Happy Almost-Friday and happy Gingerbread House Day. It's also Frank Sinatra's birthday. What fragrance are you wearing?
I'm in Guerlain's delicious Spiritueuse Double Vanille.
Reminder: on 12/13, we're doing Scents of the Season, part 2...wear something that smells like baked goods, or has a baked goods accord, or just reminds you of holiday baking. Suggested by thegoddessrena.
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 russian teacakes [cropped] by Stacy Spensley at flickr; some rights reserved. [You can find the recipe for those cookies here. My recipe for what we called "Mexican Wedding Balls" is very similar, and those were my favorite cookies as a child and possibly the first I learned to make myself. 1/2 lb soft butter, 1/2 cup powder sugar, 2 cups sifted flour, 1/4 t salt, 1 1/2 cup ground pecans, 2 t vanilla. Knead, roll in balls, bake 20 minutes 300-325 degrees, roll in (more) powdered sugar. Or, here is a Serious Eats version that adds cinnamon.]
Good morning Y’all!
Very green and herbaceous in Clinique Wrappings today. Definitely a good one for Christmas tree season!
Love Wrappings. Wore it when it was first released…in the 1990s, I think.
Oh, you smell wonderful today! I love a good herbaceous scent
Hello all!
I went holiday sniffing with some friends on Tuesday and ended up buying myself a small bottle of N° 18 for my upcoming birthday. Luca Turin said it smells like bread to him, so maybe I’m complying with the poll theme? On me it’s a light musky iris, and eclipses the radioactive Infusion d’Iris. Any other fans out there?
Have a great day!
I never warmed up to No 18 ( but I haven’t given that line a fair shot) but congrats on the Chanel purchase!
Did you get any samples with your purchase?
and happy birthday!
Thank you! The salesperson said 18 was the one he sold the least oh, so you’re in good company. It’s evanescent but beautiful on my skin.
Happy birthday.
No 18 is all about ambrette seed on me. The EDT was slightly different than the EDP to me. I think I preferred the EDT when I compared my two samples.
I don’t remember ever trying 18 on skin in the eau de toilette, so at least I know I like what I got! Maybe one day I’ll hunt down a sample.
Happy birthday ! You smell great !!
Thank You!!
Happy birthday Coumarin!
Thank You!
(It’s actually on Monday but I am so thankful for the happy wishes regardless.)
It’s good to start early ?
Definitely. I already had cake!
Happy birthday! I love the opening blast of gin & tonic in No. 18.
I do too. Actually, every single parts, but the top notes are so arresting.
Happy Birthday! Enjoy your new bottle!
Thank you!
Happy Birthday! I think No.18 is wonderful. Probably my favorite next to No.22.
Thank you! I love all of the classics but my first love is Rue Cambon.
Happy upcoming Birthday! I like no 18, though I also get ambrette and a bit of fruitiness. It kind of reminds me of Celestial Seasonings Red Zinger tea ?
I can see that! I attribute the fruitiness to the rose but it definitely has a slight tannic rasp in the base. I used to adore Celestial Seasonings.
Another “Happy Birthday” wish coming your way! ?
Aw thank you!
Happy birthday!? Enjoy your purchase!
Thank You!
Many happy returns and enjoy your new purchase.
Thank You!
Have a very happy birthday Coumarin and a wonderful year ahead.
Thank you! Here’s looking!
Happy birthday!
Happy Birthday Coumarin! Chanel No. 18 is beautiful! Enjoy it!
Happy, happy birthday!
Happy Birthday Coumarin! Enjoy your new bottle.
OMG, HI Birthday TWIN! Happy Birthday in advance Coumarin. I love No.18 so I am very happy for you and I am getting NO.19EdP for myself for my birthday , making us also HOUSE TWINS.
I hope that it will be a wonderful &perfect day for you.
My SOTD is SL’s A la Nuit. I wore it for a very sick friend as he loves jasmine.
You smell wonderful!
Oh birthday twins, how fun! Happy birthday in advance to you too AngelaB.
Happy Scented Birthday in advance, Coumarin! ?
Because of Tiffani yesterday, I am copying her SOTD from Wednesday so No 5 it is.
I finished two books this week. One was Lie with Me, translated by Molly Ringwald and I think I cried through the whole book. The next was The Man Who saw Everything, which was on the long list for the Booker prize. I would say it gets 5 stars for the writing style but hardly 3 stars for enjoyability…Now I am on to a book my friend gave me called My Absolute Darling…
You smell wonderful !
I will look into your book selections 🙂
I haven’t worn No 5 in a bit and at first I was like “whoa” this is strong stuff! Now its settled and beautiful. Initially I wanted to scrub it off…
I had no idea Molly Ringwald was a translator on top of being an actress! I’ll have to see if my library has a copy of Lie With Me
It should. Its not a very long book, I read it in a day in half.
If you want an innovative plot, then don’t bother headed to the library. This is a love story that re-told often.
Where this book will capture your heart is Besson’s beautiful elegant writing style that Molly Ringwald does an excellent job translating. I had to reach for my favorite hanky towards the end, so expect a tear or two if you are the sentimental type.
Vintage Shalimar EDC
You smell great cm8!
Thanks, Robin!!!
So do you!!!
Smelling sooooo good.
Thanks Kelly C!!!!!
Smelling delicious in Lann-Ael and on my way to a job interview.
Fingers crossed; hope the Lann-Ael brings you good luck in the interview!
Good luck!
Good luck!
Best of luck to you!
Good luck!
You smell wonderful! Go slay ’em.
Good luck with your job interview, thegoddessrena!
Good luck! Did you get those Smell Bent travel size samples? I’m curious as to what you thought of them. I was a little disappointed in them. Thought for sure some of them would work for me…☹️
Good luck with the interview. I hope it goes well.
Good luck with the interview!
Hope you get the job, good luck
Sending luck!
I hope that your interview went well! ?
Noir Exquise again today. Those cookies were a staple of my childhood, too. Now I’m longing for a couple along with some tea.
My weakness was the Mexican Wedding Ball – as Robin mentioned, very similar. Buttery, melt in your mouth deliciousness.
After some more nosing around on the internet this morning, I think they are actually exactly the same thing…the same variations in recipes appear under both names.
It’s clearly one of those food items that is so good, it had to come into being in multiple cultures across the planet. I bet there’s a version in a few other countries, as well.
My MIL always made giant platters of italian cookies at Christmas time. She called them butter balls. They were my favorite of all the cookies she baked. I have her recipe and should make them again this year.
This cookie is one of my family’s favorites. You can actually make it vegan friendly by substituting a vegan butter that is made mostly from cashews. I also roast the pecans lightly prior to throwing them in the food processor. It really enhances the flavor!
Serious Eats toasts the nuts AND the sugar!
Nice perfume!
In a gorgeous cloud of Tom Ford Jasmin Rouge. Perfect on this brutal, cold day.
You smell beautiful ????️
Thank you!?❤
You smell wonderful.
Thank you, Cazaubon! ?
Echoing the experts above me…
You smell beautiful!
Thank you, Lillyjo!?. You are also an expert!
I love this one, too!
Isn’t wonderful?
I’ve only ever had a dabber sample but felt it didn’t last long on me (leaving me heartbroken but considerably richer). Is it different when sprayed?
After 9 hours I can still smell it softly. It has a moderate sillage and longevity on me.
Love many TFs but haven’t tried that one. Is it discontinued or still produced?
Still produced.
Pretty!
Indeed!
SL Five O’clock Gingembre- I smell like delicious tea and pastries.
House twin in Jeux de Peau. There are quite a few Serge scents that qualify in this CP. I wore Rousse yesterday and I’ve got two more options for tomorrow.
Yum! I get Earl Gray and gingersnaps! Very festive!
Another house twin with Chergui
Smelling awesome.
Well, that settles it. Gingerbread House Day means I must wear Gourmand Coquin. In honor of a co-worker who once said it smelled like gingerbread to her. I don’t get that at all, but I do get delicious.
Why is shopping for jeans such a pain? I must have tried on 15 different pairs the other day. I did end up with a nice deal on a comfortable pair, but it was work. I didn’t want to spend much, since I’m hoping to continue losing weight. But…does anyone actually pay full price for Gap jeans? They’re all at least $70, and I kept hearing Ryan Gosling’s voice saying (to Steve Carell) “Be better than The Gap.” (Mine came from Old Navy, so Ryan would be shaking his pretty head…)
I agree with the pain that shopping for jeans can be. I am trying to motivate myself to do just that in the next few days.
I read your reply to my post late last night. You can contact me at arzeznik in the land of comcast with a dot and a net about the Bengale Rouge ?
I hate buying/trying jeans. Several years ago I found a brand that fits me well (Paige Premium Denim), got a pair that fit me perfectly, measured them very, very carefully, then proceeded to buy several more used pairs cheaply off ebay. Haven’t had to buy another pair since. Not an orthodox approach, but it worked well for me.
That’s actually a really great idea, orthodox or not.
I do the same with bras – found a brand/size that works and buy them cheaply on ebay. You can always find them deeply discounted, brand new, in last season’s colours.
That’s very smart.
Hi LizzieB-
I have the same problem with jeans. I prefer jeans that are leggings this time of year with a beautiful sweater. I am wearing a pair of winter white “jeggings” with a cobalt blue cashmere sweater today.
My problem with jeans is after popping out two kids I am still fluffy and jello like in my mid section no matter what I do at the gym. I think it comes down to diet, and I refuse to change that. I have found that high waisted jeans help.
A few of my favorites are Topshop Moto Jamie jeans, AG Prima mid rise Cigarette Jeans and Frame jeans. The former are the least expensive, and the last two are not, but you can get them on sale. I found mine at a consignment shop.
I bought a pair of wide leg high-waisted ones a couple of months ago that I loved, but they’re now too big. I found them in a smaller size okay (I’m a bit in between two sizes), but I decided to wait on those. The ones I got aren’t quite high waisted but they are high enough to be comfortable. You are reminding me I have a pair of jeggings somewhere…should see if they fit….
I have never paid full price for Gap jeans. I wait until they are 40% off which happens pretty frequently. I have 2 pair of their mid rise straight jeans that fit me well (I also have a difficult time finding jeans that fit decently). Though I was putting on a pair last week and the zipper came right off when I zipped them ?
Yeah…they have sales so often, I wonder why anyone would pay full price. Right now, I’m a bit in between sizes, which is why I wanted as cheap as possible…
Yes, jeans, bras and swimsuit shopping is the worst. My youngest hates jeans- hates the way the waist can dig in when sitting- and this fall we got her a few pair of rockstar jeggings from old navy. The looked so comfy, I got a pair for myself! The kind with elastic all the way around the waist. They are especially good for a day of sitting in the car.
I gave up on jeans about 15 years ago! I wore them when I rode a motorbike, and I had such trouble finding things that fitted and with a narrow leg that fitted inside bike boots. I had one pair of old Levis that were great, and I resorted to buying the same style in thrift shops.
I’ve had to keep switching what my favorite jeans are, because it seems that the ones I like get discontinued.
This is where hoarding really pays off – I find something I like and buy 20 of them. LOL. 🙂
Jo Malone Poppy & Barley
Nice choice. I am glad to hear your dog is getting better.
Continued healing vibes for your dog!
Half twin with Robin today!
Left elbow crook = Shalimar Ode a la Vanille Sur la Route de Mexique
Right elbow crook = SDV (after typing the first name, I’m exhausted)
Both from very small samples that I need to use up before they evaporate.
Thanks for the words of support yesterday, peeps. We should have a good idea today for the proper meds the hubster needs to get ahead if the issue. ?
You smell great Nancy! I Read your reply to my post yesterday and I’m about to email you. Best wishes to your husband!
I hope they can resolve your hub’s issues quickly!
Glad he will be getting proper treatment. Well wishes to him!
Too busy at work yesterday to post, but sending your husband healing thoughts!
We have twin arms 🙂
The best wishes to your husband!
Nice crooks!
I really hope the medical experts can help resolve his issues in time for Christmas!
Continued good vibes that the meds do their stuff for your hubby!
Thanks everyone, things are much better this evening, and he is on the right track! ?
Glad he’s feeling better. 🙂
Out on the road all day yesterday, need to go back and read the posts. For now I am having a nice cup of assam and wearing the marshmallow-fest, Love by Kilian.
you smell delicious.
I you can come sit next to my hot chocolate.
Mmm, hot chocolate. Don’t mind if I do.
I’m reading this a day late, but we were twins because I wore Love too!
I am wearing Five O’Clock Au Gingembre.
Yum
Good one!
I’m in 10 Corso Como again. I remember trying this when I first fell down the rabbit hole and it was part of Luckyscent’s essential 13 pack. I could easily see it being a signature scent.
I’m so excited, I just went online and scored tickets to see my college daughter’s favorite band, Tame Impala, next spring!? I got an email earlier in the week that the presale started today so I sat and waited for the sale to begin and I think I got some pretty good seats! Fourth row off the stage. This will be her Christmas morning present and I can’t wait to see her face. I seriously think she is going to flip her lid. My husband said to me “I think it’s a great idea, but do you think she wants to go with her mom?”? Lol. Of course I think she wants to go with her mom!
Omg, this tickled me pink! Of COURSE she wants to go with her mom, because her mom is the UCM (Ultimate Cool Mom)! In my next life, I’m picking you for my mother! ?
You and me both.
Lol- thanks!? I’m not sure how cool my kids think I am but I do know that my own mother, whom I love dearly, would have never taken me to a concert when I was 19. I love live music of almost any kind and l love spending time with my daughter, so it’s a win-win for me.?
I love 10CC, it has a touch of sandalwood that sparkles magically.
I love it too and the dry down is great. It’s one of those perfumes I get whiffs of and think: mmm, I smell good!
Awesome gift! And 10CC is so good!
Thanks KellyC, I can’t wait to see her face! My favorite part of Christmas is watching my kids open their gifts.☺️
Agree that 10CC is so good!
Corso Como is one of those perfumes I am just waiting for a deal, and then I’ll pounce.
I must confess I have been eyeing bottles too because I just have a small decant. I especially love the 20th anniversary bottle, it reminds me of the collaboration between Corso Como and Birkenstock.
I think you get coolness points for knowing about Tame Impala. I’m certain that my parents didn’t know who my favorite bands were when I was 19.
Yeah, I doubt my parents knew either- or would have wanted to listen to what I was listening to! Lol. She takes over the audio in my car when I take her back and forth to college, so I’ve had the chance to listen to them quite a bit and like several of their songs. I think it’ll be a fun concert!?
Those cookies are definite favorites- so buttery and delicious. We did not have sweets much growing up, so was always excited to go to a friend’s whose grandmother (who is now 102!) made those cookies amongst other indulgent treats. She had many jars of Crisco in her cupboard. Maybe that’s the secret to long life ?
I’m wearing Heeley Note de Yuzu for a very cold morning. I do like the citrusy steamy effect in the cold. It’s both uplifting and calming.
That scent sounds gorgeous.
My grandma used a lot of butter and a lot of Crisco and lived to be 98 so maybe so! 🙂
Good morning NST! I’m a little slow getting moving this morning, but downing some coffee right now and will soon be up to speed.
SOTD is ELDO Fils de Dieu, and I’m quite enjoying the change up. Don’t know if it fits the CP, but I’m still smelling good?
Here is a link to the area I hiked yesterday for those interested. I ended up hiking almost 10 miles! Gorgeous day, which I topped off with the best blackened salmon I ever had.
https://instagram.com/stories/vantasticviews/2196940431523519667?utm_source=ig_story_item_share&igshid=hhimoxlnm7kk
What fabulous photos and beautiful scenery!
I think you qualify for the CP with the Thai milk rice notes. I follow your insta and love traveling with you by proxy…
Love your adventures!
Gorgeous!
Fils de Dieu is so good in cold weather!
4160 Tuesdays Over The Chocolate Shop. Honey glazed chocolate filled pastry. Mmmmm!
Delicious!
I love that one, you smell delicious.
Scent tried at bedtime — after midnight, technically Thursday: Berdoues Vanira Moorea. Not sweet at all to me. It seemed more like a vanilla woods sort of fragrance.
That one wasn’t sweet at all to me either. I think I got a bit of a boozy note in it when I tried it, too.
Eight & Bob Memoirs de Mustique for me today. I love this cheerful orange blossom, although the branding for this company is a little eye roll-worthy to me. It’s just such a bright and uplifting scent.
Also, I found a really great cheap thrill product yesterday while I was doing some Christmas shopping at Walmart—Moroccan Magic lip balm in the rose scent. It was $2.99 and it’s got to be the most lifelike rose scent I’ve ever found in a lip product. It smells like a living rose! I bought it just because I needed an extra lip balm this time of year and it was such an unexpected delight. It looks like they have some other interesting scents but my store only had this product in rose and I scented
Unscented*, gotta love autocorrect
Eye roll worthy for me too, so glad to hear that MdM is good!
And thanks for the lip balm rec! I will see if I can find them at Target. Or, if anyone wants to spend more / look less, they’ve got 3 & 4 packs on Amazon. The 3 pack is $12.
Oh, I have that lip balm in the lavender vanilla scent. It is wonderful! I’ll have to look for the rose one.
Rouge Nocturne today, linear, rose and patchouli is all you get but both are stellar so I’m quite happy.
Stellar rose and patchouli sounds up my alley lol
🙂 It’s a good one if you like these two notes, the patchouli is not too cleaned up too.
Linear isn’t necessarily a bad thing, especially if it is something you enjoy.
That’s right, there is always Knowing for a more complex patchouli rose.
My mom is out of surgery. My dad just texted me. Wearing Diorling since I am at work and hope that 9pm comes quickly.
Speedy recovery to your Mom
Wishing your mom a quick recovery!
That’s good news!
Sending positive thoughts for your mom’s recovery.
Yay!
Continued best wishes for your mom!
Adding my well wishes for your mom’s recovery!
That’s great news, Dawn! Happy to hear things went well.
Goood morning perfumistas. Yesterday the Nez collaboration of the Addictive Substances issue and Maurice Roucel’s limited edition 1+1 Hongkong Oolong edp arrived in my mailbox. Here’s my mini review:
So, at the outset, let me just give the caveat that I am a bit over-sensitive to cumin/cedar notes that hint of body odor.
The brief for this perfume was developed by designer (graphic, packaging and branding, interior design . . .) Alan Chan, who sent tea samples to Roucel to “distinguish the tea aromas for himself.” Roucel says he is not really a tea drinker, so his interpretations of what he smelled were not based in tea culture or language. Anyway, I could go on, but let me get to the perfume.
I did not recoil at the first sniff of Hongkong Oolong, but I worried. Light powder, pine, and sugar-free vanilla, rubber, and leather quickly morphed into a rubber-leather-cumin combo. The distracting cumin rubber bit lasted about 30 minutes for me, fading or strong from moment to moment.
As the perfume warmed on my skin, I began to get hits of cardamom and something spicy which could be ginger or cinnamon—that spicy hot in your nose spice smell, and tonka and lots of sandalwood.
And then I got what to me smelled like tea—fancy tea, unbrewed, with the leaves still in tight, black, twisted knots. To compare with actual tea, I checked my limited stash of teas (I am not much of a black tea drinker either) to see if I had any proper oolong. I did not, but I did find tea I bought several years ago at a traditional Chinese tea shop in Seattle–something called Blue People. The small bag, fits in my palm, which sadly I’ve barely touched, has a sticker on it with a handwritten “$30.” The tea does smell heavenly, like weak in the knees heavenly, and a quick google search told me it was an oolong tea with ginseng and licorice (oddly, more savory than the tea in HO).
When I compared the scent of the perfume to the tea, I started to pick up a floral note in HO. The copy says that the perfume has some fruit and honey notes—I got that, but they are not in the forefront in the least—more tints than full blown notes. And then again, the tonka and sandalwood, which is described in the copy as “milky sweetness,” which seems fair. But there was still the leather and cumin—faded now to a level I found intriguing instead of too much. Every time I smelled the perfume on my skin, I got something slightly different. At times it was a cumin-free dry leather with pantry spices, sometimes I smelled the cuminy bit, and at other times more toasty, floralish tea.
After a few hours, the perfume was still evident, but completely a skin scent. Almost piney again, with the lightest residue of wafting incense.
There are a lot of tea scents out there that I have not tried, so it is hard to say whether this breaks new ground. It definitely breaks new ground for me—it has nothing in common with the fruity tea scents I’ve tried, or the photorealistic jasmine tea of Imperial Tea, or the pipe tobacco oddity of Tea for Two. It is not a matcha tea, or a Southern USA ice tea. It is a complex black tea. It is definitely adult. It is hard to say if it skews masculine or feminine. (Okay, it is definitely not a traditional feminine perfume.) It is a ride. It is fun. YMMV! It is being sold in 15 ml bottles so it is practically free in perfume money.
Great review! (Does it count towards your first draft?)
Haha. Well it was a first draft, but sadly not THE first draft, which is still a bit of a muddle.
Oh my, that sounds like my cup of tea! Although not like my oolong. But rubber/leather/cumin/tea will likely please me, even if it is not the oolong hologram I dream of. I have a bottle coming but my shipping date got moved. Thanks for the review!
I am so curious to see what you think of it. I had no preconception of what an Oolong perfume should smell like. I suspect that it’s low wattage, fleeting quality will b a problem for some as well. But you know, even as I that, I find scents powering down faster than other people do. It might just be my nose and not the perfume.
Also worth considering that there are a gajillion kinds / varieties of oolong, and they don’t smell the same. There are lots of variables, including how long the tea was oxidized. I can see a heavily oxidized oolong smelling like your description … some of them are very woody, almost smoky.
Given how much thought and design went into conceptualizing this Oolong perfume, I look forward to someone with your Oolong experience reviewing it 😉 !
I don’t seem to manage many reviews anymore, but you’ve definitely made me more interested in trying it !
Back from the Christmas party at work. I feel tired and stuffed like a roasted duck.
SotD is fabulous Guerlain LUI.
Sounds like you had a great time!
Sound like a good evening
Sounds like a good day at work!
That sounds like a rather good work Christmas party!
Friday here, and I’m very glad, it’s been a busy week. I don’t have much perfume-wise that smells like baking, but I do have a few spicy things, which seem to be a somewhat related theme. I’ll be wearing Majda Bekkali’s Mon Nom est Rouge, which has ginger. I really like this, but nothing else from the line has really grabbed me.
I hope that you can get time to unwind over the weekend.
Chypre mousse. The road has reopened between us and the rest of the country so I am taking my son up to visit my mother for the weekend. It’s a five hour drive up the east coast so lots of green paddocks and sheep. Soundtrack: Rick Ross ( unfortunately).
The retrieval of bodies from the White Island volcanic eruption has just got underway and so everyone is gripped by the news, hoping it goes safely. It will be a big relief when it is over.
Wishing you a safe drive and good visit. So sad about the volcano fatalities. 🙁
I envy your drive. Enjoy!
The footage from the eruption was really moving. I hope the retrieval mission is swift and safe.
I’ve seen both the eruption footage and some of the news conferences that have followed. I know that NZ is on The Ring of Fire, but this brought that home in a very visceral way.
L’heure bleu on one arm and Sacrebleu intense on the other. I can’t decide which I like more!
My grandma made those cookies every Christmas. As a kid, they weren’t sweet enough for me and I preferred her sour cream sugar cookies.
I’m wearing Eau de Rhubarb Ecarlate this morning. Not terribly pastry-like, but cheerful on a rainy day.
Mmm, sour cream sugar cookies are the best.
Chergui for work, which lasts forever. Now a nice spray of Ambre de Merveilles and some Vanillekipferl, which I made some days ago.
Smelling awesome today!
L’Elephant for the spicy deliciousness for me today!
I’m on a 9/80 schedule so I’m off every other Friday, this today is my Friday this week. Yay!!
Also, Mexican wedding cookies are some of my favs!
Hello there scent twin!
Heyyyyy!!!
After a scent-free morning I have put on a teeny drop of DSH Rendezvous and now feel rather scandalous. Honestly this is probably too fecal to be among my work samples, but it is really lovely. I’ll just hide out in my office for the next hour or so.
Sometimes feeling scandalous is a good thing! 😀
ROTFL!
Wearing Guimauve de Noel, which I bought because I loved the name. However, on me it doesn’t smell like marshmallows or Christmas, and is in fact kind of meh.
Yeah, it didn’t smell much like marshmallows to me either. I’m wearing the real marshmallow today: Kilian Love.
Cazaubon, you’re making me really want to try that one!
The scentless week will have to wait. I found ripe oranges in the woods, so Eau des Merveilles it is. They were all sour except one which was super sweet . I’m planting the seeds in the backyard.
We were gifted a half bottle of Amaretto with the name brand Lady Velvet. Sounds cheap, but surely it would work for something like biscotti and cake?
Biscotti and cake sound like the perfect use for that Amaretto to me.
Hello NST! As of this writing, I have a hot water heater that works!! Tomorrow’s shower will not be cold! And since nothing is ever easy, there was a bit of drama that included “Hey they didn’t send the right part” to calls to customer serve and a district manager of the hot water heater company, plus the possibility of having to replace the entire water heater. Ugh! It turns out, yes the correct bit was also included in with the other itemsin the box. Someone just needed to RTM.
SOTD = back in Kenzo Jungle l’Elephant. I saw the temp this morning, and decided that a cold shower at 26 degrees F was simply not happening. The Elephant doesn’t care!
So glad to hear you had that problem solved already. And yay for a so much needed and well deserved hot, relaxing shower!
Mr. Jalapeno took a work from home day today, so he was the person dealing with it all for the most part. I had the important job of answering the front door and letting the repair guy in. ?
Ugh, edit for up above: should be “customer service”!
Glad it’s all fixed!
A friend of mine offered the use of her shower today if repairs weren’t successful.
That was thoughtful of her. I’m glad you can look forward to a hot shower tomorrow! ?
Phew! It’s about time. Now you can look forward to your next shower rather than dreading it!
Yes! Tomorrow I won’t be gritting my teeth as I step into the water.
Yay!! Glad it’s fixed, despite the drama.
Yeah! I can’t believe that stupid water heater is only 2 years old. Sigh.
So glad you can now enjoy hot showers. You smell festive in l’Elephant.
Thanks Aurora!
The Elephant indeed does NOT care! I love it this time of year and we smell fab!
Hooray!
Wore a few sprays of 28 La Pausa today.
We finally had cloud and some rain today so we went to the other Outlet Mall. I was on the hunt for a BUB of Wrappings, but never did track it down. I guess my bottle from last year will have to hold me over as it seems to be a Holy Grail now. I will treasure it when I get back home to enjoy it.
I did get a replacement MAC eyeshadow (in Malt). I use it almost every day; it’s such a great transition color.
On the way home I was wondering what smelled so good. It was me!
I’m seeing Wrappings available on several different store websites, but not seeing it in brick & mortar locations.
I have actually never seen them in B&M stores.
I think the set I got last year at the outlet mall was a ‘1 and only’. I lucked into it after trying to order online and failing to receive it thru the Clinique website, what a fiasco!
I got my set online from Macy’s this past Black Friday with free shipping and a free 6 piece skin care gift. It was basically for free. I have never seen Wrappings in brick and mortar stores.
Your previous comment prompted me to check my Bay website at home in Canada. They also had it still on sale so I snapped one up. Thank you!?
I found my set at a Cosmetics Company Store at the outlet mall last year around this time. Whispering, they carry Clinique products, Estee Lauder, Smashbox, MAC, Tom Ford, Aveda, Jo Malone and Origins products. It’s a great place!
The other store I was in had some Frederic Malle POAL (1/2 price even!), so there are all kinds of treasures.
I am so glad you were still able to get a set! They will be gone again soon! I had a tough time trying to purchase the set directly from Clinique. They had 30% off and after applying the coupon and showing the discount correctly at the time of checkout it always showed full price. I got so frustrated after trying several times, that I just quit and bought the set from Macy’s. At the end it was a better deal.
Thank you, I was lucky! And good going on the better deal!
Me too, I had huge problems with Clinique’s crazy, user-unfriendly website again. I got super-frustrated as well and just quit. I should have remembered all that from last year.
I love when I forget how good I smell and catch a whiff later in the day! I’ll have to check out that MAC color, I’m a sucker for makeup as well as perfume unfortunately lol.
It’s our invisible armour!
You’re preaching to the choir about perfume AND makeup!
The color doesn’t look like much in the pan, but I love it because it’s so simple. It’s great with MAC Painterly paint pot as a primer and I usually finish with a grey eyeliner. It’s my morning go-to when time is short!
I wore Coromandel today because I wanted to smell like chocolate.
I received a few samples that I ordered from Kerosene when I got home from work today. A reviewer said that Winter Of 99 smelled like eggnog so I had to check it out. While it does smell like eggnog slightly in the opening, it quickly changes to a menthol camp fire with the slightest touch of eggnog in the back ground. So, it’s a big fat no for me but it was fun to test it out. I am also trying Follow which is a coffee scent. Pretty nice but probably not a love. I have a few others to try this weekend.
I saw that review. She made it seem really tempting! From what you describe, it’s a big no for me too. Thanks for the info!
Lemming squashed!
Not sure I’d ever want to smell like eggnog. I like the beverage, though… especially if it’s homemade.
It’s not very sweet at all. The reviewer said the scent had a lot of nutmeg which is what pulled me in. I guess I though it would be somewhat like Chergui but they are nothing alike. She described it as a smokey vanilla but it’s a campfire vanilla. I am so allergic to the smell of burning wood that it is a hard no for me.
Oops…smoky…
Did you get the chocolate ?
In Coromandel? Yes!
White chocolate… not milk or dark.
I ordered Winter of 99 blind, fortunately I like it. I get spice, vanilla and wood smoke. But it has to be good and cold to wear it.
I’m so glad that you like it. I guess I am disappointed because I thought that I would love it. In the dry down, I mostly get the smell of ashes from a fire that has gone out.
John Peg seems like he puts a lot of care into his work. My little sample order came in a nice tin container that he signed personally. I’m also testing Walk The Sea and really like it so far. I wish he did travel sizes.
It was super busy today, but mostly because we were short staffed.. I thunked my sample of Prada Candy Night. I’m glad, it was starting to get on my nerves. I think it smells good, but idk.. not as good as the original.
I doubt that Prada will ever have a Candy flanker which will surpass the original. I haven’t been impressed with the sibling scents I’ve tried.
Me too, only love the original Candy.
I hope tomorrow is less crazy but since it’s Friday…
The original one is great!
I love the original Candy but haven’t sniffed that one.
SOTD = Penhaligon’s Clandestine Clara
(aka Clairvoyant Claire according to hajusuuri’s brain)
Boozy amber vanilla with just the right amount of cinnamon. I should wear this scent more often and it is probably more office safe than the one I’m planning to wear tomorrow ?
https://www.instagram.com/p/B5-Ud8HBatO/?igshid=1kjlt2qsdq3ug
The first of the office Christmas parties is done and dusted, well attended, good buffet style hors d’oeuvres and open bar from which I limited myself to one glass of white wine.
Looking forward to reading the 200+ comments!
So curious now, about what your pick for tomorrow is!
Me too!
I’m wondering what you’d consider to be a NSFW perfume.
Two for me at an office party. Wishing I’d stuck to one.