It's Tuesday, International Chess Day and Gregor Mendel's birthday. What fragrance are you wearing?
I'm in Voyage d'Hermès for the canned gin and tonics in season 2 of Fleabag. Update: I forgot (again) to report my tea. It's Dikom Estate Assam from Upton, with a sprinkle of nutmeg.
Reminder: 7/23 will be Sitcom Friday...name a favorite sitcom, and wear a fragrance that reminds you of the show in general, or one of the characters.
And for those of you who like to plan ahead, see Scent of the day ~ Friday community projects 2021, where I'll try to always have the next five or six weeks mapped out in advance.
Note: top image is Phoebe Waller-Bridge of Fleabag, drinking tea in her guinea pig cafe. More reading: Fleabag: a hilarious sitcom about terrible people and broken lives and Farewell Fleabag: the most electrifying, devastating TV in years, both at The Guardian.
Man, I really gotta rewatch Fleabag from the start. But there are so many other things I have to watch too! How do people keep up? I know I can’t.
Today I’m in a discreet amount of Jacomo de Jacomo, an almost undefinable hybrid between an aromatic fougère and a woody oriental. If I say “It smells like the early eighties”, anyone who was around then will know exactly what I mean.
Yep, I know exactly what you mean.?
I watched Fleabag twice and Russian Doll twice. Luckily they are both short!
Oh I gotta watch Russian Doll again too! And aren’t they working on a second season?
Yes! Can’t wait.
I loved Fleabag and thought it was hilarious.
I’m Heretic Scandalwood, which I love, but it does become a skin scent fairly quickly.
My daughter leaves for camp in a few hours. She is taking the bus this year and I’m feeling a mixture of sadness and guilt over this decision. Because of covid parents can’t even get out of their cars when dropping their campers off. Which means no walking her to her cabin, making her bed, and slipping my traditional card under her pillow.☹️ I felt like driving for 10 hours to just sit in the car was hardly worth it. This is her fifth summer, so she’s old hat at this. I’m trying to keep in mind that this is not about me, it’s about her, and I am thrilled that she gets to go back this year. I’ll wait until the bus is safely out of sight before I cry. Lol.
So sorry you are feeling sad! But hope she has a wonderful experience this year.
Thanks Robin! I’m sure she will.☺️
Aww… I remember a few years back when they went to camp and you told about slipping the card under the pillow. Stupid Covid!
Sorry mtg. ?
Thanks lillyjo. Yeah, I had to sneak it into her duffle bag in between her folded sheets, so she’ll find it. She said to me last night “I’ll have to make my own bed this year”? stupid covid is right!
Sometimes the bus ride leads to inside jokes and friendships that wouldn’t have happened otherwise.
This is very true! She’s taken the bus home before, so honestly, this is harder on me than it is on her.
She’s going to have such a great time! 10 hours seems like an extremely long drive for a short drop-off.
That was my thought exactly. Plus they are rapid testing every camper as they enter, so the drop off sounded like it was going to be a total cluster you-know-what.
I’m getting teary eyed just reading this! Slip a card in her bag!!
I did!!?
I love the slipping of the card under the pillow! We’ve never gotten to do that since the kids ride a ferry to camp across the sound — I’ve never actually been to her camp! She had to figure out making her bed herself at age 8, which wasn’t a bad thing.
She’ll have a great time on the bus, even if you’ll be misty-eyed. 🙂
Wow, getting to take a ferry to camp sounds really cool! I’m sure she had a great time. I’ll get to hear all about it in three weeks!?
Hugs madtowngirl.
Thanks Jalapeño. Her older sister was on the other end waiting for her and already sent me a picture of the two of them together, so I feel better now.☺️
Sending you hugs! Such a poignant moment.
Thanks Isabella!
I’m in 4711 AC Lemon & Ginger. I wish it had less lemon and more ginger. As it is, it smells like Pledge.
You need some Demeter Gingerale to punch it up 🙂
I was thinking Ginger Piccante, but Gingerale would work.
A freshly unwrapped and uncapped bottle of OJ Damask. Ahhhhhh.
I love the thrill of opening a new bottle of perfume!
So fun!! My hands are usually shaking when opening a package with a new perfume bottle ?
Me too! Even if its a perfume bottle from a swap I still love it
yep love it.
Aaaah.
Yay for a fresh new bottle!
Chanel No 5 EDP with a cup of Nilgiri Winter Frost Black Tea
Love the name of that tea!
Hi all, my SOTD is Hermes Jour de Hermes with the body cream, I’m nearing the end of my bottle, will definitely repurchase. Currently on espresso #2, I was up late reading The Scent Keeper, by Erica Bauermeister. 🙂
I forgot to mention two of my favorite British sitcoms, Vicious, with Ian McKellen and Derek Jacobi and Young Ones.
I’m headed out for my Covid test in preparation for Friday’s UCSF visit. Everyone have a grand day!
Oh, I’ve been meaning to watch Vicious for ages!
I loved it, very cheeky humor.
I liked The Scent Keeper.
Good morning.
Sotd is good old Chanel No.5 over the sparkly body gel.
Drinking a cup of assam with a swirl of lavender honey.
No 5 is always a solid choice.
Robin, I read the top as “it’s finally International Chess Day” I thought I didn’t know you were a Chess fan, lol.
I’m cloudy headed due to sinuses acting up. I would call in sick, but we are so short handed tonight, I would feel too bad about it. Idk.. I still might. So far today I am perfume free, which stinks. ( literally stinks, as I still have to shower, lol)
Ohhh Sinuses acting up is really bothersome. I have sinus problems so I know. In Your post You sound like You should take the night off
I am terrible at chess!
Bleah on the sinuses acting up. When they hurt, you hurt. No ands ifs or buts about it.
I ended up coming to work. Whenever I bend over to pick something up, it hurts right between my eyes. I will take some benadryl when I get home.
Hope that your workday goes by quickly then!
SotD = Lumiere Doree. Really, really enjoying it. Some perfume houses I just love their vibe and that is the case with Miller Harris.
As for the CP I am saving my personal best for last – for Friday which is when I will wear Kedu, a perfume I wore every evening I binge watched All American.
I was also thinking about what kind of perfume Fallon from the new Dynasty would wear? Hard question to answer. Maybe a luxe Guerlain like their Muguet?
Oh, I was thinking Fallon would have worn Poison or Addict or something! But that’s the OLD Fallon. I don’t know the new Fallon.
(But old Fallon would not have been caught dead in something as girly as Muguet.)
Addict is perfect for old Fallon!
The chessboard is perpetually out and collecting dust; since The Queen’s Gambit, I’ve lost all desire to play. I think that show opened my eyes to what a pathetic player I really am and yet, it also motivated me to want to get better. Unfortunately, that takes time which I currently am in short supply of. My husband plays on his phone all the time waiting patiently for me to join him again.
SOTD: Rose 31 perfume & body lotion
Comparison can be such a kill-joy! I hope you find your way back to your chess board when the time is right!
Oh, and I’ve been tempted by the Le Labo body lotions a few times, but haven’t sampled any of them in person. What is it like?
The Rose 31 lotion comes with any stay at a Fairmont, and my kid nabbed some of the bottles. She puts it on in the car all the time. 🙂 It’s nice, and quite strong. I’ve never tried the original perfume, so can’t compare, though.
Rose 31 perfume oil is gorgeous, it has nuclear staying power though…
Thanks! Lys 41 is the scent I’d be most inclined to get as a lotion, as I’d love to emphasize it’s tuberose wonderfulness. I don’t see it as a downside if the lotion has good lasting power!
I use a 50-50 mix the of the Rose 31 lotion with unscented Dove lotion* and even then the scent is strong enough that I get compliments on my “perfume.”
*Le Labo lotion is definitively all about the scent and not the moisturizing capability.
What a great way to capture the pitfalls of comparison. Kill-joy is right!
Thanks, allo! It’s such an easy impulse to compare ourselves and feel wanting as a result. I try to keep it in perspective. 😉
SOTD is a dab of Kenzo Amour (old, discontinued formulation) on left arm and DSH Au Lait on right arm, to compare. When I sampled Au Lait yesterday, it immediately made me think of Amour, so I wanted to do a side-by-side. Amour is more of a perfume–with more complexities of notes than Au Lait being more linear and unidimensional. Actually, that’s been my note for all of the DSH scents I’ve tried in this set of samples.
Maybe it’s not fair, as they are all gourmet scents meant to evoke a particular food (chocolate, coffee, and in this case, sweetened condensed milk), but at the same time, if I’m going to wear perfume, I usually want it to surprise me at least a little bit. I’m not much for the Demeter-type scents, for example. The quality is higher for DSH than Demeter, but the sense of once you’ve smelled it, you know what you’re getting is the same.
So, no holy grail coffee scent, yet. Gotta keep sampling!
Do you know if the newer Amour smells much different? I should have bought a bigger bottle of Amour when I got it years ago, but only got the 1 oz and some day it’s going to be gone.
I sniffed a newer tester of Amour a few years ago and I remember thinking it was noticeably different, but I’m hazy on the details now. I want to say it was sharper, less milky and maybe less long-lasting? IIRC, when they reformulated, they changed the bottles to all one color, so if you can find a set online with 3 colors (pink mini, orange middle, white large), I believe that will be the older formulation.
Spent time in CM Intense and now in Deneuve. After 3 days off, it’s time to go back to work. Finished 3 candles last night and will start 4 more when I get home.
I’m testing the Different Company’s Sublime Balkiss today. Starts with citrus, followed by springtime flowers (blooms and greens) with a fresh aquatic note. Reminds of of Sur Le Nil, but if it were set in an english garden with a small brook. The comparisons to Pleasures make sense to me too. It is very well done.
Fleabag is so good! I could see Claire wearing this. It is niche and sophisticated, but also extremely office appropriate.
Drinking a mystery black tea from a homemade tea bag. I’m guessing I made the bag for my travel mug, and then realized I need to wear a mask wherever I was going, so it was pointless to bring tea. Tastes like a Darjeeling.
Loooved Fleabag.
Nothing yet because I have a dentist appointment but packing a travel size of Smell Bent Tea House in my purse for afterwards.
Hope the dentist went well, Dorsey!
Just sprayed on some Korres Morning Mimosa.
I had been wearing L’Occitane Verveine Cactus which is very lovely but it’s so fleeting…gone in a about an hour or so…shall engage hajusuuri-level sprays for my next wearing of that one. 🙂
Did you get this online, in-store or through ShopFrance (Suzan said not available in the U.S.).
Through Suzan/ShopFrance…I asked her about this one right before her most recent trip and she hunted it down for me. I saw she is going right back to France and she mentions in that email it’s apparently not coming to the US…really love it but quite the disappearing act ?
I’m wearing C&E Sandalwood from a bottle Pixel sent me a while ago. I think it was from one of the NST swaps but I can’t remember what I sent her, if anything.
No new sitcoms have grabbed me so I’m going to watch Making the Cut this evening (Amazon Prime) but I am laughing that Heidi Klum said it was different from Project Runway because “It’s not a sewing competition.” Project Runway wasn’t a sewing competition either, as I remember a woman winning for what were essentially caftans.
I could not sew a caftan if my life depended on it 🙂
Chypre Siam, which annoys me with this really bad spray nozzle. And it evaporates from the bottle too. Must use this more, otherwise it will be gone too soon.
Tea is a cold brew green tea from Japan, very nice for summer.
That tea sounds delicious. Mr. Teebear and I usually do mugicha (cold-brewed barley tea) in summers but a nice cold brew green tea is delightful!
SOTD; Eau d’Merveilles, providing some comfort today. My Dad has was diagnosed with terminal cancer last week, and he is too weak for treatment.
I am so glad I have a sibling, and don’t have to go through this alone, I have a good friend who has lost both her parents too, who is a huge support. ?
Oh my goodness, mayfly, wishing you peace and whatever comfort you & your family may find.
Mayfly, big hugs to you and your family. I am so sorry to hear of your dad’s diagnosis. I’m glad you have a support network.
You smell great.
I’m so sorry to hear you have to go through this, but I’m grateful to hear you have meaningful support and comfort through such a trial!
Sending you lots of comforting hugs, and glad to hear you have good support.
I will keep You and Your father in my prayers. Wish there was something I could do for You even though I don’t even know You in person. I am very glad You have Your sibling.
So sorry for the news. Take all the support you can get.
I am so sorry, mayfly. Sending you courage and hugs.
so sorry!
I’m so sorry. I am glad you have support.
This is such a hard time for you and your family–I am so sorry to hear about it. Echoing the others that I’m glad you have a good support network.
I am so sorry to hear that, Mayfly.
Wish you didn’t have to experience this. Hugs and prayers.
So sorry for your bad news, Mayfly.
So sorry to hear the bad news about your dad. I completely agree with some of the other posters who have said that having a support system in times like this is essential. Hugs.
So sorry to hear about this news. Glad you have a strong support team and hope that you get to treasure the time that’s left.
I’m very sorry to hear about your dad. Sending you hugs and prayers, mayfly.
So sorry to hear this news, mayfly; wishing you strength, courage, and comfort.
I’m sorry to hear about your dad’s bad news. Sending hugs, strength, and comfort to your dad, you, and your family.
I’m so sorry. Echoing others in wishing you and your family all possible comfort, peace, and strength in this difficult time, and I’m glad to hear you have people close to you who will be good support. Sending love!
Thanks so much to you all for your positive, kind and thoughtful wishes, such a wonderful support. I treasure being part of this community so much X ?
I’m so sorry mayfly.
I’m so sorry mayfly. I hope you and your sibling grow closer, lean well on each other for comfort and strength so as to bless your father and each other.
I wore Dedcool’s Taunt because I have it in the perfume oil form and wanted something that would sit close to the skin and not gas out the plane. We’re in Vegas – rode in a elevator that had just been vacated by someone wearing a huge cloud of Baccarat Rouge 540. I haven’t smelled perfume in the wild for sooooo long! Such a treat.
One of these days I’m going to finally need to sample BR 540.
You should, if only to say that you have sniffed it. I rather liked it, but did not care for the full bottle price at all. ?
I just got a bottle of Cloud instead and am telling myself it is close enough!
I love Fleabag!! The sisterly interactions were especially great, even if my sister and I are nothing like that.
I had a busy morning since my water filter pitcher handle broke while I was making tea. The whole kitchen was like Waterworld. Sigh!! But all is fine now, and the floors are especially clean.
SOTD Matcha Meditation.
How do you find Matcha Meditation?
I like it quite a bit! I bought the travel spray and have no regret but probably would not go for a full bottle. It’s quite floral on me (jasmine and orange blossom) with a dusting of matcha powder, almost like a jasmine tea. I also don’t like it as much as their previous tea scent, Tea Escape. Sadly, discontinued.
Have been in Chanel Eau de Cologne this morning while doing serious research on a new computer. Oh, look at that – there’s an emoji for my aged ? (so why oh why is there no perfume bottle emoji??). I’ve just about nailed everything down, and am now trying to optimize the various adapters needed for transitioning to a USB-C-only environment — my current system was built before USB-C was even a gleam in an engineer’s eye, so all my stuff (card reader, CD player) has the older version of USB connection. First world problems, for sure. ?
Adapters. But, I got a cheapie one from Amazon with a one to many and it failed me. My CD player has not worked yet but I haven’t spent much time trying to figure it out. The most important peripheral is an external back-up drive. I also got a wireless mouse that uses blue-tooth.
Also, which peripherals will you be using at the same time?
It’s possible that I might want to use a non-Apple Bluetooth mouse (that uses a usb plug-in) while also downloading photos from my aged DSLR (which uses “compactflash” memory cards and an old usb-based card reader) AND a wired (USB) keyboard. That’s the most complicated scenario I can think of. Looks to me like there are USB-C hubs that would give me 4 old-style usb ports, and as long as the hub worked, that would cover my needs. But I’ll still order an Apple-made USB-C-to-USB converter as a back-up. Think that covers things?
It should. Apple may be a reseller of the USB-C hubs although and I would trust them more; I may have to give in and buy one from the store.
Speaking of first world problems, my company is reimbursing us $1,100 for a defined list of work from home computer equipment (computer / laptop, keyboard, mouse, monitor) for anything purchased from March 2020 onwards. How I found out about this is another story. My work laptop is now 2 years old – I bought it April 2019 and took it out of the box January 2020. Anyway, so I could go out shopping for a new setup. We can get reimbursed every 3 years and we also get to keep the equipment even if we leave the company before the 3 years is up. Decisions decisions!
Nice! The imac I’m replacing is a late-2012 model, so VERY long in the tooth -kind of amazing that it lasted this long. Thanks for your IT support – much appreciated! ?
Hello!
1) in Bagatelle de Gabrielle today. Really perfect for this cool, overcast with a tiny sprinkle of rain morning.
2) Clean up and returning. I have slowly started putting things into the new cabinets- and decluttering at the same time. How weird I don’t want my old worn out stuff into new sparkling cabinets. I have to return a kitchen sink (fun) and coordinate returning some items from IKEA (double fun).
Oooh, just saw the pictures of your sink — looks great! Are you totally finished?
Thank you! ?
I have the dishwasher to install- then I will be completely operational! Of course there is paint and tile, but I think I will save this for September.
I would save that for September too! Or even November, knowing me 😉
Your butcher block countertop looks fantastic!
Oh goodness thank you!?
In my sample of BDK Tabac Rose again and loving the plummy richness. Andréa hasn’t quite convinced me yet on a FB but she does keep reminding me that life is short and pourquoi pas?
In other fragrance news, I was reading my local Nextdoor posts, only to see this headline – “Police Recover Purloined Perfume in North Seattle” – “At approximately 7:40pm, police watched 2 men enter the beauty store and head straight for the fragrances…the men were arrested leaving the store with over 60 bottles of perfume and admitted to a plan to sell the bottles on the street in Seattle’s downtown core.” Whoever came up with the quippy “Purloined Perfume” must be quite proud of themselves 🙂
I meant to add that this hilarious perfume caper reminds me of a favorite sitcom, Get Smart and the way Agent 99 would affectionately say “Maaaaxx”
I wonder which one’s they took ?
Sampling La Route d’Emeraude from Isabey. Big white floral but my collection is big enough that it’s hard to impress me nowadays
Posting a little later than I usually do. I have been busy preparing for my in-laws to arrive tonight.
SOTD La Panthere by Cartier which I also think can fit the Call my Agent show.
This is a great scent, I don’t know why I don’t wear it more often.
Thanks for all the foundation recommendations last week. I went with EL Double Wear.
Hope you have a great visit! Enjoy your chai tomorrow morning 🙂
I’m wearing Aromatics Elixir today. Normally I wouldn’t in the summer but I’m home alone so I took the opportunity in this warm weather to test it out.
Wish this was a vintage version as I can notice some slight differences to the original but I have more than enough if I chose to wear this daily as a signature scent.
Adding that the sitcom tie-in might be Murphy Brown. Not sure if Candace Bergen ever wore this but I’d like to think she did.
Good one! I was trying to do Murphy Brown, but nothing I have seemed to fit. AE works!
Aw, thanks lillyjo!
Great matchup!
Thanks Jalapeno! Wasn’t that a great show?
I remember the quips made about it in the presidential and vice-presidential debates back in the day.
It’s a mellow Tuesday which makes me happy weather-wise.
I decided to wear something rarer today, which is Lunasa from Cloon Keen Atelier.
Yay for mellow!
I loved Fleabag!
Wearing Eau de Sud today, not for any character in particular, but because it was calling my name in the heat.
It was Sud weather here too, but I’m all out 🙂
I’m wearing a pink jacket today, and pink always makes me think of rose, in this case Paestum Rose from Eau d’Italie.
A truly wonderful rose!
Adore that one! It always reminds me of a rose seen through grey silk chiffon.
SOTD is 4160 Tuesdays’ An Excess of Carelessness, which was inspired by the novel The Great Gatsby. Gorgeous floral!
And perfect name.
My son-in-law and grandson just took me out for ice cream and one of my old students from about 20 years ago was there eating ice cream too. I remember him being very worried that he would be spending eternity in a different neighbourhood than his half brother because the baby had not been baptized in the Catholic Church. I really wanted to ask him if he was still concerned about that.
Wearing Bobby Brown Beach.
How cool that you remember that 20 years later!
Will be back in a little bit for my SOTD, but holy tigon, you have to see it to believe it. Freak of manmade “nature” ? :
https://www.instagram.com/p/CRfm4Yhj6zw/?utm_medium=copy_link
? She has the build of a heifer!
Or a rhino! ?
Rhinos seem almost more compact by comparison.
I couldn’t believe it when I saw it!
Must be true if it’s on the internet, right?
It makes me wonder why anyone would do this cross-breeding albeit they are part of the same species.
That’s. So. Weird.
Right?
Omg! That’s a hefty girl!
Too big I say!
But why? Seems so hubristic. (Referring to the big kitty!)
Obviously totally normal ponytail dude hanging out with his cat friend.
My husband had a similar reaction!
In Concentre de pamplemousse rose, about my third application of the day. Short and sweet is this one!
But it does smell great!
I haven’t had to time read here let alone post in a while. I’m well. Fortunately Luxembourg wasn’t hit by the floods quite as badly as Germany and Belgium, and living halfway up a hill, I’ve been fine.
Wearing Amouage Gold (Woman), just stunning!
Really glad to hear you were out of harm’s way!
Good news that you are safe, sound, and high & dry.
Oh good!
So glad you’re high and dry!
Song of the Day: https://youtu.be/ajn_s6cxS64
Giving myself the day off from laundry today. Right now, I can hear one of the cats snoring as she takes another nap. The sky is a creepy, milky white today, and it smells weird outside. Smoke from the fires out West has made it to the US East Coast.
SOTD = Atelier Cologne Love Osmanthus, from the sample stash. It’s pretty and cheerful which is just what I needed today. Thanks again to Lisa D!
Cats snoring is one of the best sounds ever IMO.
Much nicer than human snoring, that’s for sure!
https://youtu.be/Z5-rdr0qhWk
To match your perfume mood!
Oh, Candy-O!
You smell nice! The sky was indeed milky today. The AQI at noon today was 124 and even higher mid-afternoon.
AQI where I am at was up to 154 earlier this evening, which is considered “Unhealthy”. For everyone. The number has dropped down into the “Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups” range now that the sun has gone down.
And thanks for the perfume compliment!
I thought I was reaching for Shalimar Philtre de Parfum and wound up with Blocki This Grand Affair since they’re in similar decant bottles. Still smelling pretty good, just more ambery.
As long as you were mostly inside, the Blocki sounds right!
Did Glossier You again this AM as I was at work with a more scent sensitive co-worker.
I was able to pull out a full 5-hr shift rehearsing despite getting vaxxed yesterday (yay!) and having some arm soreness and fatigue today.
The exhibition I’m performing in will finally open on the 29th, so it’s go-time trying to make sure we’re really ready.
Post-work, I put on Musc Ravageur and took a short nap to let the second vaccine dose continue working its magic. Now to eat dinner and get to bed early again!
Oh and I forgot to say you smell great, Robin!
Sounds like your second shot is treating you gently…
I’ve heard a few good things about Glossier You, kind of an easy going scent it seems. Plus their makeup looks quite fun.
Glad you powered through rehearsal after your shot, that’s impressive!
I’m impressed too! I could hardly make a cup of tea the next day.
SOTD = Lancôme La Vie Est Belle Intensement
Woo! It’s a nice one. Super-sized helping of fruity-berry, iris, vanilla, benzoin and patchouli.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CRkRZaCBe1A/?utm_medium=copy_link
I will have to re-think my strategy for the memorial service on Friday. I am still planning to go but will attend the first part which is reminiscing about my friend’s life. The Delta variant is causing me angst. A friend already dropped out and I can understand why.
You have to do what’s right for you re: Friday and the memorial service. Hugs, and thoughts of strength.
Thanks, jalapeño!
Echoing jalapeno Hajusuuri. ?
Thanks, lilyjo.
Do you know if they will make it available on zoom or anything?
Checking in appallingly late — I was too PMSsy today for perfume but now smell lovely after a bath with a Lush Goddess bath bomb. I was thinking of Fleabag earlier and remembering the wee scene where Claire, suffering from intense PMS, walks into the room in a full-body turquoise spandex running (?) suit. That’s about where I’m at.