It’s Almost-Friday and World Wildlife Day. Birthdays: Jean Harlow, Ira Glass. What fragrance are you wearing?
I'm in Prada L’Eau Ambrée, from perfumer Daniela Andrier.
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 detail from Prada's Spring/Summer 2022 Prada womenswear campaign.
Good morning.
Perfumer twin Robin! Today I am in Candy l’eau.
For breakfast today I am having a “thin” slice of devils food cake that I made yesterday. I will have celery for lunch…haha.
I think we are cousins? Wish we were having twin breakfasts
I’m in the dregs of another Atelier discovery set sample, this time Mandarine Glaciale.
I can’t remember if I ever tried that one.
It is a good citrus scent, of which I have many, but I’ve enjoyed the samples I’ve had.
YR Neonatura Cocoon. Big patchouli, dusty cocoa powder, warm vanilla. Incredibly simple, but excellent.
Shame they don’t make it anymore, seems like everybody loved it.
Going for the gold in the CP today, wearing Kenzo Amour Le Parfum by Daphne Bugey.
I don’t usually go for sweet frags, but I ❤️ this one! I am wrapped in a comforting cloud of benzoin and vanilla for this cold but beautifully sunny day.
You smell great AnnE!
Lots of favorite female perfumers, but decided on Isabelle Doyen/Camille Goutal and Vanille Exquise for today while we still have chilly weather.
You smell great and just gave me an idea for tomorrow’s CP…
Scent twin! It’s giving me happy vanilla Play-Doh vibes on this cold day.
Sotd is another Anne Flipo, Oeillet Sauvage.
You smell lovely!
Thank you! And I meant to comment on you seeing wild horses. What an amazing experience. I keep thinking of the Rolling Stones singing “Wild horses, couldn’t drag me away…”
I was just commenting to Robin’s reply about how lucky I am. I gave up my city life to teach high school on the Navajo nation in New Mexico, and it has been such a joy. I love my students – they make me laugh myself silly every day. I love coaching cross country and track. The Navajo fry bread is such a treat. And yes, wild horses! This has been such an uplifting experience. ?
Going for CP points in JM Wood Sage & Sea Salt from Christine Nagel.
Not really a fan of this one, but on a right day, I do enjoy it.
Today it’s working just fine.
Happy Almost-Friday, everyone!
Hope it was a good day NinaV!
Wearing the original Coco today and stoked right now. Got an email from Sephora saying when their spring sale is. It starts on 4/5 for VIB members.
thanks for update!
Thanks for the heads up on Sephora! I unsubscribed from their emails in burst of frustration with getting So. Many. Marketing Emails. But I’ve been nervous I would miss the spring sale.
I’m in Daniela Andrier’s Gucci Eau de Parfum, one of the best amber/orange blossom fragrances I’ve ever encountered. Plus, I can use the bottle for self-defense! ?
Floating on a cloud of cinnamon in Papillon Bengale Rouge by Liz Moores.
Her scents are lovely. I’m enjoying seeing all the great fragrances by female perfumers this week!
Ugh! Sorry—I’m in the wrong spot.
SOTD will be SSS Incense Pure, once I get thru some chores. No surprise, this is my favorite SSS.
You smell great!
House twins!
Hilarious nature story: our doorbell just rang. It’s sortof a cowbell design, with a hanging wooden swing-style knocker. We go and look: nobody there! But the knocker is swinging madly… and we spot a chipmunk running away at warp speed, lol.
I can just see the feisty little guy lol.
Chipmunk doorbell ditch, how funny!
Floating on a cloud of cinnamon in Papillon Bengale Rouge by Liz Moores.
Her scents are lovely. I’m enjoying seeing all the great fragrances by female perfumers this week!
Smelling fabulous! I love her perfumes, but have yet to sample them all.
I almost wore that today. Gorgeous!
Buenos dias fragrante amigas y amigos! I think I have that right. I’m in IUNX Eau Frappe today. Lightly scented since I have a dermatologist appointment this afternoon. I was in Goldfield & Banks Sunset Hour yesterday. It was nice, but nothing I’d run up a hill for. ❤️
Headed out soon to take hubster for his first PT session. He’s ready to get his arm back, and so am I! Thanks y’all, for your good wishes for his recuperation; they are much appreciated!
I have a travel spray coming in that one.
That’s a perfect one to keep in your purse!
I wasn’t posting for the past few weeks but have been following this in the comments – am so very glad to hear your husband is on the mend! Very best wishes to you both.
Thank you, DolceVita! That’s so sweet of you to keep track. Hugs! ?
Oops, I knew I forgot something. Olivia Giacobetti is the perfumer for my AOTD, so points for me. Whee!
i hope the husband’s PT went well!
Hope it went well today.
Speedy recovery wishes to him!
L´Air de Rien by Lyn Harris, one of my favorites. Glad i have a BUB. We just returned from our evening walk in glorious sunshine.
You smell great. I have a backup of that one too, it’s so good.
Perfumer–Vero Kern, SOTD–Rozy edp
So happy to see Vero mentioned.
Happy Thursday!!
SOTD!I am so dumb,thinking it might be a difficult cp this week!!
I have forgotten about the brand that I have been raving about for a while…Wick Fragrances!
My package arrived from them yesterday,I know have the two new perfumes from them added to my collection
Wearing Fabulous Human today…oh boy.It really is fabulous!Spicy-rum and amber,it’s a gorgeous perfume!
Backstory:Wick fragrances started out as aircare with room/linen mists,candles and diffusers.I’ve been aware of their candles and the brand,but the launch of their first two perfumes last year really made me investigate.
Perfumer and brand-owner(double points,yes?Yes!!)is the fabulously humble Lauren Graham.I so wish her well,and hope the brand continues to expand and reach the US asap as well!
XO’s
I’ll be watching for Wick!
I’m in Bee’s Bliss again because I’m wearing the same flannel as yesterday, although it got so hot I had to take it off in the afternoon. They’re predicting snow tomorrow..! ?
In the sprit of World Wildlife Day, I linked a audio of some coyotes howling last night by my campsite. They were very active, waking me three times in the night, which made me smile and nod right back to sleep. Also had some deer about 50’ from my site last evening but there was too much brush to get any good photos. The recording is hard to hear at first, so you have to turn the volume up.
Coyotes:
https://www.instagram.com/tv/CapfFGOJMuO/?utm_medium=copy_link
For those that would love to thru-hike, but can’t for whatever reason, I give you a spectacular 10 minute video of the Foothills Trail recorded by one of my favorite thru-hikers. The photography and music are fabulous and it’s 10 minutes that will life your spirit! Cheers!
Foothills Trail:
https://youtu.be/8PFmzCuT0Lc
House twins!
We are SCENT TWINS!!!!!!!!!
I skimmed the comments this AM and see that I am in excellent company wearing a Sonoma Scent Studio scent. I’m in Laurie’s Champagne de Bois. I guess it says a lot about the community she put together that I am not just now recalling her last name. I hope she is doing amazing things and life is good for her!
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
Wow, I can’t remember her last name at the moment either. Everyone called her Laurie!
Finishing up my Arquiste samples today in The Architects Club, alas no CP points until tomorrow. TAC reminds me a lot of Nishane Ani at about 2/3 the intesntity, but with a a hint of Duelle (like if you wore Duelle to bed last night and then put on a light spray of Ani this morning), and dusted with marshmallow powder. It’s a lovely woody vanilla.
Dring Clipper Ship Earl Gray Creme london fogs to go with it.
*Drinking. Perhaps I should be drinking something with more caffine.
I loved Architects Club when I first tried it. I don’t recall if I have mentioned one of my cousins repped for Arquiste and Carlos Huber is dreamy.
You are correct. Dreamy he is.
Ooo. Just watched the video on his website. Definitely dreamy ?
I’ve been kind of doing a single female perfumer’s house each day.
Today is La Curie (Lesli Wood), starting with Incendo this morning. I’ll probably switch over to Ossuary tonight. Good memories of our visit to Tucson right around this time in 2019.
Yesterday was Patricia de Nicolaï day (Le Temps d’une Fête, then New York Intense in the evening).
Good, have a couple of PNs kicking about, so maybe one for tomorrow.
I am in Atlier Vanilla Insensee thanks to enabler Cazaubon. I purchased a tester, but can’t tell any difference from what the original bottle looks like. I am enjoying the scent. It kind of reminds me of BBW Warm Vanilla Sugar. Does anyone else get this?
Only had Warm Vanilla Sugar as a shower gel and it was a while back, so perhaps no surprise there was no startling resemblance to my nose…
The tester normally looks like a regular bottle. I think it’s woodier than warm vanilla sugar.
Agreed.
Heading off soon to collect our cat after her ear surgery. Phaedra won’t enjoy another two hours in the car, but I’m hoping we’ll be forgiven once we get home. I’m thinking of Mito today, by Vera Kern. I tried all her EdPs, only a couple really appealed to me enough to get FBs (Mito and Rubj), but they were all unusual and very interesting.
Maybe the vet can give her a light oral anxiety med before you hit the road? That would certainly make your ride (and hers) less stressful. Glad she came through the surgery okay!
Hope the trip goes well! And at least if Phaedra is complaining about her treatment you know she’s recovering okay, right?
Healing vibes for Phaedra!
Wishing all the best for Phaedra! (Love her name, by the way.)
I can’t believe it’s already Thursday!
I’m wearing Sticky Fingers by Francesca Bianchi. And loving hearing about all the fantastic scents by female perfumers this week.
Wore an FB earlier in the week – since I never know who the perfumer is for any given item, this is good to know for tomorrow!
You smell great.
I love Sticky Fingers!
Drizzly, light grey day, with Lost Cherry on one arm and Carner Barcelona Cuir on the other.
Oh! What is the Cuir like, please? I have a few Carner Barcelonas (one full bottle of Botafumeiro, and samples of Rima XI and Tardes and…nope, can’t think of the other one) and they’re all very rich and beautiful and make me wonder why I haven’t paid more attention to this house…other recommendations very welcome!
Cuirs (plural as it turns out) is a a rich and relaxing leather. There’s a store here called Masc with fancy shaving cream, etc. and they have much of Carner Barcelona’s line. Many are Too Dude for me, but it would seem that I like leather if it is gentlemanly.
Wonderful, thank you!
Wearing Gabrielle Essence today. Road trip down to the “big city” to see Drive My Car and eat Thai food. I think we are going to the last showing of this movie in our entire state.
So thankful the tire issue was no big deal. Just picked up a screw so easy patch. And, even better, a very cheap fix.
Oooh, let me know how “Drive My Car” is — that’s on my list.
I liked it quite a bit, probably more than my husband did. It’s 3 hours, but it didn’t feel that long to me. I kind of wish I’d been more familiar with the play Uncle Vanya by Chekhov, or at least the characters.
13C sunny
During the day Esprit d’Oscar part CP compliant as one of the perfumer is a woman.
Tonight By Terry Rouge Nocturne.
*One of the perfumers
Our weather is nearly intersecting
?I bet you got busy in the garden. Basically we had no real winter in south-East England.
Testing out Opus Kore (Vilhem Parfumerie) today, as it’s a warm spring day and a friend sent me the best seller sample set. It’s . . . boring. But it is on my knee, since I wanted to be cautious. I may give it another spray somewhere riskier.
My town is full of daffodils and magnolias.
Wow, even magnolias! I can’t wait.
Hello everyone! Chose perfume at random today, so I am in my second cloud of Parfum d’Empire Cuir Ottoman. This is much softer and more wearable than I was expecting, hence my reapplication at lunchtime, and I just may go for a third round this evening… good wishes to you all ❤️
A whole day of Cuir Ottoman sounds cozy
I kept thinking about Bengale Rouge so it was an easy choice to wear it today. Liz Moores has created some amazing perfumes these last few years. Even though they don’t all work for me (and nothing wrong with that), I really enjoy the ones that do work. And I can’t wait to smell her new perfume, Hera, when it’s released. No release date yet for it.
It’s a nice line and I always like to sniff L’s creations even if as you say they don’t work out personally.
It’s Atelier des Ors Nuda Veritas for me today.
Hope all is well Lucasai!
I’m in VC&A Bois d’Iris today, I know some of you also love this one. And taking CP points for the perfumer, Emilie (Bevierre) Coppermann.
Internet has been spotty for a couple of days. Completely frustrating while trying to work–or read NST ;). I’m off today and heading out soon for my 4 mile walk.
Oh, I have a VC&A somewhere (not that one), should see if the nose is a woman.
Was it you I was chatting with about the Chantecaille lip tints?
Today and today only (World Wildlife Day), they’re offering a giraffe makeup bag with any purchase. They must be dealing with supply chain challenges, because all the colors I wanted in the more reasonably priced lipsticks were sold out. Wound up getting a limited-ed shade which I don’t need at all, but really wanted that GWP. Feeling like a bit of a sap, but at least it helps support a good cause!
It wasn’t me, but I’m still happy to know about it. I like lip tints!
I’m using up samples so today is Les Indemodables Rose de Jamal. I won’t need any more when it’s gone.
Does everyone try to drain samples but me?
Going for double points today. I started in le Temps d’Une Fete because it’s light and I planned to go soap shopping. Just got home, ran out of time so no soap, and sprayed on copious amounts of DSH Inner Sanctum. I’ll have to try and get soap tomorrow.
Double points, no soap
Rirana Cherry On Top. Got through an audit w/ an outside vendor at work today unscathed and the weekend looms ever closer…
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It’s Friday eve!
Better stated!!!
Congrats on passing the audit. Meanwhile, I am waiting to hear back on not quite an audit audit …
What kind of audit audit…?
Normally Internal Audit announces their audit plan but this one was not on it, just some snooping here and there and as much as I hated to do it, I had to correct their interpretation.
Normally Internal Audit announces their audit plan but this one was not on it, just some snooping here and there and as much as I hated to do it, I had to correct their interpretation.
Wearing Naomi Goodsir Or du Sérail. Rain blowing in tonight, but managed to get out on a sunny, windy walk with the dog at lunchtime.
That sounds like one I’d like to try, though Duchaufour’s creations often don’t work for me. Do like the fact that Goodsir offers a tightly edited lineup.
Chiming in late again!
SOTD = Sonoma Scent Studio Bee’s Bliss
I love this one and will never run out! I have to work 2-3 hours on Saturday, hopefully no more than that, to assist on a pilot. I told the one running it to make sure she finds a person to do what I’ll be doing because it really is not part of my job.
I wish the news was better for Ukraine. We’ve had at least one employee who went back to Ukraine to help his parents and he got drafted.
Oh gosh! Did he anticipate he would get drafted? Praying he will be safe.. I really wish everyone could be safe.
You know, we heard it here that adult males 18-60 will be volunteered. My only conclusion is blood is thicker than water.
Posting rather late today! Mr. Jalapeno and I took a day trip down to Atlantic City for a boat show. We got home about an hour ago.
SOTD = Chanel No. 19 EdP, for being back in public again. We were masked up, but most of the people in attendance were not. I figured a little perfume armor couldn’t hurt.
Yay for your day trip!
We had our boat show about 2 weeks ago, which seemed early to me.
You certainly smell good !
Got my taxes prepared tonight along with my son. Total ugh!
Fortunately I stopped by Sephora and they are now carrying Killian. I am drenched in Black Phantom and Apple Brandy. Lol. I was able to get samples. I also got one of Good Girl gone bad. I have tried it before and wasn’t wowed but thought I would try again.
Woot! Have fun with those samples!
Sotd is The Pour Un Ete (too lazy to add accents) by Olivia Giacobetti