Hump Day + Halloween! What fragrance are you wearing?
I am a bit closer to Keats' autumn with Imaginary Authors Yesterday Haze.
Reminder: 11/2 will be To Autumn Friday. Wear a fragrance that matches John Keats, To Autumn. Suggested by happy888cat.
And for those of you who like to plan ahead, see Scent of the day ~ Friday community projects 2018, where I'll try to always have the next five or six weeks mapped out in advance.
Note: top image is “I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.” ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables [cropped] by Janine at flickr; some rights reserved.
Happy Halloween Y’all!
No choice but to wear Prada Candy today….I mean, it’s perfect for a sugar fest day….Handing out candy at work and home. It’s amazing how many coworkers enjoy stopping by for candy year after year.
Have a great day y’all….embrace your inner child and let her/him come out to play as much as possible! I’ll grow up when my age is triple digits…maybe….. 🙂
https://www.instagram.com/p/BpmN8Zuh9oE/?taken-by=jadainga99
I love to give out candy..we go through 3 costco bags of candy (no joke) Even with that last year we had to give the kid’s candy away since we ran out.
Same here! I bought huge bags for home, work, and Trunk-or-Treat at church! I’m sure we’ll run out tonight quick enough….
Your SOTD is perfect! ????????????
One of my favorite Pradas. Lovely!
Perfect SOTD! Hope you have a great day!
Got the littles ones all in the costumes this morning with no major melt downs. Points!
SOTD Sacrebleu
Eating steel cut oats and toast. Listening to dua lipa and reading the WSJ.
Visited the Deciem store yesterday and picked up there Marine Hyaloronics that is on sale for 3.40. I bought one for me and one for a friend.
Love Sacrebleu and I think you will like the Marine Hyaluronics. It’s a very gentle hydrator.
I’m glad that the Deciem website is up and running again.
I decided that Sacreblue didn’t fit with Halloween so I scrubbed it off(not that I don’t like it) and I put on What we do in Paris is Secret and now I am smell sweet like candy.
I am glad Deciem is back in business as well. I use a few of their products and I love their serum foundation
Love Sacrebleu!
Many points — that is not always easy!
I’m wearing Rose Cardin today, a $9.99 purchase at TJ Maxx. And actually, outs very good! An anisic start (almost like cardamom) followed by a soft and velvety rose. I am not a rose connoisseur by any means, but the rose I’d most compare it to is La Fille de Berlin. I’ll have to try them side by side when I get home.
I am interested! I love LFdB
I wouldn’t say it was a dupe at all, since Rose Cardin is rather cheerful, but the textures of the roses seem very similar.
I love a good TJ Maxx fragrance score!! Sounds lovely.
I’m very happy so far! 🙂
Oooh, this sounds good. I tried BS British Rose shower gel for the first time this morning (verdict: really nice) and now I want rose everything.
I’d been curious about the Body Shop’s rose scented stuff! Thanks for the mini review.
I love these products! The scrub is amazing.
I’m wearing Art Collection #08, which is a good match to the CP, with fruity notes, spices, and honey.
That sounds good!
Bat!
Perfect 🙂
Right on!
House twin in Moth!
We are both creepy and flappy! Happy Halloween 🙂
You win! ????????
Perfect!
Mike drop, right there with Bat!
My office takes Halloween very seriously, and lots of us dress up (we have contests! and catered lunch!). I will be dressed as a Viking warrior princess, complete with a horned hat and pink muppet fur pelts hanging from my belt, and am wearing Kyoto for its austerity. Will probably go with Yesterday Haze for Friday’s theme … unless my hand wants something else, of course. 🙂
We want a photo!
Please!!
My boss took a couple of pictures, and if I can figure out a place to put them that’s linkable, I will!
Muppet pelts!!
Picture or it didn’t happen! LOL! 🙂 Enjoy your day!!
That sounds like an awesome costume! Pink muppets pelts, LOL ????
Photo please!
An office coworker (who is 6’7″) showed up dressed as Chewbacca. I think he’s going to win the office costume contest.
As HR coordinator, I showed up as evil CatBert. 🙂
Evil CatBert – PERFECT! LOL!!
Love it!!!
Did you win the costume contest, SherriG?
Ack, sorry about the typo! “SheriG”! I hate doing that to people’s names/handles. ????
No worries, J! No, I didn’t win – I got lots of compliments, but none of the contest categories for this year really fit “Viking Warrior Princess”, and there are far too many MUCH MORE creative people than I am where I work. We had a gigantic Mr. Peanut, a team of Harlequins, two “Flo from Progressive Insurance” costumes, someone dressed as the Red Death (I haven’t seen that one yet), and one big, beefy guy came as Miss Piggy (that one was spectacular – very sparkly). So a good time was had by all. 🙂
Wow! TBH, I thought that “Viking Warrior Princess” was pretty darned imaginative. Especially the “pelts”! ????
Happy Hallowe’en.
Our office is encouraged to dress for the day, so I am a blue Crayola 🙂
Silly, but fun.
I meant to grab CBIHP Gathering Apples for today’s contribution to the CP, but grabbed In the Library by mistake. Leather and soft ash, cigar, brandy and wool carpet. Such a lovely scent
Pic please! 🙂
A blue crayon in the library, nice!
I need to find my sample of that – it’s perfect for this!
What a great idea for CP! I’ll use that on Friday 🙂
Even if it wasn’t what you meant to wear, In The Library is a great match for your crayon costume, IMO.
Happy Halloween – it’s one of my favorite holidays. 🙂
Today’s SOTD is Laura Mercier’s Minuit Enchanté parfum. Spices, resins, amber and woods. I’m swimming in ambery goodness.
That sounds really good.
I am humming (spicily) along 😀 I imagine my hot flashes will amplify the amber & spices in a minute! 😀
I love LM cosmetics but have not tried any of their fragrances
Lovestosmellgood – Oh, I get the feeling you would love this one. Let me know if you want some.
It’s Holidays in a bottle for me. 🙂
LM – if you enjoy Amber scents, LM’s ambre oil is exquisite. I bought a few backups when it was discontinued.
Haha, thanks for tempting us and then taking it right away by telling us it’s discontinued :-/
😳
How did I miss all their perfume and oil! I guess I am only focused on the lipstick when I am at the beauty counter. What kind of perfumista am I ! ?
Lovestosmellgood: Don’t worry, we won’t take away your perfumista card. 😉
Oh, and I forgot to mention, Laura Mercier is currently having a 20% off online, and I think LM counters at Nordstrom’s honor the sale in-store.
While ME is discontinued, LM currently has a spicy/amber floral called L’Heure Magique that is also quite good.
I mean, not like I’m trying to enable anyone…
I’m sure you smell all ambery delicious, I have one LM Lumiere d’Ambre which has become a favorite light amber. My only issue with LM is that it doesn’t seem so well curated, so many ambers and vanillas too I think, a bit confusing.
They do seem along the same vein, don’t they? Heavily weighted towards the edible/sweet vein.
Happy Halloween! Wearing Dzing, which I thought would evoke a Keatsian autumn AND the scary holiday.
If you’re looking for something scary to watch and you have Netflix both Apostle (movie and somewhat gory) and The Haunting of Hill House (series) are both new this month and quite good.
Oh perfect!!
Haunting of Hill House looks fun. I can’t take scary the way I used to, unfortunately, and this had already convinced me I can’t watch it.
http://www.vulture.com/2018/10/how-scary-is-the-haunting-of-hill-house.html
So please have fun for both of us!
A friend of mine told me about this article – he doesn’t want to watch Hill House either! Personally, I’m glad there’s finally a good horror series (I am not a big fan of American Horror Story, except for Coven).
Agree!!! I liked the first 3 seasons of AHS and then got bored with it. I am loving Haunting of Hill House but I admit it’s startled me quite a bit this week while my fiance has been out of town. Thanks for the rec on Apostle. I haven’t seen that yet.
Yeah, after my recent experience with horror films when I watched “Get Out,” I will most definitely be staying away from this. (Because of “Get Out,” my Monday night walk through the dark streets of my suburban neighborhood got pretty scary. I thought I saw men in masks a couple times, but they were consistently just people wearing hats.)
I’m with you, Koyel! Nope, nope, nope, not gonna do it.
+ 1 girls
My imagination gets ahead of me! The exorcist ruined my ability to watch scary movies and it came out many MANY years ago-no way I can change now!
Nice choice!
I can’t wait to watch The Haunting of Hill House. And thanks for recommending Apostle, I hadn’t heard of that one! 🙂
And, it has Michiel Huisman, he’s so dreamy. He could read from the phone book and I’d die happy. 🙂
Yeeessss on Mr. Huisman!
Apostle didn’t get much attention – Netflix has really been pushing Hill House and Sabrina for Halloween, I think. But it’s a good one for horror fans (might be a bit much for non-fans of the genre).
I started watching Haunting of Hill House yesterday and am enjoying it. Not very into gory horrors so I avoid the genre in general, but this one is almost no gore and a lot of suspense.
The Haunting of Hill House is one of my very favorite books, so when I heard the series took a lot of liberties I was leery. But the changes are very organic.
I am wearing Five o’clock au Gingembre because Pixel mentioned it yesterday and I love it during this time of year. It is delicious!
What’s it like? I figure some spice, b/c of the name.
Box of Eels today! Now I feel like I’m on the right theme.
Didn’t carve jack-o-lanterns for the first time in years (Mr SP and I continued carving even after our sons grew up and moved out), but we’ll take it up again next year as it’s my favorite part of Halloween. And we got no trick-or-treaters last year (in our new-to-us neighborhood)–we’ll see what happens this year. I have some Reese’s in the cupboard in case…
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2018/oct/27/the-art-of-pumpkin-carving-in-pictures
I thought these were pretty amazing, for inspiration.
Amazing! Thank you for sharing!
There is an amazing pumpkin carve festival near us — just outrageously creative and talented people. Here are this year’s winners:
https://www.greatpumpkincarve.com/gallery
Those are amazing!!! Robin, thank you for sharing.
Wow! That is serious pumpkin carving! So beautiful!
Thank you Robin, I am flabbergasted.
How talented they all are!
Wow. Kanuka and Robin found some very talented pumpkin carvers! I could never begin to compete with that, but I bet springpansy and her other half could!
Haha – we’re a little more basic than those. 😉
Halloween is starting out rainy here. Hope it clears up later for the trick-or-treaters. I’m wearing SL Cedre today.
Rain here too. I might join you in Cedre.
Haven’t worn Cedre in forever…might have to dig up my decant.
SOTD Arquiste 31. Definitely shifting into some cooler weather fragrances. I remember loving the top notes the last time I wore this but was Disappointed by the dry down. I’m hoping my interpretation is different today. The top notes are really very pretty…
Nightingale – have you tried the No. 57? It’s quite good!
Yes, I really like 57! I’m hesitant to wear it to work though because I don’t want anyone to think I’m drinking…I find there’s a strong whisky note!
Lancome Magie Noire. It was a close tie between this one and AG Mandragore Pourpre for the fragrances that remind me of Halloween.
Have a Happy Halloween everyone !!
<3
Magie Noire is perfect for Halloween! If I wasn’t having a little head cold, I’d have picked it this morning. I love MP too. It’s an AG I always struggled over getting a backup bottle.
Oh, MN is a favorite Halloween scent. 🙂 You smell gorgeous!
Eau de Crypt today. No trick-or-treaters in my little cul de sac; we are all empty-nesters here and off the main candy routes.
We are at the top of a hill, so the number really depends on the weather…if it’s cold, most kids can’t be bothered 🙂
Wearing Trayee today. Perfect for autumn!
Stopping by to say Happy Halloween to everyone! I have been very busy at work lately and also dealing with so many family health issues that are taking my whole time and even more.
Beautiful, sunny day here! Celebrating the day in Olympic Orchids Seattle Chocolate. Perfect to help reduce the Halloween chocolate craving I have. So many sweet around in the office and I already had to stop eating them before I fall into a “sugar coma”! ???? ????????????????????????
Be well everyone!
Good Health and Happiness to you, perfumelover67.
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Thank a lot Bear! Sending hugs! ????
I have already started eating candy…sugar coma twins!
We will survive the sugar intake twin! ????????????????????
Good to see you! Hope things calm down soon. We miss you. ????
Thank you Deva! I have been missing you all too! ????
Glad to see you back, M! You have been missed. Big hugs to you. ????
Thank you! Sending hugs back! ????
Been thinking of you, and wishing you well????❤????????
Thank you Lillyjo! I hope everything is fine with you! ????????????
I’m sorry you have all that stuff to deal with, but nice to see you! It is gorgeous out! I hope you got to spend some time outside today!
Thank you Elisa P. Trying my best to handle everything! It is indeed so gorgeous outside! I will walk home from the subway station instead of taking the bus to enjoy at least a 20 minute walk! The rest of the week is supposed to be warmer, so I will enjoy this break in temps a lot!
Thanks for popping in, sending healing wishes.
Thank you Cazaubon!
Hugs to you! Happy Halloween! Thanks for checking in.
Hugs back and Happy Halloween to you too! You smell perfect in Noir de Noir!
Positive thoughts headed your way! ????????????????????????????
Thank you! ❤????
It’s so nice to see you! Sending good vibes your way. Your perfume sounds divine.
Thank you! ????
Nice to see you, glad you checked in!
Sending healing thoughts to you and your family.
Thank you! ????
Happy Halloweeeeeeeeeen! I can’t believe I’m not doing anything to celebrate this year. Lame.
Still pretty constantly jet lagged. Weird because I’ve been going to bed after 11 and mostly sleeping through the night.
I thought I was putting on Kenzo Jungle this morning. When it didn’t smell right, I put on some more. (Reasonable tactic, eh?) When it still wasn’t right, I finally checked the label properly and discovered that in fact I had put on Nest Indigo. It’s ok; I smell nice, and it’s sweet, which is on theme for Halloween.
Splitmeet news: All decants have been made! They are awaiting the Parafilm treatment before I package them up, but I have high hopes of mailing them out on Friday. Thanks for your patience 🙂
What’s the parafilm treatment? I need some decanting tips
It’s a stretchy plasticky tape that you can wrap around potentially leak-proof spots before mailing.
Testing our some SL, Borneo on the left, Tubereuse Criminelle on the right. Loving them both!!
Borneo is the darker version of Coromandel, which I already love and own, and TC is gorgeous. Going to pick up some larger decants, but wish I could still get a 50ml of TC, definitely missed that train!
I feel your pain…I missed that train too!
I am wearing Black Orchid today, its THAT cold (its usually a winter scent for me).
I want to finish inktober today with 31 drawings/sketches, still 2 to go. Really not sure if I will make it. Anyways it is a fun project! And along the way I learned a little bit about ‘how to Instagram’ haha.
A total of 31 drawings over the whole month, of course (not like i am doing 31 in one day ghe ghe).
I have been really enjoying your daily drawing posts. I love Instagram, although I haven’t been posting much myself in the last few weeks.
Thank you, that is great to hear ????
Yes Instagram seems pretty okay so far, I will probably stick around ????
Please do… I have also really enjoyed your sketches. I like your style very much!
Same! I’ve been thinking they’d make great tattoos…
???? thank you!
I think that it is rather cool that you have managed to create as many sketches as you have. Some of them are incredibly detailed. That must take quite a bit of effort.
I decided that ELdO Like This would be good today and I am enjoying it.
Perfect choice!
Like This is sooooo good! I need to pull out my little sample and wear it ASAP!
Ooh, you smell great!
Aedes Oeillet Bengale for me today, since we will be down near the store later today. Going to see The Tingler, starring Vincent Price. We will be heading right into the thick of the Halloween parade, so we will have to plan our travel strategically. I’ll need to brace myself for the crowds, which is not my comfort zone.
Boy, I like this scent. So good. I’ll be replenishing frequently.
I just introduced some young co-workers to Vincent Price in the classic The Fly. Help me! Heeelp meeee! ????
Haha! I say that to my husband when I need his help with something.
Good luck down there. The last time I was at the parade, which was not on purpose, was when I was trying to leave St Vincent’s Hospital to walk to the subway on 6th Ave. It took me 40 min to go 1 ave ????
Ha The Tingler is a fun one.
Also, you smell really good!
Tiny head cold is making me very blah. I’m not very halloween. SOTD is some vetiver e/o inspired by the thread yesterday. Hopefully tomorrow will be better and I’ll amp things up a bit!
Hoping you’ll feel alright again soon, lots of warming soup maybe?
Yes, warm soup and hot toddy!!
Feel better soon!
Ugh on the head cold!
Hope you are better soon AnnS!
I’m wearing Ambre Fetiche, thanks to a wonderful NSTer.
A good All Hallows’ Eve to everyone!
You smell perfect for Halloween!
Ambre Fetiche smells like winter-y holidays to me. ❄☃
I’m in a la Maison Vanille scent- can’t remember the long, long name but it’s the Madagascar one. Everything else is packed or I would have chosen something else. Super sweet and not on theme with Keats, but definitely on theme with Halloween candy. Yowza, super sweet! Hoping it dies down a little bit soon…????
Hope it has calmed down, and that you like it better now 🙂 I actually like that one the best of the MdlV offerings, because of the combo lavender/vanilla, like in Caron Pour un Homme.
I get absolutely no lavender whatsoever! I’m a bit miffed about that because it might offset the OTT sweetness.
I actually was going to send this off in the freebie/split meet, but they always seem to happen when I’m super busy and just can’t add another task without losing my mind. Maybe next time.
Good to hear that you are all packed up and ready to roll! May the drive to your next destination be smooth and fun, with no weather issues!
Thank you, Jalapeño!
Rabbit, rabbit, rabbits…November here ( if you spend the year procrastinating you wake up one morning in November thinking it should be July). Walking on the hill yesterday I counted 7 rabbits, 2 were black and one very small baby bobbing about. The skylarks were fluttering and trilling ; it was lovely. I am wearing Plum which reminds me both of Autumn and Mals.
Baby rabbits! So cute and perfect for rabbit day.
Happy Halloween! I’m in 10 Corso Como layered with Safran Troublant. Nice and warm and spicy.
I love 10CC
Me too! It layers well with many things. The body oil is especially nice.
That combo sounds wonderful!
It is nice. I just jotted it down so I can enjoy it again later! ????
How festive the comments are, really in the spirit of Halloween, from the lovely photo of mini pumpkins, to the outfits descriptions, I’d love some pumpkin soup, today.
So, in the spirit of all things sweet, I am in Anais Anais Premier Delice: chocolate and pear on a bed of flowers. I don’t wear it often but enjoy it once in a while, what is great, it’s not so sweet afterall.
Enjoy your celebrations American friends!
I love pumpkin soup!
Me too. And haven’t made in years.
Happy Halloween over there! We’ll have our All Saints’ Day tomorrow.
Today’s choice was Cloon Keen Suede Galore.
How did you like that? I tried over the summer to get my hands on a sample of Castana but it didn’t happen. I did get to smell all their candles, though, and two fragrances.
It’s a pleasant suede scent. I especially like their Frosted Moon.
I had planned on joining sweetgrass in Cedre, but left the house and forgot to spray anything. I think this is the first time I can say I’m commando. I have some samples in my purse, but can’t get to them until lunch. Hope everyone has a happy Halloween.
???? What a bummer, forgetting perfume! I hope that you are having a good day nonetheless.
Amouage Jubilation 25 this morning, for the opulence. And this cold dark Halloween evening, how could I not wear some of Reek Perfume’s Damn Rebel Witches?
To liven up my hours in the study, I have taken to feeding the squirrels and birds directly outside the window. I live in the basement, so the deep windowsill is pretty much at ground level, providing excellent cat theatre too. Some of the local creatures have now learned the meaning of the particular creak of the window handle, and come hurtling over to the snacks within moments of putting them out. So, there great swirls of over excited squrls! (We are up to four regulars now.)
And then there are the magpies, who get into shouting matches with the fancy-tails and with the cats. Small cat sings excitedly and dances in the window, while magpie chatters and swears at her, something along these lines:
birbbirbhellobirb! oh birb birb birb hi hi hi! hello birb! hi!
CAT! bad! go! bad! cat! MINE go BYE cat! no! bad!
(I need to get out more)
I enjoyed this nature post very much 🙂
Who needs TV when you have your own basement window theater? ????
Haha! I love that.
Sounds very entertaining!
Jub 25! you smell awesome! (I dont know about Damn rebel witches, but I love the name)
Love your story and your scent. Jubilation 25 is just plain wonderful!
Magpies are EVIL! EVIL, I say!
They’re my favorite bird! So dang clever.
Opinionated, for sure. (I admit to having a real soft spot for all corvids, even the stroppy ones.)
I am in the remnants of MFK Oud on yesterday’s sweater. Early morning visit to the cardiologist, so I feel guilty eating any Halloween candy!!! Maybe tomorrow……
I don’t get many trick or treat’ers, so it’s into the freezer for those Snickers.
Have a Boo-tiful day everyone!!
Hope your cardiologist visit goes well.
Fingers crossed that you got good news from the cardiologist. ????
Thinking of you, and hoping you get good news.
TF White Suede. Used up a small decant, because some of it leaked in my handbag. Nice scent, but had to reapply often to be able to smell it.
I like the Bottega Veneta better. Cheaper und better lonevity…
Halloween is not a big thing in Germany, so no costumes or festivities for me. Also have to work tomorrow, so bedtime as usual.
Our town restricts Halloween to 2 hours, 6 to 8 pm, so it is not a late night activity here either — at least, not for kids.
Halloween used to be my favorite holiday, but I’m too unmotivated to dress up now. Takes me long enough to pick out perfume and work clothes, but I had some fun costumes in the past.
Went cat trapping last night, which felt Halloweenish since we kurk around in the shadows at a late hour. Trapped a female who had kittens a couple of months ago of which only one survived and we got her adopted and she’s doing so well! This teen mom will have no more babies!
SOTD is Dusita Issara and will be done with this sample soon. Nice, comforting, thought I needed more of it, but now I don’t think so.
Halloween used to be my favorite holiday also until my nephew grew up and I lost some of interest in it. We used to decorate the apartment, dress up, go to the parade and have lots of fun with him and the rest of the family. These days as you said it is enough work to choose the daily perfume and clothes to be worn. Still I watch some scary movies and enjoy all the movement I see outside. It was nice though here at work today with some people wearing costumes and we had a fun Halloween lunch!
I am glad to hear the cat trapping went fine and the female cat has now a real home that welcomed her!
Awww, fun! I honestly never celebrated with children! It was more just dress up parties in my 20s and 30s. But I do enjoy seeing the kids dressed up on the street- so cute! And some of their parents out there tonight had very elaborate, creative costumes.
Congrats on getting another kitty off the streets! ????
Well, we got her kitten off the street a while back, but this little lady is getting spayed and put back out on the block from whence she came in a couple of days. Too feral for a shelter or adoption. A very kind older woman feeds her and her buddies (who all eluded us last night) every day.
I’m in Noir de Noir which seems like a good name for a Halloween perfume! We have a serious Halloween bash at my work. Tons of food and costumes and such and everyone really participates. Fun times. I brought an amazing dip and a spiked punch (yes, people were warned it was spiked)!
It’s my first Halloween in the house here in NM so I’m curious how many kids I get tonight. I probably bought way too much candy, but I’d rather give out too much than too little! My fiance is out of town for work though, so I hope I don’t spook myself out watching scary movies alone tonight ha!
Spiked punch? Any openings here for additional staff? ????
We could probably use a nurse on staff haha!
Nice perfume pick for Halloween! What did you dress up as?
Our group dressed up as the characters of Napoleon Dynamite! I was Deb lol.
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Haha! That’s a fun theme.
That sounds really fun. Can I come next year?
I’m wearing CdG Black for halloween. Hard to say how many trick or treaters we’ll get, sometimes a lot, sometimes just a few. It will be a nice evening of reading for me anyway, as I will sit downstairs by the door and husband will be upstairs trying to keep the puppy entertained and out of trouble. 🙂
Enjoy your evening. You smell great.
Yeah, there will be a bit of cat wrangling at my house tonight, too. One cat wants to make friends with everyone. The other two will be hiding somewhere.
We got more than usual but still have candy left over.
In Mohur from the splitmeet – reminds me a lot of the other Neela Vermeire’s I’ve sampled or maybe it’s the Ducharfour signature.
At any rate, I’ve been meaning to ask you all about Guerlain’s Liu – I got a tiny sample in the swapmeet, used it and fell in love. Sample said “Guerlain Liu, discontinued.” Boohoo!
But I realized there isa Liu under the Les Parisienne line. Is that the same scent? I don’t mean Lui, I mean Liu.
Thanks and Happy Halloween!
I wore Mohur Monday evening and yesterday from the splitmeet. I think it’s so lovely! You smell great.
Another gorgeous fall day here! I’m waiting for the first trick-or-treaters to show up. I haven’t heard or seen any of them yet. ????
I had a pleasant dilemma for my SOTD. Do I go spooky, or do I go sweet? I did sweet yesterday, so today I went for spooky.
SOTD = Sonoma Scent Studio Fireside Intense. Lots of bold leather and campfire smoke in this one. It smells very autumnal to me, just not quite in the vein of Keats’ poem. I like it! Another successful blind buy!
I think any SSS blind buy was a success!. You smell spooky wonderful!
Hello there! I was rather pleased to see you post today. Sorry to hear that life has been so crazy busy for you. I hope that things will calm down soon and we will hear from you more often. ????
Thank you Jalapeno! I will try my best to check in often until I get back to normal! Missing NST a lot!
I hope I have trick-or-treaters. First year in a new neighborhood so not sure.
I’m starting to wonder where all the kids are in my neighborhood. They start early here, usually around 5pm. So far, not a single trick-or-treater.
Better late than never! The kids started showing up around 6. Best costume so far was “Mega Millions Winner”… a boy in a fancy suit with that sign attached to his back!
Oh, that’s a good one!
Was in a Sephora yesterday and noticed that they have adorable 1-oz versions of Hermes Un Jardin sur Nil and Un Jardin sur le Toit.
Online today I am noticing they have a Garden Collection Coffret Set with 7.5-ml minis of all four of the Jardins.
Tried Twilly because of Luca Turin’s 5-star review, but it just smells very generic to me. Either LT is hallucinating, or maybe my nose is hyperosmic to the musks in a way that obliterates the tuberose and other notes he describes.
I had the same reaction to Twilly as you. Was hoping to like it, but didn’t really get what all the fuss was about.
Good to know I’m not alone on this!
Twilly was instant meh to me as well.
There was something impersonal about it.
I agree with your assessment. To me, Twilly fit neatly into the “fancy expensive shampoo” category. I think I must be missing something, but I also trust my nose. Meh.
Exactly — the shampoo at the Ritz Hotel (not that I would know!).
I just tried Twilly a couple nights ago and found it really boring too. A little bit of ginger and sandalwood and a lot of dryer sheet.
My Halloween SOTD is Byredo’s Mohave Ghost.
Great! ????
Good one!
LOVE Mojave Ghost. You smell so good!
I love that one too! You smell fabulous!!
SOTD- Miller Harris Tea Tonique, a decant from splitmeet. I was excited to receive my package and contents didn’t dissapoint. The frag is lovely, cheerful and bright mix of citruces tempered by the tea note. Love my new decant and big thanks to Nancyleandros for hosting a split!!!
That does sound nice!
I’m really glad you’re loving it! ????
I wanted to be Halloween themed, so I wore Bruno Fazzolari’s Room 237 for the first time today. It had the completely opposite effect of what I expected.
My husband, immediately after spritzing: “Wow, you smell amazing! That smells so good on you.”
15 students: “You smell so good today!”
My husband, 10 Jair’s after spritzing: ” Yum! You smell like Turkish Coffee! Can you buy a bottle?”
Why does the perfume designed to be unsettling and horrifying seem to be my perfect match? What the heck is my skin doing????
Happy Halloween everyone. Read a scary story, pull the covers over your head, and enjoy the evening.
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Sounds like you already had a spooky Halloween story with your SOTD!
I love the reactions!
Oh, that’s hilarious! I like some weird stuff, and I like BF, but that one was too much for moi. It might smell different from a distance than up close. I’ve never smelled it on someone else.
Ugh. “Jair’s” was supposed to be hours. What in the world?
SotD = Tam Dao
Because SheriG mentioned it yesterday, I’m enjoying a big swipe from a sample of Tam Dao today. It smells different when I use more. Lovely.
Hope everyone has or had a delicious and spooky day!
Happy Halloween to you tiffanie! ????
thanks, Jalapeno, so far I’m resisting, but once I start eating chocolate, it will be a very happy Halloween indeed! 😀
Hello peeps, better late than never! When I don’t check in daily, I feel like I’m missing a member of my family.
Catch-up report of SOTD:
Monday – Diana Vreeland Daringly Different. This was my Sniffapalooza purchase. Iris, leather, woody, Tonka bean; Fragrantica lists rose but I can barely detect it. More is more with this one. Ask floragal what I was doing throughout lunch at Sniffapalooza.
Tuesday – SSS Equistrius. Apple, leather, resins. Because Deva and it meets the challenge!
Today – Tauer Dark Passage.
Sharing a favorite poem by a favorite writer on this Halloween: Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44885/annabel-lee
LOVE that poem, thank u for the reminder.