It's Hump Day and Dr Seuss Day (aka National Read Across America Day). What fragrance are you wearing?
I'm in Le Labo Lys 41, from perfumer Daphné Bugey.
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 Lily - Curly sue [cropped] by James Johnstone at flickr; some rights reserved.
I’m taking cp points in Olivine Atelier She Belongs There perfume oil. Gardenia, jasmine and vanilla. I smell tropical even though it’s 34 and overcast.
Today is my Friday and I’m headed out of town tomorrow.
Happy Hump day!
Have a great time, whatever you are doing. And happy Friday!
Enjoy your Friday!
Happy Friday!
Have a great trip!
Enjoy your trip!
Safe travels tomorrow and enjoy your trip!
I’ve thunked another sample, this time from the first discovery set that I ever bought. I’m wearing Atelier Cologne’s Blanche Immortelle. I realized that I need to go through my older discovery sets and pull samples that I can use up, especially since I have several new or untouched discovery sets.
I’ve been on a mission to thunk some samples recently too. They have a way of multiplying and then I feel overwhelmed by how many I have! It’s a good feeling to use some up.?
I have been pretending my pile does not exist! ?
I’ve had a few samples of mine play hide & seek lately. Annoying!
Late-nineties Guerlain Samsara. Sometimes I forget how genuinely great this is, for all its apparent simplicity.
It really is, you smell great!
I second that – you smell great!
Waft this way please!
Good morning.
Sotd is LV Attrape-Reves. Cacao is listed in the notes but I can’t detect it.
Speaking of chocolate, today I will be making devil’s food cake with a ganache icing. Yum.
Currently drinking English Breakfast Tea.
Your cake sounds very special.
Yum, save me a slice! Oh wait. I’m not doing sweets because it’s National Nutrition Month. Bake another one in April?
I will take springpansy’s slice
Wearing Zoologist Civet, a great transitional scent. I could do a week of Shelley Waddington!
I love this one so much. You smell wonderful! If my nose is up for it (sinus irritation problems this week), I’ll wear it tomorrow.
I hope your nose is better soon!
In Anne Flipo’s Chasse Aux Papillons Extreme and enjoying the Tuberose (currently on a Tuberose bender)
Love that one!
I am claiming points with Liz Moores and Dryad today, maybe i will wear another of hers this week…
You smell divine, of course. ?
I’ve been stuck in a perfume rut for a couple of days; been wearing Mandy Aftel’s Ancient Resins. It’s a nice rut to be stuck in.
We’re waiting for rain… tomorrow maybe. The weather’s been gorgeous but I need a break from all the yard work I’ve been doing.
I did several days of that, and if the world doesn’t calm down I may be right back in it soon.
Yeah. Last night I was thinking “maybe I’ll just stick with this a while….”
The things you learn when you look up a perfumer! I’m in Memo’s Irish Leather–nose was Alienor Massenet. She was behind a number of the Memo leather scents, and also Winter Palace, which has some fans on NST.
And, I am repeating my offer
:
Last week, I purchased a bottle of 30 year old L’air du Temps edt. It is a large bottle and I am no aficionado 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) of a perfume you love (but 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
Ooh! Yes, I am a Winter Palace fan — I will wear that tomorrow! I haven’t smelled Irish Leather but I bet you smell gorgeous.
I’m in Impossible Iris from Ramon Monegal today.
Smelling kinda springy because tis the season already to slowly start to switch the perfume wardrobe again.
I love it when the seasons change for precisely this reason.
You smell wonderful!
I’m in my new Masque Milano Madeleine sample (Fanny Bal) and really enjoying it. It’s very soft – a bit of pastry, a bit of floral, sort of milky. I’ll have to wear it several times, but it’s going on the “very possible” list.
Online reservations for camping in the San Juan Islands open this morning. Stressing about trying to get camping reservations made while attending a meeting and taking notes for said meeting (yes, I *should* definitely be putting work first…but if I don’t get the reservations made when they open, we might not get a spot soooooo…)
If they’re like camping spot bookings in BC they will go in a flash!
Yep. Especially when I’m trying to book a holiday weekend.
“Yes of course I am paying attention to your very imporant meeting about TPS reports. I’m definintely not trying to get concert tickets at precisely Noon before the scalper bots buy them all up and put them on StubHub at a 100% markup. Why do ask?”
EXACTLY
Camping is clearly way more crucial than a work meeting in my book. Record the meeting on your phone so you can take notes later and concentrate on the booking. You will thank yourself later when you are gazing at the stars from your campsite .
Completely agree.
Success! Got reservations for Memorial Day weekend and took notes! (at least mostly.)
I can only get up to 90 days ahead, so will book more later and, hopefully, not during meetings.
Yay!!!
Nice!
If you like pastry in your perfume, you might enjoy Tendre Madeleine, by Laurence Dumont (in the Les Senteurs Gourmandes series). If you can find it, it’s a bargain.
Thanks, I’ll check it out.
Enjoy your upcoming camping trip(s)!
CP points for Prada Infusion d’Amande by Daniela Andrier. It’s not my favorite of the infusions, but it’s just right for this season-straddling weather.
Having a better day today. I hope you all are, too!
Yay for a better day!! So far, my day is good, too.
So glad to hear it!
A perfume that works in the spaces between the seasons is something every scent enthusiast needs in their repertoire, IMO.
In Francesca Bianchi’s Under My Skin. Going into work in person, so need something non-wafty yet long-lasting.
I hope your day goes well and that the perfume keeps you gently wrapped up all day.
Keeping my PdN h9mage going in Kiss Me Intense today.
Sigh…just after we bought a used car (Monday) we are finding a slow leak in one of the tires of our primary, one- year-old car. My wallet has been bled dry the past few weeks…
Argh. And things like leaks — whether tires or roofs — are no fun to spend money on.
Sorry LizzieB!
$20 bucks later, the foreign object removed and tire patched. Not so bad….
For a tire repair? That sounds really, really good to me!
Accidentally getting CP points today in Hermes Hiris (Olivia Giacobetti). I could happily swim in this stuff — and it is so fleeting that I probably should. Ah, the trials of being an Iris lover.
I did not think I would ever not own Hiris, but in fact at the moment I don’t have any Hiris. I could swim in it too.
I think that Donatella would expect you to remedy that situation immediately.
Hiris, like Winter Palace, is one of those fragrances that crept up on me and won’t let go.
I will never buy another large bottle because mine didn’t keep, but I will get a 15 ml when I can. I don’t need a whole discovery set at the moment…
I’ve been lurking and reading SOTD comments all week, but keep forgetting to post, so I’m chiming in earlier than usual today. I’m sampling Arquiste Misfit and it is a definite nope. I don’t know if it is the particular type of patchouli, or a combo of the patchouli and tolu (or maybe something else I can’t place), but this absolutedly doesn’t not work for me. It creates an animalic, non-comforting BO note on me. (I acknowledge that it is weird that I find some BO notes comforting). It is interesting — I’ll give it that.
Drinking golden monkey tea today which has such a lovely honey aroma to it.
That’s a shame. Tolu sounds like an interesting scent. Hope you find a better fit tomorrow.
Misfit didn’t appeal to me either. I find patchouli is very unpredictable.
Not everybody is using the same fraction, so one patchouli is not the same as another patchouli. (True of most notes, I guess.)
Thanks for the warning. I cannot do BO. I always only spray on tester strips anyway for the zoom sniffas.
In fairness, it eventually settled into a nice vanilla-y sandalwood, but it took all day to get there.
I have to test on skin. I don’t trust paper. Or, I don’t trust my nose with paper.
I don’t think I could name what tolu smells like, even though I know I have encountered it in a bunch of perfumes.
I’m going on fragrantica’s description of it as sweet, balsamic, and animalic.
A beautiful starry morning with the Southern Cross and it’s pointers above me…got a cricket in my neck looking up and felt old!!! This year I am going to buy a telescope, seriously. Going to see THE Batman today with my son … what a drag. I hate car chases …how many times can you watch a car ride up on two wheels, spark dramatically, roll, crash off bridge , over a line of traffic , explode. The citizens of Gotham City deserve better traffic management. That’s what I’d be voting for. Better bike lanes, pedestrian friendly spaces and close the central city to cars.
Wearing Fleurs d’orange and Lust together and it is good.
lol. My husband, being a firefighter, has had to explain to various relatives that no, cars don’t automatically explode when they hit something. Real life isn’t like the movies.
And, no, you don’t walk away with nothing more than a furrowed brow when your car does crash, roll, explode…and wear your seatbelts!!
Oh this really made me lol ?
I will write THE report back on THE Batman tomorrow .
My husband could watch car chases all day, as near as I can tell. If there is shooting from the car, all the better.
CP compliant in SSS Bee’s Bliss. I really wanted to wear the appley goodness of Equestrian but I can’t find it. Again! This one likes to play hide and seek. After missing it for months, I found it in a purse I stored away. Thrilled to have found it but now it’s gone missing again…
It’s been quite warm after the snow we had last week. The sun has taken up 100% of the sky, not a cloud in sight. I’m all moisturized and sun-blocked and will be headed out on a hike soon.
Happy Humpday!
Have a wonderful walk. Are you seeing any spring wildflowers yet?
No, I’m in the high desert so it still gets pretty cold after the sun goes down-20-40F. The low desert blooms haven’t started as of yet that I’m aware of, but it’s already 80F+ on the desert floor. ?
Stay on the tops!
I’m in TDC Kâshân Rose, composed by Emilie Coppermann, who (iirc) also composed VC&A Bois d’Iris. Might do that one tomorrow, or might switch to something by my true favorite female nose, Daniela Andrier.
I am wearing Daniela Andrier tomorrow. I could do this project for a couple of weeks easy, and in fact if someone said oh, you can only wear female perfumers from now on, I could assemble a wardrobe to keep me happy.
I think I should receive double points for the CP today since I am wearing two scents by Christine Nagal. Jo Malone English Pear Cologne and Wood Sage and Sea Salt Body Crème?
Double points it is!
I am wearing Aura today thanks to ringthing mentioning it.
I posted late last night but wanted to repost a PSA that Fragrance net has Ostara back in stock for those that have been looking for it.
One more night and day off tomorrow!
On my way out the door my son say
” is that your perfume? You smell like the coral reef. Very oceany. Cough cough… it’s really strong!” LOL. Not what I smell at all. Maybe I shouldn’t have done 6 sprays.
Lol I will try 6 sprays, I’m loving Aura.
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You smell good and glad you have a day off to look forward to in 2 days!
Wow, 6 sprays of anything from TM is definitely going BEEEEG!
I’m wearing Reglisse Noire today.
This sounds so beautiful, I look forward to trying it some day!
You smell marvelous — Reglisse Noire is terrific.
I felt like wearing Opardu today. Fortunately, it is project compliant; the perfumer is Annie Buzantian
Points!
You smell fabulous!
I’m CP-compliant in Le Temps d’une Fête. It’s my mother-in-law’s birthday today, so let’s say I’m wearing it in celebration of her!
You smell fabulous!
Double points then!
Actually cp compliant today!
Haha!
AGAIN in Aqualis Canvas,perfumer Amandine Galliano.She has done a couple for Aqualis via Robertet,and because I had such a strong response to Canvas last night,she’s instantly elevated to a favorite female perfumer.
What.a.day.I did 24 Theatre cases today.
XO’s
I have not heard of her, but that’s lovely to find someone new!
(And 24!!!)
24! Wow!
Finally catching up with the CP with Jovoy’s Remember Me by Cécile Zarokian. It’s definitely a favourite. Cécile has done a couple of other perfumes that I love, particularly Fêtes Persanes from MDCI. I need to check out more of her work.
I’ll be perfuming the lounge today. We’ve all been asked to work from home in the aftermath of riots yesterday, when police cleared the protestors from Parliament. Streets had been blocked for over three weeks and we were all thoroughly sick of it. Any of the protestors who were truly peaceful had already left, so shocking but not surprising it turned violent.
In other news, our cat has come through her surgery well, and we will going to pick her up tomorrow.
It’s been a memorable week!
We feel you here in Canada — though fortunately I’m not in Ottawa, where the worst of the protest was.
Glad to hear kitty’s doing well!
Wow…so much news right now that I did not even know. Just read a few stories.
At least you will have kitty home!
Wishing a speedy recovery to your cat! ?
Glad to hear that your kitty’s procedure was successful! Bet you will be happy to have her back home.
I saw wild horses yesterday – one of my favorite things about living in such a remote place. So I was thinking of hay and went with PG Bois Blonds. I love the dried hay and cereal notes it has. It’s an underrated PG, imo. I will miss my bottle once it goes the way of memories.
Oh how cool! I don’t think I have ever seen a wild horse, anywhere.
After being a city dweller for the past 20 plus years, I took a job teaching high school on the Navajo nation in New Mexico. I wanted to do something that would feed my soul, something I’d been craving since my days at university. I gave up a higher salary and every possible cuisine available at my fingertips, as well as shopping. Any shopping! I gained classes full of incredible students. A welcoming community. Coaching cross country. Coaching track. Navajo fry bread! It has been such an amazing experience in every way.
Oh how lovely — good for you! I have driven through the reservation twice, it’s just so gorgeous.
Maybe I did see wild horses and didn’t know they were wild? or I didn’t see any. I can’t even remember.
But yeah, I guess you are not going shopping any time soon. I love Albuquerque too, but even in Albuquerque you are not going to find fantastic shopping, and Gallup, forget it. Who needs shopping anyway.
Hello dear perfume people! Have been meaning to read and comment this week and the time keeps running away with me. And it’s March already! I wore mainly Chanel in February as a mini project (I’ve done this before-Chanel month, Guerlain month, rose month) but this time I really resented the restriction, despite the beauties in my collection – trying to stick to anything feels like such a chore at present! Well, my most-worn was No 5 edt, perhaps because it is very soft and comforting. And despite my irritation at my own project I have accidentally continued it into March – yesterday was Le Lion (because of the old weather-wise proverb, March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb) and today is No.5 parfum, in a tiny bottle that arrived this morning. I “bought” it with department store points and it marks the second anniversary of my new job and career change, which has been such a positive move in all sorts of ways. Apologies for the essay today – off now to read all the comments for the past few days. Sending peace and good wishes to you all.
I love that you stick with your project even when it irritates you! Give yourself points
Thank you Robin! The fact I managed to continue it was a real surprise to me!
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Congrats on the second anniversary of your turning point, especially since it’s been for the better!
Thank you Jalapeno! It took me a long time to get to the point where I knew I needed to leave, and then more time to find out where I wanted to go, so being in a good place now feels wonderful.
I’m celebrating women perfumers all week, and today chose Daphne from L’Aromatica’s natural line, LARO. Loreto Remsing is the perfumer. The daphne flowers are in full bloom all over my neighborhood and have been for the last week or two so I just had to wear this perfume.
Had a rough day yesterday when my Jo Malone Basil and Neroli (perfumer: Anne Flipo) gave me a terrible headache for most of the day. I had to wash it off and change my shirt. ? I love this perfume so I hope this is a temporary problem. I’ve also gone back through the SOTD list I keep to note which other perfumes incited a headache or sinus irritation the last couple months. I’m hoping I can find a pattern.
I’m not sure if I’ve encountered a proper daphne before, but I think they must be glorious! Hope your sinus woes resolve soon!
Thanks, and I hope you can experience daphne one of these days!
Is it a good / true daphne? It’s such a great smell.
And so sorry about the headache, that’s unfortunately, esp. if it’s from a favorite.
It’s not as sharp as daphne flowers, but it’s a pretty darn good take on daphne. I find it a joy to wear. And thanks! Not loving smell based headaches, especially when it’s perfume I really like.
Thanks for the description! I really liked Parfums DelRae Wit, would love to find something that pretty.
I’m happy to pass along my little roll-on sample or make you a decant in a spray bottle. Send me an email. ? And Wit was truly special. Definitely “the one that got away” feelings there.
Thank you therabbitsflower, I did think about it for a day and you are very kind, but I have SO many untried samples. I need to buckle down rather than taking on more
I’m sorry about your headache and hope you’re feeling better soon and can get back to sniffing the blooming Daphne.
I remember posting about smelling Daphne this time of year a couple of years ago when I first started posting on NST and we made the Daphne/Seattleite connection.
Thanks, I’m feeling a lot better today. I smelled a little daphne on my walk home from getting groceries. It’s such a mood lifter. I’m so glad I get to experience it. And I remember the revelation of the Seattle connection too.
Yuck. Sinus issues make everything feel horrible. Hopefully you can sort out what is bothering you.
Thanks, I hope so too.
CP-compliant and fist-bump with Oakland Fresca: I wore Memo’s Siwa, signed by Alienor Massenet, to try to push away a bit of the darkness of these days. Spotting a carpet of naturalized crocuses this afternoon helped a little, too.
The fancy double daffodils I planted (ok, really, my husband planted) last fall are poking up! Not much sign of the regular daffodils yet, not sure about crocuses.
Hey FearsMice! I want to respond to your ? re: my computer purchase. I ended up getting an HP Envy laptop with a 17” screen. It was $150 cheaper than when I went to Best Buy a few weeks ago. Costco will soon be selling it for $50 cheaper but eh, I wanted to make sure it worked over the weekend and it did and I used it already for my WFH day today. So far so good except I never changed the system time and I was wondering why people were setting up meetings for 5AM before it dawned on me that the computer thinks I am on Pacific Time! Anyway, there was no wait to purchase the laptop. I am getting reimbursed for all but < $100. The next time I can get reimbursed is 3 years from now. Not bad overall!
I always enjoyed seeing crocuses poking up through the snow when I lived in Colorado. Definitely a lift to the spirit.
Fist bump back!
Lovely sunny day that felt very much like spring here. Better sleep last night, too. Guess it was definitely time to put away that blanket! ????????
SOTD = M+Molecule 01 + Iris EdT, from the sample stash. It’s very quiet on me. I get whiffs of iris every so often and that’s about it.
We are Iris twins! It’s supposed to yo-yo again so maybe keep that blanket handy!
Hiya iris twin!
I’m still wearing flannel pajamas, so I have no worries about getting cold at night. Plus Teflon kitty provides supplemental warmth when she cuddles with me.
Felt like early spring here too, but then it snowed! Lol… didn’t stick thank goodness.
Double points please, because I started the day with Herba Fresca by Mathilde Laurent and now I am going to bed in En Passant by Olivia Giacobetti ?
Both are beautiful perfumers in my opinion ?
Perfumer twins! You get double points for sure!
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SOTD = Iunx Talc
By Olivia Giacobetti! What a beautiful perfume and points for the CP!
No IG photo although I may post something later. Who knows?
There are 4 charities to which (to whom?) my company will match donations. Yesterday, I donated to World Central Kitchen. Today, I upped the ante by donating to International Medical Corps. I wanted to make it meaningful so chose only this one. The news is not good.
In other news, I was totally shocked that my WFH technology purchase reimbursement, which I requested yesterday, will be paid to me by this Friday. Wowee…and I am getting an extra $100 which means I can spend $199 for something and it will still be perfumath free. Heh, who am I kidding? I already spent it ?!
Guess we will just have to wait to hear what that mystery purchase was!
Or purchases because can’t just stop with one!
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I recently watched a video posted by José Andrés, from World Central Kitchen, as he (and they) provided thousands of meals to refugees at a border crossing in Poland:
https://wtop.com/dc/2022/02/chef-jose-andres-feeds-ukrainian-refugees-at-the-border/
Saw this too – he is so genuine!
I luvz him. An excellent cause to donate to, hajusuuri.
Okey dokey -I decided to post my latest kitteh:
https://www.instagram.com/p/Can4C6UupgF/?utm_medium=copy_link
Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwww, cute! ?
So unbelievable adorable!
I would name it sweetie face!
The cutest!
Hey all! I got back last week from my vacation at my parents’ house, which was lovely. I did a lot of sleeping, cooking, reading, and listening to podcasts. I mostly kept up with reading NST, cause I hate missing news!
Today I wore Jo Malone Nectarine Blossom and Honey, which happens to comply with the CP because apparently Jo Malone herself created this one. The weather was so warm today (51F!) that I went for a walk at lunch. First time since last fall. I love exploring the neighborhood around where I work–it’s so cute.
I hope you all are hanging in there.
Sounds like a great vacation. Welcome back ?
Thank you! It’s so nice to have lots of time to lounge!
That sounds lovely socks!