It's Tuesday and World Teachers’ Day. (Thank you, teachers!) What fragrance are you wearing?
I'm in By Kilian Smoke for the Soul. My tea, to match my fragrance: Numi Chinese breakfast brewed with fresh cardamom.
Reminder: 10/8 will be Thinking of You Friday...wear a perfume that reminds you of someone else (a friend? a family member? another NST reader? a celebrity? anyone, really). Adapted from a suggestion by chocolatemarzipan.
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 Gongfucha [cropped] by ~jar{} at flickr; some rights reserved.
In Tauer Phi Une Rose de Kandahar, for another rainy, cooler day in the 60’s.
I was able to sleep last night night, so I am feeling better today. On my second cup of coffee with pumpkin pie spice creamer and ready to jump to my next work meeting.
Happy Tuesday, everyone! ??
You smell great!!
Thank you! ?
You smell fabulous! And glad you got some better sleep last night 🙂
Thank you, Allo! ?
Yummy! Love all this, and Pumpkin Spice!
I don’t want to rush things, but I am looking forward to the Christmas flavors, Egg Nog (especially ice cream from Mitchell’s) is a favorite!
I used to love going to Mitchell’s when we lived in SF! That was one of the best parts of living there.
Same here! Counting the days for the holiday spices and foody items to show up in the shelves!
So glad you got some rest!
Thank you, Lillyjo. It is much better today!
I’ve never done the flavored creamers, but I admit to pondering the peppermint mocha…
Love the peppermint mocha! ?
It’s sooo good.
You smell gorgeous!
Thank you, Cazaubon!
Glad to hear that you got a good night’s sleep last night!
Thank you, Jalapeno!
Another dreary day here..Cloudy and damp
Sporting a blouse with tigers and birds today with jeans.
SOTD
TF Neroli Portofino
Tea is from the gift yesterday called Psychocandy: Darkly sweet rooibos with pumpkin and caramel
EL double wear foundation, Chanel mascara and EL lippy
Your outfit sounds marvelous! And the tea sounds delicious!
2nd this!
I love rooibos. Need to find this one!
Does any else have really bizarre and vivid dreams — more so than usual — after drinking rooibos?
No, but I have something like that from chamomile — weird dreams and increased middle-of-the-night wakings, which is just weird since most people take chamomile to sleep better.
So, nearly every plant material has some constituent that bothers one person and not another, right?
Interesting. The last time I drank it several nights in a row was visiting a friend out of town, so my sleep/dreams may have been different without me noticing. I’ll have to notice when I drink it at home.
Your outfit and tea sound great. 🙂
I’m wearing Lankaran Forest today.
Love that one, you smell great.
This one has been on my wishlist for a while. I’ll be getting a couple of MCGs for Christmas this year.
Good morning.
Sotd is Cherry Punk.
I just blind bought EL’s Sensuous Stars from their new “Luxury Line”. It promises “12 hour wear” but I mainly bought it because I am a sucker for lavender. Plum, lavender and orris sounds like a pretty combination.
I read somewhere that a set of minis will become available and I am interested…
Let us know how it smells:). And yay for minis
Oh interesting! I didn’t get much of anything when I tried this one but I do like a few in that line.
Sounds interesting, I need to find a place to test these, do report back!
Replica Autumn Vibes which I somehow forget to admit to Donatella yesterday.
Hmmm. I wasn’t aware of this one; now I’m going to have to go check it out!
Wearing Parfums de Nicolai New York to cut the humidity. I miss October weather, it’s usually my favorite month but we’ve had nothing but rain, gloom yet warm and muggy days so far. It’s hard to get motivated but hanging around with the cat isn’t a bad thing 🙂
I noticed that about October too. I used to look forward to the no humidity, but it seems October has warmed up a lot and retained the humidity. Even here in WI, it’s warmer than I expected.
Even in San Diego we are having muggy weather, looking forward to a change.
The seasons are different now. Proper fall, here, starts later and many years, carries on longer into December than it used to.
Safran Troublant – where have you been all my life? So warm and cozy for this very rainy Seattle day.
You smell marvelous!
You smell wonderful!
Oooo – you smell goooood!
Oh, I wish I was wearing that right now. After meh musk wears off, I’ll rifle through my stash for it. You smell wonderful!
Love Safran Troublant! Is this the first time you’ve tried it?
I fell in love after a generous NSTer shared it with me. The rest is history!
Ooh, that’s a lovely one!
Good morning all, my SOTD is Dior’s Dune for women. It’s warmth is calling to me.
On second cup of coffee and still sleepy, but so much going on, no time to nap. We have a plumber coming over to fix various issues with the shower. This will not be an easy fix or fun but here we are!
Makeup is Chanel foundation, lippie is by Face Stockholm, Veil lipstick in Friendship, a pretty coral pink. I love this color and don’t wear it often enough. My favorite color by them is Cranberry veil, a classic cinnamon-red.
I dnt wear lippies much at all since this dumb c19 crud..cinnamon red sounds nice:) I just got a frosty peach pink from Korres, 99 cents lol.
Also haven’t worn lipstick since masks became de rigeur. I never thought I’d miss it, but I am starting to.
I’ve only worn makeup a handful of times since 3/20 but I still bought 4 lipsticks in that time. Dumb, because I never stopped wearing a mask so I only wear chapstick when I’m out.
Buying a lipstick here and there is just self care as far as I’m concerned. Even if you only slick it on at home, it makes you feel better.
You are not alone in this!
I really miss lipstick. I wore my favorite Pat McGrath MatteTrance color today — Venus in Furs — thinking it might not transfer to my mask so much as other lip colors have. No luck there. Even though I am fully masked all the time in campus buildings and when teaching, I still have to get from home to work and I really like having color on my lips.
I recently splurged on a Dior soft brick red because it’s been hard to find and just about the only red that works on me. Will look at the Veil line.
Going to look up that Dior one
Is that the name , soft brick red?
No. It’s #644 “Sydney”
It’s an everyday, sheer red on me. Not dramatic but easygoing.
Carolyn Bessette Kennedy is famous for wearing Cranberry veil lip stain by Face Stockholm. It’s a sheer color that is easily buildable, compliments most skin tones, and leaves behind a nice stain. I’ve worn it for about 20 years now and it’s easily a favorite.
For another great brick red, MAC Spice It Up lip sheer is a marvelous brick red, and a very close dupe to the Face Stockholm lippie.
I wore a cranberry sheer lipstick for years and at my wedding that I bought at Barney’s. They stopped selling it, and something is making me think it was either bought by or made by Face. It was the perfect lipstick. I will look at them.
Oooh, I love a good lip stain.
I wish I could learn to wear lipstick properly, but on me it always looks fabulous for about ten minutes, and then starts to wear weirdly. Maybe I fidget with my mouth too much, somehow…
Try a lip liner , I use a nude
You smell wonderful! Love Dune.
I love coral pinks! And it’s not easy to find a nice one not pulling too orange or too bright.
This is a favorite, it’s very cheerful. Another is Chanel’s Experimental, warm deeper coral, and a great satin finish.
Masks be damned, I do love my lipsticks! 😀
I miss lipstick too! With the lift of restrictions I sometimes wear it for walks and shopping. I’ll look those up 🙂
I’m wearing Ava Luxe No. 23 today, and I smell wonderful. This is one of my all time favorite perfumes, and I was sad when the perfumer discontinued it. I even went so far as to email her a couple of times, asking if there was a leftover bottle I could purchase, but no joy.
I’m inclined to hoard it, because I hate the feeling of running out of something that I love, never to experience it again. However, intellectually I know it’s better to wear it than to have it in the bottle, so whatevah — I’m in a solid three spritzes.
Lisa D, I share your instinct – wanting to hold onto things and not wear them as much as I would like so that I don’t lose them. I’m sure there’s a parable or two written about just this sort of thing.
But I tell myself “Tis better to have sprayed and lost than never to have sprayed (8x’s mininum!) at all.”
Exactly — I know it’s better to use it (and who am I to argue with Tennyson?), but I kinda wince a little inside whenever I spray something that I’ve got very little of. On the other hand, it’s good practice in letting go….another thing at which I’m not so great.
Ability to let go = not my second nature
You smell fabulous! Love No.23. Madame X was my favorite Ava Luxe, did you try that one?
I have tried that one, but I don’t remember what it was like. I bought a bunch of samples from her, ages ago, when she was doing really great sample packs, so I’m sure I have it somewhere. I have liked a lot of her work, but No. 23 is far and above my favorite. It just smells so good on me, to me.
Yay you for enjoying a beloved perfume instead of having it turn in the bottle!
Serge Noire, nice for an overcast day. I love this scent a little salty in the beginning but those spices though.?
I like this one, too (we’re in the minority, I think), for the fantastic incense cloud it makes.
You smell wonderful – I am a fan too.
Serge Lutens Chene. Fantastic for transitioning into fall, since the forecast is 50s/early 60s and rain for most of the week.
Many Serge scents are so good for fall:) house twin
Yes, Chene is lovely.
Ooh, thanks for the reminder about this one. I love Chene, but I’ve somehow lost track of it!
I never found that in the displays! Is it discontinued? I will look for a sample, sounds beautiful.
It WAS a bell jar, and now it’s had the price jacked up and put in those ugly skinny black bottles. Still on lucky scent.
In between, for a time it was in the regular clear glass skinny rectangles (that’s what I have) with the optional spray mechanism.
Poor thing’s been jerked around ?
Wearing the Obsession I got from the rummage sale over the weekend. I was worried when sniffing in the bottle that it would be way too amber-y for my taste. I applied 1.5 sprays to chest only, much less than anything else I’ve worn all pandemic, and the amber isn’t too overpowering. I think 5mL is plenty of this though.
A little goes a long way but I’ve always had a soft spot for Obsession, you smell wonderful.
A little bit of vintage Obsession is fantastic.
I disliked Obsession back in the day, but wonder if I would have a change of heart now.
Lancome Mille et Une Roses. I needed a little vanilla rose in my life today. 😀
I have been craving vanilla rose too
Oh yum! Almost never see that one mentioned anymore.
Scent: A single spritz of OJ Frangipani. Doesn’t really make sense with the weather today, though. I haven’t collected fragrances for fall – I’ve been a summer fragrance fan. But this year, I feel a shift in the works. I’ve been wearing some Perris Monte Carlo Arancia Di Sicilia lately, which I’m enjoying.
Other: heading out shortly to shop houseplants. Haven’t had more than one or two over the last several years, but we’re empty nesters now with no pets – at least for the time being. And it occurred to me the other day that maybe some green around the house will make winter more bearable? Remains to be seen, but it’s worth a try!
Both those scents are great. We must have similar tastes. I, too, have foregone the houseplants because of cats. Our current one may be less interested…maybe I should try something.
Well, I went, I browsed, I didn’t purchase. My daughter’s cats occasionally bounce back for a day or two of catsitting, so I’ll try to stick to cat-friendly plants. Gotta do a bit of research!
I went a little crazy on plants during the worst of the pandemic.
Inspect carefully for critters before you buy!
Phalaenopsis orchids are cat safe plants, and tolerant of newbie houseplant owners. I even got a couple of them to re-bloom. But I haven’t had orchids in a while, because kittens will destroy anything and everything.
Wearing L’Interdit EDP today which was a 3rd quarter acquisition and just updated the buying poll…please go feast your eyes on my list. ?
I bought about 20 bottles give or take somehow in Q3… ehaeheh but I also sold off around 15 on Ebay in the same timeframe.??♀️
I find selling on Ebay pretty easy so my goal going forward is to rehome stuff much sooner if I don’t still love and wearing it regularly. I am also thinking of picking a goal of 40 or 50 full bottles and staying at or below that too. The Closet of Shame has more to be revealed but we do have some progress!??
You are so not alone in this shame.
Good to hear about ebay as I have some things to sell but have been procrastinating. (And nice list, BTW.)
You’ve been busy! I have boxes of bottles I’ve been wanting to sell on eBay, but am a bit afraid of crabby buyers ruining my rating. Any tutorials you recommend?
World Teacher Day?! Perhaps all teachers should celebrate by buying more perfume? I know I’m happy for any excuse…
I’m starting on the CP in Replica By the Fireplace. A former student, then babysitter, now family friend gave me a sample set last November for my birthday. I was touched by the gift, and we had a lot of fun spraying the many samples. This pretty much just smells like toasted marshmallows to me, but that’s nothing to complain about!
All teachers deserve another bottle, that’s for sure! Sorry if you have to buy it yourself.
I’m down with that way to celebrate!
Mitsouko today, version from around 2007, not sure exactly. Smells like Mitsouko, which is, just about perfect for this slightly chilly, damp fall day in Michigan…
Adorable hubby having a hard day at work – people issues.
I am having a hard day at work – the network to my clinical apps is intermittently down, and I am locked out, and on hold with tech support, suggesting I am not the only one!
But I do have internet to get to NST! Contemplating ordering some Dame samples – has anyone smelled that new one Singularity, or the Linden soliflore? I like the upgrade to the website, and am tempted by some of the dad’s artwork…I love a family endeavor like this.
Not so sure about the models walking barefoot in the desert – the models make it clear they don’t want to put their feet down on all those prickly, insect infested desert scrub…they should have combat boots on with those diaphanous gowns… 🙂
I don’t understand why female pain is considered a selling point for anything, really…is it a unconscious display of punishment for original sin, or something?
LOL, I just finished a really great book about treating trauma, “The Body Keeps the Score” and now I am seeing psychoanalytic indicators everywhere…still on hold. I should stop talking before I get more aggravated. I have my COVID booster scheduled for Saturday morning. Gotta keep up on the chassis maintenance, as my sister calls it.
Have a good day, all.
Speaking of books I am reading Matrix by Lauren Groff
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I am half way through the Matrix and it’s gotten really stale for me. There are too many characters to keep track of and none of them have something unique that is a reminder of which is which. There’s a lot of repetition also of the daily life in the Abby. ?
I’ve been thinking about that one — on the waitlist for it at the library. I just read her “Fates and Furies” in the meantime, to get a taste for her writing, and I’m on the fence about it. (It was interesting enough, but I found her characters aren’t really all that believable as soon as you take a step out of her universe.)
I am a medievalist by training (not anything close now), and thought maybe I’d like reading about Marie de France. But fiction set in the Middle Ages (or pseudo-Middle Ages…e.g., fantasy) often rubs me the wrong way. Now I’m thinking that if I don’t find her characters believable when set in the present day, I really wonder how believable they’ll be in a period she likely doesn’t know as well. Oh well, I might give it a try when I get it in a year or so. If it doesn’t stick, I’ll just abandon it and pass it on to the next on the list.
I am ready to fold on this book, but will keep going until the next chapter. There is just such a lack of plot. There is this build up in the beginning and now it has fizzled.
“I don’t understand why female pain is considered a selling point for anything, really…”
*stares in high heeled shoes*
It’s very unfair…
I had an ex boyfriend ask me once “why are you not more feminine and wear make up and heels like the other girls?” At an impressionable age, I did give it a try and warmed up to make up eventually, but not the heels! I embrace flats and ballerinas, dresses, flexible pencil or A line skirts and sheer cloth pants. So much happier since!
I gave up heel around age 36 or so. One day my toes got stabbing pains that proved to be related to wearing heels, and that was the end.
Mon Guerlain EdT travel spray after shower and using my new Old Spice Oasis anti-perspirant. They discontinued my beloved Amber a few years ago. This one has a nice, soft lavender scent to it. It doesn’t project, but I like putting it on.
Lots of nail pounding going on at the next door duplex – they’re under the gun to get it completed in November. I wandered through it on Sunday briefly, and I decided I much prefer our floor plan even though it’s about 150 sq ft smaller. I just like the flow of ours. And I swear it was as if someone had our furniture in mind when they drew it up.
Hope they finish it quickly so you don’t have to listen! And hope you get nice neighbors.
Woke up groggy and cross today and not in a mood to be pushed around by my perfume, so I’m wearing Arbolé for low-key woodland snuggles. The downside of living in a tiny, rural town full of owls and foxes and uncompromised starlight and sweet, friendly neighbors who wave when I walk my son to school and flag me down for a glass of wine when I walk him home is that we have no functional amenities here. Thus, today I’ll be driving 40 minutes each way for a 15-minute doctor appointment.
I hear you on that. The small town we moved to is nice but I feel like I spend my life in the car because there are so few decent stores and amenities. I miss walking everywhere in the big city.
I blame the wine industry here. We actually do have a little commercial center in town, but every space other than the post office is occupied by a tasting room that caters to tourists. I wish there was a County ordinance that would ensure space was held for a hardware store, an urgent-care clinic and pharmacy, and a café for the sake of the people who actually live here!
As me and my friends regroup and think about a place in France this is what we are on the look out for- to be near a village/town with good amenities not more than 30 minutes away.
Where in France are you looking?
My criteria for perfect lake house (my dream retirement) is a 15 minute (safe!) bike ride to a town with a library, post office, small store, coffee even if not great coffee, ice cream. Larger town with doctors & decent supermarket, no more than 20 minute drive.
My sister’s lake house almost but not quite meets those criteria. I am trying to convince her to hypothetically move when I hypothetically move to my hypothetical lake town.
And if anyone knows this town in the New England area, do tell!
I am looking in two places:
1) Around Tours and environs ( Loire Valley)- It is really nice and has a university & engineering hub There are loads of bike lanes, walking trails and trains that can take you to Paris within 2 hours (TGV).
2) Around Beziers and environs (Languedoc-Rousillion) another place with an engineering/university hub. Also great weather and scenery, very diverse, lower prices and you can drive to ocean beaches. It’s a great alternative to Marseilles.
My criteria is closeness to a large town with all the amenities within a 30 minute drive, a place that is lively with students, faculty and entrepreneurs, some land for gardening, maybe a swimming pool, and enough space to host friends on long stays. Ideally I would like to rent it out part time until I am fully ‘retired’ but if i am sharing with friends -split a chateau 3 or 4 ways, say- and suddenly this becomes an affordable Golden Girls situation.
3) Have you considered Finger Lake living in NYS for lake living? Right is peek leaf peeping season, harvest time for wine, cider, etc and Letchworth park has all of your hiking and skiing needs!
Languedoc-Rousillon — how lovely that looks, I wish I spoke French.
Good luck, hope you find a perfect place.
I have never been to the Finger Lakes, might be too much snow for me…might turn out that all of New England is too much snow for me! But Pennsylvania summers are becoming unbearable, so I do want to get farther north.
Robin, Little Compton RI is awfully bucolic and pleasant for biking, has good ice cream and superb farm stands and fish markets, and ocean swimming that doesn’t set your teeth on edge — absolutely astounding to this Californian. When I’m there I basically only get out of the water to buy strawberries and lobsters, and then get back in again…
I completely understand that “not wanting to be pushed around by my perfume”. Been there recently.
Wearing a dab of Deneuve today and forgot to report to Donnatella that I had bought the Hedonist sample set and the Neela Vermeire sample pack.
I also forgot to report to Donatella that I’d ordered a travel-sized rollerball of Narciso EDP. It doesn’t count if it’s travel-sized, right? 🙂
Donatella does not track sample purchases!
Travel sized rollerball I count as 1/3 or 1/2 a bottle.
CBIHP Black March today for the CP. This one reminds me of my grandfather and working in his greenhouses in the winter. Also, Alan Cumming has Christopher Brosius on his podcast this week — have downloaded and need to listen!
Cool rainy day here. I’ll switch to something fall-like once this wears off.
You smell great, and I did not know Alan Cumming had a podcast!
Chanel Sycomore is my SOTD. It is becoming one of my favorites.
The EDT or the EDP? Either way, you smell gorgeous.
Iris Rebelle, it starts nice and carrots, but soon declines in a soft musk. Still not too bad.
We even had time for a nice long walk in the evening sun after lots of rain in the morning and now dinner with a good wine from Tuscany, that we bought there. Sadly we bought just this one bottle…
It does the exact same thing on my skin. Always disappointed when the iris fades…
Sorry to hear these reports! I have three samples waiting for me. Given my love of Silver Iris, though, I wondered how Atelier could match it!
Big thunderstorm last night, unusual for San Diego. Still warm and muggy here. I’m wearing Tihota.
Hi there, you smell wonderful as usual. You asked about splits the other day. I’m wondering if you will be able to offer any splits of your new Guerlains (the Rose Cherie and Santal Pao Rosa). I don’t even know where I can test those! (You can also contact me via my gravatar page linked to my screen name above.)
The issue I have is I believe Robin only allows 4 splits per person, so I’m limited in what I can offer.
Oh I see. Maybe next time!
6, not 4!
Ah okey, faulty memory!
We were thunderstorm twins! ⚡☔
Tuesday!
Am in Love by Beauty Pie. Very lovely but very ethereal on skin ( it lasts FOREVER and a day on clothes and hair) . But it’s misty rainy and it was a perfect scent for today!
I’m in Paris-Deauville for a lunch get together with some favorite former coworkers. First time in a year and a half, and looking forward to seeing them!
Yay! I had a lunch date with two beloved colleagues last week and it was a delight — felt so novel!
You smell great!
Hope that you had a great time at lunch!
Rainy here and a little chilly, but Bertie Wooster is on my lap and I may make a fire later. SOTD is Musc Tonkin.
I need to read all of Wodehouse! Sounds like you’ve got a good afternoon ahead.
Cat snuggles on a rainy day are the best. ?
Wearing Opium, courtesy of perfumelover67! Thank you again.
Sprayed myself 4 times for good measure on this cloudy day.
You smell fabulous! ?
Thank you!
I can almost smell your wafting here in NJ! ?
Very busy morning and it’s only 1015 here! Took another whack at my hair since I was in a hotel last night, cut another 2-3” off, but I really want the back to be a bit shorter…
Found a couple nice public parks with shade/sun/flush toilets/riverside parking/trash cans, etc. Fixed my Maxx Fan in the van that alarmed and shut down, and now about to put away clean laundry, make the bed, sweep, wipe down surfaces with disinfectant and generally make the van more orderly.
Doing all these chores while wafting Safron Troublant.
I need more coffee! ☕️
And apropos to nothing, if anyone is in the area I recommend the Umpqua River Scenic Byway. Beautiful drive, but not much color change here yet.
Umpqua River Scenic Byway looks gorgeous, wish I was there!
Wearing Ormaie Toi Toi Toi, which is a vanilla tinted incense. Pretty nice for the autumn weather.
Hmmm sounds great! And a very cute name.
I have that one, it’s nice. 🙂
It’s long past morning now, but today was another iteration of my Empress dupe. It’s getting close!
Wore a fave from last year, Mazzolari Vetiver, but it wasn’t quite right today, so now I’m joining allo and Deva in Safran Troublant. Yes to comfort! The dog and I both got wet on our walk for the second day in a row, so comfort was called for.
Empress tea dupe, that is.
You smell great!
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I’m in Narciso Rodriguez for her Pure Musc. Aptly named, it’s mostly a very clean musk with maybe a little floral in the background. I cadged a sample of it at Dillard’s a couple of weeks ago. ?
Glad it is still possible to cadge samples!
Racing by to say that I’m wearing Mary Greenwell Plum. I’m looking forward to reading everyone’s comments this evening.
I didn’t know Mary Greenwell had a fragrance line too! There aren’t that many scents with a plum note.. How is it?
Madmoiselle Guerlain again. Galbanum and marshmallows… I’m really warming up to this one.
Love that one and stocked up when it got the axe. You smell great!
Thank you! ? I didn’t know it before and so happy I got a bottle. There are still a couple going around in eBay.
Galbanum & marshmallows? That’s rather unusual sounding to me.
It is unusual isn’t it? Somehow it works quite well.
L’Arte di Gucci. Just because.
You smell fabulous – I have a smidge from an antique store find bottle. If anyone finds “they” have made more of them like that anytime soon, be sure to report!
Such a fabulous rose perfume, sigh. ?
I forgot to report on the new Shalimar Millésime Vanille Planifolia! It is a light vanilla shalimar concoction, easy to wear. Since I can’t wear regular Shalimar, I was hoping for lots of vanilla. 🙂 Successful blind buy.
I hope you’re splitting this as I would like to be the first in line!
Me too! Me too!
Glad that you like it! I have also blind bought and ++ looking forward to smelling it.
I’ll be right in line after hajusuuri.
Light vanillas are too rare, in my opinion, but they’re what floats my vanilla boat. Except for Vaniglia, which is nothing if not loud yet somehow always behaves itself on me.
Oops — correct that to Vanilia. I was feeling extra Italian, apparently.
SOTD = Mad et Len Petits Papiers EDP
I am wearing this in honor or cazaubon, who came to the rescue when LuckyScent was out of it for some time! It’s resinous, spicy, woody, incense, patchouli – so good!
https://www.instagram.com/p/CUqE_LYLMLA/?utm_medium=copy_link
In other news, I woke up lazily this morning and decided I cannot face the commute. My head and body are achy here and there, nothing insurmountable, and I am stubborn and refuse to take acetaminophen. This too shall pass. Back to work! ?
And I just wanted to share that while my company is not mandating vaccination, it is getting more difficult for the unvaccinated to feel like their voices have been heard. If you can’t beat them, join them?
I also wanted to mention that I asked the pharmacist at CVS if they are offering Janssen / Johnson & Johnson booster shots for when I am eligible (not for a while). He said that currently the pharmacy only has the 2-shot versions but who knows if they will get it at this particular location. I may have to hunt when the time comes. The good news is all the immediate family got the same shot so I wouldn’t be alone in searching for a place.
My son got a Moderna single shot as a booster after getting the j&j — I am NOT advising anything, obviously, because I know nothing, but I had read that is what a number of medical professionals were doing for themselves so it is what we did.
I do know the FDA is currently considering mix & match boosters.
Thanks, Robin. Good to know.
For now, we are sticking to team Janssen / J&J unless we don’t have a choice but I’m thinking that something catastrophic would have to happen before we’re faced with no choice.
I saw something in the news about J&J boosters potentially being approved by October 15 earlier tonight.
Thumbs up on Petits Papiers!
It is so good!
Are there any similarities between Spell 125 and Petits Papiers?
The only intersection is incense – everything else is different. They are both super-good!
Ruh roh, Shaggy!
I hope you feel 100% better!
Thank you, sistine. I took a nap (!) from 3:30 to 5ish and feel a lot better.
I’m in a lot of box of eels (of two different formulations) making samples for a swap. It smells wonderful!
Yes, it does! So you smell wonderful too.
TDC Bois d’Iris, for the first time this fall. Cool and rainy today. Perfect.
A good way to welcome fall 🙂
SotD Coriolan. I got it for the bottle and because I trust Guerlain to make scents that will interest me. I suspected it would not be my style but I enjoyed it; I need to wear it a few more times to get to know it, but it did fade after about 4 hours. Maybe because of its age? Have a nice evening everyone.
Guerlain is all over the place with longevity!
I’m in a sample of D.S. & Durga’s D.S. today. I get saffron, vetiver, and oud, but none of the gardenia, frangipani, or rose, which is too bad bc I was all ? at the prospect of those six notes together.
Feeling decompressed relaxed after spending last week in a cabin in rural Vermont. I declared it vanilla week and brought all of the vanilla samples I could find to test. I wanted to keep it interesting while staying the same family (and not overwhelming the lone sweater I packed). That resulted in a purchase of a FB of Black Flower Mexican Vanilla when I got home, and adding a couple of floral vanillas from Maison de Vanille to my wishlist.
The downside of no email access on vacation is the week’s worth of email on the first day back. ? Was so busy getting through it yesterday that I *forgot* to confess to Donatella. But I have no doubt that she would be pleased.
Drinking a strong Assam to help me power through these emails and prep all of my swapmeet decants.
I’d like to hear your description of BFMV.
That sounds like a lovely, restful week. Good luck getting back in the swing of things 🙂
Feeling well rested on this gloomy, damp Tuesday. According to Mr. Jalapeno, I slept right through an epic thunderstorm last night. He said the house was shaking from the thunder. Couldn’t prove it by me, though. ? ⚡
SOTD = the original Aedes de Venustas EdP, from the sample stash and one of you wonderful NSTers. Woooooooooooooooooooow! This one is amazing. What a pity that it is d/c’ed. But Thank You for sharing a bit of this fantastic stuff with me.
Is the original Aedes the one by L’AP?
Also, perhaps the thunderstorm passed me by because I heard nuthin’.
Yep. That’s the one.
Not sure how widely spread out last night’s storms were. I do know that it was a possibility for my area.
It truly was epic here….
Kinda weird that I didn’t wake up. ?
You must have one of those Magic Pillows I keep reading about on here… 🙂
Not a Magic Pillow, but Magic Kitty Snuggles! One of our cats likes to sleep next to me on the human bed.
Oh, I wish I had that kind of magic here! My beloved late cat had this wonderful/horrible habit of snuggling against the top of my head on my pillow, and then taking deep, stretching breaths until she’d slowly pushed me entirely down off the pillow in my sleep so that she could sleep on it like her own personal bed. Always made me laugh when I’d wake up weirdly scrunched down in the bed.
🙂 Cats!
I wore No. 5 L’Eau today. It reminds me of my mom. Was so busy yesterday that I didn’t confess to Donatella (or even read the posts) yet, but I will.
Yesterday I finally decided it was time to buy the bottle of Dries Van Noten that’s been on my list forever. So of course it’s been discontinued and I couldn’t find it anywhere. Sigh. And on Donatella’s day too – that seems insulting somehow.
Perhaps you can call the NYC boutique on Madison? Ask for Dinara.
I see that Arielle Shoshana carries the line too.
As for me, it caused me to not have air to breathe so I pretty much had to dismiss it as something for me. It smelled good though!
That does seem insulting! On Donatella’s day you should be able to buy anything.
We’re sunny and in the 80s where I’m at so it’s Chevalier Vert from Olympic Orchids for me. This is summer gardening as a child with my grandmother and her sister: green, garden-y crushed stems and leaves.
That does sound lovely!