Tuesday, plus the National Day of Service and Remembrance. What fragrance are you wearing?
I'm in Hermès Cuir d'Ange because the therabbitsflower wore it yesterday. Tea at the moment is Scottish Breakfast Blend from Upton.
Reminder: on 9/14, wear one of your "top 10 of fall" fragrances (unless it's spring where you are, in which case wear one of your "top 10 of spring" scents).
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: the Hasami tall porcelain teapot with stainless strainer ("Formed from porcelain made from natural Amakusa pottery stones and mixed with potter's clay, the appeal of Hasami Porcelain lies in its tactile feel on your lips and in your hands. Compared to earthenware, this tea pot has a pulled-together, leanness to it; and it has a pleasant, gently organic texture than ordinary porcelain. Completely unadorned, its pure, clean lines echo the foundation of Japan's traditional shapes and forms. Its relevant contours are derived from the inevitability of function and its production process.") holds 17 oz, and is $72 at Jinen.
I’ve been awake since 3:30am, working, and what I most need to get through the rest of this day is intoxicants, but the closest I will get is a layering of Juniper Sling by Penhaligon’s with some China White by Nasomatto, because when you get up at 3:30am to work, you do cray cray.
Gin and fauxcaine, amen.
been there a few time myself at the 3:30 awakenings for work. it’s brutal. i hope it’s meaningful and yields the success you hope for!
hang in there!
Thanks, Monica! Meaningful and work I ultimately love. But still 3:30am. Coffee (and good perfume) helps. Have lovely day.
work you love is the best. and hopefully followed by a blue sea and white sands at one point. Have a great one!
I love your use of perfume intoxicants in place of more traditional ones!
Doing what we must to survive.
Good luck getting through the rest of the day! Hope there is a nap in there somewhere.
Nap sounds blissy! Thank you, Robin.
I hope all the work has gone smoothly.
Haha.Well I woke up at 2am on Monday with a craving for condensed milk.Craving satisfied with hole cut in the tin and slurping it up like a 4 year old.Lol.
LOL — is 2am too early for Vietnamese coffee?
Oh!I didn’t think about that,but good suggestion!!Next time I wake up with that craving!!hehe!
Hey, two of you! What have you done?!! Now I’m craving Vietnamese coffee with a LOT of condensed milk
Welcoming the falling temps in L’Artisan’s Safran Troublant.
BLESS THIS COOLER WEATHER, indeed.
This!
That’s my pick for Friday. It is turning into a full bottle worthy for me. In fact I’m planning on ordering a bottle this week.
You smell gorgeous!
SL Diam Blonde because for me this is a bit odd, and well, that is how I feel
Twins
House twins!
Scent for a somber day: Indochine.
Peeps in the southeast stay safe!
Nice pick, and 2nd that sentiment.
You smell fantastic!
Fragonard Figuier, light, pleasant, summer-autumny
I want to check today again, because it was such a surprise yesterday that I thought I might have been daydreaming, but I saw an ad campaign for Givenchy’s L’interdit in bus stops. Relaunch? Reformulation and mass-ification?
Very reformulated and massified. Smelled in on the launch day at Bloomingdale’s — not good. Cloying, apple bomb, xerox of everything else being launched right now with a pinkish-beige-orange color.
Why wouldn’t they protect the Interdit name with the Audrey Hepburn aura and launch, say, a millenial pink Listen or Dream after their Play pillar?
Total redo. Will hopefully get around to announcing it later this week.
What a shame! That’s the sand time they’ve done that, honestly! I only smelled the vintage one but I loooooved the Les Mythiques reform smelled plausable, with actual aldehydes!
Hello All!
Especially sleepy today. It’s been probably our 7th day of rain and I’m over it. I guess it’s been cool at least, but enough is enough! We’re prone to flooding as it is.
I’m wearing Sun Moon Stars today. I’ve been having a mini Grojsman education this summer, after falling hard for Yvresse. SMS is lovely but perhaps a little bloodless. It reminds me a lot of her Kashaya by Kenzo, which I got a few months ago. Though Kashaya barely smells of anything, so maybe I’m missing something.
OOO! I love that one!!! and could kick myself for throwing out my empty beautiful bottle many years ago.
Oh what a shame! I may still have a mini that if I find, I can send to you. I got the 100ml bottle so I don’t need the mini!
Thank you for that kind offer! I have been saving all of my minis. My intent is to turn them into Christmas ornaments once the juice is finished
What a neat idea! Hope you don’t mind copycats
Regina- go for it
Oh great! Send me an email at out of grasp at live dot com (no spaces) and I’ll try and dig it up.
Thank you !!!!!
What a great idea! Now if only I could have a Christmas tree.
We have two Maine Coons over 20 lbs each, last time we had a tree several years ago, SmokeyToes had far too good a time playing and brought it crashing down at 2am. So unless we anchor it to the wall or hang it from the ceiling, Xmas trees are a no-go.
SmokeyToes I remember the days of my cats ( I have had three in my lifetime) climbing the trees!!! Quite a few ornaments broken ????
cm8, do you want some more mini bottles, or do they have to be drained by you personally?
I would love empty minis too. They don’t necessarily need to be drained by me????????
I acquired a bottle of Kashaya somewhere along the line (I might have been investigating the Kenzo range) and I agree – barely smells of anything. Still have that bottle somewhere. It might be in my “Take to the imaginary perfumista west coast get-together to distribute as freebies” box.
Ha, mine came from my phase of “What discontinued perfumes did Luca Turin mention in The Guide.” I absolutely adore the bottle so I keep pulling it out from time to time. Maybe my nose will figure it out one day.
Huh. Kashsya was pretty present on me, but too sweet so I gave away my decant.
I can smell it but it smells like a blur. Even SMS I can tell what’s happening, but Kashaya almost smells like a nice body wash after getting out of the shower.
Sun Moon Stars is one of the few frags I’ve seen in the thrift store (in Switzerland) – alas, didn’t know what it really was and priced fairly high, so didn’t take a closer look at it. But I’ve been wondering ever since, so thanks for the info!
It is very nice, though not worth a step price. And I believe it was reformulated when they moved it from the frosted bottle to the smooth bottle. Certainly no expert but worth knowing if you decide to try it!
I have what I believe may be an original Kashaya mini (the box is very elaborately textured and cut, seems espcially nice material). I can definitely smell it clearly, even just dabbing it from a mini. To me, it’s an odd mix of soapy aldehydes, woody, slight grape-y fruit, sweet and not sweet. I agree with coumarin that it smells like a nice body wash, which may have been unusual when it came out. I think I would have liked it better in the 90s than now. Would love to have the original bottle!
I am reminded that one of LT’s favorite scents is a particular Tide scent (spring fresh mountain something something).
It is a beautiful box! Very 90’s, with the gorgeously grained paper. I keep trying it but I’m not moved yet.
Well, you can certainly have my bottle, if I can find it. So I don’t forget to look, send me a holla at lisadarty in the land of the haute mayle.
Bandit yesterday, Fracas today. It’s such an opulent, overripe floral with a darker side that I feel it’s a good choice for fall.
I finally retried Fracas after all these years a few weeks ago. I found a mini of the parfum, and our is sublime. It really makes me wonder why brands still try to sell us subpar Fracas-alikes when the original is still around and taking names.
Dior and the new Joy?
If a salesperson told me “Joy” was mostly tuberose, I’d probably laugh.
The SP at Dior had no idea that there was a fragrance with the same name already existed (forget about 1930’s) and kept trying to explain this is the BRAND NEW offering from Dior. I had to laugh????????????
Too challenging for the big part of the market?
Probably, though I think big tuberose is now a niche thing. And goodness knows a lot of the niche lines have a tuberose.
You smell so wonderful, of course!
Beautiful perfume.I wear it all year round,and boy it blooms in Summer!
No actual fragrance today. I’m trying out a new body scrub/polish from Soap & Glory called The Greatest Scrub of All. It smelled great so I stuck with that. Feeling a tiny bit guilty cause I swiped it from a present I purchased for my niece ????. But she’ll have plenty to pick from in the gift bag. Totally vibing on Soap & Glory right now.
That is funny! Hope she got a winner too
Tibetan Mountain Temple.
and perfumelover67 gets an enabler pin because I purchased a new bottle of Reglisse Noire.
Scentspirit- it was very easy for me to purchase on the 1000Flowers website. Also, I had a question for the perfumer (Jessica September Buchanan) and she personally got back to me.
For those of you interested in supporting a female indie perfumer I suggest you check out the website. I have owned all from the Original Collection (including two that were d/c) and adored them all and highly recommend this indie brand …no affiliation…just a huge fan….she is one of my all time favorite perfumers!
Thanks for the info! A sampler just went on my endless wish list.
LOL! You won’t be disappointed if you end up getting it.
You need to confess a lot to Donatella on the next poll…..
:D. Welcome to the club 
Oh boy… I might play hooky that day…????????????
Do not worry! I will remind you!
LOL ????
WE WILL FIND YOU.????????
johanob….I’m scared!!!! But seriously, y’all are really a very bad influence on me!!! But then again, this one MUST be in my curated collection.
I emailed them to find out which scents make up their sampler , since I couldn’t find that information on the site, but they have not gotten back to me so far.
I am fairly certain it’s all seven of the full bottle scents… it’s just the perfume answering the emails so it may take a while but I am sure she will get back to you
I adore Reglisse Noire, such a beautiful scent!
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One of my favorites for cooler weather. I wish Pacifica still sold the candles.
I know . I am so bummed that Pacifica d/c their candles. It might have upset me even more than the fact that they d/c some of their older fragrances.
I *finally* thunked my tin of Tibetan Mountain Temple after ~3 years. Never smelled the spray version, but the solid version smells like Christmas to me- something about the the orange peels, gingerbread, and piney patchouli/vetiver combo. I blind-bought some of the Pacifica solids around the time I first fell down the rabbit hole (RIP Spanish Amber).
All that’s to say that you smell wonderful!
Yes it definitely has a Christmas vibe. I thunked my Spanish Amber spray a while ago ????
And mini Marzipan has about 20 solids, some of which she did not take with her to university so I sniff them from time to time.
You smell awesome!
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Chergui, or as I am renaming it: Chergorgeous.
Hee hee ????
It is indeed so gorgeous that I THUNKED my decant very quickly-LOL!
So true!
I need to pull mine out for this week.
You smell wonderful. I’m saving mine for another day.
I am sad I no longer have a Chergui sample, as that’s one of my fall favs. I guess that means I just need to order a bottle, huh?
Oh, and you smell great!
That’s exactly what it means!
You smell great! And it reminds me that I’ll be able to wear it soon. Yay!
I’m wearing Jules… last week I couldn’t think of anything with cedar and this week I keep accidentally picking things with cedar!
Jules, yay!
Patiently (not!) waiting for my tech guy to fix PC. Worse timing on this!
Wearing Neroli Outrenoir and lots of it.
Ack, hope it is fixed now. There really is never a good time!
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Idole de Lubin EDT 2005
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Great choice! I almost drowned myself in Idole on Sunday, mmm.
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Enjoy your day Bear!
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Do the same, Lovestosmellgood! ????????????⛅☁????
No SOTD yet, but today I opened a bar of Heno de Pravia soap. I found it at the grocery store on the clearance shelf for a dollar. It has a lovely, fresh cut hay scent – definitely one of my top bargains!
That sounds wonderful, I’ll start looking for it. Fresh cut hay is a beautiful smell!
If you love fresh cut hay then you definitely need to try St. Clair Scents First Cut!!!
Where does one find this perfume? I’ve been half heartedly looking for a hay perfume since I finished Nicolai Vie de Chateaux, the newer intense version is too intense for me.
here you go-
https://www.stclairscents.com/shop/first-cut
Believe it or not, Mr. CM8 has stolen my tiny bottle of this one because it smells so good on him. One tiny spritz lasts all day.
Oh and the company also has a sampler pack.
Thank you. I’ll check it out!
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One of my most favorite early fall perfumes today, Histoire d’Eau by Mauboussi. It is cardomom and soft leather mixed with a dried orange peel potpourri.
That does sound good.
Cooler here as well, and I’m in Dior Homme.
Currently at Maison Kayser eating an almond croissant with my youngest chubby buddha in this foggy weather.
Happy Tuesday ya’ll!
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Yum. Enjoy for me!
Happy Tuesday!!
Wearing the seasonless No 5 EDT over a bit of the No 5 body oil, but I’m sitting in a meeting and all I can smell is the slightly stale wood drydown I get from some Jo Malones coming from the woman sitting a few seats down (I know she’s a JM wearer).
how is the body oil?
I love it. I only have a tiny amount so I only use a few drops at a time, but it’s pretty well-scented and lasts a while.
Smelling great!
Thank you!
Classic.No.5 really is fit for velvet gowns or jeans and a tee…❤️❤️
Or just my boring work attire ????
Or even that.No.5 makes my scrubs feel like a tuxedo.????????♂️????????♂️????????
Good morning
We got back in town late last night. Yesterday was a travel day (Lyon flight to London, then London back home to New Orleans). Just when my body was getting used to France time, I’m now back home and fighting the urge to take a nap, lol.
I am wearing Narciso Rodriguez For Her — a purchase I made in the Heathrow Airport duty free.
Welcome home, and yay for new bottles! Take a nap!
Yay new bottle but boo for jet lag! Give in and nap!
Welcome back!
Enjoying the heck out of Daim Blond on a cool, rainy day.
Lots of rain here too…and fog!
Oh lovely choice.
Perfect choice. You smell great!
Yum.Love it
Had a tremendous THUNK moment this morning! I had bought a 100mL bottle of Diorissimo (vintage edt) that was about 25mL full. I finished it today!!!! Very excited because I have a backup bottle (50mL, full, vintage eau de cologne) that I can now open!
Wow! that’s an awesome thunk!
Amazing! Now Enjoy your special new bottle!
What a great one to have enjoyed and thunked!✌????
I need to start plowing through my bottle before it turns on me. I think it lost some of its potency already. You smell lovely, of course!
You smell great! (though I don’t believe it’s a true “thunk” if you have a back-up ;-p)
Smelling fantastic! And congrats on the ‘thunk’.
Thunked two small decants this morning, remnants of Costes Noir and PG Felanilla.
YOu go!!!!!
Keep going!
Lovely sound
Nice!GoGoGooooooo Thunkinatorrrrrs!????????????????✌????????
Wearing Incense Flash today because I have a huge craving for it. It was a great blind buy.
I love Incense Flash
You smell great!
Hi all, SOTD is Chanel No. 19, vintage EDP.
Breakfast – peach/mango/spinach/kefir smoothie with Cuban espresso.
Have an excellent day all!
Yum on everything!!!!
Thanks!
I’m a bit jangly today, I think I need to go for a run at lunch.
you were the Cuban Espresso recipe provider, right? I finally figured my failure to replicate delicious coffee springs from a broken gasket – or so my handyman friend assures me. I will keep trying!
Hi Eschmeling, yes, that’s me!
I adore all things Cuban. I have a favorite restaurant I visit each time I go to Florida.
I love Cuban coffee sooo much. My former step-father was Cuban and he and his family gave me a love of all things Cuban, particularly the coffee, arroz con pollo, guava pastries, and plantains. His mother, we called her Tata which I think was a Cuban slang for grandma or something, was the BEST cook ever!
I can no longer eat gluten, but I remember the guava pastries! And I make a killer pork roast too. Fried plantains are THE best!
SOTD- Catbird Tarot Deck
Thinking about the associations I have with perfume and this day. The first big bottle of perfume that I can remember buying for myself (that wasn’t from a catalog) was Hypnotic Poison from the Sephora in the WTC mall, which was of course destroyed not long after. A couple of years ago I tried Crabtree and Evelyn Iris. The first thing that came to mind was dust, and that is a big scent memory from “that day” so that was a no-go. Better irises did come along over time.
I think there was a Brantano’s book store too, I loved shopping there.
I’m wearing the last of one of my travel size Smell Bent Fashiony. I love the leather in this.
Wearing Fragonard Verveine for the first time and comparing to Roger & Gallet Verveine Utopie.
I can’t decide which arm smells better! ????
Ah, this makes my ears perk up! Can you say how they smell different, even if you can’t decide which is better?
I think the Roger & Gallet is sweeter with some floral notes and more feminine in feel. The Fragonard is less sweet and feels a bit more masculine in comparison but I think both are unisex. I think this Roger & Gallet line is showing up now on strawberry net for around $50 for 100 ml which is to say almost free. ???? I also tried the R&G Tuberose hedonie and The Fantaisie from this line and they are both very good too.
Wearing DSH Oeillets Rouges this morning. Spicy carnations, yum! Yesterday’s conversation with my cable provider resulted in the purchase of an OTA antenna. I’m a cord-cutter now. I don’t watch much TV anyway, I’d rather read.
I think cable “thunk” is even a bigger deal than the one for a perfume decant or even bottle. Congratulations!
I discontinued our cable TV almost a year ago but with Netflix and Amazon Prime (which is still waaaay cheaper than a cable TV subscription), I haven’t even noticed not having a cable.
I would so love to do that! Everything I watch is on Netflix, Amazon or Acorn. But husband insists on sports, so we pay for all 4.
This fairly long stretch of (welcome!) chilly weather called for Nirvana Black’s sweet, flowery sandalwood.
Nice. I wonder if they will keep going (E&J, that is).
reporting from still hot, sunny florida in (new) no. 22 edp. as far as i can tell i don’t think you’d be missing out on much if this is the only one you can get, but i’d be interested to find out what others think!
and speaking of cable woes, has anyone else been suffering (“suffering”) this outage? started sunday night and i think everything is now finally restored, at my house at least.
You smell lovely! I have some of both and I can’t really tell them apart.
You smell so wonderful!
Wearing my beloved Anima Dulcis today.
I love a pretty and poetic perfume name, and that is one.
In 10 Corso Como for another grey, rainy and busy day.
Sandalwood …..mmmm…… smellin’good ????????????
On of the few sandalwood perfumes I can wear and enjoy. But it is so fleeting
Yup.. that’s our scent eating skin ????
I got rid of Samsara long time ago, and I want it far away from me. ???? I think this is the perfume that has given me the hardest time ever! I appreciate its beauty, but it is not for me.
You smell great.
Thanks!
I really need to figure out how to make the sun here get to you all out east!
We’re getting it tomorrow ☀️☀️☀️
Please, figure it out asap. It is really depressing here! I am already missing the hot summer days
I’ve heard only good things about 10 Corso Como,so I’ll assume you smell supergood today!!
Have a good day M!❤️✌????????
It is a beautiful and very easy to wear sandalwood perfume, even for a person like me who struggles greatly with that note. I hoe you have the chance to try it at some point. So yes! I smell really good
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Have a nice evening my friend!
I feel obliged to respond here as well!Haha!!I love sandalwood perfumes,Patou 1000 being my absolute favorite in the category!10 CC sounds really yum.❤️
I assume you love Samsara then. My absolute sandalwood enemy
I have never tried Patou 1000, so to my sample “buy list” it goes now.
pl67- ha ha ha…you can send all the Samsara my way….I will be very very curious as to what you think about the real sandalwood essential oil paired with real rose essential oil….I am wondering if it might be more tolerable for you.
You smell amazing!
Thank you!????
Went to a concert last night and had maaaaybe one too many beers. Something green sounded good so I tried out a sample of CdG Laurel. Really liking it – the bitter note is just what I needed to get moving. My decant list grows longer . . .
I like that you said decant list instead of full bottle list.
Another insanely busy day at work. SOTD Providence Perfume’s new scent, Sedona Sweetgrass. Love it!
Oh so glad to hear she has another good one!
Every day I plan to come here and participate in the SOTD thread – and every day work gets crazy before I can do it. So today I decided to use the first break I got and do it!
SL De Profundis. Beautiful and melancholy scent that I associate with early autumn and going back to school.
I hope work starts to get less crazy tomorrow. I am dealing with a bit of craziness myself at work which makes popping in and leaving comments challenging on some days
Thank you, dear!
No hope for the next couple of weeks but I’ll try to keep my head above the water
You smell fantastically lovely today Undina!
Thank you, Petunia!
I’m in Shalimar edp today which I love even more in fall than I usually do. It’s golden to me like the leaves and sun in fall.
Today is my “baby”‘s 19th birthday. I love him soooo much!
Happy Birthday to BabyC!????????
Happy birthday to your son!
I have the same association – Shalimar – gold – golden leaves – fall.
Hope your son is having a great day!
The best to you son!
Oh Happy Birthday to that handsome boy!!
And you smell FABULOUS!!????❤️????
Happy Birthday Baby!!!
Happy Birthday to your big little guy!
Happy bday to your baby
Hope your son has a great birthday!
Happy birthday to your (forever) baby!
Happy Birthday to your teenager!
Happy birthday to your son! It’s my hubby’s birthday today too.
Enjoy your Shalimar; it’s fantastic when the weather chills down. I wore some yesterday.
Happy Birthday to your husband!!
Wearing Tardes by Carner Barcelona today. It’s sweeter than I normally like, but I have found myself wearing my sample more than I initially expected I would. I had a cashier in a store compliment me on it and ask what it was, which doesn’t happen to me very often.
You smell pretty! I find it pretty likable, too, even though it does hit the edge of too sweet for me sometimes.
Sotd is Pomegranate Noir. My friend was gifted this and Peony and Blush Suede when she left her old job. She passed this one on to me because it didn’t work on her. I’m so glad she did. I smell wonderful. It’s perfect for the cooler temperatures. It is warming up a bit now though.
You smell fantastic!
You’re smelling mighty fine over there Lillyjo!✌????❤️
I really like that one. You smell great! And I love perfume gifts, they’re the best!
One of my favorite winter scents. You smell great!
Delicious!!!!
That is pretty darn cool your friend passed along the Pom Noir! You definitely smell like fall today. ????????
Perfume really is the silver lining of fall/winter weather.
I’m feeling disquiet because of Hurricane Florence – school has been cancelled for the rest of the week, so I am not at work, and we’re in the “cone of uncertainty”, so I don’t know if I should expect 18+ inches of rain. We’re not directly on the coast, so no need to evacuate, but power failures and inconvenience is almost guaranteed.
At times like this, I always seem to crave L’Artisan fragrances. I wore Dzongka this morning and to yoga, and now I am wearing Bois Farine. Maybe this will be my theme for the week.
My thoughts and prayers are with everyone still hurting from 9/11. Peace for everyone, please.
Please, stay safe. I hope the severity of Florence diminishes as it approaches the coast. My prayers for all people at risky areas. Let’s hope for the best.
Stay safe out there!
I am thinking of you! Prayers for the entire coastline there.
Sending prayers that everyone stays safe!
Hope it’s not as bad as it could be. Stay safe and hoping for the best for you and everyone in its path.
Stay safe and report back regularly (if you can).
Hoping for the best with you and the track of Florence!
Stay safe, Sistine.
Please stay safe and sending prayers for everyone in it’s path.
In Lavandes Trianon from the Lancome Grand Crus collection- I had smelled this only on the little perfume porcelain stopper thingie, swooned, ordered a decant, it’s nice, but perhaps not swoon-worthy for me. This one gets a poor, poor review in the new guide “sour lavender” and it’s weird, because what I have is not sour in the least nor lavender-ish.
Off to the post office later to mail swap packages!
My sister finds it swoonish.
This reminds me, I saw this line in 15 ml on the NM website, the description says 30ml but the picture is clearly 15ml. I called and told them. I don’t think they cared, last time I checked it was still misrepresented.
They are 15 ml and beautiful and adorable. Unfortunately when I took my trip into the city the SA would NOT give me samples. I think there are now 4 or 5 of them that are in the 15 ml sizes but I am not sure if the lavender one is one of them.
I think the lavender one was on there. Thanks for the ml confirmation. The lady I talked to didn’t really understand what I was talking about.
SOTD!
Terracotta…aaaand THUNK!
At this rate,my one tray will be empty before Summer starts!!
Thinking of you today,America!The whole world was touched by what happened that day.My hat off to all the emergency personnel,especially my fellow nurses,who witnessed the true horror of evil that day.My brother was in Boston on 9/11,scheduled to fly back to South Africa that day.We were unable to contact him for two days.What a day in history.
Hope everyone has a safe,peaceful Tuesday!
Love and Huuuuuuuugs!!✌????❤️❤️
you are part of the “thunk” club.
While walking to the bakery this morning with chubby buddha in tow, we gave the fireman a warm smile. They were lined up silently outside the station and I know at the time they were observing a moment a silence but some couldn’t help but giggle when my little one blurted out FIRETRUCK! mommy LooooooK!
That is adorable!And it reminds us to enjoy the little things(and memories),especially today.X
Terracotta also???? Oh my! The more you thunk the more curious I grow about your absolute favorites! I hope the mystery unveils soon!
And of course, you smell AMAZING!
Haha!Thank you M!
My absolute favorites….now THAT is a whole other subject(and email…lol!)
Good to “see” you here,I know life is busy on your side!
X
Thanks Johano ❤ My memory of that day(s) is quite vivid still. I was working at St Vincent’s Hospital in the West Village then, which was the closest trauma center and was set up for mass arrivals of the injured, but we didn’t get many admissions/survivors, unfortunately. The quiet nights I spent there were eery.
Oh wow Elisa….GOOSEBUMPS!I cannot even imagine.We talked a lot about how it must have been for the emergency personnel dealing with all of that chaos amongst ourselves in the tearooms and corridors at the hospital where I worked in 2001(September 2001,night duty in Male Surgical ward,I remember it so clearly!)
Yeah, there wasn’t much to do, pt. wise. I had one patient who was a 1st responder with a non-serious eye injury. The busy-ness was fielding calls at the nurse’s station from media asking for info.
What’s a male surgical ward? Is that like urological surgery?
So tragic, the lack of survivors… My company, purely coincidentally, had arranged for a Red Cross blood drive that morning. So many of us donated, not realizing that our blood wouldn’t be needed by 9/11 victims after all…
Hugs back to you!
My last comment of the evening goes to you KellyC!Hehe!
22:49.Lights out for Nurse J.
Hope your day is beautiful!
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thunkinator!!!! sweet dreams, J!!!!
Nice, quick visit with Elisa P. (Thank you again!) Then a few more spritzes of Twilly before meeting an old friend. I noticed as I was waiting for her that the cooler weather seemed to cause Twilly retain the ginger longer rather than go full-on tuberoise. In any case, my friend complimented me on it during our time together.
Thanks for the quickie ???? That was a nice little diversion from work which got very busy after that! Nice on the compliment!
Twilly is at the discounters! Not sure if it was Fragrancenet or Zulilly.
I hope you’re enjoying Cuir d’Ange today, Robin!
I’m wearing OJ Orris Noir. It may have eclipsed Woman as my favorite OJ. I used to think they were very similar, but I wore them side by side some months back and noticed their differences then. It might be that there’s a certain richness to Orris Noir that I don’t find in Woman. This may require another side by side evaluation soon. ????
While I like both perfumes, if I had to choose just one, Orris Noir would have been my choice (but I’m glad I do not have to
).
You smell great!
Thanks again, NSTers, for the sympathy and understanding you all showed yesterday. It means a lot to me.
Another grey and gloomy day. Both the weather and the memories. Waiting to see what Florence will do; it looks like my area might get its leftovers for the weekend. ☔
SOTD = Cristalle EdT, from the sample stash. The day called out for it. It also could be a THUNK sometime soon.
I hope your weather improves soon. In the meantime, you smell lovely today!
Thanks!
The 5-day forecast looked rather grim, alas. But that means it’s time to look for cloudy/rainy day scents in the Sample Stash.
Oh jalapeño, I just read your post from yesterday. Big hugs. It is so hard to see one’s parent(s) decline. I hope you find the best solution for your mom.
Thanks hajusuuri. It is gut-wrenching. I’m thankful that my mom did give up the car keys, though.
SOTD = Kilian Woman in Gold
Lashings from my atomizer sample (still some left so no thunk) before dipping into the travel spray I got from eBay before the Travel Soray Set I got from one of the department stores. I smelled like I meant it! Woody vanilla tonka patch goodness and the aldehydes and citrus lift the entire thing to new heights ❣️
More on the unauthorized use of my credit card – I got a notice from Fedex that there was a delivery exception and the address used was a Walgreens in town addressed to me requiring a SOTD = Kilian Woman in Gold
Lashings from my atomizer sample (still some left so no thunk) before dipping into the travel spray I got from eBay before the Travel Soray Set I got from one of the department stores. I smelled like I meant it! Woody vanilla tonka patch goodness and the aldehydes and citrus lift the entire thing to new heights ❣️
More on the unauthorized use of my credit card. Today, I got an email from FedEx about a delivery exception. It included my name as addressee and the location was a Walgreens in town. The exception was it required a signature but no one signed for it. Hmmmm. The person knows my email address – not good (unless it is somehow tied to my credit card) but there had been no attempt to hack into my email. I called the credit card company with the tracking number so let’s see what other revelations this tidbit generates.
Wow, your credit card saga seems to have taken a turn.
Yep. It actually started early TWO WEEKS AGO. For the alert to not have come to me until yesterday was nothing short of incompetence.
OMG! That might cross a line from incompetent to outright malice. WTH?!?
ugh, so very sorry, that is not fun to deal with. I hope things work out soon. I missed yesterday’s SotD and the beginning of the story, do keep us posted!
In short, over $2,000 worth of audio equipment ordered with my credit card. I found out today that it was actually ordered and started shipping 2 weeks ago!
Do you know how it happened? I mean, has someone stolen it from you or from somewhere online where you shopped?
This is so scary sounding! Is this something the police would get involved in?
Also, you smell great! I think Woman in Gold is very sophisticated and put together smelling.
Thank You to the NST’er that mentioned sampling Chris Ruzak’s perfumes…Elisa P? Was that you?
Or PL67?
SO, I tried same set #3 and I am flippimg head for heels for IO.
Such a beautiful incense- it is opening now but I couldn’t WAIT 2 share… this one is now in the TOP running for my next incense fb.
I am smudging right now and they complement each other perfectly. I feel like I am back in the high desert of NM!
I have 3 other favorites to share as well: I need to own One….
Anatole Lebreton’s Grimoire ( such a refined elegant perfume) , MCG’s Barry Lyndon ( alpine lavender and woods)and Smell Bent, Short Fuse
(Spiced Incense).
SotD = Eau de Fleurs de Cedrat
I’ve been spritzing all day, it’s so fleeting, but refreshing and comforting at the same time. I love citrus.
Late but looking forward to reading up today’s comments. NSTers, you smell fabulous!