It's Tuesday and National Peach Pie Day. (A quick PSA: I am at the beach this week, and so the blog will be even lazier than usual, and I am already quite behind on comments.) What fragrance are you wearing?
I'm commando, again, and planning to spend most of the day by the water, reading and chatting under a beach umbrella. (I am just starting book 3 of the Blandings Castle series, Summer Lightning. It has been so long since I read this series that it's almost like reading it for the first time.)
Reminder: on 8/27 we're doing People change... wear something you never would have worn in your pre-perfumista days.
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 Green Sea Turtle teapot ("These porcelain teapots feature original art by marine artist Kim Rody fired into the glaze.") is $39 at Ocean Life.
That is a really cute teapot.
I’m in Molecule 01+Iris today. I think Iris lovers would like it. Yesterday’s M+Patchouli finally got the downvote from my daughter in the afternoon. She said it was overpowering. “I can’t even smell my OWN perfume over yours!” lol. And that was only 2 sprays.
So, yesterday afternoon I did something I’ve never done before. I went to the barre3 studio in my neighborhood. Holy cow, what a workout! Granted, I haven’t worked out in…well, I can’t remember when. My legs felt like jello when I was walking to my car afterward. Going back for some more this afternoon.?
I tried a barre workout and got the worst foot cramps ever!! Mad props to you for planning to go back for a second dose.
2 days in a row!!
It’s too hot to wear much perfume. I have on the remnants of last night’s Seville l’Aube and may just stick to China Rain today.
Thanks to everyone for the well wishes for cataract surgery.! Everything went smoothly except that I feel lopsided….looking forward to having the other eye done next Monday.
So glad the surgery went smoothly! Hope the next one goes just as well!!
So glad went well. Mine still isn’t ready to remove.
So glad it went well! Do you have to put all those drops in like, five times daily?
One drop, 4x daily. There’s a tiny implant of antibiotics etc that gets inserted into the eye during surgery that dissolves over a few weeks. It’s amazing how much this procedure has changed over the years.
Oh that sounds much easier to deal with! Speedy healing!
Very glad to hear all this! I’m due to get both of my eyes done as soon as I’m able to. (No such surgeries allowed during my recovery period from the shoulder replacement.) I have heard from others as well about the lopsided feeling, but at least it’s temporary.
Glad everything went well!
Yay for your successful surgery! Cataract surgeries are like everyday miracles. 🙂
Yay! You’ll be so happy when it’s all done. My husband was thrilled with his results.
Terrific news about your surgery! Hang in there until the other eye is done!
Great news. Glad one is done!
That’s good news. My mother had cataract surgery a few months ago, and everything went very well.
Hooray! That’s great news. Halfway there!
I have returned to trying my Nicolai discovery set, and today is Fig Tea. I don’t like fig, but this is more fruity than figgy. The lactonic notes in most fig scents is missing. I like the fragrance, so its a win for me.
Love Fig Tea! You smell great. I bought my bottle early in my perfume life when the 30ml bottles were $25.
To tell you the truth, I just ordered a 30ml bottle. It wasn’t $25 however. Still, I love the fact that Nicolai provides smaller bottles at reasonable prices.
Me too, they’re still very reasonable.
I love Fig Tea! It’s deliciously refreshing..
Love that one but you’re right it’s not all that figgy.
Another heat wave is here and will stay until the end of the week. So exhausting!
Wearing Diptyque Philosykos.
Having my second cup of coffee and a slice of peach pie ?? ?.
Happy Tuesday!
Hot and humid here too.? Thank gosh for central A/C. I don’t know how I ever lived without it when I was younger. I guess because I was…younger.? Stay cool pl67!
LOL! So true about surviving without A/C when younger. I am so sure so many other things were more fun than thinking about the weather. This summer has been very tough. We will survive! ?. You too stay cool, mtg! ?
Enjoy the pie! I agree, the hot humid weather is exhausting.
Thank you! Looking forward to having another piece later! ?
Ooh, you smell amazing.
Thank you Sistine! ?
I never was an amber lover per se. I tried Serge Lutens Ambre Sultan years ago from a mini bottle I used to have – and while of good quality – decided amber wasn’t for me. That is until I got a bottle of Tango from my Mom for last Xmas. Feel deeeeply in love with Tango. Then miraculously I realized many of the perfumes that followed Tango also had amber in them. Squid by Zoologist has maybe not amber but synthetic Ambre Gris that is just as warm as the real thing is. Then Tuberoza has a base of amber too. I believe even Chinatown has amber in it too!! And I loved Chinatown since it’s launch in 2005 or so.
Tango is a great amber. I haven’t tried the Squid by Zoologist. Probably should!
Very lovely too 🙂
Good morning Y’all,
Decided to play rollerball roulette and blind picked Pacifica Sugared Amber Dreams. Simple and sweet! I do like a soft amber anytime….
You smell great…that one is simple yet delightful!
They just wheeled my dad into surgery not too long ago and I am currently at home with the dogs right now. I’ve been a little lazy and haven’t showered yet but in Kiehl’s Original Musk but soon to get into the shower. I think that I might try Bombay Bling or bust out Noontide Petals.
I vote Bombay Bling ? hope your dad’s surgery goes well.
I hope everything goes well for your dad, Dawn.
Sending best wishes for your dad today.
May all go well for your father.
Hope everything is going well with your dad today.
I hope your dad is doing well.
Wearing Amber Oud by Killian today. This is an amber heavy, oud light sort of rich perfume which I like very much. It’s doing well on a coolish morning, supposed to get hot later. Right now I am getting more oud than I usually do. When this fades away mid afternoon I will probably reapply my other Oud, Miral, a more classic middle eastern style dense smoky Oud with floral hints, which is great when it is cold out, so I am interested to see what it does in heat.
An earlier poster mentioned a second cup of coffee. I believe I will emulate that example. No peach pie – might get some cut up watermelon chunks, or a half a grapefruit – I am back on a gluten free regime for a while.
Last fall I successfully dropped 20 pounds over the course of 5 months with gluten free, no sugar, no carbonated beverages, minimizing processed meats and carbs in general, alcohol limited to 1 glass of red wine a week. Now I have maintained that new weight for many months and here we are rolling into fall again, so I am going to get back on the bandwagon, slowly, by eating up all the offenders and not replacing them in my larder. Interestingly enough, the hardest thing to part with at this moment seems to be carbonated beverages, which have been hitting the spot these last few really hot and muggy days. I think I have two small bottles of tonic water left. I will probably make a gin and tonic this coming weekend, and then no more of that until next July!
Great job! How did you feel without gluten? Better energy, less brain fog?
I noticed my joints felt better without gluten. I also reduced rice, which also caused joint pain.
Fixed my joints too. I do not have any problem with rice though.
A Gin & Tonic sounds fun! Mr. SmokeyToes loves the grapefruit-flavored tonic for his cocktails. Very refreshing!
Club soda with lemon or a dash of orange juice is very refreshing with lots of ice.
I know what you mean about the carbonated beverages. I’ve been drinking all those flavored fizzy waters like crazy in this humoggity.
Congrats on your weight loss.
Do you drink flavored seltzer/sparkling water w/ no sweeteners (real or artificial)? There are so many good seltzer/sparkling waters out now it’s hard to keep up. 😉 I have read about the issues w/ diet soda but wondering about not drinking carbonated beverages if they have no sweeteners. I love sparkling water. I love regular water for that matter too. ehaeheh I have some friends who have a tough time drinking regular water for that matter.
I don’t enjoy just drinking plain water, but love the Pellegrino fizzy drinks that just have a bit of essence, no actual fruit juice so no sugar.
I love cold seltzer with fresh mint. The mint makes it taste colder!
I have a friend who had fibromyalgia symptoms, and her wholistic doctor told her to stop drinking anything with carbonation and it really reduced the intensity of her aches and pains. So I stopped drinking carbonation, and it helped my middle ages aches and pains. An old cowboy I knew refused to eat bacon, ham or sausage, said it made his joints hurt. I stopped eating processed meats, anything with nitrates in it, and didn’t notice much difference for a while, I just like fresh meat better. Now, if I give into impulse and have bacon and eggs for breakfast, my joints will hurt for the next two days. Lack of gluten (and lots more green leafy vegies) soothes my digestive system, but I have to go a couple months gluten free to completely feel the benefits, and I will have pretty strong cravings for a few weeks there in the middle. Dreaming about donuts is just really weird. I can’t imagine what it must be like to try to withdraw from serious medications! However, if I stick to this regime, which is basically fresh meat, poultry and fish, lots of green leafy vegies, a citrus fruit and some other sort of fruit, berries, a pear, or an apple, every day, limiting dairy to a little cream in coffee, or a little cheese with apple for a snack, small helpings of non-gluten grains every other day, wild rice, buck wheat kasha or pancakes, quinoa pilaf, teff or oat porridge, or a smallish piece of cornbread, or teff…I will feel much better, I know I will feel much better, but with all these choices, our culture still pushes this set of things I am trying to cut back on – bread, sodas, candy, processed meats, cheese, so there is a constant background hum in my head of don’t eat this crap that will make you feel bad. It’s tiring. 🙂
It’s a lot of work eating healthy and sticking to it. But it’s so worth it.
About 15 years ago, I did an elimination diet, followed the same food choices you just listed and my joints never felt better. And my skin cleared up, it had a marvelous glow to it.
I never have much trouble with my skin, but that is what my sister experiences – eat bread, break out all over the next week….
Yes, I get more oud from this one in warmer weather, but it’s still not huge oud on me. Thank goodness!
I have two fresh peaches on kitchen counter for later.
Lost 7 pounds, 10 more to go, no pie on the menu here.
Robin, such a lovely teapot.
SOTD is Byredo Tobacco Mandarin.
Congratulations on your weight loss!
Yay for your pounds, peaches and Tobacco Mandarin.
Byredo is carried at one Nordstrom by me but they never have a tester of that one ehaeheh all the rest yes but not that one and I suspect it’s b/c many have said it’s the best. 😉
I think it’s the best, got lucky one day with the tester and bought a bottle with my Nordie dollars.
Congrats on the 7 lbs. I’ve gained too much and have started back on trying to lose the COVID, moving, dessert weight. A fresh peach for dessert is my go to as long as possible.
Peaches are my favorite fruit I eat every single night before bed while I’m reading… And even though I do not like tobacco notes in my perfume (neither do I like the the smell of someone smoking a pipe even if it’s fruit flavored) I am curious about TB because of the mandarin that I do love in real life and perfume. Apsara how do You like Tobacco Mandarine?
Isn’t that fun?
And congrats on the poundage!
Congratulations on losing 7 lbs! Woo hoo!
Hello all! I am wearing Serge Lutens Borneo 1834. Another day of perfume indecision, so I closed my eyes and applied whatever my hand landed on. I was sorta hoping it’d be Ambre Sultan but here we are. 🙂
I should call my old roomie, who was from the mid-west and made delicious pies, especially peach. I was fortunate to have an uncle whose house bordered on a large peach farm on Long Island. Growing up, we had plenty of peaches, syrupy sweet nectar dripping from our chins and fingertips.
Peaches are the essence of summer, love your description.
Thanks!
I had an old *spicy* pony who would lick the nectar from my fingertips. Porky was cranky but he loved his peaches (he tolerated me just for that…)!
You smell great. 🙂
I ordered some fall samples from Lucky Scent and they arrived yesterday.
Zoologist Chipmunk: oh how I wanted to like this, but Chippy turned out to be a big meh on me. I got some woodsy smell, but no nut, no leave mulch. It wasn’t very impressive and faded very quickly. Strike one on samples.
Hiram Green Hyde: SMOKE! Smoke smoke smoke. Roll around in the dead ashes smoke. Not much else? This type of scent is usually right up my alley but it’s ALL smoke. No subtlety or nuance, no depth, just overwhelming ash. Who wants to smell like that for a perfume? Strike two.
Goldfield&Banks Silky Woods: now here’s a delicious scent! Soft wood, slightly powdery. I love it. Yippee! But wait, why does this smell so familiar? Hmm, because it’s almost a carbon copy of SL Daim Blonde!
So familiar I put DB on my other arm. I could hardly tell the difference. Since I have a FB of DaimB I’m not springing for a dupe by another name. Strike three, but it was lovely.
I like Silky Woods too. I find it similar to Absolute Aphrodisiac w/ the latter being a bit sweet and w/ more vanilla but still close.
Thanks for the sample report! My bottle of Daim Blond is nearly empty, I will replace it with Silky Woods.
I’m going to make a note of Silky Woods. My bottle of DB is a favorite and I no longer trust Serge Lutens for their changes. When DB is empty I’ll probably replace with Silky Woods.
There’s not much price difference either.
This is my thinking as well – too many reformulations at Lutens.
Wearing L’Ombre de Merveilles today. I know it didn’t seem to get a lot of love, but I really like it. It is like the dark side of the original, to me.
Didn’t Ben and Jerry’s do a Willie Nelson Peach Cobbler ice cream or something like that? That would really hit the spot today. Sigh. It was probably one of their limited editions.
They did, I forgot!
In two, tiny spritzes of the ginger bicky today. Yes, a Jo Malone I would buy, and at full price, so am hoping it really will be turning up as a seasonal scent come November because I will rush to order it.
Today is my first day back at work, seeing all my coworkers. You all understand how important it is to have some reassuring scent, and it has to be quite gentle and unobtrusive in case there really is a no-scent policy now.
I hope your first day back went well. You are so wise to choose a reassuring scent!
I hope your first day back was happy and not stressful!
Cool mornings, fall is in the air! Wearing Encens Mythique.
You smell great! I’m starting to suspect we might have very similar tastes in scents!
🙂 me too!
OJ Frangipani, since the humidity level has risen.
Ordered a foldable queen platform bed frame for a guest coming soon. Had to give directions to a new FedEx driver, who got confused by our place, which Google still doesn’t acknowledge. He found us. Now I have to clean the guest room out to set things up.
So you will put away the frame when you don’t have guests, is that the idea? Anyway, good luck getting everything settled 🙂
Yes. That’s the plan, until we determine a more permanent guest solution. Right now we have a queen air mattress and I’ll add a foam topper. But it’s too low to the ground for adults….
That seems like a great idea!
My morning started by cleaning poop out of Dapper’s butt fur, so the day can only get better. I’m wearing Narciso this morning. That teapot is nice, I might see what other images are available.
?. I’m sorry. That is NOT how anyone wants to start their day.
It’s all uphill from here!
Oof. Sorry to hear that!
There is a really cool octopus, among others!
Another beautiful day here in the PNW rain forest. I’m in SSS Forest Walk from yesterday afternoon, which I’m sure will continue wafting all day without having to re-spritz. This stuff lasts forever..!
T-Rex is giving me the big eyes and the tap, tap, tap with her paw that clearly communicates she’d like her breakfast, sooner rather than later thank you very much, so I’m off to feed her, then walkies for both of us.
Happy Tuesday! ✌?
Food and walkies sounds like the best plan, ever!
Sampling Parle Moi Cedar Woodpecker today and wishing I had done about half the number of dabs. Not bad, but not for me. At that price, I could get two better masculine woody scents at Ulta ?
Money saved, right?
Wearing Eau My Soul today. I’m still debating if I want to take advantage of the August travel spray offer from 4160 Tuesdays.
I loaded up in the last sale so I’m sitting this one out, but it’s a nice deal. They have some on sale at Indiescents right now as well. I’m waiting for the black Friday sale (which she calls pink Friday) to get myself a 100ml bottle of Freeway, plus she has a new Saltburn Driftwood fragrance in the works that sounds interesting. There’s also an almond variant on Over the Chocolate Shop I’m curious about.
Freeway is a great scent. I didn’t realize it was available outside of Luckyscent/ Scent Bar.
You can order it only from Luckyscent or directly from her.
I’m in a few hefty spritzes of Badlands, from Scotch Porter. I love three out of the four fragrances from this line (Miami Duppy didn’t work for me, sadly, though it should have). Glenwood is my absolute favorite, but Badlands has a really bright, uplifting quality to it that I needed today.
One of the best things about working from home is the ability to lay on the perfume without worrying about anybody else’s nose!
And Miami Duppy was my favorite!
What am I going to wear today? Chinatown. My backup arrived today anyway.
So I have just been browsing through different perfume house websites and besides me needing more of Swan Princess and wanting to try Blue Tea, I also have been mesmerized by THoO’s Unique collection especially the Red Storm. That one features ginger top notes, ginger blossom heart and… Candied ginger heart. I LOVE when my favorite ingredients notes repeat themselves in different forms or stages of the perfume. I want to try the Royal Stone too. Also I have ventured into Bond no.9’s website and decided that by description the Dubai collection really intrigues me. Especially Garnet and Jade. Maybe even Citrine. Anyways so now I wanna try these well-above average and pricey perfumes. Yes way to go for me as I am not rich at all.
That is the perfumista’s lament in a nutshell!
Finally put some 7 virtues Santal Vanille on after a busy morning! Just had a lovely lunch and I’m looking forward to seeing what the afternoon has in store.
The afternoon held mowing the lawn. Really seeing how this perfume holds up under exertion!
Yes you are!
Enjoying myself if Prada Amber Pour Homme today.
You smell nice!
Love the turtle on that teapot! I’m non-CP-compliant today in La Promesse de l’Aube, which is just the sort of thing I wore in my pre-rabbit hole days — a little stone fruit and a lot of spice. Yum.
I have a LOT of choice for Friday, in theory, but did not bring any of it with me to the beach so I am going to fail.
Amun Re: The Tears of Ra for my comfort scent for driving lesson number 2 which went smoother than lesson 1. Wore it yesterday too. Just simply one of my all-time faves
Oh, so glad!! It must be hard to learn to drive when you are old enough to have a reasonable level of fear, I would think? When I was 16 I was too stupid to understand how dangerous it was.
Another fabulous teapot!
I’ll try a few more samples today, sitting at the keyboard is a great opportunity for perfume assessment, no-one to see me pause for frequent deep sniffing of my wrists 🙂
Plus, not a bad price!
Testing Elizabeth & James Nirvana Rose today. Ordered a sample to get free shipping on another purchase, and trying to decide if I want to snag a FB while they are still available. I really like their White and Black, and love their Bourbon. I thought the Rose would be a no brainer for me, but I was not into it when it first came out. I get a mixture of fresh rose petals (bouquet fresh, not still-on-the-vine fresh) mixed with dried potpourri rose petals, patchouli, and vetiver. Reminds of a stripped down version of POAL with vetiver.
Drinking black tea mixed with Nutcracker Rooibos.
I adore E&J Black, White, and Bourbon. :)Rose was a bit meh for me. Good idea to grab a bottle while you can, I think there will be quite a few sad perfumistas when they’re gone.
That’s just why I love Nirvana Rose. When you are thinking about POAL but don’t want to take up the whole room, it’s perfect.
Tried Valentino Born in Roma Yellow Dream this morning and it was a total non-descript bust. 😉 eaheheh
I have moved on to sampling Verbena, Freesia & Musk and Passion Fruit, Orange Blossom & Vetiver from Dame.
You’ve got quite the lineup to test!
SotD = Dior Homme EdT
gosh, this is such a good fragrance. Everyone should wear it at least once.
Going to bake dinner rolls with my daughter now. She likes crescents best.
Hope every perfumista here had a terrific Tuesday. Mine was low-key okey-dokey. 😉
You smell cozy – love Dior Homme. ?
I love this! Dior Homme can be the companion to Chanel No.19 EDP in the “chicken in every pot” storyline ?.
I’ve been testing Au Pays Violette Sacree all day, dribbling a little more on my wrists and elbow crooks every so often. Very pretty violet with woods and musk, with the musk taking over due to all th layers.
Well, I mixed the life changing bread that Amyitis posted about this weekend, and it will sit in its pan overnight for a morning bake. Here’s hoping! ❤️ ? ❤️
Something to look forward to!
SOTD = YSL Tuxedo
4 spritzes did not last long in this heat. But the few hours it lasted, the amber patchouli with flecks of rose and salt and a vanilla drydown makes this quite an interesting perfume. I’ll wear it once more in the heat (8 sprays!), then dial back to 4 when it’s much cooler out!
https://www.instagram.com/p/CS91jAMrETE/?utm_medium=copy_link
It’s been a crazy day and I don’t feel like logging back in again to finish something for which I gave everyone else a deadline of today. Oh well.
Not quite perfume but certainly, smell-related since it was from Barh and Body Works – notcaturday! What do you think – ?? ?? ?? Or something else? ?
https://www.instagram.com/p/CS7v1GHL_jH/?utm_medium=copy_link
That backpack is too cute!! And that’s a very handsome Tuxedo decant, I’m impressed.
I’m excited to say, with your hints, I was able to sleuth out Ms. Sandlewood!!!! ? It’s even worse than I imagined, I couldn’t believe she would misspell the word when it’s part of the name of a fragrance. The horror. Plus, I agree, it definitely looks like there are many undisclosed gifted bottles. Very “suss”, as my middle schooler would say.
You smell great. 🙂
Wore a few sprays of Datura Noir. Barely sprayed it but I can still pick up a bit even 8+ hours later. Potent stuff! I also noticed the coolness in the air today so Fall is coming.
Yesterday I wore a couple patch-forward scents; I think it’s a better note for me if it’s well blended in the mix. I even tried to dilute them with hand sanitizer but it didn’t work! Maybe those are better in the middle of Winter..
Datura Noir is good stuff, and yes, potent!
Glad it’s cooled down, especially since we’re back to wearing masks tomorrow, grrr. Their new modus operandi seems to be giving people little to no notice to avoid protests.
Finally a chance to breathe. The first two days of school have been absolutely bananas. My SOTD was No. 5 L’Eau. Very glad to be wearing something light when the AC decided to quit. On a 95 degree day. With 2700 people in the building.
It’s so nice to come home, play with the dog, have a glass of cold wine with my hubby and read NST. Thanks everyone!
Good luck with surviving the rest of the week! You deserve MANY glasses of cold wine. ?
2nd that!!
SOTD is Cabochard EDP, the newest version. Really enjoying it, and it lasts a long time!
Late to the party but earlier I wore Jo Loves Green Orange & Coriander because I was in the mood for its comforting mineral note. I’m not sure why I think of this perfume as comforting or just very comfortable to wear maybe. Just switched over to St. Clair First Cut.
I don’t know the Jo Loves fragrance but St. Clair First Cut is beautiful. I find all of her fragrances complex and very compelling.
I feel the same way about St. Clair. First Cut was love at first sniff for me.