Another weekend, another heatwave. Talk about anything you like — the fragrance you’re wearing today, the last perfume sample you thunked, your favorite "too hot to cook" summer dinner, whatever.
Or, ask a question about fragrance, then see if anyone else has asked a question that you can answer…
Note: top image is Just like Narciso [cropped] by Kátia Goretti Dias Vazzoller at flickr; some rights reserved.
Hello all! Hot as heck as usual in Texas.
I have a drop of La Myrrhe on for company as I had to leave my apartment before being fully formed. This stuff is lovely, and when I was getting my most recent bell jar, this almost went home with me instead.
Not sure what I’ll be wearing for work later this afternoon but I’ll keep you posted.
LOL at “before being fully formed”. #wokeuplikethis (honestly, some of them look too “put together” but I shudder to think what they really looked like without embellishments)
I think the only person who could tell was my boyfriend, who took me to lunch. I’m decently coiffed now, and in So Pretty EdT!
Which bell jar did you buy?
Ah, duh! Sarrasins. Maybe my only true jasmine perfume.
Sarrasins is wonderful. I have a bell jar too.
Lucky us! I love the undulating jasmine and warm skin. Dabbed, it doesn’t last too long, but I’m going to try decanting it into an atomizer.
I’m eating pesto pasta salad wearing a light spritz of an “iconic” (it really is but that word is tossed around haphazardly nowadays) perfume.
I’m a flanker that rarely gets mentioned.
Who am I?
Fictional scenario used to describe the scent, actually eating oatmeal (which I LOVE! ).
No clue but I join you in the oatmeal love – I will have that with bananas and chocolate tomorrow!
Excellent! I like peanut butter on mine for a protein boost!
Need to add that too!
And forgot to mention that the cafeteria at work now has almond butter and I layer that into my oatmeal.
Petit Fracas?
No, but good guess.
I’m thinking one of the Kenzo Amour flankers. The Holi one?
No, but I like that flanker.
Hmm. Don’t know the perfume, but I’m guessing it has a note of basil.
There are a lot of fragrances that have Mediterranean culinary herbs in the notes.
I like oatmeal too, but it’s been too darned hot out for me to want it.
Not basil, but that is my fault for describing it that way.
This is a ‘new-fangled’ pesto with another ingredient substituting for the basil.
So the first two were just softballs, huh, Bear? I guess now were playing for real?
I’m thinking, I’m thinking…
Lillyjo, you were batting 1.000 !
Ty Cobb’s career average was .366
It is difficult, never was popular, but the original is still going strong.
Batter up!
Shalimar ode la vanille? ⚾
Strike one……..but that was a good guess.
Kinda close……………..
Well, I had to look. That would have to be one of the Samsara flankers? I will guess Shine?, and then bet it will be the other one lol?
It is the other one, un Air de Samsara.
I’m swinging at Madagascar and bunting Mexique.
Strike two, and I let your bunt roll foul………
A sibling to your SOTD is the original.
Well, I can’t decide if it’s the cologne edt, or eau de Shalimar. Do I get an intentional walk?
Intentional walk, but its a SIBLING to your SOTD (the original scent).
The original scent is exactly 30 years old.
I honestly didn’t know about Samsara flankers! Learn something new every day ??
I adore Un Air…! Much easier to wear than Samsara in the heat of summer, though I’m not opposed to heavy hitters from time to time.
I’ll take at stab at it… would you be wearing TM’s B-Men, Bear?
Or maybe Kryptomint?
Good guesses.
Kryptomint was awful on me………though for some reason I like the cheap tacky neon pastel mint green bottle.
B*Men is a favorite of mine, but it has rhubarb.
Both incorrect.
Sotd is Jo Malone Sweet Lime and Cedar over Allure. Should have worn the JM for the CP yesterday – it doesn’t last but I like spraying it on throughout the day, it’s a good one to wear for working around the house.
I’m getting ready to make fast refrigerator pickles if I can find my recipe. This time of year we live on barbequed chicken and ribs, hot dogs and sandwiches/salads. And fruit.
We did BBQ ribs last week, that is one of my favorite summer foods.
But I am near about living on caprese salad and peaches this summer.
Everybody to Robin’s for dinner! Caprese and peaches would do me fine. I love ribs, too, but cannot tolerate salt and so avoid them, alas, but I hope that both you and ringthing enjoyed yours!
I love the photo up top, and especially love its title. SOTM (while waiting for the morning overcast to clear) is Iris Prima. I’m always surprised at how much I like it. Prada’s Infusion d’Iris didn’t work for me at all and VCA’s Bois d’Iris wasn’t quite right for me either … and Iris Prima is so very similar to both of those but seems to have exactly the right mixture of basically the same ingredients. Oh well, more of the Prada and VCA for the rest of you!
Figured cat had to have equal opportunity since we did dog last Saturday
Yay cats! That is a cool photo
Monsoons the past couple days. Helps cool it off here slightly. Got pizza delivered. Lol, my cat apparently likes Pizza Hut breadsticks:)
Commando but have notes of dishsoap and Borax lol
Ha, I’ve been doing a few household chores myself and mostly smell like Method Citron
I haven’t thunked something in a long while.
I have had a very thematic summer testing new fragrances.
Today starts two weeks with Guerlain and I am in vintage Shalimar EDC from the 60s.
After my Guerlain weeks I will be in a week of Auphorie followed by a week of Dior.
I may not start thunking again until September.
Too hot to cook summer dinner is toast with almond butter covered in butter pickle slices.
Your dinner sounds yummy
It is!!! Please try it…then report back !
OMG almond butter toast with pickles? And I thought I was weird.
Ha! you know me well enough to know that I am weird-LOL!!!
That does sound like a super strange combo but also strangely compelling. salt-sweet pairings usually work out!
it’s actually really delicious!
Have been on a hummus and baba ghannouj kick during the hot weather. Discovered Ithaca fresh lemon beet hummus and it is SO good–foresee withdrawal symptoms if my grocery store runs out.
A bit of the 1st iteration of Eau Premiere for the lemony burst.
I’ve been on the same kick, adding tabouleh and falafel. We also have an uh-mayzing middle eastern deli here and have been known to eat their salads at least a couple of days a week. Eggplant w/ chickpeas, fava bean & chickpea, Green beans simmered with tomatoes, potato salad, Greek salad — all tdf.
Yum. I could live on tabbouleh and hummus.
Oh, I will have to see if I can find that hummus!
I’m with you about the lemony burst, I don’t want all that vanilla from the newer version, really why reformulate something comparatively recent
it’s good that the 1st version was available in 150ml bottles.
First Bouquet Premier
I think I got this one from a NSTer, I am almost done if anyone wants to do a swap or anything let me know
Reading Circe, such a interesting book
That’s on my “must read” list but I start school (again) in 2 weeks and we’re moving 2 weeks after that so I don’t think I’ll even get started on it. Maybe winter break….
Happy weekend!
We’re not having a heatwave as big as other parts of Europe do. While Spain or France suffer from 45*C we’re having not more than 32 degrees lately.
Today I’m wearing Mona di Orio Amyitis. It’s a reissue of their 2008 perfume without any changes to the formula. I got it as part of brand’s Signature Collection box of 3 x 10 ml, other two are Carnation and Jabu.
Good news, I have a sample of Amouage Love Mimosa coming my way so I’m hoping to test it sometime next week.
That was quick on the Amouage:). Hope you enjoy:). I have always wanted to try the the Mona Carnation and the lavender one.. I forget the name. Didn’t know Mona had smaller trio sets.
They are available on their website. I think it was last year when they introduced 10 ml size.
Can’t wait for your review!
Thanks. Hopefully Amouage will be good enough to deserve a review too.
Is the Carnation cartioney?
Yes, please tell us!
Too hot to cook means eating out!
SOTD = Hiram Green Lustre
Anyone looking for a powerhouse will be disappointed. Anyone who thinks it’s all about the first spritz is missing out. Upon first spritz, I thought why the h-ll did I pay to smell like Perfumer’s Workshop Tea Rose (which I got as a freebie from an NSTer) but after a few minutes, the Rose quiets down and a light spice comes out and it stayed like this throughout its life. Very nice!
I will be in Eau de Melange as I will be decanting for a split and some freebies.
Have a great weekend!
I agree re: too hot. I take the same approach to too cold. And everywhere in between.
Ha! Hot today but not muggy like last weekend. I decided to do takeout and split it to eat for 5 meals altogether.
Lustre is fantastic although quite simple compared to other Hiram Green scents.
Did you start the Travelling Box of Perfume unboxing?
Tonight will be the first peek ?
Yeah, I was slightly alarmed after the first spritz of Lustre, but I really enjoyed the drydown. I already have other blockbuster roses so I find it very enjoyable.
Summer is salads and ice cream for me.
ICE CREAM!!!!! mmm…. (see, I am not that weird
)
I WAS going to get ice cream but had decided to do takeout and wanted to get dessert there – Tres Leches cake!
I ended up having amaretto and chocolate mousse ice cream for dessert, but that cake sounds good too.
I’m pondering getting an ice-cream maker. Been looking for raspberry ice-cream in the stores forever, to no avail! We don’t eat alot of it (more salty tooth, lol). But with all the fresh fruit here, there would be many options! Sorbet or gelato possibly.
We’ve had the raspberry Magnum bars, but they are gone so quickly. And there’s only 3 per box, so we fight over the the last one.
I didn’t know about the raspberry Magnum bars, there are three ice cream shops within a few blocks of my house so I usually end up just buying cones, and they only have raspberry sorbet, not ice cream.
We have the simple Cuisinart electric one. — just an on/off switch, no other settings. It works well as long as the bowls are REALLY COLD — we keep them (empty) in the freezer year round. It takes a good 20 minutes, sometimes longer, for most recipes to churn to a finished consistency, which is then about like soft serve. I’ve tried two new recipes this summer: coffee Heath Bar and Strawberry Honey Balsamic with Black Pepper. I do not eat commercia strawberry ice cream; this homemade version simply tasted like the most delicious strawberry ice cream imaginable, either a tiny bit of black pepper heat.
I think my point is that I am voting “yes” f
Oops, sorry, early click: I am voting “yes” for you to get an ice cream maker! Ours was about $60 and included a second freezer bowl.
That is the one I have, and yes, I keep the bowls in our trunk freezer.
I don’t make ice cream as much as I used to, though…it does not keep well after 4-5 days, so I was eating too much in order to not waste any. I suppose I should look into what you can do about that — the ice cream is so good!
Doing my happy dance right now because it’s the first day of my vacation. Going out and about with my mother, she has a couple errands to do and hopefully I can sneak on over to Bath and Body Works for a mini candle run because my Heirloom Apple candles are back. Spending the day in Coromandel EDT.
You smell great in Coromandel. I heard that there is now a parfum, but maybe everyone already knows that. I haven’t been checking in here as much lately.
Ooooooo I didn’t know that! Love coromandel!
What the what? It’s news to me! I need to do a Chanel boutique run – too bad they don’t usually have testers for the extraits.
Release date is 8/29. And the price is high! I would need to test first. But Coromandel parfum sounds appealing.
I didn’t know that they were releasing a extrait version. It will probably be out of my price range.
Enjoy you vacation ☀️
Enjoy your time off and advanced happy birthday to your dad!
Forgive me, Donnatella for I have sinned. I went ahead and ordered a bottle of Kiehl’s Original Musk Blend no 1 today. I had a gift card from Ulta and a $5 coupon burning a hole in my pocket. It was $42 before the coupon and gift card but I couldn’t resist getting it and a lip gloss too.
Love the photo. I am always amazed at how graceful, lithe and acrobatic cats are. Well, when they are not inadvertently flipping off the edge of the bed.
I started the morning with Le Mat, which I find to be a really intriguing rose perfume. I think it might be the combination of rose and immortelle that is so unusual. Then, midday I switched over to Calligraphy Rose, which is sweeter and fresher. Everything’s coming up roses, apparently (sorry).
I saw what you did there ?
Love the cat on the picture!
I skin-tested some scents in Kyiv stores today. Jul et Mad Secrets du Paradis Rouge – turned very plastick-y and synthetic on my skin. Scrubber. Tom Ford Beau de Jour – very masculine, barbershop and fougerish. Some people can rock it, I guess, but it is not my cup of tea. ELDO I am Trash (Les Fleurs de Déchet) – I did not expect to like it, but I did. No dreaded synthetic apple. There’s a smooth accord of fruits which are just starting to go bad, flowers and musk. May not sound appealing, but the overall effect is quite good in an unusual way. I can’t say I loved this scent, but I liked it.
Fellow NSTers, those of you who have or tried Berdoues Selva do Brazil and/or Scorza di Sicilia, what do you think of them? They are on sale here (in Ukraine), and the price is really low. I wanted to try them but could not find them in the stores near me. I can buy them online though. Maybe you will talk me out of it?
I thought they were both pleasant but didn’t leave a big impression. I am not a cologne person though.
Thank you!
I tried a lot of Berdoues fragrances when I was in Toulouse last year. (The firm is on the outskirts of the city). They were all pleasant, but – like Cazaubon- I found them forgettable.
Thanks. You are the second person to say it, so maybe I’ll save my money.
Did you buy I Am Trash?
Nope, only tested it in the shop.
Just tried Berdoues Scorza di Sicilia from my “Grand Cru” discovery set of samples, since you mentioned it. I liked it well enough. The notes listed are citron, cedar and vetiver. My folks were out, and didn’t say anything when they got home, so I don’t think it’s a super-strong/long-lasting perfume. I’ll have to try the Selva do Brazil sample sometime.
Thank you, neyronrose. I guess it agrees with other reviews – nice but not impressive.
Hi everyone. I’m trying out another sample I found in my unremembered box, AA Rose L’Orange. It’s appealing but too sweet, reminiscent of one of those yummy creamsicles of the olden days. Lots of vanilla in there. I also love that cat photo, and immediately went onto Flickr and gave it a fave. Perhaps the cat is a Turkish Van–they apparently like to swim!
My brown tabby loves water. Her favorite pastime (aside from snoozing) is sitting on the edge of the tub and splashing when I take a bath.
I’m wearing vintage Bellodgia. I harvested the season’s first tomatoes from my garden this morning. I was so taken by the various types I bought six different plants this spring, and I can tell I will be hip-deep in tomatoes in about a month. This year the weather has been perfect for them. What are some good tomato leaf fragrances? I like the smell of my hands after I’ve brushed the leaves and the stems.
I read a review citing AG Le Chevrefeuille as a tomato leaf fragrance, and now I really smell the note very distinctly.
One vote for the Demeter, despite is gone in 60 seconds demeanour.
CB I Hate Perfume Memory of Kindness is the quintessential tomato leaf perfume to me.
Yep!
I had a chance to sniff vintage Bellodogia and it was gorgeous- you smell great!
Reeking a bit of havoc today. Generously sprayed arms with Shalimar Souffle this morning; added some Mugler Cologne to the chest this afternoon. Then just as I was getting ready for an evening out, my bottle of Terracotta arrived, so naturally I’m now drenched in that.
You reek and only perfume family knows it’s not an insult ?
Bought a,bottle of Terracotta this week. A good summer sunsceen scent.
I’m on holiday and just discovered the Perris Monte Carlo perfumes in a great perfume shop. Now I’m trying to decide if I prefer the Ylang ylang nosy be or the Absolue d’osmanthus. And trying to imagine wearing them on a regular (work) day in cooler weather….decisions, decisions….
I imagine that either would be a great choice. I hope you have a fabulous holiday!
Thank you!! My daughter and I are having a good time, even with her puberty interfering here and there ?.
I was very impressed by Absolue d’Osmanthus. It is shared no 1 on my wishlist. The other is Etro Shaal Nur.
I only tested the extrait of that one, the better affordable edp-tester was missing.
Oh yes, I absolutely adore their Ylang Ylang! I bought that and also the Patchouli Nosy Be. Mmm!
Does the Ylang ylang nosy be smell very different on you in hot vs. cold weather?
I’m sorry but I honestly can’t say.
I started the day in phlur’s Hanami and then switched to Osmanthe Yunnan after lunch. My favorite hot weather food is salad.
I bet Osmanthe Yunnan is wonderful in this heat.
It’s been a hectic week, recovering a bit now on Sunday morning. I wore Annick Goutal’s Chèvrefeuille yesterday, I can barely detect it after an hour, but it is lovely while it lasts. Like some others of you have commented over the last few days, I prefer perfumes with a bit more oomph.
I’ll continue my testing of Serge Lutens’ Participe Passé after my shower. I like it, but it’s quite sweet, so I’m very undecided on a FB. It’s also quite smoky, when I dabbed some on a few days ago, my beloved asked if something was burning in the kitchen. Eeek – I don’t want my perfume to make people anxious!!
Love the photo of the cat. A pool would be bliss for our cat. She is very old (19 or 20), and her kidneys have been failing for a long time, so she drinks a huge amount of water. And because she’s nervous of going outside now, we go through truckloads of kitty litter
Chèvrefeuille is indeed glorious while it lasts!
The Participe Passee smells like herbal cough pastilles to me.
Inside comfortably installed under the AC, wearing Fourreau Noir. The DH and his son are outside all day in the hot sun at a heavy metal concert. Not envying them one bit.
You smell wonderful and very smart about staying indoors!
Must try in wamer weather, could work with the lavender
Amber Precieux again today, plus a spritz of Santal 33.
I should try that combo!
Santal 33 for the gym and then AP for the rest of day. Then a lot of other things as the day progressed. ?
Love the picture of the cat! A previous kitty of mine regarded my bathtub as a giant water bowl. She only fell in once
Sampling today. Puredistance Opardu at the moment. Smells like a Nieman Marcus lady to me… rich and quite put-together. Not me
I love Opardu and I’m neither rich nor quite put together ?
I had a fluffy white cat a long time ago when I lived in a small apartment complex with a pool. He liked to go outdoors and it was a fenced-in complex so it seemed safe. But once he fell into the pool! I saw it, but he got out right away and skedaddled back up the stairs to home. Poor fellow looked about 1/4 of his normal size with his fur all soaking wet. He was a Himalayan.
Trader Joe’s coconut body butter, which is probably not a great choice since I’m still in bear country. I am SO dry and SO itchy! The combination of mosquito bites (some of them 2-3 weeks old!) and dry skin has me itching like crazy. Finally broke down and bought some Deep Woods OFF, which is pretty useless out here. I look like I have smallpox! And the OFF leaves a white powdery residue like dry shampoo. Yuck!
Anyway, kinda looking forward to a routine where I don’t have to worry about bears and can wear anything I want, scentwise.
I’ve learned some important lessons these past weeks, one of which is next year, I will take a couple of months off in AUTUMN! Less people, fewer bugs and better temperatures. Hope everyone is having a fabulously fragrant summer so far.
Favorite no heat quick summer meal or snack, good for breakfast, lunch or dinner: some type of grainy whole wheat bread with a generous schmear of nut butter, a light drizzle of honey and sliced banana (although dried fruit like prunes are good, too). If you’re looking for a little texture, you can add a tablespoon of granola and press it into the nut butter. YUM! ?
Here is where we’re camped now for those interested. I wish I was into fly fishing because it’s quite popular on the stretch of river that’s in front of the campsite.
https://www.instagram.com/p/B0b3vomhYU3/?igshid=36ul2hdpsxjy
Well, if routine means your new contract…are you sure you’re not feverish?
Do mosquitos bite dogs?
I do know they bite cats, so I expect so
They do. T-Rex tries to snap them out of the air, but it’s impossible. She hustles it back to the van with the nice screened windows?
Not necessarily looking forward to going back to work, but will be happy to be in one place for a little while.
I loved your photos. One day i will visit the US
Thank you! I hope you can get here to visit soon. I know the US would be delighted to host you!
Started the day in Chanel No 5 dry oil, then topped up with some Oolang Infinite for some quick grocery shopping.
Went out for lunch (unheard of 2 days in a row). It’s pretty hot here so I guess we are just too lazy these days. Good thing that we usually cook once or twice for the week and have days worth of food. We eat lots of quinoa salad, grilled chicken and veggies or green salads for dinners.
I thinknthere’s Several of us where too hot to cook food is going out to eat (or take out so I can be in the comfort of my home with A/C.
Yes, exactly!
And adding, your lemming of Chanel Paris-Riveria made me cave yesterday. It was the talk of Oreos that got me?
Lol!?
I hope you like it!
Make gazpacho! Just need to blend and chill it. No cooking required, and can be made in many ways, including with watermelon instead of (or plus) tomatoes,
I need to find a self cleaning blender.
Too hot to cook: shrimp — or, less glamorously, imitation crab. lol.
Sometimes I’ll make jasmine rice to go with the seafood, since cooking rice doesn’t involve turning on the oven. I’ve been eating sushi fairly frequently. Also, we’ve been eating a lot of chicken. I’ve been putting together salads from what’s at the salad bar at our local grocery store so we get some greens.
I got “real fruit” popsicles last week, and they were popular. They went very fast.
Sushi is perfect hot weather food!
And deviled eggs…my pre-movie dinner last night was caprese and deviled eggs.
Commando today. I ignored that it’s too hot and experimented by cooking a red bell pepper stuffed with ground turkey and rice. It was tasty.
Saw A Bigger Splash last night. Film about/with David Hockney. Not a documentary but footage of him and friends in the ‘70s around the time he went through a break up with his love/muse and was working on one of his better-known paintings. Husband saw the new Tarantino movie today…he said it was bizarre and may need to see it again.
Pondering buying one of those acupressure neck massagers.
I haven’t done acupressure but I regularly do acupuncture and couldn’t live with out
Report back if you get the massager.
I heard the Tarantino movie is quite good!
I had the day off, spent quite a bit of it sleeping, just feeling not that well, I think it’s just sinus issues. However, I did make it to my grocery store where I’ve been stalking a clearance bottle of Shalimar edc. Found it today marked down to 13 dollars! So, that is my scent of the evening ??
You smell great lillyjo!
Hope you feel better.
Your grocery store carries perfume?
It’s kinda like a Wal-Mart but not as big, and I believe just in my state. They have a small collection of perfume with the toiletries.
Great find lillyjo! Enjoy your Shalimar; you smell fantastic.
Hope you feel better tomorrow. Congrats on the Shalimar steal!
What a great find! Hope your sinuses are better today. Sleep can perform wonders.
I hope that you are feeling better today (Sunday) lillyjo!
Hope you feel better lillyjo and congrats on the perfume find!
continuing Guerlain with Mon Guerlain.
You smell lovely!
Thank you!!! I really like it…a very sweet lavender. And the mini you sent once thunked will look nice hanging on my Christmas tree
Hello fragrant friends! I have been takings a digital detox over the past two weeks. This involved checking email only once a day and no internet mobile browsing – and hence no NST. I hope I didn’t miss anything important or amazing.
Have been testing California Reverie from my recent swap. Its very very nice and I love the opening – but it doesn’t last at all. Not even as a skin scent. Argh! Maybe I should try on clothes.
Another like from the swap is 10
corso como but I have a feeling that will play better in cooler weather.
It’s a gorgeous day but I am sick in bed with a cold. Drinking hot ginger lemon and honey and hoping to feel good enough to go lie in the hammock later. Why be sick in bed when one can be sick in a hammock? ?
Hope the ginger drink helps. And the hammock. Too bad CR fades so fast on you…but it’s lovely while it lasts…
Thank you! Yes it is so lovely and easy to wear
I hope you will get better soon and be able to relax in a hammock.
Me too although it’s not looking good so far. Boo
Hope you feel better soon.
You too!
Oh YUCK on getting a summer cold! Sorry to hear that! ??
Carthusia Ligea from a very lovely swapper. I love this, it’s similar to Shalimar, more citrusy. I’m sitting on my hands to not order the Parfum version. I have a sample of Creed Sublime Vanille, and I could only detect lemon, no other notes, to my nose.
Yay!
Today (Sunday) I tried two scents.
One is Comme des Garçons Peppermint and the other is Goutal Etoile d’une Nuit. I like both.
Peppermint is very realistic. Unfortunately, as many other minty perfumes, it does not last long. Still a good choice for the hot weather. I remember that someone recommended it here. Thank you!
Etoile d’une nuit is a delicious makeup scent. Vanillic iris-rose is what I am getting so far. Started a bit oily but then became powdery. I keep smelling my wrist and smiling.
Another lazy day under the AC while my husband and stepson fry themselves at day 2 of the heavy metal concert. I’m enjoying Iris Ganache.
That’s quite the concert if it’s lasting more than a few hours! ??
Sunday SOTM is Escale a Portofino. Painted one and a half walls in the bedroom yesterday afternoon, which caused some decorating readjustments to be required … which did a number on my back. Argh, but at least I smell wonderful.
My bedroom needs repainting as well but I am putting it off until the weather cools off. Good luck with your project.
My cat is the reverse of the adorable one in the photo, black and big (well, long hair big) but also handsome the vet’s nurse told me so several times.
Enjoying reading what people are eating
During these hot days I’ve been on a strawberry diet, we have wonderful red fruits here in the UK and affordable too. I also eat sorbets to try and avoid all the calories from ice cream.
I am in the 90’s reformulation of Vent Vert, crisp and easy to wear, it is now a skin scent 10 hours later.
Not sure, but strawberry season might be over where I am at. ?
Oh, no more strawberries, here the season runs from the end of June, officially when Wimbledon starts until well into September.
Niki de Saint Phalle Eau Defendu today. Cooked some linguine with salsicchia ragu for dinner with a bottle of cremant for my birthday.
Hey Happy Birthday!?
Happy Birthday!!!! I have the same exact Leo bottle of which I got as a birthday gift from fragrancenet because it’s the same sign as the eldest and youngest Marzipans.
You smell great, tannina!
Happy Scented Birthday tannina! ???
Happy Birthday!!
Happy birthday tannina!
Happy birthday!
All sounds like a perfect birthday — hope it was!
Many happy returns.
Post shower is Mon Precieux Nectar after Mr Marzipan and I cut down three dead trees and shlepped them to the back of our property…I was dripping sweat after that ordeal! This smells like a dupe for Vanira Moorea which I already have
Go you for taking care of those trees! That’s awesome!
part of being a homeowner
But it was a lot of work!
I thought the same thing when I first tried VM!
Love this weekend’s kitty picture! If it were black and its tail was twice as long, it would look like my Spooky kitty. Spooky loves playing in the water fountain that the cats have to drink from. ?
One of my favorite hot weather foods is radishes. I can easily eat an entire bunch of them.
SOTD(Weekend) = Clinique Wrappings, from the sample stash. This is such a great hot weather perfume! It is rapidly moving to the top of my full bottle wish list.
We had our own spooky kitty back in the day. Now eldest is babysitting her friend’s black cat with green eyes as much as possible because she desperately wants a cat!
Wrappings for me will always be a Christmas scent. It came out during the holidays and I bought it and I always associate it with Christmas trees for sale on Broadway…falling snow…Manhattan in December..
However, I could see how it would work in the summer too! Wait until after the holidays as Clinque usually puts it on sale! Some time in January.
I think I can wait that long for Wrappings. I do have my eye on a bottle of the old formulation of TM Angel EdT (the comet bottle), since it is being replaced by a fruity pink thing.
Angel!!!! yes, get an original formulation!!!!
I want to pick up that comet bottle too. I certainly don’t need it, but I think I will wish I had once it’s gone for good.
I did the reverse of “no cooking in the hot weather” — I took a cooking class and learned how to make pasta, a ragu sauce base, a peppery beef stew, and tiramisu. All divine. Can’t wait to try them on my own!
All of that sounds yummy! ?
Enjoy Florence!!! Looking forward to the posts on your blog about your travel adventures!
I had an absolutely wonderful time sniffing around at Nordstrom with springpansy and smellysmello (she’s an NSTer too but not a regular poster) yesterday. We smelled a LOT of perfumes and encountered many helpful SAs. I finally smelled the newer Diptyques, Tempo, Fleur de Peau, and Eau de Minthe, and didn’t fall for any of them. Smelled a bunch of Hermes – pretty much all the Hermessences I hadn’t smelled before. The ones I put on paper but not skin that I still want to try on skin are Iris Ukiyoe, Myrrhe Eglantine, and Cedre Sambac. Oh, and the other two ladies tried Cardamusc oil on skin, and it was lovely.
Here’s what I tried on skin: L’eau d’Hiver, Acqua di Parma Mandorlo di Sicilia, Lost Cherry, Rose Ikebana. I stopped at Sephora across the street before heading home and tried on Pacific Lime and Gucci Bloom Acqua di Fiore. I ended up buying a travel spray of L’eau d’Hiver. The SA gave me a couple samples, so after my shower last night I tried on Music For a While and found it to be awful. I also tried on EdM Bleue from a sample obtained yesterday, and while not bad, it’s not for me.
A super fun time, and we’re hoping to get together again in September for Neiman Marcus.
SOTD is Bronze Goddess Eau Fraiche. Springpansy brought some unloved samples and decants, and this is one of her unloved decants that came home with me.
Sounds like a wonderful time! L’eau d’Hiver is so beautiful.
Glad you had such a nice day with fellow NSTers.
Today I wore Moon Bloom. Gosh what a pretty scent. It’s so pretty it actually lifts your mood! It hasn’t lasted well on me though. I should’ve worn it Friday! I only have a small dabber sample and am wondering if it lasts better when sprayed? For dinner I’m going to make a lentil salad with fancy Le Puy lentils from France (I ordered them from Amazon). I’ve never tried them before but they’re supposed to have a unique text and hold their texture well. There’s not much cooking, just have to simmer the lentils for 20 minutes, then combine with some chopped-up stuff and a dressing. I will report back on the result.
a unique TASTE not text. I guess I was thinking ahead to “texture.” Tired right now.
Me too… I am the queen of typos! Your lentils and Moon Bloom both sound wonderful.
I went with 1932 today. I don”t wear it often but it’s lovely for the hot weather we had this weekend.