It's Tuesday, Beer Day Britain and Global Wind Day. A few musical birthdays: Erroll Garner, Waylon Jennings, Harry Nilsson. What fragrance are you wearing?
I'm happily wafting Aftelier Candide, again. Tea at the moment is Yunnan Zi Xiang organic, with a splash of milk and a sprinkle of nutmeg.
Reminder: on 6/18, we're doing edition 3 of Bottle Porn Friday, by request. Wear something you bought in part or in full because of the bottle, or a fragrance you think has a beautiful (or otherwise perfect) bottle. (suggested by michael and happy888cat, this is a repeat of a project we did in 2015 and 2017.)
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 La DoubleJ Tree of Life porcelain teapot, part of a 12-piece collaboration with Ladurée ("Introducing our mother of the kitchen and centerpiece of any tea party, our fine ‘n’ floral porcelain Teapot. Crafted by the Italian porcelain greats Ancap with elegantly moulded flower motifs and hand painted 18K gold details, this extra large mama is part of our heart-thumping Ladurée collaboration, inspired by the sacred feminine. This verdant print, designed in-house at LDJ, represents the all-abundant, all-protecting Tree Of Life.") is $275 at La DoubleJ.
I’m in my very last drops of late-nineties Dior Fahrenheit, enjoying that weird gasoline+celery top note for the last time. It was nice while it lasted (decades!) but I have lots of other scents to amuse myself with.
I love the vintage Dior Fahrenheit, such glorious stuff. I sneak an occasional spritz from my hubby’s bottle! 🙂
In Prada Infusion de Mimosa, because I needed something comforting, pretty and easy to wear.
Happy Tuesday! ?
Happy Tuesday pl67! Hope you are feeling comforted 🙂
Thank you, Robin! So far, so good! ?
Hope that your Tuesday wasn’t a Bluesday.
It was a good day. Just woke up pretty tired after working very late last night, but the day was beautiful and I took advantage of it!
Hello all!
It’s been a bit since I’ve gotten on here. It’s been a busy month so far and still have so much to do!
I’m in CdG Copper, which I bought somewhat impulsively. But good golly, it is phenomenal. I love the green galbanum/ white pepper, and it has a pretty impressive sillage. Doesn’t hurt that the bottle is so lovely.
Stay safe everyone!
Hey Coumarin — good luck getting it all done!
I love the CdG pebbles.
Hi!
That sounds intriguing! I must check it out!
Welcome back!
I’m choosing perfumes this week from the bottles I find most appealing. Today is Philosykos – I love the line drawings on diptyque bottles. I have the EDP, and the black sides and smoked grey glass are so sharp. Oh, and I smell great too!!
Yes You do smell great!!
You smell fab!
You do smell great and I also love the Diptyque bottles!
I’m wearing Nicolai Eau d’Ete, from my new discovery set.
Like?
It’s very light, and I didn’t over spray as I usually do, but I really liked it going on. However, I’m going to have to get a decant so that I can spray quite a large amount. At this point, it has faded to a skin scent. A very light skin scent.
It goes quickly but it’s marvelous in the heat.
Agree. You have to think of it like a cologne.
I went through a small bottle of that incredibly fast one summer. A good one.
Twilly
This is a cute bottle but I wouldn’t consider it for the CP
Yesterday spent a beautiful day in Soho with a friend that is giving up their place in NYC and her last week here. We went to cafe Maman and some other fun hip stores. I bought a pair of cut off shorts
So glad you had a chance to meet up before they left. I miss shopping in all the quirky vintage shops in the Village.
Some of the funky art galleries were closed, since it was Monday..but we had enough to keep us occupied.
*swooooon* Cafe Maman is TO DIE FOR! I stayed around the corner from that place last time I was in NYC and went there almost every morning with my mom, who came up to visit me from where she lives between Philly/Trenton. Got her addicted to avocado toast and lavender lattes ?
Glad you had an amazing day!
When I read this note I immediately made a lavender latte at home. Its actually simple, I just grab some lavender from my pot, boil it with some sugar to my a simple syrup. Add to my espresso and top with milk.
Yum!!! I put dried lavender and sugar in a mortar and pestle and grind to get a nice fine lavender sugar. Fresh sounds divine!
Sounds like such a nice day yesterday!
I am wafting deliciousness in L’Aromatica Kulfi, courtesy of AnniePerfumes (thanks, amiga!). This — the original — is by far my favorite of the Kulfi variations. From the L’Aromatica website, notes are: Cardamom Pods, Vanilla Bean, Coconut Cream, Sandalwood, Saffron Threads. That’s right, I smell like Indian dessert, and I like it.
yum!
That sounds delicious!
Sounds delectable!
That sounds amazing!
I’m in Pineward Apple Tabac, which I have in a sample vial, but the image for it on fragrantica is a an old school glass stopper bottle, which I think are so cool, so I’m claiming a cp point.
AT is like a more complex version of a BBW scent. (No shade at BBW. I think of them as straight forward and as advertised; BBW Mango smells unmistakably like mango). This is scent is CLEARLY a fresh, sweet red apple scent. But there is a little bit extra going on – a few drops of rum, a pinch of wet tobacco, and a scattering of raisins. I usually like apple as a supporting note. This is too much apple on its own for my taste, but I think it will be excellent layered with a woody scent (eyeing some of Forest&Juniper scent fails for that purpose).
Drinking Georgia Tea Co. Snowflake tea because I thought the coconut and almond in it would go nicely with AT.
Which reminds me of my favorite CBIHP layering combo — Burning Leaves and Gathering Apples. I would wear that more if I just owned the bottles, ha.
I have a sample of Gathering Apples (I think because you mentioned liking it). I should do a wrist-to-wrist comparison of GA and AT.
Replying to your comment from yesterday: Yeah, a NJ perfumista meet up sometime in the future would be A Good Thing! I’ll drink to that! ??
I co-sign with jalapeño!
I followed Robin’s Erroll Garner link and learned 1) he had a twin brother, 2) he was 5’2″, and 3) he never learned to read music. Wonders never cease. My husband purchased a CD of Concert by the Sea for me, earli-ish in our marriage and it rocked my world. I always loved jazz and classical guitar, but piano? Naw. I must have played Garner’s CD a hundred times in the first weeks after I got it.
I finished off the last of my Fiele’s Cedrus this morning.
I loved “No One Can Hear You Read” as a comeback, and I will have to look for the documentary. Looks like you can rent it on Apple.
Documentary? I had no idea. Just looked it up. Wonderful!
Hi all, my SOTD is Shiseido’s Murasaki, one of my favorites by Shiseido. I purchased the bottle (mid-1980’s) because of the cool bottle design. A picture is below.
Bottle on the left is Shiseido’s Feminite du Bois extrait.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CCjyBJqBL8E/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
Headed to the gym, back day! 🙂
beautiful photo
Oh my goodness!! These bottles are lovely, all of them. But I am extremely intrigued by the bottles of Murasaki now.
It is intriguing. The review from The Vintage Perfume Vault encapsulates it perfectly.
Gorgeous bottle! Hope you smash back day.
Thank you! I love doing back and biceps. Tomorrow is chest day!
Wow, really cool perfume bottles in that pic!
Nice!
You smell lovely. I prefer your bottle design to the one I picked up for my mom in Japan in the late ’90s (only the cap portion was purple.
Hello everyone!! The last couple of days I had zero energy to post anything (thanks to my toddler daughter) but after she fell asleep I read y’alls comments!! My daughter will NOT let me play with my phone because then she demands I hand my phone over to her!! So I get on my phone when she is in daycare or when she sleeps…
SOTD = Tuberoza. Yesterday was Tuberoza too :))
Thank goodness for the moment of peace when you can put on perfume
That is just the more “me” I can ever feel!! Take a nice shower, put on a cute dress or a shirt that I like, apply a tiny blush to my cheeks and… Voila, my perfume of course!!
Super busy yesterday with dentist and errands, finished off my HG Arbolé decant. Today is Goldfield & Banks White Sandalwood.
Has anyone tried their new Silky Woods scent? It has oud in it but apparently just a small amount, and lots of vanilla. Sounds yummy.
I was going to ask this yesterday, cazubon! it does sound kind of wonderful.
SOTD is Shanghai Lily again and still grieving no back up bottle.
So Silky Woods is the damaged bottle from LuckyScent. I cannot describe it yet because I would rather smell it from a pristine bottle. I smelled oud and musk though.
Oh how sad that the bottle is damaged. 🙁 Thanks for posting your first impressions. Do you like it?
Oh by the way a CP point for me too: I was born in Warsaw and moved to the US long time ago but I remember browsing through luckyscent and came across Puredistance “Warszawa”. Of course I got so excited but the price tag cooled me down a lil’ bit. Later on luckyscent I saw that Nishane also had “Warszawa” written on their bottle of Tuberoza. Oh I forgot to say Warszawa means Warsaw in Polish. I was like so excited that perfume houses started making perfumes circled around the city I was born in. Otherwise it is always Paris, Tokyo or even Shanghai. So in part I wanted a bottle of perfume to say “Warszawa” on it. I also thought a bottle of Tuberoza was made of such a gorgeous red glass that fit it’s floral name perfectly. I expected to like it but I had no idea I would actually loose my mind over how happy, and delicious Tuberoza smells!!
It’s so wonderful that a perfume you connect to on an emotional level also fits you perfectly. 🙂
Aww thanks!!
And I quite liked Puredistance “Warszawa” when I tried it—other than the bump on the head it gave me when went into a dead faint at the price.
SOTD… well, haven’t decided yet. Today’s the last pleasant weather day before a heat wave, so I’ll be going all tropical for the rest of this week. Though I do promise to report my bottle porn holdings on Friday 🙂
My main activity this morning is trying on DRESSES. We are going to a wedding this weekend! So I need to pick out a dress for the wedding and another for the brunch the next day. I haven’t dressed up since Feb 2020. Should be entertaining trying to manage zippers and heels and such.
I love dresses..but I tried on my heels the other day…ugh! I am going to have a hard time getting back into them
We’re having the opposite weather… nothing but cold & rain for what seems like forever, sun is arriving tomorrow. Will send the refreshing rain down to you!
Can’t imagine putting on a dress and heels it’s been so long!
I don’t know how formal the wedding is, but I found a bevy of cute maxi dresses at Target (in bright orange) for only $25!! With the right accessories and a cute wrap, easy Summer elegance!
Good luck with the Great Dress Try On! Did you find something that worked out?
Sounds fun! I’m feeling actual fear about the heat wave, but at least it isn’t going to be 117 for a week like last summer…
I have a wedding “uniform” and undergarments to keep the expansion to a minimum ?. I just have to figure out the shoes!
Hadn’t logged on here in a while – sorting out some work stuff and had a wretched gastro bug last week, but tests said it wasn’t COVID, so I am counting my blessings nonetheless!
Hope everyone’s summer got off to a great start.
I’m back home on a four-week work hiatus and loving spending time with Mr. Teebear, the cats, and my full bottles, as only samples and decants came to my work city.
In Rodin Bis today. Great teapot, Robin!
So glad it was not covid! And bonus, you smell fantastic.
Sorry you’ve been sick, but yay for 4 weeks at home!! I’ve been on samples & decants only since April 5th so I sympathize.
I hope you are feeling better. GI stuff isn’t fun. 🙁
Oh yes, WAY better! Just I am fantasizing about calorie-dense meals, but my body is still only accepting small ones, and limited ingredients.
So I look forward to when I can stuff myself absolutely silly!
Glad you’re feeling better (and that it wasn’t COVID!).
Thank you! At least I was laughing even while it was at its worst thinking “what a crazy world in which you’re hoping it’s salmonella or Norovirus.”
Bletch for a nasty GI bug, but like you said, at least it wasn’t COVID. And you have kitties and perfume to console you.
Glad you are feeling better and get to have a break at home.
Tummy bugs are the worst — glad you’re feeling better and taking it easy!
Glad you’re on the mend!
Vert D’Encens for another hot day here
That’s a great one, you smell wonderful.
Guerlain Meteorites Le Parfum
I haven’t had a chance to read yet today. Just wanted to jump on quickly and say a huge THANK YOU to everyone for your kind words yesterday. The brain ducks are not entirely vanquished, but they are acting more like little ducklings today, and less like the full on grownup ducks they were from Friday to yesterday. This week may yet prove to be a bit better than I thought.
THANK YOU, NST!
This is great to hear!?
I missed whatever was happening but am glad you are feeling a little bit better, and officially love the metaphor of ‘brain ducks’ misbehaving up in there!
Brain ducks, begone! Waddle away somewhere else.
Buh bye, brain ducklings!
By tomorrow, may they be brain butterflies!
SOTD is Omnia Crystalline one of the nicest pears in perfume. Topped it off with Vamp this afternoon as I wanted some more pizzazz smelling rather good as a result
I love it when that sort of “topping up” works well.
In Chloe EdT today, but testing it layered (Hermes Santal Massoia on the left and Cuir d’Ange on the right)… not sure which combo I like better.
Chloe’s bottle design reminds me of pieces in my dad’s crystal engraving shop from my childhood and probably was the main reason I bought it, lol. Does that count for a CP?
Of course it does!
Chloe bottles are very beautiful. I like that they are weighty too.
That design is rather elegant.
So the winning combo is Chloe EdT and Santal Massoia… always nice to hear “something smells amazing” from hubby as he walks in the door and having him narrowing it down to one combo (C+Cd’A was nice, but just a bit too sweet for him).
Totally agree re: the weight and design of the Chloe bottles – they have a classic appeal to me.
The opposite of bottle porn today, Sacrebleu Intense from Parfums de Nicholai. Beautiful scent, very plain bottle.
Truly beautiful!
Seriously. That’s the “despite the bottle” cp 😉
It’s Le Jardin de Monsieur Li kind of day.
Nice. You smell marvelous, in that special, Jean-Claude Ellena way!
Ciao Lucasai-
I went looking for that Cassandra Clare book you mentioned over the weekend but they didn’t have that one at the library, but Chain of Gold was available so I picked up that one…
House twins, and Jardin twins–I’m in Sur le Nil!
I’m wearing Delina today, and doing a reverse CP in that I really dislike the bottle. It’s pink, and pink is one of my least favorite colors.
I like pink, but maybe not a pink perfume bottle?
Ohhh I have my eyes on Delina BECAUSE of the bottle since I haven’t smelled it yet. Pink is not my usual color for perfume BUT in this case
… Delina bottle is one of the most beautiful I ever seen.
In Pour Une Femme de Caron, an amber, spicy, rosy number to warm up a cool Seattle day and it’s bottle porn for sure.
The bottle is upside down so the cap on the sprayer is the base of the bottle-
https://www.fragrantica.com/perfume/Caron/Pour-Une-Femme-de-Caron-5592.html
And some of you might remember when I posted the text below (on the box) as another example of something terribly lost in the translation from French to English.
Je vous offre
quatre vaporisations
de tendresse
il suffit de me retourner
pour renouveler
le geste
My four sweet
bursts of tenderness
are yours afresh
if you just flip
me over
LOL at that translation! Omg I got to the last line and cackled out loud while in public. Love it.
It’s a gorgeous bottle!
Ha! Thanks for the giggle ?
Wearing Iris Shot, the rest of my sample. While it’s lovely, I don’t think I need anymore.
I do have my eye on a bottle of Lancome Iris Dragees. That bottle is stunning but I haven’t sampled the scent. (I don’t usually get something based on the bottle only!)
Those bottles are gorgeous! I did not get to smell ID though.
A few sprays from a Primo can..just because..I can. lol. I wore this much in the 90s..I was very much a BWF chick..still am. Bonus points for picking up a coconut scented dental floss of all things. Lol it was still a bit expensive..even on clearance but damn where has this been all my life? I have just been using mint? It’s called Cocofloss. I love getting whiffs of coconut whilst I am getting out bits between the teeth lolol.
Here is the link to the floss..oh man they have watermelon, chocolate, passionfruit..? Yes plz.
https://cocofloss.com/collections/shop-by-fragrance
I liked cocofloss (it was a daily lemming ages ago) but I mostly buy Dr Tungs cardamom floss…it’s easier for me to find.
Dr Tungs cardamom floss is great!
I want to love this, but a dentist gave me a sample a while back and it goes all shreddy between my too-tightly-packed teeth!
Sotd is Angelique Noire.
Today is my son’s birthday. I ended up having to work tonight, so we just got to celebrate a little this morning. We had cupcakes and Klondike bars after lunch. We will do a proper celebration when we both have the day off.
Happy Birthday to your son! Sorry you have to work but glad you had some treats to celebrate.
Happy Birthday wishes to your son! Maybe tell him that he has a Birthday Week, since both of you had to work? ??
Definitely calls for a birthday week! And HBD to him.
Best birthday wishes to your son! Hope your joint day off celebration will be soon.
Happy Birthday to your son! ???
Many happy returns to your son.
Happy birthday to your son, and three cheers for dragging out birthdays with multiple days of celebration and treats!
Thanks all! I will show him your birthday wishes. We are a very small family, so he doesn’t get a whole bunch.
Happy Birthday to your son! ?
SOTD = Guerlain Shalimar Soufflé Intense
Oh yes!
https://www.instagram.com/p/CQJ7Cj2h80R/?utm_medium=copy_link
I am claiming CP points! The intense blue, the batwing bottle and the super cute 50mL bottle, plus the perfume is powdery, resinous, musky vanilla with some citrus and florals. What’s not to love?
It’s Day 2 of a much cleaner stove top. I think the idea is to wipe it down everyday. Let’s see how long this lasts…
For the 2nd time in as many years, a bottle from LuckyScent arrived damaged. I thought the packaging was cool with its ombré effect but I soon found out it was a deceptive ombré. I cannot tell where the leak is but it had also damaged the gold finish of the bottle. I hope they don’t ask me to send it back because even ground shipping a leaky bottle is dangerous. I don’t want anyone to read about me in the papers for being a pyro ? ?
I will be back later to read comments!
Oh no about the deceptive ombre!
I have the Souffle Intense ..partly cause I liked the original Souffle but that bottle enabled me quite a bit lol.
It is a simple bottle but so classic!
Gorgeous bottle and scent! I will also be wearing something similar for Friday…. stay tuned.
Yay! I already know what I will be wearing. I am trying to avoid the red bottles because they are automatic wins and therefore, not challenging.
Drat, that sucks about the leaky perfume bottle! And it was probably something expensive, too. ?
It was, but I wanted a bottle and will likely split it.
Oh no!!! Leaky bottle arrival is sad. Hope the resolution is smooth.
Heard back – a replacement will be sent ASAP and I have a shipping label to return the damaged bottle.
That bottle is very classic, and very beautiful!
Indeed! Unmistakably Shalimar! I actually don’t know of other perfumes use the same flacon. ?
I love that bottle.
I keep a box of quick wipes on the counter to try and wipe down frequently.
The bottle is classic!
Good thought about the wipes. I may just do that.
SOTD is Panda from a sample. Hubs liked it, which was funny because he usually only compliments the vanilla-forward ones and tolerates the rest.
I don’t have any Zoologist bottles but I do love them so it counts!
Much improved weather today, but there was a brief burst of thunderstorm activity at around 1 this morning. It was a very effective alarm clock. ?? Fortunately I went back to sleep rather quickly after that. ?⚡⏰
SOTD = back in AG Mandragore. My sample of this is almost thunked. If I had the colored, 50mL bottle of this, it would definitely count for the CP in my book.
Glad you were able to fall back asleep.
Me too! ?
You can pretend you have a bottle ?
SOTD is Kyoto, a sample from the generous Vee.
Oooh, it’s so good!! Very very soft though, but that only makes me want a full bottle so I can properly douse myself. This seems it’d be a great incense for anytime, even the warm months.
Kyoto is WONDERFUL stuff! Went straight to my FB-buy list at first sniff, and I can report that it is indeed lovely to be able to properly douse oneself in it!
I noticed that over time, I was able to smell the CdG Incense perfumes better. Maybe that will happen to you?
You smell so wonderful.
Lys Soleia today, I like the Aqua Allegoria bottles and have many.
I’ve never seen an AA in person. They do look gorgeous though.
Oh I wish you had access to them, really lovely bottles, Lys Soleia was outstanding Guerlain should have included it in the permanent line-up.
Love, love, love Aqua Allegoria
bottles!! In a perfect world I would own each and every Aqua Allegoria ever released!!
Some are really good, another favourite is Ylang Vanille, also Rosa Magnifica, perhaps the best one.
Lucky you! There are some beauties among those AA Guerlains.
Lys Soleia was an instant love, my brother bought it for me.
Checking in super late here after a busy and largely scentless work day, but now I’m in Tabac Blond and silk pajamas and feeling quite glamorous in spite of the fact that I’m just going to eat leftovers alone and go to bed early.
Love that You are feeling glamorous no matter what the plan for the night is!!
Ohhhhhh, you smell elegant.
Yay for that level of glamor!
Late to the party today – SOTD was Dryad.
Woohoo, I recently got a partial bottle. You smell wonderful!
Oh and I really love all Neela Vermeire bottles too!! So maybe I should wear a scent by Neela tomorrow.
Osmanthus Interdite for me today. The bottle isn’t that special I suppose but the juice is!