to the distraction of…vacation ????
Mmm, Tonka Imperiale, you smell great. 🙂 Looking forward to hearing your thoughts on the Kilian. Thanks for snagging the Baie Rose sample, what did it smell like to you? Sorry it was a scrubber.
1. I’d have to say Jaisalmer. It makes me feel calm and balanced inside, which is often what I find myself needing.
2. Just One Thing: Developing a Buddha Brain One Simple Practice at a Time, by Rick Hanson, with #1 to match.
3. I wore Zoologist Moth yesterday (sample from a generous NSTer – you know who you are), and it is a bit of a strange ride on my skin. It evokes some of the same feelings I get from the original Messe de Minuit – visions of dark and mysterious places.
4. Don’t judge – right now I’d pick Woman in Gold from by Kilian. This house gets a lot of snark, and I completely understand why, but this perfume (as well as its companion, Gold Knight), just smells so darn good on me.
5. I’ve been spending my early mornings sitting outside with my cat, Otto Mi Gato, and it’s been a lovely start to the day. Backstory – I thought he had developed diabetes, like his sibling Zoink (may she rest in peace), and he was getting really morose after Zoink died, so I started letting him out into the back yard for some extra stimulation. Supervised, of course, so that he wouldn’t get out of the yard (he’s an indoor cat). Turns out, he’s not diabetic, he’s got hyperthyroidism, which might be easily treatable (meds have been ordered). But now, he’s expecting a morning romp outside. Initially, I thought this might be problematic (particularly come winter), but I am really enjoying it. I take my tea or coffee out, along with a book, and read while he rolls around in the dirt, sniffs everything in sight, and stares with intense focus at the birds in the pomegranate tree.
You know I won’t judge your #4. Kilians work well on me and prices be d-mned!
Pomegranate tree! That seems so exotic to me! Not that I’ve ever given it much thought, but I didn’t know that they grew anywhere in the US! lol
Loads of them in Northern California. I buy the fruit at the farmer’s market and then I’m too lazy to tackle it.
I had no idea! I am also too lazy to tackle pomegranates. At one point, there were a couple of stores near me that sold just the seeds. Then they stopped carrying them and I tried to do it myself but they mostly ended up in the trash.
Everything about your post is fantastic! Love Jaisalmer (might need to pick up a bottle), and your morning outdoor kitty meditation practice is a fabulous idea. Nature has such wonderful restorative properties. Haven’t tried your perfume, but sure it’s wonderful. Glad that kitty ended up being correctly diagnosed, with an easily treatable disease. Many good years ahead, I’m sure ✌????
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I think it’s such a great news with your cat’s health that you should definitely keep that ritual (and I think it’s somewhat in sync with your #2 🙂 ).
Agreed, Undina. I need to stop with the litany of frenzy-inducing stuff, and get to the calm enjoyment of all that my very comfortable life has to offer – like tea in the mornings with Otto.
It would be worth getting Woman in Gold just for the beautiful coffret!
I bought the travel spray set for portability and the holder has the same gold leaf pattern.
You have the best cat names!
1. Fiori di Capri because it’s clean and easy.
2. Not reading anything right now, but will soon be reading The Other Woman by Daniel Silva. I enjoy his Gabriel Allen books and have this latest on reserve at NYPL. My Star Trek scent would work nicely.
3. Bitter Rose, Broken Spear is very odd, but I like it.
4. That’s a hard one. I just keep coming back to Chanel No. 19 perfume. Not terribly exotic…
5. New couch, of course. And crossed fingers it fits okay. Considering we spent most of yesterday on the current uncomfortable couch watching college football, we may become literal slugs once the new one arrives…. BTW…Go Bears!
I thought it got delivered already but deducing from your comment, you ordered it in the nick of time for it to have free delivery but you are still waiting for it – ???? for comfortable couches!
SOTD Incensed by Smell Bent. I’m loving it! Another FB I would love to fall in my lap.
Completely out of touch with the Swapmeet this weekend and will hopefully be able to participate in the upcoming Freebiemeet…
I saw your beautiful perfume box❣️
Oh, then some empty space in that perfume box…! ????
Also saw some empty space…*
I really like both Incensed, and Incensed Short Fuse!
I have a 4ml of short fused. I need to do a side by side. Also wore smoked ambergris to bed last night, and falling in love all over again with it. I wish there were 15ml sizes available…
1. I’ll go with Gucci Guilty absolute.
2. I’m reading Bernard Cromwell’s Last kingdom series, book 7 now. Best matching perfume is Le Labo Benjoin 19.
3. Weirdo, that’s Montalle Mukhallat, a big strawberry chewing gum of a scent.
4. I’d like a bottle of Arielle Shoshana edp.
5. On a personal level: I’m celebrating a year and a half of practicing Yoga with Adriene right now, and I’m very thankful for all that it has given me. Also, A discovery of witches is on HBO soon. I love that book!
Gucci Guilty Absolu is so shockingly good — you smell great!
Thank you Chris! I think so to, it’s a great, great scent. It was love at first sniff for me.
I’m generally pretty awful at these questionnaires, but here goes:
1. Shalimar. But I didn’t come up with that on my own and probably wouldn’t have if someone hadn’t come up with the same answer first. But definitely Shalimar.
2. My reading has been almost exclusively short format-only for many years (magazine & newspaper & blog articles) but I happen to have just started reading “Heal Pelvic Pain.” (per doctor’s orders; not for fun 😉 )
Perfume to match: anything soothing, but oddly not Shalimar. When I am having pelvic pain, I actually find Shalimar overwhelming. Chanel No 5 is usually a good choice, though.
3. Suleko Djelem
4. Hmm. I might be able to get both Papillon Salome and Roses des Neiges for $250 so I choose that. I’m too much of a skinflint to buy either, so this would really be a luxury.
5. There is an Italian bakery across town that makes The. Most. Delicious. Cookies I have ever eaten. I’ve been buying their pignoli, almond slivers, and nut rolls in bulk and stocking them in the freezer. Every time I eat one, I am knocked out all over again by how freaking delicious they are. Same goes for the pistachio ricotta cake from the competing Italian bakery across the street. It is a slice of heaven.
SOTDYesterday was TF Orchid Soleil. I think it might be sneaking up on me the way Angel Muse did. I was initially almost repulsed by it but I’m starting to crave little sniffs of it on a very regular basis. This is a relationship I’m really not interested in, but can’t seem to help myself.
It also makes me wonder about perfumes we’re initially repelled by then fall in love with. If we started out hating them, wouldn’t it be logical that most people who smell us in said previously hated fragrance find us to smell repellant?
#5 ????
What’s your reheating method for the ones you froze?
They don’t need to be heated. I just defrost them on the counter until they’re room temp. Well, usually, when I’m patient enough 😀
#5 heyyyyyy if you’re like “I want to send the people I’m swapping with little treats to show them how awesome Cleveland is,” then, uh, yeah, definitely send them some of those cookies! Yup.
I don’t think they’d arrive in the best state (I’d worry about them getting stale) but I’ll try. Remind me so I don’t forget!!!
OMG really?! I’m so excited!!!
Kilian Do It For Love
So, yes, I got a sample in the mail from the Bergdorf SA and got another one when I popped in on Friday as I decided to walk back to NYPenn from Barney’s and it was just one avenue and 2 blocks away.
Anyway, I am wondering if the one I got in the mail was for something else so I would have to try the other sample at some point or wear more spritzes.
From the sputtery atomizer, I managed to get the equivalent of 3 small sprays. What I smelled reminds me of a watered down dull copycat version of Arielle Shoshana with the good bits removed. The only thing I can detect was a sheer passion fruit-like smell and some jasmine. Where’s the supposedly highest concentration of vetiver?
Pity!Kilian is so unloved,but I adore the brand,and I really do buy into the eco-luxe philosophy.Love,Don’t be shy,and Good girl gone bad are my favorites.I bought some just for the clutches as well.Yes,I am shallow like that,but who cares!Lol!
Count me in the shallow club then because I have presentation versions of some of the Kilians ????
Yay, because I don’t need a watered down copycat of AS 🙂
Thank you!
No tropical fruit or passion fruit was listed in the fragrantica notes so my nose could be broken. That said, I topped up with AS before I left for my Aldi and Wegmans run and all was right with the world!
Wearing Metamorphic from Kingdom, a tiny new Scottish house. The perfumer is Euan McCall, who did the two Neandertal scents. At first sniff yesterday, it felt a bit blah. But it was on my scarf, and putting it back on this morning made me think of the smell of a room which had a peat fire burning the day before…which caught my interest more. A larger dose, and it’s really quite interesting, with a nice interwoven thread of black pepper and leather, and a non-pink rose. I think this could be a good wear in the cooler, damper days that are coming in.
(I am sad about my lonely swap offerings…marooned on a bad-post island between two continents with more sensible rules. No takers?)
I am sorry, I know it’s harder for non-US folks to find swaps.
absolutely no apology required 🙂 We just have absurd postal rules here.
Aww 🙁 I did a swap with someone in England when I lived in France. My stuff got to her just fine, but they confiscated the wonderful bottle she was sending me and sent her back the empty box (with the little samples she was sending as freebies). So yup, no more British swaps ever!
If it helps–and I don’t know if it would–there are a bunch of your things I would want if you were in the US!
Actually, that does help. Is that strange?
I’m sorry you got stuffed by our stupid postal rules on your previous attempt at swapping to the UK. It’s bizarre that perfume can come *in* but not go *out* through the mail here.
A few weeks ago, Jessica reviewed Dawn Spencer Hurwitz Les Fruits Défendus, Volume 1: Eau Cerise, Figue Interdite and Bakul Medjool.
https://nstperfume.com/2018/08/24/dawn-spencer-hurwitz-eau-cerise-figue-interdite-bakul-medjool-fragrance-reviews/
I decided to try these three all-natural perfumes, and along with some of her others.
Right now I’m wearing Bakul Medjool (as EdP), which combines dates with spicy incense. It reminds me of the spicier April Aromatics perfumes, but drier, or Etro Messe de Minuit, but much softer, or a spicy pan forte made with dates, but not too sweet. I’d like to get a small spray for fall.
Jessica liked Eau Cerise the best, and it is really lovely and unusual. I can’t stand fruitchoulis and most fruity florals, but this is very subtle. The cherry is more of an accent to the rose than an obvious fruit note. It’s a bit powdery. so I haven’t made up my mind yet. I’m going to try it in other seasons.
I enjoyed the first few minutes of the figue scent very much but wasn’t captivated by the heart.
I also tried the Summer Cologne, which is supposed to be a green tomato eau de cologne. To me it was a really delightful citrus that doesn’t last forever, but perhaps better than most colognes. It dries down to a quiet woody/herbal note that was pleasant. I wouldn’t mind having more of this one, either.
I occasionally check the DSH site and almost always give up because there are over 150 perfumes and six or eight concentration/size options. They all sound wonderful, so I can never make up my mind. I really appreciate Jessica’s review for focusing me on these scents!
I really like those two DSH too! The Bakul Medjool would be great for fall/winter.
Hair Update:I wish I was more adventurous,but the pink lasted all but one day.I am officially a silver daddy now….Lol(back to ash blonde with a silver tone,it is GORGEOUS)
Thunk Update:Tuca-Tuca be GONE!Lol.Took longer than Orange Blossom to finish!!Haha!
Interesting fact:the perfume lost its most prominent violet top notes over the years,and what remained was exactly 1000 Kisses Deep,if anyone remembers that one.Also,it became this gorgeous pinkish-red color,but boy did it stain clothing and a evening robe!
Sunday.23:36.I am at peace.
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I bumped into the son of extended family at a party this summer. He’s attending acting school in NYC. He has big blue eyes and died his hair from light brown to a beautiful silvery gray. It was such a drastic change tbat I didn’t recognize him immediately but it looked fantastic!
That should be dyed.. .
Haha!I was pretty tired when I read your comment,did not even notice until now!4:23 am Monday.Good Morning All!????????????????????
1. Star Trek perfume: Berdoues Assam of India or Ava Luxe No. 23, both are easy to wear.
2. Book: Ma-am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret. Not at all a traditional biography and a fascinating read. Apparently she wore Oscar de la Renta’s Volupte, but I’d wear something expensive and British.
3. Wonderful Weirdo: Manoumalia with its blend of beautiful flowers and decaying vegetation
4. Fantasy buy: Chanel Coromandel
5. Something shared: For any NSTers in the path of Hurricane Florence, tropicaltidbits.com (@tropicaltidbits on twitter, tropicaltidbits on FB) is an excellent resource. It’s a no hype, just science source of information. It was our go-to, along with the NHC, during Matthew and Irma. Fingers crossed that Florence goes out to sea……
Ooh good call on Manoumalia. I love that one and it’s gotten quite hard to find, so I hoard my little 2ml sample.
Also, agree with your No. 23 and Coromandel picks (EDT please). I’ve not tried the EDP of Coromndel, but I really love the EDT.
Like usual I got caught up in weekend activities plus swapping and am just now managing to post here!
1. I wore Cuir d’Ange last night and remembered how much I love it. Hopefully I wouldn’t get sick of it after a few weeks!
2. I’m reading 4 books on and off right now, which is unusual for me. For work book club I’m reading Switch: How to Change When Change is Hard by Chip and Dan Heath. I’m also reading Perfumes: The Guide and Perfumes: A Century of Scents (Lizzie Ostram). I was missing reading fiction, so I just started the second in Margaret Atwood’s MadAddam trilogy, The Year of the Flood. I’d pair that one with the strange Cradle of Light by CB I Hate Perfume.
3. A wonderful weirdo is Cadavre Exquise, the collaboration between Antonio Gardoni and Bruno Fazzolari. I wish I’d bought a bottle when I could.
4. I just spent the day swooning over the Vol de Nuit parfum I’ve been wearing, so I’d choose a bottle of that. The parfum makes much more of an impression on me than the EDT.
5. Something wonderful…yesterday at the flea market I went to, I had a great conversation with the owner of a local candle company that I discovered there. And I came home with a couple new candles, of course. The company is Particle Goods. I bought tins of Storm and Midnight, but there were others I’d like to try in the future.
Yesterday I finished off my Malle Monsieur decant and am so sad it’s gone. Patchouli is hit or miss for me, but something about the patchouli and rum pairing in Monsieur makes it perfect to me,
1. You’re leaving on a Star Trek voyage … you need to pick ONE perfume to tide you over until then.
Gonna have to go with Chanel No. 22.
2. What book are you reading right now, and what’s the best matching perfume?
Turin and Sanchez’ new Perfumes: The Guide. Matching scent: TDC’s Une Nuit Magnetique, which they gave five stars! I have it, and it is both beautiful and affordable.
3. Name a perfume that’s a wonderful weirdo.
SJP Stash. I didn’t like it at all, brought home a blotter, then wondered for two weeks whence that wonderful scent was emanating. When I figured it out, I went and got some.
4. You can have one bottle of perfume from any store in the world, top price $250. Don’t overthink it, it’s just a fantasy — name your pick!
Bruno Fazzolari Au Dela Narcisse. or Jovoy Paris Rose Millesimee.
5. Share something wonderful with us! It can be anything — a fantastic TV series you’re binge-watching, something delicious you ate, something fun you did recently — really, anything.
My daughter who is doing a yearlong theater apprenticeship with a Shakespeare theater company has a callback for the role of Princess Katharine in Henry V, and asked me to help her rehearse the “English lesson” scene, which is one of my favorites.
Oh, very excellent good luck to Young Herbaceous — break a leg!