It's Hump Day and the World Day for Audiovisual Heritage. Birthdays: Joe Medicine Crow, Dylan Thomas, Ruby Dee, Roy Lichtenstein, Sylvia Plath, John Cleese, Maxine Hong Kingston, Fran Lebowitz. What fragrance are you wearing?
My day 3 of Pumpkin Spice week: more cinnamon, in Marni.
Reminder: on 10/29, we're celebrating Pumpkin Spice season...wear a fragrance featuring any or all of the elements (cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, clove, allspice, & etc).
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 little pumpkins [cropped] by liz west at flickr; some rights reserved.
Xerjoff
Accento Eau de Parfum
I think I love the feel (like velvet) and the shape of this bottle more than I actually like the perfume. One spray doe lasts for eons.
In laws arrived safe and sound in Canada, despite our rainy windy weather here. Missing chai this morning, though I have all the ingredients to do it myself. Including ginger which he sliced and froze for me.
I’m glad they’re safely home. Looks like a terrible weather lashing you guys are getting, hope everyone is doing ok.
Your FIL is so sweet! A freshly-made chai sounds like just the ticket right now…
I had Xerjoff Irisss, which I loved but it had nuclear staying power. I kind of like to switch out perfumes in late afternoon for a change of scenery…
Nuclear staying power..this is what I think about accento also. Its last and lasts..and if you want it off the clothing you have to throw it in the machine.
Glad they made it safely. I have never attempted to make my own chai but it does sound wonderful right about now.
I bought some (certainly sub-FIL-grade) chai at the market this morning entirely because of your posts. 🙂 Glad they had a safe journey and I hope all’s well for you!
what brand? If you want to share..
Oregon Chai, their less-sweet version.
Can I have your FIL? If I let you keep your husband?
LOL!
LOL! Too funny!
Why not! LOL
My FIL arrives tomorrow for a 10 day stay. He will not be making any food or drinks for me. But he’s good at laying low and staying out of the way ime. That said, I’ve never been around when he’s done an extended stay, so ?
ooo..keep us posted how you are doing, that’s a long stay
IKR? Apparently he plans to rent a car and hit the road for a few days, but he’s not very easy to pin down on details so who knows. But I’m sure you all will be hearing about it if things go sideways ;/
ooo..keep us posted how you are doing, that’s a long stay
Good to hear that your FIL is back home, safe and sound.
Trayee today, every spice under the sun. Heaven.
Hard frost overnight and the morning glory is a soggy mess, sniffle. I’ll do better next year.
Oh, the first killing frost is always such a bummer. One of my dahlias got wiped out exactly one day after opening its first bloom — everything here was so late this year.
Oh that’s a shame, dahlias are so beautiful! My mom’s neighbors raise dahlias and travel all over for flower shows. They let me come and take pictures at the end of the season and I’m always fascinated how some flowers are the size of a ping pong ball and others are like dinner plates.
Frost! Is it earlier than usual? Sorry about your plants.
The local weather guy says we’re about 2 weeks behind, it’s been a long warm fall.
Aw, that’s a bummer about your morning glory.
Today it’s Rousse, aka All The Cinnamon. Probably the most autumnal scent Lutens ever did, and I think maybe in the top five most purely Lutens-esque scents: it has all the hallmarks of his style, as instantly recognizable as a Mondrian.
Yes.
Rousse is a cracker! Nice one.
I love the idea of a perfumer’s style being so instantly recognizable, and the comparison to Mondrian.
I’m wearing Five O’Clock Au Gingembre, for the cinnamon and candied ginger. Yum! Candied ginger.
You smell great!
You are smelling wonderful!
I always wanted to love that one, but for some reason I can’t smell it very well, or for very long. Maybe I just need to go nuclear with the number of sprays…..
Yum to candied ginger! Hot and sweet. It’s so delicious.
We are scent twins, but I am getting warm, sweet powder from this (5 o’clock) today. I dabbed. Maybe now that I’ll be working from home for the rest of the day, I’ll go spray it and see what happens. Tee hee!
CP adjacent with Shalimar by way of Mexico, which is supposed to have cinnamon and vanilla, but I mainly just get mildly less Shalimary Shalimar from this. I love it, but I don’t wear it so much in the summer. Now that it is winter, I will put in in regular rotation and retire the summer vanilla I have been wearing, Vanilla Woods by 7 Virtues of Afghanistan. 🙂 I need a perfume that is mainly tolu, nutmeg and clove. Does such a beast exist out there?
I’ve never sniffed that Shalimar but I can imagine how great it is.
For some reason regular Shalimar is a “dress-up to the nines” scent to me, but this one just smells like being my best self whenever I wear it. 🙂
That’s such a lovely way to describe a perfume!
DSH Kohl Gris, a delicious clove monster.
My brain is resisting work today. I just wanna curl up in this scent and a warm sweater ?
Oh, I need to go dig and see if I have a sample of that.
Sorry about the work!
Sampling DSH Indochine today which has ginger in it but is also sort of airy and bright
Two DSH in a row, nice.
Cinnabar for the CP: cloves, carnation, incense and lots of other spicy goodness. I have tried both new (2019) and various older versions and all are very good. First Fall frost here, but not too serious. The ground was only heavily dewed, though a couple neighbors had some windshield frost. I think my creeping sedum got nipped and I was glad I threw a sheet over the jasmine, but I think the porch roof would have been protection enough. Anyway, the big pots of tropical plants will be moving indoors this week. Looking forward to everyone’s spicy choices; but I think so many favorites have been mentioned already that I am able to participate each day.
Oh, you smell great ? Glad to know the newer version smells good too.
So nice! A great spicy scent. I used up the last of my (nineties-ish?) Cinnabar earlier this year and I don’t regret it, though I miss it a little: I have a million other things to wear, but Cinnabar really was special.
It is!
Oh, good to know about the current version! I had a huge bottle way back when but I think it got chucked when I moved out. Yeah, don’t get me started! Cinnabar wasn’t the only victim.
I have some pre-perfumista chucking guilt too: let’s not mention Je Reviens in this conversation.
Nice to know that Cinnabar hasn’t been butchered. But the old bottle is so much cooler than the current one!
I agree about the old bottles! It’s how I recognize some scents.
Dzongkha from my new bottle! Turns out I love Cardamom. I’ve never been that crazy about it in baking so it was a surprise to me that I like it so much in fragrance. Happy and cozy.
I’m still on the fence about Dongkha….some days I like it, some I don’t.
I can see why – it’s an unusual fragrance, not particularly straightforward.
Oh, glad it’s not just me. I go very hot-and-cold with this one, myself.
you smell great!
Thank you! And thank you for the tip about Bon Parfumeur 302!
Cardamom is delightful.
So glad I discovered it!
Wonderful choice!
Thank you! I’ve always been intrigued when you’ve posted about it.
I love it in both baking and perfume, and I think you smell marvelous.
Thank you! I might go in search of some baked goods…
I’m wearing La Danza Delle Libellule from a sample this morning. Not a pumpkin, but more apple pie (not much cinnamon) and vanilla ice cream.
My experience with this one changes by season; it didn’t work for me at all in warm weather. I got visions of the waxy plastic fruit that folks decorated with in the 70s, but my imagination conjured up that said waxy fruit was also scented. That doesn’t seem likely, but I was a kid, so who knows? Much better results in cool weather with tiny dabs. Accidently kind of poured it on this morning, and that ghost of wax fruits past is lurking about… I’ll wait to see what happens.
Have a great day, everyone!
I remember that wax plastic fruit! I think you can still buy it.
Wearing Lush’s Lord of Misrule to perk myself up on this chilly morning! Google says we might even break 60° this Friday and oh I hope so.
I recently unearthed mine and it is excellent!
It’s so good! I was so happy when it finally became available in North America.
I’m not sure if it did, but it was sunny and we’ll take it!
We did but barely, and hope you did too!
That comment above was supposed to be here, lol
In Encens Mythique but feeling less like a Rich Lady than usual, due to a messy recycling foray.
You smell great!
love EM
Bulgari Black today, inspired by Missionista yesterday. Also, I’m wearing all black today (though I didn’t actually make that choice consciously to match the perfume…I wear a lot of black on any given day).
More rain in the forecast today. Good day to invent small ocean animals made of various craft materials for the Halloween costume while sitting on meetings.
Sounds like a great way to get through meetings! You smell great today. ?
Black is so great. You smell wonderful.
You must be a closet New Yorker ?
Delighted to be able to provide scent inspiration! You obviously smell great and dress well. 🙂
I’m wearing Bottega Veneta today, also trying to channel smelling great and dressing well. Although sadly, I am not wearing fabulous Italian leather shoes.
Morning all, my SOTD for hump day (and perfect with pumpkin spice) is Minuit Enchante by Laura Mercier. This is all about the spices and resins.
Day three of a great night’s sleep. I can really get used to this!
I just started reading Fairest of All: A Tale of the Wicked Queen (Villains Book 1) by Serena Valentino.
I had good sleep as well but had the most disturbing dream. There was another person’s kitten and I was snipping off one of its ears, no flinching, no blood and then I got interrupted so I don’t know what happens next ??♀️.
Oh gosh, that is disturbing! Thanks goodness you were interrupted.
If I can get five nights of good sleep, I’ll be soooo happy!
Joining you with bad/odd dreams
I had a dream I was on a hike and taking a photo of a beautiful sunset and off to the side was a snake curled up, but like the ones with fangs. I wasn’t scared if this snake and then I realized when I was walking around, snakes were everywhere. I panicked and woke up..
EEK! That is one scary dream! Snakes totally creep me out.
I wonder if you’d been reading about feral cat trapping for vaccines-spay/neuter-return? Cutting off the tip of the returned kitty’s ear is commonly the sign of the process. Gives me the creeps though I can understand why. But *kitty ears* 🙁
Ack! H, I’m not letting you near my cat! (j/k, I sympathize that dreams can be very disturbing and have no relation to one’s actual life.)
Yeeeek! (shudder)
I needed some retail therapy yesterday, and B&BW came through. The body sprays were $6.50 each, so I, um, picked up four. Joy smells like snickerdoodles (left arm) and Golden Clementine & Amber is a nice, sweet citrus.
Drinking MF Earl Grey Paris this rainy, cool morning. I’m grateful for the weather. It moved all the muggies out! ?
Oh! B & BW is on sale!! I wonder if they released any ‘vault’ scents… Like I need any more fragrance….
I think I’d like Golden Clementine & Amber.
There was a table labeled “we brought them back”, so they might be vault scents. I’m not that familiar with B&BW, except for my fave, Vanilla Bean Noel, so not sure. They did have VBN, though!
Oh, I’ve gotta check that out, thanks!! 🙂 I am also on the hunt for a few candles.
I’m wearing Fenty today from a decant – it’s not CP compliant at all. It’s absolutely gorgeous, and so of course when I went to go check out the details for a full bottle, it’s completely sold out. Oh well, I can wait for an eventual restock.
Have a great Wednesday everyone!
It was sold out when I looked a month ago, but then was back in stock about a week ago. I went back and forth on buying it because it would be a blind buy (I am not someone who has really bad luck with blind buys–it is worse. I wind up “liking” the perfume, and then just never wear it. So it can take me months to realize my mistake.) And now I see it is sold out again. Well, scarcity makes it more desirable I guess. What do you love about it? Tell us more!
I’ve loved all the other Fenty products I’ve tried, so I ordered a decant from Surrender to Chance. I had no idea what to expect. I was not expecting the magnolia and other flowers to be so prominent – it’s just a really surprising blend but so successful.
I am wearing Givenchy Very Irresistible and drinking a cup of English Breakfast tea.
I enjoyed pulling my bottle of that out not too long ago.
I had no clue what I was in the mood for this morning, so I got inspiration here. Following Robin’s lead in Marni from my adorable mini splash bottle.
Hey twin!
I’m in Puredistance Sheiduna today.
You smelled nice and spicy!
A break from the pumpkin spices today for Bandit. I accidentally put WAY more on that I meant from a dropper, luckily I’m in my home office by myself today haha.
Thanks to everyone for the well wishes for me leading that meeting yesterday. It went just fine in spite of the lack of time to prep. I always seem to pull it off which is probably why they throw things my way in those circumstances – perhaps I should flub it once or twice ha!
Yes, it is not always a great idea to demonstrate high levels of competency……. 🙂
Glad it went well.
Yay!
Glad it went well! Haha on “flubbing”; we’ve learned to not be too competent at times.
Nothing is quite like vintage Opium, except vintage Opium!
Wonderful!
Back in Bois D’Argent back to work after a sick day to recover from my Covid vaccine booster. I’m not sure why I was so confident that I would feel fine—I was knocked out! Grateful for the coating of protection and, of course, good perfumes.
Ohhh, I get my booster tomorrow after work. Glad you are feeling better.
If it reassures you, I had a COVID booster and a flu shot on Saturday and got absolutely zero side effects.
Hello everybody.
Sotd is Twilly. Currently drinking my second mug of Earl Grey and eating a ginger cookie.
Scent twins – I’m in Eau Ginger
Today was a good day for a second cuppa.
Spent yesterday and this morning in 1270 and don’t see 1270 mentioned too often here. Wearing Happy Heart today.
No, it isn’t mentioned that often — took me a few minutes to remember it was Frapin!
It’s a sunny, crispy 59 degrees and rising out here in Pasadena. I’m wearing vintage Kenzo de Kenzo in the flower bottle. Today I am excited to be going to Scent Bar, the owners of Lucky Scent. Yay! Here to hoping I find a lot of goodies to sample!
Have fun!
Oooh, envious!
You are going to really enjoy your Scent Bar visit. Which one are you going to? Beverly Blvd or DTLA? I prefer the one on Beverly, and there is a wonderful Italian restaurant just up the street from it. Angelini?
But either way, you will have a blast. Report back please!!
love all of this! Perfume and Italian food..
Oh, that store is so fun. Have a good time sniffing, and tell us about your haul!
Stick your nose in some of those Cire Trudon candle cloches, if they still have them set up!
How fun! Have a great time.
Joining those excited for you for your visit.
Jealous! I would love to visit that place one day. Hope you didn’t break the bank 🙂
Awesome! Hope that you found a wonderful perfume souvenir there.
Inspired by Ringthing, I dug out my Trayee sample — one of those minor embarrassments where the sample had made it into the “Yes!” section of my perfume closet but I had no memory of what it smelled like. And glad I did; I’m finding it uplifting as well as cozy, and there’s some lifting to be done in my psyche today.
Twins ? Hope you are feeling better soon.
Thank you! I’m okay, just a bit grumpy and out-of-sorts after a mentally fatiguing day yesterday and a few too many lurking stressors. Trayee is interesting — the drydown at the moment is a ringer for Traversée du Bosphore, although the initial fragrance is nothing like it.
Also, since I know my son’s fragrance reviews carry a lot of weight here, I just wanted to report that I picked him up from school this afternoon and on the walk home he sniffed my arm and said, “Oh, you smell *so good*, like dried apricots that have been conformed into a popsicle!”
☺☺
Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!
Today I’m wearing Kiehl’s Original Musk for the cinnamon note. It’s the first non-showery morning since Saturday so I am going for a walk before the rain starts up again.
Oh you smell great! I love that scent.
You smell wonderful – I was late to the party on KOM, but yes, it has a very spicy aspect.
Off to find my Kiehl’s!
Wow. October 27 produced a lot of brilliant people. Quite a list of birthdays.
In other news, I’m in Corso Como, which keeps fading rather quickly. This is a new bottle, a gift from my mum. I’ve tested this one before and didn’t think it was a fast fader. In fact, I distinctly recall getting wonderful wafts of the scent throughout the day. I have applied about 10 sprays and it is only 9:30 in the morning! I wonder if the reformulators have had at it. Still a gorgeous perfume though, while it lasts.
I was wondering if the birthdays were early valentines day arrivals. I’ve heard a theory that there is a bump of babies born 9 months after valentines day – though I have no idea whether this is true.
Wouldn’t be surprised at all if 10CC has been reformulated. I’d be much more shocked if it hasn’t been tampered with.
Oh, interesting. The body cream used to last all day.
I am at least wearing a vanilla scent with Kenzo Amour.
I biked again, wearing some knee warmers with my dress and tights, because it was 6 degrees Celsius. My boyfriend always can’t believe in what outfits I do my bike rides.
Now having a beer without alcohol and watching an online course on myeloma.
I love the fact that you bike in all weather! I used to be a rabid biker and enjoyed it so much, except when the thunderstorms blew up out of nowhere, as they do in Florida. That lightening made be hide under someone’s porch or in the overhang of a garage MANY times. You’re biking and fashion reports are making me wistful…keep on keeping on! ??♀️
No, I don’t bike when it rains and will stop in winter, because I hate biking in the dark over the lonely fields. I try to bike twice a week when the weather permits and I am not on the early shift. I have 22 km one way, so biking is a real commitment. Otherwise it’s exercise, which I usually hate to do…
That’s a chilly ride. I hope the sun was shining.
I am envious of your bike ride since I have not been able to get out on my bike much recently. Bike fashion can be really eye-searing, but it’s so important to be visible on the road. Happy travels!
I bike in skirts and dresses too. Doesn’t bother me one bit and really it’s just for getting from point A to point B.
I’m wearing Solstice Scents Cardamom Rose and drinking a nice chai. Very spicy all the way around.
So I told my hubby I coveted the Guerlain Advent calendar and that could be my Christmas present. I was sort of kidding (sort of not). Anyway he got it for me! It comes today and I can hardly wait! Honestly I’m shocked he took the hint, it’s not something in his wheelhouse at all. ?
Now my problem will be pacing myself each day and not greedily opening each day in a mad frenzy of perfume lust.
The beehive? Wow! Please report back on what it is like when you start to open it. What fun!!
That’s going to be such fun!
Wow! Your hubs is the bomb. Is it all perfumes or is there make-up and skin care in the Advent calendar?!
Wow, that’s really a great calendar.
Wow!!! Great gift!
Perfumed high five for a great gift – feel free to gush and gloat in reports on each day you open, as far as I am concerned! 😀
That is so fun! Enjoy each daily treat!
Good husband! That sounds like such fun! Enjoy it!
Holy smoke! That’s amazing! Do tell, so we can all enjoy it vicariously.
If you have Instagram, do post them there so we can live vicariously. I had good intentions last year with 2 advent calendars and managed to only do an occasional post.
Went with Amber Oud by PdN today. Lavender in this is giving me a headache, unfortunately. And my husband keeps asking me if I lit a candle.. haha.
Starting to plan Thanksgiving dishes I’ll be bringing to our friend’s feast given the supply chain challenges. I also read Monday(?) about the large increase in cost for Thanksgiving this year due to a number of factors. Bottom line: plan ahead!
I’ve been seeing those stories, too. Seems like the right time to go non-traditional, I guess?
Hopefully they have the onion situation sorted out by Thanksgiving. I threw out the ones I had and got new ones this weekend, only to find out (the hard way) that the new ones were listed in the expanded recall.
That was scary! Onions are crucial to Thanksgiving yum.
Wait, that recall got expanded? Crap!
No fresh onions have been acquired by moi for more than 2 years. I do use fried onions that come in a can as an add in to salad greens and a little bit in my latest microwave egg.
I put sautéed onions in everything except dessert! ?
Ok, I bought an organic onion at the health food store yesterday for just this reason…I can’t seem to figure out if I need to throw it away?
My advice is to toss it unless you know for sure that it was not from the affected area in Mexico. Salmonella is the worst diet I have ever been on (and the Vee family used to do the cabbage soup diet together, so I know from terrible diets ?). Seriously tho, better safe than sorry.
Not even close to compliant in morning sprays of Narciso Poudree.
I keep looking at the weather forecast and thinking we’ll need to turn the heat on and pull out the down duvet any minute. But I think my concept of cold is just warped from 3 months of 100 degree heat this summer. I’m sitting out in the sun and it turns out 69F really isn’t quite sweaters & boots weather ? But it will be next week, if the forecast is accurate. Lows in the 40s surely mean the radiators come on.
Oh, but you smell good!
My radiators have come on twice, briefly, in the morning (we have them set to 68, I think).
I’m wearing Vetiver Tonka at the mo although my flannel shirt smells like one of the Montale samples I’ve tried. This is after washing it! ?
Rearranging my perfumes today into a larger perfume box (God help me, the box keeps getting bigger!) but first coffee and a spinach and cheese omelette. Finding egg beaters has become a reach chore…
Happy Humpday!
Those Montales are persistent……
Vetiver Tonka is so good, though — you smell terrific.
It is a great understated scent. My travel size has only a few mls left…
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New Zealand’s first radio transmission in the early 1920s ( and also the first voice/music broadcast earlier) was made by a physics professor , Professor Jack, from Dunedin so I will wear Copper in his honour…a bit of a stretch …actually might wear Cloud instead for airwaves. Just after WW2 mobile recording units travelled through parts of small town NZ recording Maori and NZ English. These made up some of the very first recordings of indigenous speakers but also helped linguists figure out the New Zealand accent ( with its strains of English, Irish, Scottish, Australian). Have a happy day everyone.
My aunt is on the South Island (not sure where you are located), where she said there have been no covid cases at all. She’s been vaccinated, but is really missing her annual globe trotting to Ireland (her birthplace) and England (she has a home and a daughter there). Most of her compatriots in Ireland are quite elderly (as is she, but very vibrant and active) so every season away from them is one that will never be made up. Are people able to return to NZ if they exit out at this time? She staying with her son and grandchildren on the South Island, they have even built her her own little apartment, but she’s really missing family in Ireland and England.
I live in the South Island and had no COVID cases for 300+ days – though last week a weak positive was detected in the top of the island. So far, NZ has had 28 COVID deaths since the start of 2020 . The plan is to get vaccination rates above 90% so lockdowns and travel can open without devastating the hospitals. Our ICU capabilities are quite small. I think we have five people in ICU in the country at present. So, all arrivals to the country have to spend 14 days in govt. run quarantine units. This has been really hard as there are more people wanting to come to NZ than there are quarantine beds, and travel is more or less restricted to NZ citizens/ residents and essential workers. Once vaccination rates increase travel will become easier. Modellers figure that with 80% vaccinated we will have 60000 hospitalisation and 7000 deaths so it’s pretty desperate. Currently, we’re close to 86%.
In theory your aunt could travel to Ireland but she might not be able to book a quarantine room coming back to NZ, so she could get stuck overseas for months
Ten minutes ago 2 cases of COVID have been detected in the South Island ( Christchurch) so your aunt may go into lockdown soon.
Yes, she is wanting to avoid quarantine with two grandchildren under the age of 5. That would be a nightmare! At the beginning of the pandemic, she was on the South Island getting ready to leave for Ireland. I emailed her asking her to just stay there because is was definitely going to be safer than London or Ireland. This before we even knew how bad it was going to be. I didn’t hear from her for months and thought the worst. Recently got an email, and thankfully she stayed in NZ all this time and is doing fine, as well as her immediate family there. Sorry to hear there are cases cropping up there, but hopefully with high vaccination rates, the hospitals there won’t feel the deluge like other spots around the globe.
Thank you for the link Kanuka! I was hoping I’d find some sound recordings I could listen too but I couldn’t seem to.
Trying Parfums de Nicolai Ambre Cashmere Intense and Musc Intense today. Did the Beautyhabit sniffing event for them last night (no affiliation) and it was fabulous! Have known about the house forever but never sampled them…went through their small discovery set for the event and all were very well done…classic in feel.
This sounds like a lot of fun. Is it via zoom, or something like that? How did you hear about it? PdN is house I’d like to explore more. I have only one small 30ml bottle of Vetyver, which reads a bit masculine on me, but I really love the creaminess of it.
Beauty Habit hosted it over Zoom. PdN has a couple of discovery sets available. BH is 20% off this week, just FYI 🙂 (no affiliation)
Through Beautyhabit….sign up for emails and they announce them. They have had a few so far…run by Karen from Sniffapalooza who works for Beautyhabit now too. No affiliation to anything…just fragrance obsessed. 😉
https://www.beautyhabit.com/collections/beautyhabit-discovery-series
I saw that offering and good to hear it was a success for you!
I’m still enjoying her Amber Oud which I applied at 8am in the morning.
Was wonderful….what an artist she is! 🙂
So I missed the call as I worked late! Any favorites?
I liked Musc Intense, Ambre Cashemere Intense and, you guessed it,….Poudre de Musc….INTENSE heaeheh 😉
All well done…very classic and French in feel…makes me want to try the rest of her line….Beautyhabit has 20% right now too…as you may be aware… ?
Day two of Angel Muse for me.
It fits the cool weather and I am always happy to wear it.
I bought a new fall table cloth with apples on it, and some fake fall flowers for my table. Figured I will try and embrace the season. BBW sent me a coupon for a free full size product, so I will be sniffing there later.
Mmm… you smell good.
Thanks!
Glad you can embrace autumn with such nice things. Muse is gorgeous.
I’m doing my best to look at the good part of Fall, and not just see it as the path to stinky Winter.
Sounds nice. I am miffed at BBW because I no longer get the coupons even though I shop there!
Do you give your phone or email after purchasing? They told me that’s how you get the coupons.
Barging in here…I’m glad to know this, since I haven’t received any paper coupons in a long time either! Thanks for the tip. ?
Oh, and enjoy your freebie, whatever you choose!
I do and it’s what they say…nada.
Dunno if you saw my post from yesterday, but you now have another enabler pin for your collection. ?
For sweet spices I am in vintage Obsession for men which I always preferred slightly over the feminine version.
I honestly don’t recall the difference between the men’s and women’s version. Then again, I never met anyone wearing the men’s version back in the day. It sure was easy to tell who was wearing the fem version, though!
Well, the men version is spicier, cinnamon and nutmeg, that’s why I chose it and the female version more ambery and yes, it was everywhere in the eighties.
!!! majokkobiachan !!!
Hoping to catch you if you check in today —
Can you contact me about my Guerlain Perfumer’s Set split? I haven’t seen an email from you in my inbox yet for the split that you claimed. Thank you!
I was all set for a spicy perfume, but then I decided to wear a dress with a geometric pattern in grey, black and turquoise. I just can’t wear a warm spicy scent with that, so I’ll be wearing Sortilège from Le Galion.
Hey, you gotta do what you gotta do!
CP compliant today in Jubilation XXV. This is my first time trying it, and excuse me while go light a fire and curl up on the couch for the rest of the day to read and get a whiff of this with every page turn!
Alas, there is too much work today for event that very modest hookey fantasy. I am drinking F&M Christmas Tea as a treat tho, so at least I’ve got that.
I have a decant which I haven’t worn in forever. IIRC, this is one where I always sneezed several times after application before it settles down.
I rather like both Jub 25 and Jub XXV. But my samples will be plenty for me, since they are definitely potent!
My cat wanted extra lap time today, and now she is going to smell like XXV for a week. And I only put on a drop!
Loved that one!
Commando today…I’m just here to whine about a sinus headache that’s also making my neck feel out of sorts. The good news is the nausea is minimal, so I’m able to get food in me and take Excedrin (with its magical combo of aspirin, acetaminophen and caffeine) to try and knock it out.). My guess is it’s dry air, so I’ll be apsearchjng around for our humidifier.
In other news, we saw Dune last night. Big screen is best if you are willing…it’s visually pretty amazing. It’ll be a long 2 years wait for the second half.
Sorry about your headache. Hope it clears up. Dune is getting such good reviews, glad you enjoyed it.
I watched it at home over the weekend, but would have preferred a movie-screen sized Chalamet. 🙂
Glad to see they got a green light for part two.
He is beautiful, isn’t he? And very good in the role.
I know everyone loves him in Call Me By Your Name, but it was his performance in Miss Stevens that blew me away. So-so movie, but great acting (by Lily Rabe as well).
How is the hubby getting by on the movie front? Any independent theater options where you’re now located? He must be thrilled to at least be in a theater again.
No real arthouse options, but there is a chain that does feature the occasional such film. Just have to move fast because they don’t stay long.
We have watched 30 minutes so far, and we’re suitably confused 🙂
Huh. I am also having sinus issues, the past couple days- probably due to dry air – and have been fighting a tension headache (neck, shoulders) alongside it. It would never have occurred to me that they are related. (I also get sinus-related vertigo but am not there now.)
Do I understand correctly that you try to treat the sinus issue and that that eases the neck pain? Or just that you’re trying to treat all of the above with 1 magic pill?
I guess this is a good reminder that for starters, I should irrigate my sinuses.
Meant for LizzieB!!
I bought some saline nasal spray to use also, since I think that’s part of it. I don’t know if the neck thing is related…may be tension from fighting the headache. I have found that Excedrin is best for these types of headaches…IF the nausea isn’t there….
Excedrin isn’t an option for me, but I did rinse my sinuses and take a mucinex sinus max, which also has acetaminophen.
Tension headache is gone, which just might be from the sinus rinse alone(!)
I dealt with vertigo and nausea (on a regular basis) for many many years before I went to a really good allergist who finally gave me the right Rx to solve the problem. I can share or email you if that’s what you’re dealing with as well.
Thanks so much kpaint. It’s something that happens so rarely, but I’d happily hear what you take, if you want to email me in gmail land – I go by eabrit.
Today is the day I am trying Eau Dynamisante globally. What I mean by globally is I sprayed it on my arms and neck and rubbed it into my skin since it is a therapeutical fragrance. Oh I want to mention I received it from the most wonderful fellow NSTer <3. I love it!!!!! Will need a large bottle. It has a prominent ginger note and I love ginger. I have a large bag of candied ginger – one of my favorite snacks since childhood and Eau Dynamisante's fragrance smells just like my candied ginger. I have tried many ginger frags but this comes closest to the smell of my candied ginger. Love it. Plus I am CP compliant!!
Candied ginger is delicious! I’m a late-comer to that treat, but enjoy it a lot.
Hey, you have a comment from kpaint above, about the splitmeet!
I’m wearing Chypre Rouge today, for the Red Hots (cinnamon) note. It’s one of my favorite Lutens scents, and I’m glad I bought a bottle way back in the day. It’s just weird enough to make it interesting, but not so much that it’s unwearable.
Yeah, thinking that if there were any new ones they could have been reformulated to oblivion.
Hello NST!
Does anyone else remember the 1990’s era sitcom “Home Improvement”?
This past Sunday, I found myself in the middle of what felt like a missing episode of that show. Mr. Jalapeno had taken it upon himself to replace our kitchen faucet. TBH, it was in dire need of being replaced for a few years… it was corroded in spots and leaky. However, I had Specific Ideas about what said faucet should look and function like. We got one back in May of this year or thereabouts.
Now, one would think that replacing a kitchen faucet is no big deal, right? Wrong. Mr. Jalapeno (to his credit) squeezed himself under the kitchen sink and attempted to remove all the old faucet and its associated hardware. He even went to the hardware store to get a specialized tool to help remove fasteners under the countertop.
For whatever reason, there was were a couple of nuts that he simply Could. Not. Loosen. He ended up taking out the entire kitchen sink and the garbage disposal in order to remove the old faucet. By the time he had the new faucet installed, he was a hurting unit and decided to finish the job the following day. Since the new faucet was functional and the sink had been put more or less back together, I didn’t have a problem with it.
Fast forward to Monday. I’m sure that some of you have probably already figured out what happened. Mr. Jalapeno was too bruised and sore to finish the task.
He did shorten the water lines yesterday, but didn’t put all the clips back that had held the sink to the counter. FWIW, our sink is an over mount, not an under mount. He said something to the effect of a couple of the clips were redundant/extra, so he wasn’t going to bother. I still don’t know how I managed not to facepalm myself. If those clips weren’t needed, why the (bleep) were they there in the first place?
Start playing that “Home Improvement” theme music right now, folks.
SOTD = getting with the CP in Pacifica’s Tibetan Mountain Temple. This has a big honking ginger note in it. I smell like gingerbread, which isn’t a bad thing at all.
You smell great but ??♀️ on the kitchen sink. Mr. Jalapeño needs a remedial session with ede! Also, this is why I avoid any sort of DIY.
For whatever reason, this faucet replacement was a total PITA. We’ve done faucet replacements before, and they weren’t a big deal.
It’s stories like this that always remind me it really is wonderful to be in a rental vs. owning. Sorry, not sorry.
No, really, I am sorry you missed that episode :)))
IKR? Me, too!
I think I have convinced Mr. Jalapeno to hire a plumber the next time we need to install a kitchen faucet.
In all honesty, he didn’t do a bad job. He checked all the water lines for leaks when he attached them. Same with the trash disposal. And he put new plumber’s putty around the sink. But Mr. Jalapeno isn’t as young or as flexible as he used to be. He can afford to hire the help.
Mr. Floragal wouldn’t have touched this project with a 10-foot pole. No way, no how.
Mr. Jalapeño deserves much praise and maybe a professional massage?
I made meatloaf for dinner today, so maybe that was a start? ?
And Mr. Jalapeno is off having fun tonight playing poker.
I remember Home Improvement at least once a week, lol.
Were the cats going crazy trying to figure out what was going on under the sink?
Cats were definitely interested in the goings on, with both Spooky and Teflon wandering under the sink when they had the chance.
We had the same problem removing the original kitchen tap here. Crazy frustrating! Had to get a plumber with the proper tool to remove it. The next tap afterwards was easier to replace ourselves.
Home Improvement was a great show. I was sad when it ended.
We had to replace the sliding door lock in the heat of summer. I’m sure if we videoed it, it would be pretty funny now. There was an extra metal fitting around the lock inside the door frame so it was harder to get the old lock out; this wasn’t explained or shown on the youtube videos we watched.
Sad thing is, the old faucet we had was a replacement for the original one. The original was builder grade (aka junk), and we got rid of it after maybe 4 or 5 years.
OMG. Your husband and my husband must be twins separated at birth.
SOTD = Hermes Twilly Eau Ginger
Woody/Floral, soapy ginger. Nice for a warmer day in spring and summer. Co-sign me for this!
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It’s nice Hermes makes the Twilly travel spray look so elegant like the higher end line.
Hermes has quite a few in that format and yes, it looks elegant!
Spice twins today!
We are IN SYNC!
The one on Beverly Blvd had a great coffee shop next door with an amazing lavender lemonade. Best Uber ride I ever took!
D’oh – reply to the Scent Bar thread above!
Very late but chiming in with SL Vitriol d’oeillet as my sotd.
Spicy carnation for the win!