A repeat of a poll we did last year. As always, answer as many or as few as you like, or, likewise as always, feel free to talk about something else altogether.
1. What fragrance are you wearing today?
2. What's your favorite fragrance for a rainy day in April?
3. What's your favorite spring flower, and if you have a favorite perfume based on that flower, what is it?
4. Share something wonderful with us! It can be anything — a great movie you saw, something delicious you ate, something fun you did recently — really, anything.
Please note that I am on a brief out of town trip, and I will probably not be able to join in until Sunday (plus, I have not yet finished reading the Friday comments).
Note: top image is Dew-covered tulip - Nascimento [cropped] by Oregon Department of Transportation at flickr; some rights reserved.
Happy weekend everyone!
1. I’m in Van Cleef & Arpels Bois d’Iris today.
2. Prada Purple Rain maybe?
3. Magnolia flower, I recommend Magnolia Grandiflora Michel.
4. I have a new phone since yesterday and it’s a huge upgrade from Samsung Galaxy A5 to Galaxy S9+.
Jealous of your #4. My phone is an embarrassment that’s probably causing the deterioration of my eyesight as we speak.
Sometimes it’s good to invest in a new one.
Lol, same here!
You smell great! And congrats on the new phone!
Thank you
You smell great! And congratulations on your new phone (It’s funny: as soon as I typed the first “p” of that last word in the sentence, the suggestions on my phone were: “perfumes” and “perfume” – it knows me so well
).
Once the dictionary learns a couple of words from you it becomes very smart and predicting
Good morning, NST. ☀️
1) Regime des Fleurs Glass Blooms
2) Chanel La Pausa edt
3) Tulips! No, I don’t have a tulip scent. Not even sure what they smell like.
4) I just blind bought the new Amouage. Super risky, but I was just too excited to wait. 🤞🏽🤞🏽🤞🏽🤞🏽🤞🏽🤞🏽🤞🏽
Let us know what you think of the Portrayal.
Exciting! Hope you love it!
I do think tulips have a smell but I can’t summon it up well enough to describe it. There is a kind of yellow tulip that has double ruffly blossoms almost like a fancy daffodil or something and is particularly strong-smelling. It’s a pleasant smell but overpowering (as hyacinth can be for example). I took a bouquet to the office once and everyone oohed and aahed but after about 1/2 hour we all agreed we had to move it somewhere else because it was making us all sneeze!
http://www.amsterdamtulipmuseum.com/en/faq/tulips/are-tulips-fragrant/
I think these are the ones: https://www.gardenia.net/plant/tulipa-monte-carlo-double-early-tulip
😆 sometimes I ooh and ahh over a fragrance for 30 minutes and then have to get it off my skin immediately.
House twins!! Regime des Fleurs Dove Grey!!
Yay! I haven’t tried that one. Do you have others from the house that you love? I fell in love with Willows but haven’t purchased it yet.
I was very inspired by the book “The Fragrant Path” by Louise Beebe Wilder, published in the mid-1930s. I’ve tried hard to collect what fragrant flowers and plants with scented leaves she lists that are still available one way or another and will grow around here. It depends what local plant sales I can get to and which specialty nurseries happen to have sales on plants that I’ve been searching for.
As for tulips: Yes, ‘Princes Irene’ is slightly fragrant to me, and I could get the scent of the orange-colored ‘Generaal de Wet’ when I cut it and brought it inside. The tulip I found to be very fragrant is ‘Prince of Austria.’ That’s available at Old House Gardens (I have no affiliation with the company).
Happy weekend! 😎
1. En Voyage Zelda (swoon)
2. Gris Clair (pleasantly moody)
3. Hyacinth, Guy Laroche Fidji
4. If you are interested in a thriller to binge watch, Hanna on Prime video is excellent and different from the usual.
I love thrillers – will check it out
The trailer piqued my interest, glad to hear it is good. I will have to check it out too.
Gris Clair is a nice suggestion, I agree.
You are smelling AMAZING! Thanks for the thriller recommendation.
MMmmm yes Gris Clair for the April rain. And Zelda … SWOON! I was looking at the trailer for Hanna just yesterday. Looks like a pretty good one!
1. Lush What Would Love Do? solid. It’s a mildly baffling but very wearable lavender-tangerine.
2. Yves Rocher Homme Nature, my favourite bright-green spring scent.
3. Lilacs, no question. They bloom in astonishing profusion at the end of May and they make me ridiculously, giddily happy for the week or ten days that they last. No perfume, because no perfumer has ever properly captured that specific glorious scent (Demeter Lilac briefly gets it but then turns synthetic).
4. Just got back from grocery shopping and while I was at the mall dropped into Yves Rocher to try out the new Argan Rose Hammam products that were yesterday’s Daily Lemming. I think it’s a winner: in the bottle, it smells a *lot* like Lush Rose Jam, and anything darkly rosy has my name on it. They were having a buy-three-get-three-free sale, and I got three large bottles of the Argan Rose shower gel, the Argan Rose shower oil, a large Star Anise Peach shower gel, and the new super-concentrated shower gel in Bourbon Vanilla, all for under $25 CAD (less than one 500-mL bottle of Rose Jam).
Wow what a great deal at YR!
Lilacs are such a wonderful spring scent. I don’t know if it’s still available, but Leilani Bishop had a lilac oil perfume that’s the closest I ever smelled to the real thing. I don’t see it on Beautyhabit anymore though.
Oh yes to lilacs. We have dozens of bushes scattered around our yard and neighborhood, when they are in bloom it is intoxicating.
I married in May and the florist included lilacs from our backyard. White in my bouquet, lavender in my maid of honor. Peonies, pink roses, fern fronds and lilacs, the flowers defined spring.
I have a small bottle of Highland Lilac that is the best lilac scent I’ve found.
When I wear What Would Love Do I keep sniffing a nutty note in it somewhere.Maybe it’s just how it reacts with my skin? I do like it though.
3 bottles, nice — bet that cost less than one large bottle of Rose Jam?
Happy weekend all perfume lovers!!
1. Hermès Hiris 😍
2.BDK Rouge smoking. Soft musky cherry….
3. Any blossom against a light blue sky. I still don’t have a favourite blossom scent. Berdoues cherry blossom smells a little plasticky to me.
4. Scientific research just confirmed what I and a lot of cat lovers already knew: cats listen to their names 😍😍😍
I saw the cat thing on NPR too; it’s why my shelter cat didn’t get renamed when we adopted him, because he responded to his name. So Larry he stays
I am surprised any one doubted that cats know their names
I thought it was hilarious the study found that yes, cats do know their names and they still ignore you.
Every cat “owner” could have told them that, they didn’t need a study.
But I did teach one cat to fetch! She was the only one who ever learned a trick, most just looked at me and silently asked “Why?”
Hahaha
One of our kitties will jump up to a surface if you scratch it! And they will both do anything for a treat. So that’s the extent of my cats’ tricks.
My cat “fetches” treats: I tell him “fetch!” and he starts running towards where he knows I’d throw it, not actually waiting for me to do it. But then he never brings it back. It’s a “cat fetch” version
Yes, cats know their names they just don’t always care that humans do too.
My problem is that if I call one of them, the others also tend to come too because they think something good is in the offing. So I can’t demonstrate to friends that the first cat really knows its name!
“Research” always seems to confirm things we already know…🤔
Hiris is a deep love of mine. And yes, my cats come when I call their names. If they so choose. I guess a lot of cat lovers knew this but it was fun to hear NPR confirm it!
1. I am wearing Hermes ME and got a rare perfume compliment from a stranger. She said I smell “smooth”. I like this tactile adjective.
2. I recently discovered a wonderful perfume that I think would be perfect on a rainy day: Jazmin Sarai’s How You Love. Its a “smooth” and uplifting jasmin. I will report in more depth when my travel spray arrives.
3. Are magnolias spring flowers? I love their scent.
4. I had wonderful Ethiopian food on my NYC trip. I love this cuisine and have gotten pretty adept at making doro wot but I prefer to eat in a restaurant as the house smells for days after like onion and berbere. I went to Bergdorf during my trip and had fun sniffing. No one offered me any samples though! Anyway i was intrigued by matin d’orage but didnt get to try it on skin. I should have asked for a sample but i got shy!
I looove Ethiopian food. I want to learn to cook it, too, but my bedroom traps all scents from the kitchen, and they linger forEVER.
I went to an Ethiopian restaurant in the Upper East Side a few years back. Nice!
I wanted to thank everyone for all their kind wishes and comments for my mom’s memorial service last week. It was beautiful and the lunch gathering afterwards was very comforting. I wore No. 19 Poudre and it was a great choice.
Two of my siblings on the East coast flew home this week and my brother flies back to SF today. It is hard but I am thinking of ways to take good care of myself that don’t all involve acquiring more perfume.
This week I tried out perfumes from the Cube Fire F Sampler from Bon Parfumeur from Beautyhabit which is orientals and gourmands…no affiliation to the brand or site. They are quite nice and I enjoyed 402 and 501 the most. They number their scents according to the family and the groups are defined here
https://www.indigoperfumery.com/collections/bon-parfumeur-at-indigo-perfumery
I believe there are 18 scents and they have a sampler w/ all of them and a store in Paris too. Has anyone else tried them? They also have their own website and appear to ship free to the US w/ a $40 purchase.
https://www.bonparfumeur.com/en/
I’m so happy to hear this, she-ra. It’s important to take time with family and friends for some happy remembering as well. ♥
I haven’t tried those fragrances, but they sound intriguing. Thanks for the mention.
Sending some love your way…there is something very comforting about a gathering of loved ones after a memorial service. And, having your sibs with you is also a very good thing.
No. 19 is right anytime of the day or night…
Glad you’re looking for constructive means of self care <3
Keep taking care of yourself: with family members return to their homes, the “normal life” that isn’t same as it used to be might be hard for a while.
(Hugs)
So good to “see” you! We missed you. 😊
Sending you hugs from down here. Be gentle with yourself
Very good to hear that the service went well. Be gentle with yourself.
Glad to see you back, she-ra! 👍 on self-care!
She-Ra, I was right where you are two years ago. Take it day by day, get rest, just go at your own pace.
Sending you healing thoughts.
perfumed hugs to you, She-ra!
Have not been here for a while, so missed your bad news. So sorry for your loss, but I’m glad that the memorial service and the presence of your family has given you comfort.
Good morning, NSTers! It’s raining like CRAZY here in Portland, and I’m in Indochine, waiting for the house to warm up a bit. The rest of my poll
2. Today it’s Indochine, apparently. But I couldn’t name just one favorite – sometimes a warm fragrance hits the spot, but other times Chanel 19 or Le Temps d’Une Fete on a rainy spring day is just the thing.
3. Maybe the tiny pink blossoms on the flowering plum trees planted all over the place here – they lasted a whole week this year and are so pretty in their fluffy masses – or the cherry blossoms on the trees outside my bathroom window. Neither has much scent as far as I can tell.
4. Mr. G and I just started watching The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. We’re late to the party, I know, but it’s so much fun! We have to back up and re-listen a lot because the dialog is beyond rapid and we don’t want to miss anything. We should turn subtitles on.
Smelling great in Indochine!👍🏼
Love Mrs. Maisel – especially Susie. She’s hysterical.
1. Escale a Portofino.
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4. Bought a lovely coral necklace to go with my black dress for next Saturday (concert night!
Fun, what concert will you see?
It’s my choir’s concert, I will sing.
Happy Saturday, all.
1) Wearing today: SJP Covet from a lovely swapper
2) Rainy April day: today IS a rainy day in April, but I think VC&A Bois d’Iris would be my pick for a lovely all-purpose spring day choice
3) Fave spring flower: daffodils, love, love them. I used to have so many different kinds in my old yard. Need to plant some here. I thought SmellBent’s JANUARY actually captured that cool fresh sweet daffodil scent pretty well (not the more strongly scented narcissus)
4) Had a fun happy hour with youngest son and his GF and another friend (and my DH) yesterday evening. They are awesome millennials.
Accidentally Bois d’Iris is my sotd, thought it doesn’t rain.
This is my favorite iris. It’s just wonderful. It makes me think of spring, but I wore it all winter, too.
Happy hour sounds like it was fun. My 21-year-old stepson is bringing his gf to visit for the first time. I’m looking forward to adulting with them.
Yay, have fun!
Trying a couple of samples today, one of which is a hyacinth. My favourite Hyacinth might be SL Bas de Soie. I am fond of spring flowers in general and don’t want to play favourites, at least for today. For years I yearned for a set of fish cutlery and bought one this week. Making a fishy supper for a friend tonight to inaugurate them.
I adore the smell of hyacinth but am not fond of the flower…or at least, have not been fond of it in my own yard, it just doesn’t seem to “fit”.
1. Eric Buterbaugh Apollo Hyacinth for me today! It’s really and truly gorgeous, but I feel comfortable saying I won’t need a bottle once I work through my decant.
And we ended our session with an armful of fun greens! Looking forward to doing this all year.
2. This one is a good candidate. Otherwise, En Passant, Ostara, Vanille Galante, and Iris Ukiyoe all seem good.
3. LILACS. I didn’t have strong opinions about lilacs until I moved to southwest France five years ago and saw them EVERYWHERE in spring, and their scent filled my heart. (En Passant is great, but it doesn’t hold a candle to real lilacs. I’ll have to look for the “best lilac” scent suggestions people gave above.) Last night, we came upon a white lilac bush and I went onto someone else’s property so I could shove my face in the blossoms and inhale deeply. (I don’t think they’d get upset with someone standing on their driveway for the sake of flowers.)
4. We are going to go volunteer at the community garden again! The people we met there last time were all lovely
I love lilacs. I had a beautiful President Lincoln but it has died and I keep meaning to replace it.
I read this fast as President Lincoln died and I was thinking of course everyone knows that.
Yes…but thought you might have missed the news flash about my lilac
Hello NSTers
1) Regime des Fleurs Dove Grey–icy iris for a cool start to what is turning into a gorgeous day
2) Time to pull out the jasmine fragrances (of which I have many) to celebrate spring
3) Lilacs and lily of the valley because they remind me of my mother, but alas, no really good scents to honor them
4) I am feeling gratitude for many good things in my life, not the least is planning some travel to visit family, and then later this summer to visit Iceland (can you say “bucket list”)
Sending light and love to all this April morn.
Fill the bucket to the brim and dive in! ✌🏼
Iceland is just amazingly beautiful. Be sure to go to the Blue Lagoon. Even though it’s rather touristy, it’s still just a fabulous experience to be floating around in there, and swim up to a little bar in the middle and get a nice drink, then float around some more… I absolutely loved it and they have a very nice gift shop there with interesting scented products, mud soap or face cleanser, etc. It’s a fantastic experience.
I bought some Andrea Maak perfume after I came back from Iceland that is supposed to smell like hot springs. I’m not sure it does, but I can send you a sample if you send me your address. I am luannedot teall at the gee mail dot com.
1.kenzo eau d’ete
2.anything green…
3.lilacs, en passant
4.the return of warm weather and being able to work in the garden
I did a little garden work today, but more sitting on the porch looking at all the garden work that needs doing
1. Vanille Insensee. Yep, it’s a work weekend for me.
2. Hmm…I’m gonna go with the new Chanel 1957, it’s lovely.
3. Tulips. Preferably of the red, fuschia or purple variety.
4. My daughter and I spent a week in the sunshine state visiting my parents last week and it was fantabulous! We did lots of fun things. Horseback riding on the beach (my daughter was grinning from ear to ear), sea kayaking, sightseeing and many long walks on the beach looking for seashells. We had perfect weather: mid 70’s, low humidity and sun, sun, and more sun!😎 It’s amazing what a restorative effect it has on the psyche.
It does sound like a fUntabulous week
Did you wear any perfumes that now you’ll associate with this trip?
I did! Both Atelier Pacific Lime and TF Eau de Soleil Blanc. But mostly I wore Eau de Neutrogena Beach Defense spf 70, lol, which actually does smell pretty good!
Happy to hear you had such a good time! Your Instagram photos were fabulous.
Thank you! I haven’t taken a “real” vacation in years! It felt great.
Your trip sounds fabulous!
It really was.☺️
That sounds so great. What beach were you on in FL?
We spent time on Windmark Beach, Cape San Blas and Indian Pass. All on the panhandle gulf coast.
1. SOTD Mohur Extrait, just because it came round in the rotation. So pretty.
2. Rainy day scent Apres l’Ondee. Also, so pretty.
3. Early spring flower hyacinths. There were some near my front door but the chickens have done them in, so I indulge in forced hyacinth plants from the grocery store. Right now I have white ones on the dining room windowsill, which are lightly scented. I got some pink ones 3 weeks ago which were powerful enough to scent the entire house at their peak.
4. I listen to books on tape during my commute. Last week I listened to Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s Good Omens. It was very funny, with some excellent wry one-liners, as I expected, but I did not expect that it would be such a thought provoking exploration of human nature. As such, it joins my shortlist of books that have helped me be a better human being. And John Hamm is the angel Gabriel in the upcoming TV production – icing on the cake, so to speak.
Apres l’Ondee is a perfect choice for the rain, you are so right!
Hi, Lucas!
😁😊
I can’t believe it’s finally a weekend! My work week was crazy, and the upcoming one doesn’t promise to be any better. But I’ll survive, and perfumes help, even if wearing one is the only perfume-related activity for which I have time (though I miss reading daily SOTD threads on NST).
Once I get to shower, I’ll start thinking of what to wear: I have a big kind of DIY project planned for today (with a friend’s help), so I need to think of something that goes well with reupholstering
I love mimosa, recently did a week of mimosa perfumes and just published a post about it on my blog, if anyone is interested. My most favorite mimosa perfume from this time around was Amarige Mimosa (a long gone limited edition from 2007). Jo Malone Mimosa & Cardamom is my absolute favorite in this category but I enjoy it even more in Fall.
Have a peaceful weekend everyone!
Hope you have a great weekend and that your DIY project will go well.
I know your work gets super busy quite often but I hope it’ll calm down for you soon, I (we) miss your brilliant blogging.
I have a DIY tax return preparation weekend. I hope your project goes well!
1. Closing out my Gallivant discovery week with Berlin after my shower.
2. When it rains I like to go for comfort scents, my favorite category. Lately that’s been Alien Essense Absolue since that’s the last one I’ve bought
3. Tulips! But I don’t know if I could even name a tulip perfume, much less have a favorite.
4. Hmmm we went to see Shazam last night! Loved it. I grew up reading comics and even to me the Marvel movies are starting to feel same-y and exhausting, so it’s nice to see DC upping their game. It was fun, scary, had a lot of heart with well-earned cheering. The 8ish year old next to me just found his favorite movie, he was feeling the full range of human emotion last night.
Meeting another friend for Pet Semetary tonight. 🐱💀
1. Omnia
2. Frangipani by Lili Bermuda
3. Mimosa
4. Baking a Proust favorite, any guesses?
4. I bet it starts with an “M”!
1. What fragrance are you wearing today?
-Smell Bent Gypsy
2. What’s your favorite fragrance for a rainy day in April?
-See above.
3. What’s your favorite spring flower, and if you have a favorite perfume based on that flower, what is it?
-Tulip. Not the fancy ones. The slim, minimalistic one. Any color, any flavor. I don’t associate any scent with them, and don’t really want if need anperdume based on them. I just like to look at them. I find them delicate, but stately and I like that juxtaposition.
4. Share something wonderful with us! It can be anything — a great movie you saw, something delicious you ate, something fun you did recently — really, anything.
-Found a great book the other evening about the major highways in Alaska which highlights day and weekend trips off specific highway highlighted in the chapter. The roads range from paved two lane to one sketchy 4×4 only lane. It details not only most recent road conditions, but also hiking trails, what type of wildlife populateds the area at what time year, and other stopping points like family owned generational stores, markets, and gas stations. Also, he gives very important gas information regarding the need to bring along an extra 5-10 gallons. Other welcome advice is how to start walking out in case your vehicle dies because you will be out of any type of coverage area. Now I know what to put in my survival bag, besides bear spray! 😉
I also decided to suck it up and pay for an In Reach Mini.
Love your number three!
Tulips? I see many people here favor them. Interesting since they don’t have any discernible odor. At least, nothing I can really detect, other than that fresh plant smell.
I’m happy just to look at them. I have pretty severe allergies during spring so tulips are good for me. A bunch of yellow tulips in a cobalt blue glass vase is stunning. For smell, I’d go with lilacs but I can’t bring them in the house if I want to breathe. 🤧
Oh, I’m glad you can enjoy them without starting your allergies screaming!🌷
https://boisdejasmin.com/2013/05/holland-tulip-experience-visiting-keukenhof-gardens.html#more-15931
Another great tulip story!
Gypsy is a good one. Alaska envy here!
Well, I’m not there yet, so I’m not counting my chickens. This is still very much in planning stages. And since I’m so old, I could keel over any minute and never even step foot in the state…😳
Can you also work in Canada with your US qualifications?
Yes, although I’m sure I would need to take some type of equivalency exam. Even here in the US, before each new contract there’s hours of testing involved, and most often, you’re not paid for that time, which ticks me off.
There are international travel nurse agencies, and I have known a few women who have done that in the past. It’s not something I’m interested in, but I can see how it would appeal to serious nomads.
Re: Bears–In 2015, a couple of friends of mine and I did an REI hiking trip from Fairbanks to Deadhorse along the Dalton Highway. There were loads of bears, some as close to me as 100 feet or so, but they all ran off without me having to do anything. I was glad to have bear spray but happy I never had to use it.
Agree! Hope I never have to use it. Not overly concerned about myself, but more for T-Rex who is the perfect amuse bouche sized snack. 😳 There is definitely safety in numbers, too, but we’ll be mostly by ourselves.
Everything you’ve done in the past two (?) years is leading you towards your goal. I don’t think you can overprepare!
Well, I should be more prepared physically, for sure. But I have has this weird inflammatory response going on that has taken the wind right out of my sails. If I tried to outrun a tortoise, I’m doomed! Lol!
SOTD = Prada Infusion de Vetiver EDP
I lucked out on its efficiency!
✅ It’s the answer to questions #1 and #2 (even though today is a gorgeous sunny day which it also perfectly fits)
✅ I am starting early for next week’s CP – This is the platonic ideal of a unisex light green citrus floral.
I don’t have a favorite flower as a flower, regardless of season.
Something good — It’s a gorgeous sunny day (I know I already said that but it feels good to say it again)!
In other news, Starbucks is changing its Rewrds program effective April 16. Currently, 125 stars = 1 reward which you can use towards any food and drink. The new program has more variations ranging from 50 stars for any size brewed coffee to 400 stars for select merchandise that doesn’t exceed $20. It’s generally not a positive change for me so I will just adjust my redemption to what is most advantageous to me.
It’s tax prep weekend for me…let’s see if I get at least enough to upgrade my iPad mini. Mine is so old that it cannot accept OS upgrades anymore. I think the size is perfect!
Totally agree on the Starbucks reward changes. 50 stars seems like a lot for a plain old coffee. I always saved mine for the occasional day when I either needed a venti something or other, or needed one of the protein boxes for lunch. (I’m probably one of the reasons they changed it!)
Yay for number one! 🌞
I’m having the sane problem with my Ipad. I just have no idea what to replace it with. It’s so painfully sliw that I’ve mostly stopped using it.
Have you tried doing a hard reboot? Just hold the on/off button down until the Apple logo appears.
Yes, I’ve tried rebooting. Some techie guy told me that 🍎 slowed down the OS on older models so they can’t update. Just as you said. Too bad because other tgan that, it woild be fine.
That showing down to force one to upgrade should be considered a criminal act!
And just to clarify, I am referring to the button on the side of the impassion and not the home / fingerprint-recognition button.
I know…I had my Ipad for several years.
I need to check that one out.
Sunday morning is coming, and I’ve promised myself I will! file! my! tax! return!
Happy Saturday, perfume peeps!
1) FM Une Rose—because it’s a *red* rose and has the number 1 in the name—for my UA Cats (see 4, below).
2) What is a “rainy day”?? 🌵☀️🔥😜
3) Creosote flowers. But those don’t
really have a scent, so lily of the valley. Diorissimo.
4) I’m currently sitting in McKale Center, where my Wildcats are going to take on Northwestern (also cats, but whatevs) in the WNIT Final at 3:00EDT!!! 🏀 If you’ve got CBS Sports Network, put it on and say howdy!🙂
What are you wearing so I can spot you?
I was the one in the red Arizona shirt. You mean you didn’t see me?😜 (I was behind the UA bench but up out of the camera shot, so you wouldn’t have been able to.)
PS, we won! 🏆
https://twitter.com/WomensNIT/status/1114633459853484032
1. Commando at the moment, but just got my 30ml of
Cap Neroli so may spray that just because, new.
2. Apres l’Ondee
3. Hyacinth. Probably AG Grand Amour.
4. We have three trips coming up – Clearwater Beach for spring break (Easter week); my 30th (am I really that old?) college reunion over Memorial Day weekend; and a trip to San Francisco in June – my son would like to see Stanford so we will do that in addition to visiting friends in SF and a side trip to Monterey to visit one of my husband’s former clients who is a good friend. (Where do I perfume shop in San Francisco – I will probably only have time for one or two stops.) Looking forward to the change in scenery!
4. Fun! (a) My 10-year college reunion is coming up this June! I have similar feelings of “am I really that old?” myself. (b) Make sure you go to Tigerlily in SF! The owner is incredibly lovely and I have had many wonderful experiences there. Have fun down at Stanford
We’re just a few miles away from it and I go back to campus all the time. The campus is so beautiful; I hope you’ll enjoy the visit. Palo Alto has some good perfume options, too.
For your second stop in SF, try ZGO. It’s not that far from Tigerlily.
I love hyacinth and lilac in spring. En Passant and Un Couer di Mai are great representations of both. Shopping Sephora’s online store today. Not sure what I am going to be wearing today, perfume wise. Maybe some vintage BaV in extrait form or vintage Miss Dior.
Hyacinths are gorgeous, such a haunting smell. It’s amazing how they smell better to me at a distance, up close they can be almost too much though still captivating.
1) SL La Mryrhe from the swapmeet! Goregeous!
2) I have a few but my favorite scent for a rainy spring dat is Satori, Satori.
3) I really love all spring flowers but my favorite is probably daffodils, no tulips, I really need them both. 🌸🌷🌻🌼🌺
Oops, something good… We’re having a gorgeous warm sunny day here. The sun!
Also retail therapy with discounts recently!
Hi Petunia, La Myrrh for the win! I love that juice. Finally, warm sunny days here as well!
I love it!
I get more than my fair share of wonderful moments but on Friday I had to pick Alex up from his work and I was feeling a bit grumbly about it as I was preparing dinner and the thought of drving into town, traffic blah blah. Anyway, I arrived at university and in the midst of all the high-rise buildings, concrete, car parks where he works was a tree full of roosting starlings. The noise was breath taking, a wall of sound and yet when you lok into the tree you can barely spot a single bird. I remember when I lived in Wellington there would be random starling filled trees on the side of the busiest streets, often trees that were close to street lights so the birds would be singing after dark. It is really a roar of bird call. Magic. Favourite autumn flower has to be the smell of fallen leaves though the bracken is glorious both in colour and scent ( roasted peanut skins, earth, leather). Ostara is a favorite autumn scent and Mitsouko. I saw a nice documentary on netflix about four women who rowed from USA to Australia, and a good book is Gone Went Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck…set in Berlin.
The doco is Losing Sight of Shore
That’s such a great pick-me-up!
a roar of bird call
that is magical
thank you, Kanuka
Good morning all! We seem to have taken a short cut through autumn, and are suddenly in winter – it’s really cold! I’m in Fille en Aiguilles for some nicely scented Sunday morning housework, and it’s good for a rainy autumn day.
My favourite spring flower is daffodils, although I think I like pretty much everything that suggests spring. I haven’t found a narcissus perfume I really like, I love Caron’s Narcisse Noir, but that’s not narcissus. Hiram Green’s Dilettante is similar, and quite lovely.
On the subject of wondedful, I could go on some more about my trip to Europe, but I’ll spare you that
On a sombre subject, I’ve been catching up on NST over the month I was away, I’ve reached mid-March, and have been reading your comments on the tragedy in Christchurch. Thank you for your kind words and thoughts. It is the worst event to ever happen in New Zealand, I learnt about it when I woke up in the morning in Lisbon, and was devastated. It is a dreadful, dreadful thing for the people involved, and it has changed our whole country.
I feel for you and all of New Zealand very much. Yours is such a peaceful and decent country, and that precious balance has been cruelly disturbed.
Yes, it was really a horrible tragedy, BUT it was also incredibly inspiring. It was amazing to see a head of state take such direct and immediate action and to address a tragedy so gracefully.
Tell us more about Europe!
1. Bottega Venteta today, as it was grey and cold this morning
2. funnily i reach for my decant of Amouage Bracken Woman, don’t know why
3. i love to buy the first narcissus flowers for the table, or just some not so fancy tulips (a bundle usually costs about 2€ in Germany in spring, so every weekend i buy a new one in the season
4. tomorrow i will go to London with a girlfriend to do some sightseeing and shopping for 5 days. Luckily i am over the jetlag after 3 days from my japan holidays. still have 10weeks free. any suggestions where i should go?
On your 4: how exciting! Have you been before? There are fabulous museums. National Gallery of Art is at the tops in my book; Tate Modern gets all the tourists and has lots of modern art, but I find it too enormous, weirdly organised, and am overall less impressed by the collection. Still, it’s picturesque there and you do get great views across the river of the whole city from their upstairs restaurant. My favourite museum is actually the Victoria and Albert for its eccentricity and also it has a marvellous gift shop and really fun outdoor courtyard to relax in and have tea and snacks. All the parks are beautiful and wonderful to stroll in, but I particularly love Regent’s Park. But Hyde Park is great and not too far from the major shops including Harrod’s. Both Harrod’s and Liberty (in another part of town unfortunately) have splendid perfume selections. On my last visit I was at a conference where they’d arranged a sunset Thames cruise. The idea seemed sort of kitschy to me but it turned out to be really great fun. We had drinks and a dinner on the little boat and it gave you a very good sense of the layout of the city, while being relaxing. London is big and spread out, and while the Tube gets you everywhere, it can be very hot and crowded. Going places by taxi is expensive and slow. I usually have a good sense of direction, but even with a good map I find London challenging to navigate in, as it’s got so many little small streets and places that curve around a lot. St. Martin-in-the-Fields always has nice concerts on including candlelight ones, and is easy to get to, but the real Londoners prefer concert-going at Wigmore Hall. You will see tip-top performers there and a very discerning audience (this is classical music). I’m not so into theatre and so will leave others to comment on that.
I haven’t been to London in a long time but visited there often in the late nineties. I so agree on Tate Modern. Love the building and that wonderful turbine hall, but the collection is not great somehow.
Calypso has already given you some great suggestions. My favourite museum by far was The National Gallery as well. I also really enjoyed The National Portrait Gallery and the British Museum.
Two really nice small museums are the Courtauld Gallery and Sir John Soanes Museum. The former is closed for redevelopment (the paintings are currently shown in Paris) but the latter can be visited. I loved the area around Covent Garden and also like bits of Oxford Street and Regent Street. My favourite department store in London is Liberty’s. I think both Nicolaï and Ormonde Jayne have shops near there as well.
The Nicolaï shop is somewhere else entirely. Nowhere near Regent Street, Ormonde Jayne is close by.
I suggest Lisbon and Barcelona!
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/united-kingdom/england/london/articles/londons-most-unusual-museums/
I hope this above list might give some ideas
I have enjoyed the art at Leighton
The Freud Museum, Keats house near Hampstead heath, and Dickens’ house
The Geffrye museum…which is a museum of homes from 1600 through to present day ( rooms in period style inside an Alms house)
The Egyptian collection …it’s in the list in the link
Also gardens for peace and quiet ( and often free ). I remember a japanese rooftop garden that was great. Graveyards!
Yes, seconding the Geffrye museum , so wonderful and unique!
my favorite grocery store sells yellow daffodils very cheaply throughout the spring. I buy them every week like you do. they are so happy
99 cents at Trader Joes!
yep! TJ’s is my florist.
1. What fragrance are you wearing today? I put on Chanel No. 5 body oil and a bit of the body crème to go grocery shopping. | felt way more classy and dressed up than I actually was.
2. What’s your favorite fragrance for a rainy day in April? ISM or Prada Iris Absolue; any iris, really!
3. What’s your favorite spring flower, and if you have a favorite perfume based on that flower, what is it? My favorite spring flower has to be Bleeding Hearts. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a perfume based on them, but I imagine it would be quite green and earthy. Oh, and I love violets; they are starting to flower in my front bed, so cute creeping along the soil. I will have to get my SL Bois de Violette out for tomorrow!
4. Share something wonderful with us! It can be anything — a great movie you saw, something delicious you ate, something fun you did recently — really, anything. On Netflix now is the new season of The Santa Clarita Diet. Drew Barrymore is so funny in it; and Nathan Fillian makes appearances once in awhile. Very campy and good to make you laugh out loud. Just don’t think about it too much.
Thank you, I am looking for a new show & will check out Santa Clarita Diet, had not even heard of it.
1. I’m wearing Parfum d’Empire Equistrius which actually is supposed to evoke the breath of a horse and not the smell of its skin or its stable. Or so M. Cortichiato describes in my new Favourite Book, Sentir, Ressentir.
2. I love wearing green(ish) florals in spring, rainy day or not. So Le Chèvrefeuille, Eau du Ciel, Weekend à Deauville, Cristalle, Perle de Mousse.
3. DAFFODILS (sorry about the capital letters, but that is how strongly I feel about these flowers. My favourite perfume featuring Daffodils is probably Ostara, with Le Temps as a very close second, while I also adore Myths Woman, La Haie Fleurie (it only has a jonquille note, but it’s very much there) and VCA First.
4. My last trip to Paris, a week ago, including my first visit to Versailles. I had already been to Fontainebleau and Vaux-le-Vicomte, but this time I did manage Versailles. In spite of the crowds, I absolutely loved it. It was gorgeous spring weather and especially the gardens were very hard to leave behind.
Paris itself was pretty great as well.
Re: #1- Ah, I totally get that now. I always got new saddle and flowers from it, nothing so animalistic as the horse itself. What an eye opener. Can you tell a little more about the book?
Angela describes it here so much better than I can.
https://nstperfume.com/2019/03/18/sentir-ressentir-smell-feel-perfume-book-review/
DAFFODILS deserve CAPITOL letters
+1 for Ostara!
1. I’m wearing AA Liquid Dreams again since it’s one of only two I have here with me at the rehab place. It’s growing on me: one of those somewhat indefinite scents that is hard to pin down, lightly green and floral, but just somehow bright, natural, and uplifting. A friend plans to bring me more things from home tomorrow and I’m trying to decide what perfume(s) to request her to bring. It’ll seem weird to ask for a lot but I miss having a variety to choose from.
2. I’m thinking Delrae Debut for this. I associate it with spring because it has lily-of-the-valley. It’s also citrusy and green.
3. Gardenia, which blooms here in late spring, i.e., later this month. No perfume measures up, but one I do like that does well by some aspects of the overall spectrum is Roja Dove Scandal.
4. First of all, my mom and I are finally in our new rehab center, which is not very fancy but seems to have much more caring and attentive staff, so we hope we’re on the way to recovery. And second, I found some good mysteries here in the lending library that I’d not heard of before, by Frances Brody, with the heroine Kate Shackleton, a private investigator in Britain post WWII. They seem well-written and interesting, and much in the mode of the Jacqueline Winspear Maisie Hobbs mysteries (indeed from the cover art you’d think they were IN the same series).
Maisie Dobbs, should be.
Glad you’re out of the hospital and now in rehab!
I hope you are both getting stronger by the day.
yes! to recovering in better surroundings.
and thank you for the book recommendation. I like the Maisie Hobbs series, so something new in that style is a treat.
I am wearing En Passant. This morning it was raining buckets, but then we had an interlude of sunshine. It has clouded over again and it’s supposed to rain another inch by tomorrow. I will stay in and read.
I don’t think I have a favorite rainy day fragrance. Here in Portland, well, they are just everyday fragrances!
I could not tell you a spring flower from a winter flower, but based on everybody else’s answers I will say lilac, and Desarmant is my favorite lilac perfume, followed by Roja Dove Lilac extrait and En Passant.
Wonderful something…I recently discovered that The Moth has put some of their talks into book form. I had never heard of The Moth before I saw the book in the library, but I loved the essays. They are very short, four or five pages usually, and are lovely snippets of human behavior. Some make me laugh and others, cry, but I am never unmoved in some way.
That is nice hearing about The Moth having a book out. I used to listen to their stories every Saturday and agree with you that many of them, most in fact, are quite moving. It’s a unique kind of art form that certain people are amazingly talented at. Of course it’s nice to hear them tell them in their own voices but I’m also going to try to get hold of that book. Thanks for the tip.
Favorite Spring flowers: Daffodils, Jonquils, Narcissus, IRISES of every type and Lilies and tulips and hyacinths and I could just keep going…..
A rainy day spring scent: Apres d’ L’Ondee,
I am just returning from Florida and reveling in my perfume shelf:
wearing Dryad, Io, Larmes des Ors, Ella.
Trouble, … this is GREAT fun!
It’s good to be home.
Happy Weekend All!
Aren’t spring flowers magical? I love them all like you.
Irises!
1. Andrea Maack Coven
2. Coven fits in well on a rainy day – sweet loamy earth, soil, and grass with a whiskey note. Also, Ostara, La Pluie, L’air de Rien, Figue Amere, Bat.
3. I actually love grape hyacinths. I think the grape note that I get in Seville au L’Aube matches them pretty well. Also, daffodils or narcissus. For that, Ostara or Romanza.
4. Last weekend I worked on a cute project for my nephew. He’s in 2nd grade and asked if he could mail me a letter and if I would write back. He’s in Ohio, and I’m in Washington. So when I got the letter, it contained this laminated picture of a little boy called Flat Stanley. Some of you may have heard of this. I was asked to take Flat Stanley on an adventure and take pictures of him. So I took him to the Fremont Troll, a rocket ship statue in the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle, the houseboats on Lake Union, and the lake. I told a story in the letter of the adventure he had involving arriving in Seattle in the rocket ship with some friendly alien trolls and their search for the Fremont troll. I’m pretty proud of the little story I thought up. I just mailed off the letter and pictures today. I hope he and his class like it!
I’m envisioning a who series of children’s books based on Flat Stanley authored by therabbitsflower…!
Absolutely!! How Adorable!
Flat Stanley inspires so many wonderful adventures.
You are an awesome aunt!
I love Flat Stanley!
1. SL La Fille de Berlin courtesy of the wonderful Koyel!
2. still looking for one!
3. MOUNTAIN LAURELS! The trees bloom all over the city and have a lovely, powdery-sweet smell, and the seeds that drop in the summer are bright red and hard as rocks.
4. I don’t know any frags with mountain laurel, so I tried to do a coconut oil based extraction with the flowers and was partially successful!!! I think I need 4 or 5 batches of flowers to get the kind of intensity I want, but I left the last batch for too long and the whole thing started smelling fermented. Then we got a freeze that killed off the rest of the blossoms, so I’ll have to wait for next year to try again, but in the mean time I’m reading up on enfleurage.
that’s marvelous! I adore the scent of Laurel so much, I wanted to name my daughter Laurel, but her father wouldn’t have it. Oh well, she is my Annie and her name fits her perfectly.
Believe it or not, my grandfather’s name was Laurel. It sounds so feminine now, but apparently in 1901 it was a male name.
SotD = Jardins de Bagatelle because BWF FTW!
I have bouquets of jasmine and orange blossoms on my desk. I’m dizzy-woozy-intoxicated by the scents around me.
“Some are born mad,
some achieve madness, and
some have madness thrust upon ’em.”
rainy scent = PHI une rose de Kandahar, I wore it on a rainy day (in March). It blooms beautifully in cool, moist air.
“A rose
by any other name
would smell as sweet.”
favorite spring bloom = narcissus, which goes with Ostara I guess. I love the story of Narcissus, son of the river god and a water nymph.
“each time he knelt beside my banks,
I could see,
in the depths of his eyes,
my own beauty reflected.”
Wonderful = I am quietly-slowly-methodically cleaning out closets and cupboards. It feels wonderful to let go. Many things in my home have overstayed their welcome. The empty space feels perfect for spring.
“The usefulness
of a cup
is in its emptiness.”
Hope everyone is having a fantastic weekend. I’m enjoying a slow pace, recovering from a virus that led to walking pneumonia. Boo!
My family lost a parakeet last week, he had a seizure disorder of some kind, which we did our best to treat. It’s hard to medicate such a tiny little body. He lived 18 months. Our avian vet told me she was surprised he lived so long, and assured me he was better off for our care.
I have quotes on my brain, and when we said goodbye to our little bird friend, I buried him in the yard, I kept thinking of Horatio’s words:
“goodnight, sweet prince
and flights of angels
sing thee to thy rest”
What’s your favorite quote, saying, aphorism?
tiffanie, I hope you are feeling better, pneumonia is scary! I have alot of favorite quotes too, but only have time for one right now. ” you were once wild here, don’t let them tame you” Isadora Duncan.
hey, lillyjo, thank you, I am feeling better after a low-key weekend. GREAT quote.
I just read this and, somewhat to my surprise, it opened the door to decades-old memories of the parakeet I had as a kid. My “own” first pet. I got to pick it out from the bunch at the shop, name it, feed and water it, clean its cage, and occasionally give it exercise by letting it fly around the room (it never really mastered that). Then I got to mourn its passing. Wow, that still touches me. Let me pay this little tribute to So-so, in this little corner of the universe, all these years later.
my own first pet too, SFGuy.
that’s a lovely remembrance, SFguy, thank you. So-so still lives in your heart and memory.
So sorry about your walking pneumonia (SO exhausting) and your parakeet, tiffanie!
thank you, Robin. Last week wasn’t all bad. Life can be exhausting and exhilarating!
I tested the fairly new Houbigant Essence Rare by Jean-Claude Ellena. It was nice, but fleeting. It didn’t make the impact I was expecting, which may be a good thing because of the price point.
My favorite fragrance for a rainy April (lately) has been the gorgeous tobacco that is Diptyque’s Volutes.
My favorite (late) spring flower is the Peony. I like Gucci Flora, although I don’t own it.
I got to see my sister, who is in town visiting this weekend. We went perfume sniffing and I helped her pick out a gift for our other sister: Jasmins Marzipane by Lancome. She also bought TF’s Jasmine Musk. I was really disciplined and didn’t buy anything. Anything!
It’s great your sisters love perfume too!
I haven’t tested many by Houbigant but I do like Orangers en Feurs.
Love peonies! Rose de Siwa has a noticeable peonie note.
Perfume sniffing with your sister Sounds like fun even without buying!
1. What fragrance are you wearing today?
Yesterday: Bvlgari “Blv pour Homme” with a side order of drain cleaner.
Today – Tauer “Lonestar Memories” with a side order of voltarol for a sore lower back.
2. What’s your favorite fragrance for a rainy day in April?
– I think Alvarez Gomez “Agua de Colonia Concentrada” would be pretty good, or Amouage “Sunshine Man”, with a little reminder of warmth through spiced-up citrus.
3. What’s your favorite spring flower, and if you have a favorite perfume based on that flower, what is it?
– Not really a Spring flowers person; in Birmingham I used to turn my back on my garden from November to Easter because it was just too unrewarding being outdoors. I love seeing the early year cycle through snowdrops to coocuses to daffodils, but that’s a colour thing and not a sent thing (for me).
4. Share something wonderful with us!
Latest annual refund from selling our house was the TV licence fee for the rest of the year, £120-odd which I have spent on a 50ml bottle of Amouage “Interlude Man” from Notino.nl That is my favourite perfume and up to now I have kept going on a succession of decants. I’m actually a little apprehensive that having a FB will cause me to value it less (it happens!).
Less wonderfully, after several months of exercising too little and eating too much, my back is giving me grief. Must do better!
The Bvlgari above, apart from being utterly undistinguished as a perfume, was the end of a 5ml mini bottle. But NST folks, how can we claim in all seriousness to “thunk” a bottle so small? I hereby propose the Koenigsberg Universal Scale of Perfume Completion ™.
1-2ml “tink”
2-5ml “clink”
5-10ml “tap”
10-20 ml “thunk”
20-35ml “Thunk”
35-50ml “Thunk!”
50-75ml “THUNK”
75-100 ml “THUNK!”
For every 100ml or part of 100ml over 100ml, add an exclamation mark. E.g when I finish my 1 litre bottle of Etat Libre d’Orange “Bourgeoisie épatée” I will have a THUNK!!!!!!!!!!
Whaddya think? :^D
I think your proposal is very sound, and hilarious!
I hope your back feels better soon and that you don’t lose interest in your new bottle 😀
I have often thought the same. Enjoy your new bottle!
All you need for a thunk is a metal waste basket that is still empty (as in a hotel room bathroom which was where I first heard it. It is pretty much the thunk sound of something hitting metal.
Regarding valuing the perfume less because you now have a FB — the solution is to keep decanting into your own atomizers and let TOMK hide the FB. When your decant runs out, TOMK decides when to get it out for you to replenish your decant.
Hmmm. So you are postulating that the empty bottle is merely the trigger and it is the bin that thunks? I think we need to write our respective scientific papers and present at some weird conference or other. The Koenigsberg Universal Scale of Perfume Completion ™ versus The Hajusuuri Constant Thunk Hypothesis ™ – and may the best paper win.
I like your FB solution! :^D
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It turns out you can easily unsubscribe and the way to do it is put into the e-mails themselves and it’s not on this page anywhere.
Sorry again for probably superfluous posting here but others might want/need to know sometime, too.
The other way is to ask me to unsubscribe you, although probably faster to take care of it yourself
Sorry though!
1. I put on some Knize Ten this morning.
2. Most of my favorites are not particularly seasonal so any one of them would do. The K10 would suit me.
3. For appearance: tulips — so many colors, shapes, variations. For fragrance: I have to go with those who have mentioned lilacs.
4. When news of her recent passing reached me I went on an Agnès Varda binge. “Faces Places” (“Visages Villages”) struck me as absolutely exquisite.
1. Sweet William
2. En Passant for rainy and Gris Clair for foggy and rainy.
3. Lilacs and lily-of-the-valley. When I got married, the little white Gothic church in the country was filled with lilacs that my husband and the groomsmen had picked that morning, and the tables at the reception had bouquets of LOV that I had picked.
4. All my hair fell out this week. I know that sounds like a bad thing, but it means that the chemo is working. Plus, there is a local charity called Hopespring where they GAVE me 2 wigs and a whole bunch of hats and scarves. Can you imagine such generosity? Incredible.
You’re wedding sounds so beautiful, those flowers must have smelt exquisite!
What generosity and kindness indeed- I’m so glad to hear that you’re chemo is working. I hope you enjoy the scarves, hats and wigs!
Yes the smell around your wedding reception must have been gorgeous and memorable!
I’m sorry about your hair but admire your positive attitude. That’s great about the wigs and scarves. I hope everything will work out with your treatment.
Thanks for checking in, ScentSpirit! It’s great that you have a positive attitude. Echoing others’ comment that your wedding venues must have smelled gorgeous!
Yay for chemo working! And having a choice of wigs
Good luck with your treatment and recovery.
Best of luck with your chemo, Scent Spirit!
SOTD is FM Iris Poudre.
Favourite spring flower: Dafodil, favourite perfume with that note:
L’Temp d’une Fete, followed by Ostara.
Wonderful thing: Finishing my job on Friday, and enjoying my last day, also never having to see my boss again!
Today I was signed off for clinical placement by my tutor. (I’m a Psycotherapy student).
Congratulations, on several accounts!
Thanks apsara!
that’s great news Mayfly!!
Thanks calypso!
Oops! Wrong way round!
SOTD is LV Rose de vents? I think that’s the name, I didn’t have my glasses on. A friend gave me a coffrett of all the LV fragrances. This is very light and pretty but not for over 200 clams.
Diptyque is just fine.
SOTD = Lush Smell of Wearher Turning
Mine is pre-reformulated (I think it’s wrong to call it vintage). Anyway, it was burnt rubber and bubble gum in the opening and dried down to a sweet incense and tobacco.
For those wondering…I changed my avatar because the sweet doggo crossed the rainbow bridge almost 2 months ago. The current avatar is a picture I took of the clock at the Musee d’Orsay (Paris). I’ll stick with this for now as it fits the circle and is timeless eventhough it’s a clock.
No! I was wondering about that yesterday. That was your brother’s dog, no? I’m so sorry. I think your new avatar is an excellent choice.
Commando perfume-wise this weekend. I may try something lemony on a rainy day. The weatherpeople in Philadelphia tell us that we’re getting a rainy day tomorrow.
When it comes to spring flowers, my favorite can be what’s blooming at the time. I appreciated seeing the crocus come up. It gave me hope that winter would end. Now I’m enjoying the daffodils, and the hyacinths are starting to bloom. The tulips should be up soon. For fragrances, I like lilac and lily-of-the-valley the best for spring flowers. The Judd viburnum is very nice, too.
Virburnum smells heavenly when it blooms.
Yes, some kinds of viburnum are wonderfully fragrant, aren’t they? I know that the Judd viburnum is a cross between two other viburnums. Korean spice viburnum is one of the “parents” in the cross. (That also has a delicious scent.)
The scent of my day today was Red Door, and I am impatiently awaiting the arrival of the daffodils in our unit’s little garden. I am mystified because the house next door has them in full (ish) bloom, so, what gives, Mother Nature? *shrugs*