Monday happens. It's also Frank Lloyd Wright’s birthday and World Oceans Day. What fragrance are you wearing?
I'm in Aedes de Venustas Copal Azur, which Erin included in her Top 10 Summer Fragrances 2018.
Reminder: on 6/12, we're In the garden...wear a perfume that was inspired by a particular garden, or that reminds you of a particular garden, or that just smells like a garden in general. (I think someone suggested this, raise your hand if it was you!)
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 Pivoines [cropped] by Anne Stehle at flickr; some rights reserved.
Starting garden week in Guerlain Apres L’ondee. The smell of a damp garden after it has rained. One of my favorites scents ever!
Another gorgeous day! Sunny, fresh and the glorious smell of grass being mowed by several neighbors around. A cup of coffee and… back to my desk to continue the working day.
PSA: I have added a bottle of SSS Incense Pure to the Splitmeet, in case someone is interested.
https://nstperfume.com/2020/06/06/the-splitmeet-episode-13/#comment-895652
Happy Monday, everyone! 🌞
Yep, you smell great. I should wear that this week.
Thank you!
Two great perfumes mentioned in your post today!
Wearing Le Jardin de Monsieur Li for the CP.
Twins!
Excellent choice…mine later this week.
Hello all! Long time no see!
On my way to work today, mask form placed. I’m wearing No. 18 which is a bit soft for sniffing through a mask. Luckily I could sniff it my entire commute.
Have a great day all! Stay safe.
Hi Coumarin – nice to see you, sounds like you are doing well
I am, thank you! Always a pleasure to catch you!
Love No.18 😍
Me too! Subtly elegant and very Chanel, for when you’re into that sort of thing.
Glad to see you back, Coumarin, and glad you are well. You smell subtle and great in No. 18. 😊
Thank you! Fingers crossed. 🤞
Good to hear things are going well for you Coumarin!
Thank you dear! I hope all is well with you too.
No morning walk this morning, I have a tight achilles tendon that started yesterday. So starting off my Monday on the wrong foot, literally.
I am in a garden in Capri, for the CP
SOTD Fiori di Capri
Ouch, LTSG, that’s no fun at all… I hope your tendon resolves soon!
Feel better soon!
Oh no. Sounds familiar. RICE: Rest, ice, compression, elevation. Hope it feels better quickly!
Ouch! Hope you get some relief soon 🌹
Me too..Its hard when you have two kids to run after.
Hopefully they will take it easy today.
Oh dear – hope your achilles feels better soon.
Fiori di Capri is lovely and a contender for my in the garden fragrances too (although I don’t know if i’ll end up reaching for it)
Ouch! Achilles strains are awful. But a Fiori di Capri is wonderful.
Take care–no fun hobbling around.
Thought of you this AM as I liberally applied Shalimar!
How liberally? 5 sprays?
Can I smell you from NYC?
Ouch, take good care of yourself, it sounds painful.
Its more uncomfortable than painful
Ooooooof, a sore Achilles tendon is not at all fun. It also seems to take forever to quit hurting.
I am also wearing Le Jardin de Monsieur Li, which is one of my favorite of the Hermes Jardin scents. I think it is the kumquat. I will be wearing the Hermes Jardin fragrances all this week, since it fits the CP, but also because it is hot here in Texas, and they are lovely in hot weather.
House twins! The Jardin series is perfect for hot weather, enjoy 😎
Which is your fave–I think I like Nil the best, closely followed by M. Li
My fave is Sur le Toit.
Hi all, my SOTD is Eau des Jardins by Clarins. Citruses, Wild Rose, Black Currant leaf, with a patchouli/musk dry down.
I ‘thunked’ a FB of Perfect Nectar by Horwitz and a large decant of Rochas Absolu. I’m slowly working my way through some decants.
I had a fun birthday weekend, but ate way too much. It’s difficult to believe I’m 53
but here I am…..
I’m headed out for my walk, ta ta for now!
Happy Birthday to you!
Happy Belated Birthday, SmokeyToes! 🎂🎁🍷🎉🌻
Happy Belated birthday ST!!!
Enjoy your walk..walk an extra mile for me…
LTSG – I did, walked an extra 1.25 miles *high five*
Happy belated birthday!
Congrats!
Lol on the age. I find as I get older that I forget how old I am and when I am asked or remember am slitghtly surprised and bewildered that I’m that age…
Thanks! On the inside, I sometimes feel and think as a 30-year old.
Happy Birthday!!
Happy 53, SmokeyToes!
Thanks Robin!
And I love the picture of the peonies – such a beautiful and fab-smelling flower…
Happy birthday!!
I remember 53…oh, so long ago! Enjoy your birthday and everyday.
Happy birthday!!
Many happy returns.
Happy belated!!!
Happy birthday, SmokeyToes! 🎂
Happy Birthday!
Belated & Scented Happy Birthday wishes for you SmokeyToes! 🎆🎊🎂🥂💐
Happy Birthday!
Belated Happy Birthday!
Happy belated birthday! i’m one year ahead of you. How did we get this old?
Didn’t read before applying perfume so no garden scent today, I’m in Traversée du Bosphore. You smell great Robin!
And so do you! (And I’m not in a garden scent either, unless it’s a garden by the sea?)
Testing samples today, and none are particularly garden-like.
An aside, I have items from the last swapmeet that never swapped and and would like to send them out as a freebie! It’s going to be a few sample sets together. Please dibs and email me at green lake lilies in the land of google.
Dibs,thank you!
Boo Monday. But I’m in AG Le Chevrefeuille which has been making me very happy lately AND works for the CP! It is lightly lemony, fresh honeysuckle-ish flowers – this one gives me the feeling of a cool morning walk in a garden, not a hot afternoon drowsiness.
You smell lovely. It’s such a joyful scent!
2nd that. One of my favorite AGs ever.
Oh, that is one of the most lovely Spring scents ever. You smell wonderful! I adore AG’s Chevrefeuille and Eau de Camille, both are Spring in a bottle.
What gorgeous peonies, Robin!
If I had remembered the CP, I would have worn one of the Hermes garden scents. I didn’t, so I’m in Passage d’Enfer from a sample I found (why don’t I just get a bottle of this and Safran Troublant and stop playing this game of hunting for samples/decants of them in my collection?). Just the teeniest dabs, though, as the fiancé has specifically called this one out as one he dislikes.
Twins! From a sample too
I am currently playing this game too! I keep looking on eBay and at the discounters but I should just get them!
Same! For those scents or for other ones? If the latter, which?
Per Arielle, Safran Troublant is being discontinued. We’be heard this before though so who knows? 🤷🏻♀️
Oh no!!! Ok then I need to think harder about it. O.o
Koyel, how bummed out/upset would you be if either ST or Pd’E were unavailable? If the answer is VERY, then probably better to bite the bullet and get it.
Jalapeno, you’ve helped me reframe this in a useful way. I’ll have to think about it!
What a lovely picture, Robin!
My agapanthus are blooming out front.
I think post shower some Paris Deauville lotion and fragrance for a busy day at home office.
Got hair cut, wow is it ever gray! And almost buzzed. I love it. Need a brighter lipstick but with masks not right now.
Got covid test Saturday will get results by Thursday.
fingers crossed u don’t have the bug. and if you do, fingers crossed it will be mild.
So pretty, what color do you have? I have been thinking of a clump of white ones by the front steps.
They are purple. Late to bloom this year, usually May.
As I was speed reading through comments I thought I read your “esophagus was blooming” 😃
THAT made me slow down. Hope you are asymptotic and your test is negative.
I dropped in to Ulta yesterday and saw a bunch of new lippies, got excited, then remembered there’s no point right now. 😏
Deva, how are they keeping the testers from being used?
Either samples are not there at all, or are made inaccessible with the use of plastic barrier.
Good luck with the test!
I very much hope your test results are negative! Agapanthus are so beautiful and dramatic. Our don’t bloom all summer, just for a month or so in the spring. Do yours bloom all summer?
Good luck with the results!
Fingers and toes crossed that your test comes back negative!
Wearing Un Jardin Sur le Nil, a perfect garden for a hot summer day.
My news from yesterday is that my husband of 36 years, without saying a word, casually shaved off his mustache. We’ve been together nearly 40 years and, I’m going to shout here, I’VE NEVER SEEN HIM WITHOUT IT. Omg what a shock. He’s a very handsome man, the mustache has kind of been his trademark, and here’s the sad thing: he looks TERRIBLE without it. Who knew he has no upper lip? The bare lip instantly ages him 5 years and makes him look exactly like his father 🤦♀️ So what should I do? Tell him I want him to grow it back? It’s his face, after all. Get used to it? So far, once I got over the initial shock, I’ve just teased him a little. Hold me. 😭
Ringthing, your post absolutely made my morning. I’m so sorry that this has happened to you. But it is hilarious.
Tell him to grow it back!
hmmm…ringthing…I would just be honest..with finesse
Like..”Darling your mustache made you so________ (fill in the blank..hot, handsome, alluring, sexy, made me want to kiss you 24/7)
Follow the comment with lots of love and however you show affection.
But I wouldn’t say anything about the “older” bit. IMHO
Excellent strategy.
That would be my strategy too. I was so happy when mr. yasmina finally took my advice and grew a beard. He looks so much better!
I will go against the grain, I wouldn’t say anything. Give him time to decide he wants to grow it back himself.
I have tried that, it didn’t work for Mr L but its worth trying this way too…
What a conundrum! And I have absolutely ZERO advice to offer! 😃
I’d wait awhile so you can get used to it and maybe change your mind. If you really do prefer it, you can tell him you think he’s handsome either way but the mustache is more attractive… If he’s smart, he’ll realize making himself more attractive to his wife has benefits. 😉
Oh my! 😀
Oh no! My father-in-law did this to my mother-in-law last year, as he’d decided the bit of grey in the ‘stache was too aging. Thankfully, on his own he’s grown it back, but we had to endure not giggling at him for like 6 months.
Some men look better with a beard, I convinced mine to grow a beard over a year ago, hope he doesn’t shave it off…
Omg! I have done all kinds of crazy things to my hair over the course of 15 years together with Mr. Teebear and he only blinked once when I first came home with a perm.
That said he did grow out a moustache over this COVID duration to entertain me as he’s never had facial hair in all our time together. I actually liked it! He hated it and it’s gone now 🤣
I think you have to make your peace with loving him however he decorates his face by this point, but if he asks which you prefer definitely tell the truth!
My best friend asked me yesterday why he wanted to shave it and I immediately thought of doing crazy things to hair. Maybe sitting in Zoom meetings he’s been thinking “yep, time to try something new.” He doesn’t really have an answer to why he suddenly made this choice but I do understand.
My sympathies! My husband shaved his beard off one Christmas morning and told me it was my present. Um, no thanks. He looked just awful. It took me six months to stop flinching, then he DYED HIS HAIR, ostensibly because a recruiter told him greying hair was a problem. Ugh. I immediately objected and kept urging him to stop. It took years. The beard is back, the hair is silver, and he looks familiar again.
Good luck. If yours is as stubborn as my hubs is, you’ll need it.
Omgoodness, that’s awful! I’m glad he finally came around. My husband is really vain about his hair. He has a full head of it and it’s a beautiful silver. I’ve decided to just let the mustache play out, hopefully he’ll come around eventually 😊
Had my ombre hair colored all some dark color, by accident. Just found out my husband didn’t like the ombre. A year later. 😂😂😂
No advice for you. Good luck!
Some things should really be written into the marriage vows, right?
Lol. True.
Oh, quick PSA: Goodwill online has some good perfume auctions ending today and this week if anyone is interested. Chanel, several iterations of Opium, Rive Gauche etc.
whaaat
I’ve been stalking them. Especially the Opium. I haven’t been able to win an auction yet though.
I didn’t even know Goodwill had online auctions – I try and resist searching!
I have only won a few perfume auctions but I’ve been pleased with what I got. It’s all chance on Goodwill because you don’t know how old something is or how it’s been stored, and since it’s donations the employees don’t know either.
Oh gosh; going to have to check it out now! I have had both good and bad luck at these. I scored a small bottle of Shalimar Eau Legere in a lot and a small bottle of original Fendi that is in pretty good shape. But I also got some Chanel No 19 perfume that is skunked!
That’s my worry, that they have been stored poorly. I’ve bid on a few things, but have a set limit I’m willing to lose, so I always get outbid.
I’m in the last vestiges of SL Arabie. Will switch up after a shower later.
Have a great day all✌🏼
Have a great day Deva!
When I scroll through and see your new avatar, my brain automatically thinks of Bear🐻 because of the red in the corner.
Yum, what a gorgeous scent.
I had a not so great weekend. Hoping for a better week. I’m wearing No.5 L’eau over Korres basil and lemon body cream.
Hope the week turns out brilliant for you!
Thanks!
Hope you have a great week, Lillyjo! 🌻🌞🌷☘
Right back at ya!🌞🌹
Oh no, a good we is cfucial for being ready for a new week. Youŕ combo sounds really good.
It is really good, to me anyway. I smell pretty lemony 🌞
You WILL have a better week <3
I will take your word for it!
Only uphill from this point on! We can do it!
Sending you “Good Week” vibes!
Started the day in Aerin Eclat de Vert for garden credit points. For me such a great straightforward, nice smelling, collected fragrance. Used to be my travelling for business companion b4 the bug arrrived and travelling for business still was a thing we did.
Moved on to sample Passage D’Enfer in the afternoon. Get a churchy vibe in a good way.
I get a bit of “church” in Passage d’Enfer, too. It’s a nice light incense perfume to me.
Woke up in vintage no 5 and so far commando post shower. I am really stoked to have a STC package coming my way today. Last night, I found a tick on my older dog and nothing like pulling it out. Going to be watching him for a few days though. I counted 14 mosquito bites from walking the dogs yesterday. I think I will wear a dab of Kyoto for work when I really want is Coco Mademoiselle but that will be post work perfume.
Mosquitoes LOVE me. I think it is because of the perfume. I went for a walk with an unperfumed friend, and they left her alone.
If I remember right, could be wrong though, it comes down to how much CO2 you emit attracts them and there are a couple other factors too. But perfume doesn’t seem to be a factor.
Oh that’s so interesting
Mosquitos love me. Fleas jump off cats and dogs onto me.
LOL!
My brother and I are both tasty mosquito snacks, unfortunately.
SOTD is Dryad. Having IT issues with my WFH setup for the 4th time in the last 7 or 8 working days, and am cranky because of that. Grrr.
But they fixed it – yay! I feel much better now.
Glad they fixed it for you. I’ve been there; its not a fun place to be.
Un Jardin Sur le Toit in keeping with CP. Very fresh. The scent of cut grass is nice in a tiny NYC apartment.
Was in Sheep Meadow Central Park yesterday for much of the afternoon. Glorious weather. And I love the camera on my new phone. Not as fancy as the new 11s, but a huge upgrade from my 6.
Will have to try SlT tomorrow. When I was visiting my sister in January she gave me her bottle!
I still need to give the Hermes jardin series a try
I just opened IG and saw your post. Gorgeous pictures!
Thanks! I couldn’t believe how much better.
In Cartier Baiser Vole EDT, a lily garden with some bitter orange and crushed green stems.
Love the EDT especially, you smell sparkling.
Good morning Y’all!
Starting out the week in Jo Malone Blackberry and Bay…..smells EXACTLY like my backyard when I’m mowing down unwanted blackberry sucker plants….
Great smell!
That is interesting!
I am really off the mark on this week’s CP wearing Black Cashmere – lol.
I like the project, however, and interested to find some new garden-inspired scents.
Love that photo! Peonies are my favorite flower. Completely and utterly romantic.
Peonies coming all week
Garden week! I am sure we will be sniffing lots of Hermes this week
I will try to branch out a bit for a couple of days anyway. SOTD is Eau d’Italie Jardin du Poete. I don’t often like herbal scents but this one is pretty nice.
I can’t remember if I ever smelled that one, but I love herbal scents so I should!
Not a garden this morning, but an exotic island. Box of Eels parfum.
twins!
Well, mines edp. But close enough.
a garden on an exotic island…
Hello!
After several days of BWFs, I needed something a bit cozier, so I’m in Bois des Iles today (does the community still know it as Box of Eels?!).
Last week of “school.” Ugh. Just ugh.
My garden right now smells mostly of roses, but if I were to crush the correct plants underfoot, there’d be some herbal fragrances mixed in with them. I smelled an amazing honeysuckle yesterday in someone else’s yard, so I might need to plant one of those soon. I wear lots of rose scents, but nothing honeysuckle. Sounds very “pink,” but maybe there’d be a way to do it justice?
Countdown to the summer! You can do it!
Honeysuckle is adorable, so with luck you have an unadorned trellis calling out for one.
What’s Bois des Iles? 🤣🤣☺️
“Box of Eels” is alive and well here! 😉
Thunked a sample of Magnolia Grandiflora Sandrine today.
Not gonna miss it, I liked the Michel one way more.
What is your favourite of the Grandiflora’s?
Queen of the Night and Magnolia Michel
I like Queen of the Night, as well.
Michel is the only GF I have not tried yet. I also really like the Jasmin and trying to make up my mind about Boronia.
Jasmin Angelique on this beautiful day!
We’re preparing to put our house on the market this week, so I’ve been very anxious. My personal CP might beer from “garden” into “comfort” at any moment.
I did 180 with this fragrance! Hated it at first to start to enjoy it some years later.
I never hated it, but smelling it on a friend is what made me come back for more. I eventually got a small bottle. It’s probably what I wear most often when it’s really hot.
Mmm peonies. They are out here in Minneapolis and I keep stopping to smell them. I’m wearing Dear Polly today. Years from now it will probably remind me of the quarantine, I’m wearing it so much.
I know they are still out here, but most of the peonies in my neighborhood are fading, and mine are long gone.
Starting the week slow with Andy’s Reverie au Jardin….my organic farm opens tomorrow and I can’t wait to stop by for some fresh greens and spring peas.
That is one of my favourite Tauer. Shame it’s discontinued as I never got to buy more than just a sample…
I have about a quarter bottle left (very old bottle), still love it.
I love that one too but sadly appear to be very allergic to it.
Is Reverie au Jardin also a powerhouse?
I just got the perfect gift for the CP – the Hermes mini coffret of the Le Jardin series!
My friends and I decided to a secret Santa type thing for Eid this year and this what I got. My secret Santa recipient got from me the most highly rated manual lemon/lime squeezer I could find – because she literally puts lemon on everything — AND a bottle of Wowilla oil. She was very pleased
I have to say that in between the swap meet, the split meet and my own purchases, I feel like I am drowning in new perfume these days.
Testing today FM Bigarade Concentree from the swap. Very nice. Everything I have tried from FM has been great, I am very impressed with the line. Except oddly the Cuir et Rose one felt unfinished. But I see it is up for an award this year, so what do I know….
Rose et Cuir has a certain roughness to it, that I can see might make you feel it was unfinished. Not my favourite of the line, although I do think it’s a very interesting perfume.
That coffret is an excellent gift–lucky you.
I have nice friends
Starting the week in Noir Exquis because I happened upon a sample of this, as I was looking for my Ame Perdue.
It’s nice enough, but not quite to my liking.
Tea is Oolong au caramel au beurre salé. Which is absolutely wonderful.
I just received the New Zealand oolong Kanuka wrote about the other day…will have a cup tomorrow
I’m wearing Carner Barcelona’s Palo Santo. This might be a little too smoky for me.
Aha, then I need to try that one!
I also sprayed before reading the CP; I’m in Calyx by Prescriptives today.
Smelling great!
Thanks lillyjo!
The original Calyx can’t be beat!
Thank you, it is so good! And I’m very glad I got my bub when I did. Sadly, the Clinique version is a whisper in comparison.
The sun makes an apparition this evening, it’s flooding the lounge. In the very fruity Dior Addict Eau Delice, an obscure flanker which I had liked right away. The cranberry and cherry combo is well done, not too sweet, not too tart, and not medicinal, cranberry is an original note.
This sounds like a great flanker!
It suits me really well in warm tsmperatures, I especially like that the cherry is not paired with liquorice and cherry + cranberry is unusual and intriguing. I have a love/not love relation with Addict being so full on, but this flanker is quieter. Do you wear Addict Lillyjo?
Yes, I have a mini from about 5 years ago. Plus I was fortunate enough to have a kind Nster send me some vintage.
I’ve tried a few of the flankers that were available here, but none none really caught my attention. I think the only one left on the shelved now is the edt, which should have gotten it’s on name imo.
Sampling Flavia Vanilla and Guimauve de Nöel from Parle Moi de Parfum both are rather meh to me…😐 I bought the discovery set a while back and am still working my way through but a bit underwhelmed so far.
I am sitting on my hands and trying not to buy anything from the Splitmeet b/c I have untested samples and sets…see paragraph 1 above
I tried, but I caved and when on two splits
She-ra, I’m happy to send you a sample of the Farmacia Vaniglia if you like… I don’t know if you’ve tested this one in your vast vanilla testings, but I would want you to miss out if you haven’t. I can send you a sample size, no charge….you can email me at taiag101 in the land of yahooligans if interested. ✌🏼
Trying not to give in on more splits, but there are so many reasons to justify more. 😏
I have to sit on my hands now, too. I’ve got to save for some of the bottles I wanted to split!
Always a good thing not to be impressed. One less lust.
I didn’t read the CP theme today but I’m on theme in Queen Bee by Good Chemistry which I believe is a Target exclusive. The perfume is vegan and of course, I am typing this as I am munching on baked pork rinds. Queen Bee is a fruity floral with black currant, peony and amber in all the right proportions! It’s $24.95 + tax and I have 5% off by using a Target debit card.
I ended up working a bit more last night but got an issue resolved this morning. I really hate not being involved in initial discussions as that would have saved 10 emails. That said, the trail does function as evidence of line of inquiry and the fuzzy answer non-answer.
I owe all emails re: the dibs I placed plus everyone who emailed me on my split offerings. I will do all tonight. Also, I added bottle #2 for Hiram Green Vivacious and have 20 mLs left for dibs. And I am seeing some new offers that I will get in on, not that I need more perfumes but I like shiny objects.
The story of the Zoom bombing cat continues. He seems to know when a call is ending and he’s gotten a little bolder. I don’t know where he popped up from today but he confidently put his paws up against a closed window and stre-e-e-tched. Show off!
Hmm i was just recently reading a review of Queen Bee – I can’t remember where now, but it was a positive one on a niche perfume blog
Mark Behnke / Colognoisseur
https://colognoisseur.com/new-perfume-review-good-chemistry-queen-bee-perfume-vox-populi/
And I am itching to take out the editing pen…
LOL on both the Zoom Bombing cat, and vegan perfume + pork rinds!
I’m on-project today with St. Clair Scents Eve. It’s all about a garden, after all! Plus, it’s beautiful and I love it!
I can do a week of garden scents
I wore Ninfeo Mio, because someone mentioned it that weekend, I think it was Deva… I don’t have many garden scents, so must think about this a bit more. Spending the last evening with the boyfriend, had some Gelato at the icecream shop and a nice cold dinner on the balcony.
I hope everything goes well with surgery.
Good luck to your boyfriend!
Best wishes for your boyfriend’s procedure and recovery!
Let us know how it goes tannina!
Home from a cold weekend and walks in fresh snow with stunning views of mountains and lakes. Wearing High Country Tussock for garden week. Yesterday we celebrated zero cases of Covid 19 in the country, no more active cases. So, for the moment ( and hopefully longer), C19 has been eliminated here. I think it may also be a Charles Dickens anniversary but I am a day ahead.
I read your good news in my paper today. Good for New Zealand. It will be interesting to see how NZ will operate from now on.
I almost envy you your snow, although today was a wonderful day, with big cloudy and dramatic skies. Like Ruysdael used to paint them.
Congrats to NZ! 👍
Go New Zealand! (And I just got that NZ oolong, will try it tomorrow.)
I am wearing Dryad today.
We are having troubles with the drain in our kitchen (its broken). Righr now we can’t use our dishwasher or the sink 😒
Back to doing the dishes by hand.
(Oh well, at least its not the toilet sewer….)
Good luck, such a nuisance! Will the plumber be coming shortly?
Argh!
I’ve been in several scents today. Went to TJ’s this morning with a neighbor for the first time in ages. TJ’s is always fun, and no crowds! No flour or yeast either, but that’s okay.
Working my way through my Neela sample set with Trayee. I really like this one, but I’m making Cajun beans and rice, so Trayee has some competition. Tried a little spritz on my shoulder of 4160 Tokyo Spring Blossom from the last swap package that arrived today (hey neyronrose!), so I’m claiming cp points. 😊
I hope every is having a good Monday. Hugs to all of you wonderful folks! 🤗
Wow, still no flour? I wonder if people are going to keep on baking more even after the pandemic.
SotD: Vierges et Toreros by EldO, I wanted something with enough raunchy oumph to help ensure social distancing at the grocery store 🤣
The poplar trees (Cottonwood) are just exploding today, and it looks like it’s snowing cotton in my neighborhood, with hundreds of the seeds drifting through the air and piling up in drifts on the ground. I’ve never been so grateful for mask-wearing being normalized before!!!
Some years my body decides it’s going full allergenic in its response to poplar season, but keeping my face covered while outdoors seemed to make a huge difference.
Ugh, I grew up with Cottonwood trees! I don’t miss them one bit.
Glad the mask is helping, that sounds miserable.
Ah yes, the second snow season in Montréal. It’s not too bad in the Plateau yet.
In vintage Murasaki today, a gift from Enabler Husband. It is perfect; the newer version is nice but doesn’t seem to have the same depth.
Aw, nice gift!
It’s a Monday, all right. I’ve been irritable for a good chunk of the day for various reasons… mostly minor stuff, so I won’t go into details. Enough little annoying things in a single day, can add up to needing some remedial ice cream though. So, Ice Cream Enabler pin to perfumelover67! I grabbed a couple different flavors of the Haagen Dazs Spirits pints. Now to grab a spoon. 🍨
SOTD = Hermes Kelly Caleche EdP, from the sample stash. Usually this is a no-brainer and a great grab and go. However, today it isn’t sitting too well with me. Phooey. 😣
I may join you in some ice cream later–I have three pints from our local dairy, Halo Farms…..wonderful ice cream and its always “buy two, get a third one free” which makes ice cream shopping a no brainer….everybody pick one then get out a spoon.
Ooooooh, what flavors did you get?
Hope tommorow is way less annoying! And that your perfume is a perfect fit for the day 😀
Thanks lillyjo! Sorry that your weekend was blah. I hope this one coming up will be a great one for you.
Hope those spirit ice creams sweeten the rest of your day and make you feel better! 😀🍨.
You smell great in Kelly Caleche. A favorite of mine and in my to buy list again after draining a couple of bottles. Simple and easy to wear!
I don’t know why, but today I was getting soapy notes with KC. I have never encountered that before. Soapy perfumes are not my friends.
I have never gotten soapy notes on KC. Like you, I don’t get along with soapy scents.
Ice cream and chocolate make everything better 😋
Remedial ice cream has been consumed! I *do* feel better. A few bites of the good stuff are very satisfying.
Hope tomorrow is better Jalapeno!
SotD = Eau de Fleurs de Cedrat
yay for citrus! it’s pushing 90 degrees here today, I’m staying inside and pretending it’s not hot. Lots of EdFdC and ice water.
hope everyone is staying cool wherever you are.
Egads…that is hot hot!
Your hot weather might be headed my way later on this week.
Bvlgari au The Vert
Always right
Popping in to say I like the peony picture — very pretty. No perfume for me today.
I made Mom cut my bangs. She objected that she wouldn’t be any good at cutting hair. I went to look in a mirror afterward. She had warned me. Now I don’t have bangs, or really anything left there. I was tired of having the bangs in my eyes, and they’ll grow back quickly. Oh, well. I did a better job of cutting her hair. Or at least, she wasn’t loudly distressed when she saw it, and she would have been if she thought it was a total botch job.
I went upstairs and told Dad that Mom had cut my hair. He took a look. I asked him if he wanted me to cut his hair. “No thank you,” he said politely. I asked. lol
On the days it was very hot with thunderstorms last week, I really didn’t do anything productive. I stayed inside for the most part. I guess it’s not so different from what many people are doing. I mainly just read novellas. On other days I did errands and shopping and planted my garden plants. Still a few to plant, but I have ideas of where I want them.
It is really very easy to do your own bangs, and there are some very helpful youtube videos
Thank you, Robin. I’ll keep that in mind for the next time. LOL!
I tried to fix up the asymmetry, but my efforts didn’t really help. On the bright side, my hair likely won’t be hanging into my eyes again for a good few months. lol
That’s about all I can do about it now, because there’s nothing much left to experiment on at the moment.