Our eleventh annual holiday gift poll. Here are the three questions:
What is the fragrance-related gift you’d most like to receive this year?
Let’s say you were going to ask for just one unsniffed fragrance this year, what would it be?
Are you giving any fragrance items for gifts this year, and if so, what?
My answers:
Probably one of this year's Diptyque holiday candles.
I am hankering after a bottle of Mad et Len Petits Papiers.
No. Over the past few years we have scaled back gift-giving in my family.
Note: top image is Helleborus niger Vis UV IR comparison [tripled] by Dave Kennard at flickr; some rights reserved.
Easy answer to the first question: A perfect bottle of vintage Bandit by Piguet. Hey, a gurl can dream.
Unsniffed? Hmm… I’d choose Mandy Aftel’s re/release of Antique Ambergris in liquid form.
I’m giving quite the plethora of fragrance gifts this year!
Forgot to mention my SOTD: Holy Mountain by Apoteker Tepe, a gift decant from a friend. Thinking of this as Wholly Mountain, where it reminds me of the forest of my avian birth. Flying….
I wish I had bought a bottle of that when it was available. I have two of AT’s other perfumes, but didn’t get Holy Mountain or After the Flood and am sad.
I’m wearing Theoreeeeema today (my version of Alahiiiiine) and enjoying it thoroughly. It’s definitely a holiday fragrance for me (even though I wear it at other times).
1) Under the tree for me: a LuckyScent gift card
2) Under the radar (unsniffed): something unique like April Aromatics Calling All Angels or maybe Di Ser Mizu
3) Under the tree for others: some C.O. Bigelow Lemon Hand Cream
The Di Ser perfumes that don’t cost a bijillion dollars are all very nice, if subtle. Good for unsniffed gifts!
Thanks! Have you tried Mizu? I’m curious if it’s citrus or herbal or floral–or all 3! LuckyScent is out of Mizu samples at the moment, waiting for them to offer it again.
(I pretty much never buy unsniffed IRL.)
Briefly. I recall citrusy but wouldn’t swear to anything!
Citrus and a bit herbal? All the ones I tried had a bit of light herbal ness.
Thanks!
You smell great springpansy!
I am expecting a bottle of one of 4711 Acqua Colonia scents that I can’t find in the US. My sister is travelling to Germany next week and asked if I wanted anything, so I gave her a list of the 4711s. Since I haven’t sniffed them and don’t know which she’ll choose that answers questions 1 and 2. I am thinking of giving her a selection of hand and body lotions.
Oh good, that whole series looks so fun!
Not wanting any more perfumes at the moment. We’ll see how long the lack of want lasts😉
I’m in 7 Virtues Vetiver of Haiti today, courtesy of a very generous NSTer.
Just finished breakfast and off for a hike. The rain is looking like it might be done, so hoping we don’t get wet. The air is once again clear and comfortable to breathe.
Have a fabulous weekend all!
Comfortable to breathe. Awful to have that as a gift.
Seriously!
Enjoy your hike Deva.
The top of my want list is Thierry Mugler’s Chyprissime, but that needs to wait for an overseas trip, I haven’t been able to find a way to get it in New Zealand. Meanwhile, I’m thinking Santa might like to bring me Dusita’s Le Sillage Blanc.
Unsniffed – I’d take a punt on Fort and Manle’s Forty Thieves. I really like four of the eight in their discovery set, so that seems like good odds. I don’t actually have to take the risk, I ordered a sample from Luckyscent a couple of days ago
I’m the only fragrance addict in my immediate family, but I have got my eye open for nice soap for my mother.
I’ve just been watching some footage of fighting shoppers at Black Friday sales – wow!!!
Just smelled Forty Thieves this week at Luckyscent. Ethereal and strange! Very their aesthetic.
I hope you enjoy, too!
Interesting! Looking forward to my sample arriving.
Le Sillage Blanc. So good.
Afraid to go look to see if people behaved this year, but I guess not!
Behaving is clearly overrated.
SOTD LL Iris 39, because Petunia mentioned it yesterday.
1) More incense! And this looks nice:
https://www.bellocq.com/collections/accessories/products/copy-of-japanese-jin-koh-juzan-incense-aloeswood
or the Boy Smells Cinderose candle.
2) None! Already broke my blind-buy rule recently, and it was a failure 😢
(Lab on Fire And the World is Yours-
pretsky35 at the hawt male if you’re hankering to swap!)
3)Maybe candles or incense to friends who I know like that stuff.
Oh that does look very tempting! Don’t understand what the porcelain thingie is if it comes with the little cube holder.
The cube holder doesn’t come with it. That’s probably listed elsewhere and probably costs more than the set!
Actually, just checked. It’s 14 bucks/cube.
Must have misunderstood the text, thanks.
(The Lab on Fire’s been swapped)
I would love to get a big bottle of Le Labo Benjoin 19 this holiday but sadly it will have to wait until next year due to their stupid city exclusive deal of only making them available in September, boo hiss.
As for unsniffed, hmm, I force myself to sample everything now after a few disastrous and expensive blind buy failures. But if I were going to take a flyer with santa’s money, I’d get a bottle of Roja Perfumes A Goodnight Kiss.
I am giving a bottle of Lavanila and a bottle of Kenzo Flower to my two nieces.
As for my scent of the day, it’s Masque Milano Tango.
You smell great — and cozy!
Yes, I really love Tango.
A Goodnight Kiss is definitely one to ask for on Santa’s money, not your own! I have the 7.5 mL Discovery Atomizer, which will probably be enough to last me, as I have so many perfumes, so it is OK if I can only wear it once in a while. If, however, you told me that I had to choose 10 perfumes to wear for the rest of my life, but that they would be provided for me at no charge to me, I would probably choose that one as one of the 10. It is really beautiful.
I’d love a bottle of Iris 39.
Unsniffed? Woody Mood by Olfactive Studio or Palo Santo by Carner Barcelona
I’m giving my best friend some samples and a soap from Imaginary Authors.
Wearing Philosykos today. Mmmmm.
Woody Mood was pretty disappointing for me. Very thin and one-faceted. Short-lived, too.
Philosykos — you smell gr(een)-eat!
So one down for Woody Mood. Palo Santo is nice though I think. Not great, but nice.
Actually I really like both Woody Mood and Palo Santo.
1. A decant of FM Iris Poudre to replace the one I dropped and broke into pieces few weeks ago. Or a full bottle of John Galliano EdP, which is a no-brainer, office friendly, cozy vanilla iris scent. I thunked the last of my sample this morning.
2. The new Hiram Green Hyde.
3. No fragrance related gift planned for anyone.
With you on the Hyde!
I’m double wishing for you on the FM.
Oooh good #2! Me too!!
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Thanks to hajusuuri, Petunia, Elisa P, and Jalapeno for their support.
As everything in life, the culprits were COOKIES!
Pants too tight?
COOKIES!
Short on cash?
COOKIES!
502 error message?
COOKIES! 😜😝😛😀
Had to delete the cookies generated by NST in addition to the website, cache, and shortcut. 🍪🍪🍪
A*Men Thierry MUGLER
Does white tea smell like a combo of hay and marijuana? Was gifted some Harney and Sons Royal Wedding tea and it smells as above. Nice when I want something sweet, because coffee and sugar! ?!?! No, no, NO! 😉😁😛 YMMV
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I’ve always found white tea closer to apples, straw, and honey, but hay and hash, okay!
Thanks! I’m getting some straw and apples also. Interesting. 🐻👍🍎🌿
Don’t know about white tea, but my workplace smells like marijuana and dirty diapers. ( and light blue) Trade ya? In my experience, brownies are less destructive than cookies!😂✌glad all is fixed 😀
Uhhhh, no tradesies !!! LOL 🤣😉
I smelled Light Blue in the wild last week, and I’m amazed that that metallic soap aroma is such a huge seller!
And thanks! I LOVE brownies!!! 🤘🎶🎸🐻👍🌈🌞✌🧔🎅🦄💙🔵🔴⚪🎱🏈😊🍫
Bear, so sorry I was no help yesterday…so behind I have not even read through the poll responses yet.
It’s all good Robin!
Glad you’re feeling better, and I now know more about my cell phone than I ever wanted to !! LOL 😉🤣🐻🌈🌞✌👍
Ha!
Glad you finally cleaned out the cookies👍🏼 A few weeks ago, responses to my comments started going to my junk bin. I have no clue why. Then 2 days ago, responses magically started appearing back in my regular email box. The internet is a very mysterious thing….😳
Thanks Deva !
The old adage: technology you can’t live with it or without it!
Hike on !! 🏃♀️🧗♀️🏃♀️🧗♀️🐶
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I’m glad you lost your cookies 🍪
1. I am always up for some really good quality scented soaps.
2. A bottle of vintage anything. I have seldom encountered a vintage frag that I entirely disliked.
3. My husband is getting a bottle of PPC Heart of Darkness.
Oh, surely we can think of *something* you would not like
Happy weekend everyone and I hope all US friends enjoyed their Thanksgiving.
1. Masque L’Attesa or Guerlain Iris Ganache.
2. Jo Malone White Moss & Snowdrop maybe
3. I don’t know yet.
Sotd is Memo Moroccan Leather.
Like Robin, the fragrance-related gift I’d most like to receive is a candle – either a Jo Malone or a Diptyque, in some forest-y scent. If SSS were still (or is ever back) in business, a Winter Woods or Pacific Forest candle would be just the thing. My unsniffed wish is for Olfactive Studios Autoportrait – I think I might have missed my chance on that one. And I don’t think I will be giving giving any scented gifts this year – I seem to be gravitating toward warm-and-cozy items for gifting. It isn’t even that cold here yet, but chunky knits and firesides seem very attractive all of a sudden. In that vein, my SOTM is SSS Incense Pure.
You smell great SheriG! (Or you did yesterday, I am late as usual.)
Fragrance Related i Would like Tauer Soap or Body Oil
Fragrance wish ….OJ Woman, hard to find in Germany
We quit gifts in the family 20years ago, so no gifts at all.
SOTD Piguet Bois Noir
I’m with you on OJ Woman and they have a sale right now, too!
1. One of those Malle beautiful bottles, probably Lipstick Rose since I don’t own it. I like Lipstick Rose, but I have to admit the bottle porn is in play here as well.
2. Hyde, although I do have a tiny sample and had a quick whiff. Something really unsniffed. Vintage Mitsouko. Just so I could know.
3. I may get some Hiram Green travel sprays for scent-loving friends. They are so good and the price isn’t bad. I always worry about picking perfumes for people though as we are all so different in what we like and what smells “right” on a particular person . . .
Those bottles are pretty cool!
Ooh you’ve gotten a chance to smell Hyde? Can you tell us about it?
I really like it. Claire V on Take One Thing Off has a great review. She’s knows sooo much more than I do, but I will say that I get some sweetness with the leather in Hyde. Not too much, but it’s definitely there on me.
Thanks, Amy, I’ll look that up
Oooooh I want to try it.
1. Guerlain Liu would be my “money no object” fragrance (if anyone has any to swap or split with me, let me know, please!).
2. Unsniffed: Cloonkeen Castana (I’m still miffed I never managed to procure a sample this past summer in Ireland).
3. For others: My younger dd might be due for a fun little perfume – her older sister has found her love (Coco Mademoiselle). Also considering giving my dad perfume but he may just think I’ve lost my marbles.
Have a good weekend, everyone!
Yes, I could at least send you a decant of Liu. I have a FB and don’t wear it very much, though I do like it a lot. I am cfreeland followed by quadruple nines in the world of yahoos.
Yippee! I emailed you – hope I got it right. Thanks!!!
1. I only get fragrance related gifts from myself. Bought myself one this morning but it was free with points so thanks to Shoppers for a bar of Chanel 19 soap. If there was a christmas miracle, a bottle of Eau de Magnolia would appear under the tree.
2. I would probably go for Hyde too. I did order a sample but who knows how long it will take to get here with work action going on with our postal service.
3. I did buy a bottle of Pour Monsieur for my fella, but this was also free with points so thanks again, Shoppers!
Gi, if you don’t mind waiting for me to order some decant bottles (it’s been on my to do list forever), I could send you a decant of Eau de Magnolia ……
Hello fragrant friends, haven’t posted in some time. Good to see you are all in fine and fun form!
I wish for a bell jar of Chergui. I have a full bottle backup in case the world ends but a bell jar would be…special.
Purchased the new DSH uptown booze or whatever it was called unsniffed. It had me at hello last week. I got a small one.
Not much in the way of gifting. Too many places to donate, especially in light of the fires here in CA. My sister and I bought those tickets to go on Safari in June, so we are not even visiting each other over holidays.
Been traveling weekly for work and so have been using decants, samples, travel rollers.
SOTD is Chanel allure forgot I had it forgot how much I loved it.
Good to see you apsara! I hope you get that bell jar!
Oh I’d love at least a bell jar too. or three.. . Rahat Loukum, Ambre Sultan and Un Lys….
1. There’s nothing on my wishlist at present–I stocked up last year on candles and body products, too.
2. I’d like to smell Hyde. I’m batting about .500 with Hiram Green scents.
3. My best friend’s husband wears Aramis and she would like him to change to something else. I might nip in to Sephora and snag a few samples for him.
It’s a Stash day here. So far I’ve been stabbed, pinched, splattered, and burned. Putting up the Christmas decorations apparently requires protective clothing in the future.
Aramis has a flanker named Tobacco Reserve that is their version, in my opinion, of Tom Ford Tobacco Vanille. If I didn’t already own TFTV I would have purchased it.
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SOTD = Guerlain Cuir Beluga
Had lunch with the family. Good food, good conversation. They just left to fly back to Portland.
As to the poll:
1 and 2: April Aromatics Irisistible and the new Aftelier face elixir which I will use for my hands
3. I got the hand cream duo tins from L’Occitane. The jasmine tea scent is beautiful.
You smell wonderful. Must wear CB again soon, I’ve been neglecting it.
CB is my automatic comfort scent but I don’t just wear it for comfort.
You smell wonderful!
Thank you, my dear!
Oh. I forgot about that AA. Would love to sample that one too.
Wearing By Kilian Amber Oud and enjoying the absence of the latter in the composition.
1. I can’t think of any perfume I’d like to add to my collection at the moment, but I wouldn’t refuse FM hand cream or some fancy candle.
2. Nah, unsniffed I don’t want even a free bottle: too much disappointment when I don’t like it.
3. Probably not. My vSO has more than enough (until I find something that he just has to have, of course). As to anybody else, probably no as well.
With these answers, can I even still be considered a perfumista?
That FM hand cream is extraordinary. I got my first tube as an expensive reward for myself, the next two were bought out of necessity as no other hand cream will do.
& I think your answers are exactly what most perfumistas come to…when you have a full and varied collection and you scratch your head and wonder “how will I even get a chance to wear what I already have”?
That’s where I’m at now. Can’t wear it all.
Ditto.
1. MFK Petit Matin: I like it but it hasn’t made it to my full bottle list. If someone were to gift it to me, though, it would be very happily received.
2. Seville a l’Aube – I haven’t had a chance to try it but it sounds amazing.
3. No scented gifts planned this year, I’m trying to avoid being predictable. I gifted scented soaps, travel sprays and the like in previous years to quite a few a people.
Happy weekend everyone! I feel like this is the last weekend to take some time to relax before holiday craziness takes over every minute of our freetime.
Ditto on the Petit Matin!
Great questions.
I have too much perfume but I’d still want a bottle of Serge Lutens ( not sure which one yet, too many I like).
Unsniffed, I’d try Kerosene Walk the sea.
I’m giving plenty fragrance this year, a set of the holiday candles from Diptique, the room fragrance from the same collection ( They are lovely!!), and looking for two elegant SL for my mother and sister in law… thinking of 5 O’clock and something from the Bois ones… alternatively Do Son from Diptique and Vanille Insensee from AC. I love buying fragrance, even when it’s not for me
I had high exspectations for the Kerosene, but it was just a nice white floral und not much of the sea, just minimal saltiness. Liked Heeleys Sel Marin better….
Thank you for the tip! Saltiness is hard to pull off or maybe I just don’t have the skin for it… I tried yesterday Jo Malone Sage and Sea Salt and don’t get it at all and I was quite disappointed in my chemistry with Hermessence Epice Marine as well. Will try the Heeleys!
As much as I would like to patronize Sears, the cash register checkout situation is abysmal 95% of the time. Like now. The cashiers look like they are moving in slow motion. There are never any managers to gauge the situation to add cashiers (there are 5 registers in a pod and there are only 2 cashiers). Were it not for a very specific scarf that my mom wanted, I would have abandoned the line 25 minutes ago. There were only 25 people ahead of me and no one looked like they had more than 5 items. There are still 10 people ahead of me so I still have a good 10-15 wait. All told, a 60 minute wait – no wonder Sears is going out of business. It took me less time to drive to the auto inspection center and complete the inspection than to pay for the scarves. Ridiculous!
I hate waiting in line too. An hour does sound excessive. Luckily, I do very little Christnas shopping compared to most people.
The store was not even crowded, just by the cashiers.
Our Sears closed down a couple of year ago. There was hardly ever anyone in there except for the automotive and hardware departments, so I was actually surprised they lasted as long as they did. The lines you describe actually sound like our Walmart, though, which seems to be in no danger of closing. Always hordes of shoppers and never enough cashiers. I don’t go there myself if I can help it, as I have had frozen food thaw before I could get through the checkout line and get it home.
LOL and not LOL at waiting so long and having frozen food thaw! I don’t like shopping at Walmart due to the lighting – it always looks like I’m walking through reflective fog.
Would like to receive (but will not) Dirty Neroli by Heretic.
Unsniffed–would ask for Aqua de Colonia Gift Set by Claus Porto. Has anybody tried these?
I was in Porto this summer and smelled them – and also brought back the gift set, which oddly I didn’t pull out although I liked them all! Thanks for the reminder!
Oh, lucky you for having been in Portugal so recently!
If you get to your travel set, could you please report whether these smell at all chemical? I wonder since descriptions on several of them mention “sea” and “marine” odors …
Thanks!
Not on topic for the poll, but I have encountered a fragrance crisis. SOTD earlier was 10 Corso Como. That seemed to have died down, so I went to put on something else and grabbed my bottle of Ormonde Jayne Woman. I sprayed it on, took a deep whiff, and–nothing! I can’t seem to smell it at all. I thought perhaps it was interacting with the 10 CC in an odd way, but I can’t smell it on paper either. I know it has a lot of Iso E Super, and that some people are anosmic to it, but it was never a problem for me before. Could something in the 10 CC have induced a temporary anosmia? I am hoping this condition is not permanent, as OJ Woman was one of my favorites for cool weather.
Tomorrow hubby and I will be going to an Elizabethan madrigal feast. I am thinking it wold be fun to wear my sample of Aftelier Antique Ambergris as it is period appropriate, being based on ingredients that definitely were used in perfumery in the 16th c. Not that we will be in period costume ourselves, but the performers will be. I bought the sample of this along with my rollerball of Alchemy, and now I am afraid a full-size purchase is unavoidable. Perhaps after Christmas? BTW, what would be the appropriate acronym for a full size of a solid perfume? FB doesn’t seem quite right, as solids don’t come in bottles, but in compacts. Should it be FC, or is FB generic for a full size regardless of form?
No idea about the OJ issue. I would just try again on another day. As for the solid perfume, perhaps full size would work? Since it isn’t a bottle.
Might actually be that something in the 10CC induced “fragrance fatigue” and it has nothing to do with the OJ. Agree, try another day!
I am hoping that is the case. I could smell other things, just not the OJ. If 10 CC is going to affect me that way, it will probably end up getting swapped away.
1. What is the fragrance-related gift you’d most like to receive this year?
The new flanker for Tiffany & Co. EDP; the bottle is gorgeous! I could also go for the red bottle of Chanel No. 5 L’Eau.
2. Let’s say you were going to ask for just one unsniffed fragrance this year, what would it be?
4160 Tuesdays’ Scenthusiasm
3. Are you giving any fragrance items for gifts this year, and if so, what?
I’ll be giving my daughters some gift sets; a couple from Philosophy, maybe some Stash or DKNY Nectar Love, maybe breaking up some sets and mixing them up. They also love bath bombs, so I’ll give some of those.
I smelled the Tiffany Intense the other day, and really liked it! Wouldn’t mind a bottle myself 😀
I have the red l’eau!
That Tiffany intense sounds fabulous. I will need to take a sniff the next time I’m in Nordstrom.
Happy Saturday, friends! I love four-day weekends
Just saw the second Fantastic Beasts movie, and my review is that I’ll have to suspend judgment until I can rewatch it with subtitles. Sheesh. I love Eddie Redmayne, but I CANNOT understand him. We are currently getting our Christmas tree. The sale is being conducted by literal eighth graders, which I know because they’re acting like eighth graders and are very, very loudly talking about their lives. I’m sure I was like that with my friends when I was that age, but I could not get out of there fast enough. On another note, they started singing the Backstreet Boys’s “I Want It That Way.” I wonder if they think it’s an oldie.
SOTD was Histoire d’Orangers. I’d love a bottle of Heeley Note de Yuzu or Cardinal. Unsniffed—probably Aftelier Ambergris or Alchemy! Presents—yep, all my Black Friday shopping was of smelly presents for people. I spent about $200 on Black Friday, but I got about $450 worth of stuff—that’s pretty great, right?
Many of the Black Friday sales were tempting and they seem to keep multiplying and running out of ways to “label” them! So, based on my perfumath, you still have $250 to spend!
LOL at your tree sale staff! That’s cute.
Byredo Tree House candle, heck the Hermèssence oils!
Vintage Apres L’Ondée 😍
MFK BR540 hair mist for my mom, I think she’ll like it. No more presents, prefer to donate.
Ooooh yes the Hermessence oils! I would LOVE some Cardamusc! Good call.
They’re both good although my preference is Musc Pallida.
I would love to test those oils; do you know whether regular Hermes stores carry them now?
They should by now. It was definitely harder to come by when they first came out; even the flagship store on Madison did not have it for many months after official launch!
Thanks, hajusuuri; will then try to check those asap.
Me too, the Musc Pallida was lovely.
Finnaly home and ready to answer!
1. I still have Mugler exclusives on my list, but if we are wishing big, I would say Superstitious… just love it.
2. Unsniffed? I’m curious about Fate and recently Jasmin Marzipan, due to all the recent comments.
3. I just picked up a bottle of RiRi by Rihanna for my daughter.
Speaking of my daughter, she found 2 Christmas presents tonight, and left them in the hiding spot. Then she came and told me. She was so sweet about it. Luckily, they were just small presents. I rehid them😀
Hey lillyjo, what do you like about Superstitious. I too like it a lot, including its soapy gloriousness…kind of an animalic soapiness.
I think you described it perfectly! I think the appeal for me, is it’s similar to a big glorious vintage scent, but done in a modern way.
Happy Holidays All! I am late to the party.
Ok:
1. A Cire Trudon candle: Spritus Sanctus.
2. Unsniffed Zoologist T-Rex or Masque Milano Luci ed Ombre
3. Giving my BFF another
10mls Aedes Iris Nazarena as she loved it last year and a surprise 8mls SB Bohemian Rhapsody for both of us when we go to see said film for my birthday next month.
I wish Santa would surprise me with a bottle of Mem by Bogue Profumo.
2 decants later I am still in love but it is so expensive!
My latest purchase was Io by Chris Rusak but I can’t open it until my birthday!!
1. If I could get Baghari among my presents.
2. Grossmith Shem-el-Nessim.
3. Will gift Hermes Eau d’Orange Verte cream, a vintage (unopened) bottle of Crabtree & Evelyn Eau de Hongrie, Geoffrey Beene Bowling Green.
That’s a lot of patience, Angela!!!
IKR! 😊
1. FM Dans te Bras. I keep revisiting this and can’t decide if I need it. I’m also afraid that they’ll reformulate and that whatever I find so compelling in the present formulation, will be lost.
2. Maybe Papillon Dryad?
3. Will buy my husband something that is not expensive. Maybe Geoffrey Beene Grey Flannel?
Lots of question marks. I think I’m doing well on my no-buy and would hate to break my stride, so to speak!
Yay for doing well on the no-buy!
Regarding number 1, I had the same fear and bought three bottles. Now I’m afraid they’ll go bad.
I love your dry sense of humour! If I were in the US I could have taken one off your hands, now I’ll just hope on your behalf that they don’t go bad and that buying them turns out to be one of the best decisions you ever made.
1. I would really like a FB of MFK Ciel de Gum.
2. Unsniffed: the new scent from Ormond Jayne, Privé. I generally like her fragrances and the ingredients sound very appealing.
3. Gift items: maybe a Sicilian Tangerine Nest candle for my good friend. I see they’re on sale now for Black Friday–better buy one fast!
In other news: My SOTD yesterday was Mousse de Chene. It’s good in cold weather, as it has a more sweet note to it somehow.
Also: I took my mother antiquing yesterday to a small town in Indiana that has multiple very fun antique shops (Angola). She enjoys just browsing among old-timey objects that evoke memories. I made some small finds including a very beautiful “Jewel Collection” from Avon in perfect condition, all bottles full! It’s perfume oils and I looked it up; it was released in 1964!! A good buy, too. I’ve tried two of the oils so far and loved them both. Here’s a picture of it if anyone cares to look: https://www.flickr.com/photos/94283635@N00/31098264267/in/dateposted/. The little bottles are nestled in upside down, but if you take them out, each one has a little round cap on top.
What a beautiful find! Stay safe from the snow storm coming! Although, I think you are more inland, if I remember correctly, might not affect you as much.
Yum, Ciel de Gum is very nice. I got mine at a better price by going directly to the MFK boutique (I tried ordering online but it did not have U.S. as a shipping option so I emailed them and arranged for the purchase).
Antiquing with mom sounded like a fun adventure!
That’s beautiful! And so is your cat
Absolutely beautiful find! I am sure those oils smell fantastic!
😳 Gorgeous!
I like the idea of the Lucky Scent gift card. Not gonna happen though.
Special for Gentlemen, and I have no idea why although Kevin’s review must certainly play a big part.
Nope, tried that last year and it was a fail. My mom did not like Rose Flash. Now I have it and I’ll have to figure out what to do with it.
Thinking of blind buying Smell Bent Bohemian Rhapsody. It’s $60 so it’s no great loss if I don’t like it and I like incense. Nobody gifts me perfume, so I have to buy it. Giving mom the Amouage Honour bar soap for Christmas since she found the body butter and started using it. Wearing vintage L’heure Bleue for some Christmas shopping. Going with a friend and have a budget of $50.
Plus Smell Bent has 40% off right now which makes their prices not bad at all.
Dawn – I can spritz mine a few time to tell you what I get if you like?
I haven’t opened it yet but it’s an 8 ml so easy to do…. plan on using it soon anyway!
H-Mart Customer (No) Service I waited almost 10 minutes before someone came by. The person who was supposed to be at the Customer Service desk was at an Express Lane attached to the (no) service area. I asked a worker twice to get someone to the desk — the 2nd time he said that is not his responsibility. Seriously? This trash talk would NEVER EVER happen at Wegmans.
I learned something though: the next time I’m there and no one is there, I will call the store – most of the time the phone is answered by someone in Customer Service and then I will hang up. The call will jolt Customer Service to wake up.
Wegmans. Making me sigh with envy.
I think I’d like the Molten a Brown Muddled Plum body lotion, but even on sale is a bit difficult to justify, price-wise. I should just tell my husband I want a Diptyque Baies candle. I’ve been coveting a long time.
Not sure on unsniffed. Maybe the new 1997 scent by Smell Bent.
I’m trying to get my husband to dial back in our gift giving, but he loves Christmas shopping. He announced today that he’s almost out of many fragrances, so I’ll,have to see what to buy him. He loves the original Eau by SMN so maybe that. (We did pre Christmas gifts to each other…he got me some boots recently, and we bought him a down parka on sale this weekend.).
I ordered 1997 unsniffed! The price was right and the notes sounded good. Will report once I’ve tried it.
I’m really tempted… the notes look great.
Wearing PHI Rose de Kandahar. So so good. My puppy and I are having a battle of wills. She has decided she no longer wants to eat her healthy food that she has been eating just fine up until two weeks ago. Vet says to wait her out, keep serving the food until she is hungry enough to eat it. We’ll see how long the siege lasts.
Do you get a cinnamon note in Phi? I have worn Phi many times now and the first 15 to 30 minutes are glorious but then I get to this cinnamon skid mark and I totally drive off the road.
Hmm, cinnamon – not really. It feels like there is maybe some spice under the rose, but it’s not prominent on me. I get apricot and tobacco.
Well now I’m gonna have to fish out my decant so I can go hunting for apricot and tobacco! Never sensed that before.
Wearing Lush Lust in an effort to wear more of my not-office-appropriate perfumes on the weekends. Pretty soon I’m heading to the Space Needle and Chihuly Museum with my visiting family and am dreading the weekend crowd.
1. I’d take a bottle of Vol de Nuit parfum, but no one will ever give me a gift that expensive. If we’re being realistic, then maybe St. Clair First Cut.
2. Aftelier Alchemy
3. Not giving any scented gifts. Gift giving will be at a minimum this year.
Itching to try Alchemy here, too!
Happy chilly Sunday, all!
This morning I needed a spritz of Nicolai Cap Neroli to get out of bed, but showered that off. Now somewhat bathed in Dryad, after scoring one of the last bottles available at Tigerlilly. A sharp green blanket of IDGAF, it’s too cold, today.
Whooohoooo. Two most excellent things to report today. The first is that I do not love TF’s Lost Cherry, which is a huge relief. And the second is that we got a bright orange kitten who is a zooming, zipping, leaping, crashing tearaway, AND he apparently loves cantaloupe.
In other news:
Fragrance-related gift . . . Not sure. I don’t have anything in particular on my wish list.
Just one unsniffed fragrance . . . well, if it were to fall into my lap: Guerlain’s Meteorites.
Giving . . . my son asked for Architects Club. I haven’t decided yet if I am going to get it for him. He also asked for college and I am not sure that we can afford both. ( I have several scented bookmarks leftover from last year that I may put in the books I give for the holidays.)
The kitten is exciting! In all my life I’ve had a lot of cats but never a kitten. Enjoy!
I liked the smell of Lost Cherry (cherry cough drops?), but I don’t really want to smell like it myself.
😊👍👍💕
He just fell asleep on our coffee table! Can’t figure out how to link to my Instagram page thingy to show you. My handle is Nerolimyrrh if you can find it.
So cute!! Our orange kitty is now almost 19 years old. We got her when she was 1.
OMG, so cute! That’s one tuckered out kitty cat! Thanks for sharing. (Just started to follow you too).
I have loved orange tabbies since I was a kid. Our neighbours had one named Sidney; he had a perfect round circle of orange on a large white patch of his body. He was so mischevious!
ConCATulations on your LOT (Little Orange Terror). I’ve had a few kittens, and currently have a wild 5 month old puppy. Kiss your furniture goodbye.
Awww, congrats on the kitten! Love the gingers 😻 I’ve been getting my kitten fix at a friend’s who is fostering 4. I’ve had my 2 guys since they were 3 months old- I forget how exhausting they are!
Thank You to Ari for hosting a WONDERFUL event today at her shop hosting a Luca Turin book signing. I learned some important information from his talk and it is always SO nice to see familiar faces!
Good thing that I haven’t spent all my holiday perfume bucks just yet.
Well Done Ari!!!
Glad the talk was good! I’m seeing him next Friday at Fumerie.
I’d love to visit Fumerie one day. Enjoy!
Giving (to others and myself); very tempted by the Maison Christian Dior lineup. Currently on holiday in Japan and the Dior stores here have the 40ml sizes(!!!) and priced at ¥11,500 (roughly $100 usd). Seems like a steal and the size is much more reasonable that the giant bottles that were available when I first purchased Oud Ispahan years ago.
Anyone familiar with the line as of recent? Seems like it’s grown considerably. May pick up a few to fill my stocking this year