It's Friday, and Robert Allen Zimmerman aka Bob Dylan is 78 today. Our community project for today: match a fragrance to a Bob Dylan song, OR, tell us who YOUR favorite musical artist is and match a fragrance to one of his/her/their songs.
What fragrance did you pick? As always, do chime in with your scent of the day even if you’re not participating in the community project.
I am wearing a little dab of Frédéric Malle Le Parfum de Thérèse for Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands from Blonde on Blonde, 1966. (It is number 27 on the Rolling Stone list of the 100 best Bob Dylan songs. Further reading: How Dylan’s ‘Blonde On Blonde’ created the modern album at Big Mouth Mag, Bob Dylan ‘Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands’ at Sound on Sound.)
Reminder: on 5/31, for World No Tobacco Day, compensate by wearing something smoky (it doesn't have to smell like tobacco in particular).
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.
Not participating in the CP. Wearing and smelling great in Bond No.9 Chinatown.
Happy Friday!
You are indeed smelling great!
Thank you! 😊
I hope you get a chunk of time this weekend to decompress! 😊
Thank you! Happily looking forward to it! I hope you also have a great weekend! 😊
You smell great!
Thank you! 😊
Very happy to hear that you will have time off for the holiday weekend! 👍👍
😀
Big news today. I made it to the short list of candidates who will have a final job interview in 12 days. There’s 6 people left for 2 places and I’m one of them!
Well done!
Yay for you! Fingers still crossed!
Well done! Break a leg!
Congratulations! Would this mean you would move somewhere else? How soon are the final interviews?
That’s great news! Good luck – it sounds nerve-wracking to be *so close* to the end of the process.
Great news! Good luck on that interview!
That’s great! Fingers crossed!
Good luck! May the odds be ever in your favor!🤞
Go Lucasai!
Congrats! 👍🏼
Fingers and toes crossed for you Lucasai!
Good luck!!
Hope you get the job
Congratulations, well done!
Good luck! You’ve done well to make it this far!
Excellent news!
Yay, fingers crossed!
Once upon a time, you dressed so fine……
31 Rue Cambon
Clever match!
Awesome 🖒
😀
Excellent.
*claps*
Robin, I am good with a 6 month birthday check in nod to Bob:)
We might be the only ones
I’m with y’all
Nicely done!
I am wearing Tam Dao for Mr. Tambourine Man. I think that the scent and the song have a similar meditative, dreamy quality – they transport you to another place. Plus, they both have ‘Tam’ in their names.
Also, Mr. Tambourine Man is number 8 on the Rolling Stone list of the 100 best Bob Dylan songs, while Tam Dao is listed as one of Diptyque’s best sellers.
Thanks to all who left kind comments on my Dylan matches this week.
Now that is some well-thought out CPing! You smell great.
Very excellent.
‘Dreamy’ is a good adjective for Tam Dao.
Great matching.
In the jingle-jangle morning, I’ll come following you.
When I was in high school I fell in love with a boy at camp who lived in the south while I lived in the north and we carried on a mostly mix-tape-based relationship for a couple years. I picked a Dylan song from one of those mix tapes, North Country Girl, and have been dithering all week about what perfume would best capture that time in my life. Well last night my question was answered when my order from The Bay That Dare Not Speak Its Name arrived – Body Shop Ananya Oil. I put some on and have NEVER experienced such strong scent nostalgia. I was instantly transported back to my New Jersey bedroom, playing mix tapes and writing love letters.
I’m having the most insane online auction luck lately – I’ve been stalking this Ananya oil for years and finally spotted it for $18, and I’ve got minis of Dior-Dior and vintage Devin winging their way to me for a song. Can someone remind me why we don’t name Online Auction Site? There’s a reason I’ve forgotten, but every time I start to type it I feel like I’m going to summon Voldemort or something.
Tonight I will be LITERALLY transported to my New Jersey bedroom for a visit with the family. I hope everyone’s weekend is likewise filled with good people and, we hope, good weather.
Such a great story!
Ooh, I’ve missed the memo about not mentioning that site. Sorry if I’ve violated the rules!
Still working on mixing Vent Vert with other things to tone down the sweetness. Today it’s Bas de Soie, which is working nicely.
There is no such rule! You can’t mention something you are selling at auction, but otherwise, no rule, and as I mention only so often but then run out of steam, there is likewise no need to say “no affiliation” when you are mentioning something being sold in a store that you don’t own.
I understand, thanks Robin!
What a lovely story <3 Have a good trip to the East Coast
Great story. As for the-place-whose-name-shall-not-be-spoken, no idea on the history at nst, but I sure don’t need more inspiration to go fragrance hunting.
I really love hearing other people’s coincidence stories, and your perfume coincidence is an especially good one! Thanks for sharing.
Great story! What does the perfume smell like?
I want to say kind of a grapey jasmine-ylang? But I’m never great at picking out notes, maybe someone who remembers this one can comment…
Ooh that sounds good.
Oh, I love this story! I miss mix tapes.
I still make mix CDs to mail to my sister once in awhile. She has an old car that only takes CDs.
Gee, my car only takes cassettes!
So retro!
I had the same thing for a while and it was great to re-listen to all the old mixes! Now I have upgraded to a car that only takes CDs and I’m stuck listening to everything I liked between 1995 and 2003.
Right? I always thought mix tapes – despite the cultural stigma of being too cliché for words – were a great way to communicate.
Yeah. Now I’m thinking about the people I used to swap tapes with back in the day. . . sigh.
There was something so intense about listening for all the secret and not-so-secret messages the songs might be trying to convey
Yes! It was all a very important “code.” 😃
I love your story too!
Your story is making me miss mix-tapes, and feel such nostalgia.
What a lovely story.
I’ll admit I had to reverse-engineer my SOTD to fit the CP, but I found a match that works pretty well:
Maria Candida Gentile Hanbury + Bob Dylan’s “Absolutely Sweet Marie”
Partly for the Maria/Marie connection, partly because Hanbury is a “sweet” honey/mimosa scent.
Ah, and you smell fantastic.
Violet Blonde on Blonde. Happy Friday, all!
Twins! I’m a big Dylan fan and BOB is probably my favorite album. Great perfume too, glad I bought a bottle before it was discontinued.
Hi twin! I too am glad I sprang for a (big) bottle when I did – had no idea at the time that it would be d/c’d so soon after.
Lay Lady Lay on Portrait of a Lady.
I thought of choosing that song too, since it’s my favorite by him. I would’ve worn Amoureuse for the musky sexiness of it all.
Caline (Patou) for Queen Jane Approximately.
The first time I hear all of Highway 61 Revisited was at a party in Bloomington, Indiana around 1984. Someone had set up a 16mm projector showing some early Warhol movies and Poor Little Rich Girl with Edie Sedgwick was running when Queen Jane Approximately came on and have associated the Queen Jane in the song with her (though Dylan has said Queen Jane was a guy). Edie Sedgwick wore Caline (I think I read that in the Warhol diaries).
Nice match.
A line from QJA is my iphone ringtone, has been for years
Since I thunked my Caleche edt this morning, I guess I could say it’s the end of the line.
(Team Wilburys)
Nice one!
Ha!
Nice thunk!
The Traveling Wilburys were awesome!
Fabulous! Love both.
SotD = Cologne du 68
SotE = laddm
Wearing two scents today that remind me anyone can wear any scent, any voice can sing any song, if it feels right it is right.
Matching perfumes to Norah Jones singing Bob’s “I’ll be your baby tonight.”
https://youtu.be/Yh4djkouEA8
Norah can sure sing it, and she would smell fantastic in Cd68 and laddm.
And yes, I have a hot date tonight. 😀
Happy birthday, Bob! May you live forever. ❤️❤️
My father is a Bob, love to you too, Daddy!
Norah sure can sing. I took my mom to one of her concerts as a birthday gift one year. We had seats in the 6th row.
Have fun on your hot date!🤩 You smell good!
thanks, madtowngirl! I’m looking forward to Friday night, all right.
and I’m SO jealous, would love to see Norah from the sixth row, WOW!
I like that cover!
it’s a good one! and I love that photo of Bob up top today. Captures his spirit in an interesting way.
tiffanie, you have the neatest, sweetest posts. And you smell fab. Have fun tonight!
thank u, Nancyleandros, you are one of NST’s best!
Go you! Two perfumes, and a hot date in one day? Rowr!
I also love Norah’s version of Bob’s Heart of Mine. Great choices!
I went with a current favorite band, Idles, British punk that I’m seriously in love with. Their most recent album has references to Dirty Dancing (they even cover “Cry to Me”) and Harry Potter and has a sincere song about toxic masculinity. I chose the song of theirs I first heard, “Danny Nedelko.” It’s pro immigrant and pro human really.
https://youtu.be/QkF_G-RF66M
I paired it with Hendley Amora. Hans Hendley is based in New York, which has a huge immigrant population. Amora is unquestionably fruity but also sophisticated. It’s dynamic without being cloying. I think it’s a perfume even those who shy away from fruity perfumes can love. There’s depth and many layers.
Oh, and I’m seeing Idles in concert next Tuesday! I’m SO excited. Let’s hope for no injuries because I can’t hang like I used to.
Enjoy the concert!!
Thanks!
That video made me smile! Thanks!
Yay, glad to hear it!
I am not participating in the CP today in DSH Keni. It smells AMAZING. Now, an hour in, I am mostly getting sparkly cardamom.
We will be heading up to Tomales Bay for the long weekend tomorrow! This has become a favorite place of ours, with the oysters and the kayaking and hikes and elk and magical scenery. Unfortunately, it will be extremely cold (in late May!!! what?!), so we will really have to bundle up. We have ambitions of hitting the road by 7am (difficult for us even on a weekday, nearly impossible on a weekend!), so please wish us luck with that!
Have a great weekend! I am jealous. Haven’t done Tomales oysters in a while. I’ll be getting out in the kayak Monday, weather willing, but over in Sausalito.
Good luck with the early rising, always a challenge for me, too.
Ah, well, I should’ve said that we are not going kayaking this time–not just because it’s so cold (though I’m wimpy enough that that would’ve been a deterrent), but also because I’ve had a lot of wrist issues over the past year, and the pain is just barely under control :-/ But I hope you have wonderful kayaking in Sausalito!!
And thanks
Have a great weekend- kayaking!!👏
Oh, I said this to MissGoldsmith above, but sadly, no kayaking this weekend because of my wrist pain
I was just longingly thinking about past kayaking, from before my wrist went to crap. But it will still be a fun weekend, I hope!
I would like to own more DSH, but she’s so prolific! I don’t know how to choose between all the options!
Oh gosh I totally agree. My favorites right now are Keni and Gingembre, and Oeillet Bengale is pretty great too, but I’ve only tried like 10 of her perfumes total.
Enjoy the kayaking!
Ooops, just saw your comment about not kayaking…enjoy the rest of the weekend, and I hope your wrist feels better.
Hehe
thanks, missionista!
Enjoy your weekend, and have a couple of oysters for me, please! How do you usually enjoy your bivalves?
Thanks, Jalapeno! I sure will. My favorite way is raw, with the teeniest bit of lemon juice, but I am also very fond of grilled oysters! Yum yum, still tender and fleshy and full of flavor.
My favorite Bob Dylan song is A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Come, and I did some mental gymnastics to pair it with Smell Bent Gypsy. My thought process is protest songs – patchouli – but summertime patchouli. It’s too nice a day for a rainy scent!
Your mental gymnastics worked
Well, Patchouli just feels right – seeing how it’s Bob Dylan and all……
Vintage Patchouly, DSH is my SOTD.
Can we just PLEASE have someone in the industry create “Rains of Castamere “ for us in mourning over Game of Thrones……
Happy Holiday All.
I’m with ya, AngelaB.
The scoring to GOT was and is beautiful.
Bravo to everyone who participated in the CP this week. So many clever pairings. My brain stalled on this one, so I didn’t even try.
Today I’m in Zoologist Bat on the right side, Beaver on the left.
That sounds like the beginnings of a rock – paper – scissors game!
Vintage Obsession to pair with INXS’ Mediate. The video for Mediate was inspired by Bob Dylan’s video for Subterranean Homesick Blues. I could watch videos of Michael Hutchence all day. Another artist sadly gone too soon. INXS Kick was my first CD purchase ever in the fall of 1987. Still have it my collection, it’s made many moves throughout the years from it’s start in my dorm room. Obsession was my signature back in the day.
Wow–Obsession and INXS. That’s a huge nostalgia-bomb for me!!!
That Michael Hutchence! 🤩
Oh my heart…. I still get sad everytime I hear INXS. Great video.
That’s a perfect time capsule right there.
Indeed a perfect time capsule. What a memory. INXS had a remarkable and infectious, sexy sound.
Cartier Carat for Joan Baez’ Diamonds and Rust- Bob referential and I love that song. And I’ll add that this perfume goes from sparkly diamond to “rust” or whatever goes south for me in the drydown.
Elisa P, I can listen to this song on repeat for 45 minutes on a treadmill.
And I’m trying to learn it on the ukulele 😀
Good one!
Very nice, I like it.
Great song choice!
I love the pairing. So sorry it goes to rust on the dry down!
Ligne St. Barth Vanille West Indies today.
Another day…another beautiful vanilla 🥰 ….happy Friday!
That one is on the wish list for the next FiF order! You smell great.
Yes, it’s a beauty. Thank you for sharing. I would like to get in on that FiF order if you’re game when the time comes this year. I am not sure what all I will need…but there will probably be multiple vanillas.
I could get to 520 euros by myself but probably I should get there w/ friends. ehaehhe 
Oh and I ordered a big bottle of the Bonbons à la Vanille…another one to thank you for sharing.
Was thinking of Bohemian Rhapsody but wasn’t up for a wearing a patch bomb at work today. I adore Freddie Mercury’s work and don’t see musicians like him anymore. Went with Avignon instead today.
I would want Freddie to wear one of the bighitter femme scents of the day! Something that would make people double take.
Yes!
I’m also a huge Queen fan. What would Freddy wear? Perhaps Vaniglia de Zanzibar?
But I didn’t go see the movie. That guy (the actor) just came across on the trailers as not Freddy enough. Freddy was huge and flamboyant and devil may care. And he could SING.
Trying Blackbird Targa today, as I never got around to it yesterday. Needless to say, not part of the CP, although I keep getting Beatles songs stuck in my head when I reach for a “Blackbird” fragrance.
Last night spritzed ELD’O Remarkable People from the freebies sent with the Blackbird samples. It is an *exact* dupe of EL Sensuous, if scent memory serves me right. So, happy to have my $30 bottle of Sensuous to last me all such needs in this lifetime.
Oh how funny — I did not smell Remarkable People but that just seems fitting.
At first spray, my brain was lighting up with, “Where do I know this? I *KNOW* this!” When I realized it smelled like Sensuous, I had to laugh–I suppose even niche lines need easy sellers to afford to keep the more artsy stuff on the shelves, but it is “remarkable” in its safeness.
As is most of the EldO line, IMHO…they have to keep Secretions Magnifiques in production to justify all the rest.
You smell great! And you’re right on point for next week’s CP!
Wow, it’s funny how differently people can perceive the same perfume. Remarkable People was a horrifyingly bad scrubber on me.
I’m wearing Commodity Book for the song Boots of Spanish Leather and really for that specific album cover with Dylan and Suze Rotolo on the street in Greenwich Village in the 1960s.I think that was the first Bob Dylan album I bought.
Oh I always really loved that song!
Not participating today, I love reading all the clever connections or lovely memories, but got nothing to add.
In Guerlain Liu, because I now am a proud owner of a bee bottle of it. It’s lovely! It does remind me of something in between Chanel 5 and Cuir de Russie (closer to Chanel 5), fairly fleeting but then comes back hours later with a lovely whiff or two. Happy Friday to all!
Those new bottles are gorgeous! Congrats on the new bottle! Do you display it or keep it tucked away?
Bee Bottles*
Good question! The bottle comes with a stopper and an old style bulb atomizer which I was very excited about. The box is also fancy. Initially, I would uncap the bottle, insert the atomizer, spray, take out the atomizer, recap, place back in bottle….but that seems a tad silly so for now it’s sitting out. I will say the bulb sprayer doesn’t actually spray all that well, it’s more of a spritz than a mist.
I’m so glad you finally found your Liu!
P.S. For my bee bottle, I don’t use the bulb, just the ground glass stopper.
I’m happy to hear that you found your Holy Grail Guerlain.
Commando at the moment post shower, but will wear something warming as the weather has gone from a sunny 80F yesterday to a windy, cloudy, cold 50F today. I’m craving SB Smoked Ambergris, so that will probably the one.
SA has a tinge if sadness to me, not sure why, so I’m pairing with the saddest song in my library. I’m a sucker for a good sad song, but you really have to appreciate the beauty of well done despair to enjoy this one. My favorite singer/songwriter is Mark Lanegan, from right here in Washington. He’s one of the few from the grunge scene who didn’t succumb to death, although I’m sure it wasn’t from lack of trying.
His voice is all warm whisky, rough cigarettes, and the rending of the human heart. His lyrics are the darkest poetry. This song is so layered and gut wrenching, it’s a exquisite modern day dirge. At its best, it’s a work of rare poetry sung by a poet who is ready to step off the edge of the earth. At its worst, it’ll make you tear up. You’ve been warned!
Have a great day! 😉
https://youtu.be/SMMaNKkL9PU
I don’t think I’ll click on that, although your description is amazing! I don’t listen to much sad music, but I love a good sad movie. There are movies I’ll watch because I know they’ll make me cry. Sometimes, it’s what I need.
Pretty sure no one will click that link, lol! And yes, sometimes it seems we need something to give us permission to have a good cry. Song, book, movie- whatever it takes, we need to get it out.
I don’t need no dirges to make me cry – these days, I’ll tear up if I just look at a photo of a puppy.
Ha! Puppies and kittens are lethal! They’ll get ya every time. 🐶🐱
I had some pretty crippling depression many years ago, and I remember riding on the city bus and seeing a billboard with a puppy on it. No idea what it was advertising, but I do remember just bursting into tears looking at it. There’s just something about puppies!
I will for sure listen after work. My brother is a huge Lanigan fan. I love the song Carnival.
Carnival is great! Your brother had superb musical taste, which just so happens to coincide with mine. 😂
If I need a good cry, I put on Sufjan Stevens. His song “Casimir Pulaski Day” gets me every time. Lately his “Sleeping Bear, Sault Ste. Marie” gives me lots of homesick feels, as a displaced Michigander.
Yep, that one is very tear inducing. I have a friend who turned me on to him a while back. She is a HUGE fan of his. Thanks for sharing😊
You’ve done your level best to try and give me a Smell Bent lemming!
I do believe they have a Garage Sale coming up soon. Just sayin’…😉
Great song, thanks Deva.
I’m enjoying reading the CP contributions today, I chose Avon Timeless, a vintage bottle chocablock with oakmoss paired with Bob’s Forever Young, may he remain so.
Great song!
It’s a favorite for me too.
You’ve been wearing a lot of the great old Avon classics lately. They had some fantastic stuff back in the day. I don’t know what their current perfume offerings are like, though.
Same here, I simply don’t know about their current scents. It’s Occur! and Timeless which are my go to Avon, these two really are gems and where Timeless remained successful for a reason, and Occur! is so animalic. I ventured to get a floral, Moonwind but it was very non-descript to my nose or perhaps had not aged well, so I did not explore further; the thing is it’s a very inexpensive pursuit, basically bottles can be used as samples as here in the UK, 50ml bottles sell for £2 or £3.
Agonist Hope for Gabrielle’s Rise which uses a riff from Knockin’ On Heavens Door.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ic2H5rzXyBk
Thank you, I had never heard that!
I’m a little surprised at the lack of love/interest in Dylan; perhaps it’s generational? He was an icon for me back in my Catholic High school days’ participation in YCS, Young Christian Students, dedicated to social justice for all. The power of music to take you right back!
Blowin’ in the Wind (as pertinent today as it was when first written) and Balmain Vent Vert (1991 vintage) are the perfect match for me today; I didn’t even have to think twice about it. And, thanks to rain, rain, and more rain, the only positive outside my window besides the birds is that my world is GREEN! so today’s fragrance suits the day as well. Love that galbanum!
Wishing everyone a wonderful weekend ahead!
That is such a great match!
I feel like a lot of the no-thanks-Bob-Dylan comments I’ve seen here this week are about his voice, which I understand, although personally I find something extra wonderful in unbeautiful voices singing strange and poetic lyrics (the Mountain Goats are another favorite).
Agreed!
Well done!
I tried really hard to match one of my perfumes to a Dylan song. Mainly I tried with Like a Rolling Stone and Rainy Day Women. I had fun searching out new stuff and revisiting The Band. Ultimately, none of my perfumes seemed to work. I’m just blanketing all the songs in Lyric.
I really enjoy reading everyones picks.
Glad it was fun anyway!
Lyric is a great default choice for any music related CP.
This is one of the rare cp that I am not participating in. SOTD is Equistrius. My bottle is getting low. I hope to finish it this year.
Congrats on your upcoming bottle THUNK!
In Labdanum 18, because, you know, I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now… (My Back Pages . . .)
Drops the mic.
Good one!
Nicely done!
I love that song. Nice pairing!
A couple of weeks ago you featured a Tiger Who Came for Tea teapot and Judith Kerr, the author, died yesterday aged 95. She had an incredible life story.
I have loved this project. this week we have got out the electric guitars and amp and set up in the living room and annoyed the teenager with our Dylan concerts. He might not smile much when he plays but we roared with laughter. Last night we watched Easy Rider ( so many empty roads, so little traffic) I still love the airport/aeroplane opening scene. I first saw the film when I was an American Studies student at university…that department has since been ‘cancelled’ in the ongoing destruction of the humanities by all our universities.
I am wearing Civet! I meet Gaynor yesterday and she had a bag of goodies for me so I am doing a Gaynor week. Probably my favourite perfume discovery of the year but I haven’t explored the rest of the bag yet. Hyde is in there.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/may/23/judith-kerr-beloved-author-of-the-tiger-who-came-to-tea-dies-aged-95
You know, I have an old copy of When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit somewhere, but have never read it. I should hunt it down and give it a read– had no idea of the back story. Thank you!
And she was 95! A good long life, and a lovely profile, thanks for the link.
So glad you loved the project. And I have not seen Easy Rider in a lifetime at least, I will have to watch it again.
I didn’t know she died.l I LOVED Mog the Forgetful Cat when I was a kid, and I’ve read it with my child too. I’m sad she’s gone, and am impressed at how long a life she had.
Inspired by Robin I’m wearing Si Lolita for Leonard Cohen’s Suzanne. “She feeds you tea and oranges that come all the way from China”. Perhaps Terre d’Hermes would have been more fitting with its orange and mineral (gunpowder tea?) aspects, but Suzanne would have smelled like Si. The Hermes is too modern and pared down.
Oh excellent, I love that song.
The new memo crystal palace is very much tea and oranges.
Rainy Day Women #12 & #35- wearing “Stoned” by Solange Azagury Partrigde. Last time I saw Bob, at Desert Trip, he opened with this song;)
What fun! I only saw him once, a couple years ago, and he was doing mostly the Sinatra stuff.
Happy bday to Bob Dylan. Went to yoga scent-free, so waited till now to apply today’s CP. Dylan’s rep is more or less anti-diva, if I understand correctly. But have chosen Diva, which I rarely wear, due to its robust presence. The accompanying song is Tonight I’ll be Staying Here With You.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZhLGP5dF2k
But he is so anti-diva that it’s a kind of diva-ness in itself, if that makes any sense.
Great song.
I don’t seem to have the kind of imagination that would let me match perfume to music, so will have to sit this one out and just marvel at those who can!
Something funny happened recently. I’ve been wearing Shangri La frequently of late, and have been getting several compliments (very rare for me). Tbe funny part is that each and every time, people have said “you smell nice…like incense”
The first time I shrugged it off, thinking there’s no incense in Shangri La, they just don’t know how to identify what they’re smelling. Yesterday, the 4th person said the same thing. I guess it really smells like incense on me. Weird.
Yay for perfume compliments, no matter what! You are smelling good, right?
That’s great – a compliment is a compliment.
My daughter is traveling in Andalusia right now so I’ve been thinking of Dylan’s ‘Boots of Spanish Leather’. The perfume it summons for me is Hiram Green’s Arbole Arbole. Both the eponymous Garcia Lorca poem that inspired it and Dylan’s lyric are full of wistful yearning for a young woman in Spain who has her own life to live.
Arbole Arbole isn’t leather, but an earthy, woody patchouli. It’s a much better version of the patchouli I wore way back when I was a young woman myself, listening to Dylan’s albums over and over.
Interesting, I didn’t get patchouli when I tried Arbole, need to try it again, I love patchouli.
The patch is very smooth, no rough edges at all, but it’s definitely there. At the beginning there’s a nice, herbaceous puff of it. Further in, it gives lift and structure to what would otherwise be a wood pudding. Not to denigrate wood puddings. I like that aspect of Arbole Arbole, too.
Outside in the cold distance
A wildcat did growl
Two riders were approaching
And the wind began to howl
I’m in the desert-inspired Alaïa today to pair with ‘All Along the Watchtower’—albeit with the Jimi Hendrix version in mind…and therefore also in homage to Battlestar Galactica. Because, really, neither Jimi or Bob wrote the song originally.😉
Happy Friday, NSTers, and have a good Memorial Day w/e!
I always associate “All Along the Watchtower” with Hendrix.
No CP for me, i wore Lumiere Doree, that i got at TKMaxx quite cheap. Not bad for summer. SOTN is a drop of Patchouli pour Homme by Reminiscence, so maybe a small nod to Dylan un and the 70ies.
No CP – I’m just not that creative. Sitting in traffic on I-95, trying to get to New Haven for my 30th reunion at Yale. Next time I will not allow husband to book a flight that gets to Newark at 2 pm on a holiday weekend. (We have a driver so at least neither of us is losing it.). Wearing Neroli Intense at the moment, but I brought some Seville a l’Aube for tonight’s festivities. Happy Weekend to all!
Wow! Have a super fun weekend!
Have fun! Last time I had my husband book me a flight, I asked for late morning. He was all pleased to tell me he got one at 10:15… until I looked closer and saw it was the 10:15pm red-eye. :-/
I’m in 4711 Lime & Nutmeg, a split from the fabulous pixel. Love this stuff!
Molasses bran bread is in the oven now. It might have over risen on the second rise, but I was too lazy to punch it down again and do a third rise. Hopefully it turns out okay. 🤞🏻
Baking bread is one of the best smells ever. 😋
Bob Dylan isn’t exactly my thing. But I am sorta kinda participating in today’s CP. How?
Based on most CDs done by anyone that I have in my collection, plus most times I have seen this act live in concert. The artist is Def Leppard. The song is “Women”, from the Hysteria album.
SOTD = vintage Femme EdT, from the sample stash.
Ha! Good one! I’ve only seen them twice. The first time, they were the openers for Krokus, lol! For High n Dry.
I saw them at Red Rocks Amphitheatre once as the headline act. Gorgeous venue, but the bathrooms there had what I suspect were the original fixtures from the 1930’s! Yikes!
Great!
I am not a particular Dylan fan but he was so much a part of my youth, especially my college years, that I feel compelled to participate. Although my favorite song of his is the truly sexy “Lay Lady Lay,” I thought his “The Times they are a changin’” was both more typical and more meaningful. Indeed if you read the lyrics now, they still have remarkable relevance. Without becoming too political for this site, his words speak powerfully to our contemporary situation, climate change, generational shifts, and much much more. In fact I think it’s really quite a brilliant song. Link to lyrics: https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/bobdylan/thetimestheyareachangin.html.
I had three choices for this match-up from Zoologist: T-Rex and Dodo because of apocalypse and extinction; but I went with Chameleon because of, well, Change! Plus I really love this scent. It’s unusual like most all of their perfumes are, but very wearable and not weird, so kind of like Camel in that regard. Violet, vanilla, ylang-ylang, and more.
I heard The Times They Are A-Changin’ on the radio this morning, and I totally agree with you. It’s still very relevant today.
Another Dylan favorite of mine. I completely agree with your post.
“As lady and I look out tonight from Desolation Row…” POAL.
Perfect — love that song.
Bob Dylan is someone my parents listened to in their day. Although I did get into some bands that started out in the 1970s, the 1980s and 1990s were really the times when I listened to a lot of what was then contemporary music.
I didn’t try to match up anything this week.
Once again I went with EA Green Tea for its cooling effect, as we had a warm but nice day today
He has been singing a long time. My mother listened to him in her day…
No CP participation for me either. I put on a few sprays of vintage Vol de Nuit tonight; maybe someone more saavy than me can come with a tie-in,
Mr. Dylan must have taken a few airplane flights at night to get to his next gig, right? ✈
Good one! Thank you!!
I wore Bulgari Black today to go with Iron Maiden. The black rubber part of the scent should be a fairly obvious pairing, but the vanilla works for them too because underneath it all they were really rather tame–how scary can a band be when they sing about the Rime of the Ancient Mariner?
It all wore off though, and now I’m sitting in JFK, waiting to board my flight for Madrid. I’ve got Jardin de Monsieur Li on one arm and Chanel #19 eep on the other, courtesy of the duty free.
Iron Maiden is rather cerebral when you start looking at/reading their lyrics, aren’t they?
Musc Ravageur for Leonard Cohen’s « Everybody Knows. » Tenuous, but at least I smell good.
Cohen is one of the musicians from my folks’ generation that I started listening to in the 1990s. And that was the first song of his I heard that got me into his music. Later, as I listened to more, I also really liked “Who By Fire?” and “Dance Me to the End of Love.”
Plus, fantastic song. I love the Rufus Wainwright version.
Continuing to not be on point for the CP with OJ Champaca today. Lasts longer than I would expect and quite love it.
Goodbye lunch with a friend and others at one of our favorite restaurants for French/Malaysian food. So good and shockingly cheap.
And I got some scented body powders from Etsy that I’m looking forward to for the summer.
Love Champaca!