It's Friday! Also the 11th day of Christmas (pipers piping), plus World Braille Day and Michael Stipe's birthday. Our community project for today: wear a fragrance to match Living Coral, Pantone's color of the year for 2019.
What fragrance did you pick? As always, do chime in with your scent of the day even if you’re not participating in the community project.
Some colors immediately call to mind scent associations, and vice versa, but Living Coral does nothing for me. I went the literal route with Parfums de Nicolaï L’Eau Corail.
Reminder: on 1/11 we're doing My Precious...wear a scent that references jewels or precious metals. Suggested by thegoddessrena.
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.
Good morning, everyone! I’m in a tiny spritz of Montserrat for the CP this week.
The rain has finally left us, so I’ll take a walk today with the puppygirl and maybe get to the grocery store. ToTM is FM Eros.
You smell great! Almost wore that myself, today.
Hurray for getting a break from the rain!
My shirt today is darn close tothat colour. I got Safran Troublant on it this morning while I was liberally overspraying. Does that count?
I thought about Safran Troublant but after I saw the saffron in the basement (partial food storage since it is much colder there), I switched gears.
I can’t see how that wouldn’t count.
I’m wearing MFK Petit Matin, since I’m working on my personal sampling project. I really needed something aromatic after wearing a lot of very sweet scents this week. In honor of the CP I am wearing a coral colored thermal tee.
Petit Matin is pretty! You smell great. 😀
good morning! going to eat fig and prosciutto pizza for my friend’s birthday (and now that i know, mike stipe’s birthday too!). smelling festive in chanel no. 22 voile parfume.
That’s a yummy pizza….
That pizza sounds delish and you smell great.
Wow, I’m lemming your pizza. Hard.
Wow, that sounds delicious! I want some!! 😀
come on over, there’s plenty for all! 😀
mmmmm, figs are fabulous on pizza 😀
Love the pizza and perfume!
That pizza sounds delish!
I’m in Mojito Chypre today, bright strawberry and mint. Pleasingly artificial and a lot of fun. I was excited to see that LT reviewed this one highly, though that’s only important when we agree. 😉
I was going to wear a Sophia Grojsman for the poll since that seems perfect for her plush fruity style. However, my hand grabbed MC once in the closet. Who am I to argue?
ooooh! nice, now I want a mojito 😀
Sophia makes me think of peaches and roses.
SOTD for me is American Perfumer Colorado (by DSH; from a sample that came with my bottle of Desert Flower). I figure there must be some coral tones somewhere in the Colorado landscape. This is an interesting scent that does elicit some vivid mental images, but I don’t love it the way I love Desert Flower.
A Colorado sunset would contain some coral, I would think!
In Perry Ellis 360 Coral. A sweet, creamy fruity scent. Not interesting at all. I sprayed the whole 1ml sample, so a good thunk it is.
Happy Friday everyone!
Ha! So funny! And good for you, you’re a Thunk Monster!’
😀 😀
? Another one bites the dust! And another one gone, and another one gone ?
… and so many more will have the same fate this year. My stash will see a drastic reduction! ?
SotD is 31 Rue Cambon
Edt, small decant, from a swap with a lovely NSTer
I am not particularly fond of the powderiness in the opening, but…..phase 2 when it gets more spicy and warmer is greeaaat. Good for office as well dont you think?
Still suffering from that darn cold. The clogged nose is gone, but I am now in the coughing phase. Ive hardly slept for three nights.
Also back to work this week. Urgh.
In good news:
Its friday
I found a nice red matte lipstick, rouge d’armani (no 400)
And tonight diner with my husband in a local, small and somewhat fancy restaurant!
And the good news this Friday is you smell and look great with that red lippy…
🙂 thank you
A red lippy and good dinner are two of my favorite things! Enjoy!
Feel 100% better soon!
Thank you, yes I hope this weekend I will see the end of all the discomfort!
I love that lipstick! I have the same shade in a different formula, and I think of it as my “magic lipstick” because I swear everyone is extra-nice to me when I wear it.
That colour is amazing. Also, amazing what a good lipstick can do.
I am tired and it shows, but i dont like wearing foundation/concealer. But two swipes of red and my face suddenly looked kinda fresh and kinda attractive again haha.
What formula do you have?
I already had two reds in a more shimmery/creamy formula, so a matte was what I was looking for….
I hate liquid face makeup too, but the Hourglass Ambient Lighting face powders are amazing, they revive my dead complexion like magic.
I have the Ecstasy Shine formula – though I usually blot it down so it looks more like a lip stain.
31RC is very office appropriate IMHO. Feel better soon!
Hope that you can get some rest over the weekend before heading back to work. Get well soon!
Ohhh Jiji you smell fabuloso!
I chose Eau des Merveilles layered with Eau Claire des Merveilles (Robin’s patented combination) with the thought that the Eau Claire would creamy-up the orange in the Eau and thus produce coral. Partial points? Who cares – I smell lovely. 🙂
you smell great!
You do smell great.
Mmm. Waft this way, please.
Full credit!
Yay for Merveilles!
Yes to Hermes!
😀
TF Shanghai Lily for me today. The perfume is a pretty pinkish-red that exactly matches the coral paint color (luckily I have a decant because the bottle is too dark to see through). No idea if the smell actually matches the color – my brain doesn’t work that way.
I am discovering that my brain only works that way sometimes.
I love that color! In honor of the project, I am wearing a sweater that has some areas of the color, a lipstick that is as bright as Living Coral, but a bit more orange, and rather a lot of Bergamote Soleil. I think Pomelo Paradise would have worked slightly better, but Bergamote is what I had at hand.
They are both delicious in the winter. Love the image of the sweater and coral lipstick.
Like several people yesterday, the description for this color made me roll my eyes so far back that I lost them, but it reminded me of the goofy copy for LVEB, whose juice is just about a shade off, so I’m wearing that.
What can I say, I love Angel and all her horrible children 😀
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Ok, I’ll bite! What is LVEB? I’m showing my perfume ignorance because I can’t figure it out…
Lancome’s La Vie Est Belle ?
Ah! Thank you!
Atelier Pomelo Paradis. The bottle is close to the Pantone coral as is the flesh of some pomelos.
Happy New Year to all. I’ve started to take my perfumes out of storage where they lived for close to a year while we were in the process of moving. Becoming reacquainted with them is the best part of reorganizing.
I almost chose this one for the same reason! Happy rediscovery 🙂
It was so fun getting all my perfumes out of storage after a year, though I’m amazed that I have so many samples–I’d sort of forgotten how many I had and how well they breed in captivity
The sample boxes smell fantastic after all of the reproduction!
Yes, they do! ?
Enjoy sniffing all of your perfume as you get them out and organize.
Welcome back, Wendysue!
Thanks hajusuuri.
That’s wonderful! A terrific way to pass the winter and by-pass any doldrums!
Wow, I do love that color!
Still snuggled under the covers, and thinking about staying here for a couple more hours. I didn’t get much sleep because I somehow forgot how noisy cities were while out in the sticks for the past few weeks.
It’s cool (some might say “cold”), and rain is tinkling on my roof. There is zero motivation to get up…! I’m probably going to wear Ummagumma again because it’s just perfect.
*Rolls over and pulling the covers up*
I slept in a bit this morning too – delicious!
Isn’t it nice? Such a feeling of freedom to just loll around for an extra hour or two! ?
Enjoy being cozy under the covers!
It was nice, but only lasted until 830am because people keep CALLING ME! ?
*hands you a teddy bear*
Aw, thanks! Pretty sure T-Rex will kidnap it…?
Awww that is just pure bliss to me, being able to roll over and to close your eyes again (and no alarm clock or appointments to disturb your dreams).
Wearing Lolita Lempicka Fleur de Corail for a more literal interpretation of today’s scent challenge.
Nicely done!
In an effort to join both the NST sync and the Basenotes Marc Buxton sync, I’m wearing CdG Ouarzazate. I imagine the desert having a coral tone. 🙂
Nice! I wish I had thought of that.
oooooh, desert pink is very pretty, and you smell fantastic. 🙂
You smelled great today! Love that one.
Saw your reply from yesterday about your BP Gourmand ordeal. I remember when you looked it up at TL . I actually was there shortly before Xmas and asked him about his website, out of stock stuff etc. It’s not a great site, functionally, either. He’s actually in the process of working with a web designer guy to either clean up or create a better website. So hopefully what he currently carries will be reflected on the website. Which I’m glad to hear since I was worried that maybe business wasn’t hopping and he was looking to close. That would be sad.
I’m glad to hear it’s web site troubles rather than going out of business troubles, I’ve been concerned for a while.
AdP Arancia di Capri is my fragrance today. It was between this one and Pamplelune. I will wear Pamplelune tomorrow, to continue with the theme.
I really struggled to come up with a match for the color, but inspiration struck at the last minute in the form of Eau du Sud, and you know what, I think I’m nailing it. It does have green notes but the overall impression is bright bright bright.
So interesting, would never have thought of Sud!
I love that colour as well. SOTD is Rosa Flamenca the closest I could get to it. I’m crap at colour scent associations, except obvious ones, like green, purple and the like.
Curious: What makes purple more obvious to you than coral? They seem equally obvious or nonobvious to me. What are some obviously purple scents to you?
I’m sure it is odd. Mon Parfum Chéri par Camille comes to mind immediately. The bottle obviously, but it smells of plums as well, and they are purple. I think moody, dark would fit it quite as well, but somehow purple hits the spot.
But I’m with you that green is a much easier association.
I wonder if it’s easier to see a “green” scent because humans have twice as many receptors for the color green visually. It seems we would be more likely or more easily “see” something as green even though we’re not actually “seeing” anything. Or maybe we have more associations with the color green due to evolution, so it’s easier to connect to…?
Maybe, also green is like an official fragrance category.
Went for Beige, since I am sure some of the roses were the right colour…
Good way to look at it!
Good morning and happy Friday!
That color makes me think of the tropics and islands in the Caribbean so I went with OJ Frangipani. I looked up frangipani flowers and, as it turns out, many of them are close to that shade. Anyway, I hardly ever wear it in the cold weather and I’m really enjoying it today.
I’ve seen and smelled frangipani flowers at the Philadelphia Flower Show. Great pick!
Alarm went off at 4:55 am after a night of bad and intermittent sleep. Knocked over my full cup of coffee in the bathroom as I stumbled around. Realized it was going to be one of those fumble fingers mornings, so I needed to slow down or I’d do real damage.
Twilly was the no-brainer again. It’s faded now, so I may add something different or top up. Trying to rid myself of a headache. TGIF.
I hope your day improves as it goes by. When coffee gets knocked over, it can never be a good start.
You will smell lovely, and just take it easy!
Yikes, sorry about the discombobulates morning! Get some coffee in ya, and it will improve! ☕️
Hope your day got better!
TGIF!????
How dreadful, sorry for your bum start.
Twins. At least you did not stub your toe!
Ugh, your Friday did its best to Monday up!
Was thinking I’d wear BF Montserrat like Nancyleandros, but gave it a quick sniff and decided I wanted something with more heft, so went with Hendley Amora. It’s more red to me in smell, but it’s blindingly cheerful, just like that color!
Possessing not so much as a scintilla of synesthesia, and being lazy to boot, I just went with my dwindling sample of Tempo.
Happy Friday, everyone!
You smell great!
Tempo is winning me over, I’ll admit!
There’s another patchouli that I wish I could compare it to — Krigler’s Lovely Patchouli 55… Smelled that one years ago at The Plaza, but back then I was too chicken to try to wheedle a sample (H.’s lessons hadn’t quite kicked in…), and $20 for a 2 ml from their website… Well, das esspensive for me…
Part of the label of my travel spray of Smell Bent 1999 is pretty darn close to Living Coral, so that is my SOtD. The scent is a good match too – bright, tart, and slightly sweet grapefruit wirh a fizzy effervescence. It’s delightful to wear.
I ended up not being able to use my neti pot yesterday because I forgot to replenish my stash of saline packets at work. I like to neti in the private bathroom here. Anyway, I ended up feeling pretty terrible last night. I was super tired with a bad sinus headache and my throat and mouth were really dry. I ended up going to bed early and slept really deeply. Luckily I felt a lot better when I woke up this morning, and I should continue to improve after using my neti pot.
I have a Zyllion massager arriving tonight from Amazon and my extra large new heating pad arrived yesterday, so I look forward to a weekend of self care!
Looking forward to hearing about the massager. I’d be tempted by one of those.
Me too!
Enjoy the massager and heating pad! My sister gifted my parents a combination massager/heating pad for Christmas, so naturally I had to test it out while I was visiting. It was fabulous.
Glad to hear that you are feeling better today!
I just wasn’t feeling coral today, so I’m wearing Dzing! Have a great Friday, everyone.
Wonderful!
Not a coral scent, but smells soo good
L’Artisan L’Eau d’Ambre as it is cold enough. I may be totally wrong, but to me this smells of coral.
Hi all – SOTD is Elizabeth Arden’s Red Door Velvet. It’s similar to Lovely by SJP and Narciso Rodriguez Musk for her EDT, perhaps a bit drier though.
I would have worn Mitsouko by Guerlain (peach note) or vintage Chanel Cristalle EDP (honey note) – that’s the closest I could come to the coral theme!
If anyone loves coral-colored lipsticks (a favorite of mine). Face Stockholm has a sheer lipstick called Friendship, a warm/coral/sheer lipstick that is gorgeous on and very easy to wear.
I did not think of Mitsouko, but this would have been a good choice.
Ah! This reminds me that SJP Stash is pretty coral-y to me. Darn, I could’ve enjoyed myself in that scent today. Oh well, maybe tomorrow!
That Red Door Velvet sounds like it is worth a sniff!
Scent twins with Bastet in Shanghai Lily because I haven’t worn it in a while and she says it fits the CP. Mine is the opaque bottle so I don’t know the color of the juice, but I figure lilies must come in lots of colors.
I am so bad at matching scents to colors and I know nothing about flowers…
Hello twin?
Happy 1st Friday!
1) In Fresh Cream Warm Cashmere. Nothing living coral about this fragrance- it’s a light sweet warm fragrance, needed for this rainy day.
2)Restarted Pilates and dear Lord I forgot how much it can leave you sore!
Pilates has that special ability to make those “inbetween” muscles super sore!
But it’s the only thing that will help my back, it’s a necessary evil I’m afraid.
Oh yes- and it truly is a necessary evil- I am sore but already I feel the effects of it. Why did I give it up? I cannot use “I have no time” as an excuse anymore.
Good for you! Takes forever to get in shape and a hot minute to get out! So unfair! ?
Got the standard Error 403 Perfume not Found in my quest to find something coral in town yesterday. I had decided Bulgari would be my best bet ( Omnia or similar) but nothing doing. Instead I’m comparing two Jo Malones in a sniff-off: snowdrop and white moss vs. ginger and nutmeg. Both are spicy colognes but the ginger is brisker. Going to be hot today. All the untamed honeysuckle is in flower along our street , magic.
Mmm, love the scent of honeysuckle. When I was a kid, my neighbor had one growing up the post of the front porch, and the neighbor girl and I would pull the flowers off the vine, bite the ends off, and suck out the juice. Yummy.
We used to do that in school and in summer camp, too! I told my boyfriend about this and he stared at me like I was nuts.
Perhaps we are both nuts 🙂 Or, perhaps BF led a deprived childhood. I tend towards the latter viewpoint.
Oh, I did this too! One of my fondest childhood memories.
Also did the honeysuckle thing as a kid! I even tried it recently as an adult. Still fun!
I was listening to your forecast enviously, enjoy the heat! Cologne would seem to be the right approach.
LOL’ed about the Standard Error 403 Perfume Not Found! ?
Not too good at the synesthesia projects but apparently my brain landed on Alchimie as the correct fit.
Good morning, friends! It’s my first day back at work after my first ever physical therapy session (for problems in my right hand). I needed all the help I could get, so instead of following the CP, I gave myself a nice serving of Chergui. It’s helping.
I have so much work. I wonder if I will have a weekend. I guess this is what happens when I take so many days off. Ugh.
Hey, hope that the PT is helping out!
Thanks, Jalapeno! I will certainly keep you updated 🙂
Serge Lutens Muscs Koublai Khan.I think the color of the juice can be described as “dirty living coral”…Lol.I do smell sexy and awesome anyway,that must count for something!Haha!
Happy Weekend everyone!
✌??❤️
It counts for more than the community project, that’s for sure!
I think of coral as a color of all softness. Most of my scents have a bit of a bite at the top, but I chose Carnal Flower, because tuberose mellows into a soft warm scent on me.
It did not occur to me to think of a scent with coral in the name. Congrats to those who found them.
I totally forgot about my bottle of Michael Kors Coral which would have been perfect for today!??♂️??♂️
TGIF!
So I was thinking intensively about Living Coral and a scent to match it. I came up with 2 ideas – Anatole Lebreton Cornaline and Nicolai L’Eau Corail. I am wearing that first one.
We were almost twins 🙂
Noticing from the comments that several of us have gone for a grapefruit/pomelo scent, mine is Clarins Par Amour Toujours, a cheerful, unpretentious scent, but it is mainly because I forgot to relegate it with the other summer scents.
Cheerful & unpretentious is a good fit with the color too.
Thank you Robin, coral would be a great color for a morning room in a summer house, thinking of it for a week it has quite grown on me.
I thought about going for Ortigia Corallo but that’s a summer scent to me and it is not summery here. Though it is our last day of sunshine before rain, rain, rain. We need it though I don’t enjoy all the gray.
Sampling now, but plan to apply TF London later, which is most definitely not a coral scent.
Oh crap, is that true? Crap. Ugh, why couldn’t it have rained LAST week, while I was out of town?!
Because I was here, and enjoying the sun 🙂
Hey pixel, how would you describe TF London (besides not coral)?
The Big Smoke! Smoky open, then more incense-y; the dry-down is similar to TF Oud Wood (which I love).
I’ve got a dress that’s very close in colour to Living Coral, so I might wear that to work next week – I’m looking hard for positive things about going back to work next week 🙂
Meanwhile, nothing sprang to mind perfume-wise, and I’m impressed by the ingenuity here. So I’m following the grapefruit theme, and am finishing breakfast in Jour d’Hermes Absolu.
You smell great Gaynor!
My original scent for the project was No.5 L’eau, because the bottle is so gloriously clear, it would adapt to any color surrounding it. Now, though, after a trip to Sephora to exchange one of my daughter’s Christmas presents, I am wearing EdM Bleau. I am really digging this with the cool temps and bright sunshine.
You smell great-both are so nice!
Thanks!
House twins! I thought about this too with the mineral note but alas, it is not a winter scent for me.
I had tried it in the summer when it was ninety degrees, and all I could smell was salt, so this cooler weather let everything else come through. I’m glad I tried it again!
Always a good thing to try perfumes in different weather. I’ve been amazed at how much some of them change!
Joining Dorsey in LVEB, the absolue one. I likes it! Then some sprays of Tiempe Passant from a wonderful NSTer. Then just now emptied my sample of OJ Rose Gold. I ordered a decant of this, and somehow stumbled over to another website order a FB of OJ Woman. ?
Haha. The day after Donatella comes by is the day of lowest guilt, right?
Exactly. Then I’ll end up forgetting to list this when it’s time to tally up ?
So, I meant to grab my decant of CK Reveal for the CP today (it’s got a salty, beachy vibe that goes with coral, right?) but I mixed it up with my decant of Alyssa Ashley Musk, so that’s what I’m wearing instead. I’m not sorry about it 🙂
Oh and I’m wearing a tinted lip balm in a shade called “Caring Coral,” so that must count for something.
I am sure that good intentions + lipstick rates full credit.
SOTD was Jicky EdP for work, four lavish sprays, such an uplifting lavender-vanilla with roar…
Back home now in Theo Fennel, which could fit the CP in a very dark and sexy coral.
Went online shopping for new dresses, because Boden (British fashion producer) has a sale and usually their clothes fit me. So i ordered 5!!! dresses. I love dresses, as i just have to find some pantyhose without holes, and I am good to go. Even ordered a wrap-dress, hoping it will fit my generous boobs.
Yum on the Jicky, and enjoy your new dresses, that sounds like a fun shopping spree!
Hello Y’all….and as always on Friday….Happy FriYAY!
I’m just not feeling the Living Coral color today…..it’s been raining every single day for at least a week, so I’m feeling a definite gray/dreary vibe ’round here. But at least it’s not snow and ice!
But in the spirit of the challenge, I went with a scent that doesn’t necessarily make me picture “coral”, but does provide Pantone’s description of “comfort and buoyancy” on a dreary rainy day….. Chanel Allure EdT! Such a soft, warm, huggable scent!
PS. I finally have a new video up….my favorite 2018 launches! Click my Avatar if interested! 🙂 Have a great weekend everyone!
We were almost twins today. I’m excited to watch your video tonight!
Loved the video!
When I think of the word “coral”, I think of sunsets on the beach. Plus the word “peach” which I guess is more pink? I was considering wearing vintage Chaldee, which has a warm beachy vibe at times but I’m not feeling it today. Nectarine Blossom and Honey might work, but I only have a sample and I’m not motivated to surf The Sample Sea. Then I thought of Demeter’s Salt Air cuz coral=ocean=salt air, or maybe Bronze Goddess or Terracotta. Then I wondered if we’d see more coral clothing out in the wild this year, and what ever happened to the color apricot? I swear that’s a color, isn’t it? Anyway, I think I’ll just go eat some pickled ginger now which if it was dyed pink would kinda match. That’s as far as I’ve gotten with this project. 😉
I like the way you think! Best to stop before images of 1989s bridesmaid’s dresses come into view.
Thanks, Kanuka! Oh yes, you’re right – those dresses! Plus the Santa Fe turquoise and coral home decor trend that was so popular around that time too!
I have plenty of salmon clothing that could pass as coral, if that’s going to be this year’s thing! It’s a good thing these trends are so cyclical.
Ooh! I’d forgotten about salmon! Sounds like you’re in luck!
Ooh, smart thinking. I had lunch at Cheesecake Factory and had the Ahi Tuna Tartare which may be just a shade light:
See 3rd picture
http://picdeer.com/media/1949564697925940539_9676500115
Holly, isn’t pickled ginger almost always a corally pink color anyway?? I think you nailed it!
I put on Isabey Fleur Nocturne, which has peach and orange notes, so somehow, there has to be a kind of coral vibe here. The gardenia does take over before long, but that’s fine with me.
Sounds like a perfect fit.
I sort gave up on this project. I can come up with scents for red, pink or orange but not coral. Plus, coral isn’t my color. In the end I went with Le Cri de la Lumiere because the musk has a rosy quality. No points for me.
But a wonderful fragrance!
Same here. This Pantone shade is not working for me, no matter how hard I try. And finding a matching perfume…impossible.
Still want / need to try Cri…..
I love color, colors, which is a ridiculously general thing to write. But this week’s challenge has been making me think about why I so rarely where them. (I’m a black and gray person, although today I do have a sort of dark coral sweater on. It’s pretty neutral.) Anyway, I think it is the dyes used in most cloth. Just not great, right? I mean, sometimes you will find something amazing, but often they feel so far from life, nature, the world around me, that I can’t invest.
Anyway, I lost on the challenge. Wearing PdE Equistrius, which I love the first hour or so of and wish it lasted longer.
You smell lovely today.
I knew immediately which fragrance I would wear for today’s CP that would embody the ‘sociable, spirited, engaging, lighthearted activity, optimism, and joyful pursuits’ aspects of Pantone’s Living Coral, but I was not looking forward to it since neither this color nor this fragrance is one I would wear on the 11th day of Christmas!
I live in the midwest U.S.A. and fully enjoy our four seasons. Nothing satisfies my soul as being in harmony with nature outside my window, so I truly enjoy changing my home decor, the colors I wear both in clothing and makeup, and my fragrances as well as the seasons change. Rarely is there a scent that works for me in summer as well as in winter – AG Songes is one of those very few.
Echoing some of Gail’s thoughts yesterday, coral is a go-to color for me in summer, along with turquoise; colors that I feel flatter me as I tan easily and my hair gets bleached by the sun. Summer is filled with swimming, gardening, camping, outdoor music concerts, any activity that will take me outdoors. And one of my favorite fragrances for those summertime activities is Bvlgari Omnia Coral. To me it embodies the playful fun spirit of all of those qualities listed above, so I had to wear it today. Luckily, we’re enjoying a very rare January day with full sunshine and a very unseasonable high of 47 degrees so I can pretend it’s just a teeny, weeny bit like summer. But I will confess, once the sun goes down, I will be switching to Dame Perfumery Chocolate Man, which is perfect for the 11th day of Christmas – I’m still celebrating!
On the Little Bear Luna front, it appears she’s in heat again! Yikes, she’s not even 6 months old yet! I read on the Internet that if a cat is not mated when she goes into heat she could do so again within 14 days, so that appears what has happened – she was in heat for the first time just before Christmas. I’ve already had on my to-do list to call the vet as soon as the holidays were over, so I will certainly do so early next week.
Wishing everyone a wonderful first weekend of the New Year as we take down holiday decorations and attempt to distract a kitten from her interest in finding a boyfriend!
Oh, poor little kitty! And poor you, having to deal with that kind of crazy! Good thing you have perfume to help cope.
Good luck with kitty, Laila!
Hello NST! TGIF!
SOTD = Guerlain Mahora, from the decant stash. I did it! I found a perfume match for Living Color. At least, the opening of Mahora works. It had a pop of pinky-orange right after I sprayed it, then the perfume shifted to something with more yellow. A lot like watching the sun rise, IMO. ???
Guerlain’s Terracotta was also a possibility, but the Mahora was the first thing I sniffed this morning. I was pleased to have a perfumed “backup” choice if necessary. ?
You smell great!
Thank you!
SOTD = Hermes Twilly, dirtied up with Hiram Green Hyde
Today’s CP was challenging and I copied LizzieB’s idea. It seems like Hermes was a choice for a good number of us…and so to quote tiffanie — “Yes to Hermes!”
I would have worn Amouage Bracken Woman but it’s a springish fragrance to me. I briefly considered V&R Bonbon, but decided it was too pink. I also had LVEB in my barely used atomizer sample container but nah.
Wishing everyone a happy new year. I have a late Christmas party to go to tomorrow and I have to finish wrapping the gifts.
I had thought of BonBon too, but, yeah… to pink! Have fun tomorrow!
Enjoy your Christmas party! ??
Ha, I like the sound of dirty Twilly!
I’ve been wearing Jour d’Hermes often lately, must wear EdM soon.
Yes to Hermes!
Oh wow (smacks forehead) Bracken woman! Looove that coral bottle. Maybe tomorrow.
This was a tough one even though I love that color. I was going to go with The Different Company Jasmin De Nuit. It’s a full, rich, spicy jasmine, probably the only jasmine-centric scent I really like and the juice is a dark coral color. But I saw someone mention Sophia Grojsman and decided on my vintage Tresor mini instead. Fits the mood just about right and the box and juice are both coral colored.
Great pick!
Tresor is a lovely choice, especially vintage!
Definately guilty of judging a book by its cover here, but, wearing Jean Patou Sira des Indes (juice matches our color of the year). I’m always surprised how much I like this one because it leans too sweet, tropical and fruity for my taste and yet, it’s lovely! Such a summery scent = coral for me.
Great choice! I also love it even though I don’t wear it often.
I am wearing Guerlain Insolence edt tonight. The color of the juice has morphed into a coral-ish shade, so thats how I arrived at my SOTE. Maybe 1/2 points? Plus its a pretty fun fragrance!
Hiya house twin! I think you get points.
Hi Jalapeno! We are house twins, and thanks for the points!
I also thought of Terracotta, but that bottle was put away in my storage bin under the bed. I was too lazy to get it out plus my legs are too sore from doing yoga earlier this week.
Full points! I would have worn Insolence today if I could find my bottle. It’s in a box somewhere . . .
My Panetone pick is : And the World is Yours, by A Lab On Fire.
Vibrant like this coral color, living & breathing.
A scent with deprh and pureness.
Late to the party and I have a good bit of catching up to do and no more travel to preoccupy me.
Happy weekend All.
Lili Bermuda’s Coral for me!
Top note: Clementine, Ginger, Black Pepper, Fressia
Heart note: Pink Rose, Muguet, Water Lily
Base note: White Musks, Vetiver
That sounds juicy and nice, especially the top. Do you like it?