Happy World Goth Day! Our community project for today: get your goth on! (Need help? Here's the wikipedia page on Goth subculture.)
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.
I'm in L'Artisan Parfumeur Timbuktu, which I think is just (barely) weird enough and just earthy enough to qualify, even if it isn't the most obvious goth choice (L'Artisan Voleur de Roses might have been better, but I haven't got any and it doesn't suit me anyway). I also considered doing goth-lite with L'Artisan Passage d'Enfer, but it's just not somber enough, and I am determined to finish my L'Artisan week.
Reminder: on 5/29, wear a perfume by The Different Company, Tauer Perfumes, Tokyo Milk, Tocca or Téo Cabanel, if you have one. Partial credit for any other small-ish brand that starts with the letter T.
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 detail from La infanta Catalina Micaela de Austria, 1584 - 1585, by Alonso Sánchez Coello, public domain via Wikimedia Commons.
I’m wearing the wonderful, and hopefully goth like Eau de Protection. A gorgeous rose and a wonderful fragrance. It’s raining outside, not as heavily as I wished but still; it smells wonderful outside.
We’ve got rain too, probably for the next 2 days. You are happier to see it than I am…
Our countryside is in great need of water, so yes I am. It also helps mitigate my hay fever symptoms a bit.
I think I remember that you have been having loads of rain, and that does get tedious just send some of yours to my country!
Hey Twin! I had the same thought. I’m not hugely into goth perfumes so my choices were limited. My other choice was Bruno Acampora, Sballo, for it musty old stone building vibe. I think we both made a great choice.
We’ll get rain on tomorrow which I can handle as long as it rains and then leaves.. Have a nice weekend!
I love Mon Parfum Chéri, which I think is dark and brooding enough to be considered Goth. And yes we are smelling good. Hope you have a good weekend as well!
I smelled MCPC a long time ago so don’t remember it well.
When Femme, met Boxeuses, or Bois de Violette…
Ohhh, I wish it’d rain all weekend here! It’ll be hot in SF this weekend, and living by the beach, we’re expecting to see multitudes flock to our area.
While I love living by the beach, we do get more than our share of drag racers, fireworks and folks whooping it up.
I shouldn’t complain too much, we also have fantastic views and hot surfers in various stages of undress, so there’s that. 😀
Lol about those surfers. We had 5 of them drown a week ago or so, during a storm.
And I obviously don’t mean to laugh at the death of those unfortunate youngsters. Rereading it, it seemed I found that fact amusing and I do not.
So shocking to lose so many obviously fit and skilled-in-the-water folks. If I recall, many of them were instructors? Just goes to show Mother Nature can be unpredictable…
An unfortunate mixture of weather, wind and foam. And young people are not always the most careful. I don’t know whether there will be a big investigation into it. They’ve recovered 4 of the 5 bodies after some intensive searching in difficult circumstances. I feel very sorry for the parents of the one who wasn’t found. It’s always harder to let go, I guess.
No worries, I knew your intent. We’re cool! 🙂
Mmmmmm, hot surfers…. 😉
I stayed a week in San Diego a couple years ago and saw the surfers in various stages of undress..surprised but sorta pleasantly surprised I guess, LOL.
I spent a lot of time at the beach back in the day (beach volleyball and triathalon were my sports of choice) – and I fully remember not caring what stage of undress I was in when changing from swim suit into regular clothing and such.
Ahhh, to be 5’9″ and 130 lbs again, my height moved to my girth…. 😀
Happy FriYAY all! My SOTD is a mixture of two sprays of Voleur de Roses by L’ Artisan and one spray of Incense Pure by Sonoma Scent Studio.
Former Goth/Club Kid from the 1980s, channeling my inner goth wearing Ellis Faas 101 Red lipstick and Guerlain Kohl liner in black.
The hubby is off today, so we’re off to walk a few miles!
Favorite goth concert of all time is Peter Murphy (I think in 1989).
Ooooooh, Peter Murphy in 1989 would have been AMAZING!!!!
I saw the Swans in 1990, but they were not my favorite. I saw Sisters waaaaay later, in 1996 or so, but they were still great.
The Swans are a band I only like live. I only saw them once, without earplugs, lol.
Love the Sisters! I saw them at Webster Hall in like 2005?
Webster Hall!!! Is that place still around?
It closed for a while and then reopened at some point. Not sure what the status is now. Love that venue, though.
Nice! Also a PM fan. We were supposed to see him this past winter but he had a heart attack?
I remember reading about that! One of my coworkers (back when I still had coworkers…) was scheduled to go see him as well.
Ha, knew somebody else would beat me with VdR 😉
HA! Robin, doing my best… 😉
Wow! You look and smell great
Peter Murphy!!?
I saw Peter Murphy open up for Nine Inch Nails in I think…2006, not sure. But yeah, it rocked ?
So funny. NIN opened for PM in 1990 or 1991, I think?
I feel old….. 😀
White Zombie was pretty good in concert also.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIhbgEXi0PY
Nightclubbing with PM and Trent Reznor:).
SWEET!
I’m not thrilled with what I sprayed a couple hours ago (SIP Black Rosette on one arm and Alkemia The Raven On the other). You’ve inspired me to throw some Incense Pure into the mix!
It truly is one of my favorites…
Hope you have a BUB of Incense Pure!
Early check-in today or I get swamped with work and forget. Happy to celebrate WGD as a lover of all things goth (I have a goth soul?). I’m wearing 2 things, one in each hand:
Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab (duh) Belonging to the Darkness which smells nothing like its listed notes. Smells to me like dirt, chocolate, and patchouli.
And (of course!) Lush Death &Decay.
Excited they’ve decided to give us Monday off- we were on a no holiday or vacation day allowed for the last 2 months.
Happy Friday, y’all! It’s Friday, I’m in Love ???
Oh what a perfect mix!
I didn’t layer, but I think they would layer nicely.
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Glad you have some time off. You must be exhausted. I hope you have time to recuperate.
Don’t own any BPAL but I’m sure you smell great.
I’m better now that I don’t have a grueling commute (or any commute ?). So now work is just mentally draining, but not physically.
This is my only BPAL made perfume (was made for a goth-y jewelry line). It reminds me of a raw, unpolished Coromandel with a bit of skank.
My ears perked up at the mention of Coromandel! That sounds so tempting!
Best Friday song ever!
Agree, though I think it’s the only Friday song I can think of.
And they have a Saturday song, too (which I looove)!
Enjoy your free days to the gothic max! ?♀️
Thank you!
You get the prize! Enjoy the 3-day weekend!
I hope you have a nice 3-day, too (despite tomorrow’s forecast).
Awesome layering:) Also, how could I forget about the Cure and Depeche Mode? Seriously. Lol. ?
? Though I don’t really thing of DM as goth. To me they were just New Wave. Love them whatever category they’re in!
Yikes. Enjoy your three day weekend!
Thank you!
You smell amazing! Happy Friday and enjoy the three-day weekend!
Thank you! I never wear Death & Decay and it’s so nice.
I’m a big fan of patchouli, I’m wondering if I should try it out….
house twins, whoo-hoo! you smell gothically great. 😀
Yay twin!
Enjoy your long weekend – you soooo deserve it! ??
Thank you my dear!
You smelled great in Death & Decay. I thought about it as an option too. Have a nice three day weekend!
Good morning all! I’m off to go light things on fire. What perfume does one wear to a prescribed burn? I went with a couple dashes of SMN Caprifoglio, mostly because it was the subtlest and most refreshing of what was handy. Not at all gothy, but “goth” feels like the wrong vibe for high-risk activities.
Oh have fun!!
Lighting things on fire feels slightly more Metal than Goth, but I think a good argument could be made that you are The Gothest Of All since you are deliberately going to light stuff on fire today.
World Goth Day is a really fun project, thanks, Robin!
After much consideration, and a complete lack of any BPAL scents (what is more Goth than BPAL?), I am wearing Devil’s Nightcap by Lush. I smell like brimstone, smoke and whiskey, and could probably fit right in to the Batcave about now.
Also wearing a black tank top and chunky black nail polish with hints of holographic glitter. Someone stop me before I start doing the lightbulb dance!
Nothing is more goth than BPAL! But you came close 🙂
Thanks! I think ElisaP wins for the BPAL though.
I think Lush perfumes is the “I used to be a goth kid, but now I’m middle-aged, dress normal, and have a day job” brand. I think they are BPAL adjacent.
LOL!
I still have black lipstick, and blue, green, black and glitter nail polishes. 🙂 I haven’t worn them in a long time, but thanks for the image you gave us of your look today. 🙂
Someone had sent me some BPAL samples. I’ll have to try them out. 🙂
Having a peel-off base coat changed my life wrt glitter nail polish. I used to hate it because it was such a pain to take off, but now I love it. If you ever feel the need to break out those nail polishes, get some peel off base coat!
Almost scent twins – I thought about Devil’s Nightcap as well. And actually, I don’t really find it that extreme!
It’s very strong and very long lasting on me. And it seems extra heavy and extreme today because it is a beautiful day here with sunshine, and this has no flowers or citrus or anything I associate with that kind of day.
I love Dark Side Of The Moon by Lippman nail colors, it’s my favorite goth nail color.
I posted the same as you earlier and just read your quote now, what is more goth than BPAL? I’m in Zombi, roses, oakmoss, dirt; I love it!
Seriously! You smell great!
No Goth for me
Nobile 1942 La Danza delle Libellule
Purple Oscar OdlRenta top and white pants, Dior purple eye shadow.
For points a haiku of basho:
Peony
the bee can’t bear
to part
Toasted challah with peanut butter ? ?
Challenging you for best breakfast: a toasted slice of chocolate chip brioche loaf spread with Nutella ? !
But I had my French toast again with blueberries and pure maple syrup!
Goth day you say? Bvlgari Black all the way! 🙂
Great choice! I was debating about that one too.
A tame goth, but a sweet one
I almost went with BVL Black! Great choice:).
I was thinking about that one too!
I think my most goth perfume would be Dame Earth Mother, but I’m in Tam Dao. The travel ban was lifted last week so I’m on my way to see my son. I have a mask, gloves, sanitizer and wipes…
I haven’t seen him since December.?At this point, the benefit to my mental health far outweighs the small risk to my physical health. I can’t wait to see him.☺️
Enjoy your time with him, so wonderful..
December?
I think everyone has to make their own judgement call, but I would squeeze him and hug him to death 😉
Thanks ltsg, that’s the very first thing I did. And then all my bottled up emotions filled up and spilled out of my eyes. I’ve missed that kid so much my heart hurt.
Have a wonderful time with your son!
Thanks Petunia!
Enjoy your visit with your son!
Thanks neyronrose!
Have a wonderful time with your son!
Thanks, I will!?
Enjoy your visit! I am sure you both will have a wonderful time together! ?
Thanks pl67!?
I hope you have a great visit with your son! I miss seeing my mom.
Thanks! Yes, missing family members has been the hardest part of this. I haven’t seen my parents either….hopefully soon!
How exciting for you! Enjoy!
Thanks! I will!?
Have a great visit madtowngirl !
Thanks Barqs!
oh how fun! enjoy your day, mama 😀
Thanks tiffanie!?
So happy for you! Hope it’s a great reunion!
Thanks Elisa P, it’s so good to see him!
Enjoy your visit!
Thank you, I will!
Oh yay! Have a great visit!
Thanks lillyjo!
Safe travels to & from your visit!
Late last night/early this morning: went with Nobile 1492 Patchouli Nobile. I wasn’t expecting that the fragrance would be that dirty, but the earthiness seemed very appropriate for a goth sort of scent.
House twins!
I haven’t smelled that one but I am sure you smell great.
Yes, if you like dirty patchouli. 🙂 Not the most comforting fragrance to go to sleep to, but not really a hindrance to drifting off, at least not for me.
This afternoon: Profumum Roma Olibanum
I never did get around to trying to reproduce the scent of a clove cigarette, but that’s okay. I think the most gothic scent I wore this week was Voleur de Roses. I hadn’t even seen Robin’s review, where she comments on how goth it is. 🙂 The dirty patchouli of Patchouli Nobile also seemed pretty appropriate to the theme.
I think that was Angie’s review! I’m sure I would not wear it long enough to review it.
You’re right. You reviewed the Patchouli Nobile and other Nobile 1492 fragrances released at the time. Angela reviewed Voleur de Roses. 🙂
It’s amazing how funky and earthy some patch scents are!
I looked at the listed notes again, and they include white pepper, frankincense, jasmine and amber, among others. Maybe the jasmine added to the funkiness.
Late afternoon/evening: tried my sample of Atelier Cologne Rose Anonyme, after seeing mentions of it. That’s a pretty funky one! 🙂 I also had a sample bottle of the lotion, which was less funky.
I’m in the “black clothes happy it’s goth day” crew. My choice for perfume is Smolderose by January Scent Project – rose, incense, roasted seashells. It’s odd but super compelling and I’m really glad it’s a cloudy day because I don’t think it’s a hot weather scent. I really love the scents from this house.
Listening to the Cure and grading online assignments isn’t the worst way to spend the morning. Black coffee, lots of black eyeliner and Ruby Woo lipstick complete the theme.
Have a fabulous (or dark and brooding) goth day!
Rose, incense and seashells? Wish I could try that one …
I was thinking exactly the B.C. same thing. The “to sample” list just gets longer and longer…
You went all the way with the theme 🙂
Roasted seashells sound very intriguing. I love that you are wearing all the makeup for grading.
That sounds really great and totally on point for Goth theme. I only smelled roasted seashells in one Aftelier scent, and it is an interesting note. Will have to look this one up.
I need to try that perfume. Black eyeliner with Ruby Woo:).
Love it ?
You smell great!
So, my version of goth is Helena Bonham Carter in the role of Mrs. Lovett in the movie version of Sweeney Todd. So, I’m wearing Mad Madame. I’m not a big fan of the line, but this is OK.
That is a perfect perfume for that image.
I loved reading your comment and your perfume image is perfect !
Sweeney Todd is such a good movie. Macabre, witty and heartbreaking at times. And, the music is so beautiful. I love the songs Pretty Women, Worst Pies In London and Johanna.
That was a fun movie, and agree with missionista, the perfect pairing. I think she bridges goth and steampunk, which are close…
Joining you in wearing a L’Artisan but going in a totally different direction with Drole De Rose today. Never would have thought I’d wear this type of scent but I enjoy it immensely. I feel quite French and chic wearing it for some reason.
I wish I could say I have some fun Memorial Day weekend plans but, nope. I did buy a watermelon which feels summery and I’ll be watching Jaws which is a tradition in our home, and… ???
I enjoy Drole de Rose every time I wear it. I finished a while ago my decant of Frederic Malle Lipstick Rose, which I love, but Drole has been the best alternative I have found to replace it.
Yeah, it’s the only lipstick rose scent I’ve liked so far. I can’t recall Malle’s well enough but if we ever get back into stores I’ll give it a sniff.
I’ve haven’t seen Jaws in ages. Do you watch it every Memorial Day weekend? What a great tradition!
I do! I think I know it by heart at this point. It’s a great flick and being an ‘islander’ myself, I appreciate the whole resort town, beachy feel.
Love DdR! Maybe I will wear that tomorrow.
SOTD: Au Masculin (Lolita Lempicka). On a different note, the air here in Southeast Missouri is scented with honeysuckle. TGIF!
I paused over the honeysuckle in the park this morn. Brought me back to the street I grew up on and all the honeysuckle bushes I enjoyed back then. I loved to pull out the stem and eat the nectar.
So glad I was not born in the times of corsets, long, multilayered dresses, and immobilizing neck ruffles. I enjoy watching the sartorial splendor of historic clothing via a YouTube channel called priorattire, but that as close as I want to get!
Non-Goth today in Volutes edt.
https://instagram.com/stories/vantasticviews/2314280811425664941?utm_source=ig_story_item_share&igshid=mx10dmfhs2ei
I’m with you on that, corsets would be the worst!?
It’s my mom’s birthday today and it looks like it is going to be a quiet one but might do something Saturday or Sunday. Wore ISM before my shower but put a tiny dab of L’heure de Nuit on the back of my knee.
Happy Birthday to your mom!
Happy Birthday to your mom!
Happy Birthday to your mom!?
Happy birthday to your mom with a good year ahead for her. ?
No goth for me today. Wrapped in a cloud of Bvlgari Au the Bleu with the shower gel and perfume. Feeling comfy and beautiful.
Nice sunny morning. I will be running to the post office and getting some groceries in a while, before the rain arrives this afternoon and stays with us for the next two days.
I am so glad is Friday! Tons of things to do at home during the weekend, but at least I can wake up late.
Happy Friday! ?
I love both the perfume and shower gel. The shower gel is so refreshing!
It is a great scent, especially during this time of the year. The shower gel is fantastic!
Yes, looking forward to some good sleeping in!
Twins! ??
Bvlgari Au the Bleu is so calming a beautiful.
I love it!
You smell great!
Thank you! ?
Have a great weekend pl67!
Thank you, Lillyjo! You too! ?
Enjoy your (hopefully long) weekend pl67!
Long weekend for me, fortunately! ?. Enjoy yours too!
I do not have a single goth bone in my body but I do have Timbuktu on hand which means I will be twins with Robin shortly. Thanks for the inspiration ?
You smell great! I need to wear that one again soon.
FM Portrait of a Lady for the community project.
Happy Friday, everyone! A funny quarantine song for you all from Jared Halley, Malinda (Translator Fails) and Google Translate:
https://youtu.be/vHKKolizGuo?t=28
Insolence. For some reason I think violets are kind of Goth. Violets bring to mind both romance and decay.
We are planning an adventure today. Tram to ferry…to Wegman’s in Brooklyn. More energy than we likely have but we think we will do it.
Adventure indeed! Let me know how it goes. Curious about Wegman’s as my boss loves that shop.
Agree on violets…
It was fun. We could easily have purchased more and likely will next time.
We did it mostly as something to try. Ferry was great. Door to door probably took an hour. There was a line to get into Wegman’s, but it took less time than we thought it would.
If anything, it made us realize we can use the ferry more frequently.
I’m a ferry fan.. just love being on the water, period.
Glad it turned out to be a good idea!
It was definitely a trek. So, I’d have to be in the mood. But, we may see friends downtown by taking ferry to Wall St. I’m more ca for table doing that than a subway ride.
Violets feel very Goth.
agree
Insolence edp or edt, may I ask? so pretty 😀
EdT. I like the sharpness of the opening. And it’s brighter, less lush.
Yay! I love insolence edt, never bothered to try the edp ?
Oh, enjoy the trek to Wegman’s! 1st time?
I also think of violets, and LOTV, as goth. Partly because I think of them as very Victorian.
Yes. Victorian.
Wegman’s was a hoot. Line around the corner, which to my husband made it seem “a huge mistake” for us to go there. I sent him over to sit across the street in the shade and then texted him when I got close. Took far less time than we expected. And we enjoyed the ferry ride.
Yeah, only been once in the recent past and left when we saw the line. Good to know it didn’t take that long. The ferry is great! Best way to travel.
I’m in Une Rose, which is certainly as dark red a rose as a rose can be. The rain outside only adds to the picture.
Love the painting chosen to illustrate this post!
You smell lovely!
For the right dose of morbidity I decided to go with the withered flowers of SMN’s Pot-Pourri.
And, quite fitting but entirely unplanned, I’m listening to the last movements of Bach’s mass in b minor as I type.
You are all in! lol
Perfect !
Dang, full points!!!
That is commitment!
I went with Lady Vengeance today, though I think it’s more “someone pretending they know what is means to be goth” than goth.
LOL!
In anti-goth SS Chantilly Cream…”white fluffy whipped cream sweetened with vanilla and just a touch of peach nectar”…
2nd cup of Philz Silken Splendor is about to commence!
That’s actually sounds like a great scent,
I was debating vintage Opium, because that was what I was wearing in my early goth twenties, but then I chose the goth chypre of Eau de crypt aka Chypre Mousse.
I say a lot of bands in the 80ies and fondly remember the Cure, the Sisters of Mercy, Einstürzende Neubauten and lots of others. Those were the days…
Chypre Mousse is genius! You smell glorious.
Chypre Mousse! ?
Chypre Mousse! I should have worn that today.
Instead, I am in Solstice Scents Estate Carnation, which smells awful on me when I first put it on, burned sugar and something rotting in a plastic bag awful, but after a few minutes it turns into a very very dark sort of suggestion of carnations at a funeral, lots of incense, musty curtains, flowers dying, very Goth! Now after several hours, it continues to be a dark sort of floral sort of incense with smoke and wood…I don’t love it, I don’t even like it really, but it is intriguing and smells not at all like anything else in my collection. And it fit the theme here. 🙂
Hope everyone has the best Memorial Day Weekend possible under the circumstances…
Chypre Mousse is such a great choice! Mossy af and definitely disturbingly and gloriously crypt creepy. And double points for seeing Einstürzende Neubauten live.
Those were the days….I saw Sisters of Mercy and Jesus and the Mary Chain back in the day and think they were probably my most goth concerts. I’d go with Poison.?
Chypre Mousse is a Great choice!
I love The Cure and Sisters or Mercy. ??
Neubauten! ?
Received a decant care package! Have Heliotrope on one arm and Meteorites on the other.
Nice 🙂
I am wearing Jo Malone Pomegranate Noir today and drinking a cup of chai tea. I am not sure Pomegranate Noir fits the goth theme, but it was between this and C&S Dark Rose, which was my community project last week. Dark Rose would definitely been a better fit for the theme, I think. Maybe I’ll wear it later on.
I got my pedicure yesterday. It felt great ! I had to wear a mask, sign in, and use hand sanitizer when I walked in, but it is a step towards normalcy.
Tonight, we are taking my parents and my husband’s parents to dinner at a restaurant that we used to go to practically every Friday night, back when the world was normal.
Nice! I’m looking forward to getting a pedicure, hopefully next week!?
Wow, you can go eat in a restaurant? That seems unimaginable here still. Have a great time!
GOTH, yes!!! Lol, I dressed goth for a few years, pleather, jet black hair and safety pins…and chokers from Hot Topic, LOL. And my friends and I flirting with guys that worked at Hot Topic or record stores. lol. Guys were hot with eyebrow rings? lol. Nine Inch Nails, Ministry, The Crow Soundtrack, Tool, Skinny Puppy(sometimes, SP was a bit too dark for me a bit! Lol) in my tape player. Also, Concrete Blonde, Tori Amos. I never got into Marilyn Manson, he was not my jam. Evanescence..meh, great voice though. I loved it when Bowie and NIN collaborated on several songs.
My favorite concert was likely A Perfect Circle/Nine Inch Nails back in 2000. It completely rocked. I was in the front row(with a crappy date ugh, LOL) and was too close to the speaker. My ears were messed up for a few hours after. It was all part of it I guess.
For Goth day, I shall layer Poison with Amouage Memoir..why not? Lol
A live song from NIN back from early 2000s, I saw this same set up live..he always had awesome visuals with his shows.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CPwHwfcvSXQ
Gosh, you brought back a lot of memories of the mid-1990s for me. lol
I never got to a Nine Inch Nails concert, but I liked a lot of the songs on “The Downward Spiral” album, and a few other NIN songs. This week’s project made me think of the line: “Stale incense, old sweat, and lies, lies, lies!”
My brother was into many of the other bands, too. The only concert I’ve been to (ever) was when he had an extra ticket for a Marilyn Manson concert. I don’t think I was really the target audience for that sort of thing, but it was…different. It struck me as being a shock the bourgeoisie effort. J. managed to alarm our parents, anyway.
Those Hot Topic chokers and other accessories looked cool! LOL. At least, I thought so at the time. That’s probably where I got J. a black-and-white striped scrunchie to go with the black-and-white striped stockings he’d wear then. He said that the girls he hung out with were impressed by how nicely coordinated he was. LOL!
Wow, brought so much back…
Checked the Wikipedia entry for Nine Inch Nails, which refreshed my memory. I liked a lot of the songs from “Pretty Hate Machine” and a few from “The Downward Spiral.” For a time I only knew them to listen to, and was in blissful ignorance of the imagery of the videos…
My brother recently told me that the 1990s, especially the mid-1990s, were a messed-up time for him. He had weird associations about the people he watched the movie “The Hunger” with. J. introduced me to “The Crow” soundtrack. I don’t think as much personal angst was mixed into his viewings of “The Crow.”
He loved Tori Amos, and I wasn’t all that impressed. It just wasn’t my kind of music. I think part of it for him was the way she rode that piano bench in the videos. He’s still a fan of Tool and some of the other bands you listed above. On a road trip — I think it was a few years later — he played Bad Religion’s “Against the Grain” album. I liked several of the songs on there.
Poison! I wish I had some, I would have worn it today! It’s totally goth for me too. You smell amazing!
Today I am wearing a black dress and Messe de Minuit but honestly it’s so nice out with the birds singing that I don’t feel even a little goth! 🙂
I had the weather you needed: cloudy & rain.
I am joining Regina in Messe de Minuit – the original, with the dank crypt notes. It is sunny here as well, but I don’t mind the olfactory dissonance at all. For those of you who enjoy Memo Tiger’s Nest, MdM strikes me as being quite similar.
Happy Friday!
Excellent choice.
I’ve given up on trying to figure out what may be goth in my collection and I’m going with thunking my Bois des Iles sample. Happy upcoming weekend, all!
Yeah, I kinda went through the same exercise, springpansy! ?♀️
My first goth inspiration was CdG’s Stephhen Jones, but wasn’t up for it. Then Jasmin et Cigarette, but that did not appeal–I was so cold this AM. So went wih Bois d’ Ascese for churchy goth.
UNUM LAVS is my choice for today–I am trying to perfect the perfect unpressed sullen goth scowl to be worthy of it.
SotD = BPAL Captain Jack
I love this scent, and the perfume oil lasts forever on my skin, or through a shower anyway. Do Goths take baths?
Hope everyone enjoys a moment of darkness and gloom, or joy and light, traveller’s choice today. 😉
Uses Of Sorrow
(In my sleep I dreamed this poem)
Someone I loved once gave me
a box full of darkness.
It took me years to understand
that this, too, was a gift.
― Mary Oliver, Thirst (2006)
lol, it’s CALICO Jack, not Captain Jack.
Jack Sparrow doesn’t smell this good, or does he? 😀
Oh, I bet he does. 🙂
Agree! ?
Love that poem! It’s the Perfect Poem Post. You get the Triple P Prize✌?
aw, thank you, Deva 😀
that poem haunts me.
PPP FTW!
Awesome poem!
thank you, lillyjo ?
I’ve seen that poem somewhere else! Not sure where, but I had a little jolt of recognition when I read it.
Mary Oliver poems tend to fall in and out of fashion, making the rounds in social media and then disappearing, though this poem was published 14 years ago ?
Both the perfume and the poem are perfect!
thanks times two! ??
Not sure if any of this qualifies but I showered with Lord of Misrule then applied a few sprays of Stash for this rainy day.
Happy Friday everyone!
Lord of Misrule fits AFAIK!
I was a proper Goth from the cohort of late 80s/early 90s, of the Sisters of Mercy/Bauhaus persuasion. I have lots of interesting memories from these days, few photos, plus a copy of Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch signed by Andrew Eldritch. Did not wear perfume in those days save for a dab of original Poison, which would have been too fluffy and sweet in the drydown for any all black clad outings. Plus no Goth I knew would be caught dead or undead wearing anything with vanilla. Or, with apologies to all fans of Voleur de Roses etc, patchouli, which was a dirty hippie 70s thing.
I thought what I would actually wear today if I had to do Goth business to do: hanging out in half-ruined cemetery for photo ops during the day, going out to a concert / club later on, and I think would go for Strange Invisible Perfumes Aquarius which is a beautiful herbal incense skin scent, for the day. Switching to night mode, there is only one choice that hits the trifecta of incense, in this case choya loban, the destructive distillation of frankincense, wild rose and leather, plus a general air of menace: SIP Black Rosette. It’s my big SIP favorite and it is especially stunning in parfum version. I have few bottles of EdP but sadly I don’t have a full bottle of parfum, just few smaller decants but I will wear them happily/gloomily as long as they last ?
Perfume wise, extra points would be granted for dabbing CB I Hate Perfume Black March in few strategic places. Fresh dug grave vibe and all.
Photo evidence here: https://www.instagram.com/p/CAf2WEEnxKX/?igshid=cbi135erg5ez
One photo of me in full on Goth regalia and warpaint, from an intense sword ? play photo session sometime around 1991, plus Aquarius and Black Rosette next to what I would like to think is a sexy Goth glove accessory, but is in fact, thumb spica splint for my busted hand. Rocking it extra hard today while I smell so nice.
Yes! That photo!
fantastic! agree, herbal incense skin scent would be just right for today.
Omg, win! Awesome photo! I saw Bauhaus live once:). And Sisters of Mercy brings me back! I miss old record stores.
I didn’t wear perfume either with my gothy outfits, IIRC. Vinyl and leather was enough scent wise!:).
Vinyl and leather, for sure! and there was so much cigarette smoke everywhere back then, you would just end up smelling like an ash tray at the end of the night anyway, no matter what perfume you started with.. Don’t miss that part AT ALL.
Especially if they were Clove ciggies, lol. I have to agree about Poison, as I am wearing it today, there is simply too much berried plum to wear with goth gear lol. Even when layered with Amouage Memoir. Straight Memoir would’ve suited better.
I will not break out any fishnets today, I have decided, lol
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OKRJfIPiJGY
Bela Lugosi’s Dead
Undead, Undead, Undead:)
Cover of Bela Lugosi’s Dead by Peter Murphy, Reznor and Tv on the Radio
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=n8W4tslqVSg
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Not exactly a cover but you know what I mean!
Fabulous photo!
Great pic!
I listened to Sisters of Mercy a lot as well, memories ?
Great photo!
That photo is amazing! And the cigarettes…
Fantastic, thanks for sharing!
I am actually starting next week’s project early with Tauer’s Incense Rose….maybe needs to be a touch darker, will add some POAL tonight to round it out with patch….
Hope all are well and ready to enjoy this weekend, weather or no…I plan to try a social distance meet up with my sister, who I haven’t seen live and in person for more than two months. Don’t tell her, but I really miss her!!!
Tauer scents are such a delight. Incense rose and PHI are olfactory art.
hahaha, I’m the same way with my sister. She doesn’t like hugs, I’m a hugger, and neither one of us will admit we miss each other after months apart, but I WILL hug her when next we meet. 😉
What’s more ‘goth’ than Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab? For World Goth Day, I’m wearing BPAL Zombi, chosen for its name and because I had a sample from my purchase a few years ago of ‘Nasty Woman,’ (remember that one?). But I love Zombi; its notes – dried roses, rose leaf, Spanish moss, oakmoss and deep brown earth – perfectly suit not just today’s cp but the season, the weather, the day, and the mood of the whole week around here and I wish I’d been wearing it all week.
Last weekend’s heavy rains flooded much of the area, left several inches of itself in my basement, a new leak in the roof, and my PBS station (pretty much all I watch) off the air all week due to flooding in the building where they broadcast from. Some roads in my area are still closed, and the forecast for the holiday weekend is for more rain and very warm and humid weather. Yuck!
At least it’s been a temporary diversion from the Covid-19 news. Even my 3 indoor cats are growing tired of seeing only us – if they see us visiting with a neighbor socially distancing through the screen door, they all appear looking sad, not understanding why their former admirer doesn’t come inside and pet them and tell them how beautiful they are. Poor babies!?
So I’m trying to focus instead on a favorite quote from my yoga teacher, ‘Be grateful, not just for what you have, but also for what you’ve escaped.’ I am reminded of the news clip I saw the other day of the flooding in Michigan with houses uprooted from their foundation and literally floating down the river and, yes indeedy, I am grateful!
Wishing everyone a holiday weekend of gratitude for what you have – and also what you haven’t had! Take care; stay safe.
Wow. That’s a tough week. Glad you have kitties to at least enjoy. Hope things dry out quickly.
We’re almost there, hoping any rains that fall are not heavy ones.
ARGH. Water damage is a total pain to recover from. Wishing you the best in getting thru that. And give your sweet kitties some ‘petttins’ from me.
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Missed goth by about 20 years, but I am wearing little safety pin earrings today, does that count? I have paperclips, too. Etsy is wonderful for odd things. I’m wearing my favorite skank layering of TF Patchouli Absolu and Zoologist Civet.
That sounds like an amazing pairing!
Hi Foxbins. i was very sorry to read about Bertie Wooster being so sick. Give him a pat from me.
Your earrings sound really cute.
Today’s goth perfume attempt is De Profundis. I know I have gothier perfumes than this, but I think at least the name inspiration match up. Also, I rescued a few of my evaporating oil-separated decants with perfumer’s alcohol this morning, and De Profundis was one of them. The other two were Un Lys and CdH Daphne. I also decided to dress in all black today except for a red coral necklace that was made for me by a friend.
In other news, I found out last week someone fraudulently submitted an unemployment claim with my name/SSN. Luckily, my HR at work sent it back marked as fraud and sent me a checklist to go through to deal with this. I’ve also let the unemployment office know it was fraud and filed a police report. Still need to get in touch with the credit bureaus know that I have a police report number. Sigh, why do people have to do these things…
Wow, that’s horrible. Glad your work caught it.
Well that sucks!! Hope it doesn’t cause you too many headaches.
That unemployment fraud blows chunks! Kudos to your employer for catching it and giving you a checklist to deal with the fallout.
I’m so sorry to hear about the fraudulent unemployment claim, that’s awful. I hope the bureaucracy is easier to deal with than expected.
Oh, man. How awful to jave to deal with that right now. Glad it was caught!
Thanks everyone!
I found my perfume for today’s project!
Grimoire from Anatole Lebreton.
Medicinal lavender and lots of incense, that’s pretty goth, no?
Lavender in the corner of a dark church. Gothic to me
Yeah, you got the idea just right!
Nice!
The name Grimoire is soooooooo Goth, it’s just right.
Here’s some Joy Division with Dead Souls:)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MhEm4S-4v_U
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I may put on some Mac lipstick in the color Heavy Petting:).
I’ve never been into goth anything. I am just a rocker chick. I
thought about Mad Madame, and Tokyo Milk Dark Bittersweet. I ended up asking my daughter what I should wear for Goth day. She said Kat Von D, duh. So I’m wearing KVD Sinner, current version. It shares similarities to Mad Madame and Narciso for her L’absolu. The Governor here opened retail by appointment only with ten people or less, starting tues. My manager said that he doubts we will do that, as it didn’t make sense for our store, but we haven’t officially heard yet.
KVD is an inspired choice.
Never went through a goth period, but I do love Loree Rodkin Gothic II. Vanilla, incense & patchouli. Happy Friday!
Happy Friday cazaubon!
To me, gothic is Byron, and the romantic period, cobwebs and ghosts. So I’ve chosen Tam Dao for the smells like an old cupboard effect.
Imagine an old dark house, with high ceilings and narrow corridors and an old cupboard standing in an empty room. Cobwebs brush the skin while the draw croaks in complaint of being opened. It smells like gentle wood, dust and old paper.
It’s not quite fair to gothisize Tam Dao, because it smells not at all of dust or old paper. But I really didn’t feel like wearing the only other contender I could think of, which was Eau Capitale.
Twins! We smell great!
U too smell excellent! ☺️
I guess I accidentally did an opposite day with Perfume Mendo’s Lindenflower – hubs got me samples from Tigerlily for mother’s day, this is one of them, honey & linden is what I smell. Happy Friday!
Yes you did! But you must have smelled great, I love linden.
SOTD is a sample of Poesie Perfumes We Shall Be Monsters for the Goth choice.Notes are bitter almond, black licorice, graveyard dirt tinged with blood,green bite of galbanum and forbidden manuscripts.It is a spooky,earthy and green type of scent.The licorice note is not a sweet licorice.Not something I would wear on a daily basis but I appreciate it when I do wear it.
Graveyard dirt, blood and forbidden manuscripts? Hahaha. Love it.
I have never really had a Goth period in my life but grew up where we could make ” I dare you to” late night visits to EA Poe’s grave.The graveyard reference looking back seems like a good Goth choice!
Not very gothic myself either, but EA Poe… One of his books of short stories crossed my path Somehow or another and I was fascinated. Love his weird tales, but too scared to go anywhere near his (or anyone’s) grave alone at night ?
I had planned on wearing Feu Secret for the CP, but it turned out the hand went straight to MFK Aqua Celestia … so I am in the exact opposite of Goth.
Dunno – inspired by heavens in stained glass windows in gothic churches maybe?
Nice save – thank you for the assist!
I am so NOT goth. I’m wearing my final iris for the week, Atelier Iris Rebelle. After focusing on iris this week I think it’s an intellectually interesting note for me but it’s not speaking to me emotionally. Perhaps going to my purgatory pile….
I have whole groups of perfume like that! At least you gave it a go.
Hi guys! I had such a busy week, hardly any time to read or comment here. ?
I am wearing The Black Knight
By Francesca Bianchi
It smells very gothic to me.
(I used to hang out with some goths now and then when i was young)
The orris evokes the makeup/powder vibe . There is some leather in this (yes some of them wore leather chokers, leather jackets and sometimes even leather pants) and i also smell beeswax….(for the candles Goths seem to be fond of ?)
Oh and the notes also mention artemisia…yup there is the absinthe connection.
Pretty gothic right?
I think there is a bit of a goth in me
I love dark red lipstick, creepy movies and dark scary literature, and i am totally loving the puffed sleeves trend you see everywhere right now.
I like the beeswax connection, hadn’t thought of that. Any recommendations on dark scary literature?
Some of my fav writers for gloomy dreamy scary stuff are
Neil Gaiman
Angela Carter
Margaret Atwood (i only read a few short stories and the Handmaid’s tale)
HP Lovecraft
But I for really really dark and scary stuff i just read history books or news papers. Sorry. ?
I also love graphic novels…. these are a bit gothic i guess: Monstress, Unwritten, Locke & key
Thanks Jiji! I lIke Neil Gaiman and HP Lovecraft but don’t know Angela Carter and will put her on my (long) list ?
Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast series/Titus Groan is a bit of a goth classic from the 1960s.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/17/the-haunted-mind-of-shirley-jackson
Sorry, that should be 40s! Also, Shirley Jackson …fantastic. I also like the Scottish poet/ written John Burnside ( Devil’s Footsteps , Glister) though not sure he would be called Gothic. And Eleanor Catton The Luminaries is dark and rich, kind of Gothic. Not gothic but gothic-inspired is Frankisstein by Jeanette Winterson. Also…Japanese writers give good unsettling /gothic-like stories…Murakami’s The Strange Library is short and good. A favourite would be Woman of the Dunes but creepy more than gothic. Maybe Mervyn Peake and Shirley Jackson for starters?
I will never forget, in 4th or 5th grade, my teacher reading us Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery.
I also distinctly remember a short story (author I do not recall) about a woman who snaps, beats her husband to death with a frozen leg of lamb, cooks it, then feeds it to the cops investigating his death.
The third book from this class, that I recall, was about a plague that wiped out all the adults, so the kids and tweens had to band together to secure food and defend themselves against other kid gangs.
My teacher was a real grandmotherly type. Realizing she clearly had a dark side!
Great recommendations!
Thanks for reminding me i need to start reading Peake. ?
Shirley jackson is great as well, i only read the Haunting of Hill House so far.
And I have read 6 or 7 Murakami’s, his stories can be a bit unsettling.
Btw. The Korean movie Burning is a fantastic Murakami adaption. I really recommend that movie.
While reading the comments, I realised I just love lots of stuff Goths are into. ?
Especially music,
Cure, sisters of mercy, dead can dance NIN….. And Nick cave is my hero (btw he married THE GOTH TOP MODEL Susie Bick)
because he is developing and changing his musical style while still being so recognisable Nick. I feel so sorry for what happened to his son.
The documentary ‘One more time with feeling’ is heartbraking, but a must see for every music lover….
I used to love Nick Cave but stopped following him afyer his No More Shall We Part album. Wasn’t so into his later stuff. Yes, it is a sad story about his son.
Have you ever listened to the group/collective This Mortal Coil? I loved their music-it was conprised of members of various groups like DCD, Cocteau Twins…
Yup, i know some this mortal coil songs.
I love the Cocteau Twins.
Elizabeth Frasers voice is just amazing
I was a bit of a punk back in the day, and never followed through into goth, but there were some great bands that people have mentioned, and there was some awesomely dressed goths around town a few years back.
I’ve got a few suitably dark perfumes, but will wear a new sample instead – Bois Sacré from Arte Profumi, which I got with my recent stupidly-expensive-but-it-was-on-sale purchase of Velvet Rouge.
A very sad, brooding song, Cult by Skinny Puppy
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gQt9OgKWkus
Like the most depressing song, ever.
My favorite of theirs was probably Smothered Hope:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mVGDJmSrrS8
And to top it off Brooding Woman, by Picasso:
https://flaglerlive.com/wp-content/uploads/picasso-brooding-woman2.jpg
The use of watercolor in the painting, goodness.
Ok, this was my most depressing post ever haha.
Didn’t go full goth back in the day but did play some Vampire : The Masquerade with my friends… Live-action role playing was as far down the rabbit hole as I was willing to go with my endlessly quirky social set from high school, because at least it was somewhat active.
Definitely had a teenaged photoshoot in a graveyard with my friend though. She styled me with a guitar and white dress and everything. She’s still a photographer and a university professor in the field tho. Man I wish I knew where I’d put those photos!
As goth as I’m going to get in Jorum Studios Nectary today, rose and oud and ambergris!
It’s fighting an infelicitous battle with the braised chicken in the oven though. The chicken smells delicious (braising in coconut milk loaded with lemongrass, garlic, ginger, Thai chili, soy sauce and fish sauce) but it is powerful!
I am going to do a kind of NZ Gothic inspired by the film The Piano and the book/series The Luminaries. So, a dark and dripping bush-clad strip of land squeezed in between a wild coast on one side and steep hills on the other. Women who have travelled to the end of the world with trappings of “civilisation”: long dresses, music, books …dark secrets, dark interiors, strange sounds, shadowy characters. Matching with Hyde.
The Piano! ? So dark and brooding! And then there’s Harvey Keitel…
You might like the very recent BBC series of The Luminaries. I haven’t seen it but it covers similar brooding landscapes and time period.
Just give me Harvey Keitel and you can keep all the rest.
Have you seen that recent-ish movie where Harvey Keitel is staying in a hotel/health spa with Michael Caine? It is called Youth. Paolo Sorrentino movie. I liked it.
Oh, loved The Piano. The soundtrack was amazing and I listened to it v a lot for many years. Can recognize that music instantly.
I’m also in Hyde now. Bottle arrived!
I got my goth on!
SOTD = Serge Lutens Borneo 1834
This caps off my patch week too although I may do one more tomorrow. 8 sprays!
https://www.instagram.com/p/CAgP0B1h61H/?igshid=q8wpyyq6hxom
The work I was supposed to do this morning got derailed before it got to my small working group. It had to go back to the drawing board with involvement by someone one heartbeat away from the CEO. Meanwhile, we already did part of the work and they now have to think about how to walk things back. Oy! Work deferred to Monday.
In other news, I haven’t been to Costco in 3 months and I literally just downgraded my membership from Executive to regular since I wasn’t spending enough to justify the extra cost of the higher tier membership (and I actually got back the difference between the extra cost and the rebate so it came out to no extra cost). Anyway, I did EPIC shopping today. My cart was filled to the brim, including the bottom of the cart. Costco did a great job with the logistics. Costco set aside one side of the parking lot and had people with their carts line up within the parking lanes (8 per back to back parking lanes) and one lane at a time was released when there was room on the outside perimeter (one side of the structure). When 4 lanes emptied out, the outer lanes rolled over to the first 4 lanes. All told, my wait was under 10 minutes. Inside, there were no traffic jams and the checkout line was reasonable. There were no empty shelves and there was plenty of TP although I had to get a different brand than what I’m used to. The next time I’ll go is when printer ink is on sale as I am all stocked up.
Enabler pin awarded! Achievement unlocked!
Your Costco has lines? Wow.
Song of the day = “Lucretia My Reflection” by The Sisters of Mercy. I have a few of their CD’s in my collection.
It’s turned into a rainy day here. On the plus side, it seems that we need the moisture… one of the local meteorologists mentioned that it’s about 2 inches below on precip here. I’ll still try to send some of it over The Pond to Aurora and Austenfan.
On the minus side, it means that the roofers did not replace my roof today. So I still have that to “look forward to”.
Confession time: my latest perfume purchase arrived about 10 minutes ago. It’s a 1 oz bottle of Mon Guerlain EdT. The lavender note in that is sufficiently different to my nose from the Burberry Brit Rhythm for Her that I went ahead and purchased it. So if that was your guess, lillyjo, you were right!
SOTD = Atelier Cologne Rose Anonyme, from the perfume stash. ? Whoever called this “goth light” earlier in the week is spot on. This is also one of the perfumes that I put on and think “Why don’t I wear this more often? So good!” I just wasn’t up for the all-out Goth selections I had picked out today: Aromatics Elixir, Magie Noir, or Niki de Saint Phalle.
Yay me! I guessed correctly. Enjoy your new bottle!
Woo hoo! Wear your bottle in good health!
I was going to wear HdP 1740 (Marquis de Sade) for the leather/patchouli, but wasn’t feeling it. So instead Input on Zoologist Bat (original). Again probably taking Goth too far in the historical and literary dimension.
I thought about 1740, too, but did it last week. It’s good! I bought a purse spray.
Darn, I always forget I have 1740 ? Bat is a great choice, too!
I had total forgotten about Black Phoenix Alchemy Labs but it fits perfectly with goth. Unfortunately, though I wanted to like the perfumes, they just did not do it for me.
I almost picked By Killian Back to Black but I think the perfume itself is not really goth, though the name is.
I am wearing Comme des Garcons Avignon. The packaging and the scent is goth to me. When I first bought this as a sample, I did not get it at all. Now I love it and reach for it very often.
Agree with your assessment of Back to Black. Goth name, scent not so much.
I thought about wearing Avignon today too ? you smell fantastic.
Way too warm for anything goth today. Wearing TF Vanille Fatale.
Hermes Pamplemousse Rose, about as far away from goth as possible. ?
I did a whole goth week and I think I didn’t post even once. I could have been a goth in another life. But, you know, corsets, and limited job opportunities. I suppose that means I lack imagination. Oh well.
Monday – Bvlgari Black, because black. and rubbery.
Tuesday – Serge Noire – the gothiest incense I have; I know, what about Avignon? well, I don’t have it. Also Serge Noire doesn’t care if you don’t like him, just like a goth
Wednesday – L’Heure Bleu – nothing smells more like la belle epoque and I should be in a giant brocade dress and corset with a parasol and pointy boots
Thursday – Anubis, death, leather, and Egypt
Today – the last of my vintage Parfum Sacre. So completely inappropriate for the spring weather. I do not get a church vibe from it like I do from Avignon, it’s like church made wrong somehow…which of course makes it perfect for goth life.
Have a lovely weekend, + Monday if your’e in the US.
Nice lineup! Love your Tuesday analysis ?
Great choices, I still have to sample Anubis and Serge Noir.