Happy Friday and happy Kebab Day! It's also Henry David Thoreau's birthday, aka Simplicity Day, and that's our community project for today: do absolutely whatever you like with the Simplicity Day theme. (And a link I would have included earlier in the week had I seen it in time: Thoreau: "The country knows not yet, or in the least part, how great a son it has lost." by Ralph Waldo Emerson, from the August 1862 issue of The Atlantic.)
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 unscented lotion mixed with a few drops of Frankincense oil and a few drops of Sweet Orange Oil.
Reminder: on 7/19, wear a fragrance by Jo Loves, Jack Perfumes, Jardins D’Écrivains, Jul et Mad or Juliette Has A Gun, if you have one. Partial credit for any other small-ish brand that starts with the letter J.
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: top image is 050506 Walden Pond_008 [cropped] by Tom Stohlman at flickr; some rights reserved. The stone plaque is at Walden, and says Beneath these Stones lies the Chimney Foundation of Thoreau's Cabin 1845-1847 "Go thou my incense upward from this hearth"; the quote is taken from Thoreau's poem Smoke.
Wearing Jo Malone Wild Bluebell- simple summery happiness
TGIF! The office is deserted today. I came in early to try and finish something due today but am distracted by the Le Labo sets at the Nordstrom sale.
Tell me more about this sale…👂
mini Diptyque candles and fragrances, NEST and Voluspa, Le Labo in 10ml and 5ml sets, Tom Ford scented oil, Jo Malone mini fragrances, and so much more
p.s. please let me know if anyone wants to split the Le Labo set of 5ml perfumes – I want Bergamote 22 and The Noir 29, yours would be Santal 33 and Rose 31!
Those Le Labo minis are so cute, and not a bad deal either! (For Le Labo anyway, lol)
How much is the 5 ml set or the split? I can’t see the price on the website.
Enabler pin to you! Just bought the set of small Diptyque candles.
haha yay! I hope you enjoy
Keeping it simple in Calvin Klein Truth, which is a great no brainer for another hot, humid day. Happy Friday everyone!
It is hot and humid!
Is that the CK that gets compared to OJ Champaca?
Yes. They share some similarities.
It’s a nice and simple perfume, I went through a couple of bottles when it was released.
Stay cool!
It has been always a sumner favorite. It is indeed simple and elegant.
Nice! Please wear that one when we meet
You really need to make up your mind about which one you want me to wear from your several options! 😂
LOL!!! You have too many great choices
I’ve never tried this one. Will have to keep an eye out for it.
You should really try it. It is a green scent with a sweet, light and delicate sandalwood in the drydown. Nice sillage and longevity.
Thoreau would like that one too—just the name!
Definitely!
I did not know that CK Truth smelled like anything else. I’ve thunked a couple of bottles of that one.
I’m in Alvarez Gomez Agua de Colonia Concentrada. Doesn’t get much simpler than a lemon-herb cologne.
Plus, I think HDT would not be too upset at the price.
I am in Nuxe Body Relaxing Fragrance water..
A simple uncomplicated fragrance.
Drinking a smoothie and enjoying some alone time, thanks to Mr L taking Fridays off. My plan is to sit by the pool (we live close by to NYC public pool) and read. I am reading Tangerine right now..so far so good..
I like this plan
BTW I saw the Nuxe parfum and oil at amazon today. Not sure if they’re the ones people were looking for.
Enjoy your day – sounds relaxing!
Sounds like a good day.
I chose Kyoto for Simplicity Day – seemed like exactly the thing to foster deep contemplation.
I wish there was a perfume that would help me to stop thinking.
When you find it let me know!
Drop me a line about that one as well!
Happy Friday all!
I’m in Eau de Gentiane Blanche today. Is there anything simpler than smelling like a bitter green pepper? Just heavenly in the heat.
ooh you smell lovely. I love that stemmy sappy green peppery note
Wearing Hiram Green Rose Lustre. It smells just of rose and nothing else.
I wondered today what Thoreau thought about roses. Evidently he at least respected them. He wrote in his journal in 1838 an old saying, not original with him, “Truth and roses both have thorns about them.”
No sharp edges evident on Rose Lustre, though.
I’m wearing a “simple” lavender: Caron Pour un Homme. It always hits the spot and proves that sometimes less is more. I confess I love it more than Jicky (have never tried that in vintage form).
However much I love multi-layered complex and baroque perfumes this elegant lavender is one of my most worn fragrances and pretty much perfect.
I have to confess I couldn’t quite help myself and layered the Pour un Homme eau de toilette with Impact de Pour un Homme, vintage Pour un Homme and Les Plus Belles Lavandes de Caron.
As I wouldn’t want to overdo simplicity!
LOL — sometimes more is better than less
I love Pour un Homme. I’ve never tried Jicky *embarrassed face emoji* but that is high praise.
Love your overdose of simplicity. Well executed!!
I went with a new to me vetiver from a sample I just received. I think that the simplicity of Annick Goutal’s Les Colognes Vetiver fits the CP.
I wanted to wear Blackbird today for Thoreau-esque woods and berries, but I couldn’t find any of my Olympic Orchids samples. I love my Olympic Orchids samples, dammit! For those keeping track, this is the second thing I’ve lost because of my perfume “organization” last weekend. Ah, simplicity.
I’m wearing Terracotta instead. It is perfect as always and goes nicely with the Molton Brown Ylang shower gel mini I impulse-bought after the bath product thread.
Did you look for them under “S”?
😭
My love/hate relationship with samples is well documented on these pages, so I feel your pain. Not being able to find a sample you know you have is frustrating but then discovering that because of your organizational skills, or lack there of, you have ordered the same sample on three different occasions! Plus, manufacturer’s samples, they breed like rabbits! How did I end up with 6 samples of Spice Bomb when I own a full bottle? Are my scented friends playing quantum physics games with me? Placing their own unwanted samples in the Box of Hope and Despair with the power of their minds while the rest of the world innocently slumbers? And where is my bottle of Guerlain Vetiver? But, I monumentally digress. Olympic Orchids has a sale in July, 20% off any order of $15 or more. The quickest way to find one’s missing samples is to order more of the same thing!
Oh, thanks for the tip! I am confident I will find these samples (they’re still in the boxes) but I’ve got my eye on a few others…
Sorry about that rant. Maybe binge watching all three seasons of Stranger Things is not the greatest idea……
Silences
Beautiful!
Hi Holly,
Was the scrubber And The World Is Yours?
Just wondering…🙃
Nope, guess again! I really hated And The World Is Yours, but because I love orange blossom I stuck with it…and now you know how that turned out. So you’re also not a fan? Have you tried everything else I sent you?
Almost all… I may need to revisit.
Lovely. My Husband wears this fragrance frequently. I think it may be his favorite.
PERFECTION
Silences is gorgeous.
ISO E Super. No ice.
This made me spew my tea, thank you for the morning laugh, BobH.
If only Thoreau had known, he would have written Go thou my iso e super upward from this warm body…
Ha!
And you’re welcome.
If I still had my samples of Molecule 01, that would have been my pick for today.
I emptied my current bottle this morning. Gonna have to mix up some more…
Love the idea! Thanks! You made my choice even simpler: I’m copying you :).
Don’t we smell grand in all our singular, aromachemical glory!
Hahaha i almost choked on my popcorners (= triangular puffed corn chips)
Mohur Extrait because this was scheduled in my rotation for today. I confess I seldom follow the rotation, but today, it seemed like the thing to do to maintain simplicity and because Mohur Extrait. If I had to choose only 1 perfume to own and wear, this would probably be it. And my bottle is almost gone, so I am saving all my pennies to replace it for sure.
Gorgeous! I have often contemplated a bottle of the extrait but the price…
That’s a big endorsement of this perfume! I think if I had to under force get rid of all my perfume except one I would pick Coromandel as the keeper. Hey – that would be a good cp. “which bottle would you save from the perfume apocalypse”
Oh, that is a good one. I wonder if we’ve done something similar before?
I think there have been Desert Island weekend polls but can’t remember a CP.
Coromandel is stunning. That would be a hard cp.😩
Guerlain Mohur? I think I saw a bottle on eBay.
Neela Vermeire
I went with Vientiane because it is a no brainer to choose fragrances from the same house. It doesn’t hurt that I love it as well. Happy Friday!
You smell nice and calm
You smell great!
I went with Gucci Bloom because it’s a simple white floral and not a BIG white floral
And done
I went with Diptyque Tam Dao, a simple woodsy scent. For me this is peaceful and serene like a yoga studio.
Twins! We smell great! I agree, peaceful and serene.
you smell amazing.
Smelling great today.
Elle L’Aime LL
You’re welcome *bows* 😆😉😁
Wasn’t intentionally participating when I put Mon Guerlain on this morning, but I think I can make it work:
First cup of coffee, had a specific smell rolling around in my perfume head, realized it was Mon Guerlain, found bottle & sprayed.
I’m sitting on my porch, about 5 hrs into the drydown and it smells really good. The minute I walked outside it started to bloom and went from nutty & rich to wafty florals & caramel.
My sister loves Mon Guerlain. You smell great!
Thanks!
Thanks for the Kebab Day heads-up, R! Will be celebrating very soon with the kefta order I just placed. (Kefta counts, right?)
Boy am I late, but of COURSE kefta counts, and I am jealous…I have to drive a VERY long way to get a decent kebab of any kind.
L’Eau de L’Artisan. Simply because Robin mentioned it yesterday. And Friday is a great day to smell lightly herbal and mossy.
My CK Be would have worked as well. It’s a lovely summery musk.
Haven’t sniffed that one but lightly herbal and mossy sounds great.
Chanel BOE
Simply beautiful!
Perfect. Also one I would save from the Perfume Apocalypse.
there’s a perfume apocalypse coming? how did I not know this?
Planning for future CP that may or may not happen. Or a Perfume Apocalypse that just might!
Haha – I love how this is already in Capitalization
Good one
TGIF and TGFThree day weekends! It was hard to get into the swing of it this week for sure!
Tam Dao, many sprays a la hajusuuri style😉, because now that I have my bottle, I can.
Thanks for the reminder about free slurpee day yesterday Robin. I texted my kids from work and they walked over to the neighborhood 7 eleven in the afternoon and got Blueberry Lemonade slurpees. I’m sure their tongues were blue for hours.😂🥶😛
Hey there! just popping in to say that the eldest passed her NCLEX!!!! She said it was crazy hard but she must have done well because the computer turned off an hour later after she got through 75 questions (Thank God cause there are 265 in total and one could be there for six hours!)…she is officially an RN!!! In a week and a half she starts her first job as an RN. I am so excited for her
Congrats to her!!!
Thanks Kelly C
Congrats! That’s great!
I know that you “get” it…we were on pins and needles because being able to work is dependent on that licensure!
I’m sure you all were anxious! I took it in the Javits Center with like 800 people and Scantron style. It was like 3 hours and you didn’t find out your results for weeks! The current system seems much more merciful. Where will she work?
Holy cow!!! The Javits Center is HUGE!!! That would have freaked me out!
She will work near her university at the hospital where she did her last clinical…I am happy about this because middle one is still at same university (also a nursing major and minoring in health and wellness)…so they will be very,very near each other :). She also has a beautiful apartment set up and will be moving in on Thursday, rooming with another nursing student who is also a member of her pre-health fraternity (that’s how they met). So she has all her ducks lined up !
That’s great! Sounds like they’re all set!
Jumping in to say that I took the New York Bar exam at the Javits Center–I think the test then was seven hours total. I was freezing cold, in a massive room with a cement floor and with literally hundreds of others in identical desks that stretched out row upon row. That was just the room I was in–there were several “rooms”. I stupidly wore a skirt and stockings. I kept twitching in my seat and by the end of the exam my stockings were in shreds from catching on the wood at the desk I was at. I took the exam in August or Sept of 1994, but did not get notice of my passing the exam until Jan or Feb 1995! The silver-lining was that while I was waiting for the exam results I worked under the table for the owner of Josephine Herbst’s literary estate transcribing from photo-copies 10 years of correspondence between her and Katherine Anne Porter.
Oh, wow. That’s quite the memory (and can’t remember the last time I wore hose). Sounds nerve wracking. The only other memory I have is that the guy sitting next to me was popping salt tablets- said they increase synaptic speed and improve memory. Test doping. I hope he passed 😆
The interim job sounds pretty cool!
Woo hoo!🎉 That’s awesome- congrats! I remember what a huge weight that was lifted off my shoulders, because I was also working as a nurse extern on the unit I was hired for.
Yes, legend has it that people who get 265 questions fail (although I knew people who got 75 and failed) and I was one of those people.😩 I remember going home and calling my husband at work just sobbing because I was sure that I had failed. It probably didn’t help that I was in my first trimester with madtownteen and my hormones were working overtime, lol. I had to wait a torturous 48 hours before I could call and get the results- I know now the results are almost immediate- and was soooo relieved I had passed. Thank gosh I never have to do that again!
I hope she loves her new job!
You know she said to me after she took it “well I either failed massively or I passed with flying colors” because she had heard the same thing about the 75 questions. We had to wait two days before she got her results. Thank gosh she passed because her new job is expecting her to have it!
I think she will be OK because she knows the hospital and also knows the area she is living in. Plus, she is near her younger sister and they are best friends so that always helps.
Congratulations 🎈🎊
thanks flopper!
That is so awesome, congratulations!
Many sprays of Tam Dao is a good thing!
I think so too!😉
Oh yay!
Thanks Robin! One down and two more to go-LOL!
OOps! I just realized that your Yay! was for madtowngirl and not me…sorry!
Deep question of the morning: Which is simpler? Wearing simplicity and elegance itself in Le Labo’s Labdanum– I have a StC decant, or simply wearing Do Son which is the sample that is sitting right in front of me by my computer?
Well, I went for the Labdanum, but while rummaging in my decant chest I came across the tiniest remains of Diorissimo–a decant from someone at NST from a while ago. So simplicity turned out to be finishing my decant of the Dior. RIP Diorissimo dregs…
Thunk! Enjoy.
Thunk!
When I’m really tired, like I am today, this is what I think of
https://youtu.be/Ts6rZPHIPyg
Sotd is Angel Muse because it was simply too cold out this morning.
It was chilly here, too, and expecting a low of 66 tonight. DNW
Love Angel Muse. You smell great.
I read half of the article and will finish later. It is worth printing and framing.
I played in the garden wearing apricot oil and Amazing Grace. With a spritz of Love and Toast Gin something or other.
The Gin (like regular gin) is gone in 5 seconds and the Amazing Grace is overwhelmed by the oil.
I did stay connected to the 🌎 and love being with my little 🐕, will be spending the day with other furry ones shortly, read a groovy book and hopefully hit the beach for a nice walk.
Does that earn me brownie points, since I will be having lots of perfumes(a new one just arrived!) ?
Thanks for the article. He reminds me of my Dad.
Sending you warm thoughts lillyjo!
I am wearing rose water, the kind you can use either for cooking or as a perfume, or as body rinse, or as a makeup remover, or…. or….
I love rose water.
ditto. I feel joy whenever i use it in any capacity
Oh perfect!
I’ve been trying to honor simplicity this week by attempting to finish off samples. I have far too many of them. Today is Violet Fumee, which is surprising me because I don’t remember it smelling sweet before. Maybe the heat is bringing that out? It smells like candy smoke.
Wearing LADDM today and waiting for the next heatwave to arrive. I was just told that there is going to be a surprise birthday party August 3rd for my grandma and now have to figure out a gift. I think a Cleveland Browns book will work since she loves the Browns and something else. Only 3 more days until Amazon Prime Day and I can’t wait!
LAdDM smells great in any weather I can think of. Yum!
SOTD is Soul of the Forest. “There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.”
Happy Friday, friends.
Nice! Except when you’re devoured by mosquitoes 😜
No mosquitoes in New Mexico (too dry here I’m guessing)! Yet another reason for me to love it here LOL! I think I’ve encountered a total of maybe 3 in 2 years- unlike Alabama which is constantly buzzing in summer!!!
That’s a definite perk!
Vintage no 19 thanks to my dear friend pl67 because I am doing an iris week which may actually continue into next week as another good friend is mailing me more iris decants and my package comes tonight
You are always welcome! More irises coming your way? I don’t want to know 🙉.
anything you want to try you know where to find me
I am already starting a new collection for you in the basement but I will hold off sending it until you are ready.
anything you want to try you know where to find me
I am already starting a new collection for you in the basement but I will hold off sending it until you are ready.
OOPs! Now how did THAT HAPPEN? LOL!
😊
Smelling great, but of course, you already know this!
Congrats to your now RN’ed mini Marzipan! She sounds like she’s got a good head on her shoulders.
Thanks, Jalapeno. Yes, I am blessed that she does.
‘Simplicity’ in perfume language says ‘soliliflore’ to me and, thanks to Jeffrey Dames’ talents – and generosity! – I have many to choose from today. I opted for my favorite, Rose de Mai, to celebrate a rare perfect summer day of warmth and sun but low humidity. Music, food and fun are on the agenda as the grandkids come to visit for our weekend local Taste.
Wishing all a lovely weekend filled with simple pleasures.
Have a wonderful weekend!
I’ve yet to dig in to sampling the Dame soliflores, but I bet the Rose de Mai is lovely. Boy, you’re right about the weather. I caught some of the Cubbies’ game on TV and actually looked up the current conditions because I was wondering how hot and humid it was—only to see it wasn’t either, really.🙂 Enjoy your weekend!
And you’re just a hop, skip, and a jump from Dame! Yes, it’s a beautiful night here. Pool all afternoon, now we’re waiting for the Midsummer Night’s Dream orchestra concert, then finish the night with the end of the rock concert at the Taste and some ice cream. Skip the Cubbies – go Giolito!
I’m wearing Lorenzo Villoresi’s Mare Nostrum today. I won’t be going to the any beaches this summer but at least I can smell “beachy”.
My simplest perfume choice is Milk of Flowers. It is always easy to wear and always smells good on me and is appropriate for all weather conditions and all occasions
SOTD AG Songes monoi body oil, which I rarely use anymore and am afraid will go rancid eventually, though it’s at least 4 years old and still smells great and like a peaceful, tropical vacation.
Why don’t you slather it on every night? This is what I do with my body oils. And it looks like you are scent twins with Hera below….
I don’t like using oil before bed because it gets in the sheets (unless I’m at a hotel and don’t care, lol), but it would be a good way to use it up! I should just use it during the day in the summer. It smells so good! And good for layering- I’m gonna try R & G Fleur de Osmanthus over it next time.
My skin is so ridiculously dry that it soaks it right up…even in the summer! But I think it’s a great idea to use it during the day and layer it with other ‘summery’ fragrances.
Mine, too. That’s why I wore the Apricot oil. And now I am in a rut, using it, because it feels so darn luxurious. And my skin feels like a 👶 s bottom. I also layer a sumptuous lotion on top, something thick and decadent! Almost like using the body oil as a serum.
Great for Simplicity Day!
I put oil on every day as a moisturizer. I also keep my scented oils in the fridge in the hopes they won’t go off.
Back from my trip to Armenia!!
It was one of my best trips so far, don’t know how I will come back to reality!!
I am wearing Songes oil.
Hey twin! We smell purdy ☺️
And Armenia! How was that?
It was amazing, we did a 10 day tour in the countryside and 10 days in Yerevan. Even though I am mostly a city person, I enjoyed our tour in the countryside a lot, the views were out of this world, the mountains, lakes , thousands years old monasteries !!
That sounds fantastic! I don’t know anyone who’s gone there for vacation (my cousin did spend 2 years in Azerbaijan, but Peace Core). I dated an Armenian guy in the early 90s. The food is good!
Glad you hear you had a great trip!
Welcome back! Glad to hear that your trip was an excellent one!
I love Armenian food – what a great trip
Welcome back!
Forgot about the CP today and spritzed some TM Alien from a sample somebody sent me. Gosh, I should not have done that. It was only a single spritz!
Yeah, TM Alien is the tactical nuclear jasmine.
I decided to go with a botanical perfume for simplicity day so I’m in Strange Invisible Perfumes Prima Ballerina. The notes are hydro-distilled rose, sage, lime and botanical musk. I smell like a non- sweet, herbaceous rose. However, there is nothing simple about SIP prices.
That sounds nice and like something I want to investigate. The sage got my attention and I’m wondering what botanical musk is.
My guess would be ambrette seed which is a natural alternative to “musk”
I am glad to send you a little to try. I still have the Areej le Dore Flux de Fleur decant that I wanted to send you. Email me! I’m at gmail at my NST username.
Great! I’m sorry I lost track the last time.
I grabbed the 1st scent I saw as I was running late this AM – I guess that is simplicity of a sort.
Miller Harrin L’Air de Rien
There you go. That’s simple.
I’ve made a weird selection for our CP this morning: Yosh Omniscent. It’s weird because it’s very far from being a simple fragrance, having a real jumble of notes. But I have it in the oil and so it’s both potent and yet also soft and it seems meditative to me. While it’s not a green note perfume it somehow strikes me as having a green and calm mood. It sticks close to the skin. I’m also wearing an love green top in order to salute Thoreau and environmentalism.
Have you ever tested any of the Walden perfumes? Your Yosh sounds pretty spectacular. Also…ylang ylang: Diptyque eau Moheli if you haven’t tried it. Very simple and cheerful.
I’m sure I have tried Moheli but don’t remember it. I will try it again the next time I’m in a store. No, I haven’t ever heard of Walden perfumes, but am curious! Ahem, I can say that I have gone swimming in Walden Pond, though! Very pretty, but we ?Michigan natives are very partial to our own lakes.
Ylang 49 ~ my take on a “simplistic” big white floral
😬😂
Simply gorgeous!
Christian Dior vintage Eau Fraiche, now how can it have stayed this fresh after many years is a mystery but so it is, and it keeps me cool and collected.
Some perfume bottles can last for decades and still smell great.
So true, Jalapeno with all the citrus intact too which is supposed to go off first, it’s probably some kind of Roudnitska magic that it has held up so well.
Scent of the day: 4160 Tuesdays Tokyo Spring Blossom. Nothing to do with simplicity. I just wanted a nice floral. It’s sweet and strong.
Grand Amour, old packaging. Glorious. Thank you dear friend for mentioning this 😊 I read on a review to combine this with Heure Exquise. I am going to try that combo. TGIF.
The last couple of mornings the pine forest and gorse have smelled exactly like Sex Wax ( strictly for surfboards unless friction is your thing ). Ice Station Pineapple is a pretty close match so wearing that but with a dash of ylang ylang from eau Moheli , one of my favourite winter cheer up scents. The wattle trees have just started to blossom…it’s funny how many of the late winter flowers are yellow: wattle, gorse,, broom, kowhai, forsythia, daffodils…why? Team Gilbert White, Thoreau, Dillard, Mabey and Deakin…rock on anyone who can find a private wilderness in a populated world.
Oh, the thought of a pine forest! That’s one of my favorite scents in any case, but given that my weather is currently hovering at 102F—and only because there’s cloud cover keeping it ‘cool’…. I’m swooning.🙂
Oooooooof! That’s too darn hot! 🔥
Yellow must be a color that bees see well.
Pine forest scent reminds me of Clinique Wrappings. Perhaps the late winter flowers are yellow because. at least here in the Midwest USA, there is a dearth of sunshine all winter and yellow flowers say SUN! to me. Love your descriptions!
Twilly for me because it seems like such a straightforward, simple scent. Easy going.
Husband is heading back to the vet to get more thyroid pills for kitty. She was eating around the pills, so we tried liquid, and it terrorized her. She is a formal feral, who still (after 17 years) cannot abide being handled. (And she hated the taste.) My husband can pet her, but she freaks if it’s more than one hand touching her. So, that makes ointment in ear problematic also. Now we have to rebuild trust and try to find ways again to have her eat the pills in her food. it’s really a nightmare.
Have you tried crushing them into a powder in a pestle and mortar and mixing them with tinned food, sardines or fresh ground meat ( like hamburger beef or lamb mince, extra bloody) . That is the only thing that works with my dogs
We can cut them into quarters but vet doesn’t want us to grind them up completely. We will try our best, but it’s gonna be tough to get the medicine in her consistently.
What Kanuka said, but in divided doses so the taste is even less noticeable?
My male cat freaks out when I put anything topical on him. I have ear drops for itching and he acts like he’s been tortured!
Yeah…we made a mistake with her early in. She adores my husband, but I never handled her. So she’s just not used to it.
You could try these. (Available at Petco, etc.)
https://www.greenies.com/products/cat/pill-pockets
My sister uses the canine version for her dogs. If your kitty doesn’t take treats directly from you, you can always put the pockets on/in her food. I’ve just recently become the mom of a feral myself, and that method has been working for giving the dental and fur versions of the cat treats.
We have a couple bags of greenies and tried that with some success but never full success. Thanks for the reminder. I think I’ll try that again. I also tried to put pieces of Temptations treats in there to hide the pills also.
Hoping that once she is relaxed again and stops hiding, we will keep trying different things to fool her. She used to gobble up food and wasn’t too finicky. Challenge is she’s gotten more finicky.
I swear, cats are evil.
Poor kitty. Good luck.
Poor kitty. 😿
I can sympathize. I’m going through something similar with my Spooky kitty. She’s refused pills and liquid versions of her medicine. She tolerated powder formulations mixed with food. Also a very skittish cat who is starting to get picky about what she eats… she prefers to steal the other cats’ food. Which doesn’t have her medicine in it.
California Reverie this morning. Pretty and uncomplicated. A simple way to smell good. (Although I almost wore Twilly.)
Going with a soliflore for simplicity – AdP Rosa Nobile. A nice and pretty everyday rose.
Hi almost twin! Joining you in soliliflore simplicity, also rose: Dame Perfumery Rose de Mai. Also a nice and pretty everyday rose.
Not simple, but a forest that Thoreau would have appreciated… Chypre Mousse.
Topped up with Aromatics Elixir in the evening.
SOTD = SSS Forest Walk
This is an any season perfume. Earthy resinous amber. On theme as it reminds me of nature.
No news yet on the Guerlain 190 years anniversary perfume.
Is there such a thing as Mugler Angel Sport? A guy who held the door open for me earlier today smelled of Angel which had a sporty / aquatic vibe. Not good.
I think the one called A-men pure shot is supposed to be sporty, but I have not smelled it. Maybe he was wearing the new Angel edt?
Fingers still crossed for that bottle!
I also got a manufacturer’s sample of Angel EDT but have not smelled it yet. I saw you were not crazy about it!
A sporty/aquatic Angel? Oof. No. Definitely not good. I hope you huffed your Forest Walk or something else good afterward to clear your olfactory palate!😁
Ahahaha, his version of Angel was no match for my Forest Walk!
Forest Walk seems to be in the list of ones that will be available at re-opening.
It’s a good one to make available for sure! Did you sign up for a newsletter?
Maybe your polite door holder was wearing Angel Aqua Chic, from the “other” side of the perfume aisle? It is definitely an aquatic Angel to my nose.
Maybe! It was not pleasant!
CP SOTD is 4711 Acqua Colonia Lavender & Thyme. It’s working well with the hot weather. 🤞🏻, the forecasted rain for these parts will show up today.
Have yourselves an uncomplicated, lovely weekend, NSTers.
An uncomplicated weekend sounds wonderful! 🤞
Tried for simplicity with Nuxe Huile Prodigieuse dry oil with 2 teeny sprays of SL Fleurs d’oranger.
Then my Lisa Eldridge lippie was delivered today, so I had to try it out. OMG, it may be my holy grail summer color! I knew it would be a home-run. Not affiliated in anyway, but just a super happy customer.
You smell great—I really like the SL.
😮Lisa is a goddess! Those summer colors looked to die for. Which did you get?
I got the Go Lightly shade; pure perfection for me! Kicking myself for not getting the Love of my Life shade. Everything is sold out, not surprisingly.
She’s bringing back the reds that were out at around Christmas.
Have you tried the new Nuxe florale oil? It’s very nice. It layered great with my Danze delle Libellule the other day.
Today is the calm after the storm. Back to slightly muggy, sunny summer weather. No more tornadoes for a while, please! 🌞
SOTD = Dior Poison Girl EdT. Keeping it simple by wearing the perfume I have spent most of this week in. Also trying to thunk that sample!
I’m wearing Body Time (Escential) Cucumber perfume oil.Very simple and refreshing.
Well, it’s almost 5pm, and I’m finally in fragrance, CdG 2 Man. Had a mammogram and a bone density test. Nice to get those things done.
Haven’t read any comments, so I hope everyone is enjoying their Friday!
Good for you getting those procedures dealt with.
I saw someone buy a bottle of Flowerbomb for their S.O. today..I was tempted to give other suggestions but..I minded my own business lol. I personally would not want to be Flowerbomed. But many do. Lol.
No scent today..but sniffed a sample of Chanel BdI. Forgot how lovely it is.
I am wearing MH Fleurs de Sel today. It kind of make me think of nature.
Oh, that’s a great pick! Too bad MH is so hard to get here in the States.
Yes, I am glad I bought it back when I did.