Rabbit, rabbit, rabbit, welcome to February! And happy National Freedom Day. Our community project for today: to celebrate Cherry Month, wear a fragrance with a cherry or cherry blossom note.
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.
I'm in my first Serge, Rahät Loukoum.
Reminder: on 2/8 our theme is Fire and Ice...wear something that keeps you warm in winter (Fire) OR wear something that reminds you of snow and chilly winter air (Ice). Suggested by Glannys.
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 Bunny Hat in Dark Pink with Cherries is sadly sold out at Oeuf NYC, but you can still get the same pattern in footies and a ruffle collar tee.
Right on project today in the sweet and sour fruity floral that is Mary Greenwell’s Cherry.
Nice!
I didn’t know she did a Cherry!
Oh yes, yes she did…
I’d forgotten about Cherry. I’m wearing Plum, I never did get the chance to try the others in her range.
🐘 Welcome to the Jungle!
You smell fab!
Earworm!🤘
Earworm x2! ( I literally hear Axl screaming my ears- with no headphones on)
Hah, I remember the summer that song was the It Song. The juvenile delinquents who lived down the street would blast it from their car every morning as they headed to school (or wherever it was they actually went). I know they meant to annoy but I LOVED IT.
You smell super good.
🎶 “We’ve got fun and games!” 🎶
I think my brother still has that Guns and Roses CD.
Today I’m in Dawn Spencer Hurwitz’s Eau Cerise!
That’s been on my potential sample list from DSH for a while now.
Twins!
So good, right?!
On my list too!
Triplets!
Plus Robin, I am so charmed by your whimsical picture choice today! It’s absolutely perfect and makes me happy.
I *almost* was your twin today!
Quadruplets!
RABBIT RABBIT RABBIT
I remembered at 3am!
Phlur Hepcat for cherry and sweet tobacco…my goodness this stuff is fantastic in extreme cold! -6F again this morning.
Also tested Fum (Winter Crocus and the two others). Nicely done and potent as they are extraits. Sadly full bottles are quite pricey.
and thunked two DSH samples this morning as the vials were approximately 1/4 to 1/3 full- Sienna and Bancha (sp??)
TGIF
Tonight I will give a spray of Escada’s LE Cherries in the Air.
I bet that one has a lot of cherry
Cherries and marshmallow in the best possible way! It’s one of my favorites from the recent LEs
It really is one if their bests
The original ones were outstanding (early to late 1990s) They had oakmoss and other good notes which made them less fruity/youthful. Un Ete En Provence is probably my favorite from 1994.
and I just realized that I also have a mini of Escada’s Un Ete en Provence which also has cherry in it.
I remembered to rabbit at 3am too! Here’s hoping for extra luck this month . . .
yes!!! Let’s hope we get it
Thunkity thunk thunk!
😂😂😂
Look at CM8 go
Thunkity thunk thunk
Thunkity thunk thunk
Over the hills of snow…..
yes, you created that earworm Jalapeno!
Twin! I also wore Hepcat. It’s 50 degrees here, and it was delightful in the slight cool.
Hi twin!
I am really loving rediscovering it and liking it that much more!
Well I just fell down the rabbit hole, ha ha, and order some of the daily lemming for my niece who has hair issues
I love your choice of picture today, Robin. Wouldn’t mind one of those hats for myself.
I’m wearing Kiss me Tender, which hasn’t any cherries, but is incredibly sweet and incredibly enjoyable. It’s the best I could do for today.
Have a great weekend!
Do go to the site and see pic of baby in whole outfit.
Have found the varous items but not that particular picture. Kind of trying to picture an adult in one of those outfits.
Go here and scroll down:
https://oeufnyc.com/products/ruffle-collar-tee-dark-pink-cherries?variant=295319273481
But if you just want to blow some time looking at really cute baby & toddler photos, here:
https://www.pinterest.com/oeufnyc/oeuf-your-kids/?lp=true
The outfit is hilarious! Thanks for the link.
Well, that answers my question of whether it’s meant for babies or grown-ups.
OH MY GOODNESS ALL THE PICS ON THAT SITE AHHHH
It’s deadly. Found a “whatever” sweater that would have been perfect for my son when he was young, except if I had put an alpaca sweater on him when he was young (or maybe even now) things would’ve gotten ugly.
https://oeufnyc.com/products/whatever-sweater-lt-grey-multi
Plus, even on sale, no.
That “whatever” sweater would be perfect for me now.
I can wear that at 42 myself.Lol!Love the sweater!
I said my rabbits this morning
LPRN Black Perfecto!
Stay warm everyone!
Twins! I have a large decant of this thanks to hajusuuri but I still covet the bottle. (Not enough to have bought it yet, I dream of finding it at TJ Maxx!)
Do you find guerlains at TJ maxx?
Mine is also from Hajusuuri!
The only one I have ever found was the Aqua Allegoria Rosa Pop. Of course I bought it blind.
And did it work out for you?
I thought Rosa Pop was an airport exclusive, actually. Anyway, I quite liked it! I don’t share the Aqua Allegoria contempt that seems rampant on NST
The Rosa Pop is just ok for me – I definitely wear it a few times in spring and summer. It’s pretty fleeting….
There is (or was the other day) a 1 oz bottle on fragrancenet for pretty cheap…
Totally killed it with today’s pic, Robin!
Left home early this morning without perfume, so am making do now with the office supply of Cafe Rose. Off theme, but I smell okay.
Friday – yessss!!! TGIF, and a happy day to all.
It’s like they made that hat just for my purposes
Precisely!
You smell more than OK to me, CR opening rose is one of the truest roses I have come across.
Thank you, Aurora; you just made my afternoon much better!
I agree! I admire many roses, but they never seem to fit me. Cafe Rose has come close.
I saved my favorite cherry fragrance for today – the original Lolita Lempika.
You smell great! I have been enjoying my little bottle this week too!
Twins! I don’t get any cherry from LL but Fragrantica says it is there.
I never smelled cherry in the original LL either. For me it was a huge blast of black licorice.
I don’t seem to have any cherry scents at all these days, but I did use up an entire bottle of L’Aromarine Cherry Blossom years ago. I went with Dzing instead, as I don’t think I’ve worn it at all this winter.
Stay warm, people of the vortex!
“People of the vortex” has a great science fiction sound to it!
No cherries here only cassis, Im in Une fleur de Cassie. Its from a sample but this time I bathed myself in it.
Wonderful, now I get it.
is cassis related to cherry?
Don’t think so… it’s blackcurrant.
I was going to wear Deci Dela (from an old bottle I discovered last week) but it’s raspberry! Bah! I’m ready for berry week, at least!
I chose Eau de Narcisse Bleu instead, cool and dry. It’s a great scent.
I think you’re right that we need a berry community project
It’s so broad, I feel like it would be perfect! For not having a single Cherry fragrance, I could probably do a week of berries.
I found out the same about my choice and you smell understated and divine.
Oh, thank you!
Not a cherry in sight, but since it’s so blisteringly cold out, I decided to wear…. Serge Lutens Gris Clair….
which is a frigid, ashy lavender completely unsuited for the weather, and yet here we are. Sometimes you just have to listen to your heart.
You smell wonderful! GC might be my favorite Serge.
I would say 1 of my top 3- adding
Encens et lavande
And De Profumdis.
I dont have a fb and idkw.
Maybe a good price on line for Valentines Day?
Great scent! I always dither about getting a bottle before it disappears….
Gris Clair is so wonderfully bizarre. I tried it once and it smelled to me just like that super-crisp steam that comes out of dryer vents at the laundromat – except somehow with all the humidity magically removed.
It does have a weirdly industrial smell, doesn’t it? I mean, it’s identifiably lavender, but robotic lavender, or arrived-on-a-spacecraft lavender. I think it’s riveting.
Mmm. Love Gris Clair. You smell glorious.
I’m wearing Luctor Et Emergo.
Getting ready to shower with L’occitan Cherry blossom shower gel. Since I’ve been away from my perfumes most of the week, sotd to be determined later. Happy Friday everyone!
Aromatics Elixir, as shrapnel from making a decant for the freebiemeet!
I enjoyed perusing the information on Sojourner Truth from the Google doodle this morning.
Lol at shrapnel 😂
Wearing Bendelirious, which is usually a summer scent with me.
Me too. pretty pretty.
Triplets!!🙌🏻
Hendley Amora for me today. There’s a stone fruit compote in there and I definitely pick up a sour cherry in the mix. I’m picking up the bit of rose today, too. One of the most cheerful perfumes I own! Happy Friday 😊
Oooh nice. I forgot about that one, there could certainly be some cherry in there.
It sounds lovely.
LPRN Black Perfecto on a silent, snowy day. The entire world is muffled from the dump of snow we received overnight
Hey twin
Hey triplets!
We smell good GOOD good
Yes we do.
Great description, I too love that muffling effect of snow, as if we’re in a different world.
Sotd is Lea.
No cherries for me, but this has an almond note and to me they are somewhat similar….?😬
I think they go hand in hand.
Another 3am triple rabbitor here🐇😀
I just don’t have anything to fit the project today, although, I might have been able to stretch it. For the first time in awhile, Angel Liquor called my name. Mine is the 2013 version and I get alot of honey, which I struggle with. Being this cold though, mellows it a bit. Expecting to see 32 degrees tomorrow!
Woo hoo! 32!!🎉
Yep, but the city just called me, to warn me of street flooding! Jeeze Louise….
Did you get alot of snow? I got 15 inches since Monday.
Yeah, we probably have about that much on the ground too. If we get the rain they are predicting in a couple days, it’s gonna get messy! This weather is nuts!
It’s my favorite Angel flanker, you smell all delicious but not over the top.
Smelling all delicious, is probably the best perfume compliment I’ve ever received, thanks! Oh, except maybe in the early nineties when a cute guy told me I smelled like candy. Which is funny because I was wearing Halston Catalyst and did not smell like candy! Lol
My forecast is calling for above freezing temps! Heat wave! Whoo hoo! 🌡
15 inches of snow is a LOT!
I was looking for Volutes for the CP since Robin had mentioned it yesterday, but couldn’t find it. (I have both EDT and EDP, now where could those bottles have disappeared to?) Anyway, I saw Chamber Noire and sprayed it on instead. Maybe a bit too sweet but still a nice one for another gray day.
Wherever they are, at least they are together, ha.
Rabbit, rabbit, rabbit & happy February for all of you.
Joining the community project in Berdoues Somei Yoshino.
A rare cherry blossom sighting
Well I forgot about the rabbits but I did actually DREAM about feeding a rabbit a carrot last night! So points for my subconscious.
Waiting for a big windy rainy storm to hit. Need to go bring the bird feeders inside before they get blown away.
SOTD is LPRN Black Perfecto. I see I have plenty of company
That’s funny!!
Join the wonderfully scented club !!!!
I’d say that the rabbit dream gives you at least partial credit. 😉
I am wearing Thierry Mugler Angel Fruity Fair. Wow, that is a long name for one perfume. I do not have any cherry fragrances, so I went with this one because of the fruits in it — litchi and red currant. Maybe partial credit ??
Tea this morning is a hot cup of Russian Country tea.
I should have said cherries, cherry blossom, or anything red
Rabbit Rabbit Rabbit!
Where did January go?
1) In Aromatics CHERRY, from a sample. Wowzers! First- what a change from the fleeting, soft fragrances I tried this past month. Second, why did I not buy this? The cherry note is a rich syrupy tobacco/greenish note. It’s spicy. SHE THICC, so a couple of tiny sprays was enough. I like it; I would not suggest this as a blind buy, though.
2) Bought Turin/Sanchez’s second Perfume book as an e-book to read on the commute. Reading Turin and Sanchez’s industry insights and their roasts of popular mass and niche scents are making me giggle on the commute!
Love the Aromatics Black cherry,ai’ve been wearing it at least once a week for months now!You smell lovely!!
Cherries are my favourite fruit and I often dream of them in the dead of winter. I don’t have much choice perfume-wise but wemt with West Third’s Tobacco 1812. I don’t see cherry listed but it smells like cherry tobacco to me.
I’d really like to try Lost Cherry. It might be the suggestion of this week’s theme or maybe after reading some good reviews of it but it sounds nice. I never had much interest in Tom Ford’s before so we’ll see how that goes.
I stopped trying new TF scents, but I’m getting interested too.
Yay for Friday!!
Of course I am in Bendelirious!My favorite party scent,fizzles with champagne,cherries and iris!Love Love this perfume soooo much!!
Breakfast was Black Cherry yoghurt.
Lunch included cherry pie.
Tonight is Movie night at home,I have the chocolate mousse and marachino cherries on standby.I’m going full-on cherry for this Friday!(Even my lip balm is Lipsmacker Cherry Coke💋💋)
Happy Weekend everyone!
I said my Rabbits at 2am.
🤗✌🏻❤️
Oh, you carried on the theme to food, well done.
Well there are two flavors/scents/whatever that makes my world go round:cherry and vanilla.In everything from food to fumes!🍒
My favorite Lipsmacker! Enjoy the movie.
Thanks LizzieB!🍒
Jeepers you REALLY went for it today!
When I love it I reeeeeeally love it!🍒
Lipsmacker almost-twins! I have the Dr Pepper one.
Been searching for that one myself!
The Fanta Strawberry is actually my favorite!💋🍒
A+++ ( to match the # of rabbits said)
Wow. Just wow.
I planned to wear LPRN Black Perfecto, but MEM just jumped into my hand. Who was I to deny it?
(And there’s a bit of previous wearing of Hyde on my sleeve, which just purrs along so beautifully once the raging fire burns out. I like that fire, though.)
No rabbits. But plenty of squirrels coming for their morning snacks. I think the ground is too hard for them to dig up their stashes, which is making them extra keen. The boldest–the one with white tufted ears–taps on the window and waits for me to hand out a half walnut as his reward.
How adorable about the tapping squirrel, and I bet you smell great.
The squirrels and I seem to have trained each other quite well over the past few months.
That is so cute
It’s *ridiculously* cute seeing that little guy popping up and peering in to see if I’m there.
Crikey you smell Sublime!!! SUBLIME!
I adore Mem and have almost bought a fb atleast 5 times.
I need a discount incentive……
Enjoy your sublime-ness!!!!
Thank you!
I had loved every moment of wearing a decant of it, so bought the bottle for my birthday last year. Do you have a good excuse like that coming up?
I can’t tell if that hat is for children or adults.
Rabbit rabbit rabbit! (It counts as long as I said it before seeing it on NST, right?) I’m starting American Heart Health Month off right with a doughnut and coffee >.< I love both of those things so much.
I also love JM Honey & Crocus, which is my SOTD! It is the only JM I genuinely love (though there are many that I like or enjoy). I still wish I had blind-bought some of the other scents in that series (the British meadow series or something?). Those bottles are exactly up my aesthetic alley, and H&C is just so spectacular.
Anyway, I feel almonds have gotten me partial credit.
Baby hat
I hate their limited editions. It takes me a while to make up my mind, and then poof! they’re gone.
Yeah, why do they have so many limited editions anyway??
Aromatics Elixir Black Cherry today! Thank you She-ra for introducing me to this lovely scent. I would love a bottle but am currently on a serious no-buy.
On a different note, we are in the single digits this sunny morning, and it feels almost balmy. Thankful that our one frozen pipe thawed without bursting!!!
I loved this one and the super-generous She-ra introduced me to it, also.
Huge Yay that your pipe didn’t burst.
Yes, so thankful it didn’t burst!
Last I checked we were at + 3, but with the sun and low wind, it feels not bad, lol! Super happy your pipe didn’t burst, that was my fear.
Isn’t it amazing to find single digits bearable after the past few days?
😳😅
I’ve never heard of this scent, but now I want it. Solidarity on that no-buy!
✊🏼
I want to smell this one also! She-ra..where are you..
It’s spicy and sweet. If you like Black Perfecto, I think you would like it.
A major HUZZAH that your frozen pipe did not burst! Hopefully you won’t have to worry about that any more this winter.
Yes! We’ve lived in this house for 17.5 yrs and never had a problem with this bathroom but we’ve never had sustained negative double digits with OTT wind chills like this either 😳😳
Hooray for the happy pipe!
Yes!!
I’ve never even heard of that one. I admire AE, but it wears me. I like spicy and sweet, and I’d love to find a version of AE I could wear.
I’ve never tried the Black or White version of AE. So I’m not sure how the Cherry compares to them. But imo, I don’t get any of the original AE vibe in this one. It’s very nice.
The White didn’t remind me of AE at all—it was warm but light and fleeting (but I’m anosmic to a lot of musks, so that might just be me).
Rabbit, rabbit,rabbit! 🐇🐇🐇
In Serge Lutens Feminite du Bois. Have a great Friday everyone!
I used to love that one, until a point came when many of the Serge’s (including FdB) started to strike me as too screechy, scratchy or uncomfortably buzzy. There’s something about the transition from the stewed fruit phase to the woody spice phase that needs softening. I still pick up my bottle and sniff it longingly.
I bet it smells great on you!
Thank you! The last couple of times I have worn FdB is has been a little annoying. The opening is perfect, but the drydown becomes very masculine, something that bothers me some. It never happened before. The same with Chergui. I hope is just temporary, since I love both perfumes a lot.
Oh no, I LOVE FdB and Chergui, and hope that doesn’t happen to me!!
Hopefully not! I might be just me.
Interesting about your recent experience with SL perfumes. I had a phase where I smelled mostly white musk from several of my samples. And it was the kind of musk that gets on my nerves. I should resniff a few of them to see if that is still the case.
Please, report back when you resniff your samples. I would love to know if you still have the same problem.
SotD is Le Cri de la Lumière, by Parfum d’Empire, from a sample.
Its pretty quiet on my skin, but very lovely!
You smell great! I dithered on buying it and by the time I decided I’d get it, it’s sold out and has been for quite some time 🙁 I wonder if it was a limited run thing…
According to Lucas its NOT a limited edition.
https://chemistinthebottle.wordpress.com/2017/10/27/parfum-dempire-le-cri-de-la-lumiere/
I hope for you there is a new batch in the making.
Oh, good! I hope it’s back in time for Spring.
I am waiting for mine also- Luckyscent will have it again ‘sometime this spring’. I should have purchaed it when I had it in my grubby little hands…. You just never know when you’ll
feel good about being measured & practical or heartbreakingly regretfull at a serious missed opportunity. After my equivocation I managed to jump in with a backorder last fall….
Gorgeous scent and high on my wishlist!
Yeah I totally see (eh smell) why! Gorgeous indeed.
Forgot to rabbit as usual.
But I will be on my game for the CP today – after yoga: SL Rahat Loukoum.
Happy Friday, all!
And you will smell AWESOME!!🍒
I forgot this morning, too. But I had a three-month streak last year, so don’t give up!
Lost cherry-day!! Ridiculously expensive but sooooo good 😍 Nothing cheap or cough syrupy in this cherry scent…
It was just reviewed in Bois de Jasmin and got 4 stars
I’ve been wanting to try it anyway, but Victoria’s review made me want to even more so.
It really is so so good,despite the price tag!🍒
Now I need to give this a sniff. I saw a bad review somewhere that had discouraged me.
Wearing DSH Eau Cerise, which is just lovely. A try cherry note in a floral composition. However, the voile de parfum concentration is very fleeting on me. I actually ordered the EDP 3ml spray, but they sent the VDP. This does mean I can actually get away with reapplying in the bathroom at work though.
Well, my dinner at JuneBaby was just ok. We had some highs and lows in the meal, and I was left thinking we should have made some different choices in ordering. The collard greens, mac and cheese, and bread pudding were definitely my winners. I liked the buggies biscuits a lot, but my friend and dining partner wasn’t a fan. Some people have very firm ideas of the way biscuits should be! My friend is also highly critical of food at restaurants even though she’s open to eating many things.
That was supposed to be a “true cherry note.”
My cousin is also very critical of the food, when we go out. It gets annoying because it takes up alot of time when she sends stuff back or changes her mind.
That does sound annoying. Luckily it’s not often my friend sends back food, but she’s hard to please. So there can be a lot of negative feedback at the table. I think my boyfriend gets annoyed by this when we go out together with her.
Bummer it wasn’t what you expected after the build up 🙁 I might tend to have high expectations of really hyped-up restaurants, too. But once you have a frame of reference of “really good”, it’s hard not to compare, I suppose.
Yeah, it’s even more disappointing when expectations are so high. However, there are so many restaurants I love and plenty I haven’t eaten at yet, so I’m wanting for nothing.
Lol just saw “buggie biscuits.” My phone’s keyboard is so annoying! It was supposed too simply say biscuits.
I was wondering what those were, lol!
And then the wrong to/too/two. I give up!
Aw, that’s too bad your dinner was a bit of a letdown. I thought that “buggie biscuits” were upscale restaurant speak for their version of the dish. And I think almost everyone has a “picky about food” friend.
I’m glad to hear that you have a lot of promising dining options to look forward to in the future.
Ordered some decanting supplies from STC to prevent evaporation that I am dealing with my vintage L’heure Bleue extrait. We should do a blast from the past (high school days) or discontinued loves or an aldehyde Friday. Wearing vintage no 5 edt today since I don’t have a cherry perfume.
Ohhh I like the Blast from the Past idea!
Great minds think alike
I proposed it back in 2017 but called it TIME TRAVEL-
https://nstperfume.com/2017/11/17/friday-scent-of-the-day-1117/
Discontinued loves is in there too!
and called it BACK FROM THE DEAD
Haaaaaa!
Completely failing at the CP this week. Instead I’m sampling Jasmin et Cigarette.
I have to admit, I’m honestly perplexed by this one. At first I didn’t think liked it, it reminds me of my late grandfather’s wife (not my grandma) in Florida who always smelled like cigarettes and some kind of floral perfume. I really do get the ashtray vibe from this one. But now that I’ve been wearing it a few hours it’s growing on me. Will probably have to try it a time or two more to see what I really think. It’s definitely unlike anything I’ve sniffed before.
It’s a really cool perfume.After a while all I can smell is a cold pipe,stuffed with remnants of some exotic tobacco.
Love it!!
Thankful that I do NOT get any ashtray from Jasmin et Cigarette. Instead, I smell dried tobacco leaves and a hint of something woody along with a fairly indolic jasmine.
I really like Jasmin et Cigarette😀
I’ve noticed that it seems to really change depending on the weather and humidity. I did wear it in Florida and noticed a more just-light cigarette smell there, maybe because of the humidity. Back home in the dry weather, the jasmine seems more prevalent. Either way, I find more is more with this one.
It always makes me think of smoking alone on a patio at night, wrapped up in my thoughts.
Oh gosh, when you put it that way!!!
It reminds me very much of a college friend who smoked and wore Samsara.
I’m twins today with Robin in SL Rahat Loukoum. I treasure my one and only bell jar, a souvenir of my one and only trip to Paris and a wonderful afternoon spent in Serge’s salon. It’s cherry/almond is a perfect comfort scent for the first coming-out-of-the-polar-vortex day; after a -21 temperature low yesterday it’s already a balmy +14 degrees with sunshine! I’m grateful for the winged and furry creatures outside my window who made it through this very difficult week of snow and cold and graced us with their presence as they flocked to the food and water offerings in our back yard. I am inspired by their fortitude!
I was surprised reading this week’s comments at how many NST’ers don’t have any cherry or cherry-blossom fragrances. Both are notes I enjoy and I do have several fragrances with those notes, but they say ‘Springtime!’ to me and remind me of the one lucky time I was in Washington D.C. and experienced the cherry blossom trees in full bloom. But these scents will have to wait their turn until April. Rahat is the only one just perfect for today.
Wishing everyone a wonderful weekend ahead!
Glad you’re enjoying your bell jar. I bet you and Robin smell lovely
I am glad the birds got through the storm. I don’t know how they manage. It is wonderful that you feed them. I wore Rahat Loukhoum yesterday but I prefer it when the temperature falls rather than summer.
https://www.audubon.org/how-do-birds-cope-cold-winter
Fascinating info about the various ways birds cope with cold
Thank you for the fascinating read. We have them all – sparrows, cardinals, woodpeckers, and lots of little black-capped chickadees in winter.
Me too- I have been feeding my brood for over 30 years amd in this horrible weather they really depend on you!!!
Thanks for the link! Going there now
I first became hooked years ago when I heard a cardinal singing constantly outside my kitchen window, looked out and saw the nest-building in progress. I abandoned all else for several weeks, binoculars glued to my eyes and perched on a small stool, as I watched the little family. Began leaving sunflower seeds out for them, and the rest is history!
I’m always amazed how the feral furries survive below-freezing temps.
The cemetery where I walk was nondenominational ( functioned for burials 1872-1937, except for family plots) but was arranged by purchase price…so the wealthy people got the sunny hill top with the harbour view and the paupers and children got the dark bush gullies. What that means is that you can ( almost literally ) smell the wealth when you walk, especially in the heat. Rose bushes are planted on all the big sunny graves and the smell hangs over the hill, rich, jammy, rose. But as you walk down the air gets damper, and the bush gets denser and in the heat the small drain dries up into ponds of stagnant water which mixes with damp fern etc. and is pretty pungent. Very noticeable scent zones .today I am wearing immortal Beloved.
I’m enjoying your daily smell journeys, Kanuka! I sometimes think about creating a “smell map” of my daily walk to work, with a layer for each season. Depending on the time of year and time of day, I might get wafts of baking pizza from the pizzeria on the corner, blooms on my neighbor’s lilac bush, peppermint that grows on the patio of the restaurant at the bottom of the hill, fresh-brewed coffee from the Starbucks across the street from work, and so on…
Hey, i bought two candles yesterday . They didn’t have your one but I got Emerson and Tolstoy…so a big pin for you. I noticed the other day that an online drawing class called Sketchbook Skool has a ‘. Map’ drawing lesson, you know those funky maps that are more like illustrations. I think I might do it and learn how to scent map the grayeyard and the hill I walk on. I like your map a lot. It’s amazing how quickly you can tune in and identify your location by smell even when you are daydreaming . Love it.
If you do create a map, I’d love to see it on NST!
Have you seen Kate McLean’s work? (She did once scent mapping of Edinburgh a few years ago. There’s her own sensorymap site that includes a DIY guide and a decent article in atlasobscura )
Immortal Beloved is so beautiful!You smell magical!🍒❤️✌🏻🤗
It has grown on me a lot and I love it in summer.
I do so enjoy your walks.
I am just lucky to live in a nice area with lots of trees and green spaces. Also lucky to be in a city that was originally planned with a green belt. The green belt makes a huge difference in city planning
Hopefully your city planners won’t take the green belt for granted and start developing it.
I think all cities need trees
I totally agree… green spaces are not a “foofy” extra at all!
Very fitting for your story.
Rose Ikebana. I wish I could turn the volume up and swim in this stuff. So good.
No cherries but partial credit for bottle color?
I am yet to try Rose Ikebana, you make it sound very tempting.
Do it! It’s upscale and confident: tea plus rose. I love it. Quite crisp, like a well ironed shirt.
House twin! I’m in Cuir d’Ange from a sample. I’ve been enjoying leathers in the cooler weather. I think I have a sample of Rose Ikebana too, I’ll have to give it a try on my next day off.
High five, house twin!
Why on your next day off? No perfume at work?
Cuir d’Ange didn’t work on me (I find that I’m more of a leather+iris fan than pure leather). But I wanted it to!
No perfume at work but I sometimes come home, shower, and spritz away!
We’ve been at full capacity at my hospital for weeks now and I signed up for additional shifts this week. I hope I don’t live to regret it! I might put some samples in my car so I can decompress with a fragrant drive home.
In the very cheerful LPRN Couture, OK, according to Fragrantica is has no cherry, but close enough maybe with plenty of raspberry deliciousness wafting, this project reminds me why I got a partial bottle of Couture after draining samples, the original LPRN always had a bothering synthetic note on my skin and Couture never did that.
So glad to be bidding goodbye to January, Happy Friday.
I looked at Couture for the CP too and was surprised there was no cherry. Maybe you get credit for good intentions? (it was the closest thing to cherry that I have)
Thank you Catanosmia, even though I was glad to find the occasion to wear Couture – it should have made it to the permanent collection imo, glad you have it too.
Couture got a very high rating and a lot of praise in the 2018 perfume guide
I am yet to read the guide, thank you very much for the information. I’m really enjoying this one.
Couture is my favorite of the ones I have tried. Yes to saying goodbye to January!
It’ been a long month, Couture is really lovely.
I’m lingering over breakfast on Saturday morning in a cloud of Mary Greenwell’s Plum. It’s fruity, but not too sweet to my nose. I think I can call it community project-adjacent, large cherries and small plums look quite similar
Ha! Indeed they do!
I don’t remember the exact botany offhand, but various stone fruits, both edible and ornamental types, are pretty closely related. There you go — scientific rationalization! lol
A couple of days ago I claimed no cherry frag but today I remembered a bell bottle of Serge Luten Rahat Loukoum! How’d I forget that? So today I’m scent twins with Robin and send her a thanks for reminding me I had a hidden gem.
(Hidden in the sense it was buried in the back of the cabinet)
Hey twin!
Hi, triplet!
Wearing my only cherry fragrance and favorite word salad flanker: Estee Lauder Modern Muse Le Rouge Gloss. It’s a fun cherry-rose with a weird latexy sort of note keeping it interesting.
That really is a word salad name!
I had to end the week of our community project in POTL. Twins with PriscillaE.
I enjoyed reading about crikey’s friendly and smart squirrel. I’ve got one in my back yard that comes onto my deck railing and looks in my living room window. He turns around once or twice after he sees me. Then I go out my front door and put a few peanuts at the end of my driveway and he comes to get them. I am always surprised he knows enough to do that.
There was a movie about squirrels called “Daylight Robbery” and it showed how clever they are at beating “squirrel proof” bird feeders. I have a fondness for squirrels which might be clouding my judgement but I found it really entertaining. I think it can still be found on YouTube.
I think there was also a program on PBS some years ago that focused on the same subject. I can’t remember if it was Nature or what???
Still no cherries, so I am continuing my Rose Week with SSS Velvet Rose.
Velvet Rose sounds lovely!
i must check out that YouTube movie. I’m sure I’d like it.
Well, there’s cherry blossoms on the little sample box of Somei Yoshino. Does that count?
Absolutely!
I thought that Somei Yoshino had cherry blossom as a note? That means it would work for the CP.
Reminiscence Vanilla today. Very nice und not foody vanilla.
Dinner with boyfriend at a korean restaurant, we usually dont go to, because ist too far from us. But we had a meeting in the area, so went there After the meeting. Now i am stuffed…But it was good. Plenty of asian folks there too. Always a sign for authentic food
I love Korean food and there is none to be had near me anymore…glad you had a good dinner.
You need to invite my son over to your house. He will cook you Korean from scratch 😁
Well now he has a standing invitation
Rabbit rabbit rabbit, what an adorable hat Robin!!
I will hop back up now to read everyone’s comments….
Sotd is Cap Neroli. I haven’t worn this one in awhile and it smells more layered to me today. I am channeling warm sunshiney summer breezes.
Happy weekend, please stay warm.
I just heard that the power plants in Michigan are shutting down and now heating your home has become a concern!!
Dang it! I didn’t hear that… off to check the news…
Yikes! I missed hearing about that. 😱
🐇🐇🐇!
It’s been snowing lightly here for about 7 hours now. Very fine, small flakes that float lazily down to earth. It’s resulted in an inch of Champagne Powder. Nice stuff to ski in, as I recall. ❄
SOTD = CK Euphoria. No cherries in my perfume stash at all. Pomegranate is close, though, right? 😀
Love the description of your weather and also your perfume. I haven’t worn Euphoria for a while. I need to rescue that bottle from the back of my cabinet!
Euphoria is smelling SO good right now! I should wear it more often. I bought my bottle right when the scent first came out.
Don’t you love rediscovering old loves?
If only it would just fall on the slopes!
It was so light I was able to sweep it off my stairs with a broom! No shovel necessary.
This made me LOL with envy! But seriously, no snow is good snow.
Unfortunately, the people responsible for snow removal in my development were using leaf blowers earlier tonight. VERY annoying!
I feel the same way lillyjo!!
Sounds lovely
And now I am seriously craving a big slice of cherry pie….atleast i can do that much today!!
I did the CP yesterday so of course today forgot all about it. I did 4160Tuesdays’ Dirty Honey with just a smidge of Amouage Opus 1, which was the perfect touchy of perfumey cinnamon on the dirty honey. Frankly I smelled awesome. Ready for February!!!
I haven’t tried either scent but your description sounds fantastic.
I’m not a huge fan of cherry in fragrance but I did use C&E Sweet Almond Oil shower gel and lotion this morning. It has that cherry-almond smell like Jergen’s original soap. I topped it with a few sprays of KMT. I tried to find my decant of Cio Cio San this morning but no luck. Happy weekend all!
That shower gel sounds like something that would be comforting in winter weather.
I like it and the shower gel leaves my skin moisturized which is nice during this cold snap.
I love the old-school Jergen’s fragrance!
I bought a recent version of hand lotion for my purse awhile ago and was very disappointed with the obvious reformulation of the lotion; both scent and texture were so different from what I remember. It was almost chemically.
Adding the C&E to my list, hope I see it!
I was wondering as I typed of Jergans had messed with the scent in their products. The scent used to be quite nice. My mother has a thing for almond cherry scents so I used this soap frequently growing up. I found my SG and the matching lotion at TJ Maxx if you have one close by.
Keiko Mecheri “Ume” is as close as I can get to cherry. Grey and rainy as we catch the outer rim of storm Helena, which is lashing the Northern coast at the moment.
Stay safe from the storm!
SOTD = Tom Ford Lost Cherry
Double points for the cherry note and cherry in the name. Besides I wore enough for at least 2, if not 3, people. You know what this imeans – 8 sprays! I smell F-ing Fabulous.
It’s been a brutal week in many fronts but I persevered and I am rewarding myself with an extra day off! I was a bystander in a meeting when 2 senior managers (each only a few heartbeats away from the CEO), went at each other with sarcastic and vicious verbal attacks related to processes The sad part is I don’t think there will be any negative consequences to either one. In contrast, today, in an announcement about February being a month to celebrate a certain heritage, there was an uproar over the content of the message and some people went too far with criticisms that became personal attacks. At least one person will lose his/her job.
Continuing with what a crazy week, because there were all sorts of train delays and I needed to stay later anyway, I decided to take Uber back to the train station. The driver of the car did not answer my call and when he finally arrived, he could not explain why he did not answer the call so I cancelled. When I tried to book another one, I kept getting assigned to the same guy because he was the one nearest the pick up point. I finally waited it out and got a different driver. I also got a refund for the cancellation fee and I left a complaint utilizing the Service Animal Issue category because that was the only issue type that accepts free-text descriptions.
To end on a good note, my SOTD yesterday was Le Labo Iris 39!
Wow, that is alot of work drama! I really admire you not putting up with the Uber driver and waiting it out. Yay for the extra day off!
I didn’t feel safe and cancelled. Drama in nature and drama at work, what a combo!
Gads, that was a superstorm of The Crazy for you this week! At least you were smelling great during it all.
Thank you, jalapeño.
I avoid that type of turmoil at work whenever possible. You were smart to take an extra day off. Hopefully it will be calm next week.
Good on you for double points for the cp.
I pretty much effectively already put in over 6 days worth of work in 5 days so the “extra” day off was already offset. I carried over 8 days from last year and need to use them by March or they go poof!
Yikes. Thank goodness it’s the weekend!
I know, right?
Wow, that is alot of drama for one week. Good call on the extra day off! And, you were smelling fabulous this week!
I hope your weekend is a bit more peaceful.
Yep, it’s looking up. I will Marie Kondo the hajusuuri way another section of my bedroom.
I remembered to say rabbit rabbit rabbit for the first time ever at 2:00 am. The cat threw up immediately afterwards. What luck?
I wore phlur Hepcat today – I was going to wear Luctor et Emergo, but when I sniffed it this morning it was waaaay too sweet. I really like Hepcat – it’s a very dry riff on pipe tobacco, and I really appreciate that because my skin amplifies sweet notes. Tobacco Vanilla is way too much on me, but I love it in theory.
Oh man, poor you, having to clean up cat puke at 2 am! Maybe it means extra luck?
Wow, hepcat sounds really good!
Let me know if you need some 😃
Wafting chocolate-covered cherries in Sweet Anthem Linda. Like many real chocolate-covered cherries, the candied cherries overshadow the thin milk chocolate coating. Actually, the candied aspect of the perfume has faded quite a bit, making it more wearable, really, but less on-theme. I wonder why this perfume was discontinued? This sort of sweet gourmand seems very on-trend for this decade, and the drydown is quite pleasant. I may top this up later with some Lush Cardamom Chocolate.
Happy weekend, everyone. I hope everyone is staying warm. This winter is making me glad to be a Californian.
belated comment: sprayed on some Bath & Body Cherry Blossom EdT(?) in the evening.
Perfect! I hope it was nice.
Well, I like it.
And it went with the theme that day. 