It's Friday and International Mother Language Day and Nina Simone's birthday. Our community project for today: 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.
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.
You guessed it, I'm in Parfum d'Empire Azemour Les Orangers. (And, a quick note, I'm hitting the road again later today, going to various places for various family reasons. I will probably be back home next Thursday.)
Reminder: 2/28 will be Unicorn Friday: wear a perfume you suspect no one else (or almost no one else) on Now Smell This owns, or something that you very rarely see worn or mentioned. Suggested by Oakland Fresca.
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 oranges [cropped] by Dagmar Luhringova at flickr; public domain.
Well too many house guests, I can’t to my bedroom and my perfumes so no scent today. My niece and her 18 month old baby needed a bigger bed. My niece has actually taught the baby how to sniff for smells like flowers and perfume. It is super fun to watch the baby smell perfume.
Love the picture for today. Really — I love most of them. Tea pot “porn” many days, as I have too many tea pots already. I really love reading this blog each morning, although sometimes I am too early. Thanks.
Hope I was early enough for you today then shellyw! And do have fun with visiting family. 18 months is such a great age, it is worth missing a day’s perfume for
I think few get up at 4:40 and are online by 5:30. I usually check back later in the day. I really love it when I can read it in the morning like today! thanks
I wonder if a baby raised around perfumes is likely to understand them better when she is older, the way children who are taught music from very young learn it better…
she is very observant for her age about all things, so we shall see. They live in Hawaii currently so she has lots of good smells arouond everyday
That’s adorable!!
Safe travels, Robin!
Wearing Parfum d’Empire Fougere Bengale. Sample thunked! Not my cup of tea. Lots of tobacco, herbal notes and vanilla. A masculine scent that is definitely not for me.
For McDonald’s lovers:
https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/20/business/mcdonalds-scented-candles-trnd/index.html
I like Quaker Pounders, but not enough to have my place smell like it.
Happy Friday, everyone!
“Quarter”, not Quaker!
Ha, I liked Quaker Pounder!
And thanks.
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I love Fougère Bengale, so at least I think you smell good
Thank you! It is a very nice scent, just not for me.
Light one of those and put on the KFC Crocs and you’re all set ??
OMG! LOL! You almost made me spill my cup coffee! ??.
Noooooo!
When I read this, I thought a quaker pounder was a thing and that the link you provided outlined their other offerings – like maybe catholic shakes, mennonite ribs and so on….
Oh boy! You guys are hilarious! ??
I’m not opposed to a McDonalds scented candle ?
All yours! Enjoy! ?
Two out of three collegues didn’t smell urine in Sex and the sea (Francesca Bianchi), so I ordered a bottle…??? It smells so ‘special’ to me.?
Yay!
Glad it passed the urine test!?
Good morning and Happy FriYAY!
Wearing just a wee bit of Penhaligon’s Cairo on my inner elbow under my clothes. LOVE THIS STUFF. It’s rich and warm and incense done right. The Perfume Grinch shouldn’t be bothered by it, and it he is then he needs to get out of my personal space!
Last night I pulled out my boxes of samples to find Cairo, and my hubs sat on the bed in amazement at how many samples I’ve amassed over the years. LOL I don’t think he’d ever really noticed how far down the rabbit hole I’ve been….
Ha, I am pretty sure my husband likewise doesn’t really know the extent of it.
My hubs realizes I think but chooses to ignore it haha
Sitting on a plane since their computer is being finicky and they have maintenance on board. Wearing PG Manguier Metisse for the project since mangos are nice and tropical
Oh no, I hate flight delays, hope you get off the ground soon.
I hope that you are well underway with vacationing now!
I’m with Robin in Azemour les Oranges today – it’s heavenly, and Mr. G enjoyed it too when I came downstairs for our customary hug and chat before we go off on our separate ways for the day. It’s a GORGEOUS morning here, clear and very chilly, with the sky that luminous color of blue that I can’t describe adequately. Happy Friday everyone!
I want to see that sky!
A very belated hey twin!
Love the classical art! And happy Friday!
SOTD: Black Cashmere
We are back to 22 degrees in NYC today. It’s cold out there campers, but happy in my puffer, hat & gloves.
4 months today at my new job. Wow! How time flies. All good but starting to get irritated by my colleague who overthinks things. What a brain he’s got and there’s definitely places where more thought is needed but, not everything needs analysis of every option/angle/nuance and it’s beginning to frustrate me. There is wisdom in knowing where to take this kind of time and when not to.
Ohhh I have a boss like this! He’s brilliant but I dread asking him even simple questions because I know I will get the entire rationale behind the decision. He’s terribly overworked but he sort of brings it on himself by writing out long explanations of things where a simple yes or no would do!
Thank you! Good to hear I’m not alone.
It’s so cold!
The poor little ones this morning got a blast of fresh cold air on their walk to school this morning but they don’t care. They are half Canadian , or they don’t feel the cold..
I tend to be an over-analyzer and I annoy myself, lol! So I get it ?
Today was definitely not the day to run out to the mailbox without gloves on. Brrrrrrrrrrrr!
Safe travels, Robin. I hope everything runs smoothly.
Will you still make SOTD posts on Monday – Wednesday, or is NST on a break till Thursday?
Since I wanted to wear as many P scents as possible, today I applied:
Penhaligon’s Castile
Penhaligon’s Lavandula
Pacifica Tahitian Gardenia
It is a very bight and refreshing combo.
Compliance queen! Well done!!!!
Thank you! Love the title!
I am thinking tomorrow I might post a 3 day lazy weekend poll to include Monday — but if all goes well, I think that Monday will be the only day I can’t post.
I’m wearing the last of a small decant of Le Cri de la Lumière. I remember buying it, but I don’t remember wearing it enough to empty the decant. I suppose it could have evaporated. Now I’m wondering if I need another (larger) decant. When I first put it on, I wasn’t impressed. Now however, it smells beautiful. I’ll have to check my favorite decant houses.
Twins! And I’m emptying my little decant as well. I do like it but whether or not I will still be interested at the end of my no buy remains to be seen!
I had the same experience with dismissing it on first try. I think wearing it in warmer weather might’ve changed my perception of it, but I love it now. Holding off on more until I finish my decant, and like MMK, will see if I still want more at that point.
That unicorn poll is a great idea!
I have just enriched my morning with Ambre Russe.
I know, I’m so excited for unicorn week. I have some contenders but I’m sure people will surprise me by owning them. I’m going to try a different one each day in hopes that I can find at least one to stump this crowd!
And I’m curious to “meet” others who might have the same unicorn, although I’m pretty sure I haven’t seen a couple of mine here.
Yes, I think it will be a fun cp!
I love this CP idea too.
puredistance White
Almost too beautiful
Thrift store outfit today , maxmara winter white pants
Double espresso
, I miss Bear ?
I’m sure Shalimar is pouting.?
I know!
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I may spray some in my scarf later
A day without Shalimar ..
Ha!
Nice pairing of outfit and perfume! Stay warm…
you too!
Scent-twin! ?
we are smelling good today
I miss Bear too! Hope he is doing fine ?.
Me too!
I don’t have his email or I would send him a note
You smell lovely today!
I saved my favorite P for last: PG Bois Blond from my dwindling decant. I liked perfume way before I met Bois Blond, but BB was really my rabbit hole perfume. I didn’t know perfumes could smell like this (greens, then hay, amber, musky woods) before this one.
Have we done that as a CP, Robin? Wear your rabbit hole perfume.
Ooh nice idea. Maybe we could do it on a Friday that also happens to fall on the first of a month!
Excellent idea!???
and, it looks like we’ve done both of these (rabbithole perfume and rabbit-theme on the first of a month)… but never together!
I thought it was too good to not have done already!
How did you search that?
If you look at the top of the upcoming Friday projects page, there are links to each previous year.
Thanks!
Thanks Regina, I am late getting to comments and you’ve already figured it out
But adding…maybe we can do a repeat on May 1, except that’s also May Day so we’d need to allow for those that must wear lily of the valley
I’m wearing Parfumerie Generale’s Iris Taizo, apparently now known as Iris Oriental but mine is an older sample. Pretty enough but I am underwhelmed – I don’t think it’s the age, I tried it when I first got it and there’s a reason it’s sat around so long since then! I think I’m just not that into orientals.
SotD is Wit. This sample was included with a Luckyscent order a few years ago. Florals aren’t really my thing but this one is really pretty. The other DelRae’s were on my to try list but I guess I have missed out on those.
Had my yearly eval with my manager yesterday and that went very well. Spring is typically annual raise time and usually they are standard of living raises across the board. Last year there was rumblings that we might be going to performance based raises. We shall see…
Fingers crossed.
Yep!?
I wore Wit on my wedding day and I’m so happy I have a bottle. Wish I had picked up Coup de Foudre, too…
Wit would be a perfect wedding day scent. Glad you have a bottle, I love scent associations/memories.☺️
I wore that yesterday and enjoyed it a great deal. You smell good.
Thanks! It’s really working for me today! Maybe it’s more of a cold weather than spring scent for me…?♀️ Too bad it’s discontinued.
I’m smelling like fields full of daffodils in Ostara by Penhaligon’s. Daffodils are my favourite flowers doing their best to remind us that spring is on the way when pretty much everything is grey and drab.
Safe travels Robin, and I love Azemours!
Yes, my absolute favorite flower as well (despite my screen name – which is a second favorite).
Twins!
Thanks Austenfan! First leg completed already
Joining others in Azemour Les Orangers. Another beautiful, sunny, clear norcal morning. . . praying for a little rain.
I sprayed on a bit of Azemour Les Orangers, also. Yum.
It is a beautiful sunny day here, too, south of you, in Santa Cruz.
I am also hoping for some wet weather!
I love those bright and cool days in Santa Cruz. Clear skies and glittering ocean (sigh, I need to get out more)!
But its been the driest February in 150 years in CA. Worrying.
Wow, that is very worrying.
I think we will see our lowest snowfall ever this year…
I’m wearing Parfum d’Empire Osmanthus Interdite and it is just lovely for a cold sleepy Friday.
And I just got an email with the code THIRTYOFF for 30% off at Twisted Lily if anyone is feeling spendy.
I saw that email! But then checked the website and there’s not actually much available at all ? (at least not anything I want). But good if anyone is in the market for PdNs!
There have been a lot of these sales recently and they are making me a little worried about Twisted Lily! Anyone know how the store is doing?
I actually asked them once a while back when I was in the store because I had the same worry. They said they just try and clear stuff out to make room for new things. They may have taken things off the website in order to get rid of the things they want moved out.
Hmm this is somewhat reassuring!
I suspect it is an unannounced going out of business sale as there is hardly any stock left and whole lines are being removed. Their sister site Parfum1 is gone. But I hope I am wrong.
I wonder if Scent Bar opening up in NYC is having adverse effects on other perfumeries
Ah, was afraid of that.
Adding very late that a couple days ago EauMG’s story on Instagram said they are closing. She’s NYC/NJ based. Based on all the markdowns they’ve done over the past few months and their discount code frequency, it wouldn’t surprise me.
Oh, that’s really too bad. I’m so happy I was able to visit the store in person once.
There are a couple of threads at Basenotes confirming they are going out of business. Not sure if the brick & mortar store cost them too much money, or if it was due to all their discount codes. Luckyscent almost never gives discount codes and I think it’s probably necessary to maintain profitability.
Thank you!
Just ordered Fat Electrician for my son–his birthday is next month!
Glad it was useful! That’s a good one!
Yah. Apparently I gave him a sample at some point, and when he was last home he mentioned that one, and only that one, as a perfume he had really liked. Who knew?? Anyway, at 30% off the 50 ml bottle, it was impossible to resist.
I am stalking a few on that site as well.
Any luck?
I am stalking a few on that site as well.
Any luck?
With team Le Cri for a cold, but very blue and sunny day.
Beautiful!
PG’s Aomassi to warm up a brisk but sunny day. It always makes me think of parts of Africa – the dry slightly acrid dustiness as well as the Maasai people.
Today was a good day for warming perfumes for me, too.
SOTD Puredistance White. Thought about Azemour but the weather is too grey and cloudy. I have a bottle of Puredistance 1 but I noticed recently that the topnotes have turned, not that strange since I bought it 12 years ago. Since it’s a favorite I plan on a replacement bottle.
hey twin
Partial credit for Perris Monte Carlo? I’m in Absolue d’Osmanthe today, which is warm and interesting.
I thought it was really well done. Just spendy. But it is on my “list”!
That’s a pretty one!
Oh I forgot this. Got it at a swapmeet here…
No CP scent today for me.
Hinoki by Comme des garçons
I had an extremely busy week at work, so a big hurrah for weekend!
You smell lovely.
2nd that!
Yay, weekend! and Hinoki is fabulous
While out shopping today I saw a gentleman wearing CdG high top sneakers, the white ones with red hearts, which reminded me I need to get my CdG samples out and PLAY!
Wearing Penhaligon’s Ostara today. It’s sunny out so this is reminding me to check on my plants outside to see what is coming up; I noticed something green peeking out. Either it’s my daylilies or some super strong weeds that survived.
Happy Friday everyone!
Twins!
Triplets!
You smell beautiful.
I almost wore Ostara too! but my bottle of Wit looked lonely, and Ostara already had a couple outings this month.
Was going to wear Ostara, but remembered my Pacifica rollerballs in French Lilac and Tunisian jasmine lime… unfortunately, the rollerballs aren’t working properly, and I got very little out of them. What little I got doesn’t smell that good….
So, I’ll wait awhile and dig out my Ostara. Then will be heading out into the cold soon. I’m on a mission to find a couple of stackable drawers for under my bathroom sink. Container Store, here I come…
Did you find what you were looking for?
I did! Container store had exactly what I wanted. Which is a fairly quick walk for me.
And they were on sale…
Robin, you smell awesome!
I don’t have anything for joining. I am in my Chanel week, Allure homme edition Blanche.
I have heard about that flanker..how do you like it?
I used to love it back in 2014. I still like it, but I feel that the lemon part is a bit synthetic…
I think it’s very well done!
You smell great Sebastian!
I’m in PdE Musc Tonkin for a trip to the travel clinic. It’s a glorious sunny day here! Went skiing yesterday and I got a little sunburn on my cheeks despite wearing sunscreen.
I have a gift card for Twisted Lily but they don’t have anything I want right now.
Which is too bad. They have a 30% off with code THIRTYOFF. I looked too, and decided I didn’t need anything.
You smell nice.
Happy Friday and safe travels to our fearless leader, Robin. I’m wearing Penhaligon’s Iris Prima.
Perfume cousins with Penhaligon’s. How is the Iris?
PSA alert.. I was watching a perfume video on YT who had mentioned a great shop in San Diego for vintage men’s fragrance. Not sure if you like vintage scents or if the shop carries ‘women’s scents’ as well but the fragrances are the real deal.
It’s at The Headquarters at The Seaport in case you are interested!
The only thing I see listed at Seaport Headquarters is The Perfume Gallery, which looks like one of those generic mainstream perfume kiosks, but next time I’m in the neighbourhood I’ll peek in.
The Iris Prima is a leathery iris, but very delicate. Pleasant but very little sillage.
Thanks cazaubon!
Happy Friday!
I’ll be running some errands tomorrow, picking up my birthday cake (it is coming!)
I obviously had to go with Parfum d’Empire (hello Robin!) so I’m wearing the newish Salute!
It smells like wineyard and the cellars.
Yay! What cake are you getting? ??
Truffle pistacchio
Wow! Sounds delish!
Sounds divine! I have a few Lindt pistachio truffles that I have been hoarding (and possibly hiding from my hubby).
Happy birthday Lucas!
Thanks Petunia, it’s on Monday
Happy birthday for Monday, in case I don’t get the chance to say it on the day!
Oh that cake sounds delicious, and Scandola a very nice choice.
I meant Salute!
Wszystkiego najlepszego, Lucas! Your cake sounds delicious, hope you’ll be celebrating all weekend and not just on Monday. Wishing you a wonderful year ahead!
Ooh, advance Happy Birthday!
many happy returns, Mr Chemist!
SOTD = Parle Moi de Parfum Orris Tattoo
I am taking full credit ?❣️ It is a very very nice iris.
https://www.instagram.com/p/B81kFIeBQc3/?igshid=7qdt5we9zqqn
I haven’t had a chance to post it yet (I will later)… there’s a giant stuffed [name it] at Macy’s Herald Square. Can anyone guess what it is?
Oreo!
And too much cream is not my stuff, so my vote is for the Oreo Thins.
We prefer oreo thins as well.
And I like to try the specialty ones because the regular ones are just … regular!
I understand that the Birthday Cake flavor is very popular.
I would be curious to try the Hot and Spicy Cinnamon and the Kettle Corn. They have pretty unusual flavors.
Ding ding ding!
Great choice for this CP!
Thank you. It’s a very nice perfume!
Orris Tattoo is pure gorge!
Yes it is ?
Have you ever counted up your iris perfumes? ?
lol, giant oreo takes over NYC
sometimes I really miss the city!
Ostara. I appreciate it, but it’s not for me – I find it just too sweet/intense, even with a light application – to the swap pile it goes. The bottle-top is so cute!
I find Ostara the same. I sprayed it closer to my knees and tummy so it’s not so powerful.
I like Ostara best with a little citrus-y cologne over it.
Don’t have anything that begins with the letter P so I am wearing Theorema today.
Now I know firsthand how nice you smell
Theorema always gets partial credit, for anything.
yes! Theorema is perfect with a capital P.
PdE Yuzu Fou. Bought it for my husband, but he says it becomes too sweet in the drydown. For me, it is a little too masculine up top. Perhaps the perfect unisex then?
Ha, yes!
Penhaligon’s Sartorial is the only thing I could find with a P. I like it a lot, but it’s not really me. I hate gendering things that are inanimate, but just maybe, it’s too masculine. So I paired it with bright fuchsia lipstick just to be an enigma.
Maybe I can convince my boyfriend to wear it?
Oh,I love Sartorial! I would definitely wear it. That and Blenheim Bouquet are my faves from that line, though when I tried Amaranthine recently it was really nice.
Participating and wearing Parfumerie Generale Bois Blond
I thought we’d see more PG today!
Not sure if I am totally on project. My scent of the day is Vientiane by Providence Perfume.
You are! Extra points for you for choosing Indie!
You totally are! ?
Robin, what a beautiful still-life.
In Penhaligon’s Cornubia which is softly powdery, the heliotrope I think, and is one of my favorite classics from Penhaligons, I have a 15ml vintage dab bottle with a bow and I think it’s enough although I’m always afraid it will get discontinued.
So many Penhaligons that I have never heard of for today’s CP!
It’s a good house. They have a lot of classics, Blenheim Bouquet is Prince Charles’s scent. They have samplers. They also have a newish line with animal heads as caps which seems to have been successful with the public. But the prices have gone up (sigh).
Like Petunia I am in Ventiane by PPP.
It has been a hectic morning – little yasmina got diagnosed with walking pneumonia. She is only 2.5 so it’s very stressful. Hopefully the antibiotics will kick in by tomorrow
Oh no, hope she feels better very soon!
Hope she gets better soon!
Fingers crossed she gets better very soon!
Poor thing! Scary for you, too, I bet. Get well soon, little one!
Thanks all ??
Poot baby! I hope she feels better soon!
Hey twin! You smell wonderful!
Oh no! That would be stressful- and scary. I will keep you and little yasmina in my thoughts!
Boo hiss on little yasmina being sick! Sending “Get Well Soon!” wishes. Hang in there mom!
Sending healing thoughts to mini Yasmina!
Wow, that is stressful. Please report back tomorrow and let us know if she is better.
My favourite Penhaligons today for project points – Elixir.
You smell fabulous, this is my favourite Penhaligons.
My favorite too, wish I’d bought it!
Did a super early morning hike today- like, before COFFEE early! I got a wild hair and drove out to the desert last night and camped at the deserted trailhead. Consequently, I’m in Eau de Sweat, but I’m going to spray some Papillon Perfumes Salomé to really finish it off?
After breakfast and coffee, we are headed to some historic sites in the desert. We may get lost, who knows. Here’s a photo of the start of our morning hike. The destination was way back into that canyon in the horizon. We’re pooped! ?
https://www.instagram.com/stories/vantasticviews/2248893828000200171
LOL! Sweat and Salome.
I did not even think of Papillon Salome, good choice
Poor thing! Scary for you, too, I bet. Get well soon, little one!I wore some Papillon Anubis the other night. Potent stuff.
Arizona is so beautiful.
My scent is Pacifica Persian Rose solid perfume.It is a lovely rose scent and I love all of my little tins of Pacifica solids more now that they aren’t available.Somehow the new solid perfume sticks aren’t the same to me especially with most of my favorite scents discontinued.
I’m your twin today, except in spray perfume form. I like, but don’t love, this one. The strong lemony opening tickles my nose and reminds me somewhat of household cleaner, but eventually it softens to a deep, dusky, slightly spicy rose, that nicely suits a cold winter day. But we’re enjoying 4 straight days of bright sunshine here, almost unheard of in February in the Midwest, so no complaints here!
I’ve had several of the solid Pacifica scents but they seem to lose their scent quickly, so you are lucky! But I do really enjoy the liquid spray perfume, especially Tuscan Blood Orange, Temple Mountain Incense, Malibu Lemon Blossom, and French Lilac.
Wishing everyone a sunny weekend ahead!
The Persian Rose body butter is a favorite of mine. You smell great today! ?
in PdE Corsica Furiosa, basking in its bracing stemmy greenness. Oh i wish it were spring already.
Safe travels Robin!
Thank you! And you smell fantastic.
I can still smell Lyric from last night, so I’m enjoying a lightly scented start to Saturday morning. Post shower, I’ll join the CP in PG’s Isparta and use up the last if my sample.
Thunk!
I cannot believe I am the only one wearing Felanilla???? Anyway, I like this a lot
Have a nice weekend, you all!
I wore it yesterday!
You smell great!
I remember several years ago this one was all the rage, and now I never heard anyone talking about it.
SotD = Parfums DelRae Wit
I love Wit! It’s perfect for today – the sun is shining, fluffy clouds float in a blue sky, and it feels like spring is coming.
Glad I bought this bottle a few years ago. It’s aged well, and the packaging/presentation were just lovely. A+
Happy FriYAY, perfumed peeps! Looking forward to reading everyone’s choices. Hope your day is spectacularly scented.
Twins again! We smell so lovely!?
hi twin!
lovely is the perfect word for Wit.
Yay for blue skies!
yippee!! blue skies do make everything feel a little better.
It’s so good you bought the bottle as this is discontinued now and impossible to find!
Taking full credit in Parfums DelRae Mythique. It’s so, so lovely.
Took a break from P’s and wore At the Beach yesterday for a warm, sunny beach day. Enjoying my friend’s visit!
Glad you are having a nice visit with your friend! Jealous of your beach day?☀☺️
I’m green with envy too! Have fun KellyC.
Partial credit, I think, in Parfums MDCI Promesse de l’Aube. A gorgeous day here, but my laundry room sink is backed up and very stinky. Plumber time. Oh, the joys of home ownership.
Oh yuck. Yeah, the joys, it’s usually $80 just to have my plumber walk in my house.
Yeah, mine is $60 just to come but that goes toward the repair if I choose it, which should be $100. But they can’t come until Monday, so I am watching things to decide if I need another plumber on an emergency basis. I’m a bit peeved because I pay to be a supposedly “preferred customer,” and now, what good is that?
Ugh, backed up sinks always seem to really reek. ??
Oh boo!
I am in some spice from Un Crime Exotique from Parfumerie Generale. Smells great on a winter day.
I read good things about UCE but think it is disco’d?
It’s COLD but sunny here today. Both the cats are currently plastered on heat vents, and the furnace is chugging away. ????
SOTD = PG Musc Maori, from the sample stash, and one of you fine fumie folks! Plus, I have the original Kate Walsh Boyfriend body butter on my shins. I am deliciously aromatic today.
I haven’t tried MM but I know Boyfriend. You’re smelling great. Cold and sunny day here too.
Musc Maori is a somewhat sweet dark chocolate scent with either a hint of coffee or hazelnuts in it, according to my sniffer. Maybe both coffee and hazelnuts. One spray is plenty for me.
I have not and maybe never will…it will be like tribbles but no 2 will be alike except the handful of BUBs ?
Eek, don’t know how the above ended up in this thread!
Penhaligon’s Elixir today. It reminds me a bit of JD Dark Horse. Have a great weekend!
I’m almost positive I have a sample of this!
PG Indochine.
Mmmmmmmmmmmm I smell great!
Yum! Yes, you do!
My favorite of the line. Love benzoin.
In Penhaligon’s Empressa today, as it’s been quite cold outside. Hope everyone has a great weekend!?
You too InkyFeathers!
Thumbing my nose at the snow today and wearing Penhaligon’s Amarnthine.
Oh I love that one! You smell delightful!
Do I get credit for wearing The Party in Manhattan by The Party? It’s the decant I’m finishing this week. Gosh, I love this. I describe it as the crazy love child of MItsouko and Jubilation 25. It’s an amazing fruity chypre that’s completely natural. But since I already have bottles of vintage Mitsouko and Jubilation 25, I’m not sure I “need” a bottle of this. And it’s super expensive (though I think if you buy it in Europe it’s much cheaper).
I have heard the name of your fragrance a number of times. Do you happen to know where it is sold in Europe outside of the UK?
I would love to try the love child of Jub.25 and Mitsouko.
It’s from Italy. See: https://www.profumeriagambarini.it/catalog/category/view/id/57
It’s 165 euros there, as opposed to like 500 dollars in the US.
Penhaligon’s Ostara for me! One of the only fragrances for which I have not one but two backup bottles, since they discontinued it not long after its launch. I still resent that, but I have my backups!
Well, I read some posts in the morning yesterday but never got a chance to post. I wore the fun and cheerful Pacifica Malibu Lemon Blossom, and last night I tried my just-arrived samples of Füm Aloha Lei and the reformulated Nerola. I will probably buy a bottle of Nerola after I use up the sample. It’s the most gorgeous and long-lasting neroli/citrus perfume. I can still smell it this morning!