Happy International Children’s Book Day (aka Hans Christian Andersen's birthday)! Our community project for today: name a favorite children's book and wear a fragrance to match.
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.
Today I went with a children's book I did not read until I was an adult: The Golden Compass (the title is Northern Lights in some markets) by Philip Pullman. To capture the Frozen North, I'm wearing The Different Company De Bachmakov.
Reminder: 4/9 will be Antiquities Friday...wear the oldest scent you own (you can interpret this as you like — the one you've owned the longest? worn the longest? the earliest launch date? whatever). Suggested by pyramus.
And for those of you who like to plan ahead, see Scent of the day ~ Friday community projects 2021, where I'll try to always have the next five or six weeks mapped out in advance.
Note: top image is an illustration from The Folio Society edition of The Golden Compass ("Since the publication of the first volume of His Dark Materials in 1995, Philip Pullman’s trilogy has won millions of readers, garnered countless awards and accolades and been adapted for stage and screen. The Amber Spyglass, the third volume, was the first ever children’s book to be awarded the Whitbread Book of the Year Award, confirming the trilogy as a work that demands to be read by all. The Folio Society’ incredible hardback edition is illustrated by Peter Bailey with black and white chapter openings by the author.")
Mine is a short & sweet Beatrix Potter story, The Tale of Mrs Tittlemouse, a character concerned with neatness and tidiness–always sweeping & cleaning. Don’t know why this stuck in my memory! “Clean” isn’t well represented in my collection, but chose Hesperides by Fresh ?
Perfect!
I love The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse, and Beatrix Potter in general. And what a perfect combination to chose Herperides!
Oh wow! That’s actually a perfect choice!
And how I love Beatrix Potter- she was ahead of her time in terms of her art, scientific discoveries, her advocacy of the English Countryside ad her business smarts!
I love Beatrix Potter! I grew up on her stories and my son is growing up on my childhood book collection; revisiting them now as an adult and a botanist I so appreciate how sensitive and accurate her depictions of plants and animals are. It seems her talents for storytelling, painting, and scientific observation were all equally robust!
I also love Beatrix Potter!
This is a holiday for me, so I am still commando. I plan to wear Demeter Honey today in honor of Winnie-the-Pooh.
Love this!
Great choice!
Winnie-the-Pooh, such a favorite.
Perfect!
Great choices Robin!
My choice was easy. I chose Bengale Rouge and am pairing it with The Jungle Book. I think BR is a good pairing for Shere Khan. ?
Happy Friday all!
I adore The Jungle Book. We’re twins today!
Very excellent, both of you! That was a big favorite of mine when I was young.
Love Shere Khan!
Today I wish I had a blackberry scent for Bread and Jam for Francis, or Penhaligon Bluebell for I Capture the Castle but I don’t. And I can’t remember if Ramona, of Ramona and Beezus, liked licorice but I’m guessing yes, so my sotd is Kerosene Black Vines. This has been a fun CP 🙂
Oh, great book — I don’t remember Bread & Jam from when I was little, but I certainly read it to my son.
(And I considered Ramona too. You might enjoy this — I mostly adored the title:
Beverly Cleary Made It OK To Be A Ramona In A World Of Susans
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/scaachikoul/remembering-beverly-cleary-ramona-pest )
Thanks, Robin!
I loved the Frances books too, and all the Ramona books! I started reading “I Capture the Castle” as an adult but never finished it; always meant to go back to it though. I loved the movie version of it.
I read I Capture the Castle every few years, still. There’s a shop mentioned in the book that smells specifically of bluebells, from a bottle of scent.
The Francis books were my daughter’s favorites. 🙂
I’ve been talking with my best friend via email about Beverly Cleary lately, We both have fond memories of reading her books.
“The Golden Compass” is SO GOOD. I used to live around the corner from a bookstore. I picked up TGC because I’d heard it was good, and before I was even halfway through I booted it back to the store to pick up the second and third volumes, because I knew I’d have to read them next and I knew I wouldn’t be able to wait. The whole series is incredible.
My favourite ever children’s books are Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, which I have read uncountable times, even as an adult. (And if you love these books too, you absolutely must own Martin Gardner’s “The Annotated Alice”, which explains every single joke and poem and reference, and so much more besides. Just buy it. You’ll thank me. https://www.amazon.ca/Annotated-Alice-Definitive-Lewis-Carroll/dp/0393048470)
ANYway. I was thinking of the flavour of the potion in the bottle labelled “Drink Me” which “had a sort of mixed flavour of cherry-tart, custard, pineapple, roast turkey, toffy and hot buttered toast”, and I was thinking, well, could I recreate that? SL Rahät Loukoum for the cherry and Jeux de Peau for the buttered toast, CSP Vanille Pineapple, Demeter Caramel for the toffee…. and then even before I started thinking about the turkey, I realized that I would be hitting near-lethal levels of scent, so I just went with vintage Givenchy Pi, which I bought the day it was launched and somehow still have half a bottle of. It’s a gourmand scent although it pretends otherwise: it’s extremely foody, with lots of herbs (tarragon!) in the top, a hefty dose of anise, and a lot of vanilla caramel to finish it all off. It’s wonderful.
I’ve enjoyed the 4th & 5th in the series too, and the little books, like Lyra in Oxford. All great fun. The movie was a disappointment, but the HBO series is better, if still not as good as the books.
I love annotated books, I should buy that.
You smell great today!
For some reason, I never read the Pullman books/series. I think I will have to remedy that this year especially because I’m interested in watching the HBO series.
If you ever mean to read them, I would do it first. It is a complicated story and you will understand the series better if you’ve read it.
Got it!
I have read the Annotated Alice!! And Through the Looking Glass. They were favorites of mine in middle school. If you want to be very nerdy, I recommend, if you can find a copy, Jeff Noon’s Automated Alice, a mash-up of Alice and cyberpunk.
I love the series His Dark Materials too, and I’m wearing Red Queen today in honor of Alice.
TGIF!!
Today I am roaming the 100 acre woods with Winnie the Pooh in Zoologist’s Bee. I smell positively yummy! ?
Nice. I would like to be roaming those woods too.
mmmmm!
A smackerel of honey
sounds perfect
right now. 😀
Winnie the Pooh twins but I went with Sunshine and Pancakes. I *love* Bee, though, and Pooh would heartily approve!
I started the day in Estee Lauder Private Collecction, since it is a perfect scent for a cold rainy day in spring. But then I layered it with Kenzo Parfum d’Ete for the CP. I chose Provost’s dog series by Tamora Pierce. This Kenzo has lily-of-the-valley, and Beka (the protaognist of the series) wears a LOTL perfume at some point. Also, Parfum d’Ete shares that green powder-ish hyacinth with Private Collection, so they go together well.
These books are more for teenagers and young adults, but they were nominated for the 2012 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children’s Literature. I first read them as an adult only a few years ago.
I had not even heard of that award, going to have to look at the winner’s list!
Happy Friday everyone!
Robin, I believe you did watch HBO’s His Dark Materials series based on the book you’ve chosen for today? I can’t wait for another season to come.
I’m in Hiram Green Arbole but I don’t think I can pair it with any children tale. Or maybe… Wishtree by Katherine Applegate?
https://www.instagram.com/p/CNJ1Er_hIgm/?igshid=lmg0zr3fcm3d
Yes, have seen the first 2 series! I know they are planning a third, and then hope they will go back and do the prequels for the 4th & 5th books (and I presume there is a 6th book coming, probably already announced).
Adding that strictly speaking I guess the 4th & 5th are not part of His Dark Materials, he gave them another name — The Book of Dust. But obviously they are the same story.
I have a gorgeously illustrated book of Norse fairy tales called “East of the Sun, West of the Moon,” and I think Arbole would fit with the tone of those stories — almost all involve forests and wilderness places, and darkness illuminated by rays of golden light. There are enchanted bears and dragon-like monsters and mossy places and supernatural peril, always overcome in the end by love, cleverness, and strength, and if there are castles and interior scenes you always feel the breathing of the trees and the dark woods all around.
Entirely forgot about the CP today. Spending they day in no 5 again today.
We could maintain that Eloise swiped it off a vanity and dabbed some on…?
When I was five years old my family had the opportunity to live in the US for a year. I have fond memories of that time. My kindergartenteacher read Charlotte’s Web to us. So I choose this book. Because of how warm and fuzzy being read to felt, I’m wearing Sylvaine Delacourte’s Dovana.
Charlotte’s Web is a favorite of mine, as well.
I had that read to me in school and at home, loved both of them!
Finally after stalking every NYC website I got an appt for J&J vaccine this month 2 weeks for now. I think I literally gave myself a headache refreshing and looking..I can’t believe they can make things this difficult.
Oh Forgot
sotd La Danza Delle Libellule
Apple and vanilla coziness
Right now we are rotating 3 books Charlie and the chocolate factory, Crenshaw and Harry Potter (#1)
I picked this scent because my kids notice the sweetness of this and always tell me I smell good
That’s good news!
Hooray! I’m glad you have an appointment! I completely agree, getting a vaccine appointment for my husband has been so difficult. Slightly easier for me only because I’m in education and was able to receive one based on employer zip code. But still. Very frustrating.
Yay for your appointment!
Huzzah for cutting thru the red tape and getting an appointment!
So glad to hear you got an appointment! ?
I’m in Narciso Musk Oil, a dusty, earthy scent. I’m pairing it with a book written and illustrated by a great uncle of mine, Ben Yomen, called Roberto. It was a picture book about a little boy who has to take his father’s pottery to the market to sell all by himself, and on the way home he finds a dog that needs a doctor—anyway, he disobeys his parents and gets home late because he had to take care of the dog. Even when I knew it was all going to work out, as a child with very strict parents myself I always felt anxious for Roberto having to choose which right thing he should do.
I’m going to look for that book – sounds wonderful.
He wrote it for his son, shortly after the end of WWII—the knowledge that NOT obeying orders can be the right thing to do was very much on the minds of the Jewish diaspora. My uncle and his wife Rose lived to be 99 years old, and died just months apart.
These days, I’m subscribing to the Act now and apologize later MO. Sometimes, a delay in “asking permission” may make it too late.
agree! begging forgiveness can be easier than asking permission 😉
Currently on a plane wearing Milk of Flowers but if I was home I’d wear Arabian Horse to go with The Black Stallion. We decided that we weren’t going to permanently move to Hawaii, so we just spent a few days in Colorado and will move to Denver in late May. I can’t wait to be near all my perfumes again
Wow. Whereabouts in Colorado?
Our hotel was in Boulder and we looked at apartments in both Boulder and Denver and will move to Denver
How exciting!
I loved all the Black Stallion books!
I’m going with Bvlgari Au The Bleu for the color of lovable old Grover from Sesame Street ?. One of my favorite books from my childhood and also one of my kids’ favorite books is The Monster At The End of This Book. I remember being read this book when I was in kindergarten by a teacher. I loved this book so much, that I bought it when I was pregnant with my first child and put it in his nursery.
I love that book! Good choice ?
yes! three cheers for Grover 😀 😀 😀
I loved that book!
Great choice! Grover is my favorite!
Moon Man by Tomi Ungerer is a favorite though out of print now I believe.
Trying Ani by Nishane for the first time today…really lovely green vanilla.
I do not know that book, but just looked at the pictures and I love the illustration.
I chose Annick Goutal’s Encens Flamboyant to capture the feel of Siberia’s cold, dark, snowy pine forests in René Guillot’s “Grishka and the Bear” – a book I simply couldn’t get enough of when I was a child.
Another book I do not know!
Will be joining the games later today in Une Rose to celebrate the lovely rose in Le Petit Prince–I have always loved all things French!
Perfect. It would be sad if the prince was not represented.
One of my favorite books — not to read, but to simply gaze at for hours — was Fairies of the Flowers and the Trees, with those wonderful paintings by Cicely Mary Barker. Pure florals are not in abundance in my perfume cabinet, but I did manage to find a small bottle of Penhaligon’s Violetta, which seems a perfect fit for any of the spring fairies.
It really is a perfect fit!
Perfect! I love the Flower Fairies books too.
This is so easy, my favorite childhood book is Miss Happiness and Miss Flower by Rumer Godden. Two little Japanese dolls and the shy lonely girl who builds them a Japanese dollhouse. I was obsessed with this book and read it dozens of times. My SIL gave me a vintage copy for Christmas one year and I burst into tears.
SOTD is Guerlain Cherry Blossom and I’m drinking a cup of Sakura tea a friend sent me.
Love your story and totally get your reaction. Amazing the emotional connection we have with stories from our childhood.
Did you get the new Cherry Blossom? Regardless, great pairing!
I want that bottle! Love the paper flowers. No, I have a decant of the Aqua version. It’s okay, not really my style, but it seemed perfect for today.
What I really should have spritzed was TF Lost Cherry? much more what I like.
lovely! I’m enchanted by your book and your perfume. Godden, Guerlain, dolls, and cherry blossoms – perfect. 😀
What a nice memory! I have read several of her memoirs but never any of her children’s books.
Lovely!
I think I’ve commented before on my love of the Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle books, but the only scent I can come up with for the CP is Black March, for the smell of the backyard dirt as children try to find Mr. Piggle-Wiggle’s buried pirate treasure. My second choice is the book that gave me a lifelong love of science and dinosaurs, The Enormous Egg, by Oliver Butterworth. An egg laid by a chicken hatches a triceratops. I am wearing T. Rex.
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle! Loved her also and haven’t thought about those books in years. Thanks for the reminder!
Fantastic picks.
I love Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle too! Now I’ll have to think of a scent to go with those books.
Happy Friday!
Sotd is Le Cri de la Lumiere and Hansel and Gretel is my book.
Backstory: When I was little, my dad would read books to me, often using the colorful language he used in daily life. One day, when my grandparents came to visit, I asked my grandmother to read Hansel and Gretel. I sat on her lap and when she turned to the fateful page at the end of the book she asked me “And what happens next?” I enthusiastically replied “They pushed the old b…tch in the oven!” Hence Le Cri!
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Too funny ?❣️
LOL! Great story!
That made me spit my tea out my nose, thanks!
HA, excellent.
That’s hysterical!
ZOMG, funny!
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Good morning everyone, I’ve been offline for a few days, not feeling well of late.
My favorite children’s book is The Jungle Book, and my SOTD, inspired by the chapter “Tiger Tiger” is Serge Luten’s Fleurs d’Oranger – smelling of a tropical, humid jungle, white floral blossoms, citrus notes, and tuberose with a skanky cumin underbelly.
I received my second covid vaccine on Monday, and I’m so grateful that received it. 😀
Hope you feel better soon. My second COVID shot (Tuesday) was rough the next couple of days but I’m back to my yoga and feeling better now.
Thanks! And congrats to you also!
I was reluctant to say anything, I didn’t want dissuade anyone from getting the vaccine, overall, the benefits outweigh the downsides. If I knew how hard I’d be hit, I’d get it anyway.
I had a 102 fever, nausea, swollen glands, aches, pain, and slept for nearly two days straight. It messed me up.
But, I have three autoimmune diseases, most folks won’t be hit as hard as I was.
Wow, that is intense. Agree I’d do it anyway, but still.
Yippee on that second shot, SmokeyToes!
Great for you on getting 2nd shot but boo hiss on not feeling well! Best wishes for a quick recovery.
Congrats on getting the second dose. Hope you feel better soon, go easy on yourself.
Sorry that you are not feeling well and hope it passes soon. I guess the vaccine is working. You made a great pairing for
The Jungle Book! ??
I had my second shot on Monday, too. I’m just starting to feel normal again today. Had to take a nap yesterday and Wednesday. Hope you feel better quick! 😀
Hope that you are feeling OK very soon!
And congrats to SmokeyToes and tiffanie for getting their second shots on Monday!
Thank you! 😀
I’m in Inoui for the lovely green of spending a summer on the coast in Ireland for my book below.
My book is a favorite children’s book (full confession: that I *still* re-read on occasion). Noel Streatfeild’s The Magic Summer. (Apparently also called The Growing Summer.) About a family where a family emergency forces the four young children to go stay with odd Aunt Dymphna in Ireland who think kids should know how to fend for themselves. It’s an engaging story about how the kids learn to become more capable, more appreciative and more tolerant.
Happy Friday!
I still read favorites from my childhood, too! 😀
😀 And I find different qualities in the story now as an adult.
I loved her Shoes books!
Agree–they are great as well!
Inoui is gorgeous!
A series my kid and I enjoy in the past years is Findus and Petson. I wore Guerlain Homme today, it’s a nice playfully mojito like smell that matches the playfull Findus cat.
Thanks for mentioning Homme. I adore Eau de Guerlain’s mojito-ish cologne feeling, so Homme is a scent I’ll seek out. Sounds wonderful. 🙂
I have an old EDT bottle, I think it’s circa 2012. Now they only make the EDP, but it’s still good.
Right now I still have the creamy & floral leather of Nicolai Parfumeur Createur Baikal Leather Intense lingering from last night (this one is going on my FB wish list). But later I will put on Angel for the CP.
My favorite book as a kid was a double book with two Eugene Field poems. One side was Wynken, Blyken, and Nod, and when you flipped the book over, the other side was The Sugar-Plum Tree. Angel has plum and chocolate notes for the tree and the chocolate cat in the story. (It doesn’t have a gingerbread note for the gingerbread dog, but as a kid I always rooted for the cat, so I’m OK with this.). And the star bottle is a nod to W,B,&N, who were fishing in a sea of stars.
Really enjoying reading about everyone’s favorite children’s books and being reminded of some I had forgotten.
What a clever book! I would have loved that as a child.
Still looking for recommendations here – I’m glad to have found several already for The Jungle Book and for Alice in Wonderland (maybe LouLou will be my Drink Me potion). Ideas for The Wind in the Willows, anyone?
Do you have a Penhaligons? The British pastoral vibe is strong in that book!
No Penhaligons – in fact, nothing really pastoral. My florals are all French parfum in style (and most of them in provenance, too).
Something with notes of black tea and woods? 😀 All I can think of is Assam of India.
I didn’t think of woods, how silly of me. Good idea!
I didn’t think of woods, how silly of me. Good idea!
Double-post? How’d that happen?
Something green from the early 1970’s for Wind In The Willows?
Aliage fits that description perfectly, but to me it has too much a California vibe to suit Wind in the Willows. In the end I decided to wear Lou Lou with its sweet-treat aspects to represent the Drink Me potion from Alice in Wonderland.
I love the stories and scent ideas that are showing up today. Thanks, everyone!
Happy Friday! Using Alice in Wonderland as an excuse for rose. Diptyque Essense Incensees Rose de Mai.
Oh how lovely!
Stretching a point, or possibly snapping the rubber band of reasoning, I am wearing a sample of Lubin Gin Fizz, and it’s reminding me of “The Three-Martini Play Date”, my favourite title for a child-raising book…
ha! that’s a fantastic name. I admire the parenting book title “Didn’t I Feed You Yesterday?” Never read it, but I’ve never forgotten it. 😀
Love both of these titles!
Precisely the kind of play date I am looking for!
Oooh, you smell good!
Those book titles brought “Go The (Bleep) To Sleep!” to mind, which is one of the funniest goodnight books I have ever heard. Someone read it at a baby shower I attended…
Hi All!
1) I was a bookworm as a kid and was always a sucker for the Scholastic school sale at school- I would SAVE up for this, and bug my poor mom for money so I could get a book in a series!
One of my favorite series was- and is- The Neverending Story by Michael Ende. It was made into a film, but the book series is VERY impactful!
I am wearing Molinard Jasmine for the Childlike Empress.
2) The cherry blossoms along the Portland Waterfront is deeply appreciated this year! There were people (masked, mostly) enjoying themselves by walking along, taking pictures and even having socially distanced picnics under the trees.
Scholastic books made me so happy. 😀 Choosing from the monthly paper advert was as exciting as the day the books were delivered. I can still smell those paperbacks.
Oh yes- it was ALWAYS a highlight!
Oh the Scholastic sale. So much fun figuring out which books I could order (only a couple at a time)…
I LOVED the scholastic book sale when I was a kid, and loved running it for my son’s school…just putting all the books out and helping kids pick out what they could afford was so much fun.
We’re house twins!!!
I used to sponsor by nephew so he can purchase more books. He has pretty thick skin and did not hesitate to tell me which books he’s buying but would love to get more ?.
Hey everyone!
I struggled a bit to think what my favorite children’s book is. I really loved joke and magician books. I did read a lot of Nancy Drew Mysteries and Heidi. I loved loved Heidi. I couldn’t think of any proper perfume match so I am wearing what called my name. Alien Cuir. I smell fantastic.
I hope everyone has a great weekend!
You do smell great! I remember reading lots of Nancy Drew too. Loved those.
I tried to respond to you about the Chanel Cristalle but I seemed to have a glitch with my account. I think my note finally posted there, but I got my bottle online at Shoppers Drug Mart. They have a nice selection of more upscale makeup and perfumes than a regular drugstore. I don’t know if they ship to the US. I also saw it online at The Bay (a department store in Canada).
Thanks Gail! I will check if they ship here. I’m on a waiting list but I have my doubts about it.
I also loved Heidi, but couldn’t think of a match. I buy goat milk now and think of Heidi every time I pour some!
I had a doll that looked like Heidi that I treasured. My daughter unfortunately found and broke her, but I still keep the clothes just to look at sometimes.
Maybe Anais Anais would have worked for Heidi?
Oh good one! I keep saying I will repurchase that someday, but I never do.
I’m in Feu Secret. It was originally meant to pair with a charmingly illustrated book we had when I was small, about socks that disappeared in the night, the title of which left my brain long ago. But after searching the internet and paging through the entire list of children’s picture books on goodreads and still not finding it, I have decided that (a) my family must have had the only copy ever printed, and (b) the dusty sweetness of Feu Secret pairs well with lots of children’s books – The Borrowers, or Beauty and the Beast, or even The Little Prince. So I’m taking CP points and giving up the search.
I looked for it, too, after you mentioned it, but I wasn’t successful. 🙁 It sounded fun!
SotD = aroma M Geisha Vanilla Hinoki
BotD = Yoko’s Paper Cranes by Rosemary Wells
Perfume and book both have an west-going-east theme in their stories. I adore them.
Fun community project! Children’s books and perfume are equally hard for me to resist. I still have some of my own childhood books, and some from my kids’ collections, plus more that I’ve bought in recent years to share with students.
Happy Friday to all, I truly hope today and the weekend bring you joy.
Such a lovely book, I’d forgotten it!! And perfect perfume match.
The big beautiful full moon that shone into my bedroom until nearly sunrise for several days earlier this week inspired my choice of scent for this week’s cp. Like Robin, I chose Goodnight Moon and, like Robin, it was a book I often read to my son. I saved some of his favorite books and many years later read this soothing bedtime story to my grandkids from dad’s childhood book, so doubling my warm memories of it. The fragrance I chose is Barbara Bui Le Parfum, my favorite bedtime scent, a skinscent of soft woods and amber warmed by a bit of incense, subtle but long-lasting and as soothing as reading that favorite children’s book.
Soothed is a good word for how I feel after receiving my second dose of vaccine this week (luckily, no adverse effects). In less than two weeks, I will finally be able to hug those same grandkids, finally meet my two grand??who joined their family at Thanksgiving, and FINALLY get a haircut. Woo-hoo! ?
My world is yellow this week, the color of hope – bright ?, daffodils, forsythia, and my beautiful Cornelia Cherry Dogwood shrub in full bloom. Wishing everyone a soothing weekend ahead filled with hope and a blessed Easter and Passover to those who celebrate! ??
Oh Laila, the Barbara Bui is a great pairing with Goodnight Moon! ? ?
Glad to hear you received your second vaccine dose. ?
I love the Bui fragrance; one tiny spray often accompanies me to yoga. I bought it years ago when it was talked about a lot on the fragrance blogs. I remember it as being inexpensive for a huge bottle and I’m astonished at what I see it going for now! ?
Laila, how lovely — I need some grandkids to read to! I have told my husband we really need to rent some grandkids before we’re too old to enjoy them. So glad you will see yours soon!
Thank you! And if you’re lucky enough to get them, treasure every moment you spend with them because they grow up too fast! Both my parents passed away before their only grandson was born, so I retired early to help care for my grandtwins ?when they were born and never regretted it for a moment.
Perfect pairing! I adore both the book and the perfume you chose. ?
Thank you. It’s been a number of years but I reread the book before I posted and enjoyed it just as much as I did then. ?
Your post reminded me to look out of a window at my neighbor’s forsythia, which exploded into full bloom last weekend. Pretty and so cheery, especially on a cold windy day.
First things first, I’m wearing vintage Dioressence for the book Corduroy by Don Freeman. It was my absolute favorite book as a child. I loved to see Corduroy having an adventure in the department store after it closed because I found department stores to be a magical place myself. Dioressence was released in 1969, one year after Corduroy’s publication, and I think it represents corduroy fabric well.
Yesterday, I wore Dia to go with the Eloise series. I didn’t read Eloise as a child but discovered it when I was in college and thought it was wonderful. I thought Dia would work for both the fancy ladies at the Plaza Hotel and for the Eloise Takes a Bawth book that came out in 2002. I think Dia smells like fancy soap.
I was lucky to have my first job be in the children’s room of our main library branch. I started when I was 16 and came back to work during breaks for my first two years of college. So I got to discover all kinds of books that I had missed as a child, and I started to buy children’s books that I loved even though I didn’t plan to have children. They were for me!
Thanks for the well wishes yesterday. I feel much better today. I got rid of my neck ache with some sustained stretches.
Good news: first Covid shot is scheduled for next Monday! And I started binging a fun tv show yesterday, The Flight Attendant. Anyone watched it? No spoilers please. I’m about halfway through.
That’s my dream job!
I have not seen TFA but it’s on my to-watch list.
It was my dream job too! I had such a great experience at that job. There’s always a part of me that wonders about pursuing a masters for library science, but I’m pretty well-settled into my current line of work.
Also watched The Flight Attendant! I really enjoyed it! No spoilers from me.
Glad to hear you also enjoyed it. I’ve just got one episode left!
I missed your post yesterday but am glad you’re feeling better today. And I share your love of children’s books; sometimes I think I enjoyed them more than my grandkids!
Thank you, Laila.
Glad to hear that you’re feeling better today, and have your first COVID shot scheduled!
Thanks, Jalapeno. Can’t wait to start the vaccination process.
Love Eloise! My mother read the original story to me before I could read, then I read the stories for myself as soon as I learned to read. I even named my turtle Skipperdee, after Eloise’s turtle. 😉
That’s adorable!
I still think it’s the best name ever for a turtle. 😉
What a great chance to revisit or get to know children’s books! I loved Eloise and still do.
She’s a great character for sure.
Glad you’re better! And yay for the vaccine appointment!
Thank you, and I agree with the yay!
My favourite children’s book is Seacrow Island by Astrid Lindgren. I’m wearing Ambre Russe, but that is entirely coincidental. I’m not at home so do not have full access to my collection. I think Goutal’s Vetiver would have been a good match. Are Lindgren’s books popular in the USA at all?
Pippi Longstocking was popular here decades ago, not sure about now.
Pippi was probably the best known of Lindgren’s creations in my country as well.
I understand a little less popular now than when I was a kid. I had a big hardback that must have collected several of the stories.
Her other books were much less well known here. I was given a copy of Noy Lives in Thailand before I went to visit my Dad in Thailand — I still have that.
One of my friends from high school loved “Ronja, the Robber’s Daughter” so much, she made us all go see the movie when it came to the artsy theatre in town.
I remember reading Pippi Longstocking as a tween, and it was considered an unusual choice then.
Feeling stressed with the packing and some glitches in communication and paperwork after the sale of the condo… I’m supposed to be packing my perfumes. Part of me wants to obsessively make careful selections for maximum number of bottles/decants and the other part of me just wants to chuck a few bottles in a shoe box and call it a day. The fact that I will be basically homeless for the next 3-4 months means I can’t take much with me. Husband already gave me a hard time about taking a box of books – of course he doesn’t read, and since it’s not important to him it’s not important. Feh.
Wearing a lethal dose of Cartier L’Heure Défendue.
Mr. SP and I have had many conversations about what’s important. Just because it’s not important to him, does not mean it’s not important to me, etc. He has gotten much better!
Best of luck with the move. It’s hard to pack and move and it’s hard to not have a home. I hope it will all work out so well that it will be completely worth it once you are on the other side.
This seems to be quite common with men, my ex was the same. I don’t like being pushed to justify my choices and I never question his choices – it’s annoying not to receive equal respect. More conversations will no doubt ensue in the near future as we shop for a new house.
Thank you for your kind words, I’m sure it will be fine once we get through this phase and things feel more settled.
Agree with SP…moving is one of the big life stressors but it get better…so much change in a small window of time. Big hugs and take lots of vanillas! 😉
Thank you, vanillas have been packed! 🙂
I’m sorry Cazaubon. I know this is all very stressful for you. I hope you find your perfect home on the first look!
Thank you lillyjo, it was really easy last time, hopefully it won’t be too hard this time either.
Oy! This just means you need to go perfume shopping ASAP once you get there!
I doubt there will be any perfume shops where I am going, but when the plague abates, I will meet up with the Vancouver perfumistas. 🙂
I’m in Bulgari Black, for Beverly Cleary’s The Mouse and the Motorcycle. Dearly loved this chapter book, and I have it in the saved for later part of my Amazon cart, for the step-grand.
Surgery on my finger went fine yesterday. I’m resting, chugging water and taking it easy. The hubster is taking good care of me. ❤️??
I’m glad your surgery went well and you are being well cared for. May you have a speedy and complete recovery.
So glad to hear your surgery is behind you now. Have a restful weekend and enjoy the caretaking!
Take good care of yourself and rest easy.
Glad it went well! 🙂
Oh good!!
I’m glad to hear the surgery went well! Will you start therapy soon? Be sure to massage it as soon as you are allowed to, to break down the scar tissue.
I have a follow up appointment in two weeks, and can start PT soon after. The surgery release papers warned about scar tissue too, so I’ll be paying attention to it!
Glad to hear that your surgery went well! Good luck with PT/OT and healing up.
Great pairing Nancy and glad your surgery went well!
Happy it went well!
Yay for the surgery being over and that it went well!
Glad your surgery went well!
Doe in the snow for Grimms fairy tales, the Brother and sister. I first tried Shem El Nessim for 1001 nights, but it smelled like neroli hubba Bubba chewing gum on me. I fear my skin amps up the sweetness in a perfume.
Now visiting my brother in Munich, that I haven’t seen since Christmas 2019. We are having takeout Vietnamese food and bavarian beer.
How wonderful — have a great visit!
Can’t top Winnie-the-Pooh in our house, so I’m wearing Sunshine and Pancakes in Pooh’s honor. I could have gone with a honey fragrance to be really Pooh-ish, but this fragrance and it’s name both capture the way the Pooh stories make me feel — optimistic, gladhearted, and unworried on a sunshiney summer day.
Perfect!
My favourite book when I was six, in France and reading on my own was Les Malheurs de Sophie (Sophie’s misfortunes) paired with Chabaud Lait et Chocolat which would be Sophie’s beverage of choice.
Aww… cute!
Sophie was very endearing because she was naughty but full of remorse.
My goodness, what a surprise to find another reader of the works of the Comtesse de Segur! I read them as a child in Brussels.
Glad you were a fan too, Les Bons Enfants was my favorite.
Book twins with Robin! I just last night finished rereading “The Amber Spyglass” because a) I’ve been trying to encourage my kid to read these books and b) my spouse finished the books not long ago and so we’re now into Season 2 of the HBO series. So I started rereading the series while we were holed up in the Gulf Islands. Not a series that was out during my childhood, but children’s books (well, older kids) that I like a great deal.
Anyway, SOTD to go with that is Eau de Froehliche, with the pine to make me think of the witches’ cloud pine in the books. Almost went with Avignon, but I like the witches better than the Magisterium.
I also thought long and hard about wearing something to go with Virginia Lee Burton’s “The Little House,” a book I loved when I was small. If I’d ever owned Daisy, that’d the right visual to go with it, but never owned it. Memory of Kindness probably would have worked, though. Well, maybe tomorrow. 🙂
I’ve heard the HBO series is really good!
The Little House — another book I’d totally forgotten!
Late to the party and no SoTD. Life is complicated right now!
But, maybe at some point, I’ll get around to a spritz. My favorite books as a little kid were books of poetry, especially silly/nonsense poetry books like Where the Sidewalk Ends. Maybe could be paired with Bulgari Black for the wet pavement after a sudden storm smell.
Ooohh good one! You smell great.
I loved many Roald Dahl books as a child, and especially some of the more grotesque ones like the Witches and the Twits! I really couldn’t think of what to wear for CP that would match. I tried to think of something witchy but came up blank. Black bottled scents might be a link to witches but none of the scents appealed to me today. So, I’m in Ginger Piccante.
I received my travel spray of Matcha Meditation. I’ll wait until this weekend to wear it side by side with Tea Escape and do a comparison for anyone interested.
Mmm. Mitsouko for James and the Giant Peach?
I’ll be waiting for your thoughts on Matcha Meditation vs Tea Escape.
How about Coven by Andrea Maack? Once upon a time, a sweet and generous NSTR gave me a sample. It smelled minty and earthy, IIRC.
Can’t wait for your side x side!
As a kid, I was big into Mythology: Greek, Roman, and Norse. I even found some Native American, Polynesian, and African myths as I got older. I have fond memories of discovering all those stories from around the world.
SOTD = ELdO’s Fils de Dieu again. Something about it reminds me of the story of Ganymede.
Did you read the D’Aulaires books? We have their Greek myths and Norse myths. My daughter loves those.
Honestly, I don’t know if I have or not.
Oh I loved mythology too!
I should send you Marc-Antoine Barrois’ Ganymede!
I got to leave work early this afternoon to get my second Covid shot–yaaay!
I put on just one spray of Putain des Palaces this morning before remembering the community project, and while the name of my perfume doesn’t feel very appropriate for children (ha!), I’ll say that it still links to my chosen book because I followed my nose this morning when I chose it. “Little Bunny Follows his Nose,” full of scratch-n-sniff stickers, was a favorite of mine when I was little. I’ve loved sniffing things since forever!
Yay for shot #2!
High five for shot #2!
Yay for shot #2!
I’ve always been a huge reader. The summer my family moved out of state I’d visit the library regularly and our incredibly thoughtful librarian would always have a stack of books set aside for me to check out.
The Cat Ate my Gymsuit, Summer of Fear, Deannie…I couldn’t read them fast enough. It’s funny that I decided to be a nurse instead of a librarian!!
I have the day off work today and am volunteering at a vaccine clinic tomorrow where we plan to provide 500(!) shots to Uber, Lyft and taxi drivers. I just finished a swim and still smell a bit like chlorine. Thanks to all of you I am reminiscing about an early childhood favorite A Fish out of Water (poor Otto!)
Thank you for volunteering to help vaccinate!
2nd that ,that’s wonderful!
I’m like many others in choosing the Pooh books as my favorites. I tried to think of something to evoke poor old Eeyore but failed. So I went with honey and chose Zoologist Moth.
Maybe L’Heure Bleue for Eeyore?
So perfect! Poor Eeyore was permanently blue.
Perfect!
Good pairing!
Red Queen for me today!
You smell lovely!
I love the Pippi Longstocking books when I was a kid. I’m wearing OJ Tiare to go with the island- Kurrekurredutt- that she goes to in Pippi in the South Seas. Surely Kurrekurredutt had some tiare flowers on it. 🙂
There are so many books I loved as a child – and some with my children – but the one that stood out as a favorite is “Where The Wild Things Are” by Maurice Sendak. I love both the story and the illustrations.
Scent for this is Note de Yuzu by Heeley for the green/citrus and water notes.
SOTD = Molinard Habanita EDP
Not just any EDP, but the 100th anniversary EDP inside the Limited Edition red Lalique bottle for Cent?ans!
https://www.instagram.com/p/CNMBYAqh_O8/?igshid=1txl5tjkdimzg
Powdery vintage upon first spray (8!), spicy amber vanilla with light florals – ?
For the children’s literature tie in, Little Red Riding Hood comes to mind. While grandma and Little Red were swallowed whole by the wolf and “spit out”, they split open its belly so that must have been really bloody ??!