Happy Antiquities Friday! (It’s also Marc Jacobs’ birthday, National Unicorn Day, National Former Prisoner of War Recognition Day and National Winston Churchill Day. And, RIP Prince Philip.) Our community project for today: 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). Thanks to pyramus for the idea!
What fragrance did you pick? As always, do chime in with your scent of the day even if you’re not participating in the community project.
I'm in vintage Diorissimo, the fragrance I've worn the longest, and possibly one of the oldest bottles in my collection as well, although it's hard to say for sure.
Reminder: 4/16 will be Spring clean! Wear the perfect fragrance for doing household chores. Suggested by LisaD.
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: the vintage Dior brooch from the 1950s ("One of the most iconic images of the House of Dior, this delicate and highly feminine 'Lily of the Valley' or 'Muguet' brooch is the work of the artisan workshop Maison Gripoix, made of poured glass, nacred pearls and gilt metal. 'Lily of the Valley/Muguet' is the signature perfume of the House of Dior, and one of Christian Dior's favorite flowers.") was going for a little over $2000 on 1st Dibs but is currently sold out.
Happy Friday NST Friends!
My SOTD is Baccarat Rouge 540. I love this scent because it smells like a million bucks. Have a great weekend everyone.?
Happy Friday scentfromabove!!
Happy Friday – and yes, although it is not me, I do love my little sample of 540 and it does smell like a million bucks!
YAY! I remembered! AND for it to be such a wonderful project too.
Wearing Shalimar by Guerlain EdP and extrait.
My Mum and some of her girlfriends wore Shalimar. I worked as a Squirt Bitch for Guerlain at Christmas early on.
It has always been swoon worthy for me. So thick, rich and luscious. Even today, after wearing myself for years, it still gives me that thrill.
It’s not the oldest bottle in my collection, not the first to be created but it does have the longest history for me personally.
Portia xx
It still startles me every time I wear it too, seriously.
It’s funny Robin,
With so much other perfume in my collection I could still wear Shalimar more than half the time. It would feel like I was wasting the rest so……
Twins. Shalimar was my paternal grandmother’s scent, and I was supposed to be just like her, so it was the first scent gift I received. Although it was a tough call with Diorissimo – I have thunked several bottles and wish I had a reliable vintage bottle. Mine seems to have lost top notes.
Bummer about your vintage. still the heart and base are so divine, it’s probably still lovelier than 60% of what’s available right now anywhere..
The first two perfumes I remember loving and smelling around age 7 were Shalimar and Diorissimo, on Mother’s dresser. All y’all smell wonderful!
Your Mum had a very cool dresser. What a perfect memory.
You, of course, smell wonderful. Have you tried the Philtre Shalimar? It has become one of my favorite iterations.
Hey Hajusuuri,
I’ve not yet. It hasn’t hit the Oz Guerlain counter yet, or maybe it did and sold out.
Fingers crossed for soon.
Portia xx
Heya! Glad to see you here today!
Hi there Jalapeño!
It makes me really happy when I remember.
You well?
Portia x
Happy Friday. I made it. Whew.
I have a 48 year old flacon of Joy. I may not open it, but place it on my desk today to remember the joy I felt when receiving it.
What a lovely memory! Joy in it’s original formulation is so beautiful. I have a perfume solid of Joy from the 1980s. I treasure it.
I have a small amount of 1980s Joy as well, and every time I open the bottle, which is not often, I’m astonished all over again — how is this so good, so beautiful? It’s just one of the greatest scents ever created.
Vintage Joy is so amazing.
apsara, I love this but it makes me wonder why you never opened it?
Portia x
I was deeply, madly, truly in love with the giver.
That is a great answer – the few times I have found un-opened or full vintage perfumes, I have often thought about why it was kept. My usual conclusion was the person felt too guilty to throw it out, which probably says more about ME, LOL.
Open it, I say! ♥️ Let that juice breathe and you enjoy it!!!
How do you resist opening it?
With ease.and some bittersweet memories thrown in. I have had other bottles of Joy I have loved and worn, but that first one stays as is.
No CP points for me today; I’m trying out Velvet Haze from a sample. It gets compared to Narciso Rodrigrez (the first release), but doesn’t have orange blossom.
But on the topic of antiquities….let’s see, what do I have?
Oldest formula: Mitsouko (but not an old bottle)
Oldest bottle in my collection: Probably original Gap Grass.
Oldest personal history would probably be my grandfather’s Old Spice, but I have yet to purchase it.
Ohhhh, Gap Grass? How lovely!
I really enjoy it!
I had Gap Grass and adored it right up until the day it decided to leave this world for the next: it turned brown and foul very quickly, for some reason (and it was a sealed spray, so I don’t know what could have happened to it). But oh, it was so good, the best pure-green scent I have ever smelled.
Wearing CK Obsession from a vintage sample. A bottle from the early 2000’s is oldest in my collection. This scent is the most especial in my life and my collection.
Happy Friday, everyone! ?
Happy Friday to you pl67! It seems fitting that it’s Obsession 🙂
Thank you, Robin! ?
You smell YUMMY PL67.
Portia x
Thank you, Portia! You also smell divine in your beloved Shalimar! ❤
Happy Friday!
Love your Obsession ?
Thank you! ?
You smell wonderful – glad you’ve got that special bottle!
Thank you!?
Twins!? Happy Friday!
Yay! We smell fabulous! You know how much I love it!
Bet you wear that Obsession well!
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You smelled great today! I think I’m overdue for a wearing.
Thank you!
You smell wonderful! I have a couple old bottles and cherish them.
Ooh lovely (both the brooch and your choice of SotD).
My SotD is Hermes Rose Ikebana layered with Poivre Samarcande. I picked up the 15 ml discovery set on my honeymoon years ago. I never really had a signature scent in HS, University, or my early career days. I had brought back a couple of bottles of perfume from a little shop in Grasse back in ’97 while on tour, but my mom quickly claimed both for herself…
Update on the mouse – my cat finally cornered it at 3am, so I caught it and released it outside.
Wow, I’m sure the cat was having fun but I always feel sorry for the mouse… Glad you caught Stuart Little!
Wins all around! Kitty must have been so proud, and glad you were able to save the mouse from whatever unpleasant fate the cat had planned for it. Hope being awake at 3am wasn’t too painful though!
I love the brooch, too. So very, very pretty!
Me three – I love seeing that brooch!
Yay for a mouseless house!
A happy end to the mouse saga!
Great job, kitty!
I went the personal-history route with the CP and chose Demeter Wet Garden, which was the first fragrance I fell in love with when I was around 20 years old. Up until then, “perfume” to me meant olfactoraly overwhelming and aesthetically underwhelming department-store fragrances; I remember when I first smelled Wet Garden it felt like my head expanded with joy. It still has that effect on me, even after growing into so many more “sophisticated,” complex fragrances.
It’ll have to complement the very dry garden of the North Bay hills today, as I’ll be out counting beautiful but agonizingly endangered wildflowers in a cascading series of meadows today. Not a bad way to end the work week…
What a wonderful job you have, roaming flower-studded hills. I’m envious. ?
Happy Birthday to me! Spending 15 hours on the road to make it to the Canadian border today, not very festive. But last night we had chocolate cake and my brother gave me a bottle of TF Métallique (a complete surprise). Not feeling too happy about turning 55 but better than the alternative. Happy Friday everyone! I’m wearing a sample of Moonlight in Chiangmai. Thank you for all the good wishes for my mom, she’s in good spirits and feeling hopeful for a speedy and full recovery.
Happy Birthday, Cazaubon! The best today and always! ???
Happy birthday to you! ? ? ?
Passes you a glass of champagne and piece of cake!
Have a happy birthday!!
Happy Birthday and I hope your trip goes well!
Happy Birthday and also best wishes for an uneventful border crossing ?
Happy birthday! Safe travels, and welcome home!
Happy Birthday!!!
Happy birthday! May your day be wonderful in spite of the drive, and wishing you a very happy and healthy year to come!
Happy birthday! What a lovely surprise from your brother, and glad your mom is in good spirits.
Happy happy birthday! Hope your border crossing is uneventful!
Happy Birthday – What a nice brother! And so glad to hear about your mom.
Happy birthday ?!!
Happy Birthday!
Many happy returns of the day to you!
That was so nice of your brother. Hope you have leftover chocolate cake in the car.
No, but loads of easter candy. 🙂
That works too!
Happy birthday! And what a nice gift from your brother.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
Many happy returns.
Happy birthday! Wish my brother gave me perfume, haha
Happy birthday, cazaubon! I’m glad to hear your mother is better. Safe travels!!
Happy birthday cazaubon! We are about the same age — I’m a little older — and I was okay with 55 but 60 is daunting!
Happy Birthday! I remember last year when you were racing to the border. Safe travels and all the best to your mom! I really love Metallique. It layers well with Orange Sanguine.
It sure is better than the alternative! But I get you. Best wishes for a great birthday!
Wishing you a very Happy Birthday, cazaubon! ??
I hope the trip goes by quickly for you and there’s some good music for the ride. Welcome home!
Thank you – looking forward to meeting up this summer!
Definitely! Looking forward to it!!
Happy Birthday and what a nice gift!!
Happy birthday, 55 is not too bad.
Happy Birthday to you and all the best to your mom!
Happy birthday, safe travels and all the best to your mom!
Happy birthday! Safe travels!
Happy Birthday and congrats on making it safely to Canada, and good wishes for a speedy recovery for your mom. Wishing you good health and happiness and all good fragrant things in the year ahead! ?
Happy birthday and safe travels! What a great gift from your brother! I am not at all far behind you, age-wise. The number still shocks me.
It’s a shocker all right! How did we get to be this old??
Congrats on another year on planet earth! ?
Happy birthday! 🙂 Just remember that each birthday gives us a whole new year of vanillas and gourmands to sniff, explore, buy and sometimes ultimately sell if they don’t please us someday!!! 😉
Happy birthday! I hope the drive goes well. I’m a little bit past 55, it’s all good here really.
Happy Birthday and do report on the the Metallique. I much disliked that borg-thing in the ad, but I have learned not to judge a perfume by its marketing! And, what a great brotherly gift! 🙂
Happy Birthday!?
Happy birthday! And safe travels!
Happy birthday Cazaubon, and travel safely! ?
Happy Scented Birthday cazaubon! ????
Happy birthday! How nice you got an unexpected perfume present.
Hello all and happy Friday! My SOTD and oldest scent in my collection is Youth Dew from the 1970s. I do love this spicy resinous beauty.
Yes! Happy National Winston Churchill Day. Reading Clementine, the life of Mrs. Winston Churchill – it’s quite good!
And RIP Prince Philip. I’m rather sad for Queen Elizabeth to lose her partner of over 70 years.
I’m on my second cup of espresso, I’m a little sore from working out, but did four days at the gym this week. Increased weights and reps.
I’ve dropped five pounds. 🙂 I think I earned a cocktail and a day off! Perhaps I’ll enjoy a Manhattan (orange twist and orange Angostura bitters) later.
Looking forward to reading everyone’s comments! This will definitely be a trip down memory lane!
Manhattans are my favorite cocktail and would be a lovely reward.
Oh, I hadn’t heard about Prince Philip — so sad.
Poor QE! Heavy is the head that wears the crown.
I am glad she was given two more corgis this spring – apparently she had stopped adding royal corgis to the family in recent years, worried that they would become someone else’s unwanted leftovers if/when she passed – and then she even outlived most of her beloved pups!
She’s not perfect, but what a box to have been put into at a young age… I very much feel for her losing Philip as well.
I love a well-made Manhattan! Haven’t tried the orange-y variation you described, and will have to remedy that. We are running out of the cherries we usually use as garnish for that cocktail anyway.
Oh, the orange angostura bitters are fantastic! I add an additional orange twist, for good measure.
For bourbon, I like Buffalo Trace or Maker’s Mark 46, and Antica vermouth. 2:1.
I like to be prepared…. 😉 ? ?
You’ve described our Manhattans almost to a molecule! My alternative to Maker’s is Bulleit rye, but the Antica vermouth is the BEST, isn’t it? Going to try your variation this evening!
Excellent! *Raises glass* ??
I also love that formula, particularly using Maker’s Mark 46 or Bulleit Rye for their slight sweetness and the Antica vermouth is tops. Cheers ladies (and gents)!
Ah, another Manhattan aficionado! ? ?
I like using a splash of the IKEA Lingon syrup too. It turns the cocktail into a reddish/rust color. 😀
Ooh, what an interesting idea!
Having a Manhattan as we speak! Cheers!
I’m trying the orange-garnish variation now – it’s yummy! Went with Bulleit rye, and our orange bitters are Regan’s rather than Angostura but I think they get the job done. Mr. G is calling it an Old Manhattan, because it’s sort of a cross between an old fashioned and a Manhattan.
Congratulations on the ramped-up workout! A Manhattan would be a fitting reward. My favorite local gastropub, which has now closed for good, made the most beautifully astringent Manhattan I’ve ever tasted. I will miss it!
Sorry to hear about your favorite gastropub closing. What a bummer!
You smell marvelous – Youth Dew is a desert island choice for me – and I love Angostura Bitters in sangria.
Hello all!
Celebrating Friday in a my Fougere Royale extrait, which I would date back to the 40s but that guess is entirely uneducated. It’s astonishing that modern Fougere can trace back to this warm, smooth, cinnamony creature.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BalI8FHhKNE/?igshid=5y7o5ymjd7wa
(I also have a peek at my collection in the stories for curious parties, though those don’t last long….)
Stay safe!
Wow, what a bottle!
Isn’t it lovely? And that sweet display box.
You and your teasers! There is one unnamed person on IG who loves to pan his collection and post and storify his SOTD. Coincidentally ?, his SOTD is always on the first row of whatever shelf he decides to use ?. ??♀️
I took a full picture once in my stories but they don’t last long! I would love to do a video tour but that would be about a week long. ?
If we’re thinking of the same blogger, have a pretty dim view of this person.
Is that Eric? He’s amazing.
No. His real first name begins with a G.
Ah I was thinking a J….
Humility forbids me from thinking you could be taking about me…. ?
It can be hard to tell the age of some bottles but I *think* the oldest thing in my collection is Lancôme Magie eau de cologne, which definitely dates from the early seventies and could be the late sixties. It’s at least fifty years old and still in perfect condition, somehow: it has a stopper under the cap, as pour bottles used to, which probably helps.
Magie is a sizeable aldehydic floral dominated by *very* dirty jasmine, none of this clean pretty floral nonsense: all you indole lovers would swoon over it. It has plenty of dirt in the base, too: oakmoss of course and understated civet and musk. It’s big and durable for an EDC, and just fantastic.
Remember the twisted Hypnôse bottle from the 2000s? That was originally used for Magie parfum in the fifties.
Oh wow what a description!!! You smell marvelous.
Magie is so good and easy to wear, you smell great.
Interesting bottle history – thanks for noting that!
Wow, that sounds like a far cry from the La Collection version of Magie.
Hurrah for Friday!
I’m in Prada Amber Pour Homme which happens to be the very first perfume I bought with own money, therefore it’s the oldest one in my wardrobe.
Good news is that next week my dad gets his first shot of Moderna vaccine.
Woo hoo! Happy for your dad!
Thanks
Good news!!
Yes, at least both of my parents will have it done. I will habd to wait for longer.
So happy for your dad!
Yeah, he was called just before Easter.
Excellent about Dad and I love that Prada was your first. Did I ever tell you we spritzed our wedding invitations with it Lucasz?
Portia x
No you didn’t! That is such a lovely idea!
You smell great!
Good news for your dad. Hopefully, we’ll all get vaccinated soon. Life will not get back to how we knew it for a long time, but at least it’ll get a little closer to that.
Yay for vaccines ? !
Glad to hear that your loved ones are getting their shots.
Wearing Jicky, the fragrance with the oldest release date in my collection. I’m out of my decant, so it may be time to go bottle hunting. I’ve bought more perfume in the last year than I have for several years before that, which I can only put down to our current circumstances.
Same here – I was on a spree, but it was at least an informed one: often thanks to my NST friend!
Oh durn: meant “NST friends”
Happy Friday! Ready for this week to end. I’m seeing it out with L’Heure Bleue, which is an old formula, if not a particularly old bottle of mine. (If I wanted to go back to the oldest bottle I own, I guess it’d be the dregs of a Acqua di Gio bottle from the ’90s. I did wear it the other night, but today’s more of a L’Heure Bleue day.)
I’m in kind of in the same situation as far as oldest drops of actual juice is concerned – except with me it’s CK one instead of Acqua di Giò 🙂
The original CK One was excellent. I went through at least two bottles before I switched to CK Be, which I never wore.
I think that’s probably more respectable than Acqua di Gio. 😀
SOTD = Molinard Habanita
I did not want to think too hard and since my 100th year anniversary red bottle was easily accessible, that’s what I wore!
Sephora – 20% off with code OMGSPRING starting today for Rouge members. Anyone who doesn’t have this % off and would like to jump on the bandwagon, please email me.
I mentioned yesterday that I have 1,000 posts on Instagram – who would have thought??? Anyway, I have a U.S. only giveaway. I’m posting the link here; you can also enter by sending me an email with Giveaway as the subject. It closes on April 11 @ 11:59pm Eastern.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CNajjafhKey/?igshid=isa621mjdj0s
In other news, I had to put someone in his place on a zoom call yesterday. There were only 4 of us and I had brought up a subject for context and the facilitator said that’s not the topic we’re on the call for. I immediately ripped into him that context is important if you are asking us to come up with an implementation plan for something with a lot of unknowns. We’re the subject matter experts and have questions! He apologized at the end of the call and I’m glad he did because otherwise I would have had to get into it with him or his manager afterwards. If it happens again, I will get to his manager.
I’m seriously lemming that red bottle Hajusuuri. So cool.
What about you having a feisty moment. Good on you.
Portia x
Thank you, Portia. The red bottle still seems to be available, not to enable or anything ?. As to being feisty, I truly cannot abide a person dissing me when he is the one who just blurts out his reactions if things did not go the way he planned.
Habanita is so good, even the modern version of it. I had somehow missed that red bottle — it’s just smashing. Lucky you!
I have not smelled any older version but your words are a comfort. The red bottle is still available … …
Congratulations on your posts!
I love hearing you stand up for yourself. Obviously, context matters. In another lifetime, I want a spine.
Anything you have your eyes on for Sephora?
I’m looking at sniffing a lot. ?
I placed an order for shampoo and conditioner. I have not used a conditioner in 9 days so hopefully, my order will come soon!
I also got travel sprays of TF Rose Prick, Atelier Lemon Island, and Ellis Brooklyn Bee.
Nice choices…I believe each has vanilla. 😉 I recently got a sample of Rose Prick but haven’t tried it yet.
Have you tried Kayali Vanilla? I was eyeing the set below but haven’t tried anything from this line and it’s now out of stock…suits me fine…they also spelled miniature wrong in the URL. ehaeheh 😉
https://www.sephora.com/product/kayali-miniture-discovery-set-P448606
I hear it’s good but longevity is poor.
I have not tried them.
I tried Bee tonight, I think you will like it. It wasn’t for me, but I don’t get along with honey. Have you tried Rose Prick? I heard it was very peppery.
Is Angel’s Share a safe blind buy? Feeling like a splurge.
It will be easy to unload if you end up hating it.
For whatever it’s worth I do not consider it a safe blind buy.
It’s got some fans on this forum but I did not care for it at all. It had a prominent/pervasive “woody” note (ambroxan?) shared by many perfumes these days (Initio Side Effect comes to mind) that ruins things for me. YMMV as they say.
I had the same problem with Initio. The house was so hyped last year and now people are unloading. I think it’s the pretty bottles that draw people in.
I also didn’t care much for it, due to the ambroxan drydown. I think we are in the minority though.
I will be doing some damage at Sephora as well once I’m done with all the meetings.
Good luck with the shopping ?
You definitely do not suffer fools!
Context is everything.
I gave Habanita a lot of consideration this morning! My bottle is old.
Tgif everybody!
Today I am wearing the good old classic Youth Dew, in bath oil form just like how it first started! Its not the oldest but it has been a favourite since my grandma so its got the longest family “history”. 🙂
You smell beautiful ?
My paternal grandmother always had Youth Dew bath oil next to her bathtub. Such a magnificent smell.
ROWR!
The oldest perfume in my collection is White Shoulders pre 1948 since it is in a Hartnell bottle. Such a wonderful scent
WOW! That is a serious oldie.
I love vingtage White Shoulders!
I’d love to be able to smell that – just a couple of days ago I read about it in Lizzie Ostrom’s Century of Scent.
White shoulders was my first perfume. At the time, I think I was 12, I didn’t like it. Wish I could have that bottle now.
Wearing Sinan, which is the first perfume I ever wore, starting around middle school (I was an old soul/weird kid). I remember smelling it for the first time and thinking “THIS is a perfume” 🙂 It definitely has big 80s power energy. Between middle school and college I thunked several full bottles of it, but haven’t worn it much since. Long discontinued, so I’m glad to still have two minis of it. Sniffing my wrists today, I really can’t judge it objectively because I am awash in scent memories, but I am kind of horrified at how much coriander there is in this and that I wore it to school. Although, I guess all middle schoolers smell like BO, so maybe it was fine.
“All middle schoolers smell like BO” – LOL!
Coriander smells citrusy and pleasant to my nose. Cumin is the BO spice in perfume for me. Sometimes sage does that too. Interesting how differently we all perceive things.
Oh, the way I wrote that was misleading. The coriander doesn’t come off as a BO note in Sinan, but it is a heavy, spicy element of it that could be oppressive to someone standing nearby. But since we all smelled like BO, it probably wasn’t the worse thing floating around the air. ?
Got it! Yeah, my memories of gym class at that time are still rather… pungent.
Well, let’s see. The bottle in my collection that I’ve owned the longest is Ralph Lauren Lauren, bought in the mid-80s. The scent I remember best from before that time is Faberge Woodhue. I probably own bottles older than that in my collection of adorable mini’s; who knows the vintages of those.
But I’m off-CP again today. The nose wants what it wants, and today that’s Edward Bess Genre. I put it on, and OMG, it is even better than the nose remembered. Wonderful! Happy FriYAY everyone!
Hooray on Genre being even better. So since you mentioned books last week, I wanted to mention my own mini purging of clothes which I still have to do A LOT more of. What I noticed though is that after than initial mini purging, I noticed that I left most of my black clothes. I really need to decide if I just want to chuck the lot and just buy what I need when I need it. Bottom line though, other than suits, I have given away most of the tops with shoulder pads!
Happy Friday! After my shower I’ll put on some Chanel 22. About 6 years ago or so I was lucky enough to buy a slightly used party size bottle of the exclusifs edt for like $90. And I agonized over that purchase!
I’ve always like no 22, I remember first smelling it when my aunt sent my mom a bottle of Vamp nail polish, and included a cardboard envelope of samples which were 22, 19, and 5. Precocious tot though I was, I wasn’t ready for 22 just then, and retreated to the safety of my samples of Leap from the body shop 🙂
And now as I walk the path of my old fragrance loves-baby rose jeans, Ibiza hippie, I see that if I ever needed some quick cash I could liquidate easily!
Lucky you to find that bottle for $90! No 22 is fabulous.
You smell wonderful, and at such a terrific price!!
Great find on that bottle!
In Le Jardin Retrouvé Cuir de Russie, original by Yuri Gutsatz in 1977 and reissued 2016. It’s a unisex beauty.
My *other* job is finally going to wind down, whew! The organization at last has a replacement lined up – several weeks and multiple crazy webinars later than I was meant to be on board as a temp. But it’s been a great learning experience and some extra income, and I’ll have a solid reference from the organization in my pocket going forward now.
Happy Friyay, everyone!
I like and own the new version. How much different is it compared to the original?
Happy Friday! I’m in Tabu, created by Jean Carles in 1932 from a 1960’s era bottle that was given to me when my beloved Aunt Polly passed away.
It’s still hanging in there and lovely and ambery as ever (though I don’t know how it smelled in the 60’s). It was interesting to learn that Jean Carles also created Miss Dior – I can definitely smell the link in lineage.
You smell great! Tabu has been my mother’s signature scent all her life. She received the first bottle from my father on a Valentine’s day. She has several bottles in different sizes and shapes, as well as body powders, soaps, powders. A beautiful collection she treasures deeply. She wears the perfume only when going out, which unfortunately doesn’t happen often anymore due to serious health issues. But she enjoys it when she still wears it.
Thank you for sharing about your mother and her love affair with Tabu. I hope that the powers that be make it possible for her to wear her beloved signature fragrance again.:)
PL67, the apple does not fall far from the tree – being introduced in early life to a wonderful and complex scent like Tabu – don’t you think that educated you about wonderful perfumes? 🙂
Absolutely! Besides Tabu, I also remember mom occasionally wearing Scoundrel and Scoundrel Musk. I loved Scoundrel Musk and saw few bottles in Ebay the other day. I may eventually give it a try for the good memories. But my grandmother loved perfumes a lot. Unfortunately, I don’t remember what she used to wear, but I clearly remember several bottles of perfumes stored in her closet and that she wore for special occasions.
Scoundrel – Gotta love that name.
It’s fun to picture that collection! I used to love the body powder especially.
You smell wonderful – I got a wonderful ’70’s-ish bottle last year in a bargain Ebay lot, and finally got to experience Tabu’s fabulous spicy and ambery self.
Thank you and glad you’re enjoying the one, the only, Tabu! I would loved to have been in the advertising pitch meeting when they came up with the name. Don Draper, eat your heart out.
I’ve been perusing everyone’s comments hoping for inspiration. The very first perfume I remember wearing was Aliage, in high school, and I wish I’d had the foresight to save a bit of it. But alas. I have a spritz of Grey Flannel on now (the next scent I recall wearing back then) while waiting for the towels to dry, and post-shower I’m at a loss. Was going to wear vintage Tabac Blond, launched in 1919 I think, but it’s much too pretty outside today for a “heavy”. Actually, Grey Flannel is kinda growing on me – maybe back to this, or else Cristalle EDP, which is one of the first things I sampled as I was falling down the rabbit hole.
Happy Friday everyone!
Grey Flannel is fantastic: it’s the first grown-up scent I ever owned a full bottle of, in its little flannel drawstring bag — I was seventeen and felt so adult (little did I know).
Pyramus, I agree it’s gorgeous, but unfortunately, ten more minutes in and I was reminded why I don’t wear this anymore. I think it’s probably the sage, or maybe the current reformulation, but whatever it is, on my skin it turned into a headache-inducing bundle of nononogetitoffme. So now I’m happily wearing Cristalle, as a sort of homage to the original Aliage – they share a number of notes, as it turns out. ?
Yes, back in high school I had NO clue about reformulations and discontinuations. Life was always going to continue along roughly the same, right? (Wrong.)
Exactly! I don’t think I even noticed a progression in scents as I wore them – they were just a halo of happiness that I totally took for granted, and I assumed they would just always be available, unchanged, whenever I wanted to get more. Makes me wonder what I’m taking for granted NOW that I’ll regret not saving, or at least enjoying the heck out of, in another ten or twenty years.
FriYAY! And Pay-yay, too!
I should be wearing my vintage Je Reviens, my sig scent in high school (which was a looooong time ago), but I’m in Diptyque Tam Dao EDT and enjoying it as well. Hope everyone has a good day.
I got excited because I thought we were scent twins! Je Revien. I’m never a scent twin☹️
Then you switched lol. Oh well, I’ll keep hoping one day I make a match.
I’ll wear it tomorrow – join me?
Yes!
You smell great!
Woke up in CM Intense this morning. I called the vet today for a refill on Jake’s medication and checked my refund status and it will be in my bank account next week. I was thinking of wearing Jicky but haven’t been able to wear it since last year. I am currently in Clinique Happy. Happy is my first high school perfume. I was thinking of Pleasures too but didn’t quite fit the bill for me.
I would be looking at Blue Grass, because that was one of my first teen years perfumes. Or my first big perfume purchase, GoutalL’Hadrien. It was an incredible experience for a perfume freak from birth to enjoy the magical perfume department.
Thanks for the kind words and caring earlier this week.
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Are you commando then? The Blue Grass sounds intriguing!
Can it be…? Yes indeed…it’s Friyay! ? always makes me think of JadainGA.
Wearing Dream Moon from Pacifica which was a blind buy when Target had fragrances on sale…many on Fragrantica say it’s a BR 540 dupe…and I definitely smell a resemblance. Notes are patchouli, sandalwood and pink rose. I bought it b/c I can’t seem to stop buying perfume this year…samples, FBs, sampled, blind…2021 has been a fragrance frenzy for me so far!?
I considered getting that plus one other new one but I restrained myself – oh the horror ?!
No vanilla, but do you like it?
I do but it’s pretty fleeting…must do hajusuuri-level sprays next time. 😉
I will also send you some of this and Silver Moon…have to round up your loot and will double-check if there’s anything else to share. ?
Thank you!
A fragrant wave from another one in the 2020-21 Overbuyer lineup.
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Joining the club!
Happy Friday! I hope everyone has something to look forward to this weekend. I’m dreading my vaccination appointment tomorrow, but will be happy once it’s over.
I’m wearing Nature from Yves Rocher. I know this perfume for more than a quarter of a century, and even though my current perfume came from a later acquired bottle, I decant it into a mini bottle that I bought all those years ago (you can see both of them in my 10 y.o. post here: https://undina.com/2011/05/22/wtd-nature-yves-rocher/).
I hope it goes very well for you – mine did. And yay for both vaccinating and smelling good!
You’ll do fine. It’s no different than a flu shot except there’s more paperwork.
Yay for your vaccine!
Good luck with your vax appointment!
Hope the vax goes smoothly Undina.
Haven’t paid attention to the CP because I just got back into town, so I’m failing it by wearing Vanille Banane. Good news is that we have a nice apartment waiting for us when we get back down to Vancouver. Very exciting! Got my 2nd vaccine too and had pretty mild side effects – fatigue and a slight temperature. I think I slept off the worst of it. Everything’s going my way, for now.
Haven’t had time to catch up yet but hope everyone else is having a good week!
Congrats on the apartment! When is the final move?
Our ferry leaves April 26th! And we should be in Washington by the 1st.
Wow. Soon you’ll be in your new place! Yay!
Things are happening quickly for you!
Je Revien by Worth. I exclusively wore it for several decades. So today a small drop of pure perfume to remember years gone by.
You smell wonderful and that is perfect for the project.
I still have the tiny deep blue flat bottle of pure Je Reviens parfum that my MIL brought me back from a cruise she took decades ago. It quickly became one of my favorite fragrances I still love to wear, and I like to add just one drop from that precious bottle whenever I do.
Yes, the pure perfume was always my favorite of the concentrations and I received a bottle every Christmas for years. You do smell wonderful.
I’ve always wanted to smell that one in it’s proper format. The new one was just sort of faint and soapy to my nose.
The new is horrid, I was so disappointed. It’s why I dole out my vintage perfume one drop at a time.
I’ve opened and I’m wearing Coty Chypre (1917) to celebrate the cp and it is such an interesting scent. Very potent and aninalic in its later stage, it has some relation to Cabochard I find.
Wow, that sounds intriguing – is your bottle really old, too?
My bottle is not that old, probably from the 50’s. Victoria from BdJ has a really old one as well as a 50’s one and find them quite similar.
Wow, I never smelled this. Hope you love it.
I do, yes it’s long discontinued.
That sounds very special!
It really is a classic.
Nice! At one of the Sniffapaloozas, Christophe Laudamiel opened his bottle and oh my lord – it was outstanding!
It’s very bold.
Wow! That sounds amazing!
If you love chypres, it really is.
I bet you smell outstanding!
Thank you Lillyjo, for chypre lovers it is rather special.
This is a great CP for me, for I am mostly still a vintage-seeker. Wearing a scent called Lentheric Numero Douze. The 30ml bottle is distinctly art deco in style. It is not the same perfume as Lentheric 12 from the 1960’s. I am sure the bottle is earlier than the 1950’s and it was lightly corded and full when I got it, though it did not have the box. Five hours after I put it on it is still a skin scent. I am guessing aldehydes, florals, and sandalwood. It smells old but not foul – maybe a little stale citrus smell that does not linger. Anyway, it is a happy bit of multisensory nostalgia for me. Happy Friyay and my lunch hour is about to end….
That sounds wonderful! Nice choice.
Finding something in good shape from the 1950’s (or earlier) is impressive!
Partial CP for me with Shalimar Cologne. It’s really lovely and similar to Shalimar Legere, which I wore a lot when it came out.
The oldest scent I own is probably Ralph Lauren Lauren…. my aunt gave me her bottle when I admired as a child. So sweet of her. I might still unearth that original bottle at my parent’s place! But now all I have is a reformulated recent bottle which does not compare at all, and I never wear it.
I loved Lauren back in the day and it was my signature in high school. I agree, the current version does not compare at all. They should just stop making it.?
Posting and running. I’m wearing the perfume I’ve had in my collection the longest. Moment Vole de Fragonard. My bottle is a 1oz screw top gold canister. I think I got it around 1988. I don’t wear it often. It smells very vintage and reminds me of the seventies.
It was a sobering thought when I realized 90s perfume is now vintage! Yours is even earlier. I hope your day is going well!
I was thinking very similar thoughts about the 90s – seems very recent to me 🙂
Thanks! I had the day shift so I could leave before things got crazy!
Good choice lillyjo – I like to be reminded of the ’70’s in perfume: *waves as you run by*
Waving back through the time machine window!
I have one of those gold canister bottles too. Happy Friday!
It was a gift from my aunt when she went to France. I treasure it. I actually didn’t even open it for twenty years! But it smells divine.
Great minds think alike! I did the same thing you did for the CP.
Twins! Yours sounds wonderful.
It’s a great example of a chypre.
You must smell delightful, I have a soft spot for Fragonard, I have Rêve Indien, very like Shalimar and Fleur d’oranger which I thunked earlier this year.
I worked do hard this week that I did not have any original thoughts as to the CP this morning so I started off in Eau Impériale which is probably the oldest creation in my collection. Because Guerlain Eaux disappear like Hermessences I added some Divine Bergamote. As citrus scents, even modern ones do not have the staying power I wished for I ended up adding some Ā ce soir. Gosh, that must be my favourite vanilla, it is just stunning.
do = so
We are cousins today – I used Eau de Fleurs de Cedrat but that one lasts 2 minutes.
I love Eau des Fleurs de Cédrat, but it is even more fleeting than Impériale
SotD = Old Spice
The cologne is from the 1970s. Such a beautiful spicy carnation. I swiped another decent from my Dad’s splash bottle. He never wears it, so I’m doing the world a favor by not letting it go to waste. ?
I visited with my parents yesterday afternoon. We sat outside and chatted, mask-less and still a bit distanced. It was good to spend the afternoon with them. We have all aged a lot this past year.
The three of us are fully vaccinated, but there was still some uneasiness. My mum is so afraid of getting sick. It will take time, how much I can’t say, for things to feel right again.. We can never go back, only take baby steps forward.
My other choice for today is a vintage manufacturer sample of Ysatis, at least 30 years old, a gift from my mother in law. I’ll wear a dab tonight, a symphonic floral is a good way to start the weekend. ?
How nice that you were able to visit with your parents. Despite being fully vaccinated, I share some of that same anxiety and have read several articles recently about having a very natural reluctance at this time to re-enter the world. Yes, you are right, baby steps . . . baby steps . . .
thanks, Laila! I agree, it’s going to take quite some time to get out of pandemic life and pandemic thinking when it’s finally time to go back into the world.
Glad you were able to see your parents maskless. I despair that the new normal is to wear a mask as we still have not conquered / vanquished the mess.
thank u, hajusuuri 😀 You’re right. I’m still masking up whenever I go anywhere else. My county is recommending the three household bubble rule for gathering with others. We’re bubbling with my family, my sister’s family, and our parents. It’s still worrisome though.
“Old Spice means quality” said the Captain to the Boatswain…..”
yo ho! yo ho! 😀 It’s fun to remember that jingle.
Yay for being able to see your parents and not wear a mask to do so!
thanks, Jalapeno! My parents have a big backyard patio that has a roof but no walls. It’s easy to sit outside together and enjoy the cross-ventilating breeze. I wasn’t sure if my folks would still wear their masks even though we’re all vaccinated now. They didn’t, so I followed their lead. We sat 6 feet apart though. That’s going to be a hard habit to break. 😀
Happy that you were able to visit ?
thanks, lillyjo! It was the first time in such a long time that we could see each other smile while we talked. It was a relief. 😀
Woo Hoo! Old spice is such a good choice Tiffanie!
I decided to go with “earliest release date”, which in theory would have meant 4711.
However, since a) today’s weather was just too cold for a classical cologne, since b) I had expected there to already be quite a number of participants with that scent when I made my choice this morning, and since c) I don’t even really like the stuff (it’s not colognes in general that are the problem, it’s just that 4711 seems to use a note or a fixative in its base that on my skin turns quite nasty), I opted for the second oldest one – Penhaligon’s Hammam Bouquet. Given that it, too, is fast aproaching the 150th anniversary of its first release, I think that still ought to count for the CP!
It counts! At least I’m counting Molinard Habanita even though it is a 2021 release of a 100 year old fragrance.
Well, I suppose Hammam Bouquet wouldn’t have retained quite the same formula either 😉 – although it does seem difficult to imagine even something like my rather newish version being released today.
BTW: Thanks for reminding me, I definitely need to seek out Habanita – wanted to do so for ages but somehow never got around to it.
Ha, I figured I would not be the only one to think of 4711! Hammam Bouquet is a classy choice, too. The synthetic musk base of 4711 – most definitely a modern addition – sometimes works for me, sometimes it doesn’t, but I feel very sentimental about 4711’s scent, either way.
My oldest bottles are a vintage Y parfum (thrift store) and that curious Shalimar rebottled one (could it really be from the 40s???). But it’s a brisk spring day, and even though any day is Shalimar day, I really wasn’t feeling it and went with Fleurs de Cedrat, which is already poof and gone!
My currently longest owned bottle is Aquaflor’s Aphrodisia, but I haven’t worn that in a long while.
Poof means you can wear another perfume ?
I wore the oldest bottle in my collection, a mini of Private Collection. This was a gift from a patient in the late 90ies. He have me a mini sample box from Estee Lauder. At this time I did not like any of them, now I am glad I kept some. Still don’t get White Linen, but love Private Collection.
I‘m with you on Private Collection – I find it quite special and so sophisticated.
I’ve so enjoyed reading about everyone’s choices and memories today!
If I wore the fragrance with the earliest release date in my collection today, it would be Yardley English Lavender, which dates to 1801. But for today’s cp I decided to wear the fragrance I’ve worn the longest. I think I was 12 and in 6th grade when I fell in love with scent, and my 3 favorites that I wore then (and still wear today) were vintage Helena Rubenstein Heaven Sent, vintage Houbigant Chantilly, and Coty Muguet des Bois. These were already classics then but I was surprised when I looked them up to see when they were created that they all date from 1941! So I wore my vintage Chantilly and Muguet des Bois earlier this week and chose my vintage HR Heaven Sent for my SOTD. I have so many memories associated with these 3 scents; I even remember some of the clothes I wore with them then because even then I associated colors with fragrances and I still do today!
Speaking of colors, my world is still bright yellow – the forsythia is still going strong and many more daffodils have opened up along with yellow tulips stretching their petals to the sky. But there’s also wide swaths of deep blue, as the tiny Scilla flowers that run rampant here join them in celebration of Spring. And the 80 degree temps we had for several days brought forth an explosion of bright pink magnolia blossoms on my neighbor’s shrub, and yesterday the tiny deep pink blossoms that outline the slender branches of my redbud tree made their appearance. And the best is yet to come – the tiny pink blossoms on my Korean spice viburnum are just emerging, and I can’t wait to bury my face in their gorgeous scent soon. Fortunately, temps have returned to what’s normal for April here; I don’t want everything to bloom at the same time and then be over!
Wishing everyone a lovely weekend of warm and colorful fragrance memories!
Spring flowers are wonderful! Only 6 months to wait here 🙂
Seems like we were buried in snow just a few weeks ago, I can’t believe it’s boom time! Your turn will come ?!
I love Heaven Scent – you smell wonderful!
Thanks, I still love it after all these years. Got a few bottles of the original vintage HRubenstein on evilbay a number of years ago for cheap; it still smells better than a lot of things these days. Nothing compares to the original.
Your flowers all sound so lovely! We had some freak snow a few weeks ago but then sprinted right through decent temperatures to 95° the other day. The only native thing really blooming here so far is the creosotes (natch ?). The mesquites are starting to leaf out, so they’ll follow soon, and the palo verde will too. Unfortunately, none of their flowers are actually fragrant. Honestly, the only desert thing flower I can think of that has a detectable fragrance is the night blooming cereus—it’s gorgeous but quite faint. (Or maybe my whole family and I are partly anosmic to it.?) …There’s a forsythia at my grandparents’ that my grandmother brought out West. It was starting to bud out last week, so I’ll have to check on it soon…
Oof, I meant to add: I hope you’re enjoying the return of Sox baseball to your neck of the woods!⚾️
Oh, yes! I am super psyched for this season. Hope to get to at least a couple of games once Mr. Laila is fully vaccinated – he gets his second shot next week. I’ve been to Phoenix, Scottsdale, Flagstaff, and the Grand Canyon and some desert areas but have never made it to Spring training, but one of these days I will ?!
I loved your trip thru the desert flora. We’ve driven through one of the Arizona desert areas but never when they were in bloom. Whenever I wear Dame’s Monsoon, I think of that time and how the creosotes must smell.
Robin, you smell beautiful!
SOTD for the CP is Guerlain EDC Impériale, which has the earliest release date (1853) in my collection. It also fits nicely with today’s warm weather.
Shout-out and a big salute to all my fellow vaccinated NSTers! I got my Janssen dose this week, so I’m feeling very grateful to be currently brewing up antibodies. Not gonna lie, it kinda kicked my butt for a while during the first 24 hours, but I was back to normal after that. So, hooray for science!
Happy Weekend to you all!
Hey, we’re vaccine twins! I got mine on Wednesday and other than a slight headache the first night, I just now have arm soreness.
Twinsies—woot!!!? (We may have been a day off, but that’s close enough for me.) I’m so glad (a) you got yours and (b) had only mild side effects! I had, like, *all* of the side effects except nausea (thank God!)—which was compounded by a period of overlap where I was also slammed with some serious sinus/allergy nastiness. I never do anything halfway.??♀️ But it was all over quickly. …Aw, we’ll share our 2-week milestone. “Injectiversary”? “Immuniversary”?
We shall share the date!
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Congrats on the vaccine! I am eagerly awaiting Thursday, which will be my 2 weeks + 1 day post my second dose, looking forward to cautiously dipping my toe in ‘normal’ waters.
Hey, Laila!??Congrats to you, too! Hang in there—you’re nearly “fully cooked”, as my neighbor puts it.? It really is nice to be so much closer to not being quite as worried about my more at-risk family members.
Hooray for vaccines, science and perfume…sometimes all at once! 😉
Yes, *all* of that!!!?
It’s really heartening to see so many people here getting access to vaccines.
Right!?! Congrats on getting your Round 1 today!!??
Thanks!
I’m wearing the oldest bottle in my collection that I personally originally bought (probably in the ’90s), Balmain Ivoire. It’s one of my favorite scents and am very happy to still have this.
I do have older bottles age-wise in my stash, but these had been purchased more recently in my quest for vintage scents.
Happy Friday everyone!
Another Ivoire fan here!
It’s so good! Glad to see another fan!
Good distinction for the CP! And you smell wonderful.
Thank you MossyBerry!
This bottle: https://www.fragrantica.com/perfume/Pierre-Balmain/Ivoire-de-Balmain-3816.html ?
If so, we are scent twins today!
That’s exactly it! We are scent twins today!
I have that same bottle, too. ❤️It!
I just received a sample of Ivoire and now I love it too!
What a great CP! Thanks, pyramus and Robin!
And thanks to everyone for the good wishes yesterday — my procedure went really well and although I’m a bit sore today all is well.
For the CP today I, too, went with “oldest in my personal history.” Calyx. I started wearing it between university and grad school and wore it through the 90s. My current bottle is one of my very newest, bought last November. It’s great to revisit and early love.
Glad all went well yesterday.
I missed yesterday, but glad things went well!
I’ll have to read comments later. I went with Jolie Madame by Balmain. I just love this scent. Mine is an old splash bottle with a black plastic cap. It came in a camel colored felt bag with a square cut out for the label to show through. I never bothered to date my bottle but I know it’s old. According to Fragrantica, JM was launched in 1953. What a beauty!
It’s a lovely one. I’ve got a recent version, and it’s pretty good.
I ❤️ It, too. Mine is also a fairly recent version but it smells great, too.
I have both vintage and recent. The current is pretty but the vintage!?
You smell great!
Thank you!
House twins!
Hey twin!
You smell glorious Petunia!
I’m House Twins with you and also have JM in my stash. I need to wear it more often.
Hey my other house twin! I have to remind myself as well.
I typically wear my modern scents on a day-to-day basis.
Halloooo!!
You all smell fabulous!
Busy times over here,but all is well!
I had no idea about the friday CP,I am rocking Aerin Iris Meadow today.Seriously underrated iris perfume,I adore it.
Happy Friday boys and girls!
XO
Johanob!!!!!! Every time I start thinking about you, you show up! So glad you have been doing fine! I still need to try Iris Meadow. Good to know you adore it! Hugs! ❤?
Hugs back!❤️❤️
Happy Friday, Johanob!
Thanks Laila,to you as well!?
Happy Friday!
Nice to see you, you smell great!
Well, howdy stranger! Good to hear that you are doing well!
Nice to see you!
Hi johano! Great to see you here!
Hi, johanob! Good to hear you’re well. I’ve been MIA a lot and lurking only sporadically (??♀️), so I’m glad I dropped in today and ‘saw’ you. Happy Weekend!
I went for no CPs in Nuit de Bakelite because I just received a sample and I am completely obsessed with this scent.
May go for my trusty Phylosikos after my shower (still in that old square bottle). It is the first perfume I bought with my very first salary!
I remember consciously deciding I wanted to treat myself to a special perfume. On one of the high streets in Frankfurt there is very small, elegant boutique perfumery that I went into – feeling very brave and a little like an impostor with my small budget and fancy work outfit. But I was determined and kept coming back so smell more.
And, after visiting that shop I don’t know how many times, one person recommended Phylosikos. It was instant love. She however would not let me spill my cash and offered me a small decant sample, insisting I trial it. I kept smelling my wrist on the underground all the way home. Thinking back I think she was so generous.
Anyhow – that first square bottle cost me 65€ and seemed like a fortune and such a treat. Years later my now husband gave me a big bottle as a surprise gift – how happy he made me.
I don’t wear Phylosikos as much now, but I don’t think I will ever be without a bottle.
I love that story!☺️
Aww… me too!
Me three! What a kind salesperson.
Really nice, right?
? the perfumed memory lane…
Great story! My husband bought me many perfumes from Parfumerie Albrecht and Brückner when he was working in Germany. He said they were lovely.
It was Parfümerie Albrecht! It was still a nice little shop, when I was there last (although they then had 3 outlets and no online business, so I do hope they get by).
Lovely story!
Post shower, I’ll wear Cabochard. It was my party perfume back in the day (by which I now mean a couple of decades ago!). I wasn’t any kind of perfume enthusiast at that time, I just had a used tester bottle that had been given to me. It was different to other perfumes I’d tried, so that made it immediately interesting.
The bottle I have now is one I bought around 25 years ago. It’s nearly empty, so I will have to investigate the current version soon.
You smell gorgeous!
I started the day in Chanel 1932. Thunked my 4 ml mini which makes me a bit sad because I love it! It’s so beautiful.?
Now I’m in vintage Obsession, also from a mini. I’m guessing it’s from 1988 or 89. The juice has gotten quite concentrated. A little dab goes a long way. Anyone else remember when Obsession came out and those kidney shaped bottles were actually called cologne? I went through several. It’s my number one of all time.?
Happy Friday!?
Eh, I remember my Obsession mini looking like a nipple … I kept telling myself I need to look for it although I fear I may have donated it way back when, along with a mini of Liz Claiborne in the triangle bottle with blue, red and yellow.
I do remember when Obsession was new! Someone I knew at the time wore it beautifully.
Posting late today due to an afternoon vaccine appointment! I go back at the end of the month for Round 2.
Today’s perfume is the oldest bottle I have in my Perfume Wardrobe.
SOTD = vintage Ivoire de Balmain EdT, in the pressurized bottle. Still smells great! When I spray it, I thought “I should wear this more often.” Since I have half of the 50mLs left, I’d say it’s lasted a good long time since I purchased it new in the late 1980’s.
Do you think the pressurized bottle help preserve a scent? I think you get extra CP points for wearing an older bottle you’ve saved over the years. 🙂 And, of course you smell wonderful.
Maybe? I’ve also kept the box (!) and avoided heat and light like the plague. So it’s a combination of all those.
Thanks for the perfume compliment!
W00t on Shot #1! With many of us getting vaccinated, we may be our own mini-bubble of herd immunity and I do like this idea!
What I did not take into account was the line at the vaccination site! So I will add an extra 30 minutes of time to my commute estimate for Round 2.
My sister did the reconnaissance last week and told us we need to get there super early and she was right. We were there a little more than an hour before the appointment. We got lucky that it was a very nice day.
What exactly is a pressurized bottle?
Do you remember the old deodorant/antiperspirant spray cans? They had a propellant in them to help get the contents out. Same with a pressurized perfume bottle. My Ivoire de Balmain has the finest, most even spray of any bottle I have.
Neat! I have a few old bottles but they are all splash, so I don’t think I have had one before.
We are ‘oldest bottle’ twins! Yay! You also smell fantastic, if I do say so.
Glad you got the vaccine! My very good friend is scheduled for hers in 2 weeks. I’m hopeful to register next week if all continues to go well!
Thanks! I will be glad when the second shot is done.
Congrats on Round #1; you’re on the way!
I‘ve never actually held a pressurised perfume bottle in hand. If I had one, especially an old one, I think I would have overspray panic! Congrats on the vaccine ??
Woo, another post. Since it is National Unicorn Day, I posted my ?. Really! It’s a Coach x Sephora collaboration.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CNdIyF7BodF/?igshid=i5c2sap5wa3q
I was checking this out tonight at Sephora. Cute!
I’m in Givenchy Ysatis parfum, one tiny dab from a tiny mini. It was part of a gift set I received from my ex-MIL in 1986ish. My goodness this is lush. We have lasagna (thank you, Stouffers) in the oven that’s smelling great, but I’m sitting in my own little cloud of loveliness. ❤️
Stouffers lasagna is a staple here!
It’s ni
Oops…It’s nice to have on hand!
Such a beautiful perfume!
It’s pretty special. ?
You smell great!
Thank you! ?
sotd: jicky
Which is how I started my antiquities week 🙂
Hi all! My oldest bottle is at my parents’ house: Elizabeth Arden Sunflowers, bought when I was in high school. I got the gift set because I really, really wanted the shower gel, but didn’t care much about the bottle of perfume that came with it. I’d wear the perfume every now and then, but wasn’t crazy about it. It’s still sitting on my old dresser, last I saw.
So, today I’m wearing the second oldest perfume I ever bought: Guerlain Champs Elysées. I got it in December 1996, while I was spending my junior year of college in France. I think I paid $44 for it, which felt like a huge amount of money (oh, if only I knew!). I liked how different it was from everything else I’d ever tried. I think the juice has turned a little since then, and it’s no longer my favorite, but I feel very sentimental about it. And I still have 3/4 of the bottle left!!! One of my perfume goals is to thunk a full bottle of something, anything, someday.
I don’t see a perfume bottle thunk in my future anytime soon, either.
And yet I keep buying them! I try to be reasonable, and after all I do use them, it just takes so long to make a dent in anything. But there are worse hobbies we could have ;).
Perfumes aren’t the only thing I have a collection of! ?
Oh, same here! My fabric and yarn stashes are huge. I also have tons of bath products (more scents!), skincare products, books, jewelry, bags, stationery supplies… the list goes on. What else do you like to collect?
This calls for a splash of the original 4711 cologne! Classic, centuries old formula and one of my earliest olfactory memories. I had one of these tiny little mini bottles when I was a kid and it felt so special to me. Still have a soft spot for this scent and I keep a bottle in the fridge for use in emergencies. There nothing like spritzing yourself with a cold 4711 on a super hot day. I have other colognes I keep in the fridge but this one is always in the line up.
Great choice. Those mini bottles were so cute!
So many happy memories in a bottle. I love 4711 too.
Super late check in, and I’ll have to catch up on reading comments in the morning. But I am in vintage Coty L’Origan today, which was created in 1905. I’m not sure the age of my mini, but it seems like it could be anywhere from the 60s – 80s. I’ll have to look into it. I think I picked it up for very cheap while thrifting. It’s a lovely perfume, very smooth, and it smells like maybe a sweeter, easier to wear L’Heure Bleue. Coincidentally, I wore LHB yesterday. It was only 7 years behind the Coty. I have a feeling the top notes of my vintage bottle haven’t held up. The perfume smells great, but I basically get a sweet violet vanillin cosmetic powder, none of the citrusy and spice notes it’s said to contain.
I’m a day late but I wore Chanel 19 yesterday, the perfume I’ve worn for the longest time. Actually, I have a little bottle of Norell, which I bought with birthday funds when I was about 10, at the five and dime store (not the same bottle.) It was just too warm to wear it yesterday.