Happy Lunar New Year! What fragrance are you wearing?
I'm in Tauerville Incense Flash. Tea at the moment is a little glass of Peets Baradi Black Cold Brew coffee.
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 Golden Pig teapot is $79 at Ten Ren.
Happ Lunar New Year!
Today I choose a scent to keep me warm, Keiko Mecheri (A) Fleur de Peau (thunk!).
Haven’t smelled that in a while but remember liking it. Bet you smell lovely.
Sometimes I find it too heavy or too sweet or too harsh, but today it smells just right to me.
Thank you!
I’m going to wear Chant d’Aromes, because I found my little sample and it’s very outside my usual. Thus, a new me for the new year. And a bit of ice with the aldehydes to go with the ice outside. Attempting to get in to work a bit later.
You will smell beautiful, I love this one, the underrated Guerlain.
Thanks, I enjoyed it.
Do you find it to have decent lasting power? I tried Chant d’Arome many years ago (mid 1990s) and it completely disappeared on my skin in about 30 minutes. It was not just my nose either, as the SA couldn’t smell it on my wrist either. It was the only Guerlain I ever tried that did that.
Yes, it has lasted well. That said, I prefer my fragrances light – in other words you get a whiff if you give me a hug, but I don’t walk around with a lot of sillage trailing (or preceding) me. But it sounds like you couldn’t smell it at all and that’s not my experience.
You smell lovely. I agree that it seems to be under-appreciated. I think it’s beautiful, but it’s rarely mentioned.
I think I smell like a beautiful expensive soap. And that’s not a bad thing in my book.
Paprika Brasil
House twin!?
Hi twin ???
Just keep truckin’ on!
You and I both!!!!!
Happy Lunar New Year
I was in an antique store yesterday and I saw vintage Madam Roches, Amariage and Organza on sale. Do I need any of these? I haven’t smell any of them
Modern Organza is a spicy white floral oriental. However, I heard that vintage Organza leans more towards the oriental side – less gardenia and more vanilla. Maybe real connoisseurs will give more details.
You’re Organza description is spot on. I have a soft spot for it because my husband and I were on vacation when it first came out, we were walking through Saks in Chicago and got spritzed and he immediately bought me a bottle. Aww! Lol
Ooo! ❤️
Thanks for your description!
Hopefully others will comment as well
Apparently vintage Madame Rochas is similar to Amouage Gold (woman). It was done by the same perfumer. So I’m assuming it’s a radiant aldehydic floral. Mind you, I’ve never smelled it.
If you like aldehydic florals with a hint of a chypre base you need to snap up that vintage Madame Rochas tout de suite. It’s fantastic.
Amarige was part of the last gasp of huge eighties fragrances, presumably under development just as tastes were changing to lighter and airier things at the beginning of the nineties (it was launched in 1991), and it is REALLY big. You have been warned. My mom loved it.
Organza was too floral for me: it’s a warm balsamic oriental but there is a whole lot of gardenia and tuberose in it. If you like white florals, there you go.
I love Amarige but it’s a risky blind buy unless it’s pretty cheap!
I do like big white florals but more on the Songes side..
I do enjoy Amouge gold only if I dab it
To the best of my knowledge, Amouage Gold is not a white floral, but if you don’t really like Gold, my guess is you might not like Madame Rochas either.
https://boisdejasmin.com/2007/04/amouage_gold_fr.html
Victoria describes it much better in her review of Gold.
Vintage Organza is beautiful. Its big, so you don’t need alot. I have a mini, and it’s a spicy floral with vanilla to my nose. Very smooth smelling, like the vanilla in Dior Addict. I think it’s really sexy, but I can see where a young person would not.
lillyjo, your description is spot on, the vanilla is much like Dior Addict’s. Rich floral/vanilla.
I’d say pull the trigger on all three, keep in mind Amarige and Organza are both powerhouses, one spritz does it for me.
So I went back to my antique shop and spoke to her about the perfumes on sale..(we normally only talk jewelry since that is what I normally buy) she asked me what I liked and we talk for a bit. She went in the back and brought out a beautiful bottle of Chloe from 1978, in an elegant bottle with a stopper, it was not on sale, but she gave me a discount since it has been opened. So that is my perfume purchase of the day….Donatella forgives!
That seems just about the best ending!
Thank you. I love the glass frosted stopper. The juice is an autumn brown color. It still smells like heaven and since its a dapper I won’t chase anyone out of the room ..She sold it to me for very cheap, and I am lucky.
Agree!!!
OMG!!! That’s an amazing Perfume! I wore Chloe in the late 1970s and still have a small bottle with the callalily stopper that was gifted to me a few years ago. You did good ?
I think the dry down is the best part, what do you think?
I love the callalily stopper, and I think its a bottle I will keep after I finish it.
I was a bit scared when she showed me because the juice as so dark I was afraid to stick my nose near it, but, alas, it was still smelling good.
I agree…the drydown is sublime…don’t fear the dark juice…it’s one of those fragrances that seems to have aged well…I am so happy for your wonderful find!!!
Yay you! Great perfume, and great bottle!
She sure does [forgive]!
What a fantastic find and addition to your collection.
Is this a NYC antique shop? Gosh, I haven’t seen one of those in a long time on these streets.
Yes
Here is the a bit of info (no affiliation)
I buy a lot of my jewelry there, because I love costume jewelry and I still buy clip-ons sometimes even though my ears are pierced. I am an old soul in a lot of ways…
http://sideways.nyc/2015/12/martines-antiques/
TY!
I’m almost positive I recently saw a vintage madame Rochas in a thrift store here and I thought it smelled pretty good – a slightly weird off note to begin with (age?), then it had a bit of a creamy undertone and lasted a long time. I ended up buying the vintage Y they had (because of pricing mostly, and the rochas bottle looked a little beat up) – but: I got to try them, at any rate. Maybe you can, too?
Now, for Amarige, I shudder – years of sitting next to someone in high school who was drenched in the stuff.
Congrats on your antique store find!
Adding my congrats on your vintage Chloe! Enjoy.
I went through a couple bottles back in the day.
Good morning everyone and happy Lunar New Year!
I’m celebrating in Balenciaga Prelude, vintage EdT. Spicy Opium carnations over a slightly sweet amber creme anglaise.
I do have to report, yesterday I went shopping and found an unopened 75ml bottle of Eclix by LaPerla for only $35! I haven’t even opened it yet but I remember Robin giving it a rave so many years ago. I’ll report back when I muster my courage to unwrap it.
Your scent sounds wonderful!
And congratulations on a good find.
Prelude is a lot of fun! I’m a sucker for cloves though.
I had a sample and remember thinking it smelled very, very much like lemon meringue pie, in the best possible way. And that bottle is really great (so great that Kenzo World kind of ripped it off). Nice catch!
That sounds lovely. I love non-obvious dessert fragrances.
You smell delicious, I love (and have) Prelude EDT, it’s easier to wear than some other 80’s perfumes imo, you’re absolutely right about the resemblance to Opium carnation, it’s also very resinous on my skin.
Glad for you that you found Eclix. Do report on it if you have a chance.
Prelude is really lovely. I love all the 80’s scents, probably because I didn’t live through them!
Oh my! Yes, lemon meringue pie. Hope it is in good shape, and hope you like it!
I’m very excited to try it. Do you want some when I finally open it?
If you tell me it is worth mailing, then I will accept your gracious offer! But you might find that my memory of lemon meringue pie is way off, LOL…
I’ll keep you posted. I haven’t experienced a turned bottle yet, though I really have the before experience.
Don’t*
Oh, the Prelude sounds wonderful!
It is!
Eau de Mandarine Ambree from the last swapmeet. This is my first real wear of this one. Oranges plus amber, what’s not to like. I have yet to meet a JCE that doesn’t work for me, but some are very fleeting. We’ll see how long this one lasts.
There is everything to like about that combo.
About to reach into my purse for the go-to of the last several months – you guessed it: Jasmins Marzipane.
Who knew that Ms. Woods, Musks and Roses over here would so like a gourmandy white floral?
Also, thank you so much to all of you who gave your thoughts about my potential move yesterday. I really appreciate everything you had to say, and all the support you provided.
Whoooops guess who just oversprayed at the office and is now That Girl.
I’ve worn it a lot myself the past months. Love it. You get a big enabler pin from a happy camper.
Awww – yay! So glad you like it!
Also, we need a New York fumie hang soon.
Let me know. Not in the area anymore but it’s easy enough for me to get down
I wish I had purchased one of those that day!
I have a few samples I’ve been enjoying, but a travel size would be perfect. I wonder if Macy’s has it in stock.
(waving hi!)
Forgot to mention we’re twins today
I’m wearing Like This.
You smell so good!
Beautiful!
Lovely.
SL Douce Amère, the perfect blend of bitter and sweet, warm to the core. So beautiful.
One of those Lutens gems!
So sad that I gave away my decant–when I first started getting into fragrance, I thought it was a bit strange. Now I think it’s special.
Oh, my favorite Lutens! I keep needing to remind myself to find a BUB.
Happy Lunar New Year! Wearing the last drops of my sample of Bond #9 Chinatown. Sunny, warm, gorgeous day, that I wish it could last forever. Tonight back to rain and colder temps.
Our rain is coming back, too, and it looks like it will stay for a while. We are beyond waterlogged already, unfortunately.
Stay dry and safe! At least we had a break after the polar vortex. ?
Our warm temps are on the way out too. Back to full force winter tomorrow. Ugh.
Real winter temps for us starting on Saturday again. We have 65 today and back to 40 tomorrow (sigh!)
And you smelled like a Spring day at the flowermarket.Love it!❤️✌?
Wow! How beautiful! Thank you! ????❤
You smell great!! my gateway drug…Chinatown.
Today is Sycamore for a windy chilly So Cal day.
Thank you! Sycamore is such a gorgeous perfume and it shines on cold days!
I’m wearing Gris Clair today. We experienced a 70F temperature change in the shortest time on record and GC has that warm/cool thing going on.
Yay for Gris Clair! My first lavender love. Completely agree about the warm/cool thing in there–I think of it as a sort of melancholy sunny scent.
Twin! For the same reason (although my temperature change wasn’t nearly as dramatic!), and because Gris Clair is just fabulous.
Today I’m wearing Aroma M Vanilla Hinoki from the freebiemeet. I sampled it before and remembered it as a “love,” but now I think it’s more of a “like.” I will happily finish my decant, but won’t be adding it to my FB list. All the better for my perfume budget!
I was not a fan but still have my decant
Money saved for a true perfume love!
新年快乐! I am wearing Hermes Voyage.
One of my favourite Hermes for summer. I am very swayed by perfume names though, anything to do with travel.
I wore that one yesterday, so we’re twin a day apart.
Wearing Déjà le printemps by Oriza while trying Papillon Dryad and Dilettante. I seem to be in desperate need of spring.
Tea was a very good First Flush Darjeeling and will be a Kenya Golden Tips.
I love that teapot, pigs rule!
That tea pot is supercute. Robin has a knack for spotting them. Then again, I love tea pots! I wish I were a person who could live a life where having a tea pot or two made sense, and they weren’t just pretty things on a shelf. As it is, I have two decorative coffee pots that I sometimes feel a tad silly holding onto, and I drink coffee every day.
I too love teapots and I have over 10 different kinds; but then I drink a lot of tea. Plus my teapots sort of have dedicated use in that I use different teapots for different kinds of tea. It all started when I had a separate one for Lapsang. From there it blossomed
Do you make tea in your tea pot because you like having something pretty, or do you feel like it changes the tea brewing in some way? I’ve always wondered if there was a “good reason” (ie. happy excuse!) to have a tea pot over, say, brewing in my cup.
I do it mostly for practical reasons. I drink a lot and I don’t like to keep getting up and make another cup.
I think that actually high quality tea is best brewed in very small quantities at the time (as in the Chinese Gong Fu Cha method), but I only do this for my really special teas. I’ve also got a few very small teapots for this purpose.
In part I’m sure it’s to do with the fact that I really enjoy putting water in the pot and then adding tea. Tea making is a very soothing ritual.
I have a coffee pot that matches my “fancy” china, I think it has been used once in 20 years
I have 3 teapots, all pretty basic, that get regular use. But I only use them when I am going to have more than one cup of the same thing, which is not always the case.
I look forward to one of them breaking, and I will give a bit more thought to the aesthetic properties of its replacement
I’ve just counted 18, some china, some cast iron, some ceramic, one in stainless steel.
I clearly need help :-0
I have collections like that, and would guess everybody here does! Luckily Marie Kondo is barred from entering my house.
I think Ms Kondo would get a heart attack if she saw all of our collections
I’m not going to tell anyone how many ramekins are in my kitchen. It’s beyond ridiculous.
Sistine, I thought I was the only one. You would almost think I had plans to cook something.
“I look forward to one of them breaking…”
???
I just noticed that a hyacinth I bought in a pot last winter ( in full bloom) has flowered again ( late summer) and I think that means that spring will soon appear in the Netherlands. It’s a sign!
I know, and thanks. The first crocuses have appeared here. I’ve lost most of them because the soil in my garden is too wet, and we get very wet winters in Holland.
I am so looking forward to spring as well!
My co worker spotted (and took a photo of) a crocus flower today….another sign
oh, lovely! I think that Dryad is pretty much spring in a bottle… or, a very English woodland version of spring anyway. Dilettante is more of a summer holiday. But both seem to radiate (a different quality of) sunlight.
Smelling good! Viva la pig!
Having a nice day off, so far. Got up early and made cookies, finished reading a book, and after lunch will head to the library. On day 5 of my Nahema binge.
Enjoy your rose perfume
Thanks, I am. Congratulations on your vintage find!
Living the dream! Enjoy every minute
I’m making absolutely sure to enjoy every minute. Back to work tomorrow.: )
Wow, that all sounds perfect!
It’s a pretty good plan, if I do say so myself.
That sounds like a very nice day off.
Nahema is gorgeous! ???
Sounds lovely. What version of Nahema are you wearing? I’ve read the extrait is really special, making me wonder if the other versions are worth testing ?
SotD is Santo Incienso, Sillage sacré.
(Yes that is the whole title, the comma in it irks me haha)
By the different company. From a sample.
I am not wowed, but its not bad. A light incense, safe for office/work.
“Not wowed, but not bad” is how I feel about so many haha.
Half points for Mandarine Glaciale. Despite the promising name, it’s not that icy to me. More like a windy September. It’s one of my favorite Ateliers, if I reapply at lunch time I’ll thunk this travel spray.
I don’t hear it mentioned as much as the other Ateliers, but MG is one of my favorites from that brand too.
That was one of the samples jepster sent me in the September freebiemeet. I liked it very much. (Thanks, jepster!) After Christmas I found an Atelier Cologne “Advent Calendar” on sale at Sephora. It has a number of samples and a couple of little soaps and such in it. I had tried a sample of the Sud Magnolia cologne during a visit to Sephora in the fall, and I knew I liked that. I found some of the other types of Atelier cologne too strong for me, but that was also at the store in autumn. I’ll see how I feel when I try them again at my leisure.
I almost got that! It seemed cute but I between a couple of their travel spray sets I had most of those scents covered.
I figured that was a relatively cheap way to try a number of Atelier’s fragrances.
I opened the sample of Vetiver Fatal the day I got the Advent Calendar — probably in early January — and Dad instantly started to cough and wheeze, so I can’t try them at home. The Sud Magnolia made him cough as well. I can’t imagine what he’d be allergic to in a magnolia scent, but he was definitely having a respiratory reaction to the colognes. That’s why I haven’t yet tried the other ones. For the same reason, I’ll most likely give away the shower gels and lotions at the next freebiemeet. But sometime soon I’ll go to a friend’s house and we can sniff perfume and cologne samples without bothering my folks. lol
That’s a bummer, Vetiver Fatal is another one of my favorites.
I do want to try out some vetiver fragrances, but not while I’m in the same house or car with my folks. I have friends who are willing to try perfume samples with me at their houses.
And I know that I can pass along those lotions and such to folks who like those fragrances. 
Tried out Sundrunk this AM from a dauber. Love the name, but the perfume not so much. Starts out smelling like a cross between Pears soap and Fanta soda, but not in a good way. When it dies down, after about 25 minutes it is a nice skin scent, but I have to smoosh my nose next to my wrist to catch the faint offering.
On to other perfumes . . . .
“Like Fanta soda, but not in a good way” ???
Your description is hilarious! ?
Well, like you said, on to others!
Is Pears soap the one that smells strongly of Mediterranean culinary herbs? Like thyme, sage, rosemary and such? I can’t imagine that going well with Fanta soda. lol. “Not in a good way” is very funny. On to the next!
Thunked my sample of Ombre Mercure.
And you smelled good!
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I know, I shouldn’t be so excited, as many of you are still digging out from a polar vorpacalypse, but I needed the day off! Actually, I was looking at a sick day in any case, but now I don’t have to worry about my kids being horrible to a substitute.
I plan on spending the day watching Netflix and sitting with a hotpad (and likely a few kitties) on my lap. Might go dig out from hiding the L’eau d’Hiver to snuggle up with, too.
(Oh, sad face, the “snow” didn’t come come out pretty this time! Imagine it all spread out and fluttery. ?❄️?)
May I recommend the new Netflix show Russian Doll? I watched all 8 episodes while home from work on Friday!
Oh, is it good?! I just saw an ad for it a couple nights ago, and I loved Natasha Lyonne in Orange is the New Black.
It’s *terrific* though it may well mess with your head a bit
Is it that good. i have it on my list to view…
Oh, thanks for the rec. I’m finishing Perfume at the moment. I can’t decide if I’m actually enjoying it or just morbidly fascinated by it.
I was both
Definitely this one.Loved Russian Doll!!
I hope you enjoyed the snow day! I know exactly what it is like to calculate if it’s worth getting a substitute. I’m glad nature helped you out. You smell great!
Glad that the Snow Day ended up being a Good Thing for you and your students!
Iris 39. I was going for icy but this isn’t it.
I adore Iris 39, but I think if you had Iris Silver Mist – that’d be perfect.
I actually do have an evaporating decant of ISM but have decided it’s too turnip-ish for me.
Wow, turnip? I had never heard of that note. Carrot notes, yes, but that’s a first!
In their perfume guide — the earlier one — Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez talk about a turnip note in that perfume. They liked that note, though. He likes the smell of root vegetables, apparently.
Robin, you smell fabulous! I too smell wonderful in ELDO Noel au Balcon, from a sample from the very generous therabbitsflower
I swear I get a hearty chocolate note from it, but that’s not listed in the notes. Whatever, I smell quite cozy.
I worked out TWICE yesterday, because…well, because I needed a break, frankly. I hate working out, but it does take my mind off of work. Today, my legs are extremely sore. Gotta stretch and exercise my way through the lactic acid!
Ooh. Is it a good lactic acid burn or a bad one? I love the first and sympathize with the second. Nothing like hobbling around feeling older than one should because the muscles resist any further movement!
What’s the difference between a good burn and a bad one? All of them feel terrible to me, but each lance of pain makes me feel proud of myself, because it’s a reminder that I pushed my body! Is the difference in their origin, or in how they feel?
It’s been a while, but I remember the good burn feeling more like heaviness in the body at first. The bad burn was just instant “Ouch!” Everyone’s body is different, though.
Oh good for you, I have barely moved in 4 days and glad you worked out for both of us!!
Haha
I’m not sure I can afford (health-wise and food-wise) to not move around in four days. I have an Apple Watch that makes me spend at least 600 active Calories per day, and thank goodness I do; gamification is an excellent motivator!
Oh, I do my piddly number of steps to please my fitbit and to allow my regular intake of ice cream, so I am exaggerating when I say I’ve barely moved
But did not exercise, or do weights, or yoga, or anything much else. So I don’t get *much* ice cream!
(And yes, apparently ice cream is my primary motivation, ha)
Ice cream is a GREAT motivator. Mine is cake (more texturally satisfying to me). I tried to convince my boyfriend last night that I deserved second cake because of second workout (that’s how it works, right? One slice of cake per workout?), but he was having none of it, so I still only got one slice of cake
It was very yummy, though.
I am pretty sure you were right and he was wrong!
Happy New Year! I am continuing a Smell Bent fire and ice week in Florists Fridge. It’s our national holiday, Waitangi Day, marking the 1840 treaty signed between the British and Maori giving Maori full sovereign rights and privileges of a British subject ( keeping in mind this was Maori land/country ). Aspects of the treaty were not fully honoured so over the years there have been lots of claims re. Land, sea etc. and cash settlements. Chinese New Year is big in this small city as the Chinese were amongst the first to come here, for the gold rush. Unlike British and commonwealth subjects their path to NZ citizemship was very dogged and slow despite their contribution to our culture ( I think the 1970s?). We have a Chinese Garden in town which I must visit and see what’s growing.
How do you like Florist’s Gridge? I’ve been thinking about doing a sample order with Smell Bent, as soon as I can decide which ones
florist’s FRIDGE. geez
Florist fridge does smell like a florist shop with the aircon running, it’s kind of like an angular floral , all edges ( rather than soft floral) . The greenhouse ( or hothouse?) one is also worth sampling. Smoked ambergris is worth testing, though not a lot like the ambergris I smelled . If you like a good true to life eucalyptus then the Yard next door is worth trying, it gets better as it fades. Most smell bents don’t seem to transform much from start to finish, they just fade, often with vanilla becoming more pronounced in the ‘ warm’ scents ( the rose/ balsam/ ambergris/ incense) and a kind of dust/clay note in the ‘cool’ scents ( green florals). I find all smell bent perfumes to have a bit of a rough edge which I like ( homespun not machine made) but not good if you like elegant , smooth finishes.
They sound fun, I think I’ll give a few of them a shot! Thanks for the mini reviews
Dorsey, are you in the US? If so, I have a recently-unearthed sample of Smoked Ambergris with your name on it!
Ooooo yes I am! With an asterisk though, for Alaska.
That’s okay! Send me your address? My email is shelp216 [at] gmail.
It’s totally worth it!I’ve done it 3 times already.And the actual fact that Brent ships to South Africa with zero problems is awesome.
That is awesome, I imagine you don’t get a lot of hassle free shipping in this hobbly.
PSA, smell bent is having a 20%-30% sale right now…….
Florist’s Fridge really does smell like a florist’s fridge.
Oh no…!
Love it!That icy cold blast of green wet foliage is soooo good in summer!You smell devine!!
Enabler pin(s) to LisaD! Just picked up a few replacement scents I had used up and am still missing. ??
My work here is done.
In Ummagumma again and have thunked my sample. Moving on to my 5ml decant next. If I still love it by the time I finish the decant (who knows how long that will take), I’ll definitely spring for a bottle next.
Made it in to work today, and there are very few of us in the building. Our side streets are still icy, so I’m planning to leave by 4 before it gets dark.
I made the most of yesterday by finishing up a show I’d been watching and finishing a book. I got about 150 pages of reading in! I also made the best sandwich for lunch. Toasted roll, lots of avocado, honey turkey, and lemon dill aioli. Yum. My boyfriend was able to get home around 2:30. We watched a couple movies and had leftover pizza for dinner. It was a very nice snow day.
Your day yesterday sounds absolutely amazing! Be safe on your way home this afternoon.
It was a really great snow day!
Be warm and comfy!
Thanks!
Hope that your commute home was an easy one!
It was actually super easy because it seems almost no one went to work today, so I had no one to compete with for road space. Also, a lot of the icy slush in many of the roads I took had melted down from the sun and people driving. However, most streets that run East to West near me are hilly and are currently closed to cars, including my street block, which is the steepest hill of them all. So it’s parking on the flat North to South streets for me right now!
That sounds like a very yummy lunch, and a nice, relaxing snow day.
Happy Lunar New Year everyone! I’m only wearing one spritz of Amarige, I do love this but boy is it strong!
I always pass that one up when I see it, I should try it!
It’s a wonderful perfume,but I totally agree:it needs just the right amount of sprays to be perfection.
It’s nice, but very BIG. I think it’s the one of the last of the great white flower scents from the late 1980’s, like Giorgio, Giorgio Red.
Original Red was glorious! The new version makes me want to cry.
Today I’m wearing Miller Harris Terre d’Iris.
Terre d’Iris is so nice, with its dusty note I find in several Miller Harris.
Wearing Grandiflora Queen of the Night which I can barely smell. Seems like I’m catching cold
I hope you can rest. Besides the cold, are you having a better day today?
Yes, thank you.
Oh no! That one is too pretty not to be able to smell. Good luck and I hope your cold doesn’t develop.
It makes me think like I was at the flowers gallery.
Cuir Ottoman for me today- this leather is sure to keep you warm in winter!
You smell great! I wore that last night (i was revisiting my sample stash), its a great leather for cold days indeed!
I am going for fire with Meharées and sprayed at least four spritzes. I am a cinnamon cookie! Managed to leave work early enough for the fitness studio, so i feel quite good.
I would love that teapot, its really cute!
Cinnamon cookie plus a workout is a good day!
I had to look this one up. You smell delicious!
SOTD is Shiseido Zen (original “black”), which to me smells like sitting in front of a crackling fireplace. I can’t really smell it though as my cold has moved into my nose now and I’m not smelling much of anything today. I have plenty of “fire” scents bit I’m not sure if I have much ice in my collection.
House twin.
Not sure I have much ice either- we can stay warm in our fire scents!
I don’t need much help staying warm. Today it was 75 F here.
Best teapot yet.
SOTD: https://www.instagram.com/p/BtgnLLDHhoU/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=rqoulghpgnm5
You win, that pic is wonderful!
Love it!!!
But I wear my WW in the summer!
Love your pic!!❤️
Gorgeous! I’ve loved the snow pics and videos so much. Thanks!
T-Rex looks so cute in the snow!
* * * * SNOW DAY! * * * *
I’m glad we only got a couple of inches instead of the forecast 8″. Working from home (like usual). Watching the snow melt off the trees. I think it is very considerate of the snow to disappear on its own, without shoveling and what-not. Good snow
SOTD is Salvatore Ferragamo Tuscan Soul Suede Incense. The older version… they seem to have re-issued this collection in bigger bottles (who needs that) with ‘Tuscan Soul’ removed from the name (ok that is an improvement). Anyway, the name is truth-in-advertising, this is a nice incense + leather, with pine peeking through. Nice.
Mmm, I really like pine in fragrances and I don’t find it very often. I know it’s a tricky note for some because of the pine-sol association, but I want to smell it more often!
I really like pine in fragrances, too. But yeah, sometimes it goes Pine-Sol… and there’s a super bitter pine scent that’s mighty popular among indie perfumers (why do indie perfumers use so many of the same notes…?)
Some of my favorites are Yosh Konig, SL Fille en Aiguilles, AG Nuit Etoilee, CBIHP Wild Hunt, Dasein Winter, and of course Vagabond Prince Enchanted Forest. ELdO’s Marquis de Sade one is mostly a polite pine on me.
Pixel and holyneroli
Get your hands on Eden Botanicals Fir Balsam absolute 10 percent… I combine it with vanilla oil and it smells amazing… like Christmas….not bitter and not Pinesol
Ooh, I have some tangerine essential oil that might go really nicely with that…
Oh yes it would
We got snow here, too, about an inch at my house, and it is melting in patches already. I’ll wait until this afternoon to do the grocery shopping. SOTD is Hermes Rhubarbe Ecarlate, so cheerful on a cold morning.
I’m going to Singapore in three weeks, any must-sees? I’ve already got a visit to a perfume shop planned, I’m hoping to smell Tiger’s Nest. The notes sound right up my alley.
Nice! It’s crushingly hot and humid so bring more clothes than you think you’ll need; you’ll want to change often.
It’s been a long while since I was there, but I recall enjoying the Night Zoo; Jurong Bird Park; and the Botanical Gardens. And Raffles, of course.
Plan to use the subway, it’s soooooo much faster than taking a cab (traffic just crawls…)
Eat everything
I’ve never been but this sounds like seriously solid advice haha.
Singapore–Wow! What brings you there?
Inspired by Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown. I am planning on eating everything
I love that. I still can’t believe Bourdain is gone.
The botanic gardens, all the street food stalls for fantastic cheap food, the art gallery/museum . There might also be some interesting day trips out of town to some nature reserves if that is an interest. Take your togs for swimming if you have a hotel pool. It is really hot .
So pretty,but so fleeting!
The artscience museum has some *amazing* exhibitions and events. The Gardens by the Bay are really impressive. And oh, the food. Yum yum yum.
The aquarium is the biggest in the world (I didn’t get to see it, but heard v good things about it.)
The buffets!
Seriously, last I was there was 2008 and it was mainly lots of work stuff. Very green, lush country.
Eat chili crab!
Fragrance free again today as had a mad dash around the house tidying up before an appointment with a local legal company’s rep to begin valuation process, prior to potentially selling – husband doesn’t want to move, I do! Then having my hair cut, so grabbed sweatshirt & wondered what on earth I could smell – only been worn once since it was last washed – oh dear, it was the remnants of the Ylang Ylang Espresso I posted about the other week! Really didn’t like what I was smelling, & husband said “It smells like some old wifie (local expression!) flowery stuff my mum would have used”. My best friend may well end up inheriting it, or at least giving it a try, to see if it suits her better. I am disappointed, as smelling it in the shop I really liked it & it is a world away from the various fragrances I have used over these many years.
“Wifie flowery stuff” is a great description! Good luck with the house sale.
Phil tends to say exactly what he thinks, Robin! I was hoping readers wouldn’t confuse it with something “wifi” related! “Wifie” is a north east of Scotland phrase that doesn’t even particularly relate to a woman’s age, more her style – e.g. a “posh wifie” might wear a twinset & pearls sort of look, & Phil also usually describes anything smelling vaguely of lavender as an “old wifie” smell – discretion is certainly not the better part of valour where he’s concerned…
Thank you for the good wishes re the house sale – subject very much still under discussion & I think will be so for some time to come.
In a favorite light leather, Shiseido Koto.
I am wearing Une Rose Vermeille today. The stuff has the lasting power of nuclear waste but I love it. The puppy is still bouncing around and acting like her normal self and that’s good news.
Yay for no ill effects for the puppy after yesterday’s scare!
I’m on holiday today, as we mark Waitangi Day – Kanuka has given a very nice explanation of that already.
We’re having a quiet day at home amidst chaos. We’re expecting a painter to start on our bedroom and we’ve moved everything out of the room except the bed. It’s all in the lounge, so we have an extremely minimalist bedroom and a lounge where I can barely get in the door.
My perfume is all in the same drawers, but it’s not easy to find the drawers! I think I’ll wear something rich and floral after my shower, I think I still have a drop of Divine from a Luckyscent sample.
And it turns out I’m wearing Divine L’Ame Soeur, I didn’t have the sample I thought I did. I still smell very nice
Yes, you did smell good! L’Ame Soeur is one of a couple of samples I have from Divine; I’d like to try more of the line.
Hope the painter is a fast worker!
Happy Lunar New Year! I am wearing MFK APOM today. It’s warm and muggy with a lot of fog. This one is light and cheerful.
Sotd is Luce. From the last splitmeet. I’m still getting to know this one. I’m expecting freezing rain tonight and tomorrow. Fingers crossed the power stays on. Sephora sent me a email saying I still have money left on a gift card I had purchased over Christmas. I have no idea where it is, so now I have to search for it. I hope I didn’t throw it away.
Good luck finding that card! Hopefully, you didn’t throw it away.
Hang in there, lillyjo! I hope that wayward Sephora card shows up.
Hope your weather behaves and that you track down that card. Is that common for Sephora to notify you about the gift card balance?
Acqua di Parma Arancia di Capri
Weather is still pretending to be spring here so I’m still playing along in Soivohle Lilas et Narcissus
Spring like weather here too, Philosykos. Had a sudden craving for fig this morning!
Love that one. Thunked my bottle last spring
a recent discovery for me as well,and a fig I can actually say is LOVE!❤️
My favorite fig perfume! You smell great!
I bought the big size at Nordstrom. I loved it so much I was not willing to wait to buy it cheaper elsewhere. It was literally love at first sniff and that just never happens to me.
I love that one so much. You smell wonderful.
Dreamy. I love Philsykos.
It was a lovely day weatherwise,and I wore fiery and fierce Aromatics Black Cherry.Do seek it out guys,especially the guys and gals who said last week that they don’t care for cherries in perfumes.This one might just change your mind!
Scent of bedtime(22:32 pm here):Testing Kilian Gold Knight.It is an interesting perfume,and fits perfectly with the CP this week!There is a cold opening blast of something minty,but at the same time a warm and fuzzy note,like a vanilla-soaked ambery something-something.Skins made me samples of a couple of Kilians,which is a first for a South African perfume shop!
Have a good week my fabulously fragrant friends!!
❤️✌??
You smell fantastic Johajob!
I was able to try Gold Knight thanks to Hajusuuri. It was a honeyed patchouli on me, with a whiff of spice.
Was running late this morning so abandoned my plan for a week of Fragonards (I have to decant from minis into a sprayer) and went with Jesus del Pozo “Arabian Nights” EDP. It’s an easy, decent oud-rose combo.
Top: Thyme and rose;
Mid: vetiver, sandalwood, patchouli, guaiac wood, cedar and saffron;
Base: musk, labdanum, amber and oud.
TOMK is into serious teas – your aged puerhs and rare oolongs and whatnot – and I am a coffee person. But we intersect on infusions, and especially in Winter I enjoy the winter blends you can find in German supermarkets from everyday firms like Messner and Teekanne. Tonight I’m enjoying “Kaminabend” which is like a liquid marzipan. Next Monday will be my last in Dusseldorf for a while as my 1-day-a-week contract ends soon, so I’ll try to do a last supermarket raid – I have my eye on Sicilian Lemon. :^D
What??????? Liquid marzipan??? send a cup of that tea my way
That Jesus del Pozo scent sounds rather lovely.
Robin, you smell great! I like that Tauer and it is so nice layered with Rose Flash.
I thunked a 50 ml bottle of Chanel No 5 but not to worry, I have an even bigger bottle to replace it!
Great minds think alike, because that’s what I was in by late afternoon
It is lovely in the winter.
Happy Lunar New Year, NSTers! ?
It’s been April-like here, with temps in the mid 60s F. Rain is expected in the next day or so, which doesn’t bother me… there is stuff outside that needs to be washed away! I’m wondering when the next blast of cold winter is due.
SOTD = CK Euphoria. Time to move this bottle out of the storage box it has lived in and get it into regular rotation!
yes, get that bottle out on the dresser!
I have a special spot in my closet for bottles that are “out”. I can’t use the dresser… one of the cats chewed on the cap of a bottle of perfume I had on it ages ago. Naughty kitty!
ahaha! Naughty kitty indeed!
I love Euphoria!
It has an amazing, true to life pomegranate note to my nose that lasts for ages.
Warming up in some Frapin 1270. It’s been snowing here lightly all day.
Finishing the evening with a spray of Nocturnes de Caron on my chest. I had forgotten how beautiful this fragrance is. I really need to give some skin time to my true loves.
Yes! Wearing some of those perfumes are a vivid reminder of how good this hobby can get.
Thunked a little sample from the most recent freebie meet – atelier bergamot Soleil. So lovely, yet so fleeting. This makes me think I don’t have a lot of good citrus in my collection other than Cap Neroli – I’m hankering after something zesty and bright, more floral than bitter…maybe the Neroli Intense is like that? I’m planning to sample that next week when I have a conference in San Francisco.
Berdoues Grand Cru Collection Assam of India
thanks for the suggestion!
Wearing Berdoues Assam of India today and drinking Steven Smith Teamaker Lord Bergamot tea.I feel they compliment each other well and are both favorites of mine.
Posting again to share a very wonderful thing I have just learned: the phrase “il y a du monde au balcon,” which literally translates to “the balcony is crowded,” actually refers to an overflowing bosom. I am exceedingly pleased.
It sounds more elegant in French, IMO.
Doesn’t it always? :-p
My life is now richer, thank you.
First I read “overflowing blossom” ?
So does Noel au balcon connect to this phrase at all? Like overflowing Christmas?
Some website (Luckyscent, maybe?) did link the name of the perfume with that phrase! Something having to do with the voluptuousness of the scent
Isn’t that all very silly?
Well I would have never gotten that reference from the perfume name!
One of the days I was in Paris last year was Beaudelaire’s birthday, so I looked up his work – Fleurs du Mal, which I wasn’t familiar with, but I was familiar with Fleur du Male ?
Hahaha
the names of perfumes are full of (mostly French) literary (and bawdy) references!
Gris Clair for me today. The day was crazy, but my wrists smelled serene. Oh, how I love this stuff. Thanks to everyone talking about it yesterday for inspiring my SOTD!
SOTD = MFK Ciel de Gum
Light powdery amber vanilla with a little bit of spice. Errrm, 5 sprays and at around the 5 hour mark, it started to play peekaboo but I can still smell it, 12 hours later!
So no commuting woes comments does not mean all is welk. NJ transit continues to cancel trains left and right and they’ve run out of lies to use and just say “due to equipment problems”. I wonder how many management people actually commute by train? People are still as jerky as they have always been, to the point of this one woman sitting between a mother and her toddler child, refusing to switch seats.
Onwards. I realized this past weekend that I went the whole month of January without buying any clothes. Wahoo! Baby steps. I’m not on a no-buy, just nothing much of interest. I have to get going in getting my gear for my walking / hiking vacation in May!
…. not to say I didn’t buy anything, because I did:
https://www.brighton.com/product/crossbodies/36956-219184/casandra-camera-bag.html
Now I need to find a smaller wallet…
In a slightly weird coincidence, Mr. Jalapeno and I were talking recently about NJT’s woes. It’s a 3 ring circus.
I mixed three drops of vanilla essential oil in jojoba oil into a teaspoon of jojoba oil, for another day of lightly scented skin-moisturizing oil. My skin was a lot less dry today than it had been the day I tried lavender that way, but I was still inspired by chocolatemarzipan.
It was much warmer today than it was last week, thank goodness, and Mom and I made it to Longwood Gardens (www.longwoodgardens.org), to see the Orchid Extravaganza. It was very beautiful. We were “ooh”ing and “ahh”ing over many of the different shades of color the orchids came in. We especially liked some of the peach-colored orchids, and a lot of the pink (and pink-and-white) and lavender ones. The displays throughout the conservatories were quite impressive.
Yes, chocolatemarzipan, I saw a vanilla orchid in the Orchid House.
It wasn’t blooming, but I think it was there to show what the plant looks like.
We didn’t do much walking around outside, because Mom’s knees can only take so much, but I saw the witch hazels in bloom. We sat outside on benches for a few minutes at a time to enjoy the sun and warmth. It was around 60 F, and we were comfortable in hoodies. It was a very nice afternoon.
The Orchid Extravaganza sounds like such fun!
Wow, sounds like a beautiful day! and yay to seeing a vanilla orchid! The smell is divine, right?
Promise me you will try to make your own vanilla bean body oil! so easy! Get a 4oz bottle of any carrier oil (jojoba, sweet almond which is unscented, grapeseed, apricot, etc etc) and slice a vanilla bean down the middle and dump it in there…daily shakings of it and within weeks you will have the most delicious smelling body oil…the longer it marinates the deeper in scent it gets…coolest part is seeing the vanilla beans floating around after you shake it!