It's Monday and the last day of February, and it's Peace Corps Week. Birthdays: Linus Pauling and Bernadette Peters. What fragrance are you wearing?
I stuck with Friday's Aftelier Ancient Resins (by perfumer Mandy Aftel) most of the weekend, to promote calm, and I've got a thin layer on my arms today. On the back of my hands: vintage Yves Saint Laurent Paris, by perfumer Sophia Grojsman. Double points for me?
Reminder: on 3/4, to mark Women's History Month, wear a perfume by your favorite female perfumer. (In 2018 we marked the occasion by wearing a fragrance by perfumer Germaine Cellier or Josephine Catapano.)
And for those of you who like to plan ahead, see Scent of the day ~ Friday community projects 2022, where I'll try to always have the next five or six weeks mapped out in advance.
Note: top image is Sihana Shalaj for Saint Laurent Fall 2021.
I’m in the last of a decant of Vol de Nuit.
You smell lovely!
So pretty! ??
New job day! SOTD will be ll Rose 31 by Daphné Bugey.
Hope the new job treats you well!
Have a great first day!
Twins!? Hope the new job goes well!
Enjoy your first day!
Good luck with the new job!
Break a leg!
Hope you first day is going well!
it started at 8am so that’s REALLY GREAT!
Happy First Day!
Yay for new job day and no crazy early wakeup time!
Joining others in wishing you good luck with the new job! ?
I hope everything went well today!
Another bitingly cold day so I’m snuggled up in Demeter Incense (which isn’t *particularly* incensey, no burning or even smoke, but it is warm and resiny and complicated) stacked with Lush Lust (aka death by jasmine) and it’s heaven. I don’t usually layer scents but these go together ridiculously well.
It’s always nice to find a good scent combo, like finding another perfume.
That does sound perfect.
Busy this morning planning a warm weather vacation.
Looking through my fragrance wardrobe and if you had a choice to bring TF Portofino Neroli or TF Soleil Blanc Shimmering Body Oil which would you choose?
Today I am in Annick Goutal for the CP
I haven’t tried the body oil, but I vote for Soleil Blanc.
ok! Its very nice smell
The very thought of a shimmering body oil someplace warm sounds wonderful.
I agree!
We leave for warm weather a week from today, I can’t wait! Where will you go?
I am nervous about traveling. I haven’t been on a plane since 2019.
I flew in January and February of 2020, not since.
The shimmering body oil sounds like the better choice for the trip. Be sure to pack some patience and a few masks, too.
I’m in Shalimar MVP today, just wafting lightly after applying last night.
Looking forward to my days off!
You smell great! Enjoy your days off!
Enjoy!!
Enjoy, hoping your knee is healing.
Enjoy your time off, Deva!
Hope that your knee feels a bit better. It sounded like you took quite the tumble.
Rodin Bis – not sure if Linda Rodin did this one herself but I’m taking points!
Can’t imagine she did, but there are no rules, take all the points you like.
Joining you in Bis!
I’m in fabulous company!
I’m in LL Rose 31.
Had a hard time falling asleep last night. I ended up taking a nap after lunch yesterday and it messed up my sleep schedule. Oh but it felt SO good at the time!
Saw a possum in my driveway this morning as I was leaving. That is a first.
I was woken by a possum last night outside my window. Possum twins!!
Ha! Too funny.
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twins!!
Hey twin!?
I don’t miss seeing possums one bit! They’re more than a little bit creepy to me.
Yes! I totally agree! I was glad I was in my car because I had just taken out the garbage a few minutes earlier and that’s right where he was!
Coriandre by Jacqueline Couturier, great for a spring day with lots of sun.
An old love of mine
Oh, so much to choose from for this CP! I think I’ll pull out one of my Crazylibellule & the Poppies solids today — haven’t worn them in forever.
Those were so nice, too.
I’m wearing JM WS&SS, by perfumer Christine Nagel. It suits this very stormy Monday morning nicely.
Jo Malone something, and it will come to me later!
Wood Sage & Sea Salt. You must be on fragrance overload … or maybe just acronym overload.
Or both
Oh my goodness, you are right. March is nearly upon us!
I’m in Guerlain’s Promenade des Anglais to celebrate another beautiful sunny day here in the Bay.
I want to make an offer to my dear NSTers. I purchased a bottle of 30 year old L’air du Temps edt a week or so ago. It is a large bottle and I am no aficionado, or even a particular a fan of this perfume. I want to offer up to ten, 5 ml decants to NST regulars based CONUS. The deal is you have to swap me back 5 mls (less is okay too if it is really dear) of a perfume you love (and not one of those, ‘it doesn’t work for me but others love it.’ For this swap, you have to love and wear the perfume you send me!) If you are interested, email me your name and address, and NST handle
I am: ann dottie eisenberg attagirl comcast dottie net
I will respond to your email fairly quickly, so you will know I received it.
And I am already looking forward to April, ha!
Haha
Wearing Theorema today. Spent a good chunk of yesterday scrubbing the garage floor. The puppy was starting to use it as her own personal toilet. Leaving for work for a little bit and not looking forward to Fat Tuesday (tomorrow).
Oy about the personal toilet!
HdP 1804, which is what I’d have worn last Friday for Here Comes the Sun, but I decided that was maybe too pronounced a scent for a day to be spent on the bus with my students. Today, OTOH, not only have I sprayed with abandon (or what passes, in my world, as doing so), I have indeed brought out the sunshine. (That’s how weather works, right?)
Also had a body products win: when we first arrived in Ireland, I grabbed a small bottle of Love and Plums shower gel at the Body Shop; we don’t have a Body Shop near us at home, so I haven’t bought from them in decades. Well, turns out that I love (!) Love and Plums, and decided to get the body lotion — only to be told today that it’s a seasonal scent for Christmas. And then the SA went to the back, came out with two small shower gels and two body butters — the last of their stock and all on sale — so I came home happy.
Nice score there!????
Love it when the SA goes the extra mile!
That’s awesome! Glad you found a new love!
Yay!
Aqualis Blom is my SOTD.
Fruity-floral done well,it does have similarities with Bond No.9’s Perfumista Avenue.
I’m thinking Namaqualand or Kalahari for tomorrow,I’m on my own mission this week,so no points for me today(perfumer is male,apparently).
Happy Monday!
XO’s??✌?
? Happy Monday ?
Your own mission matters, I’m sure! Happy Monday J.
Monday always comes too soon. I’ve got a ton of work to do today, so I’m going to fortify myself with the very cheerful Hue by Hayley Kiyoko, crafted by perfumer Constance Georges-Picot.
Start the day off right, with scent!
That does sound cheerful! Can you smell the chocolate?
We’ve got an early start this morning to take our cat on a two hour road trip. Phaedra has a polyp in her ear that is affecting the optic nerve. Our local vet couldn’t get it out, so we are taking her to the vet school at Massey university. This is going to cost us several years’ perfume budget!
Phaedra will not be a happy cat in the car, but maybe my choice of Fort and Manle’s Suleyman le Magnifique will be a comfort
Good luck in PN. There’s a good lunch cafe called Joseph Street Kitchen if you have to fill in an hour or two while Phaedra is in care.
Hope all goes well for Pheadra.
Best wishes for your pet’s surgery.
I hope all goes well for Phaedra!
Hoping all goes well for Phaedra!
Good luck with the trip and the kitty’s procedure!
Good luck to you and Phaedra! Hope all goes well ?
Thinking of you both!
While I could do a month or two just on samples and bottles from DSH, I have decided to do this week with other female perfumers so today I’m in L’Heure Convoitee by Mathilde Laurent
I should wear Baiser Vole this week, thanks for the idea!
Traversée du Bosphore for a visit to the vet with the dog for a blood trst. Happy Monday to all!
You smell yummy, I should wear this soon, hoping the vet’s visit goes well.
All went well, it was just a small blood test. Thank you!
Glad to hear that you got good news from your vet, too.
Glad the vet visit went well.
Aqua di Parma Iris Nobile from a decant that just arrived in the mail. So pretty. Am trying to just buy decants for a while, so that I can see if i would actually use a full bottle. I know this one is discontinued so that isn’t an option, and i don’t know if i would actually get a full bottle even if it were available. I have Rosa Nobile and really enjoy that one. It reminds me of a perfume I had when i was a kid or a teen, although I don’t remember what it was. Maybe it reminds me of a Herbal Essences, now that I think about it. The 90s Herbal Essences were amazing that way.
One of my recent decant successes (after not sampling much for a few years) is Lutens Bois de Musc. I could see that being a top 5 in my wardrobe. Definitely sticking to decants there, though, since the full bottle is $$$$.
Happy Monday to all!
I found Lutens Bois de Musc recently and like it as well
It is so special. I think it might not work in hot weather, but am curious to find out!
Rabbits!!! Can’t believe it’s March and autumn is here. Sunrise is after 7am now so still quite gloomy outside. The bees have returned and were swarming around the sugar water yesterday, the first time this year they have outnumbered wasps. Off to hospital for tests and a mammogram so may do a circuit of the perfume shops afterwards while I re-inflate my squashed parts. No perfume yet but I will wear Plum later.
My official sunrise is 7:18
We are sunrise twins a day apart!
Hope that you get good results from all the testing and squashing!
Hope you found a good reward for the mammogram, and hope it went well!
I’m wearing Ineke Sweet William today from my adorable but evaporating travel spray. I’ve also realized that I somehow have still not tried her Idyllwild, so next time I order samples from Tigerlily (actually they just changed their name to Ministry of Scent) I’ll be sure to include it with my order.
I saw that but did not bother to read why.
I don’t think I caught the why either. When I ordered samples from them back in late December though, I noticed the sample vials had the new name printed on the label and wondered why they said that. Then it all made sense when I got the email about the name change.
It’s definitely Monday! Still working remotely for the time being and my two large monitors that help me get everything done decided not to work today despite unplugging, replugging, rebooting and even IT helpdesk suggestions.
I’m in Rodin Bis as allo mentioned it the other day, which I think is both quirky and under-appreciated. I think DS & Durga created it, but I’m taking partial points as I believe it was Linda Rodin’s idea (the scent was supposedly inspired by her mother).
I’ve got three monitors set up in my home office, and I could still use more digital real estate.
Fingers crossed you get that issue fixed soon!
Oh yuck. Equipment issues are the worst!
I’m wearing MM Replica By the Fireplace again today.I am reaching for this one most of the time these days.
You smell wonderful, that’s such a perfect comfort scent.
My obsession with Mugler continues because my bottle of Aura arrived this morning. After reading many polarized and vastly different reviews, I didn’t know what to think about this blind buy, but I like it a LOT. That ferny green opening is awesome and I can see respraying often especially since it has faded after four hours. Definitely not the nuclear strength I expect from Thierry Mugler. The bottle is especially beautiful and my favorite color. It was a celebratory delivery because today was my last day of physical therapy! I’m so looking forward to being able to go for spring walks.
So right to celebrate end of PT with a new bottle, glad this blind buy was successful.
Congrats on the new bottle and no more PT!
Whoo hoo and congratulations on reaching the end of your PT course!
Yay for Aura and spring walks!
That’s so good about finishing PT. Do you get vanilla in Aura? Did you get the EDT or the EDP?
I got the edp. I mainly get the crunchy greenery with a light, powdery vanilla. I think the powder I smell is the orange blossom. No mint or toothpaste that I can detect.
Oh yay on both counts!
SotD = Hiris
because this morning I woke up with the smell of Hiris in my brain. Maybe I dreamed about it?
I also had a recurring anxiety dream in which I forgot to feed the cat again. ??♀️ I prefer to dream about perfume.
I look at Reddit sometimes and there was a video of a cat who’s fed via an automated feeder. Every time the feeder drops food, the cat zips there like it’s tail was on fire!
hee hee, that is so funny. I don’t even have a cat (any longer), but my sister has one and an automated feeder. It’s funny to see the cat zip away as soon as the feeder goes off. Sometimes the cat sits in front of it waiting!
My cats definitely know when it’s time for lunch or dinner, and pester me until it’s done. So forgetting to feed them just doesn’t happen here. ??
ha! yes, when I had two cats one was an early riser, always demanding breakfast at dawn, the other waited in the bay window at evening, waiting for me to return home after work for dinner.
Smelling fab, tiffanie!
That is a funny dream! My cat would not allow me to forget to feed him, ever. He’s even cut me off on the stairs a few times, racing down to be sure I was on the job.
It is a funny dream since I have been cat-less for more than 10 years. Cats do a very good job of training their humans.
I am doused in Farmacia Annunziata Vaniglia del Madagascar compliments of a generous NSTer.?
This one might be discontinued. It is no longer on Luckyscent and on discount on their own website…I emailed Annunziata but right now they can’t ship to the U.S. b/c perfume is deemed a dangerous good.?
Such great news about your sister. It must be a great boost to your spirits.
I missed the post about your sister but it seems like good news, so yay!! You smell great.
Thanks, cazaubon…I had mentioned to Kanuka my sister gained 5 lbs.
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Maybe they will improve it? ??♀️?
I finished and submitted my income taxes, now I have a headache. But I have taken some Tylenol and will go out for fresh air in the gusty winds and sideways rain. Thankfully it is not cold, just wet and windy. I’m wearing D600.
Hope you’ll get rid of your headache.
Taxes are such a headache.
You smell good!
Sorry about your headache but jealous you’re done with taxes! Go you!
It was Kiehl’s Musk during the day and tonight Franck Boclet Vanille, my favorite vanilla and citrus.
The Franck Boclet vanilla is really good!
Glad you like it too ?
Working on another decant, this time Escentric Molecule’s 02. Odd, but enjoyable enough.
I hate those numbers, I can never remember which was which. Ambroxan?
Song of the Day: https://youtu.be/LQUXuQ6Zd9w
Very angry Metalhead tune today! ???
OTOH, I got good news on Spooky kitty’s vet visit from last week. Her fecal sample and blood work all are good. But she will probably be getting a new medicine for her suspected IBS.
SOTD = Bottega Veneta EdP. Day 3 of this one. I started wearing it over the weekend after seeing someone here mention it. My bottle has mellowed beautifully.
Bleep yeah Jalapeno!???
Yay for Spooky and you smell great!
Thank you! Glad that the vet didn’t find any issues with Spooky’s kidneys or thyroid. Both the cats are old enough now that the vet is keeping an eye out for things like that.
You smell good and I’m glad Spooky kitty got a good report!
Thanks! We shall see how well she tolerates the new medicine when I get it in hand. Very thankful that it isn’t a shot or a pill!
Glad your Spooky received good news!
Thanks! Now hopefully we can come up with a regimen to put some meat back onto Spooky’s frame.
I’m in Coco Noir for my first of 3 working nights in a row. Ugh.
See ya later February!
Good news! You can rest easy for the next 11 months ?
I will! The last few years February has become my snowiest month!
Ugh indeed ?
But yeah, at least February will be gone soon, and it won’t be missed…
February gone already! Spring will be here before you know it.
Boo to having to work nights! Keep applying your Coco for a forcefield around you.
SOTD = St. Clair Scents Edge Effects
I am taking full points for this week’s CP! It is so good except if you ask me to describe it, all I can say is I smell aldehylic musky fruity-floral incense patchouli.
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My sister was not able to verify if the ex-friend’s son has been deployed beyond Poland. Regardless, I am praying for his safety.
The Ukraine “situation” has many downstream impacts. Of course the first order of business is the safety of employees and their family. There are many many situations from dual citizenships to those who just want to get out (of R) without a visa to land elsewhere. The humanitarian conditions are desperate. My company has donated but it is just a drop in the bucket.
In other news, I have a new obsession with my air fryer: air-fried brussel sprouts! I wash them, cut off the knobby end, split it horizontally (like splitting it at an imaginary equator), grind some salt and black pepper, add some olive oil and put everything on top of the basket and air fry for 9-10 minutes at 350. Voila! I am also experimenting with asparagus which I will try in the next few days.
I’d recommend that you try air frying broccoli florets, too. They’re delicious when roasted! ?
I hope your “friend’s” son remains safe.
Roasted vegetables are so good. I don’t have an air fryer but will roast vegetables on a sheet pan until they get a bit of a char. Brussel sprouts are exceptionally tasty! Not sure if you’ve tried cauliflower, but that’s a good one too.
Spent the day in Ginger Piccante, and now I am going to bed in Atelier Cologne Ooland Infini ?
Tomorrow I’ll wear a perfume by a female perfumer…
Sleep well NinaV!
I wore some vintage Shalimar edt. I picked up on the smoky aspect today; maybe it was the rainy weather.
Yesterday I had a good go-through of my clothes closet. Lots of things gone out! I still have to decide on purses; need to let go of 2 (my own made-up number). I also prepared a Chanel box chock-full of perfume samples for my niece. There’s niche and designer so she should have fun. I may also make a few decants for her.
If I could get some of my hubby’s things off of a shelf, I could put lots of perfumes in the closet instead. I’ll work on that!
Good for you, I need to do that soon, before I put away the winter clothing.