Happy Autumnal Equinox! It's also Tuesday and Hobbit Day. What fragrance are you wearing?
I'm in Prada Infusion d'Iris, because tiffanie wore it yesterday. Tea at the moment is Kenilworth Estate OP from Upton.
Reminder: 9/25 is National Comic Book Day...name a favorite comic book character, and wear the fragrance that suits him or her.
And for those of you who like to plan ahead, see Scent of the day ~ Friday community projects 2020, where I'll try (but frequently fail) to always have the next five or six weeks mapped out in advance.
Note: top image is Adam West as Batman, Alan Napier as Alfred and Burt Ward as Robin, from the Batman TV series (3 seasons 1966-1968).
This pic is just right for my SOTD!
Yesterday Calypso mentioned Batman and the scent he would wear. I cannot believe I forgot about Zoologist Bat. I do not have it anyway, but this is such an obvious choice.
Anyway, when I read ‘Batman’ I immediately thought of Black Phantom by Kilian, and this is what I am wearing today. It would fit Batman, the Shadow and even Darkwing Duck. 😀 I really like this scent, even though usually I do not care for chocolate fragrances. This one has the right combination of bitter, sweet, woody and smoky notes. A good gourmand.
I thought of Sky Puppies for Batgirl….I wish I had a sample of that one! Love that name….
This one, with a bat on the bottle? https://sucreabeille.com/products/sky-puppy
It looks very cute! Barbara could keep a bottle like this in her handbag, just to remind herself of her secret identity.
I thought of Lune Feline (Cat Moon) for Catwoman and Perle de Mousse for Poison Ivy (because ivy is the main note). Katy Perry’s Purr and Miaow would work for Catwoman too.
Isn’t that bottle super cute? Tempted to order some samples from Sucreabeille but haven’t done it….YET! 🙂
I love your cat woman perfume pick!
Darkwing Duck!
The terror that flaps in the night!
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I’m in a rose oil I bought at Christmas in the Bryant Park markets in NYC. The scent has likely faded a bit…I forgot about it. But Stella sprayed on top creates a nice waft of rose.
Spoke to a nice contact tracer yesterday, who said we should just ignore the calls and let go to voicemail unless we need assistance with food delivery or testing or need to more seriously separate from a household member. I guess we aren’t alone in feeling annoyed at times.
I do love rose for comfort, and these are strange times for sure. Everything just seems so difficult and frustrating.
Hugs to you LizzieB,
Read your post late yesterday and all those calls would be annoying…..and a little big brothery.
And…I’m thankful for the advice to just ignore the calls. I just ignored an unknown 212 call and got a voicemail from a guy reading the same script I’ve heard and seen via text many times in the last 10 days. I guess the good news is…it’s providing people jobs.
I’m glad that you were able to talk to someone nice about your annoying calls. Getting a human on the line sometimes can make a huge difference.
I used to LOVE watching those old Batman shows. My brothers and I would give pretend POWS and BAMS and WHACKS to each other…. 🙂
Doing a little perfume BAM this morning in Chloe Nomade. I’m trying a sample for the first time, and the plum note is a bit strong (BAM!) but slowly drying down a bit….Nice scent for the autumn equinox methinks!
We loved those shows too!
I bought a bottle of Old Spice (Classic) from my local wally world, and I wore it all weekend. I thought that I would try it out at work. I really like it, especially after the first blast. After the first few minutes it calms down, and the spice aspect blooms on my skin.
I LOVE Old Spice on my hubs, and I definitely borrow it from time to time for myself! My son likes the Old Spice Swagger sprays that are similar to Axe….they are STRONG but effective for teenage funk! 🙂
Oh good!
I wore infusion d’iris yesterday!
Today i am wearing Jubilation XXV
I bet Bruce Wayne has something like this in his collection, but I like the idea of Selena stealing it from him and wearing it herself (when she is not on the job of course… Would be a bad idea to wear perfume when you want to sneak into someone’s house ?).
I think you are right that the Amouage image fits the Bruce Wayne image – and of course he wanted his ward, Dick Grayson, to learn by example about the finer arts of dressing!
Nice pick for Bruce Wayne!
Happy Tuesday!
In Oeillet Bengale – spicy spice
Yum, you smell great!
Ooh, I need to dig that one out!
Iris Torréfié
Curious to know what others think of this one who have tried it.
off to my Italian Skype lesson…will comment more later
Ciao!
Dimmi dimmi tutto! I am so curious about this one.
Buon autunno!
You can see Nancy’s comments below
It was too dressy for me, and a bit sweet. My favorite iris perfumes are Iris Nazarena and ISM.
What did you think of it?
I feel that I couldn’t smell it after 30 min or so..
I like the opening a lot, but then it changes into something that smells more mainstream.
For Guerlain, I think Shalimar will remain my queen…
Me too, ltsg. With Neroli Outrenoir as first lady in waiting. ?
Hi all!
Radiating cosmic goodness in Sun Moon Stars today, a weird opal of a perfume. I was reading of Fragrantica that Lagerfeld wanted it to smell of high quality paper and while that may slightly come across, I don’t think it would satisfy such a unique ask.
Getting pelted by Beta down here. Luckily I live on high ground.
Stay safe everyone!
I do love Sun, Moon, and Stars, quirky but very comforting to me. Next time I wear it, I’ll have to look for the paper notes.
It’s so good! I wouldn’t say the paper is a note per se, rather a suggestion.
I saw your picture of it on IG. What a gorgeous bottle! It sounds wonderful. Stay dry! Our streets aren’t bad here but my roof is leaking!
Oh no!?
Isn’t it? I’m sorry to hear about your roof. Hopefully we’ll dry up soon.
I saw this in a thrift store a couple of years ago but didn’t buy it – now I wonder whether I should have…
If it was a good price, then maybe. My ex hated the smell but I adore it. You could have resold it for a pretty penny though, I’m sure.
In Fragonard Vanille.
Wishing everyone a safe and healthy Autumn season! ????
I have to find these emojis! I’m only familiar with spring and summer, LOL ?????
Found them! Happy Fall!
I just assumed the first one is an accorn, but really I don’t know ?
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Happy Autumn Solstice!
Oooops. That should be Autumn Equinox, not Solstice. My druid friends would be very upset with me, confusing the two.
Fun CP!
SOTD: Sycomore EDT from swapmeet — love this one. I’ve tried to fill it’s shoes with Encre Noire, which is very good, but just not the same. I think the diff for me is the sweet tobacco. Yum.
Sycomore is fabulous, haven’t tried the edp version but have the edt version.
Oh yeah, you smell wonderful. I have a decant of that and need to pull it out.
You smell wonderful! It really is so beautiful and weird to me.
Hi all, my SOTD is Fendi Theorema Esprit d’Ete, warm soft and spicy/vanilla. Much thanks to the generous SpringPansy.
I woke up late and getting ready for my four-mile walk. I started my third HR class and this one will certainly be a doozie, Employee Relations, not my favorite. The instructor seems, tough but fair.
Theorema Esprit d’Ete is fantastic. You smell terrific.
Hi MT ~ thanks! I love Fall/Winter scents.
I may or may not have just snagged a thrift bottle of this based on your recommendations….
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Oh cool! Let me know what you think…. AngelaB gets the enabler pin!
I will!
I love the original Theorema and love stalking this flanker on ebay!
You smell(ed) beautiful today!
Thank you! 🙂
Sampling Over the Chocolate Shop and Silk, Lace & Chocolate today…getting a bit chocolate-in-perfume-obsessed now methinks…as one does…
My heart is still loyal to vanilla but I might have a wandering eye…
Lol on having a wandering eye. I don’t think vanilla would mind. I mean, vanilla and chocolate get along well. Kind of like chocolate cake and ice cream.?
Indeed they do get along well. 🙂
surely there is a vanilla-chocolate fragrance out there that will be your ultimate?
Not sure about ultimate but maybe ultimateS 😉
I am trying not to buy FBs unless it’s excellent, an A rating, etc. as there is a never-ending flow of new perfumes (especially in the last 5-10 years) and with so much perfume in my cupboards, I notice the levels don’t go down much even w/ time. ?
A generous NSTer sent me some Gallagher Wicked Good recently and it’s excellent…a great blend of chocolate, vanilla and tonka that is almost chewy/tobacco-y to my nose…very natural smelling w/ little or no synthetic smell. It is FB worthy. So that is the ultimate…for right now. 😉
Oooh!
Have you tried LUSH I’m Home? Both chocolate and vanilla in that one!
No, I shall check out reviews!
It’s also not inexpensive.
What do you think of these, She-ra? I’m always looking for a good chocolate scent. I haven’t found what I’m looking for yet. Montale Chocolate Greedy was a possibility but a bit bitter or something – the drydown didn’t work well for me.
I think Over the Chocolate Shop is very good. It’s a very dry milk chocolate to my nose with some slight vanilla and nuts. It’s worth trying.
Silk, Lace & Chocolate reminds me of an artificial chocolate strawberry scent and Hello Kitty/Sanrio merchandise but not necessarily in a bad way. 😉
I also recently tried Gallagher Wicked Good and wrote some comments above on it…it is excellent but probably equal parts vanilla and chocolate…some might even say more vanilla.?
Montale scents are intense!
I do like Patchouli Patch though, musk, patch, vanilla, and labadnum. Very cozy…
Oh, I liked Over the Chocolate Shop quite a lot. Some kindly NST person sent me a sample of a fragrance named “Vanille et Chocolate.” I’ll look up what brand it is.
wandering eye?.. your vanilla perfumes are feeling jealous!
I wish I had some Kiehl’s Chinese Flowers or some head shop China Rain perfume oil to wear in honor of Dazzler (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dazzler_(Marvel_Comics)). Instead I am in some vintage Diorella.
Ohhhh, but vintage Diorella is so fabulous.
Didn’t Kiehl discontinue a lot (if not all of them) of their perfume oils like Grapefruit, Patchouli, and Vanilla?
I love Diorella, but it doesn’t seem very Dazzler.
Yes, when they were bought most of the old perfume oils were discontinued. I lament the loss of New Mown Hay and Moss especially. I do still love the Original Musk.
The Moss was so beautiful!
I love that you picked this character! I did my most intense deep dive into weekly comic books during the 1980’s so I know who Dazzler is!
I remember Dazzler!
I’m in vintage Inoui because of the trip down memory lane on Perfume Posse (and also thanks to the NST poster who sent me a decant). It’s so gorgeous.
Love those trips down memory lane.☺️
Inoui is one of the unsung greats. It is how I imagine the forest around Totoro’s tree smells–piney, herbal, and green with that thread of jasmine weaving in and out followed by the lovely mossy, myrrh-y civet at the base. You smell fantastic.
I think Inoui could have been a signature scent. Back then, I didn’t realize perfumes might go away at some point.
Inoui is so gorgeous, and underrated.
Did you see these Inoui videos?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xpcz2vuYWss
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cceAJIIUfhQ
What fun! I had not seen those before.
And now we are really on the downhill slide to the shortest day of the year.? It’s sunny and unseasonably warm this week, so I will enjoy it will it lasts.
SotD is Derviche from Rogue Perfumery which came to me amongst a huge box of samples from a generous NSTer. Looking forward to the freebiemeet so I can pass it along (the big box I mean). If anyone has an early interest, let me know. I’d like it to go to a regular NSTer. This reminds me of something, but I can’t quite put my finger on it. It’s a rich fragrance but wears close to the skin on me.
Played another afternoon game of scrabble with madtownteen yesterday and I only lost by 2 points!?? The fact that all 3 of my children are now at the age where they are all smarter than me is a bit of a double edged sword.?
A student recently wanted to play connect 4 online (he I think was compelled to ask for an engineering assignment, not of his own volition) – and I was like “there is no way”. I would lose sooo much credibility right there. 🙂
Lol?
A big box of things to try sounds interesting to me. 🙂 And now that the weather has cooled, I can try them on outside. 🙂
Great! You can email me at p k wisdom (all one word) in the yahooland.
aww! I love your scrabble sharing stories with your kids 🙂
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I think “unseasonably warm” might be my favorite phrase
Especially this time of the year.???
Extra especially in January!
Ha! Yes!
Up to seasonable temps (finally!) for me today. I didn’t care for the cold snap last week.
Happy autumn everyone! SOTD is Musc Ravageur, which to my nose isn’t so much ravageur as gingerbread-in-the-sunshine. We’ve been blessed with very season-appropriate weather today — clear blue skies, golden sunshine, soon-to-be 80 degrees, walnuts and grapes almost ready to harvest and a good haul of local apples and homegrown rainbow popcorn on the table.
Oh that all sounds lovely!
I am wearing Robert Piguet Calypso and drinking a cup of green tea.
I am on my green oolong now myself 🙂
You smell terrific! I love RP Calypso! ?
Scent: following Robin’s lead in Prada Infusion d’Iris. Lovely stuff, and a favorite. I wandered away from it for quite a while, but it’s very nice to come back to. Have a touch of Demeter Salt Air on the other arm, but it’s fading.
Recent reading: Book of Delights by Ross Gay
Tea: brewed-at-home Dunks coffee
Mixed emotions: Solstice. We are having lovely weather, and I saw a maple sporting fall colors yesterday. Starting to decorate for Halloween a little earlier than usual (I generally wait for October), but why not? I’ll just move into it slowly.
All the stores are full of decorations and candy now!
We just bought some pumpkins and gourds as Step 1 of decorating for Halloween/autumn!
Will there be trick or treating where you are? I have not yet heard about my town, but I am guessing not.
I haven’t heard anything about NJ re: trick or treat, but so far, it looks like people are free to do it.
Same here, as far as I know.
Woke up in no 5 Eau Premiere. I got my Eau Premiere bottle when it was first released. I wonder how the current version smells. Spending the day no 5 edp from my travel set. Bath and Body Works is going to release their winter offerings sometime in October. The goofy thing is that they already released some of them already. When they had that wallflower refill sale, I grabbed the Winter and Frozen Lake ones.
They really have a steady trickle of new stuff at BBW 🙂
They do. I think that from Thanksgiving to Christmas will be some phenomenal sales.
SOTD – Tempete d’Automne, a wonderfully cozy sandalwood, to counteract the little issues. My supervisor has told me that if I can’t fix my lousy internet connections, I will have to come in to the Unversity all the time to work, because it is decreasing my productivity. 🙁
I do need a new gig. We have been trying to get a more stable internet connection ever since we moved to this place, so I don’t have much hope of getting something to work better. I called Verizon, but got distracted by my malfunctioning phone. I am doing an update now. if that doesn’t fix it, they are going to send me a new phone….which would be nice, but not really what the main problem is….and all of this is distracting me from getting much done….argh, sorry to sound like a whiny baby…
sorry for all the issues! Is your university not supporting work from home ? Ours will reimburse you if you need to up your speed, because they want people who can to not come in.
Boy the name of that perfume sounds fabulous- atleast this is going right for you today.
I say ‘ BOO’ to going into the office.
Good Luck.
Not good news; however:
– were you not the one whom your supervisor volunteered to get other people’s work done? If yes, I would question the supervisor re: decreasing productivity. There’s a saying “If you want to get the work done, give it to the busy people.” Are you actually carrying other people’s workload? Not a fair assessment in my opinion of this is the case
– having just had a shouting match with a Verizon TECH support person, I do not blame you one bit for being distracted. That said, if you get the right tech person, s/he can assist you in prioritizing the devices. I have not done this myself.
– You may be surprised at the number of devices that are using your wireless network. I put the devices I don’t use on Airplane mode. It’s easy enough to toggle.
– install a wireless booster. I got mine from Amazon (< $25). It should cover any dead spots but then it would also depend on how big your house is and where you place the booster. Certainly worth a try. Also, if I can install it, anyone can as I am the least common denominator when it comes to technology
– My last resort is to get cable. I am resisting as I am convinced it’s not my internet speed but our work network that’s an issue, usually for part of the afternoon.
Good luck!
You smell wonderful – I’ve tested Tempete d’Automne too and loved it. I got the the Fath sampler set. Now, about two years ago, I thought I was going to swear off chasing vintage scents, unicorns, and vintage unicorns and embrace the new. But that did not stick, and lately I just do both. Calling Donatella; Donatella, line one?!!
I wish I really liked the stuff they carry at Ulta and Kohl’s. It would be more convenient and so much cheaper. I go to Ulta and Kohls and try various things every time I am there, but noooooo!
I just got my sister hooked on sample sites. She wanted to buy some new thing just because she liked the ad copy, basically. I suggested she sample first. She called me up and said, “You were right, it doesn’t smell the way it is supposed to!” LOL.
I am at an age where I deserve to only have perfumes that smell the way they are supposed to….
Meridifay, not sure if you have full internet access or some other service, e.g. DSL. If you have cable, talk to your supplier as hajusuuri advises.
For wireless coverage in our home, we boost signal within the house using Eero. Not expensive and not difficult to set up. We have a mostly Apple/Linux house and use Comcast for Internet. Pretty painless.
In Maine, we rely on DSL, old school but it’s a last-mile issue with the town and the local providers. Connectivity is very iffy, so this year to boost signal to one house we used gear from RadioLabs – not linking but a simple web search will get you there. Fussy install, requires a Windows machine to configure, needs direct line of sight to a reliable Internet/DSL source, antennas must point directly at each other despite what documentation says, and our renters destroyed two devices. Not ideal, but it got us through the summer ok. The RadioLabs folks are friendly but it requires some phone time with them to install.
Good luck!
UGH! on Internet connectivity issues.
I’m sampling a newly arrived lovely decant of Coromandel edt and a small decant of Coromandel edp. All Coromandels are fabulous, is my assessment!
Haven’t tried the extrait version but I think Chanel did Cormandel right. The edp might be a little thinner/sheer but smells like Cormandel. I remember trying Cuir de Russie in edp and it smelled nowhere near like the edt or extrait but haven’t tried the others outside CdR and Cormandel.
Ahh Coromandel my love. But there has to be some difference between the EDT and EDP?
There are – I think. This will need further, expansive testing. Maybe the edt is drier?
SOTD = Zoologist Bee with a spritz of @scentsofwood Scent #2
I am loosely interpreting “comic book”. I’m wearing Zoologist Bee for its eye-searing bright yellow packaging to match Woodstock from Peanuts! I also wore one spritz of Scent #2 from the Scents of Wood intro set and it is working very nicely with Bee!
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In other news which I meant to bring up before: two weeks ago, for the very first time in my 6 years of voting by mail (all of them), I received a postcard saying that my Primary ballot was accepted ?. It makes me wonder ? about my previous ballots – were they accepted? ?rejected? ? (and if rejected, the reason ?). As with many, I want MY vote to count. The ex-friend had previously said Don’t Vote, then in a FB posting, said Vote, and the latest FB posting on Sunday, THREATENED those who did not vote her way; she seriously just doesn’t know when to ?. I have decided not to engage because it will be a waste of MY time and I have actually written off what I thought was a friendship. Divorcing friends is an option, in case you are faced with a similar situation.
That is too bad.
Overall, I am more disappointed than sad.
I think it’s smart not to engage.
Oh and ?for Woodstock!
Yes, waste of time with no positive return and ? on Woodstock!
SO thankful I am not on Facebook! And never will be, based on all the horror stories I have heard about it. ?
Woodstock is my favorite Peanuts character!
Normally, I wouldn’t get on FB but my family delivers news that way. With that said, I suppose I could ignore the postings but I am mentally compiling the shenanigans for future reference.
Snoopy is my favorite character, with Woodstock being a close second.
Dune just because. I love this one more and more. Gonna have to jump on a bottle at some point when my decant gets slim.
Ooh, I know how great you smell because I wore that yesterday!?
Yes, you definitely need to jump on a bottle, I got a 30 ml on eBay for fifteen bucks! Perfumemath free.
You smell wonderful, get a bottle ?
What Aurora said! 🙂
that is becoming your signature scent
I’ll have to add it to my list with Shalimar, Noir de Noir, BG, some of my other favs! ?
Pushing you over the edge… get it!?
Best get some Dune now before it gets hard to find and/or reformulated!
Yes, you love it! Get some! And place an order for a bunch of enabler pins! ?
A sample of Anglomania, nice, but not on my wishlist.
We did a walking tour around Flavigny-sur-Ozerain and afterwards had some coffee at the abbey and of course I bought some of their sweets. Not the famous aniseed one, but violet and rose scented bonbons
I’m enjoying your reports from France very much.
Same here!!! Living vicariously 😉
Ah! Those bonbons sound wonderful!
In Weil Suki Essence because I mentioned it to Lillyjo yesterday. It’s an incense perfume sweetened by plum and dates.
You smell wonderful!
Thank you very much, it has becone a favorite really quickly.
Any time is a good time for an incense perfume!
True and this one really is such an easy wear.
I love comic books and as a book seller have often found that some of the most innovative writing takes place in this format. Some of my favorite books are actually graphic novels and I am thinking in particular of the Penelope Bagieu’s excellent California Dreamin’, Cass Elliot before the Mamas and the Papas. If you are not familiar with the illustrated Strunk and White that Maira Kalman did or her witty and utterly charming Max books, remedy this. Her illustrated Cake book is awesome also. But I digress. If you love the novels of Neil Gaiman, you must read Sandman, I can think of many perfumes that might suit this fascinating comic book character. If you have viewed and enjoyed films of the Marvel universe and are partial to an Avenger, you have a jumping off point! I totally see Iron Man/Tony Stark in a Tom Ford fragrance and maybe even Metallique! I have chosen my favorite comic book character. She-Hulk! Cousin of Bruce Banner, Jennifer Susan Walters, lawyer by day and then the mighty She-Hulk when danger is near. I think Chanel No. 19 for the lawyer side and I have not yet chosen a big and bold greenie reflective of the super hero side.
You had me at illustrated Strunk and White!
Same here!
Wow, that is a good list for any bookworm!
My son was at one time a big consumer of graphic novels, but despite loving Gaiman’s “regular” prose works he did not like Sandman, and as a consequence we don’t own them so I can’t read them, which is too bad! He does have an impressive library of other modern graphic works though.
I *did* read Sandman for a while. Delirium creeped me out! Spooky, spooky character.
SOTD: Ninfeo Mio, enjoying my summer perfumes during the unseasonably warm weather we’re having here at the moment.
We are expecting high 70s tomorrow, so I will join you!
I’m wearing Assam of India this morning. It’s gorgeous here but rain is in the forecast. Good for the air quality and the fires.
Glad the air is better. My brother and SIL took their 18- month old granddaughter on a kayak yesterday. The little one looked apprehensive but SIL no and in fact kept asking my brother to go take a look at the kayak.
All the talk of Batman made me look for Zoologist Bat but the first one I found was Dragonfly so I put that on instead. I’m not coming up with any comic book character match, but it’s a suitable scent for our extremely wet weather. Whew. When I was growing up, my grandma lived just down the street and I went to her house most afternoons for piano practice. Up in the attic were stacks and stacks of old comic books from my uncle, aunt, and dad. I would pore over them. They were stylistically s different looking from the ones of my time. Lots of Archie and Veronica and also Little Lulu and, I think, Iggy. Anyone else remember them?
I remember little Lulu but not Iggy.
Going classic today with Vol de Nuit, that would suit Agent Carter. I watched an episode of the series a few years ago and was inspired by her red sunglasses to buy a couple of cheap pairs from Amazon 🙂
I liked Agent Carter a lot. I was confused by the villains (like, who were they?/what were they?), but I liked Peggy’s style of dealing with the world. 🙂 There were clever moments in that show. 🙂
Hello!
Health woes story below:
Drink of the day so far is Gatorade. I think I gave myself food poisoning Sunday night, and my body tried hard to rid me of whatever it deemed poisonous all of Monday. It was pretty gross. At one point I passed out and came to on the bathroom floor. Mom later asked about a dent low on the bathroom wall, and I realized that it matched a big bump on my head. I had thought the headache was all internal. I checked in with my GP, and he listed the symptoms of concussion for me. I don’t have any that are beyond how I would normally feel, except the remains of a headache. He advised me to rest as much as possible for the next several days. That sounds good to me.
Health woes story over.
I had forgotten how campy that Batman TV show was. I watched it as a child. I was much more into collecting Marvel comics when it came to comic books, especially Chris Claremont’s run on The Uncanny X-Men, before he got rid of my favorite characters: Nightcrawler, Shadowcat, and Colossus. And I thought Peter David was doing interesting things with The Incredible Hulk comic.
I liked the first couple of Superman movies, some decades ago now, and aspects of the X-Men movies. I like a lot of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The Guardians of the Galaxy movies are pretty much lost on me, because I don’t know those characters and their history. I think the only one I’d heard of before was Rocket Raccoon.
I keep calling the Carol Danvers version of Captain Marvel Ms. Marvel instead, because I knew that she’d been introduced as Ms. Marvel in the 1970s and I remembered reading her interactions with Rogue in the 1980s. I also remember reading comic book issues that featured the first woman who was Captain Marvel in the 1980s. She wasn’t Carol Danvers. There were some Easter eggs in the Captain Marvel movie for comic book readers, though. 🙂
I hope you get rid of your headache soon! Hitting your head is always scary.
Thanks, lillyjo! I took a couple of Tylenol this morning, and the headache has let up. It was a milder headache than I had had yesterday. Mom was very concerned yesterday when I told her that I had passed out, and much more worried when she saw the dent in the wall. I didn’t realize at the time that there was an external cause for the splitting headache. Mom felt better after I checked with my doctor about it this morning.
I briefly considered going to the hospital to get it checked out, but I didn’t have the energy to deal with the ride there and then all the paperwork, plus the extra steps added on now because of the coronavirus. And I didn’t want the expense, either. I figured I’d be better off just lying down at home, and then if I developed head injury symptoms that seemed alarming enough to me, I’d go to the hospital. I’m not recommending that decision for others, but I knew I couldn’t concentrate enough to do the paperwork and didn’t want the bills.
My goodness neyronrose, that is scary! Hope you are getting plenty of rest even if you don’t think you have a concussion.
Yes, thank you, Robin. I slept a lot of the afternoon, and when I got up, my headache was gone. 🙂
Good!
Yikes! Food poisoning is bad enough, but a knock to the head that is bad enough for concussion worries just makes things that much worse. I hope that you are feeling better today, and do NOT have any more misadventures like that any time soon.
(In the interest of full disclosure, I have had both food poisoning and concussions. I feel your pain.)
Thanks for empathizing, Jalapeno. 🙂 Mom calls medical things like that “the wrong kind of excitement” as far as exciting events for the family go. I’m hoping we avoid any more misadventures like that for some time, yes.
So scary Neyronrose! I hope you get plenty of rest and feel better soon!
Thank you for your wishes. 🙂 Plenty of rest and feeling better are both happening. 🙂
Very scary, neyronrose! Please take it easy. Maybe you shouldn’t sleep for too long at a time?
Echoing hajusuuri’s advice. That was something I was told when I had my concussion in college. A friend who lived in the same dorm I did was assigned the task of waking me up every 2 or 3 hours if I fell asleep that night.
Hope you are feeling better and better day by day! I think the not sleeping too long is more an issue in the first 24 hours after a concussion. You might be exhausted from the food poisoning, too.
Indochiiiine. ❤️
😀 fantastic!
First, Hi Robin, and so tickled to be part of a CP! I remember mentioning the song, but not which perfume! Je Reviens, maybe? Hmm, I will be thinking of a new one. SOTD is La Fille de Berlin, blind buy from Frag…net. I thought I was going to get an older white label tester, but I got a 50ml black label tester. I have not looked up the batch code yet. I love it, and will wear it tomorrow which is my first day back after vacation. I did a split week, so it will be nice to work just three days. Have a good week, all!
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Wonder what your research on the batch code will reveal?
I first stopped at Raiders of the Lost Scent, but they don’t discuss the newer black label SL collection. CheckFresh did not recognize the code. But at checkcosmetic dot net, when I entered the code, which is 0052NM, a date of 2-21-2020 popped up. As I said, my batch wears very well – I try to be sanguine about “missing the boat” on some original releases, but if LFdB was ever better, I still would think the one I got was special. Tomorrow is “take it to work day.”
Whew… what a day!
I started off in Mad Madame which was a good choice. I had to do a return at ULTA and spritzed one of the Gucci Bloom flankers. They all smell very similar. I am still curious to try the new one though.
I agree that they all smell super similar
Thanks for the report on all those Gucci Bloom flankers. I’ve only ever smelled the original, and like it quite a bit.
I have a question for the fine folks here at NST. Has anyone bought anything from eCosmetics.com? If so, how was your experience? I’ve found some items of interest there recently, but know nothing about the business.
Another gorgeous early fall day here. Sigh. Feeling melancholy as a result. ????
SOTD = back in Deep Red.
I’ve never bought from ecosmetics.
Maybe this will cheer you up:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CFdTPzwBcCA/?igshid=1kc1qv9i65uij
Awwwwwwwwwwwwwww! Thanks!
SotD = Breath of God + Infusion d’Iris
holy fantastic fragrances, Batman! These layer pretty well.
I’m actually in the remains of Infusion d’Iris from last night. I applied three times yesterday – early morning, lunchtime, and bedtime. Breath of God revived the lingering traces of IdI, a very nice surprise.
Thank you to Robin for sharing the Prada-love with me today. 😉
I so wanted Breath of God to work on me. It didn’t. Epic Fail!
Wore Eau de Gloire to a work colleague farewell party. We also went to an escape room together.