We did a visual media poll last March because so many people were stuck at home (usually we only did this poll in the middle of winter). Possibly we don't need to do a repeat in 2021, but we'll do one more and see how much interest there is? And coming soon: the swapmeet, on 24 April, followed by the spring reading poll, on 1 May.
Tell us...
...what fragrance you're wearing today?
...any great tv shows or movies you've discovered recently, and/or
...anything else fun you've been streaming (exercise videos? music? anything),
Or, as always, just talk about something else....
Note: top image is Bell Canada ExpressVu Satellite Dish [cropped] by Tony Webster at flickr; some rights reserved.
Good Girl Gone Bad
I really enjoyed the Formula 1 series on Netflix, waiting for Shadow and Bone to start (I read the young adult book series) and right now I am watching a cheesy series called Velvet (in Spanish with subtitles) just for the clothes and the guy is bellissimo
I mostly prefer to read then to streaming
Ohhh, Velvet sounds intriguing. Is there a tall, dark, and handsome I should know about?
I love Good Girl Gone Bad, it’s such a beauty.
yes, Miguel Ángel Silvestre
Oh my, he smolders.
Wow, I’m a fan!
I just started reading Shadow and Bone! I’m enjoying it immensely.
Its good to escape. Don’t judge me, but I love the darkling. Sometimes the mysterious characters are the most compelling.
If you haven’t read Naomi Novik’s “A Dark Education” yet I highly recommend it. It’s Harry-Potter-esque, if Harry Potter had been a surly female teenager. It’s fabulous and I am mad as fire that I have to wait for the second installation now.
Rainbow Rowell’s “Carry On” is also in that vein.
We started Formula 1 last night, based on your post. I can see it becoming addictive.
Dear LizzieB-
I find Sir Hamilton and Carlos Sainz to be worth watching 😉 🙂
Let me know what you think. <3
Hello all, SOTD is vintage Safari extrait, from a very old bottle. The dry down is glorious.
I’m headed out for a long hike with Mr. SmokeyToes. We’ll be down on the coast, so I’m planning on lots of layers of sunscreen. 🙂
Everyone have a great day! 😀
Enjoy your walk, ST! You smell fabulous! I have two Safari vintage edp lay down bottles from a thrifting find (DH noticed them 🙂 ) and I love them. Hope the sun is warm and you get all good-walk sweaty!
DH for the win! I love it when you find a thrift store bargain.
enjoy the walk!
what sunscreen are you wearing?
I love the Universal tinted mineral sunscreen SPF 46 by DRMTLGY, it’s an exact dupe for EltaMD but half the price ($23). It has niacinamide and is a great moisturizing sunscreen. They are having a Spring sale, everything on site is 20% off, coupon code is SPRING.
I love their vitamin C serum and their Peptide Night Cream is fantastic.
https://www.drmtlgy.com
Ok, I ordered a bottle of the sunscreen. I have been looking for a new one to try.
I hope you like it, it’s nice and just like the EltaMD, which I formerly loved but was getting pricey at $37 bucks a pop. With my pale Mediterranean coloring, it was challenging to find a mineral sunscreen that didn’t make me look like Casper the ghost! I love Australian Gold tinted Mineral Sunscreen SPF 50. That’s a great one for summer time if you have oily skin and need SPF that won’t budge. It’s also a great primer for under foundation. Once it sets, it won’t budge.
Me too. I’m always on the lookout for $50 face sunscreen that costs $25 ?
Apparently half of Oregon went to the beach yesterday. We’re having unseasonably warm weather in the valley (mid-80’s yesterday, don’t tell the folks in the middle of the continent who just got more snow)! I think I’ll go down in the middle of the week and hope for less company. I hope you had a good time and good weather!
Mid 80s, and beach! So jealous, although admittedly we will get there soon enough.
Thanks Marjorie Rose! It was a little chilly but the sun eventually came out. Here are a few pictures from my IG. 😀
https://www.instagram.com/p/CNyF35JBZiC/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
Haven’t watched anything since The Queen’s Gambit this winter, but I do enjoy streaming some international radio stations. ‘SBS Chill’ out of Australia is very relaxing.
Sampling Eau Duelle. I somehow missed this one back in the day. I like that it’s a sophisticated take on vanilla, but there’s a plasticky note that’s just niggling at me. No bottle for me.
I get the same note in Eau Duelle! It reminds me of transparent tape, or a dentist office.
The Queen’s Gambit was amazingly good! We are currently watching The Serpent, terrifying. We have two episodes to go.
I also love Yosemite, with Kevin Costner. But fair warning, Episode 1 is a tough one.
I think you meant Yellowstone. I was so excited that there was a show based on Yosemite and looked it up. Yellowstone sounds good too, but no El Capitan.
Thanks for so many well wishes for my sister yesterday. She has an appointment w/ a great surgeon on Monday afternoon.
No perfume yet as I am headed to the pool shortly but will update later.
Just finished the Beforeigners on HBO which was really excellent…6 episodes filmed in Norway w/ subtitles…can’t wait for season 2.
I also recently wrapped up the last season of Homeland which is on Hulu now and went back and rewatched some episodes of the early seasons ehaehhe b/c I love Claire Danes so much and wondered if seasons 1 and 2 were as good as I remembered…and they were. 😉
All the best to your sister!
Claire Danes was excellent, I loved that series.
I love Claire Danes from way back the My So Called Life times, but I have chosen to avoid Homeland. I’ve heard enough about it to think it would probably have too many trauma triggers for me. It’s a bummer, because I’d love to see her in a meaty role!
Was just thinking of Beforeigeners yesterday. So glad to learn of a 2nd season. One of the quirkier shows I have watched. Recommend it to everyone.
It’s also International Haiku Poetry day today so if you feel like it, share a haiku with the rest of us 🙂
The weekend is cold and gloomy and I feel kind of down because of it. Dad was vaccined on Thursday and he only has a little bit of pain in the arm, nothing worrysome. Still waiting for my own opportunity but I’m too young to expect my turn anytime soon.
Dusita La Douceur de Siam is my SOTD, chose if because Pissara shared the news that she’ll be releasing a new perfume soon. I wonder what will it be like. The last one – Moonlight in Chiangmai, was gorgeous.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CNw7hzyh2gQ/
Dusita should have a check in the mail to you for that photo!
Haha! Thank you! I can only wish. Maybe I will be lucky to get some of that new perfume to try.
What lillyjo said!
Just tried that one…it is beautiful….and your photo is great!
Thanks a lot
Exciting news about a new Dusita perfume!
It will be revealed on Monday. Can’t wait.
I hope it’s a floral! Love all her florals ❤️
Yay for your Dad!
Glad your dad is vaxxed
And feeling few side effects
Hope your turn comes soon!
I’m in Dune, and I smell great!?
I slept so, so good last night. My other half was up at the crack of dawn and already had a load of laundry done by the time I came downstairs. Much appreciated.☺️
The sun is out and it’s gorgeous today.
Recent watches….
Stranger Things season 1&2. Now we’re stuck because we don’t have a Netflix account anymore and we got the dvds from the library. Have to wait for season 3.
Rewatched Moonrise Kingdom last weekend and we watched Hoosiers during March madness. It’s one of my husbands faves.
AppleTV: Dickinson, which was really fun to watch.
We just started watching Lost on prime. I watched it by myself back when it was on in real time. Hard for me to believe madtownteen was a baby then, and now she’s old enough to watch it. I loved that series, but it broke my heart in the end…
I watched Lost while it was airing too, and I loved both the show, and the community that developed around it. I have very fond memories of discussing the previous night’s episode with a handful of people at work, and participating in the online discussions in the comments section of Alan Sepinwall’s blog. I had the same feeling with Game of Thrones. TV viewing habits have change so much over the past decade, with entire seasons released at once and so many good shows out there, that I doubt many new shows will have that kind of cultural impact – with everyone watching the same thing at the same time, anticipating new episodes, and collectively dissecting the episode they just saw.
I have never been *up* on a show enough to participate in that kind of culture, but sometimes I wish I was! There was an entire decade of conversations that began with “it’s like that Seinfeld episode when. . . ” in which I could not participate because I had none of the reference points.
I watched Lost for about a season, but I didn’t stick it out. I felt like the writers were just making it up as they were going along, and I lost faith in them having a plan. Kinda like Twin Peaks.
To clarify, I love Twin Peaks, but I reached a point when I stopped looking for internal logic and just let it be weird and irrational.
Verified: in Dune, you smell great! 😉
Absolutely!
SOTD is Highland Lilac.
I finished watching Lovecraft Country. Whole series has been sitting in my DVR for months. It was very enjoyable and I hope they continue.
I’m now starting HBOs The Nevers. I’m more of a reader, but love shows like this as I’m a night owl. My TV choices tend to be very eclectic and as my husband jokes, “out of my demographic”. I have 20 yr old boy tastes?
Reading the Shadow and Bone YA series, also Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man. That one is our neighborhood book club choice, it should be required reading for everyone.
Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man is really great! I was part of racism/Whiteness book group earlier this year, and we found ourselves referencing it a lot.
Testing Maison Margiela Soul of the Forest. This is one going to the finals for the Juniper&Forest hunt. I get dry cedar, fir, some moss, and a little incense, which seems to be the key for me. I guess my strongest scent memories of forests are from camping, so there is always a bit of campfire smoke clinging to everything. SotF doesn’t have the wet earth note I’d ideally like, but it is a strong contender. Yet another one that I’d like to layer with Detemeter Dirt or Thunderstorm once I get my hands on bottle of one of those.
I’m looking forward to watching the second season of Everything’s Gonna Be Okay, bc I really like the first season and loved the full run Josh Thomas’s first show, Please Like Me. Ted Lasso was my favorite new show of the past year. And I used the covid downtime to catch up on Schitt’s Creek, Sex Education, Dickinson, Pen 15, Better Things, Fleabag, and Succession, all of which are excellent. As for movies, I will limit my recommendation to 20th Century Women, which I rewatched last weekend and cannot praise enough. Looking forward to reading everyone’s recommendations.
What are your other juniper & forest hunt contenders? I love those notes.
Right now, Regime des Fleurs Falling Trees, Comme des Garçons Hinoki, and the Mansion Margiela Soul of the Forest are making it to the next round. I could someone elevating CBIHP’s Black March too, but it wasn’t quite what I wanted. Several more to try before I close round one tho. And while it doesn’t strictly fit the brief, Chanel Sycomore was a wonderful contender and I’m planning to get a FB of that one too. It has been fun testing my way through these and trying to figure out which notes do and don’t work. I didn’t anticipate that incense would be a key background note for me, and I’m finding that my idea of juniper is a little more broad than actual juniper.
CdG Hinoki is great! You might like Dawn Spencer Hurwitz The Voices of Trees too, especially if you love Chanel Sycamore. Now I want to try Soul of the Forest 🙂
Did a little straightening up around the house in vintage BaV. Vacuuming is going to wait until later on. I finished up watching Story of Yanxi Palace. That was a long series (70 episodes) and haven’t found anything new that’s catching my fancy. Browsing Luckyscent while wearing Lyric.
BaV is delicious stuff. You smell wonderful!
Oooh you smelled wonderful! I need to try some BaV next time I’m cleaning.
I’m in a cloud of Le Dix – EDT and dusting powder – and enjoying a lovely morning. We’ll be going to a memorial service later today for two very sweet relatives who passed during the past year. They were both quite elderly and frail so not a complete surprise, but still sad.
Le Dix is beautiful! I have a tiny sample of the vintage.
Hope the memorial service went well SheriG, condolences.
It was lovely, actually. A married couple, both passed during the pandemic so memorials for both had to wait until now, and they were such a happily married pair that remembering them together was just perfect.
thank you for sharing, SheriG, I’m sorry for the loss of two who loved deeply, but also feel comfort that your experience at the memorial went well. This summer there will be a lot of “catch up” in my circle of family and friends with delayed memorials (and a wedding!). The emotional weight of all that has been lost and delayed makes me pensive.
Aw, that is sweet!
Scent for this morning is Elderflower Cordial. It’s lovely and reminds me of milk candies. Great show I watched recently is Lovecraft Country.
I don’t think I have ever had milk candy, but it sounds nice!
Wearing ELDO Jasmin et Cigarette.
It is a cool and cloudy day. I am on my way out to run some errands and then meet my sisters for dinner tonight at my youngest sister’s apartment. It should be relaxing!
Happy weekend, everyone! ?
Yay for sister dinners. I am going to my sister’s husband’s family reunion this summer at the beach, and I am so happy thinking about it. We have a small family and they have a big family, so I think I will be “absorbed into the collective.”
I love big family gatherings. I haven’t seen my whole family in more than a year already. I miss those reunions. It might not happen this year yet, but looking forward to it next year.
I hope you have a wonderful time at the beach with your husband’s family. It sounds amazing!
I still have not sampled this, it’s on my list…
Hope you have the chance to sample it soon. It is an unusual perfume. I love it!
You smell lovely! I just sampled that two days ago and while I don’t have the personality to pull that perfume off I was monstrously impressed by it.
Thank you Teebear! Jasmin et Cigarette is a very unusual scent. There are few days when I only smell the jasmine, others when I only smell cigarette ashes. The whole concept is very interesting and I love the scent!
I started the day in Shalimar Philtre. I’ve been wearing it for the past 3 days and still cannot get over the fact that I enjoy wearing some sort of Shalimar. It feels like a milestone. I’m still not getting any opoponax (like Petunia mentioned) but I take back the lavender comment. I can definitely smell lavender mixed with the citrus in the opening. Who knows, maybe the opoponax will reveal itself at some point. Or not.
Will probably switch to Opardu after I’ve showered.
I’m sure this show is old news to just about everybody but I’ve just discovered Mozart in the Jungle and I think it’s fantastic. I binged watched the first 3 seasons and I’m down to the last few episodes in season four.
Happy Saturday all!
Love the Philtre. I am a fan of All things Shalimar, and I really enjoy this one.
I may need a bottle. It’s a great flanker.
I discovered and loved Mozart in the Jungle in December last year. I think I’ve watched all four seasons about five times now. I read somewhere that it was canceled after a new head of TV programming came to Amazon and wanted to put her own stamp on the offerings.
Hmm maybe this will be my Shalimar – I really tried to like it but so far no luck
That was a great show.
Cleaning, so no scent yet. I found quite a few really nice gems
– Loosing Alice – Apple TV. Very suspenseful, masterfully done, and if you blink, you miss something important. Israeli show with English subtitles. Superb cast!! 10 out of 10
– Tehran. Also on Apple TV. Centered around Israeli agent dropped in Tehran. Not as good as some of the other shows but better than a lot of things I have watched. 7 out of 10
– Morning Show. I was surprised how much I liked it. The plot was wrapped around too neatly for my taste, but quite impressive camera work. 8 out of 10
– Mossad 101 on Netflix. Another Israeli show. The first and second seasons are very different – while the first one was more light hearted and comedic, the second season took a darker turn. The main male character looked like a normal person in the first areas on, but they did a grange thing to his hair in the second season, and it is super obvious he is an actor playing someone. I know small detail, but my obsessive mind gets stuck in things like that. 9 for first season, 6 for second.
– when heroes fly. Another Israeli gem. I do not understand the name (maybe it was translation?), and the plot seemed a bit over the top, but it was really interesting how it addressed the issues of conflict in the society. 8 out of 10
– the beauty and the baker. (Original Israeli show). Very light hearted and I like it better than American adoptation. 8 out of 10.
And a couple I hated
– Gypsy. That was weird. Good cast, horrible plot.
– the one. Interesting premise, but veered too far from the book. Mediocre acting and plot.
So many interesting shows out of Israel! I don’t think I’ve seen any Israeli TV. My first boyfriend was from Jerusalem, though, so I think I could have fun, nostalgic moments hearing voices like that again. 😀
2nd that, thanks clarissa!
Wearing Murdoch Black Tea today.
Really impressed by 30 Coins on HBO.
Wow, 30 Coins looks fun but probably too scary for me.
Wearing Arquiste Anima Dulcis and watching a Tibetan film called Looking for a Lady with Fangs and a Moustache.
I’ll quarantine with you anytime, as long as you’re wearing Anima Dulcis!
Don’t leave us hanging; a film with a name like that must have a review!
It’s a Tibetan Buddhist theme, this guy has a dream which he is told means he will die within a week. But to prevent this, he has to find a dakini, a sort of female spiritual being, who are often depicted in fierce ways with fangs and a moustache. It was very interesting with corgeous cinematography.
I’ve no doubt that lady will be found shopping in my store.
LOL!
I’m wearing Maitri by Provision Scents. No viewing recommendations – I really don’t watch stuff anymore unless it’s soccer games.
Hope everyone has a great weekend!
You too sistine!
Today I am testing two scents by The Harmonist. I have Sun Force on one wrist which smells like a classic cool citrusy men’s scent on a woody base. Very well done but there is a note in the base that I don’t care for. On the other, I sprayed Moon Glory, which is warm, creamy and sweet, but not too sweet. A honeyed, slightly fruity white floral. They are supposed to contrast and compliment each other. Props once again to hajusuuri for providing these samples.
The last series that I watched was back in Jan/Feb. All Creatures Great and Small and also Scarlet and The Duke on Masterpiece Theater. I enjoyed both tremendously but generally don’t watch much TV during the work week because I am up early for work.
Seriously! We are double twins today! Sounds like you like Moon Glory better of the two. The citrus girl here likes sun Force.
I really like them both Nancy. Sun Force is a great scent! Smells very elegant.
Alrhough, the top contender for me so far is Royal,Earth. ?
I still have a few to try, but RE is by far the front runner for me too. Beautiful earthy iris.
I found some Santal 22 shampoo from our honeymoon (Hotel Pulitzer Amsterdam), so I smell like that with some Box of Eels layered on top. Hopefully won’t get too strong in the warmer weather this afternoon.
I haven’t had a moment to watch anything other than Home Town in the last 6 months. I like the happy couple making their town better one house at a time. But, I’ll take some notes, as I will have extra time now!
Oh wait, I’m a liar. I did watch Angel: The Series, which streams through Facebook. I would play it in the background while grading assignments, etc. I’m a huge Buffy fan, and it was the first time I watched more than a few minutes of any of those shows. It was fun, but I still prefer Buffy.
I like Home Town! I don’t watch it very often, but it’s nice. You smell great in BoE!
I’ve switched entirely from heavy, meaty shows to light, uncomplicated things. Home restoration projects with nice people is just about all I have been able to handle this year!
Hi all!
Thank you for your generous birthday wishes yesterday- I got everything done, so the house is clean and tidy. I went window shopping along NW 23rd. Dazzle is gone ? but other shops are still there. I went to Elephants and bought some Italian aperitivo sodas- crodino and San Bitter, great no alcohol mixers for a low fi Aperol like spritz or a Campari and soda vibe.
Today is about iced coffee and books on my Kindle! Raybearer and How We Get Free is on deck.
Streaming: Falcon and Winter Soldier, Lovecraft Country, Wandavision and The Good Fight.
SOTD: Cap Neroli for this sunny day, with a projected high of 85F!
Happy belated birthday, Ede! ??
Iced coffee & kindle sounds like a great day, have fun!!
I’m a shameless neighborhood sniffer; don’t have a lilac of my own, so have been planting my nose in the ones down the street for the last few days. Will wear Ineke’s After My Own Heart for this afternoon’s foray into the bushes.
Haven’t watched anything in forever; maybe I’ll take inspiration from your recommendations here. Be well, all!
I had a beautiful lilac in my yard at my last house, and folks asked to take a few flowers all the time. It was glorious, dark purple, and very fragrant. I bet it was decades old.
I love neighborhood sniffing! And for pictures of trees and flowers. I have several spring and fall routes to check every year. Just took my mother on a red bud tree ride last week.
Another neighborhood sniffer here.
I’m reading from the bottom up and this comment made me LOL, as I don’t yet know the context ?
It’s Turner Classic Movies 31 Days of Oscar and I’ve been watching old movies even more than usual. Also reading Douglas Fairbanks Jr’s autobiography Salad Days and enjoying getting the back story on a movie or the actors involved, then watching the show. Covid numbers are rising fast again here – about 7 miles from Michigan – so I’m not out and about much, even with the vaccine. Wearing Wazamba and smelling wonderful!
-I’d like to know if Angel fans like Angel Eau Croisiere as a tropical scent, please weigh in before I blind buy!
I like them both, but only have the 2019 version so far. It’s the coral color one. It’s very mango heavy, I think it’s very syrupy. It smells like mango body spray layered over Angel. The 2020 version is the fig one. Normally, I do not like fig, but I like this which leads me to believe it is not very figgy, lol. I find them both easy to wear as long as I don’t over spray.
Thanks! The mango is the one I’m looking at.
The Batch code on my sample is 0934043 and I cannot remember if I got it last year or year before.
Hi ringthing: I have a brand new 1.2ml carded sample of Eau Croisiere. If your finger is not poised over the mouse button set at “buy now,” email me @ the land of nett scape, kclberry. I could get it in the mail to you by Tuesday at the latest. I started to open it just now, but then thought since I haven’t tried it by now, it may need a new home. It came with something else I got from Mugler.
I missed most of NST this week – work was very busy, and some home issues mostly the quotidian. I am all over the place with perfume today; got rained out of yardwork and went on to laundry. I try to be like Goldberry that way. First up was Giorgio Red from another of my Plato’s Closet escapades. Later I spritzed on some Santo Domingo by Oscar de la Renta. It is scent I disliked very much at first (it’s part of a travel spray set of “Essential Luxuries”) but when I came back to it, I liked it ever since. I don’t watch much TV other than old re-reruns, but I just read Persepolis, enabled by SpringPansy who got the ball rolling by saying she ordered Nez Ambre a Levres. Yes, I got that nice 30ml size too. Enjoy the perfume, but the book is very moving; I felt it was very close to what I think of as a real memoir, not a spinning of a narrative. Kind of like “A Christmas Memory” by Truman Capote in some ways – I felt like I was with the writer as they told the story.
The animated version is good too!
SOTD is Anarchy (Irma Shorell’s dupe for Chaos) layered over Absolute Aphrodisiac, and I smell marvelous. Warm, sweet, and spicy. I did some work this morning, but have decided to take the rest of the day off, because, Saturday.
A friend of mine came over this morning and got my swamp cooler up and running (a must-have for desert dwellers), and now it is nicely chilly inside. I might curl up in bed and watch one of the shows y’all have been recommending in this thread.
It is just chilly here with the windows open so I am jealous! Glad you got your swamp cooler going.
I’m starting my Sunday in a drop if 24 Faubourg, so that I’m properly set up for a bit of housework. Then we’ll be going out for a nice long walk, it’s a glorious autumn morning. A little nippy, but a cloudless blue sky.
I was so excited by the beautiful day that I forgot to mention what we’ve been watching. Apart from lots of YouTube videos of people playing Doom 2 (surprisingly enjoyable), we’ve watched the first episode of The Witcher, and some episodes of a British police procedural called Unforgotten. My beloved finds it painfully formulaic, but I’m enjoying it. I’d seen some of it on a flight a couple of years ago, but the plane landed before I found out what happened!
I grew up watching my brothers play video games (they owned the systems, so they got to choose who played, it was rarely me). But they played a lot of the old adventure games, like Zelda, and role playing games like the older Final Fantasy games. I enjoyed anticipating the solutions to puzzles before they figured them out.
The best movies I’ve seen this year so far,, which are available and not Sundance titles:
Minari
Promising Young Woman
Quo Vadis, Aida?
Judas and the Black Messiah
You Cannot Kill David Arquette
Another Round
On the TV side I really liked I May Destroy You (very heavy material) and The Flight Attendant (a fun thriller with some comedy) on HBO, and for something light, Somebody Feed Phil on Netflix.
Today is the day I have to get around to packing up the perfume and choosing what to hang onto for the 6 weeks it’s gonna take to get our stuff. Moving from Alaska – fun! ? Wearing Tobacco Vanille, which can be put away since we’re heading into spring.
Best of luck on the move! I moved from California to New Mexico last year and had a very sizable perfume collection to move as well. I’m pleased to report I had no casualties perfume-wise, but I must have gone through literally $50 worth of bubble wrap swaddling all of my (mostly unboxed) bottles!
Mine isn’t TOO huge – soon after I discovered niche, I started buying mostly decants. The hard part is deciding ahead of time what I’ll want to wear while the bulk of my things are in transit. From AK to the lower 48 is gonna take forever – like a whole month. My perfume might have to take the coveted real estate in my car.
I hope the weather agrees with your travel plans, Dorsey! It sounds like lots of folks in Canada and the central US are getting snow this week. Safe travels!
Thank you!
I enjoyed The Flight Attendant too, but felt very foolish explaining the plot to my husband!
Sotd is Trimerous.
I’m spending a lazy Saturday rearranging my perfume bottles in preparation for next Saturday. I’m looking forward to clearing some things out!
I need to do the same, allo. Maybe I’ll get to it tomorrow. ?
🙂
Wearing Paris – Deauville today! It’s just perfect. My back garden area needs to be weeded and leaves cleaned up. I will have to enlist my hubby since he’s currently watching golf instead of doing that! The sun is shining brightly and should be around the back garden shortly.
We regularly watch reruns of Mike & Molly; 2 shows are on every night back-to-back, so we pvr them to watch when time allows. The whole cast is hilarious; Melissa McCarthy is priceless. I also enjoy watching the Great British Baking Show and am catching up on a few of the seasons that I missed.
Happy Weekend everyone!
Was heading for a rose perfume today, but your post is putting me in the mood for Paris-Venise. . .
Today I’m wearing Glossier You. We’re having dinner at my in-laws’ house, and my MIL is sensitive to strong smells, so I figured this would be a good choice.
My recent TV discovery, and I am VERY tardy to this party, is Schitt’s Creek. People kept recommending it to me and I thought it couldn’t be as great as everyone says, so I decided to give the first season a go and…now I am almost done with the final season. (I wonder what perfume Moira would wear? Undoubtedly something with a HUGE presence like Opium or Poison; no shade, I enjoy both of those!) It’s very funny and charming. From what I knew about the main characters before seeing the show, I thought I would absolutely hate everyone, but I’ve grown to love them. David is my favorite.
As far as other things I’ve been streaming, my partner and I are currently watching Invincible on Amazon Prime (warning: animated but extremely gory) and catching up on Harley Quinn’s second season on HBO Max (warning: animated but extremely gory/foulmouthed; I’m starting to sense a pattern!). On my own, I’m enjoying The Way of the Househusband on Netflix, which is an anime series about a former gangster who’s now a devoted househusband. As you can tell, we watch a lot of not-for-kids animation in our adults-only household!
Ha! Was helping my son fill out forms for a program on independent living skills (he’s 17 and dxed w ASD—funny, sweet, and smart!) and one of the questions was about his favorite activities. He mentioned enjoying watching anime and I told him to mention shows he’s been viewing. Ummmm…mom? He said, Assassins’ Classroom, Blue Exorcist . . .! ?
I’m in The Harmonist today, Moon Glory on my left and Sun Force on my right.
I’ve been doing more reading than TV watching lately. Trying to finish American Empress, a biography of Marjorie Merriweather Post. It’s generally good, but a bit slow in places.
Busy today: cleaned up the kitchen from the cookie project yesterday (brown butter bourbon snickerdoodles), did some meal prep and helped the hubster disassemble the stick vacuum, clean it out and put it together again.
I hope everyone is having a great Saturday!
Well, brown butter bourbon snickerdoodles sound like little slices of heaven!
They were quite tasty, and are quite gone….as of noon yesterday! ?
Was watching Prince Philip’s funeral this morning on CNN; I DVR’d the rest to watch later when I had to leave for work. The national moment of silence gave me chills, poor Charles looked (understandably) stricken during the whole thing. I hope the family being all together gives Will and Harry a chance to move towards some reconciliation.
Soup Of The Day: 1000. Reminded me a lot of No. 5.
I have only seen some still photos of the funeral, but was struck by how stooped and aged Charles looks. I know he is no youngster but I was shocked.
I’ve been enjoying Chanel No. 22 lately! My favorite TV new TV show (I hardly watch any) is WandaVision. It’s fun and brilliant! Elizabeth Olsen is fabulous, and it’s fun to catch the references to past sitcoms and other inside jokes. I’m tempted to watch all the episodes again from start to finish, to see what I missed the first time through. I watch Falcon and the Winter Soldier with my husband but I’m not that into it. Haven’t been to a movie in a year, and I actually haven’t watched many on TV either. I look forward to reading others’ suggestions!
I might have to check this out just to catch the old references!
WandaVision looked like fun from the commercials I saw. Glad you’re enjoying it!
I really liked Wandavision, but I am not a Marvel fan so I’m sure I did not even “get” half of what was going on.
In a spritz of the new Hermes H24. I like it for a masculine- getting alot of pineapple.
Mr Yasmina and I decided to try doing a tech sabbath. From Friday sundown to Saturday sundown. It felt soooo amazing to be away from my phone and computer for 24hrs. If you have been feeling chained to the screen lately I highly recommend this.
I also recommend Lupin on Netflix. It’s a French show and lots of fun
Tech sabbath is a great idea!
SOTD = Nishane Wulong Cha
This is my first Nishane bottle and what a beauty, inside and out! It’s green, lightly spicy, citrusy, musky and figgy tea. It’s perfect for spring so OT seems I got started on the CP already!
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Shows I’m watching in random order, acknowledging I don’t have Netflix and I barely even watch HBO (I don’t even know what channel it is)
1. Shark Tank
2. Young Sheldon
3. B Positive
4. Antiques Road Show
5. Food Network and BravoTV cooking / baking competitions
6. Blue Bloods
In other news:
1. I subscribe to the Saturday and Sunday editions of the New York Times. I’ve had a long standing delivery request where the newspaper should make it on top of the steps on my tiny landing right outside my door. Over the years, there had been occasions when the paper would land on the sidewalk instead and I would call and it’s corrected. 3 weeks ago, it happened again and I called; it happened again this morning. I called and the representative just said she will let the “delivery partner” know. I said that was what I was told 3 weeks ago and I would like to escalate it. Sorry, if it happens again by next Saturday, it will be escalated. I was incredulous because as a weekend only subscriber, “too much” time would have elapsed so that it would never trigger an escalation. When I asked for the escalation policy, crickets. I asked her to document the conversation so that the next time I call, I will ask what notes were included on my account. ? Actually, I will call tomorrow or Monday just to check.
2. If you have read this far … please let me know what items you would like to see on my swap list. I am not promising to participate but if I do, I will do the win-win donate to charity deal.
You would think any newspaper would be bending over backwards to keep subscribers! I agree you should call back by Monday.
I don’t have an idea about what I would like to see up for swap. Your collection is so varied it’s hard for me to keep up!
Wow! You’re so right!
Heh! That is true but then there’s no do I split this versus do I swap this indecision.
Can you recommend any particular baking/cooking shows? I like some of them more than others. I don’t really enjoy the over-the-top dramatic stuff. I just want to watch people make beautiful food and be able to taste it in my head when it’s done. I loved Great Brittish Bake-Off, and I wish we had access to the Canadian version down here in the states.
Love the British Baking Show.!
I watch them for drama as i know I can never replicate even one iota of what is cooking. I like Top Chef, Tournament of Champions, (Season) Baking Championship. The Great Food Truck Race is entertaining but really at some point they have to change the formula since people are now conditioned to show up when the trucks are there.
I’m just getting home from another busy day. My sotd was Nest Hibiscus Sun? Lol, it’s something like that. Long gone now.
I hardly watch anything but reruns anymore. I try to catch Superstore and The Walking Dead. I mentioned the other day finding Dry Bar Comedy on YouTube. I recommend it for stand up comedy clips. I’ve found alot of lesser known comics doing life comedy bits in the style of Ray Romano, Jerry Seinfeld etc.. it makes me laugh ?
I’m in my last drops of Fleur du Male. Together with Gucci pour Homme and Nino Cerutti in my top 3 of ‘gone too soon’ frangrances.
Now listening to Janine Jansen while grading papers, and as a reward later on the last episode of The Lost Pirate Kingdom.
I wish I’d bought FdM, such a great scent.
Happy Sunday.
My plan for the day is to continue binge watching Friends. I am currently in season 4. They don’t really make shows like this anymore do they? 🙁
My next show to rewatch is Sex and the City.
Sotd is Carolina Herrera’s Oud Couture. Gotta wear oud more often before it gets too warm for it!
What do you think of the CH Couture line?
I think its not bad. The perfumes do smell expensive and not cheap. The bottle design is great as well so that’s a plus.
You may like a show that I caught a few times called Resident Alien. It’s really well done and very funny. It’s just aired much too late for my bedtime on a week night. It is series and that has sarcastic yet funny dialog, like friends.
Woo sounds great! Will give it a watch. Thank you.
Resident Alien is great – I rarely laugh out loud but this one tickles me with its sly humour. We are watching on Movistar+ in Spain :^)
Wearing beloved CdG Sticky Cake. After I take another shower (it is like 80 some degrees here) I will switch to something else. Since it will be even hotter this afternoon and it is a lazy Sunday I might refresh myself with Teazzurra or Nomad Tea.
Happy Sunday! I am *finally* done with a HUGE obligation this week. I work for my teacher’s union, and I was committed to representing them at the “rep assembly” this week–when we get together and agree on the statewide policies, bylaws, legislative objectives, etc. Not THRILLING work, but not boring, either, as we try to balance out the needs of our diverse workforce, and it’s important work to do.
Anyway, all via Zoom this year, and I’ve been in about 25 hours of meetings in the last 8 days–8 hours last Saturday, then 2-3 hours most weeknights, and yesterday’s meeting started at 9am and was still not over at 10pm when I had to call it quits. I do not know how late they went, and I feel a little bad for going to bed, but not too terrible about it.
I take medication at 8pm each night that makes me drowsy enough that it contains the “don’t operate heavy machinery” label on it. Pretty sure that means I shouldn’t try to argue about legislative objectives, either! 😀
So, now I get to take a breath and find my bearings. My last day of teaching was Tuesday, and Wednesday was grading day for the end of the quarter, and I haven’t really had a chance to decompress before today. I hope I can convince myself to be extra lazy. I have some strong busybee tendencies. Maybe I’ll start up one of those shows you all recommended yesterday! No SOTD, yet, but I’m thinking something easy like Vepres Sicilliennes.
Lucky one! I still have three weeks left in the semester, and it is going to DRAG ON.
I order you to start your Monday with a lie-in, stay in your pajamas all day, and binge watch some Netflix show you’ve been wanting to catch up on.
Yesterday I wore Eau Moheli again for the hit of nostalgia, and it is a perfect perfume for summer, which feels just around the corner. Well, yesterday turned into last night— a bacchanalia of less prudent behavior. A friend has a pool and hot tub with a view of the bay, and my reading group (incongruously discussing “In the Shadow of the Banyan”) with all of us vaccinated had an out door potluck with much merrymaking in the sun. I wound up calling my husband to come pick me up, and we got home at about 10 pm with every muscle in me aching from dancing so hard. I woke up this morning with a mashup of Mary J Blige and David Allan Coe reverberating in my head. Have to drive back over there today to pick up my car? I’m thinking a rose perfume will do me.
Sounds like a great time! It’s nice that people can get out and have fun.
Your description of your evening sounds SUMPTUOUS!
So happy you had such a great time!
I’m really happy you a great time!
Oh, sounds like a great evening, glad you had fun!
I need to either find or create a book club like that in Houston! Glad you had a chance to let loose. ??
I’m in Mediterraneo for a lazy Sunday morning of coffee, crossword puzzles, and laundry. Will find something to do in the garden later on – it’s another gorgeous sunny day here and I feel compelled to enjoy it while I can!
Oh, but wait – just discovered a box on the front porch that must have arrived very late yesterday. It’s the perfumath-free tester bottle of Cabochard! At some point recently I read a review of nearly all of the iterations that Cabochard has been through, and this one appears to be the EDT version with cigarette smoke in the top notes. It’s settling into a very dry, slightly floral, galbanum-leaning leather scent now, and so far I like it a lot. I’m impatient so I sprayed it on forearms (because of the Mediterraneo on my wrists), and scents develop differently on the forearm so I’ll be experimenting with this for a while.
You smell great! I agree about the cigarette or even pot smoke opening. It’s unusual and addictive (no pun intended:))
My familiarity with pot smoke is mostly just whatever Mr. G happens to have on hand, and his stuff often has a skunk note that I really could live without. So that’s probably why I don’t get pot from the Cabochard – a better version of it might well be there and I would probably not know! (Mr. G is famous in his family for not being able to smell skunk, which is also annoying.)
😆
Wearing vintage Chanel No19 and spent the day baking and sewing and idling… Not too bad for a sunday… I watch Star Trek Enterprise at the moment, but it’s the weakest of all series.
I tried to get into Enterprise, but just couldn’t. Same with Deep Space Nine.
I persevered but really, Scott Bakula spoils everything he is in. And especially Enterprise, where macho solo runs are just Not The Thing.
I’m once again NSTing from a Via Rail train – I have a film job back in Montreal on April 27 and am heading back a bit early to be on the safe side. Thankfully the company I’m working in Toronto with is being very accommodating, so I get to spend a week and change back with Mr. Teebear and the kitties, instead of just 4 days. Wahoo!
I’ve been mowing my way through some EldO and Boy Smells samples kindly gifted to me by a friend. I have to say, the Boy Smells ones are all a miss for me so far, which is a shame as their candles are amazing.
Summaries so far:
Rose Load: rhubarb in the opening, and then a blast of dill-tinged sandalwood briefly paired up with some raspberry jammy rose that the dill eventually drowns out again. I have never before had sandalwood go so hardcore dill on me.
Tantrum: Have you ever done what you shouldn’t do, and stirred yerba mate while drinking it through the straw, so that you get a mouthful of painfully green sludge jam-packed with caffeine that you know is going to make you feel anxious later? Imagine if your yerba mate was blended with green peppers and matchsticks, and then you did this. That was the opening notes of Tantrum on me. I somehow managed not to scrub it and the dry down was pretty.
Violet Ends: smells like fresh rhubarb juice, and then arriving to a teatime wearing a vintage leather jacket that belonged to a smoker, and a crown of violets. The tea being served is Lapsang Souchong. Unusual and almost wearable, but a bit tobacco heavy for my personal taste and there’s a weird hiccup between rhubarb and tea time that felt unbalanced on my skin.
Flor de La Virgen: smells like an inoffensive, salt and fig, agender white floral summer scent one should wear at a poolside in LA. It could be the signature scent for a boutique hotel. Perfectly acceptable but not really my style.
Suede Pony remains to be sampled in 10 days.
I don’t watch TV normally but have been scanning YouTube to see uploads of the NCAA women’s gymnastics championships semifinals and finals!
Tantrum is a great name for a perfume, and it sounds like it fits its name!
I was reading reviews after sampling and some people were apparently getting tomato leaf from it! I envy them ?
I sympathize with your dill problem. LL Santal 33 is unwearable for me for the exact same reason. ?
Thank you for the warning! I will stay well clear of LL Santal 33.
I’ve had little hints of dill with some sandalwoods on my skin before, but that truly was next level -and extraordinarily tenacious too. Yech.
SotD = Mon Precieux Nectar and Champs-Elysées
It’s a Guerlain double up for me today, one on each wrist. Both are from decants. Time to use them or lose them.
C-E feels very happy, really pretty. Reminds me of Jardins de Bagatelle, but the flowers are yellow instead of white, the base is woodier. If it were still packaged in the older, angular bottle I’d be very, very tempted to go shopping.
MPN is richer and sweeter. Somehow it always makes me think of Apres L’ondee, like they’re mother and daughter. I should wear those two side by side this week.
Yesterday I received a wedding invitation (for the end of June) for a pair that truly belong together. 😀
Haven’t a clue what to watch these days. I tried The Falcon and the Winter Soldier last night. I got lost in the plot twists and jumps, but perhaps that’s because I’ve not seen many of the Marvel movies and don’t know the backstories.
I do want to watch Hamilton, I can’t believe I still haven’t watched the whole thing. Sometimes I listen to BBC Newshour. It may sound silly, but I love the presenters voices and accents. They make the news easier to hear.
You smell wonderful! Both lovely scents.
I did not see Hamilton until last month! Very enjoyable, glad I finally saw it.
Hello! I noted below that I had gotten into watching The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, but I have seen the movies, so I’m following what’s going on. I would recommend watching the movies so you know the background and history.
Take care! 🙂
My tv viewing lately has been bingeing the Outlander series, which is very not new. Requires lots of suspension-of-disbelief, and the drama gets a bit exhausting, but it’s fun. I started reading the series when the first book was released, and I do think Gabaldon is a very good storyteller.
And really, I think that’s all I’ve watched in a while. It’s probably time to watch some movies.
Scent today: Hermes Eau Des Merveilles. Such good stuff
I just watched Nomadland which was a mixed bag for me.It was a very well done film all in all.
I have also been watching the current PBS Masterpiece series Atlantic Crossing and really look forward to each episode.
I was looking forward to Nomadland, now you’ve worried me!
It’s well worth watching and beautifully done.There is beauty interspersed with people dealing with the trauma and loss they have experienced in their lives in the best way they can.There was also an underlying sadness to me that lingered a bit.Hard to explain.
Hey all! I’m in Banana Republic Jade today.
I listen to a lot of podcasts, and here are some of my current favorites:
No Such Thing as a Fish
My Favorite Murder
Kathleen Madigan’s Pubcast
Transfert (in French)
I Saw what you Did
I Saw what you Did is fairly new, it’s about movies, and recently I watched the two films that were featured in their episode about Great ’70s Apartments, namely “Klute” and “Three Women.” I certainly did enjoy the decor! I still subscribe to Netflix’s one-at-a-time DVD service in addition to the streaming service, so I got both movies that way. I don’t know if they’re available to stream anywhere.
Netflix streaming shows I like:
Derry Girls
Bojack Horseman
Wanted (Australian show; I hope there will be more seasons)
Ultraviolet (Polish)
The Repair Shop
Call my Agent! (in French it’s Dix Pourcent)
and many more…
I would like to spend my retirement fixing old broken things, and have a workshop like The Repair Shop. Of course, first I’d need to learn how to fix old broken things……
Wouldn’t that be fun?! What would you want to specialize in? I’d like to work on restoring paintings.
I’d like to learn how to restore vintage jewelry. Alternatively, I’d like to learn enough about soldering and other metalworking techniques to upcycle old jewelry parts into something new.
Yes! Such a lovely show and so relaxing to watch
Hello! It’s been a while since I stopped by here. It’s mainly that I had nothing much to report. I haven’t been wearing any fine fragrances lately, or even scented lotions, really.
I’ve been out in the yard basically every chance I get, on the nice days and some of the not-so-nice days. A couple of shipments of the many flower bulbs and perennial roots and such that I ordered over the winter have come in the past few days, and I’ve managed to plant everything, though a couple of the roses and a couple of the lilacs ended up being planted in pots while I try to think where to put them.
The crocuses were nice until something ate them. It’s sort of mid-season for the daffodils — the early ones have gone by, but I’ve still got quite a variety blooming. And the hyacinths turned out very nicely. I couldn’t actually smell the ones I’d planted in the “herb garden” that has everything but herbs from the kitchen window, but I ended up cutting a few of the flower stalks that had flopped over, and had them in a plastic bowl that looks somewhat like a faceted glass bowl, near the front door. I certainly could smell them from there, especially when I was sitting in the chair nearby! 🙂
I wrapped patches of the yard in hardware cloth to try to keep the deer, or groundhogs, or whatever it was, from nibbling on any more of the tulip leaves. I cut a couple of tulip buds the other day, on a not-so-nice day, and they opened inside. One is ‘Generaal de Wet,’ an orange one that has a lovely fragrance. The other doesn’t have a scent, but looks interesting. It’s ‘Rococo,’ a parrot tulip that’s mainly red. That came back from a couple of years ago, because the tulip bulbs I planted last year were mostly ones that will have flowers that are brown or orange, with some lavender-blue ones thrown in for variety. A Florentine tulip came back from a few years ago, also. That has more of a wildflower sort of look than most tulips grown now. It’s yellow, and has a fragrance that reminds me of violets.
For viewing, I got really into watching “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier,” since we got Disney+. I have seen the Captain America and Avengers movies that featured those characters, so I am following what’s going on. They’re doing a really nuanced look at racism.
I’ve read a couple of books about anti-Semitism lately. One was Denial: Holocaust History on Trial by Dr. Deborah Lipstadt. The other was (((Semitism))) by Jonathan Weisman. It’s chilling how old lies and hatreds come back into relative popularity in some circles.
I read a very wide variety of books. I’m not sure why I picked up with reading on that topic again right now. I’m sure I’ll go on to something different fairly soon.
Have a good week!
Jumping on very late to see everyone’s TV recommendations.
Show I have been enjoying lately:
Merlí – a new philosophy teacher shakes up a school in Barcelona. I am catching up on the earlier series on Amazon before I rejoin the current one on Movistar+
Arde Madrid – a Francoist youth leader and a black-market smuggler have been thrown together to play husband-and-wife servants and spy on Ava Gardner’s tumultous life in early 1960s Madrid. Great soundtrack, will keep your Shazam busy (Movistar+)
Resident Alien (as mentioned elsewhere; Movistar+)
Other stuff we enjoyed recently:
O Sabor de Margaritas/ Bitter Daisies: a Galician crime series with a twist, a bit dark. Netflix – this one broke through internationally (first ever Galician language series to do so) & might still be available;
Midnight Diner: vignettes from a late-night restaurant in Tokyo, lots of food preparation and a gentle pace as regular customers or one-off characters pop in and we learn a little of their lives. Netflix.
Street Food Asia/ Street Food South America: does what it says on the tin. Makes me hungry and crazy with wanderlust at the same time – but really it’s letting people tell the stories of their food and how they started up their restaurants/ stalls that adds immeasurably to the pleasure of watching.