Happy Almost-Friday and happy Hot Fudge Sundae Day. What fragrance are you wearing?
Another perfect July morning; I'm celebrating in Maison Francis Kurkdjian Petit Matin.
Reminder: on 7/26 we're doing Gone In Sixty Seconds...wear the shortest-lived fragrance you own. Bonus points for reapplying all day long. Suggested by pyramus.
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 The morning I learned how to fly [cropped] by Sara Biljana Gaon (off) at flickr; some rights reserved.
I’m wearing TDC Bergamote. It fits the CP. It is pretty much a skin scent at this point and I put it on twenty minutes ago.
Oh, I love that one and it’s super fleeting on me too
The trick with Divine Bergamote is to apply very liberally, than it will be detectable for much longer.
Anyway, a stunner and one of my summer favourites!
Have you tried Le Labo’s Bergamote? That one lasts longer for me.
I’m in Le Dix EDT today, because sometimes violets are the only things that will do. Happy Friday Eve, all!
I just got a mini of Le Dix and I’m wild for it!
Isn’t it lovely? We smell great!
The extrait is worth searching out. It is just divine.
Sort of participating, by wearing a Hermessence, even though it’s typically a heavy note: Agar Ébène (oud).
Hermes has never been a house that has lasted on my skin either..
Omnia, literally gone in 60 seconds. But I don’t care. I love it.
I will re-apply all day long. Last better on my clothing…
Saw Pavarotti last night, I laughed and cried.
Tea is Cream of Earl Grey by Davids Tea. A bit of Canadian love in my cup.
Yum, I love that cream of earl grey!
Vjola by Nishane Istanbul from a recently-acquired sample. And a bottle is nowhere to be found ☹️ This is a pretty tuberose-white floral perfume.
Money saved, if you look on the bright side..
Yes, very true!
Have you tried Nishane Tuberoza? Maybe they renamed it?
I’ve not tried Tuberoza. I saw that one on Luckyscent-will check it out thanks!!
I’m a broken record today in Perfumer H Orange Leaf (over a base of lavender + vetiver body oil). Orange Leaf has been one of my most-worn and most-enjoyed scents of the summer.
This is an extra-good Thursday – not only is it Farmer’s Market day, it’s also my last workday til Tuesday! Tonight I’m leaving for a camping trip on the Lake Michigan shoreline. One of my favorite places on earth.
Have fun! The forecast looks perfect for camping!
We used to live within walking distance of Lake Michigan and sometimes I miss that big lake. The smaller lakes we live by now are better (for me) for canoeing and kayaking.
Living within walking distance of Lake MI would be a dream! I live within biking distance of a different Great Lake now, but Lake MI has always had a special place in my heart. Lake Ontario is the only one I’ve never dipped my toes in. I need to change that!
I’ll be dipping my toes into Lake Ontario in a couple of weeks. Thinking of the Great Lakes as lakes requires a different mindset for me, coming from small lake land. (Looking at a body of water without seeing land in sight anywhere is only something I’ve experienced with oceans.) Swimming in them is another level of mind-bending, but apparently one can, and I plan to do so!
Hope you enjoy your trip! Having grown up surrounded by the Great Lakes, I was actually kind of underwhelmed by my first experience of the ocean – the salt made me itchy! And, unlike the ocean, I’m pretty confident that nothing in the Great Lakes is going to sting or eat me
Good to know LOL. I will say that I prefer pools for swimming since I’m not crazy about sharing any water with non-humans
Swimming in them can be fun but for me it has to be pretty hot to enjoy that, because their water is pretty frigid, usually!
Have a great camping trip!
Oh, my, how wonderful! Where exactly, if you don’t mind saying? I will be visiting my best college friends later this summer for some vacation and R&R. They have a huge old farmhouse in an apple orchard on the shores of Lake Michigan just north of Onekama and south of Frankfort. It’s my ideal place in the universe. Especially around August and September when you can get all the delicious peaches, apples, cherries, apricots, etc. that you want, along with fresh whitefish and walleye!
That sounds like paradise. I’ll be near Muskegon.
Enjoy! I’ll bet the shoreline is gorgeous with Lupines and all sorts of lovely flowers!!!
What I love in Michigan is the combination of white birches with dark green for and blue spruce trees. It always feels very “North” to me.
Givenchy III and drinking a cup of white tea
An oldie
It is an oldie, but one I just purchased a year and a half ago. Its fairly new to my collection
I was on the fence with buying a bottle until I saw where it could be discontinued.
Great fragrance! You smell fantastic!
Lancolme Peut Etre continuing on my rose themed week. I love the name and adore the fragrance with rose, violet and seringa flowers. The seringa is not a common note and I remember how much I adored it in the sadly d/c Annick Goutal eau de Camille with seringa, ivy and honeysuckle.
later I will test Flux de Fleurs which is supposed to be very animalic.
Well, y’all know that i am posting on my computer because of the duplicate comment. On the positive side there is NO autocorrect changing my words
Ha!?
Oh lord!!!!
*poof*
Does seringa smell somewhere between basil and oregano? The times I tried Eau de Camille I got an unmistakeable Italian-hoagie note that still puzzles me
aaaand this comment made me hungry
seringa is supposed to have an odor profile similar to orange blossom or jasmine…white floral. Wonder if it’s the ivy that is giving it that herb note in Eau de Camille?
Sorry, Robin! I don’t know why it keeps doing this!!!!
OMG!!!! I GIVE UP!!! TIME FOR ME TO STOP COMMENTING!!!!
Never stop cm8! I’m laughing with you?
? oh this is hilarious.
Laughing out loud here
Sorry I am so slow to show up and delete all your doubles!
Thank you Robin! Right now I am commenting on my phone. I don’t know why it doubles on my computer???
I am sorry but I don’t know either!
You have been wearing a lot of Lancome lately..are you on a Lancome kick?
Ha you know I did not think about this! I have been doing a rose week and I guess it includes Lancolmes that I never wore before. A very good friend sent me several that she really wanted me to try from her full bottle collection.
Dually noted HA
Any favorite Lancomes so far?
Ha is right! I think my favorite is the one I am wearing today…although the current Climate extrait was also very pretty…but I am really loving Peut Etre…it was remade in 2008, original release was 1937!
I just looked it up! Very expensive! wow…
I should clarify that she sent me decants ?
CM8, you might want to have a tech savvy relative check the settings on your computer keyboard. That might be the reason your comments are posting twice.
Thanks J!!! Good advice!
Black March… surprising me by still being detectable 2 hours later. But only if I make my nose get real friendly with my wrist.
YUM.
Yay Thursday!
Chanel Allure Edition Blanche.
Does anyone know – is eBay the only place you can buy those cute little 4 ml Chanel Les Exclusifs bottles?
It’s the only place I’ve seen them if you’re looking for single bottles, and not the full set. Maybe etsy, too?
Yes, singles. Thanks.
100% not on theme in L de Lolita Lempicka. I smell like salted caramel.
That’s a pretty one, I usually keep it for fall but I can see it would shine in summer.
Inspired by SheriG’s SotD yesterday, I’m in Tam Dao. I have the edt, which does not last as long on my skin as the edp I sampled did. This afternoon when it’s gone I think I’ll try some LADDM and see how it does in the heat.?
That’s a day full of beautiful smells! I love LADDM in the heat.
I love it in the heat, too. That’s my preferred LADDM/ACdD environment.
It’s even hotter today and I’m working in an old building with very wonky AC. So I’ve just put a bucket with cold water beneath my desk and am cooling myself through my cold feet. It works a treat and reminds me of John Cleese in Python where his desk would often be standing in the middle of a stream.
I’m wearing Absolue pour le Soir and it’s blooming beautifully. I applied with a very light hand as I didn’t want to overwhelm anyone.
Ugh, having just gone through our own heat wave here, I’m really wishing you cooler weather ahead! The cold water trick is genius – I’m going to try that next time it gets hot.
It works so well, still having to get up at regular intervals is a bit tricky, but two sets of towels next to the bucket did help
I was just reading about the heat wave in your part of the world and thinking about how unprepared people probably are. Coming from a place where residential A/C is not the norm, I know how miserable that can be.
The thing is, I just can’t think properly anymore so I make a lot of mistakes, which is a nuisance.
Oh austenfan, you smell DIVINE!!! In the heat it is all about the amber and the honey, no?
They are more pronounced, I still get a hefty dose of musks though, and not the clean kind.
You smell divine and that water bucket trick sounds pretty good to me!
I made it pretty smoothly to Amsterdam yesterday btw. Only a few minute delay….I can live with that
Good, I think all the troubles had happened a little earlier than your intended trip. And the train is so much more confortable for that trip than a car!
Yuck on the heat wave, but nicely done finding a reasonable work around for the sketchy A/C.
Wearing Carven today. I don’t know what I’ll do about the CP tomorrow, I make a point of NOT buying things that don’t last for at least a few hours. Dive through the sample buckets, I guess!
I do, too! Not a lot of fleeting scents in my wardrobe.
How do you like Carven?
It falls into the ‘easy office scent’ category for me. More in the fresh/clean family than I personally prefer, but it’s nice. I think I got the mini using Sephora points a while back.
I’m having trouble finding scents that won’t stick around even in my samples.
I’m in Rose Amazone, another nice morning with a semi-cool breeze. I’ll take it!
Lots of small tasks to get done today. I get satisfaction from marking off *lots* of small tasks. ?
Enjoy your day, NSTers!
I love marking things off a to-do list!
Getting those small tasks dealt with feels so good! I took care of a couple of those on my list today.
No points for me today. I am in Heeley Cuir Pleine Fleur, which does fade after a couple of hours but still leaves a soft leathery dry-down.
Gosh, it is 8:45 AM in Ca and there are already nearly 50 comments. Yay for perfume folks!
Started off with a tiny spritz of Narciso edp, which turned out to be a total mistake (sometimes it just smells like straight up moth balls to me, and this AM was one of those times). Fortunately I applied very little. Course corrected with a favorite, not exactly fleeting but not a powerhouse either–Prada’s Infusion d’Oeillet.
Not a powerhouse but really, really nice.
I get all of the NR scents mixed up. Remind me which one is Narciso edp (which bottle)?
Me too! This one: https://www.sephora.com/ca/en/product/narciso-eau-de-parfum-P398827
They are confusing! Sometimes I refer to that one just as White Cube, lol. I love it and it actually got 5 stars in the new Luca Turin book.
Oh that’s interesting about LT. I usually like it! I do slightly prefer the Narciso edt on most days, but not always. I think both scents are among the great cheap thrills that are really terrific perfumes. But the names~! Oy.
I have a travel spray of the edt and even though I love the edp, I find the edt is “easier” to wear and reach for it more often.
As you probably know, White Cube is one of my favorite perfumes. I can not wear any of it’s flankers though, I finally gave up on trying.
White cube and Casmir are two favorites we have in common!?
Shalimar EDT for the social security office lol..joy.
Ugh, sorry about the social security office but Shalimar makes everything better.
Someone got taken out in a stretcher and someone actually said, at least it’s one less person in line. Times we live in, smh.
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Oh my.
SS office is like another DMV..
Or passport office…
I need to go soon. Dreading.
I don’t know what it is you need to do, but I was able to sign up for my SS benefits entirely on line, so it’s worth looking into.
Smelling great!
I groaned when I read about your destination.
SotAfternoon is Eau de Narcisse bleu
I had my 2nd round job interview, while the world around me was melting (again, record breaking temps here).
They chose the other candidate.
Oh well, that’s how the game works. I am a lil bit disappointed but not really sad or upset I was having doubts myself as well if this was a good match.
chin up!
Yup
And even though I did not get the job, its always a good learning experience: doing job interviews.
But next time I prefer cooler weather
I agree, and approach interviews as an opportunity to figure out whether it’s a place I want to work. I ask tons of questions and am always trying to get a sense of how the overall business operates and what their underlying approach is.
I’ve also had the experience of my doubts growing throughout the process and I’m pretty sure that every time that happened, it came through, and I didn’t get an offer.
(The reverse is not the case, however. I’ve interviewed for jobs I really truly wanted and didn’t end up with an offer.)
Good for you for moving on. There are other places out there!
I’m glad you are not too upset about this. Is it easy to get work in your field?
No its not easy like IT engineers/programmers, mechanics or nurses and teachers.
I work as an online communication/contentmanagement/website specialist.
On a srategic and managerial level (both project manager and team lead experience)
So its not impossible. But there is more competition. Also from freelancers.
I’m glad you’re not too upset. Hugs.
Thank you!
So this was practice and in your gut you had doubts about a match – it sounds like a win-win. Over the weekend, I listed tona short segment on talk radio about not being chosen as the hire. Per the reporter and from what I have observed, a surprising high percentage of new hires quit within a year. It is, therefore, important to thank the hiring manager and continue to extol your virtues. Nowadays, with data points being readily available, I know of one company that searches its applicant tracking database for “silver medalist” candidates whose skills match a new vacancy. This technique had saved the company time, effort and $s in identifying qualified candidates to bring in for an interview. Good luck in your job search!
Thank you!
Its a fascinating proces isnt it?
I sat on the other side of the table as well (the employer side) and its not always easy to make a good estimate of your candidates.
Most of the time I made decisions that turned out to be good.
But one time there was this person who turned out to be totally NOT what he seemed to be in the interview. And I was not the only person who saw him. At least 3 other co workers spoke to him. We let him go before his trial period ended…
sometimes you fake it and you just dont make it
Many many years ago, I was sitting in on interviews with my manager at the time. We interviewed a guy who looked and reminded me of Anthony Perkins from Psycho. He said everything right. I told my manager I had a bad feeling about him, but she had been charmed. In the end, he was throwing shoe boxes at me, and screaming at me that I acted like his mother. I kid you not.
Wow ?
I once interviewed a girl who had her sunglasses on her forehead and kept chewing gum.
That was the worst candidate ever.
But it sounds tame compared to your experience. I have no words.
It made me smile but I’m sure it was not funny at the time
Omg! Too funny! I once dated a guy who said on the third date “you’re going to leave me, just like my mother!”
And he was right! ?
Jiji, I had a bad gut feeling for my interview too. Even though I felt good about how I did. It just seemed like something was off. Hoping the right job comes your way!
I hope you find the right job as well!
Luckily i saw some interesting vacancies today, so Ill be sending out new applications soon, but everything is kinda slowing down here because of the summer vacation.
Lots of companies plan on picking up their hiring processes somewhere half august/start of September….
Sorry it didn’t work out, but hopefully the right job will come up in the next couple of months… meanwhile you can enjoy your summer.
Like you said, at least you had some good practice with the interview process. Hope that another chance comes along soon.
JHAG Anyway. I haven’t found a dud in this discovery set. There seems to be something for every mood or time.
I have not tried any of that brand. Good to hear your endorsement.
OTOH, I bought their sample set and returned it because I hated them all
I’m pretty sure it was an Iso E Super thing, though, which I cannot abide in copious amounts.
The U.S. has very liberal return policies and this actually makes it more expensive to do business. For me, samples are just what they are – for trial. If one caused an allergic reaction and there’s a reluctance to try anything else in the set, then it makes sense to return.
I need more of this Iso stuff! Any other rec’s with an overload of them? The Molecule 1, I couldn’t smell. (Nor MKK) but that’s another day.
Sorry for your experience!
I think lots of the Ormonde Jaynes are heavy on the Iso E. Maybe a discovery set is in your future!
If you like IsoE Super, I’m sure you’ll like these: Encre Noir, Timbuktu, CdG Black Pepper.
Thank you, Regina and Amyitis, for your suggestions. I have a bunch of new ones to try.
I appreciate it.
They should send me bottles! I am their biggest fan. ?
Lady Vengeance is still my favorite.
SotD is Nicolai Neroli Intense. Not as intense as I would expenct but a very refreshing and invigorating one!
Mugler Cologne for a hot one today. I enjoy this one a lot. Not super long lasting like most cologne, but I do catch whiffs throughout the day.
Thanks for all of the well wishes yesterday! I appreciate being able to vent to you all.
I missed your vent… need to go back. Love a good venting.
I may join you in that cologne today. Although I think it’s not hot enough here…I like to save ones like that for really evil days.
Basically we are moving to California after only two years in NM. But I’m attempting to be optimistic about it and look at it as an adventure.
Oh, no! I missed it, too. I love CA. Hope it all works out in the end.
My H & I committed last year to living a mobile project-based lifestyle, which means going to where the job is for 2-5 years at a time. It’s not for everyone.
After today and tomorrow, I will be officially on vacation and I am counting down the minutes until it comes. I will be counting the seconds tomorrow. I am wearing Lonestar Memories today because I couldn’t find my large decant of Orange Star. I hope that Andy Tauer will do the 15ml travel sets again. I remember the conversation about how he said that he didn’t make any money off of those. Even if he did them once a year, it would be awesome.
For how long will you be on vacation and do you have any travel plans?
Re: Tauer Discovery Sets – I think he needs to price accordingly.! I wonder if the concern is cannibalization of FB sales.
I have no travel plans. My dad’s birthday is on Thursday and there is a 90th birthday party for my grandmother. I am just looking forward to not having to go to work for 9 days.
OMG those are gone, too? So we’re basically down to FBs or decants from splits? AAANNNDDDDDYYYY WHHHYYYY
Maybe he can be convinced to make smaller bottles at least? Like 30 ml? 25? 20? lol. They’re more profitable, aren’t they?
The 15 ml decants from Andy Tauer have been gone for quite a while but you can still get the 1.5 ml ones on his website. I wish he did have smaller bottles.
Ultra commando at the moment, as I have a mammogram scheduled in a couple of hours. Not being able to apply anything to skin always makes me strangely conscious of just how much stuff I apply on the daily.
The last time I had one they didn’t tell me to avoid anything, nor did they provide wipes. ? Go fig. And this was at one of the premier breast cancer clinics in the country (or so I’ve been told.)
Hope it goes well. Bring a travel spray
Good luck.
You’ll smell terrific in no time!
I had my mammo a couple of weeks ago. I know what you mean about the products. Not wearing deo bothered me quite a bit, especially in the beastly hot weather. I hope things go well for you. ?
I hope that your mammogram appointment went well.
VC&A’s Neroli Amara
Nice
Still pretending to be at the beach. SOTD is Smell Bent St Tropez Gold. Quieter than your usual sunscreen scent but sooooo good. This is a limited edition version of St Tropez Dispenser which has ‘pure jasmine grandiflorum and nitro musks’. It’s smoother and richer than Dispenser. I’m happy (even if I am sitting at the computer, not on the beach).
I thought nitro musks were banned years ago?
Today seemed like a good day for TF Soleil Blanc, so that is what I am wearing.
It’s a Sarrasins day, to bloom in the heat. It’s also wash the living room curtains day, which rolls around annually because although I enjoy doing laundry, I HATE ironing and these require it after washing. I have put it off for a month but I can’t any longer.
Hottest day of the summer but we didn’t beat 2003 record. After a thunderstorm it is much fresher now and very welcome.
I’m in Baiser Vole EDT which has very good longevity on me (the essence concentration is nuclear longevity with giant sillage but I use only in winter).
My local news has now picked up on the crazy hot weather over in Europe. Those temps are horrible! I hope that you all get a break soon.
It was worse in continental Europe where temps were above 40C, 42C in Paris my brother told me. Here in the UK it was 38C, hot enough, further thunderstorms are expected for today, rain yesterday afternoon has already cooled the temperatures here in London so it was mercifully a short heatwave.
Assam of India today, also fitting the CP. But good in the heat. Finally went for a haircut today plus refreshing my plarinum grey-blonde. Just one workday to go
Le parfum de Therese for a taxing work day. Reminds me of the cartoon of the two Buddhist monks talking: “Do you also sometimes dream of packing all this in for a life of mindless consumerism?” Wish I were at an Ashram…
I’d like to be at the beach and not dealing with all kinds of annoying administrative details…but I’ll take an ashram.
LOL.
Good one.
Another day with no time for NST breaks at work other than the very end of lunch time. Wearing the lovely Iunx Eau Baptiste. It smells like a cross between Grand Chalet and L’Artisan Eau du Fleuriste. Good stuff.
Perfect summer weather twins with Robin today! Oh, and I think that the blue drink in yesterday’s picture might have been a Blue Hawaiian. I Googled some pictures to double check my guess.
SOTD = ‘Replica’ Tea Escape EdT, from the sample stash. Usually this is gone in about 2 – 3 hours on me. However, I can still smell it today! No idea what is going on with it.
You deserve some perfect summer weather ?
Awww, thanks lillyjo! You do too… I remember what this past winter was like for you!
Deserve some perfect summer weather, that is! I hope that you see some.
Jalapeno, I would trade a perfect summer for just a “doesn’t suck ” winter any day! Lol
Lucky fragrance day! Tea Escape disappears quickly on me,but I enjoy it for the brief time it is there.
I was shocked, since Tea Escape usually goes away on me, too. I’m wondering what was different about today.
Ha! I’ve never of this fragrance.
Tea Escape reminds me of green tea flavored Pocky. Or jasmine green tea bubble tea.
Oh I think you are right! I have never had one, although we used to drink some horrid concoction called a Blue Whale that I am afraid to even google.
Hi Robin, House Twins!
MFK Baccarat Rouge 540 today.
I veered off course again was planning on sticking to my hot/cold list but this weather is sooo perfect I wanted to revel in it.
There will be hot weather again soon, no doubt.
Good luck to all those European countries who are suffering now – I heard there could be more trouble for Notre Dame if it doesn’t cool down….. Paris is 107 degrees!! There’s been too much water absorbed in the walls from the fire control efforts and because the heat is causing it to re absorb too quickly it could cause further deterioration of wall structures! I can’t even imagine, it was heartbreaking enough to observe the first time.
Oh, had not heard that about Notre Dame, that’s awful.
Hello great smelling friends!
I just got home and received an email rejecting me for the job. Lol! I thought for sure they would offer me a position. It’s ok though, as I said on jijis post, I was getting some bad vibes about them. Also, I actually asked for what I thought I was worth and not what they were willing to throw at me. Thanks to all of you for the confidence boost!
My sotd is the great and powerful Dune! I smell Divine! ?✌???
You smell great and have an even better attitude!
Thank you!
Well, I guess it worked out in the end? Getting bad vibes in an interview is definitely something to pay attention to.
Yeah, I saw definite red flags.
Then not worth it even for more money! If they can’t keep their red flags hidden even in the interview, you are better off elsewhere. (But sorry!)
Onward and upward, lillyjo!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbaiQ00gywI
Perfect.
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Sounds like it turned out okay – good on you for asking for what you’re worth!
It was hard to do, but they were asking for ALOT more work than I do now, and were being very sketchy about the pay. I figured I better tell them what I expected.
Woo hoo on Dune. The job, pfffft, it seems you were better off with the rejection!
I think you are right! It’s funny because I asked more questions than I normally would have, per your advice. I was surprised at how they glossed over so many of them!
Glad you’re ok with it; sounds like your spidey-sense kicked in to warn you! Probably is a blessing in disguise. You deserve better!
Your perfect job will come along, Lillyjo.
You smell lovely in Dune.
Wearing MM Tea Escape today,fairly fleeting fragrance.Drinking a Starbucks coffee frappuccino,guilty pleasure!
Hello there scent twin!
I’m in Azemour les Oranges today. Not quite right for the CP because it does last, bit it doesn’t have much sillage.
Wearing L’Air du temps, about 10 sprays. My version, sadly, is not vintage, so I treat it more like a body spray; I haven’t worn this in forever.
Surprisingly, I’m getting alot more clove tonight; don’t think I’ve picked up on this note so obviously before with this fragrance. Must be the spray volume!
I don’t think I’ve ever picked up clove . I will look for it next time I smell it.
It could be the carnation, but I did overspray!