Happy Nostalgia Friday! Our community project for today: wear something that takes you back to a happy moment in your childhood. Thanks go to starling for the suggestion.
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 went with the familiar childhood scent of play doh: Luctor et Emergo from The People of the Labyrinths. (Thank you to mossyberry, therabbitsflower and springpansy, all of whom wore it recently and reminded me.)
Reminder: 11/13 will be Chanel No. 5 Friday! Wear Chanel No. 5, or a No. 5 flanker, or a fragrance that is related to No. 5 in some way — it does not have to be by Chanel!
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 Flames [cropped] by Anne Worner at flickr; some rights reserved.
Hi all and happy Friday! My SOTD is Avon Vivage by Louis Feraud.. A fruity/floral, with heliotrope, amber, gardenia, and cassis. My bottle is an original from the 1980’s, and gifted to me by my grandmother.
I’m home from the hospital, the nurses loved the cookies. 🙂 and many thanks for all of the well-wishes! 🙂
I’m headed back to bed to nap.
Your SOTD sounds lovely.Enjoy the nap!??
Glad it went well!
Glad to hear all went well! I forgot to wish you well prior, so wishing for a lightning quick recovery!
I’ve been away and did not realize you were ailing. I hope you get well very soon!
Happy napping SmokeyToes!
Enjoy your nap
Wishing you well and an especially good nap!
nap on!
Glad all was well, and I will have to poke around the collection, because I think I have Vivage to try. Yay for nap; hopefully kitty will join you and provide some purry sounds.
I’m glad you’re home safe and sound, ST!
Glad to hear that you are back home and that it all went well!
I forgot to mention, one of my nurses liked the Jo Malone Orange Blossom perfume I had on. I only had 30% left so i gave it to her for a treat.
You should have seen the look of pure joy on her face, very happy lady.
Wow, that’s really generous of you – I can just imagine her expression!
Happy Friyay!!
I’ve been superquiet this week,but we were extremely busy in theatre this past week so yay for that!
SOTD!Yardley Moulin Rouge from a bottle that belonged to my Mother.This was her “everyday” perfume for years,I remember she always had a familiar smell,and this was it.Weekends and Sundays were for the big guns of Madame Rochas,Joy or Anais Anais.
I cannot find any info online about this Moulin Rouge,to my nose it’s a classic chypre type perfume,lots of aldehydes as well.
I miss her.Smell memories are the best.
XO
Aldehydes are the best! Lovely to have a good scent memory.
Yes on both accounts!??
What a great perfume memory to have! It sounds beautiful ?
It’s a pretty perfume,not really my personal style,but always good to have a nostalgic sniff or a spritz!I am lucky to have a couple of her perfume bottles which she actively wore!
XO
This is lovely.
Thanks missionista!Happy Friday!
How nice that you have a bottle of your mother’s scent! Great choice.
Of her personal things that I kept,the perfumes are the most precious!
Happy Friday!??
What a sweet story. Thanks for sharing!
Happy Weekend!??
Lovely memory, thank you for sharing. And, yes, smell memories are the best.
Too many to mention,from fresh baked cookies in my Gran’s kitchen to my first real kiss as an adult on a hot summer night(at work it was,I might add!Lol!)
You are definitely lucky to have some of your mom’s perfumes.
I recently saw the EL Disney, the Princesses solid perfume collections – are they SO cute!
https://www.fragrantica.com/news/Est%C3%A9e-Lauder-X-Disney-The-Princesses-Collection-Solid-Perfume-Fairytales–14307.html
This Japanese artist called Ruby Sparks did a series of designs of possible perfume bottles with Disney themes in 2014. I only cam across the illustrations this year but they are BEAUTIFUL. Do have a look!
https://www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/beauty-hair/beauty-trends/news/a24854/disney-villain-shape-perfume-bottles/
YES! Thank you for the link!
I love Ursula, and best of all it’s purple!
Agree – Ursula is probably the best ?
She‘s great. Also love the scar face one!
Sure! And Queen of Hearts ?
Oh my, the red Chinese lamp is gorgeous! I’d like that one please.
I like the compacts. Wonder why they wouldn’t put a different fragrance in each – wouldn’t you be able to potentially sell more, then?
Good question. I’m beginning to think the good folks in Product development probably aren’t thinking like us, e.g., a perfumista who loves fragrance and is a collector of beautiful baubles.
But I’m (delightfully) out of touch regarding such matters….
I’m early, bush-tailed and EXTRA conscientious this week! Wearing a recent blind buy – Lush’s Avocado Co-wash body spray. It took me a while to put my finger on what this was reminding me of…these sweets I ate as a kid called Super-C. So, there is something similar in the citrus notes combined with glucose, and the sherbet-y effervescence.
Double points because I was not getting the lime-tart vibe others mentioned and wanted it even more gourmand so I layered it with Chabaud’s Lait et Biscuit. I fell asleep in a blissful cloud of zesty sweet pie. Lait et Biscuit feel, I think, like EVERYONE’S infancy – except Luca Turin’s who felt it an extremely poor imitation of the odour of baking biscuits. He MAY be right, but I suspect many of us grew up on pre-packaged ones anyway, and this scent really does capture the innocence of milk and cookies.
Today I’m feeling like the combo is a bit tooooo sweet and will return to the Avocado Co-Wash which might count as one of the nicest and simplest scents (with one of the worst names in all of perfumery).
Wow, totally in agreement about the name!
And now you’re making me think I could have gone with something that recalled Tang. But I am very happy in my POTL.
We didn’t have Tang but the Lush scent uses litsea cubeba and I read some comment saying that that smells like everyone’s childhood lemon drops.
L’Occitane had this citrus verbena perfume and I had to give my little bottle away because it persisted in reminding me of a specific type of throat lozenge. Fortunately I like Avocado co-wash much much more!
I’m wearing Old Spice. My sister and I gave my father the aftershave every Christmas. He was very gracious about it, but I don’t remember him ever wearing it. He preferred more bracing aftershaves.
The scent of my Grandfather,along with Blue Stratos and something called Vitalis hair oil.
I can close my eyes and see Vitalis from when I was a kid. Brylcreem, too.
I love those old Vitalis ads,the “before” and “after” vitalis ones,haha!There were some handsome guys in those ads hahaha!
Old Spice! My grandfather wore that one; I should hunt down a bottle.
Love Old Spice – my father used it as well. Must hunt up an old bottle. And I remember Vitalis Hair Oil from high school, when the kids with GTOs and Olds 442s ran around town with slicked-back hair. Ah, the 60s.
Your comment about GTOs and Olds 442s reminded me of my dad. He actually bought a 442 in 1968 as the family car. We had it until I was old enough to get a learner’s permit.
My brother still drives a 442 — he is a mechanic and has tricked it out with way-too-powerful speakers (in my opinion as older sister and killer of fun). And: “Heads are turning / To Vitalis…” — yes? Thanks for the memories!
I just grabbed a random sample and it was Mqueen..a fruity musky thing. Struggling with depression today, I have let election week get to me. Lol election week and pms week is not a good combo! I need to get out of this funk but it’s so hard. And on top of it all I am struggling with not feeling good about myself and not sure why. Lol hormones. It shall pass. Sigh
I hope you’ll feel better soon. I’m not sure this will make any difference, but in one of my classes (where I’m a student), we had a talk about the election and there was lots of stress and anxiety that people expressed.
Thank you:).
This has been a very stressful week, and you are not alone, Omega!
I felt like that yesterday Omega. Not going to happen, but we all need a good rest with no alarming news of any kind.
Yeah, I mean they obviously wanted to appeal to the fan base of the already-existing product line but talk about putting a hex on a scent!
Sorry Omega – the comment above was meant to go on a previous conversation line! My mind is a bit frizzled today too…
I sometimes think I need the ‘it shall pass’ line tattooed on my forearm. Until then I need to do my CBT exercises, wear cheerful perfume and hang on for the ride. ?
You are not alone! Sending hugs ?
Aww thanks and yes, this too shall pass:).
I think it’s been that kind of week for everyone. I hope it passes quickly!
Hi all!
Dzongkha today, my second niche perfume ever! I still adore the stony incense and iris and am halfway through my third bottle.
Have a great day!
You smell great Coumarin, and you have a fantastic Friday 🙂
Thanks, you as well!
3rd bottle – wow! I remember liking Dzongkha most out of an early sample set…but somehow being swayed by all the reviews and springing for Dzing instead (probably my sweet tooth too!) Timbuktu was getting a lot of attention at the time and so was Traversee Bosophor… I definitely wasn’t crazy about those. I actually think Dzongkha was a sleeper hit. Will have to get my hands on some one day!
Well I broke one and shared the other with an ex. But I keep replacing it. ?
I remember reading that Duchaufour is particularly proud of Dzongkha. Wish I remembered where is seen that tidbit….
Interesting! And I left my bottle of Dzing with my ex when I was in another country (we broke up on a FaceTime call months later) No idea whether I will ever get it back. ? Some L’Artisan’s are available here but neither Dzing nor Dzongkha – unfortunately.
I dug through my pile and pulled out Demeter Gingerbread. Not that I wore that as a kid, but rather the smell of it baking in the fall. Gingerbread cake with cream anglaise on top, yummmmm.
Perfect!!
SOTD: 31 Rue Cambon
More coffee…
You smell wonderful!
How’s everyone faring in the anticipation for US Elections results? Even in Poland people are curious, ha!
I’m in Atelier Cologne Silver Iris. It slightly reminds me of violet powder candy (a bit like PEZ, but not exactly) I remember from my little boy days.
The stress levels are unbelievable. A lot of people are on edge. I was at a demonstration a couple of nights ago which went peacefully for a while, and then the police started on arrests. If you want to be able to relieve stress through laughter, I recommend the McSweeney’s article about screaming into the void.
Hope the wait is over soon.
I have been alternating news fasts with panic attacks. ?
Unfortunately, even after the votes are counted and the election is called, it won’t be over yet because of court cases. Some of the major deadlines for different steps in the electoral process aren’t until December and January. It’s kind of a weird system!
Sorry for your panic attacks nozknoz. Any perfume that could bring you some comfort?
Thank you, Lucas!
I’ve reverted to sleeping with J’Adore Dior, which is an old favorite and full of jasmine, which is good for sleep, right?
I, for one, really hope it gets called today. It does not matter which side you are on, this wait is not good for anybody’s stress.
Nozknoz is right that it won’t really be over, but for me at least, I will stop feeling the need to obsessively check the news about politics, and I can go back to just freaking out about covid, ha.
LOL. I know it’s not funny at all but it kinda is giving me a bitter laugh…
I’m with you Lucasai,a bitter laugh at everything this year has thrown at us,worldwide….
The wait sucks, I agree with that. I just need to know if I can be relieved of the president elect choice or grieve and move the hell on lol. Yesterday, I was like peel it off like a band-aid already lol. It’s been a rollercoaster for everyone and it sucks..there has been enough drama this year lol.
I really think the USA elections affect everyone and Iv been quite on edge too. Really, anything could happen – without getting into details I think the last couple of years have shown that literally anything could happen – including one’s worst nightmares. And the world is so connected now that what happens in one corner has ramifications everywhere.
This is very true Merlin.
SOTD: Annick Goutal Le Chevrefeuille. I grew up in a very rural area, and there was a stand of honeysuckle. We sipped the nectar every year, and never missed it’s blooming season (in a 2 acre yard, missing it was an option). I was visiting a nearby town some years ago, and was stopped in my tracks by the smell of an overlooked honeysuckle growing on a fence nearby. Lovely stuff.
Also, more coffee. And maybe then tea.
Oh great choice!!! Plus, you smell great, I love that one.
We had a stand of honeysuckle in our back yard and drank the nectar too.
? that’s a beautiful scent and memory!
Still today, I will drink honeysuckle nectar whenever I see a clean stand of it! What was good then is good now! I seem to remember being about 7 or 8, and an older girl, who was really kind of a pill, showing me how to do it in a rare nice moment. Of course I asked my parents if it was ok later and they both said how they liked it and confirmed the technique.
I’m apparently doing two CPs at the same time – chose Amouage Dia because its Nivea vibe or perhaps its Chanel vibe reminds me a little of my grandmother’s dresser. I have no idea if / what perfume was on there other than the usual suspects (4711, Tosca). So I’m claiming proactive points for No.5 week as well! Happy Friday.
Ha, now you can rest 🙂
Yes – see you in two weeks 🙂 🙂
Today I am wearing Estee Lauder Estee. I recently tried this while shopping and it triggered my mind back to my childhood and holidays. Someone must have worn this. Not sure who, but I am loving this fragrance
I meant to ask yesterday.. how is the Beautiful absolute?
It was too strong for me. I would love to smell it on someone else, but it is too much for me. Very pretty scent though. I feel the same way about Chanel Coco Mademoiselle.
You smell wonderful. Estee is tacitly my signature perfume, although I now would not be able to just have one. But it is top five, and probably for a similar reason to yours!
I’ve been reaching for comfort scents all week, for obvious reasons! 🙂
Wearing Guerlain Vetiver which always takes me back to afternoons after school at my friend O’s house when I was about 7.
Vetiver is a great one! Must dig it out again… long time nor wear
Guerlain’s Vetiver is my buckle up and focus scent – not at all a comfort one for me 🙂
Trying Palermo, Don Corleone by La Via Del Profumo today…pretty interesting…notes are Vanilla, Tuberose, Tobacco…was googling and found an old review by Kafkaesque…no affiliation…which I will pour over as I sniff too. 🙂
https://kafkaesqueblog.com/tag/palermo-don-corleone/
The notes sound wonderful – are you enjoying it?
Gorgeous, beautiful warm and sunny day. I am outside enjoying a long walk in the park.
Wearing Chanel Paris-Venise because I was craving for it and matches the day perfectly!
Happy Friday, everyone! ?
Enjoy your beautiful day! And you smell great in Paris-Venise. ?
Thank you, Nancy. I was a very nice fall day!??
Can’t argue with a perfume craving on a day like today, right?
Indeed! The day was gorgeous! We need to take advantage of the great weather also next week!
Wearing Diorissimo today.
One of my earliest scent memories was a scented mini doll I was given with lily of the valley scent and also a vine was strung through her hair (probably plastic), lol. She was in a turquoise container; I would open the lid and sniff the scent which emanated out. I think they were called liddle kiddles?
Hi scent twin! I do not have a scent memory of the dolls, but we did have Liddle Kiddles – they were fun.
They were fun! So cute!
I remember Liddle Kiddles!
I just loved mine! I’m pretty sure it was pivotal for me.
Hi all! I didn’t quite go all the way back to childhood, but went with Sugar Blossom to remind me of happy times in grad school in Washington years ago. It reminds me of meeting two of my best girl friends, fun nights out at pubs, and discovering the beautiful green juiciness of the Pacific Northwest on solo hikes in the Olympic mountains, drinking hot chocolate in a rocking chair on the porch of the Paradise Inn after long days on the trails, and drifting with the tide in a kayak on the Sound with dozens of jellyfish drifting along beneath me and harbor seals popping up all around me to say hello.
So many treasured moments,I love your comment!
Ahhh. Wonderful!!!
Sounds magic.
Sounds wonderful. It’s a great part of the world, isn’t it?
Like KellyRed, I’m wearing a gingerbread scent, Un Crime Exotique. My grandmother used to make the most delicious gingerbread served with a lemon sauce.
Oh, I like that one, and I could use a nice big hunk of gingerbread right now!
Spent the morning in no 22 edt. Since I have taken a shower, I am commando right this second. Not feeling either Pleasures or Happy today. Got a call from the vet and it is a benign tumor on Jake’s para thyroid. Now we have to make an appointment with a specialist. I hope the election gets called today. I am tired of the anxiety and stress. I think I will go with Shalimar Ode a la Vanille today.
Good news about Jake! Hope everything goes fine for him!
Hugs, Dawn. Glad the news about Jake is good and agree in hoping the election is called today.
Glad to hear the good news about Jake. Hopefully the rest goes smoothly.
Good luck w/ Jake. My memory grows every more foggy but my dearly depart cat Charlotte had that and I had to give her a small hormone pill daily but otherwise she was fine and the condition was managed. She was a really sweet and smart girl and tolerated the pill so I was lucky.?
Congratulations on Jake’s benign diagnosis. And my very best wishes for your specialist visit. Slobbers and some virtual chicken from my girl to your boy.?
Yay for good news about Jake! ?
Wearing a dab of Avon’s Persian Wood on one arm and vintage Rochas Femme on the other, both from my collection of minis.
I love Persian Wood – have not struck gold on a vintage Femme but I am sure you smell wonderful!
My bedtime scent for late last night/early this morning was CdG Incense: Avignon. Not quite as soothing as lavender for me, but comforting in its own way.
That is one is a great photorealistic fragrance for me.
WTH? Should be “That one is” up there. ?
I didn’t even notice the word order. (lol) The proofreading part of my brain just wasn’t on. But I know you’ve said that you’re impressed by the realism of the incense. 🙂
My nostalgia fragrance on Friday evening was Yardley April Violets from an old bottle of Mom’s, from long before she developed her super-sensitivity to fragrances.
I’ve seen mentions lately of the sense memories that folks here have about their fathers or grandfathers wearing Old Spice. I think I’ve described here how I got the aftershave because it reminded me of Papa D., Mom’s stepfather, who was great to my brother and me. I passed the aftershave along to my brother, who has the same joyful sense memory of it, and got the Old Spice classic cologne. Not exactly the same, but something I can wear. 🙂 That might be my bedtime scent tonight. That’s another fragrance that’s very soothing to me. 🙂
My experiment for dinner tonight was shrimp and rice noodle stir-fry. The recipe called for more black pepper than we ended up thinking was really needed, but we’d try it again with less pepper. And now I know how to cook (or rehydrate) rice noodles. 🙂 It’s even easier than making jasmine rice, and I have a lot of experience with cooking rice. 😀
We went to two grocery stores today, with a break in between for a walk in a local park to enjoy the lovely weather. After we did a loop around the walking path there, we sat peacefully on a bench for a while. Mom said she was happy to just sit in the sun for a little while. One way or another, we haven’t really had the chance to do that this year. Mom thanked God for giving us a beautiful day. I thought that taking some time to go to the park to relax and appreciate the lovely day was a very good idea of Mom’s. 🙂
My choice for the CP is Papillon Dryad. I grew up in the Seattle area, and Dryad’s vibe of dry, turning leaves recalls my grade school playground that was backed by a forest of myrtle trees. The trees were sparse enough that teachers could still keep an eye on kids playing out there, but it was a space that was only popular with a few of us. I climbed trees a lot as a child, and even though it must have been damp (if not thoroughly wet) most of the time, in my happiest memories it’s always late summer.
Great memory. nothing beats the view from a tree top looking down
So true!
No CP, because I did not want to wear Cinnabar, which was my mother’s fragrance in the 80ies and I did not have Uralt Lavendel, which my grandma wore sometimes.
I put on lots of Agent Provocateur, that at least has a more old school vibe for me. One of the great cheapies I own.
AP was a great scent.
Greenwitch for me since the opening reminds me of walking along the docks of Sheepshead Bay with my grandfather while he checked the fishing boats to see what they were catching
That is a great memory. My Father loved to walk fishing docks in Florida with us to look at the catch!
Dithered about testing my modest decant of Bitter Peach, and in the end went with pure nostalgia: Coco Chanel of course. My addled brain can’t recall who on NST sent me this vintage stuff, from 2000! And I also used my Coco body cream for added measure. I am probably not fit for human contact lest I knock someone out with this 1980s power ballad by Jacques Polge–but damn I smell good!!!!!!
Am wearing a dress that falls somewhere in the nightgown to house shift category this AM. Before my husband left for work, he looked me up and down. I narrowed my eyes, daring him to say anything. He swallowed, smiled, and said, “Ah, prairie chic.” I am still laughing. No idea from where he pulled that gem. (And its a THING. I looked it up!)
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Good to hear you’re pushing the fashion envelope!
Ha! I had to look prairie chic up!
I will not even say how many times I’ve caftan’d the day away since March, so swing that skirt, sister!
Oh, and twins!
Love it!
Luckily I live alone,so “Prairie Commando” it was for a couple of days these past weeks during our scorcher of a heatwave!!Haha
Prairie Commando!
Ground squirrels and you in your birthday suit and Moulin Rouge. Bet that would cheer up a lot of people!!!
Haha!Or make them believe that this here 2020 is truly the apocalypse!??♂️??
There is no such thing as too much Coco because Coco is brilliant! I keep dithering with buying a backup bottle of the current formulation, you know.
Just in case.
LOL! Prairie chic’s gotta be better than oversized tunic chic, which is my COVID look.
Be sure to tell him he made quite a few people laugh :D!!
I haven’t heard the phrase “Prairie Chic” since Gunne Sax dresses were a Thing!
Gunne Sax! That was the epitome of ’80s formal dress wear in my rural town!
LOVE this comment, excellent.
Just tell him it’s your esthetic now!
SSS Jour Ensolleille today, not so much for nostalgia but as an overall impression of growing up in northern CA. To me this scent IS Nor Cal, especially the Sonoma wine country where I was married.
Cowl finished. It was easy and quick, except when I got distracted and the pattern went cattywampus… at which time I’d have to pull out rows and redo. Happens more than it should.
Mothball scent has dissipated a lot. I did use some cashmere wool cleaner from The Laundress on some items i out through thr washing machine on delicate and in lingerie bags. They seemed to survive.
Sometimes my mom gives me some articles of clothes she no longer wants and they can be really beautiful BUT she uses naphthalene balls in her wardrobe ? And the stuff is usually too good to be washed and needs dry cleaning… I hang them outside for a day – with partial success.
The lilacs are just beginning to flower in the neighbourhood gardens. Really, November is the month when everything bursts into life and gardens are pulsating with colour, all the reds and purples of the rhododendrons , wisteria, lilacs, irises…irises always remind me of my end of year exams when I was in my 20s and at university. There was an old mansion and garden called Mona Vale in Christchurch that was about a ten minute bike ride from university and in Nkvember when we had end of year of exams I would often go to the large iris garden there, on the banks of the river, and read and watch ducks. It was always warm for some reason. So, wearing Chanel 19 . And, my son comes home for the summer break today. He has his last exam today and then I’ll help him pack. He’s been in my city all year so it’s hard to explain my excitement. Just like his company, plus he’s tall and can reach things from the top food cupboards so he’s better than a ladder.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona_Vale,_Christchurch
How wonderful that there’s a fernery!
He’s better than a ladder ?
Great memories; sounds like you are in a happy way to make more during the break!
I’m glad that you put the fact that you like your son’s company before your comment that he is better than a ladder ?
Tenue de Soirée, not because it reminds me of my youth, because I feel youthful when wearing it.
Shades of gray (and pink today)
Gray pants, gray shoes, gray top, pink jacket
Off to my first museum since the shut down.
Which museum? We need details!!!
Pics or it didn’t happen…hahaha!!
Enjoy the museum visit!(the Met perhaps?)
??
Enjoy the museum!
SOTD = Jo Malone Myrrh and Tonka
I love this perfume even though a few here have expressed their abhorrence – more for me ?! I posted an uncharacteristic picture on IG:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CHQluU0BryJ/?igshid=1vig73bvjoag
Working on decanting first the splits. Note to self: the syringe method does not work for tall skinny bottles (I am looking at you Iris Torrifie ?). I expect to send out the packages tomorrow.
Just another reminder: if you and/or a loved one are considering Medicare plan choices, be very careful and weigh your choices. It is very easy to be swayed with free this and free that. Look under the hood – “free drug delivery” (reality: they are already free, usually), “free meal delivery” (reality: this is not free food! And there may be a qualifying event, e.g. after a hospitalization), “free transportation to healthcare provider” (reality: it’s a referral to your township’s senior and disabled transportation, the provider has to be within x miles, you have to reserve the pickup two weeks ahead and you have to be ready at least an hour before you are picked up from home and another hour for you to be picked up from the provider’s location). In my opinion, having seen the devastation of choosing Medicare Advantage (Part C), I would strongly urge you to consider traditional Medicare (Part A and Part B) and Medigap. Traditional may cost you more but it is non-profit whereas Medicare Advantage is for profit.
I don’t love JM’s Myrrh & Tonka but cannot imagine anyone finding it off-putting. If I remember right it is the highest rated JM on Parfumo! (Sorry I’m locked out of Instagram til I dig up passwords or something…)
I had to go to the ladies room at Nordstrom and scrub. Ya never know!
Oh wow! Really, you never know!
Are there other JM’s you have had to scrub? I have a set of minis and I sometimes retry Pomegranate Noir because I somehow know it’s excellent but can’t quite LIKE it. Last time I tried the bitterness upset me enough to need to scrub ? Generally though I feel so many of their fragrances are likes – or strong likes – but not loves.
Here you go. One example ⬇️.
Ah well, more for you and its other zillion lovers out there! 😀
The sample I had of Myrrh & Tonka from you got thunked rather quickly. I think it’s a great comfort scent for 3 seasons of the year.
Checking in this beautiful Friday. My hubs and I have been sick this week and are on quarantine from work. Fingers crossed for negative covid tests. No scent for me but I look forward to seeing what you all are wearing! Hugs and have a great weekend. 🙂
Fingers crossed for you both!
Hope you both feel better soon, KellyC!
Fingers crossed for good news for both of you.
Hope you feel better soon KellyC!???
Hope you both get better soon. If you are willing to share, please let us know where you think you may have been exposed. Cases have and continue to rise in NJ.
Feel better soon!
Sending out good thoughts for you both!
Oh geez. Hope that you both 1) have negative results and 2) feel better soon!
More good wishes…do let us know!
Wearing En Passant because it reminds me of the Lilac tree in my grandmother’s back yard.
And if I could find a fragrance that reminded me of a Purple Bearded Iris, I would have worn that. She had those in her back yard too and I love that scent – it’s so rich, bawdy and animalic.
My purple bearded irises are in flower at the moment. They are so bawdy they make me smile when I pass them to collect the post..a real ‘more is more’ flower.
Yay for the weekend! Still transfixed by the US elections, what with this and our own New Zealand election, it’s been a bumper few weeks for election junkies.
This is our first weekend home after two weekends away for mothers’ birthdays, so there’s lots of home things to catch up on.
I think there are a few new things in my local perfumery, so I might stay scent-free till I get there. I got an email yesterday to say they were getting in a Carven range, which I know nothing about. They are named after exotic place names, and I’m researching Fragrantica now.
Gaynor, really it was just not kind to mention the New Zealand election and the US election in the same comment, LOL…
Actually I don’t think we have EVER had such a civilized election here in my entire lifetime. But this year we are outdoing ourselves 🙂
New Zealand is the new Scandinavia – we all just consider it the perfect model…
Sotd = La Chasse aux Papillons
My bottle of La Chasse captures honeysuckle for me. It’s the yellow scent of the flowers, the green smell of the vines, the sweet drop of nectar in each blossom. My mother’s garden had an arbor of honeysuckle when I was a child. It still grows today.
My love of citrus in perfume probably grew there, too. Mum grew tangerines, lemons, and limes on dwarf trees. Also plums, apples, loquats along with boysenberries and strawberries. We had a lot of bees zooming around.
Happy Friday, fragrant friends. All of you NSTers are part of my perfumed nostalgia today. Scented hugs to everyone. Mwah! 🙂
And ‘chasing butterflies’ is something nearly every kid has done. ?
😀 absolutely!
Some of the smells that remind me of childhood are honeysuckle, black coffee and cigarettes, jet fuel and fried dough. I do not have a perfume match for any of them. I couldn’t wear them, even if I did, because it would probably make me cry. I am wearing Dolce and Gabbana Pour Femme today. I have no attachment to it, but it smells great. Very feminine. Today’s weather is outstanding! With more to come this weekend.?
I am curious about the jet fuel memory!
Glad you are having sunshine,we’ve had thunderstorms almost every day this past week!(not complaining,everything is fresh and green and lush on the estate!)
XO
Here’s the matching song
https://youtu.be/bRe648clNjg
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Great story! All smells have their place, don’t they?
Sometimes I get a gasoline smell from Mitsouko. Not quite sure how that differs from jet fuel.
I loved the smell of the gas station when I was a kid. (They must be better sealed now. It was definitely more intense 40 years ago.) Funnily enough, I also love Mitsuoko!
I’m in Coco edp because it reminds me of my mother, when she and Dad would go out to a party. I remember when they went to a luau party, and Mom made a maxi dress. It was a Hawaiian print, short sleeves, scooped neck and modest slits up both sides. She tailored it perfectly. She could va-va-voom when she wanted to. ❤️
My Mom made these wonderful off-the-shoulder sun dresses for vacations,mostly we went to the south coast of Natal during summer school holidays.I like to remember her in those dresses wearing a wide brimmed hat,knee deep in the waves!
That is a beautiful memory, johanob. Thanks for sharing it!
No CP today. SOTD is CdG Black. Such a lovely incense. I have on loafers today which is amazing because its been sneakers or Birkenstocks for months.
I was thinking of CdG Black as it reminds me of barbecues which were an integral part of my childhood – and – more importantly – it’s just a stunning fragrance: perfect balance of sweet/smoky/dry.
I’m stretching the concept of ‘childhood’ today to include my high school years. I became friends with M, who lived in my neighborhood but went to a different elementary school. She introduced me to her good friend J, who also lived nearby. We became a close knit trio and spent many, many evenings just walking through our neighborhood talking about boys, clothes, our favorite music, and plans for the future. It was a simpler and more hopeful time.
J had a sparkling personality, optimistic without being pollyanish, and she always smelled so good! Coty’s L’Origan was the scent she wore and its warmth and beauty reflected her essence so well. Although I wore Muguet des Bois and occasionally L’Aimant, and my mom wore Emeraude, L’Origan was a new discovery for me and is now a fall favorite. I’m wearing it today and every time I wear it I’m transported back to those youthful days and memories of J.
And it perfectly matches the gloriousness of an incredibly warm and sunny fall day. Leaves, many of them the same brilliant orange of the L’Origan juice, are beginning to fall. Despite the stress of the election and the soaring Covid pandemic here nibbling at my spirit, the beauty of the day, the happy memories of my fragrance, and the celebration tonight of Mr. Laila’s birthday is making this a good day. Dinner on the screened porch, a carry out steak dinner from a great restaurant just around the corner,?, and a Zoom livestream concert tonight from one of our favorite musicians will end our day.
Wishing everyone a good weekend ahead. Stay safe, stay well, stay hopeful!
Love your trip down memory lane.Happy Birthday to the husband and enjoy the evening plans!??
Thank you, johanob. Like you said, smell memories are the best!
What a beautiful memory and description of it all! I was right there with you. Your evening sounds fabulous–enjoy!
It’s still 73 degrees outside – unheard of in Chicago in November. Getting ready to begin the celebration and excited we can eat outside on our screened porch – in November! ?
Thanks for sharing – we are having fabulous screened porch weather here in Indiana, too!
Yes! We enjoyed our dinner and watched the whole concert outside. Just came in now. ?
Enjoy your weekend Laila!
You, too!
1) Have been holed up in Ashland OR this week- lots of yoga, green juice and edibles. Am now back at home – a deeply needed vacation.
2) In PJs and in Fresh Cream. Not nostalgic per se, but very cozy feeling and relaxing.
Sounds fabulous! I’m looking forward to taking some time off at Christmas. Just a staycation though.
Wearing a lot of MPCPC which is a perfume created out of nostalgia and as an homage from a daughter for her mother. Whatever the reason behind its creation, I love it especially in autumn.
Have a great weekend everyone!
Austenfan, who makes that? Or is it an obvious acronym that I am missing?
Mon Parfum Chéri par Camille. Which is such a long name that I can’t be bothered typing it more than once a week 😉
It was used a lot when this great Goutal first came out, but alas MPCPC is discontinued and was never a big hit anyway. I happen to love it, but I can see that it’s a polarising scent.
Ah, sorry then for making you type it out again!
No problem 😉
This sounds like a lemming so I raced off to Fragrantica for the notes: yes, lemming time. But I have to keep the brakes on, as I work through a huge backlog of samples and a box of cheapie finds.
Hi MossyBerry, this particular gem has been discontinued a while. I don’t know how easy it will be for you to find a sample.
Gorgeous sunny weather today! And a few more days like it on tap, so I will enjoy that to the max. ???
SOTD = Chanel Cristalle EdT, from the sample stash. I never knew of anyone in my extended family wearing this when I was a kid. But smelling it takes me back in time to half day Kindergarten. Days of finding out that learning was fun, then a walk home in time for lunch. A simpler, much more innocent time.
*Simpler and much more innocent for me, that is.
And first day of kindergarten, half days for me as well, was so traumatic I was sent to the principal’s office ??♀️
It helped that I had a wonderful teacher, Mrs. Middleton, who wore a Snoopy watch. She definitely had a way of relating to all the kids in her class. I still remember her fondly.
I loved the time of walking home for lunch. I don’t think kids do that anymore, even if they live close to school.
I see school buses come thru my neighborhood around lunchtime. No one walks to school here that I know of. The fact that a lot of streets don’t have sidewalks might have something to do with that.
In Tiger by her side from a sample provided from a swap (very kind!) and enjoying it very much.
My first scent memory is from a Brazilian lavender cologne called Colonia de Alfazema. My mom would put it around our hairline as it was supposed to fend of lice. I love the opening of scent. Unfortunately it’s now unwearable because of the musks they have in the dry down nowadays – the same as in l’air du temps and Calder island lavender water. Whatever that stuff is I cannot abide it.
What a shame it is ruined!
And had never heard that, that lavender would ward off lice.
A shame indeed. I don’t know that the lavender thing is scientifically proven – may just be an old wives’ tale. However there seem to be some sites on the internet indicating that a mix of lavender and tea tree ward off lice quite effectively.
I’m in CB I Hate Perfume Black March. This one always reminds me of February days in my grandfather’s greenhouse, starting the tomato seeds. I spent many a blustery February day out in the warmth of the greenhouse, smelling soil.
I’ll probably switch to Memory of Kindness later, for the tomatoes once they’re grown. In late spring, we’d ride on a special implement that planted the tomato plants. It was on the back of the tractor — two of us would sit back there in front of large wheels with containers on them that would pierce a hole in the ground and open, putting the plant in the ground, then close again on the way back up. No idea what that implement was called, but it was kind of a nifty thing.
I miss the family farm. It’s the only constant home I had growing up (we moved a lot). No idea when I’ll get back to visit due to border closures, but I likely won’t be back on the farm more than one or two times more. My grandma’s over 90 now, and the farm will be sold once she’s gone. Many lovely memories there to remember with these perfumes!
My 2 favorites from CBIHP 🙂
Hope you will manage to see that farm again, ockeghem.
CBIHP sounds engineered to produce nostalgia! Wonderful memories…
I am going kind one literally by wearing Nivea cream, which my mom used on me in infancy. I find the smell very comforting, though objectively speaking I don’t quite like it. (What’s in there, a strong almond note?). Mom wore mostly Youth Dew or L’Air du Temps, and I have neither of them. I really dislike Youth Dew. My grandma wore Chanel No. 19 and I wish I had some, but her apartment smelled mostly of coffee and Pond’s face cream! So welcoming!
I associate the smell of peppermint Starlight mints with my Grandma. She always had them on hand when we came to visit.
Memory scent is Diorissimo. I first smelled it after my Mother brought some back from a trip to Bermuda, with a stopwatch bottle of Shalimar, too; and I guess I was about 6 years old. I still have the stopper to the bottle. I am sure it was an extravagant purchase at the time; the trip was a sales conference for my Father. Later on, Diorissimo was my sister’s “signature” scent for many years, and it just blooms on her. I recently got a vintage edt for a decent price on E**y, so I decanted some into a sprayer and I think I might just wear it all weekend. It always smells better the next day, if you put on the same shirt.
Oh, the next day drydown of some perfumes is crazy good!
Oops! I accidentally posted my SOTD to yesterday, so here’s a cut and paste job:
SOTD is Joy by Jean Patou.
My late grandmother wore this perfume. I remember accompanying my Dad on last minute Christmas shopping trips, and returning with that bottle with the white label.
I didn’t remember the smell. When I saw it was being discontinued, I knew I would regret never having the opportunity to wear it. So I got a bottle, wondering if I would uncover some olfactory memory.
Nope.
She always had a cloud of smoke around her. As I reflect, it’s her Salem 100s that occupy my scent memory. But I will always associate the idea of Joy with her.
Oh that’s sort of funny, sort of not!
But do you like the Joy?
I do like it, though it won’t be a great love. That’s down to my trending not to do straight florals a lot. I have them in my collection, I just don’t wear them frequently.
I like the classic style of Joy; transparent is not my thing. I figured it would be a safe blind buy for me.
The negative reviews on Fragrantica are hilarious. If you put it in a different bottle, some newer niche brand, threw a different marketing campaign at it, untethered it from its history, perceptions would be different.
I think Joy is much changed at any rate. The old school parfum was such a work of art — it was one of the fragrances that converted me to straight florals. But likewise, they are not the fragrances I wear the most.
Yes, figure it must be significantly reformulated. To really put my scent memory to the test I should have gotten a vintage sample from the early 80s.
Late to post. I’m in Amouage Lyric which I love in cool weather but doesn’t have any particular memories associated with it.
TGIF. It was a long day.
A VERY VERY extra long day, springpansy.
Tatianna.DvF.
My first true love.