Rabbit rabbit rabbit! Welcome to January and welcome to 2019. It's also the 8th day of Christmas (maids a-milking) and the last day of Kwanzaa. What fragrance are you wearing?
I'm starting the year with Hermès Eau de Néroli Doré. Tea at the moment is an Organic Colombian Breakfast from Upton.
Reminder: on 1/4, wear a fragrance to match Living Coral, Pantone's color of the year for 2019 (see below).
And for those of you who like to plan ahead, see Scent of the day ~ Friday community projects 2019, where I'll try to always have the next five or six weeks mapped out in advance.
Note: the Spring To Life Tea Infuser is €7.95 at PiP Studio.
Rabbit rabbit rabbit! I slept in luxuriously this morning (but remembered R3!), and have dabbed on some Feu Secret and am on my way to make coffee. Happy New Year everyone!
I slept VERY late, and I didn’t even stay up that late last night. Felt nice anyway.
You smell great SheriG.
Thank you! This might be my first FB of 2019. ?
I’m glad you had such a great and relaxing morning. You smell wonderful!
Rabbit rabbit rabbit! 6 and a half hours to go and I am off for four days! I am starting the New Year perfectly in Cristalle.
Yes you are, and hope the hours go quickly.
Yay for time off! Hope your day flies by.
Woo hoo! Enjoy your days off!
Enjoy your time off!
Enjoy those days off! You deserve it!
I hope you are done soon and can enjoy your next few days of freedom!!!
Commando at the moment but planning to try three remaining rose oud scents today. Will report on them here later.
Robin, will Donatella visit us this week?
Also, have you decided to skip “top 10 winter scents” community project this winter or are you planning to do it later this time?
Yes, Donatella is expected to arrive on Thursday!
Not sure about the Top 10. I think all the contributors here have agreed they do not want to write Top 10 posts anymore. But we should do something seasonal, just not sure what yet. I am open to suggestions! And we can certainly do some sort of seasonal community project.
I love reading the top ten lists, maybe it could be a lazy weekend poll, instead of an actual post? Much like you do the summer and winter reading lists (from which I’ve gotten so many good ideas!) only it could be “what are your top ten for this season?” It’s always so fun to read everyone’s picks.
I like the idea of the weekend poll because I enjoy reading everyone’s lists too.
Thank you! And yay for Donatella! (I am so guilty this time.)
How about Fire and Ice theme? Wear something to keep you warm in winter (Fire) or reminding you of snow and chilly winter air (Ice).
Nice, adding to list. And I think we can do both…a “favorite winter scent” CP followed by a Saturday poll in which everyone develops a short list.
Yay!
Love it!
Excellent idea!
As promised, my report on remaining rose oud perfumes.
6. Jo Malone Velvet Rose & Oud. Beautiful opening. I think that ‘velvet rose’ describes the rose note here quite well – it’s soft and smooth. The scent is sweet but not as sweet as I expected form a perfume with a praline note. The rose becomes drier and a bit dusty later. Oud is done very lightly here. This scent is pretty in a quiet way, but it does not excite me. The opening is the best part but then it fades quickly. Three hours later after spraying I can still smell the dry-down. Too bad I do not like it – it’a powdery, dusty ‘old make-up’ rose.
7. Tom Ford Noir de Noir. What a boozy opening! Love it. This is what they call a ‘well-blended’ scent – I cannot really detect any separate notes, but overall impression is of a dark and delicious oriental floral. I feel I should be careful with this perfume though – it can be too heavy and cause a headache when oversprayed.
8. A dark boozy rose in the beginning, turns fruity (sweet cherry) five minutes later. When it settles, it becomes a cherry rose which reminds me of lipstick and face powder. I am afraid it smells synthetic to me. Maybe I will change my mind after the second test, but so far I do not like this scent.
Conclusions. My favorites are Lancome Oud Bouquet EDP and Tom Ford Noir de Noir. Honorable mentions: Dior Oud Ispahan and Rose Oud by Kilian. All mini-reviews are based on one wear of each scent.
Nice! (That dark boozy rose is the Oud Bouquet, right?) Thanks for the reviews 🙂
Oops! 8 is Yves Rocher Rose Oud. I forgot to put the name. 😳
Ah ok that makes more sense!
I am torn between a comfort scent and something sparkling for the new year. I like lillyjo’s idea of Cristalle. Might have to dig that one out.
I hope everyone is safe and healthy in this new year!
One on each arm?
Kicking it off with Kate Walsh’s Boyfriend. Trying to make this one last, I heard the relaunch has been reformulated.
Happy New Year, everyone!
You smell great! I had both the first edition, and a sample of the relaunch. Relaunch was pretty close to original, to my nose. Happy New Year!??
That gives me a little peace, then. I’ll have to nab a sample before I get rid of this halfway-turned roller!
I’m so happy that I finally remembered R Xs 3 this morning.
SOTD is Fleur de Peau. I think that I need to mix it up soon because I’m afraid that I’ll become anosmic. Have to give props to hajusuuri for this one.
You smell lovely!
I saw your comment this morning, shoot me an email at pkwisdom in the land of yahoo.
Thank you so much for your sweet offer. Actually, I have a confession for Donatella and an enabler pin fpr hajusurri. I started off the year with some retail therapy and the 20 percent off at Beauty Habit didn’t hurt. I could not resist but I appreciate your kind offer. ?
Lol. Enjoy!
Woohoo, my first enabler pin for 2019!
Happy New Years, all! Last night I wore vintage Shalimar. Seemed very appropriate.
I’m studiously ignoring getting up right now, but I did put on a spritz of Eau de Coq. I’m thinking I’ll wear some Nahema today, as it’s just so lovely. I’ll report back if I change my mind.
Thats what i wore Yesterday too. Great choice
Forgot all about the rabbits, again. SOTD is YSL Paris in all of its former glory. Mine is an oldish bottle of EDP that I’ve had for over 15 years. Needless to say I’ve got plenty of BUB’s 😉
Oh, I love that one. I got a small bottle for my mom awhile ago and have sometimes thought of stealing it back! I might just have to buy myself a new one.
You smell lovely! I plan to wear it later this week – somehow I feel the connection with this week’s CP.
I kept waking up all night long and kept saying RABBIT RABBIT RABBIT before looking at the clock only to realize it wasn’t quite Jan 1 yet…finally at 3am I got it right-LOL!
Wearing a whole lotta stuff today..finished Cuir de Russie last night (thunk!), started at 5am with Black, post workout showered and sprayed my entire body with L’Artisan Cote d’Amour to which I added a huge amount of patchouli, orange and mandarin essential oils so it basically comes onto my skin as an orange/coral hue (hey, I just realized I am participating in the CP with this color!!!) and topped off with a swipe of Casablanca on the wrists…..I am super smelly today 🙂
I can smell you from here!
Would you expect any less from me? LOL!!! 😉
I have now added Black to the mix (again)
I was awake with you all night long! resumed “Suits”, starting with the pilot. (Began watching with season 6). That was around 2 am.
Iris today, thank you PL67! Hermes Hiris and Atelier Silver Iris. Both beauties.
Ooh, such lovely irises!
I am glad you are enjoying the irises! They are really beautiful!
OOh I will have to look for Suits…must be good if you are watching at 2am 😉
Ooooh hope you’re enjoying Suits!
It was midnight SOMEwhere, CM8. I had to go find that spot last night when Mr. G and I were both nodding off – turned out for us that spot was Prince Edward Island, Canada. (And we’re on the west side of the U.S., pathetically enough.)
Ha! so my rabbit rabbit rabbits that I said about five times might give me five times good luck!
Happy 2019 to everyone and rabbit, rabbit, rabbit!
New Year started with a terrible weather that only makes me want to stay in bed.
Prada Marienbad for my cuddly mood.
Back to work tomorrow… ugh…
I’m back to work tomorrow too. Ugh is right.
Happy New Year!
Happy 2019
Ugh x 3, I’ll be back to work tomorrow too. I have enjoyed having this winter break.
Me too! I had a total of 12 days of a break from thinking about work.
I will join you all in ugh as back to work for me tomorrow as well.
There’s a lot of us! Luckily we’ll start and weekend will come after 3 days 😀
I’m commando also, pre-shower. I haven’t decided on a fragrance today, other than it being either Dzonghka or one of the samples I’ve neglected.
I ended up trying Amouage Gold.
House twins! I’m wearing Opus X from their library collection.
Rabbit rabbit rabbit! Skin is feeling dry so slathering on some DSH perfumes Tunisian Amber lotion. No need for perfume with this stuff! Happy New Year!!
Nice! happy new year, M!
and which Tauer did you wear last night???? Everyone on Australian Perfume Junkies wanted to know!!!!!
Currently sampling Caron Nocturnes which is quite pretty. Finally completely cleared my storage out on Sun so that’s a couple of thousand a year that I can use on other things. My perfume resolution for the year is to try and only acquire samples that sound like they’ll appeal to me rather than random samples–I went to Sniffapalooza this spring and ended up with about 4 dozen samples and I’ve got a bag of untried samples from storage, many of which were when I bought big sample lots off eBay (approx 50 per lot). Being a sampling junkie means that I’ll still try and work my way through them (Hah!) According to my notes, between samples and store visits, I tried 205 different scents on skin
Nocturnes is in my top five of all time..I don’t think I’ve been without it since 1983. I concur with your description of “quite pretty”.
Me too, and I hardly ever get it out to wear, but maybe I will today! Nice to be reminded of something you like but forget about too often.
I am kinda hoarding it because it’s not so easy to come by anymore!
Goid for you for clearing out your storage space! Great way to start off the year.
It feels so good, like a weight is gone (between books and furniture, I”m guessing hundreds of pounds)
Rabbit Rabbit Rabbit – Happiest of New Year wishes to you all.
My chest cold and I went to bed around 930 pm, and I woke around 10 AM to a muffled winter wonderland. Wearing enough L’Heure Bleu extrait to allow even me to smell it through my cold.
Hope you feel better soon!
I love that hushed quietness the morning after a snowstorm. Hope you feel better soon.
You smell beautiful. Healing thoughts your way.
I miss the stillness of a winter morning. Feel better soon!
Sending healing vibes!
SOTE yesterday was American Perfumer Desert Flower. This was both a blind buy (as I had no way to obtain a sample first) and an impulse purchase (as I bought it within an hour of reading Jessica’s review here on NST). Had reason and logic prevailed, I would never have bought this one, and by all rights I should be wallowing in buyer’s remorse right now. Suffice it to say that for once I am glad I threw reason and logic out the window, as this is one of the most stunningly beautiful perfumes I have ever smelled.
Aside from the inherent risks of a blind purchase, there was ample reason for me to be leery of this one. Jessica’s mention of while floral notes for instance– BWFs and I do NOT get along, as a rule, as too much jasmine gives me a headache, and strong tuberose smothers me. The more refined, “fresh” or “springlike” florals can feel like an ice pick to my sinuses. The oud listed among the notes also gave me pause. Not only has oud been way overdone, but I just don’t care much for it as a featured note. This could easily have been an epic fail for me.
The initial phase of Desert Flower gives me an impression of being bathed in a golden aura. Despite the “while flowers” which are supposedly here, I perceive nothing white about this scent. If there were a category of Big Golden Floral, I would put Desert Flower in it. For me, the difference between a typical BWF and Desert Flower is the difference between a room illuminated by harsh, industrial fluorescent light fixtures and the same room seen by candlelight. All the same objects are there, all the same features, but softened and subdued. It is big, it is floral, but it refuses to be harsh. It is rather like hearing a symphony orchestra playing a hyge chord with all the instruments–strings, woodwinds, brass, percussion–but mezzopiano. The accord is rich, textured, luscious, and powerful, and yet not loud. If there is a fault to be found with it, it is that it perhaps does not last as long as I would like. To be fair, it does last for a good couple of hours, but I would not have minded if it had gone on all night.
At this stage, the desert in the name did not make its presence known–it was all about the flowers. I detected a tropical, almost banana-like note reminiscent of ylang, although ylang is not among the listed notes. It does have a distinct retro feel to it, as Jessica mentioned in her review. I kept thinking that it reminded me of something I must have smelled back in the 1970s, but I cannot say if it is a specific perfume or just the general feel of 1970s perfumery.
A couple of hours in, I found that the scent had softened and receded quite a bit, becoming almost a skin scent. Leaning in to my wrist for a good sniff, I found that it did indeed conjure up an impression of sand. There was also a suggestion of fire and a whiff of smoke, but airy rather than thick, and a background of the same flowers that dominated the first phase. The mental impression I had was of sitting around a campfire in the desert. The fire has largely burned down and is now mostly embers, and somewhere nearby there is a night-blooming shrub giving off delightful whiffs of scent.
I am rather sad that Desert Flower is such a limited edition (only 25 bottles!), as it means that only a few people will be able to enjoy this beauty. Perhaps the raw materials are really in very short supply, as it said to be made of “rare, vintage Arabian oils”, and it simply is not possible to make much more of it. Nevertheless, I hope that somehow some more of it can be made so that it can reach a wider audience.
Sounds like a really risky buy, being so against your type on paper. Glad it worked for you, it sounds divine.
Wow, thanks for that review! I would have hesitated as well, given the notes. Glad it turned out so well!
With that kind of luck, you should head to Vegas! I was intrigued by that perfume. Thank you for your vivid description. It sounds divine.
I am actually in Lake Charles right now. We spent the evening at the Golden Nugget. I broke even, and my husband came out a little ahead.
Wow, winning all around if you count in the successful blind buy.
What a beautiful well-written review!
Great review! And congratulations on successful blind buy.
Oh my goodness, those notes gave me pause too, but your review is making it sound fabulously appealing! Thanks for your review!
Thank you for the wonderful review! I also give BWFs a rather wide berth, but Tubereuse Criminelle surprised me a couple of months ago. You just never know until you try something on skin. Congrats on the blind buy!
Will I ever remember to rabbit? Happy New Year all! I’m in Bvlgari Black for no good reason other than it called to me on this chilly day.
Up late last night and up early this morning to take son to airport and walk the dog. No sleep for the weary! Now coffee and cleaning up holiday stuff. Doing some planning ahead for the freebie/split/swapmeets.
Scent twins 🙂 although mine was applied pre-shower….I will add some more to my neck now !
We smell great!
oh yes we do!
Eau de neroli dore sounds wonderful. Another hot, muggy start to the day, the kind where you wake up and your hair is stuck to the back of your neck …yuck. I am wearing Florists Fridge and about to go for a walk, the sun is just coming up. All the hydrangeas are in full bloom and look fantastic. I watched Death in Venice last night. It’s one of those films I end up watching every 20 years and my response to it changes each time. I remember loving the book when I first read it and copying out sections but now I fear I might scoff at certain scenes.
The Visconti version? I love it. That boy is so unbelievably beautiful.
Yes. It was interesting to watch the movie again after seeing Call Me By My Name last year. I preferred Death in Venice with all the extended scenes of activity/ location combined with little dialogue…just getting from the steamer to the hotel at the opening took ages. I also like the grotesque element …the singers who come to the hotel, the made-up and rouged men. Tadzio doesn’t speak so is truly an object of desire, he is filmed striking poses ( hand on hip, slow turns to face the camera, lowered eyes etc.) It was great to see it again…oh, and how beautiful are the dresses! And Dirk Bogarde, great actor.
Love Florists Fridge…you smell fantastic!
Death in Venice easy required reading in my senior year in highschool. And I loved it. Dr. Longo also took us to the movie of it as part of a class trip. I really should watch it again.
Was not easy… spellcheck!!
Happy New Year perfume friends far and wide!
I loved reading all the lists posted yesterday and it inspired me to wear my number one scent of all time on the first day of the year. Obsession. Vintage. One spray to the wrists should last me 12+ hours.
Yesterday the rain we had most of the day finally turned to snow. The kind that hangs on the tree branches and makes it look all Ansely Adams out. After dinner my husband and I put on our boots (I also wore snow pants which got a good giggle out of my daughter) and went for a walk. It was really beautiful. Then we came home, made some green tea and watched a Christmas special of The Great British Baking Show with our girls. I am old and boring, and totally okay with that.
Today we will take down our tree before I head back to work tomorrow.
I like your description of the outdoor scene as “all Ansely Adams.” Good label!
Thanks! You knew exactly what I meant, right?!
The trees really look so pretty, I wish they’d stay like this til spring.
The description was evocative and as clear as a photographer’s lens!
You are not old and boring and your New Years Eve sounded delightful. I am also a fan of Obsession….I think I drained four or five bottles back in the day.
Thanks CM8, it was a really laid back but lovely evening.
Gonna spend more time with my perfume loves this year!?
Perfect day with snow, tea, and the baking show!
Your day yesterday sounds wonderful. Enjoy the winter wonderland!
What a great walk. I love the shush sound when snow slips off branches. Did you try the recent Obsession perfumes?
Staying in and watching GBBS sounds like a wonderful evening to me!
Your evening sounds relaxing, beautiful and comfy. I wish my holidays were more like yours!
I think I can beat you…my husband and I watched a Harry Potter movie with no children as excuse! We are going to finish the GBBS Xmas edition this week.
A crisp new year’s day here in San Diego. Wearing my wonderful animalic incense bomb, Rundholz 3.April.1968.
Happy New Year, c!!!
Wishing NSTers the happiest and best of all years in 2019!
(Including health, safety, prosperity, and solace when needed.)
Wearing Prada Infusion d’Oeillet for the am; will try out Diptyque Tempo in the pm (since I at last hied off to the mall yesterday and snagged a sample).
Completely behind in all things, but will perhaps catch up on NST news eventually…
I think the word “oeillet” is so pretty.
Indeed, it falls softly on the ear… and I’m always pumped when I spell it correctly!
You smell exquisite
Thank you!
Happy New Year, NST! It is a lovely crisp (if rather breezy) day here in NorCal. SOTE last night was Box of Eels parfum. Commando at the moment, but intend to wear SHL 777 O Hira later.
Yesterday I crunched my stats on perfume wearing in 2018. Mind you, I went off the rails in October and November and didn’t record a thing, and I’m sure my recording was incomplete in other months (it is not possible that I didn’t wear Byredo Pulp even once!), but still, here’s what I came up with:
Most worn perfumes: Chanel Paris-Deauville (6 times), Bonny Doon Farms Spirits of Lavender (6), SL De Profundis (4), Chanel Paris-Biarritz (3), Olfactive Studios Still Life In Rio (3), Xinu Copala (3)
Most worn houses: Chanel wins by a mile (22 times); SL (9); Dior (7); Tom Ford (7); Bonny Doon Farms (6); 4 each for CB I Hate Perfume, Guerlain, Hermes, L’Occitane, and Perfumer H; and 3 each for Edward Bess, Heeley, Olfactive Studios, Rouge Bunny Rouge, and Xinu
Made a few observations, most of the blindingly obvious kind, but I’ll write them down here anyway. They may translate into perfume resolutions for 2019.
– I have too much perfume (duh). Too many unworn in 2018. Need to scrutinize these for ejection from the collection.
– Considering how seldom I re-wear scents in a year, I’m only going thru a few ml of any given scent in a year. So I have no justification for BUBs, now do I. Or even large bottles.
– Need to stop saving the ‘good stuff’ for special occasions. Hence my SOTD 🙂
I’m going to try an experiment for 2019: I know I’ll fail at a no-buy — I’ll blow it and then will abandon all restraint — so instead I will limit myself to 2 bottles a month (my brain is already bargaining with itself over what “bottle” means so I expect some fudging there), AND I will limit the $ for said “bottles” to whatever I make from selling unused perfumes. We Shall See how this plays out.
There are several other bloggers and commenters doing exactly that – a LOW BUY…which is a great compromise…
I like your stats and the conclusions you were able to draw from them. I will follow your lead.
Bonny Doon Farms, hmm, that’s a new one! I am totally with you on your three bullet points. I have a few rare/discontinued things I need to use up and not hoard too.
I have decided to go all out for the no buy. Was going to do what you’re doing, but I hate selling (although I did sell two high value bottles last month which funded my annual First in Fragrance order) so realistically I don’t expect to have any funds to spend. But if by some miracle I do sell something, I will permit myself to spend it. 🙂
Good luck with your resolutions!
Happy New Year! Wishing each and every one of you all the best! Sparked by a recent blog post, I’m wearing Shiseido’s Inoui, one of my all-time favorites that I first purchased in the 1970’s.
Yesterday’s experiment layering Rahat Loukoum with Eau Cerise was…interesting. I never would have imagined that Eau Cerise would overpower Rahat, but it did! Coulda been my timing, as I’d been wearing Rahat for several hours prior to layering but it was still going strong! Next time (if there is one!) I will spritz on the Eau first and add Rahat later and see if I have the same results.
Inuoi is very green , right? Or am I thinking of something else?
Ack and I butchered the spelling.
Yes, Inoui is very green – mossy and mysterious and somehow reminiscent of faeries and glens and benevolent magic.
Happy New Year! I am making a leisurely start to the day, which just might turn into a completely leisurely day. Wearing Beige: I’m going to Shop My Perfume Shelf this year, and since I still have a second decant of this it’s a painless beginning…
You smell so pretty!
Making black eyed peas etc for tonight’s supper, and will pop open a bottle of Champange. Iris scents today, it’s such a beautiful flower, and love how different perfumers create such gems. Hiris and Silver Iris. Very comforting.
Nice…. food, drink and perfume!
You smell great! Enjoy the food and champagne!
Joining you in the black-eyed peas, etc. My tipple will be passionfruit hard cider. Both of your scents are so, so pretty.
Passionfruit hard cider sounds amazing! I’ll have to look for some!
Every year I swear I will make hoppin john, and every year I don’t!
Made Hoppin’ John today too, and collard greens! Yummy! That was our midday meal, and dinner was pork roast cooked with cranberries and apples, served with cornbread. I really do love Southern food after 25+ years here in the South.
It got below freezing last night so I want to wear something cozy this morning…Shalimar Mexique.
You smell wonderful! A great below freezing scent, that’s why I ran my sample dry
I am wearing Sideris today, from a brand new bottle that I saved to spritz on the first day of this fresh new year. (Thank goodness I still had a bit of the sample to tide me over from November!)
I tallied my perfume wearing for 2018. This year I only included full bottles and decants 5 ml or larger in the count because there was just no point in tracking the number of times I wore samples. (Although I did notice that I wore Gypsy Water from my sample at least 8 times.)
The top 10:
1) Wood Sage and Sea Salt (73 wears)
2) Santal Massoia (69)
3) Eau des Merveilles (34)
4) Escentric 2 (24)
5) Bois Farine (22)
6) Hiris (21)
7) Philosykos (20)
8) Hanami (19)
9) California Reverie (15)
10) Tie: Dzongka and Mojave Ghost (11)
What did I learn from this?
1) No surprises. The top 2 did not shock me at all. They are my comfort scents, and I often applied them later in the day when I needed some scented joy.
2) I wore everything in my collection this year, but some things only once or twice. I obviously have my favorites.
3) I have a more varied collection than I sometimes realize. That leads me to the realization that I do not need to buy anything for a long time to fill any gaps. Am I a little short on roses? Yes, but I can live quite happily with my samples of rose scents for the next year.
4) I will not buy any more samples. I’ve been trying crazy hard to deal with them and there’s still a billion of them!
5) No buy 2019 – I will shop my fantastic collection this year. Although we may go to Switzerland this summer and if we do, I reserve the option to buy a bottle of Tauer Perfume while there.
You have a beautiful collection and quite a few that I like. So many of us are striving for low buy/ no buy this year and shopping our collections. However, I hope you do get a Tauer souvenir when you go to Switzerland!
Santal Massoia is the Berdoues? What do you enjoy about it?
I think Santal Massoia is the Hermes. I got a sample of this during the last split meet and really like it – definitely within the JC Ellena aesthetic and might need warmer weather.
Ah yes! Of course! I tried it not that long ago. Liked it but it was very fleeting on my scent devouring skin.
Excellent list (although I have not tried everything in your top ten).
You must be a fan of Hermes and L’Artisan Parfumeur. 🙂
You’re correct – spots 11 through 13 were occupied by Passage d’Enfer, Dzing! and Vetiver Tonka!
Was it Tiffanie who coined the phrase “Yes to Hermes”? Because I’ll buy that t-shirt and put the bumper sticker on my car!
Ditto! Hermes is one of my absolute favorite perfume houses.
Yah, that was me ☺️
I’m wearing Jour d’Hermes to celebrate Yes to Hermes!
I think that many of us here have realized how beautiful our collections are and it is encouraging that we have decided to stop buying new things this year with some exceptions of course, enjoy what we have, especially when the samples are out of control, save money and also make space for other beauties later on. I hope we keep committed to it. Enjoy you collection! ?
I first started thinking about the no-buy when I was seriously considering buying the Jo Malone Jasmine Sambac and Marigold and realized that I own 4 different yet all beautiful jasmine-centered fragrances. Time to slow down and savor what I have already. The other perfumes can wait!
Enjoy your collection, and may the exceptions be for the best possible reasons, like rewards for accomplishing a difficult task or souvenirs of happy times.
Do you know if Tauer sells in Switzerland in a brick and mortar store? My brother is in Zurich visiting and trying to find a place that sells his line without success….
Perfumerie Sueskind has Tauerville (Scheitergasse 10). theres an alternative bookstore that used to carry Tauer called Medieval see lemaroc.ch (Spiegelgasse 29) he could check. Finally there is an online store called fabrikat.ch that may have a bricks and mortar shop which carries some. Good luck!
Thank you so much! I just sent my brother this information and hopefully he will be able to get some Tauer! He lives in a country that Tauer doesn’t ship to, so hopefully it will work out
Perfumerie Sueskind is terrific! I visited in 2017, and it’s a lovely store with very helpful staff.
Happy New Year, everyone! Spent the morning in vintage BaV while trying to get the house cleaner and start my pork roast. Lost power last night, twice. Came back on at 11:30 the first time. The second time, it went out at 12:10 AM and came back on at 3 AM. Hopefully, my mom will mellow out after her shower and realize that the house is company clean and it will be fine. Commando for the moment but looking at Lyric or Shalimar for SOTD. All while looking at TPC 25% off sale.
Loosing power is such a pain.
Losing
How was the pork roast?
Happy New Year! Forgot the rabbits again, dang! SOTD Naja. ✌?
???
I said it about five times so one of those should count for you ?
Oh, thank you for having my back! ?
I have known about the rabbits thing for 2.5 years and have never managed to say it once.
Well, I’m in good company then?
Deva, a big thank you for yesterday! You should have seen Tal high fiveing my phone screen! Then we had to look through pages of heeler dogs to try and find brothers and sisters for T-Rex ? it was great??
Oh, so glad she got a kick out of it. T-Rex and I had a serious talk after because I think she could have done a better job, but she was distracted by all the dead things washed up on shore…! She’s such a dog! ? Good luck with the brother/sister hunt?
Happy New Year! I’m wearing Amouage Opus X, lacquered rose.
Happy New Year to you, Suzy Q!
Rabbit, rabbit, rabbit! Happy New Year everyone!
Went to sleep late, woke up not as late as I wanted, did some cleaning and now I am resting for a while before I start getting ready for the reality of my daily routine again.
I am wearing a beautiful christmas essential oil from CM8. A happy and gorgeous one! Later I will spray on some Calvin Klein Truth from a new unwanted bottle that one of my sisters bought a week ago and that after a couple of wears she decided it was not for her and gave it to me. I never tried it before, but it is a nice sweet green scent, a no- brainer and office friendly. I see myself wearing it frequently in spring-summer time.
You smell great. Truth is a perfect office scent and very pretty. I wore it back in the day along with its flanker, Truth Lush.
So glad you are enjoying the holiday blend!
One of my friends exclusively wears Calvin Klein Truth and smells amazing. What a great hand-me-down!
Happy New Year NST!
I am back from vacation and enjoyed lurking on NST from time to time while abroad and catching up on everyone’s scented notes. CM8 has definitely created a Casablanca lemming and all the Wowilla testimonials are tempting me!
I wore Guerlain L’instant almost exclusively while traveling and love it even more than before – it needed the 70 degree weather to really bloom. I also got a chance to try L’instant magic at the duty free (foreign duty frees always have a much more extensive Guerlain collection than US ones – why is that?) and thought it was a nice powdery-centric scent, but not one I have to buy. I only bought one scent-thing on my travels – an all-natural vanilla “body splash” which I plan to spritz before bedtime.
I am looking forward to 2019 and what it may bring, but know already that is going to be a hectic semester for me – I will probably be posting much less then I would like, but will always be lurking nonetheless:)
sorry for creating a lemming but Casablanca is gorgeous 😉
I love that you wore the same fragrance on your travels.
Good luck with your semester.
I always like wearing the same scent while traveling to help with olfactory memory later. Your enthusiasm for Casablanca is contagious! Thanks for the well-wishes.
Happy New Year! I hope you had a great vacation and that your semester goes really well.
Thank you – I hope it does too. Taking a deep breath.
SotM = Cologne du 68 + Wowilla body oil
Living Coral is a beautiful pink! I love it.
I remembered to rabbit x 3 and am heading out for a bike ride. 😀 Hope everyone has a fantastic day.
Happy New Year, NST peeps! 😀
I think I’m in love with Living Coral. Which is shocking, because it is not the type of color I usually gravitate towards.
I feel like that too! Pinks are winning me over
Last night I wore Lolita Lempicka Eau de Minuit 2009, after wearing the EDT (Morsure D’Amor) of premier perfume during the day. Today it’s Bulgari Omnia Coral which I received in a set of minis for Xmas.
Perfect!
For the NY celebration I wore one of my all-time favorites – Ornonde Jayne Ta’if, so this morning, while enjoying the remaining whiffs of it from my hair, I decided to start the year with it as well.
Happy New 2019 to everyone!
Happy New Year! Thank you for the super cute pets post on your blog.
Happy New Year , Undina!!!
Ooh, that sounds gorgeous, Undina! Happy New Year to you and Rusty!
I had a great time last night with my friends and did not get home until 3:30 A.M. However, I did sleep in until Noon. Tomorrow it’s back to work and the normal routine. My SOTD is Chanel No. 5 which I always start the first day of the New Year with…this year I sprayed EDP from the Red Bottle. Happy New Year to all!
That red bottle 🙂
Wow, that’s late! I am semi-jealous of all the late-night revelry by NSTers, although I no longer can stay up partying and still function the next day
Rabbit Rabbit Rabbit! Happy Happy New Year to All! I can’t wait to catch up on all your comments!
Thank U all of NST FOR A FABULOUS 2018 too!
Aftelier’s Alchemy for me today!
Ohhhhh now I understand what all the fuss is about. Creamy. Dreamy! Yummy!
And all-natural to boot! (That’s a plus for me, although I appreciate that others may be indifferent to the distinction.)
Happy New Year!
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!?
SOTD is Jivago 24K, in the hope that it will bring an auspicious start to 2019.
I did it—I remembered to “rabbit”!!! Actually, I said it when I went to sleep after midnight *and* when I woke up.
Can’t speak for the rest of town, but I woke up to a dusting of snow this morning, which is always a gorgeous thing to see on cacti. ❄️?❄️
A dusting of snow on cacti also seems like an auspicious way to start the year! Hope it is a good one.
Fingers crossed, it’s a sign we’ll have plenty of precipitation. I hope 2019 is a good one for *you* too, Robin!
Happy 2019 NST! I forgot the rabbits today, though. I will say in my own defense that last night’s sleep was a little fractured, which always seems to happen on New Year’s Eve, regardless of whether I go out or stay in. I’ll try for the rabbits tomorrow and see what happens. ?✨???
Some good phone calls today to wish relatives well for 2019! ☎
SOTD = Nicolai Parfumeur Createur Rose Royale EdT, from the sample stash, and an NST swap buddy. This was perfect for watching the Rose Parade today on TV! It is also a beautiful rose soliflore on me with a tinge of lemon (whole fruit) in the open. It’s still gently wafting around me as I type. ???
We missed the Rose parade and only saw a few minutes of the Mummers….
Happy 2019, Jalapeno!! What an excellent choice for watching the Rose Parade—even the name is appropriate for such a renowned event! (I was *this* close to marching in it myself once but ended up at the Holiday Bowl, thanks to UCLA losing their last game.☹️)
I didn’t quite manage to thunk my Byzance sample last night, so it lives for one more application. After the fun of the NYE party, the next day is always a bit of an emotional letdown. I needed something really fun, so applied Arielle Shoshanna for New Years Day. Spent the day cleaning up from last night and taking a walk. Chilled out and rested. A good start to 2019.
A fun scent always perks things up – happy new year!
Was commando much of this lazy day. Sprayed on Cuir d’Ange. Which just isn’t my favorite. I’d swap it away, but somehow a piece of the sprayer has been lost….
Oh my….am I lemming Desert Flower now,…
There’s something “fuzzy” to me in this scent. Same feeling I get with Infusion d’Iris…
Well, inspired by thegoddessrena, I got out my bottle of Nocturnes and sprayed some on. But at the same time I spotted my bottle of Parfum Sacre and sprayed it too, and wound up wearing it (more of it, that is) instead. It still smells wonderful. Those plus Nuit de Noel are my only Carons. I’m drawing a bit of a blank concerning the color for this Friday’s project. Right now I’m staring out my window at a geranium in bloom that must be exactly that color, but I don’t associate the color with any perfume, and will have to think creatively. Certain colors do seem to have perfume associations to me, such as green and blue, but not all. I’m sure something will spring to mind! Meanwhile, I’m about to buy my first perfume of the year, T-Rex; I’ve gone from finding it weird and almost a bit scary to wanting to put it on and sniff it all the time. I’ve got two little sample bottles but they’re running low!
PS Just ordered it from Luckyscent and requested a sample of Irrisistible (do NOT like that spelling)) from April Aromatics, which has shown up on various best-of lists with rave reviews. Can’t wait to try it!!
Ikr! It STICKS in your brain and you keep trying to autocorrect it and you can’t let it go! Why is that! Too many “I”’s???
Truth: even so I want to try that one!
Congrats on the new bottle! I’m having trouble finding a coral perfume too.
Happy new year to everyone! I’m commando recovering from a raucous new years Eve party. Our guest dog is snoozing by my side, which our dog doesn’t do, and I finally realized why: guest dog is a wild mix of various lap dog breeds and is doing the job he’s meant to do – keeping me cozy company.
Aw!
Just back from a brief, somewhat impromptu trip to Lake Charles for NYE. Overall we did pretty well with the casinos. DH lost a little, but I won, so on the whole we ended up ~$30 to the good. Breaking even is really pretty great. Not as great as winning, of course, but it amounts to getting free entertainment.
Yesterday I received three perfume-related packages, one with my bottle of Desert Flower and a bonus sample of Colorado, one with my St. Clair sample pack, and one with issued 3 through 6 of Nez and Perfumes: the Guide 2018. I tested out Desert Flower yesterday evening, as I described above. I plan to try out Colorado soon, perhaps tomorrow. I suppose it could count for the CP, since I’m pretty sure coral, or something close to it, can be found in the Colorado landscape. I’m not sure what else I have that will fit. Coral is NOT one of my favorite colors.
Not my favorite color either, and likewise, need to come up with a matching fragrance! I do like that picture though.
Happy New Year Everyone!!!!
And to you GateGirl!
Happy New Year ! I hope 2019 is a good one !!
SOTD is TM Angel Eau Sucree
Happy New Year to all! Thank you for all the excellent comments, insights, and good cheer you all share here! I look forward to hearing more from all of you in 2019. Today I’m wearing Alaia eau de parfum. Yesterday was Chamade for NYE.
Happy New Year! After 5 fabulous days in Lisbon and other towns nearby, I am on my way to the airport to go home. My SOT New Year’s Eve was Chanel No. 5 L’eau from my really cute bottle; the red one was too big to haul around. SOTD on Jan. 1 was No. 19 EDP!
More when I get back!