Happy Valentine's Day! Our community project for today: wear the perfume you are most smitten with at the moment, or, wear a perfume given to you by a significant other.
What fragrance did you pick? As always, do chime in with your scent of the day even if you’re not participating in the community project.
Estee Lauder Bronze Goddess and I have a very long lasting relationship built on trust and respect, and yes, even love: it can carry me through any vacation without mishap. I never get sick of it, and the body cream doubles as a pretty darned good moisturizer. (And yes, I am still on vacation.)
Reminder: on 2/21, wear a fragrance by Parfum d'Empire, Parfums DelRae, Penhaligon's, Pacifica or Parfumerie Generale, if you have one. (Yes, we already did a community project for Parfums de Nicolaï). Partial credit for any other small-ish brand that starts with the letter P.
And for those of you who like to plan ahead, see Scent of the day ~ Friday community projects 2020, where I'll try to always have the next five or six weeks mapped out in advance.
Note: top image is cupid [cropped] by francis mckee at flickr; some rights reserved.
Glad you are still wearing Bronze Goddess the perfect scent for a beach holiday.
I’m wearing my latest infatuation, L’Âme Perdue by Le Galion. It is a wonderful fruity chypre that I didn’t buy last March but got in Brussels last week in stead. I love it and I think it suits me.
Tea is Sweet Golden Grey, a wonderful rich and soft, high quality Earl Grey.
Who makes Sweet Golden Grey?
Numi Aged Earl Grey is the best tea bag Earl Grey I’ve tried so far. At home I usually use loose.
La 7e Tasse in Brussels. But it seems they are out of stock. I hope they haven’t stopped carrying it. There is nothing else like it. It’s much sweeter and more floral than your average EG and the tea they use is a good quality Yunnan.
I’ve since discovered that SGG is discontinued. A shame.
I actually never drink tea bag Earl Grey anymore, unless it’s not me preparing the tea. On holiday I tend to bring small Kusmi tins filled with my favourite teas. But then, I rarely travel by plane.
Thank you! I often bring loose tea but this time I didn’t, and I’ve been very happy with Numi Chinese Breakfast and Numi Aged Earl Grey.
I thought I was the only one on planet earth enjoying sweet golden grey!Cheers to a cuppa!?❤️??
That tea sounds yummy!
It is, a shame they have stopped carrying it.
House twins! I’m in Le Galion Iris today.
What is it like? Âme Perdue is the only Galion I’ve actually tried!
On me, LG Iris is a non-powdery, mostly non-spicy, ever-so-slightly metallic “clean” iris. It’s a bit root-y — I’d say slightly carrot-y, or maybe parsnip-y (meaning slightly sweet and not at all turnip-y as with some root-y irises). I don’t get a lot of musk from it, but I gather some people do. I like it in spring for its freshness, and in summer it can even feel a bit like a cologne. I like it very much when the weather starts warming up.
Happy Valentine’s day, everyone! ❤?❤?.
I was thinking about wearing a more sophisticated rose today, but I decided to go for something more cheerful and fun on this bright but freezing day. So Lush Rose Jam shower gel and body spray it is.
Drinking my second cup of coffee with a pinch of cardamon and few drops of rose water.
Valentine’s Day freebie:?(CONUS only).
-Lush Rose Jam body spray- 5ml decant.
Please place dibs here and email me at monica67@aol.com
Rose Jam is of course fantastic, sophistication level notwithstanding, and you smell great. I have both the body spray and shower gel, too, and sometimes I also layer them, when I just need to be suffocated in roses (I mean, not literally, nobody actually wants to die that way, just ask the dinner guests of Elagabalus, not that you can, because they died of rose suffocation, and also it was two thousand years ago and probably didn’t even happen, but still).
Sometimes, when I wear Rose Jam I feel myself like a walking rose pastry, like today! It is pretty warming and cheerful. I may be suffocating many people here at work today. I sprayed on it kind of lavishly ?, but I love it! ?????????
Happy Valentines Day! You are smelling fabulous in Rose Jam. I have to get down to my Lush store soon.
Thank you, Gail! ?
Wonderful!You smell sexy and summery!!
Happy Valentine’s Day M!??❤️?
Thank you, dear! ?❤?
Your coffee sounds lovely. I love cardamom Arabic coffee but never thought to add rose. That actually sounds like a great perfume
I have the tendency to add spices to coffee to enhance its flavor. Plain is ok with me, but I find it pretty boring to my taste.
I just got a bottle of the Rose Jam body spray in a swap a few weeks ago, and I LOVE it! So over-the-top. Are you giving it away because you also got a bottle? Or are you kindly giving a decant FROM your bottle?
It is a decant from my own full bottle.
I will place dibs if still available. I didn’t see that anyone had claimed it.Happy Valentine’s Day!
It’s yours!?
Thank you so much! I feel like I just got a very special unexpected Valentine surprise.
? Happy Valentine’s day!
Did you make your own cardamom powder or is it available already prepared? If the latter, I would love to know as I can’t be trusted with DIY.
I make my own powder from the pods.
Hi hajusuuri! Some grocery stores do sell cardamom powder already prepared; I have some and it’s fine, just not as strong as freshly made from pods. Also, if you want it for coffee or tea and you take sugar in those, Milk Street sells prepared “Turkish Cardamom Spice” coffee sugar online. I haven’t tried it but it sounds delicious.
I’m hoping to sniff the Rose Jam solid perfume sometime soon. I liked the body spray, but wow, that stuff is potent!
One tiny spritz last the whole day and beyond.
Happy V day!
I’m wearing Strange Invisible Perfumes’ Epic Gardenia. I briefly thought about putting on Dirty Rose by Heretic but decided against it.
I liked that one — you smell great turbovivi!
I love this one! Just curious, how old is your bottle/sample? I’m asking because the older formula was a true gardenia scent, epic indeed, but the new one, while incredibly beautiful in its own rights, comes off as more of a jasmine scent…
Happy Valentine’s Day! No one in my life is interested in perfume, really, so no gifts (I don’t really count those that I picked out myself!) So I’m wearing a “smitten” – Memo Winter Palace. Thanks to hajusuuri I have a lovely decant of this and I would wear it more often except I’m trying to keep moving through my stash.
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I feel almost guilty wearing the same perfume in the same week (I haven’t this year but then again, if I did…c’est la vie!
After hunting all over Germany for it (and also Ogilvy in Montréal) and then deciding I didn’t really need it in a sour-grapes kind of way, I broke down and ordered the SL La Fille de Berlin travel set, which arrived from Sephora a couple of days ago. And it is so good, a dark, vituperative rose of the kind I can’t ever resist (see also ELdO Eau de Protection, JHAG Vengeance Extreme), thick and petally and verging on masculine, the name notwithstanding. I’m wearing a bunch of it right now, and I will be wearing more before the day is out.
The packaging is great, too, a tiny quarter-ounce spray in a sleek octagonal case that’s an exact miniature reproduction of the one-ounce Vapo Tout Noir, in a box entirely printed in black on black, almost unreadable but so chic. (And the funnel doubles as a little ramrod to help remove one refill from the case before you insert another. They thought of everything!) I didn’t need it, but I sure am glad to have it. Happy Valentine’s Day to me, I guess. (And also to everyone else).
La Fille is an incredibly beautiful rose!
You smell fantastic! La Fille de Berlin is a gorgeous rose scent! ⚘
Gosh – my word of the day is now officially ‘vituperative’… I speak 4 languages and have a Master’s degree in translation, yet I had to look that one up 😉
Sounds sublime – thank you for that fabulous description! I’m curious about this scent.
It’s stunningly beautiful but it is not a pretty or demure rose: it is out for blood. It has thorns and they will stab you.
If it’s not you, SL also two other good roses, Sa Majesté La Rose (enormous, creamy-soft) and Rose de Nuit (musty and musky), but La Fille de Berlin is exactly what I like in a rose scent.
I have to use it in a (written) sentence soon or I will forget the word.
Happy Valentine’s Day!
La fille is such a gorgeous scent,you smell lovely!❤️??
Twins! I recently bought an older bottle, having tried FdB two years ago at a Sephora in France. The juice there was BRIGHT pink and the top notes almost like rose scented Turkish Delight. I liked it and when I could get this bottle reasonably priced I bought it. But my bottle fits your description much better and is definitely a darker, more mysterious perfume. Which I’m very happy with!
Pyramus, you enabler, the vituperative got me, and I just ordered La Fille unsniffed. A full bottle, mind you.
Olfactive Studio Close Up. Boozy, woody, tobacco and cherry opening drying down to coffee, chocolate and cherry jam. It’s love ?.
Wow! That sounds really good! ❤??
Same! I don’t think I tried that one.
It is sooooo good.LoveLove
Wow, that does sound good!
I have a sample of that one and really like it too.
I get a lovely green coffee note from it. It has been sitting at the top/ near the top of my ToBuy List for a long time now. I just never see it discounted.
NST’ers we all smell fabulous! Happy Valentines Day.
‘Jammin’ the bronze goddess’ Robin if I may say!
I am in my CPRose scent: Chanel No.5 L’Eau!
EAU does this decant smell fabulous!
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Ha, you may! And a very happy Valentine’s to you AngelaB.
I saw what you did there ? and you sure smell fabulous!
Happy Valentine’s Day! And, by the way, only 15 days left till March.?
My longest relationship is with Un Jardin sur le Nil, but I am wearing Beloved, because I like it and because the name fits the theme. Fickle me!
Seriously, 15 days til March is the most important data point about Valentine’s Day.
Beloved is one of my favourites, it’s such a comforting Amouage.
In my Top 5 perfumes of all time,that beautiful Beloved!You smell fantastic!?✌??
Beloved is gorgeous.
Today I am in a gift from my partner, Santal Massoia. Happy Valentines/Singles Awareness/Galentines/Ystävänpäivä day.
That’s a nice one
Teebearman can be iffy on rose scents – so I waited til he left the house and then put on Jorum Studios Nectary, which is a powerhouse untamed rose with peach, oud, ambergris, and civet.
The longevity is amazing – the scent will linger for absolutely days and days on clothing – but by the time he sees me again today 12+ hours later it’ll be a little quieter on the skin at least.
If that isn’t love I don’t know what is… I’m happy, he’s happy, everyone is happy ? I hope you are too, NSTers!
That indeed is love! My husband and I ate lunch on the beach today but not together, at adjacent beach shacks, because he wanted fish tacos and I wanted a burger. Then we took a walk on the beach. Tonight we will actually eat at the same table since it is after all a holiday 🙂
Happy Valentine’s Day to you both.
lol, love the image of adjacent beach shack lunches! That is absolutely something my husband and I would do; it’s a symptom of a comfortable, happy marriage. Hope you’re enjoying your holiday!
That is exactly the way I look at it, and yes, this vacation was fantastic, thanks!
I did a test spritz of this and the rose was assertive…now I have to go find where I left the bottle!
Robin, your long-term commitment to Bronze Goddess is #relationshipgoals.
I am much more in first-blush-of-a-crush mode with Rogue Flos Mortis. But I did less-goth romance yesterday in some of the Hove Louis Quatorze my husband and I bought on our honeymoon.
Ha, you need some first-blush-of-a-crush scents too! I admit I could probably not wear Bronze Goddess every day for a year.
❤️??Happy Valentine’s Day guys and girls!??❤️
Currently single,always fabulous.
SOTD!28 La Pausa in original edt.Beautiful soft vetiver iris.True love,although fleeting,is still true love.
Hope your loved ones spoil all of you with perfume,chocolates,flowers and a holiday in Spain.Lol.
XO
Tonight I am going to enjoy my Madeline de Proust: saffron rose water ice cream ?
Happy V-day
Sounds delectable!!Enjoy your Valentine’s day!??❤️?
You smell absolutely WONDERFUL!!! Did I ever mention how much I LOVE 28 La Pausa! ?
Happy Valentine’s day to you too Johanob! ?❤?❤. Do you celebrate it in South Africa?
Yes you did mention it a “few” times!!Haha!But it is so gorgeous,isn’t it!
Yes,we do celebrate Valentine’s Day here,the prices of red roses and Lindt chocolate skyrocketed this week…haha!
Hope you have a wonderful Friday and Valentine’s Day!❤️???
You sound like Blanche from Golden Girls: Currently single, always fabulous! Happy Valentine’s Day, Johanob.
Haha!Well I do identify the most with Blanche,out of all the Golden Girls!Haha!Thank you,happy Valentine’s Day!??✌??
Happy Valentine’s day!?
Thanks my friend,Happy Valentine’s day to you as well!?❤️?
8 sprays last the whole day for me. Happy V Day!
Thanks to the Goddessrena I am wafting in Shalimar cologne.
I smell amante pronto
Oof,that one is soooo good!You sure smell delicious!???❤️
Che spiritosi lLTSG!!
Ti faccio un cenno!
I’m wearing my first and always fragrance love, Mitsouko edt. I have to thank the absent Doc Sinister for this one.
I am impressed that Mitsouko was your first!
Scentless in the airport waiting for my flight home. Going on a valentines day date with the mister this evening – not sure yet what I will wear. Maybe just my homemade jasmine body oil so the fragrance doesn’t interfere with dinner.
Hope it is an easy flight and a lovely date!
Happy Friday! It’s sunny, but windy/cold, and a holiday weekend (though I opted to work Monday and use my H day later this month).
My current perfume-adjacent love is the Lush American Cream pressed conditioner bar, which scent-wise, has really grown on me. I added an extra bit to my hair post rinse so I can still smell it. And I’m wearing Chanel Jersey edp to match. I read a Fragrantica review that compared American Cream to Jersey and now I can really see it. AC is a near dupe to Jersey’s drydown. Weird how I remember really disliking Jersey edt. Don’t know if my taste changed or the formula did ?♀️
That all sounds lovely together. I haven’t tried Lush shampoos or hair products.
I love the shampoo bars. I haven’t tried much in the way of the bottled hair products (the idea for me was to go bottle-less in the shower). This is the only solid conditioner that I like of theirs, function-wise.
I kept thinking I have this in hand and body lotion but I was wrong – I have Dream Cream. I will have to go sniffing again at LUSH.
HVD to all! I’m doing the CP by wearing MFK APOM, because I’m smitten with Mr. FK in general and the idea of this perfume seems very romantic to me–leaving a part of you behind that is beautiful and sensual. I will be the bright blossoms leaving my lovely trail behind as I waft in and out of an otherwise all-black-and-gray mostly-male audience at a philosophy lecture this afternoon!
That is romantic! Enjoy the lecture.
In my next life I’m going to be you. You are always going somewhere or doing something cool and interesting! ✌?
Well said and such a perfect painted picture of the evening!
Came across this review of top 10 classic men’s fragrances on a YouTube men’s style channel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8hiD_fJyOk
I think he did his homework! Would you have substituted other fragrances as classics?
In my neck of the woods, I would have to give Drakkar Noir and English Leather an honorable mention.
Would you believe I have yet to sniff Drakkar Noir?
I can remember when English Leather was the best scent in the world. ❤️
I do like his style and list!I would have taken Green Polo and the Floris off,and added Grey Flannel and Caron’s Pour un Homme rather.
Great choices!
Loved it upon first sniff, love it still and it was what I was wearing the first time my husband said, “I love you.”. Iris Ganache was my clear choice for Valentine’s Day
Nice!
Woohoo!
Adorable!
I’m wearing Ineke Sweet William in the cute 15ml travel size with the box that looks like a book. It is the only perfume I’ve been gifted by my boyfriend (that I remember anyway). I specifically asked for it one Christmas and it generally works better if I by myself perfume anyway. My boyfriend and I don’t celebrate Valentine’s Day, but our anniversary is coming up in a week and a half so we’ll go out for a nice dinner then.
Looking forward to the end of this long week and excited for a three day weekend.
We don’t usually celebrate much either, except that last year and this we were on vacation anyway, and going out to dinner anyway, so there: that’s a Valentine’s Day dinner! Plus, it is romantic being on vacation anyway.
I bought myself a bouquet of Sweet Williams because they’re one of my favorite flowers. They come in so many colors and patterns, and I love their spicy carnation smell. Enjoy!
Oh! Do you love it?
I have been wanting to try that one, it was my daughter’s first favorite flower and I always associate them with her childhood!!
Yea, I like it very much. It’s spicy with cloves and cinnamon and fruity with peach. The floral smell is like carnations, and there’s a sandalwood and patchouli dominant base. It’s a good, solid perfume.
I can’t believe I left home without perfume today! Where is my head!
I dabbed on Vanilla Blackberry from a sample vial I had in my bag. It works! Fun and sunny scent. A perfumista is always prepared for emergencies like this.. lol
Happy Friday and V-day!
Yay!
Mitsouko, which is the only fragrance I have that my husband gave me as a gift. He went all the way into SF from the far suburbs just to get it for Christmas some 8 years ago or so. Then I promptly didn’t wear it. I’ve recently been wearing it more frequently, so it’s a rediscovered love.
Early meeting today on the other side of town that finished at 7:30 am. I decided it would be a perfect time to stop at the Trader Joe’s over there on my way home, since it’s virtually next door to the bus stop for my ride home. Who are these people? Store opened at 8 am, and at 8:04 it was as crowded as any other time or a weekend. But…they have their rose hand cream in stock, so I snagged a tube. My hands love this cream and its light rose scent.
How sweet of him! Does he notice now when you wear it?
He says he does, but I’m not buying it. Although he does comment on scents and loves them himself. I just don’t think he recognizes it necessarily. But he’s pleased when I tell him I’m wearing it.
Yeah, my husband does not recognize any fragrance, including ones he has worn in the past.
Beautiful story about how you got this perfume and glad you’ve come around to wearing it more often.
The Trader Joe’s closest to me is crazy no matter when.
Happy valentines to all of you that are celebrating!
I’m wearing one of my favorites, Whispers in the library from Margiela. It is a very grounding scent, calming and mysterious at the same time. A deep and woody vanilla with a resinous something in it. Very grounding and and with a feel of smooth/ antique / very old /like Matthew in A discovery of witches about it. Just lovely and very evocative.
Wow, you should have written their blurb for them! That sounds great.
I liked that one!! Great choice. You smell intriguing!
My sister decided that my nephews who are 8 and 10 are old enough for flip phones. For the past two days, it’s been nonstop calling and texting. I don’t know why they are off school today but they are. I know they are having a blast since they got their phones. I couldn’t find my decant of Lonestar Rider so I am in PHI Une Rose de Kandahar today.
How cute!
You smell nice. The texting from flip phones is actually more difficult!
Wow, I’m late today (because I slept in), look at all the comments already!
I’m continuing my l’Elephant love today. I could still smell it when I woke this morning, but will top it off with another spritz when I head out for a hike.
For anyone trying to justify sleeping in, especially since we are on the cusp of the weekend, here’s a little video about the importance of sleep, with a focus on immunity. I love the science behind it! It might make you ditch your supplements. It’s free and available to everyone. Three cheers for sleep and IL12
https://youtu.be/qqZYEgREuZ8
Deva, are you still in Arizona?
Yes, here till mid-March. ?
Nice, that seems like perfect timing.
I like anything that reinforces sleep is good for you. I had no idea that the good sleep habits I developed when young would be such a benefit as I got older.
Forgot all about wearing a perfume gifted to me by my love, and instead am in Berdoues Assam of India, because my decant is evaporating and because I needed a citrus lift. We got to bed extremely late last night because of work and last-minute Valentine’s gift preparations, and planned to wake up at the sunny hour of 8am, but at 6:40, we were both awakened by the sound of our cat throwing up. So then we had to find the vomit, which turned out to be on the rug in the study, which is secured by a number of very heavy pieces of furniture. So shivering and bleary-eyed, we had to lift and move furniture to pull out the rug so we could clean it and, more importantly, keep the vomit from soaking into and ruining the hardwood floor underneath. Now I’m tired and headachey, but a sweet work friend just brought me a doughnut, so it’s not all bad 🙂
Oh my, what a morning! But you had each other to help, I guess that is the Valentine’s Day part.
If we are being quite honest, he did most of the work…. But I do love your explanation 🙂
Oooph! Do you have zoned heating? I have a townhouse and the upstairs is always 3 degrees colder than ground level which I think is odd but now that I’m thinking about it, the heat is probably escaping to the basement…I keep the door open all the time since it’s finished and I view it as part of living space.
Cute 😉 I live in the Bay Area, so I live in a teeny single-floor house. No need for zoned heating! (We usually turn the thermostat way down at night because we have trouble sleeping when it’s warm.)
This is kind of gross to admit, but we were cat barf cleanup twins today. Le sigh.
Hahahahaha. I’m sorry 🙂
It’s just the cost of having those little fur balls around.
At least this cleanup was on a hard surface. I haven’t been so lucky in the recent past…
SOTD = Neela Vermeire Creations Mohur Extrait
I’m continuing Rose Week and I am also smitten with this rose perfume.
https://www.instagram.com/p/B8jkISshSRo/?igshid=v66q6ey0iwet
I pictured the almost thunk level of this but I won’t thunk it because it was what started my Mohur Extrait love and it’s more portable.
I’m looking forward to the 3-day weekend! I’m in the mood for love..of NST ?❤️?. Happy Valentime’s Day❣️
A great, great rose. I was gifted a bottle last year!
Lucky you❣️
I have and LOVE the EDP but still kind of want the extrait. You smell magnificent!
Thank you!
One of the most romantic rose perfumes ever. The extrait is exquisite. Perfect choice for Valentine’s Day.
It had aged nicely too!
You smell wonderful! If my memory serves me right, I was one of the participants in the split you offered years ago and ended up buying a bottle last year. Such a gorgeous perfume.
Have a great weekend and a happy Valentine’s Day to you!
You were! As naughty as I am with big samples, some really need to be tried first. Congrats on your FB!
Exquisite choice! Enjoy it.
Thank you!
I thought about roses today, but Coromandel was pretty darn insistent. Wonder what will speak to me tomorrow?
Coromandel must be obeyed! And who is ever sorry, really? ?
I wasn’t! The very far drydown is exquisite on my skin. Makes me sigh every time.
Bvlgari au The Rouge. I love this scent, plus its pretty red topped bottle grabbed my attention this morning 🙂
Happy Valentines Day !
It’s lovely and doesn’t get mentioned, you smell cosy.
I am still in Hermes Un Jardin Sur le Nil on our Maui holiday and not tired of it all. It feels perfect for this lovely tropical paradise. Two more days!! I was just drinking coffee and watching the sea turtles cavorting from our balcony. Well, maybe they are hunting for food, but they look like they are having fun!
Beautiful scent! I love the body lotion in this. It really has longevity.
I was just saying to my husband that really we ought to stay on vacation until Tuesday! But we have 2 more days too.
Hi all, My SOTD is the original Fendi. My husband’s heart surgery was a success and he’s being released today from UCSF. Best Valentine’s day gift ever!
I was joking with the cardiologist that Kevin didn’t have to have surger to avoid taking me out to dinner.. 😀
Wonderful news! Wishing him a speedy recovery!
So glad for your good news. Now a good convalescence.
And I’ll be certain to wait on him hand and foot! 🙂
Wonderful news! Sending continued good wishes for his speedy recovery.
Yay, so glad to hear it!
Fendi and Kevin are your true loves!
Nina – that’s so true! The nurses at UCSF were so good to Kevin, true to my usual m.o., I made the cardiac cath lab and ICU nurses cookies to show my appreciation. 😀
Happy news!
So happy to hear about your husband’s successful surgery! Happy Valentine’s Day!
And you smell fabulous to boot.
Thank you! One of the nurses remarked that I smelled good! I don’t normally wear makeup and apply very light perfume, the only way he knew it was me was by the kinky curly hair. 🙂
Awesome news!
That’s great news!
Excellent news about your husband! Here’s to a quick post-op recovery!
Hooray! So happy to read this!
What a perfect Valentine gift! So glad he was treated well and is able to go home and be pampered.
That’s great news!
Since I am only allowed perfume on my left wrist (I think I said right wrist yesterday, but I meant my left)– as it is far enough away from my virus/torture/plague— it has to be one that wafts. So, its Irish Leather—a gift from my husband, I think it was for my last birthday. It is bright and sunny outside and I am craving a walk—but that will have to wait.
Any better today though? How long does this last?
Despite my whinging, this episode is pretty mild–my right shoulder, a bit on my right arm and a bit on the right side of my neck. So I am hopeful that by Monday, the worst of the burning will be totally gone. My last episode was worse (but still not as bad as many), and it took about five days on meds to calm things down. And it took about four weeks for the marks to go away entirely–that’s okay.
One issue is that the virus knocks you out. I was so exhausted last night. Instead of eating dinner, I wound up binge watching in bed on my iPad something called (I kid you not!!) Bringing Sexy Back, and fell asleep around 9 PM.
Bringing Sexy Back is probably not meant to put you asleep by 9, ha!
That sounds as bad as Lyme. I will go knock on all available wood right now, and when I get home I will ask my doc about the shot. I probably should have had it already.
My local CVS has been out of the vaccine and doesn’t seem to want to get more, so I must go in search myself….
Lizzie B and others in search of the new shingles vaccine: our usual CVS options (freestanding stores) were out of it forever also, and then I asked at the in-store CVS pharmacy at our local Target and they had it! So I was able to get my second shot on time, and my husband got his first one.
Thanks Old Herbaceous! I was hoping my doctor would have it but I will certainly try Target if they don’t.
Here’s hoping that you truly recover more quickly this time.
That does sound like torture.
Keep up your fabulous attitude
Oakland Fresca!!
Hang in there Oakland Fresca!
Good morning everyone! I’ll be wearing Tobacco Vanille today, which was a surprise birthday present from my beloved a few years ago. I’d commented that I liked it, and it never occurred to me that he had made a note of that.
The other surprise birthday present was a garage door opener, something of a very different nature to perfume 🙂
But a garage door opener is a very nice thing to have all the same!
I actually love practical gifts if they are something truly helpful – like a garage door opener!
Happy Valentine’s Day! I’m honoring it with Jicky EDT, which might be the first full bottle of perfume I use up. I bought it a year and a half ago and it’s gotten me through some rough times – for me it is somehow both calming and strengthening. It almost could be a signature but I have about 5 other contenders for that so nevermind.
I hope all those with sweeties have something special in store!
That is a great choice for an almost-signature — you smell great!
Oh I also want to say thank you to those who answered my bottle/decanting questions! The info I was finding was kind of old so I didn’t know if it was still accurate.
Would you get another bottle of Jicky?
I love Jicky EDT! I go through periods when I actually crave it. I like to wear it in the evening, as I also find it calming (though it also feels bright and a bit sparkling to me, but in a serene way).
Eau de rhubarbe ecarlate… the red bottle for Valentine’s day, the slightly rosy note, and because I haven’t reached for it since the weather was warmer! I like how the rose is used in this scent and also in AA Ginger Piccante.
You smell nice. I did not even think to wear something in a red bottle!
Happy Valentine’s Day, NST!❤️
SOTD is YSL Libre. I’m smitten with it because (A) I’m always grateful for a quality mainstream fragrance and (B) it smells highly reminiscent of the DC-ed Body Shop Neroli Jasmin on me. Win-win.
Have a great one, peeps.
I really like Libre too. When’s spring training?
Catchers and pitchers have started reporting in for it this week!
Unfortunately, I don’t really get any of the lavender that’s supposed to be in Libre—which is probably down to my weird skin and nose—but boy do I huff myself when I wear it.?
Like Jalapeno said??, pitchers and catchers reported Wednesday. Position players report Sunday, the first full squad workouts are Monday, and the first games are the 21st/22nd!
Awesome news! Maybe my team will be good this year, lol! Doesn’t really matter though. I love the sound of baseball.
Happy Valentine’s Day! I’m wearing Lys Mediteranee, which I wore on my wedding day and usually wear again for v-day, anniversaries, other people’s weddings, and sundry romantic occasions. Probably I could have made any fragrance special with all those memories, but the salt-air accord of this one really takes me back to all those weddings on beaches or in sunny rooms.
You smell wonderful!
Love the backstory on your SOTD!
I anticipated numerous choices for today’s ‘smitten’ SOTD from my Roses-and-Chocolate February-themed fragrance tray; some of my favorite scents are out this month and those are two of my favorite notes. But one glance outside my window changed all that: our first really, really cold winter day thus far, with temps only in the teens, a clear and gorgeous blue sky, and bright sunshine doing its best to warm up the frozen landscape of 3 or 4 inches of snow that fell the last couple of days. An absolutely beautiful day!
And so my hand, instead of reaching for roses or chocolate, sought out the 2012 LE Caswell-Massey Pure Frost, today’s perfect fragrance complement. Bright and crisp in its bergamot opening, it transforms into a warm and cozy (non-sweet) vanilla; casablanca lily and jasmine add soft (but not overwhelming) floral notes, and there’s a bit of spice there somewhere that lingers throughout the drydown. Pure Frost is perfectly named, and I’m so glad I scooped up an extra edt, lotion and numerous soaps (luscious!) when it was on clearance.
Happy Valentines Day to all and remember to ❤️yourself, not just others!
I’m taking advantage of the cold weather to wear a couple of things I haven’t been able to, either. Some perfume require the cold to be at their best on me.
* perfumes
That sounds like a gorgeous scent! Glad you scooped it up.
In my favorite floral, Houbigant Essence Rare to celebrate VD (and no it’s not venereal disease).
Aurora, can you tell me more about this? I’ve seen it for a great price but no nothing about it, other than I like the bottle.
*know*
Ugh…
It’s a very classical perfume, I smell a lot of iris and what may be lily of the valley (not at all like Muguet Porcelaine which I don’t like) and some fresh rose, it dries down woody and powdery, iris still very present, not sweet. The performance is exceptional it is still wafting the day after.
Thanks! I found I like powdery iris over rooty.
I had to chuckle a bit at your abbreviation… a couple of other people I know used it today and said more or less the same thing.
🙂 It’s an unfortunate acronym.
TF Vanille Fatale ❤️❤️❤️
In some ways, it reminds me a bit of Organza Indecence. Have a lovely weekend!
Perfectly named fragrance for today!
I get that comparison!
My new perfume love is Hiram Green’s Slowdive, a gorgeous, rich and complex orange blossom honey fragrance with a hint of tobacco. After years of feeling disheartened about modern perfumes–I’m so sensitive to some synthetic notes that they can completely take over the whole perfume for me–I was starting to think I’d never fall in love again and that I would only be able to love vintage perfumes. But when I took the cap off the bottle of Slowdive and just sniffed the bottle, I was instantly in love. And fortunately the fragrance sang on my skin. Haha, never give up on love.
I’m pretty sure I have this somewhere but have to hunt for it!
That last sentence is a gem!
Started the day in a decant of Kenzo Amour, now wearing Musks Koublai Khan. I just found a used bottle on the Parfumo website in the souk for a good price, so i will buy myself a Valentine gift.Even the boyfriend thinks its okay and he usually is no fan of scents.
Congrats on the nice price 🙂
I started the day in Taklamakan (because I automatically reach for it when our temps drop below 40) and now I’ve added a spray of Mohur extrait to my wrists because I consider it the mother of all rose perfumes. And because it’s Valentine’s Day (which we do not celebrate in this house). And because Hajusuuri mentioned it.
Happy V day to all!
I should try this combo as I know each separately smells wonderful!
Happy Valentine’s Day, friends! Didn’t check in yesterday but was in OJ Ta’if and today you all know I’m in Noir de Noir. Maybe not what I’m almost smitten with at the moment BUT it’s my favorite rose and my hubs bought if for me so it def works for the the theme this week!
Will continue rose week over the weekend with Nirvana Rose and Mohur.
Hooray for rose week! I need to decide on a theme for next week!
I’m in Rosa Nigra from UNUM (Filippo Sorcinelli)
I like that one! Great V Day choice, too.
Wearing Puredistance Antonia – I waited a year to get it before I decided it was True Love.
As it should be 🙂
? Songs of the day:
https://youtu.be/-Uu7wd5v048
https://youtu.be/E0LAs7X5ybE ?
I figured that I wanted to wear something I had received from an NSTer today, since I am absolutely crushing on the NST community. You all are the greatest! ?
SOTD = Coromandel EdT, from the sample/decant stash, and hajusuuri. Thunk! Perfect weather for it today, too.
Jalapeno, I was totally going to post Love Stinks today! You’re awesome ???
And you smell great!
?! Hey, somebody HAD to put that video link up. Glad that you enjoyed it.
Nice videos! And you, of course, smell good!
Thank you! My clothes will smell great for at least a week now.
???Awesome! Love it. I can’t hear ‘Love Stinks’ without automatically thinking of ‘The Wedding Singer’, though. Which then leads straight into ‘Do You Really Want to Hurt Me’…?
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Happy Valentine’s Day to everyone! I am wearing Cathexis “I’m No Angel” which I received in a MUA swap years ago
It has not been available for some time to purchase and I wear it this time of year since the notes are fresh roses and melted chocolate in a cedar cup with the blackest of teas.It is lovely and I will be sad when it is gone.I love that the scent description said “perfect for the Mae West in any woman.”
Oh that does sound really good!
I’m so late, super busy day complete with work drama. Sotd was Angel Croisiere. Which I received for Valentine’s day. This is Angel for people who hate Angel. It’s like fruit punch with 7UP and a splash of patchouli. It will be great this summer but did not work well with today’s high in the teens.
Sorry about the work drama…but eh, you’re still sick unless you’re recovered so that would be a good thing. Anyway, I got an unsolicited sample of Angel Eau Croisiere EDT..is this what you wore? I have not consciously sniffed it yet.
The one I wore is last year’s version in the peachy bottle. Mugler just came out with this year’s in a bluish green bottle. They are different compositions. The new one has fig, if I recall but they both smell happy and summery. I am still sick, I’ve been overdosing on saline solution and it has helped with my symptoms.
Glad the saline helped. Thanks for the clarification on the Eau Croisiere EDT being a new version!
Hope you will recover soon, I thought too that saline overdose was going to help.
Sorry about the drama at work, we already have to spend all day there and don’t need the aggravation. Croisiere sounds good, will look it up on Fragrantica.
Do you like iris in perfume Lillyjo? I’ve just answered your query about Essence Rare. I like it when it has a floral aspect a la Acqua di Parma Iris Nobile, and I also enjoy the powderiness, not so much when it’s rooty.
Bummer about both work drama and still feeling yuck. But I am pleased to hear that the saline is doing some good.
Blech, work drama is bad enough without being sick on top of it. Feel better soon, lillyjo!
Started this morning with my Chanel No. 19 soap. It was a light, unobtrusive scent for my workday; almost scent free by my standards. After work, my hubby wanted to go to our neighborhood pub for dinner; I know, perfect Valentine’s day spot! Only had a few minutes after work to gather myself, so I grabbed my nearby Reglisse Noire spray.
Very glad to be home for 3 days now. I plan to watch my pvr’d Great British Baking Show episodes and make some perfume decants for my sister and niece.
Sounds like a great weekend to me!
Sprayed on Rose Prick and wasn’t enthused much. Kind of a bitter rose to me and a bit blah..bottle is kinda cute, like Easter pastel pink.