Rabbit, rabbit, rabbit, and welcome to September! What fragrance are you wearing?
I'm in Blackbird Y06-S, because I wore it on September 1st last year.
Reminder: 9/2 is the start of Labor Day weekend. As we did in 2021, take a break from community projects and wear what you want.
And for those of you who like to plan ahead, see Scent of the day ~ Friday community projects 2022, where I'll try (but obviously sometimes fail) to always have the next five or six weeks mapped out in advance.
Note: the Bunny from Lucie Kaas ("Bunny is brought to life with careful attention to details. With droopy ears and a characteristic little nose, Bunny brings us back to the comfort of that bedtime friend") is available in Oak or Smoked Oak, $54.
Good morning and 🐰🐰🐰!
Sotd is Toy 2 Bubble Gum. I really wish I got the bubble gum note on my skin but instead I smell fruity sweets; fun nonetheless and definitely on the other end of the seriousness scale.
Drinking rose earl grey.
Oh, I need your tea, who makes it?
Seconding Robin: do tell more about your tea, please!
Hello NSTers
Fluer de Chine from TF for today…
Also foundation from him (the stick one) and an eyeshadow
Went to the US open yesterday and had the pleasure of watching Matteo Berrettini in one of the bigger courts. Besides being easy on the eyes, he is an amazing player. Mama Mia!
You smell great!
Have you tried this one? I bought the travel set. I love the Almalfi one the best, but this one is growing on me.
You mean the rose trio mini set? I tried them all but also felt Amalfi was the best so I got the full bottle instead!
Oh how fun to see the US Open!
House twin! What fun to see the US Open!
Rabbits! I’m wearing a few drops of Montale Vanille Absolu, a perfectly nice, unexceptional vanilla.
Hope the day is also nice pyramus.
Omg those bunnies are cute! I remembered my rabbits when I woke up and looked at the clock at 6. Here’s to good luck.🥂
It’s another gorgeous day here. This week has been perfect!🌞 All the sun is helping to fend off the sads I normally get leading up to taking my girl back to college.
I’m in Scandalwood today. Switched out my perfume tray yesterday in anticipation of the fall season. There. I said it.
In the current rotation: Vanille Insensee, Fleur de Peau, Tam Dao, 10 Corso Como, Scandalwood, Lea, Narciso Rodriguez EDT, VCA Bois d’Iris, Vanille 44, Chergui, Musc Ravageur, Over the Musk, Angelique Noire, Tonka Imperiale, and Feminite de Bois. 15 perfumes in 91 days gives me about 6 wears per perfume. In theory. I did this over the past 3 months with a different group of 15, and discovered that I probably could have spent the entire summer in Chanel Biarritz and no. 5 L’ Eau.
I applaud you for the switch. I don’t think I am capable of that!
I’m trying to be more methodical in my approach. Plus, I have so much between samples and decants, this forces me to use them all.
There. I said it. Lol!
We honestly could not have asked for better summer weather. Too bad we won’t remember it by Dec. 🌞🌷🐇
Lol, it is a four letter word after all!😂
I know, this weather has been so great. Trying to soak up the rays and store them for those long, gray days of winter.
You can absolutely remember it and I won’t judge you 🤣🤣🤣
This is a fun idea. I usually either wait for inspiration to hit me or look through my boxes of bottles. I will put some out and see how that rotation works.
It’s kind of fun to keep track and see what I truly love to wear and gravitate towards.
Lucy Kaas makes some fun things, I could have fun on that website with unlimited funds 🙂
Agree that those rabbits are ridiculously cute!
Trying Moon Bloom in the morning this time. Perfectly lovely but not causing swoons like it has been doing in the evenings. Last night I was thinking, ‘I trust this perfume the way I might trust a flower.’ I think it’s something about the ease of sauntering over to a nose-level blossom of an appropriate species that is leaning out a little into sidewalk space and, after a quick check for bees, just inhaling, fearless. Am I afraid of odors? Evidently. Deep down. Depending. I’ve never met a tuberose. From what I hear they’re not necessarily so straightforward to approach. But wow Moon Bloom is.
I have finally met a tuberose and it smells pretty much like I expected 🙂
Meanwhile you smell great today!
Each tuberose perfume I have smelled captures facets of the blooming plant. But the botanical is much more complex.
Wow, I don’t think I can even imagine.
September! Did my rabbits plus extra to go around for those who forgot or just need extra!
I was researching the notes in Hera, and started reading in depth about narcissus absolute (which I own and love) and rabbit hole! Ayala Moriel wrote a great article about it, and I suddenly remembered oh! I should wear her Etrog Oy de Cologne. So, I am!
You smell great, I really like that one.
Thanks, I really like it too. Plus thank you for reviewing it!
Thanks for the extra rabbits, I always forget and could use some good luck!
You’re welcome!
If you like narcissus, you should try Jeffrey Dame’s soliflore perfume oil. I am seriously considering the rollerball of it. 🌼
Oh yes, that one is seriously good! Thanks for reminding me – I need to hunt down my JD stuff.
Yay, I rabbited plus extra! And I hope it brings me luck with the package I mentioned yesterday that came almost all the way here and then took a detour to Salt Lake City for a couple of days. It now says delivered, but I don’t have it, so it wasn’t delivered here. Argh.
Wearing PG Bois Blond because it’s such a great September fragrance.
Oh drat! Hope the rabbits will get the package to you stat.
Ugh, that is frustrating! I hope it *really* gets delivered to you soon.
I’ve had a couple of things show up as delivered when they weren’t. But they did show up soon afterwards. I think it’s a software thing.
I will be wearing a heart monitor for the next 2 weeks because I have had a few dizzy spells. Thankfully it’s smaller than the last time I wore one. Since it’s visible, I am hoping it will somehow stop customers from being rude to me. Lol.. it won’t.
My sotd is L’ombre dans L’eau. I am trying to usher in Spring!
Oy! They won’t stop being rude but will ask 20 questions. I hope time flies by quickly.
So I was reading the NYTimes yesterday (note to self: see if I can get the online subscription rate close to $4 again). A woman who recently had surgery somewhere on her body that is bandaged may be exposed but could be hidden with the right clothes. She was wondering if she should expose it and wait for the inevitable questions or hide it. There was no answer because it was really up to her.
(Possible pay wall)
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/29/style/injury-bandage-work-attire.html
Yikes, lillyjo. I hope you get definitive results from the monitor data and a good plan of action! Take care, my friend. 😊
There was just a story in the paper here two days ago with a local chef who said he’s sick of ‘toxic’ customers. It’s everywhere, very unfortunately.😒
Echoing Nancyleandros, hope you get some answers from the heart monitor! I’ve done a few of those over the years, my favorite was the Zio patch because it didn’t have all the wires.
I hope the heart monitor is not too cumbersome. And so sorry to hear about rude customers. ☹️ We need more kindness and positivity in the world!
Hope all will be well, lillyjo – here’s hoping for lots of nice customers over the next two weeks!
Ooooooooooooof. I hope the time passes quickly for you with that heart monitor business. But you probably will have to hear a lotta nosy questions during that time.
I had my first ever EKG this summer. Weird experience, having all those electrodes stuck to various places.
I’m getting back into my regular school year routines, which means checking out NST on my lunch break!
I’m wearing Dame Vanille Farfelue today, which is great for Fall. I’m not sure how it will fare when I head back out into the heat this afternoon. I love summer, but I’m looking forward to some cozy perfumes and cool hikes.
Hope it is enjoyable to be back in a routine?
It is! I packed the summer with many projects and visits, which were great, but in the end…a little much. Hoping for a school year that provides more balance than panic.
Fingers crossed!
In a Whoops decant moment, I accidentally ended up spritzing Reglisse Noire versus the Vetiver Pour Elle I thought I was reaching for. Today RN just smells like the candy, although some other days it has more depth.
I’ve had plenty of those moments!
Happy Spring Day to me!!
Although,I grew up with Spring Day being Sept 21st,apparently in the city today is the day.
Amouage Lyric for a sunny warm day.I love it.(the weather and the perfume!)
My mood is lifting as the temperatures rise….
XO’s!!
🌹🌺🌷🌼💐
Happy Spring Day to you!
I think the 21st is still the official season change date. That means I still have 3 weeks of summer!🌞
Let’s remember always that we can enjoy this part of the year together,thousands of miles apart!🌺🌼❣️
You smell absolutely wonderful in Lyric. I look forward to wearing that one when it gets a little cooler!
It’s a gorgeous 🌹
Thank you!
Meteorological Autumn starts in the Northern Hemisphere on September 1, so that means meteorological Spring is starting in the Southern Hemisphere.
However, as Lillyjo pointed out, the equinoxes are later on in the month. End of the mini science lesson. 😉🤓
Thank you for being a science nerd, Jalapeno! 🙂
Forgot my rabbits — bolted straight out of bed to my office to check comments on a deck I’m pulling together on short notice.
SOTD so far is Caldrea Sea Salt Neroli, since I was spraying it on something in my closet after my shower.
I dreamt about perfume last night — dreamt I was in a high end department store somewhere and they had a ton of discovery sets, and I was so excited! Must have been inspired by Hajusuuri’s Instagram post yesterday with all the Vilhelm sample boxes!
LOL. Please email me when you get a chance via my username link.
Sampling Dame Black Flower Mexican Vanilla EDP over some Dionis Vanilla Bean cream today.
Many thanks for all the supportive comments for my sister-in-law yesterday. She is supposed to start AIM chemotherapy next week inpatient at a hospital next week for a 5 day chemo course then 3 weeks off and another treatment. I hadn’t realized there was inpatient chemo treatment actually but I googled and AIM treatment seems to the be the standard for advanced sarcoma.
Still feeling very sad today with some surging anger as well. 😉 Seems like a rather lot of bad (subjective word I know) things have happened in the last few years on all levels…personal, national, worldwide. 🙁
I don’t know if it will work for her but if there is a concern about losing hair, she could ask for a cold cap – not sure if it is during the chemo infusion only or pretty much throughout her in-patient stay. I hope she does well.
Thank you, hajusuuri!
She-ra, I am sorry to hear about your SiL. Best of health wishes to her. I hope you can find some ways to help you be less sad.
Thanks, lillyjo!..today I feel more anger than sadness but methinks it will all end w/ some perfume purchases. 😉
I agree there has been a long run of badness for the past few years. And listening to the news it doesn’t sound like we can expect any improvement soon. I’m trying to ignore it and feel happy anyway but it’s a challenge.
Thanks, cazaubon. I try to ignore it too but I am not a very good actress sadly. No Nicole Kidman here. 😉
You smell great today! Best of luck to your SIL.
Thank you, MTG!
Best of luck to your SIL. The treatments now for things like sarcoma and melanoma are so advanced compared to when I finished medical school. There is much more to be hopeful about.
Thank you, Sapphire. I have been googling dedifferentiated studies and am going to stop but they do indicate the AIM protocol can be effective. 🙂
It is harder to roll with the punches lately, for sure.
Sending stay strong wishes to you and SIL.
Thank you, Robin!
How do you like BFMV?
And yeah, there’s been a crappy run of years for many people I know that started back in 2016 or thereabouts.
I like it. I tried it in the oil but the EDP is quite different to my nose. I am not really an oil person at the end of the day even when I aspire to be. 😉 I feel like I can almost always smell the oil as distinct from the perfume if that makes sense. I get lovely citrus, cardamom and vanilla from the EDP. I have found all perfumes vanishing quickly on me this summer though and I guess it’s the heat aka global warming…it seems like all perfumes are burning right off me this summer. Have you tried BFMV?
I have a sample of the EdP but am waiting for cooler weather before I try it. Vanilla has become a “cold-weather only” note for me in the last few years.
I am so, so sorry to hear that, and just can only wish all the best to your SIL.
It is a lot…A LOT…to take in.
Thanks very much, ockeghem.♥️
I’m so sorry to hear about your SiL, She-ra. I agree, it has been a very difficult few years.
Thank you, Nancyleandros…it really has.♥️
I’m in the new-ish Goutal Eau d’Hadrien EDP this morning, testing my theory that I’ll like it better than the older EDT formulation (which I adore) as fall approaches. The theory is holding — I can feel autumn in the air … even though the daytime temperatures are still above 80f … and the woodiness in the EDP is increasingly noticeable.
I can feel autumn in the early morning light. Our days have been warming to almost 80 too, really perfect weather this week.
It’s been years since I sampled Eau de Hadrien, but I bet you smell great!
Yes…the sunlight is definitely at that fall angle.
The sky seems to turn a certain shade of blue when September rolls around even if the temps still feel like summer.
Thank you everyone for all your comforting and supportive words yesterday. I appreciate them immensely! Tomorrow has to be a better day!
Wearing Hermes Paprika Brasil on another beautiful
sunny, breezy almost end of summer day.
Coffee and a lentil wrap for a quick lunch.
Happy Thursday, everyone! 🌻
It has to be!🌷🐇🌻❤️🍫
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Things must get better! And you smell great. I should dig out my sample of Paprika Brasil.
Thank you, Sapphire.
It is a shame that Paprika Brasil was discontinued. Such beautiful and easy to wear scent!
I missed your post yesterday, sending you a big hug!
Thank you, Tulipani.🌻
Read very late yesterday, sending another hug your way pl67!🌻
Thank you, Madtowngirl 🌻
The weather at least has been freaking gorgeous the past couple of days, hasn’t it?
Beautiful weather! At least the humidity has been behaving!
That’s one thing I won’t miss: the summer muggies! 🥵
Sending you a big hug, M. I hope your Friday goes quickly and you can rest this weekend. 🤗
Thank you, NancyLeandros!. Looking forward to a quiet and peaceful weekend. 🌻
I’m testing samples. Yesterday I wore Cockatiel. I had high hopes for it, I love mimosa, and the bottles and juice are so pretty. It ended up a scrubber, too much guaiac wood for me. Today is 19-69 Kasbah, a sweet woody amber. Nice, but not FBW, though I am pretty sure I’ll finish the sample. 19-69 does make travel sizes if I change my mind.
I freaked out after reading your comments about Cockatiel as I ordered it blind – just ordered a sample so I can test it and return it unopened if it’s awful on me. I read such glowing reviews on Facebook I thought it would be safe, plus I love the packaging of the special edition. I should really know better by now not to blind buy.
I agree on Kasbah, pleasant but not FBW.
I was SO happy I ordered a sample first because from the notes it should have been a safe blind buy for me. But my success rate with blind buys is so bad I have learned to always sample first.
Darn! None of the Zoologist perfumes I tried worked for me, and this one sounded like it might.
Get a sample! Cockatiel is very odd, to my nose. It did smell just like a bird the first minute or two, but then it turned Band-Aid. Maybe you wouldn’t get that note.
Yes, a sample is in my Luckyscent wish list.
Sorry it was a scrubber.😷 That bottle and juice are very pretty.
Zoologist isn’t a house that works for me.
We are heading to friends’ place this afternoon for a boat ride followed by dinner. I made a peach tart to bring. https://www.instagram.com/p/Ch-UF99uCpF/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
The weather is stunning. Blue skies, low 80s.
Thinking Le Temps d’une Fête. Maybe Jour Ensolleille. Either way, I’ll smell as gorgeous as the weather. 😂
Forgot this. LOL. “Waft” by Barbara Dixon, aka Broadway Barbara.
https://www.tiktok.com/@broadwaybarbaraofficial/video/7136200490022473003?_r=1&_t=8VIdVQp8iEg&is_from_webapp=v1&item_id=7136200490022473003
Oh I adore Broadway Barbara!!
Haha!
Always a good chuckle!
Oh, enjoy! This weather is perfect for it!🌞
Both are excellent choices and you will smell (already smell?) fantastic!
Wearing the original Omnia today and waiting for my 2nd BUB to arrive. Can’t really complain about the weather in NW Arkansas. It’s staying in the 80’s and around 60 overnight. A little muggy, but could be a lot worse. I’ve been spoiling myself the past several weeks with locally grown peaches and nectarines from the farmers’ market. The orchard’s booth is transitioning over to locally grown apples soon. Fun fact–Arkansas used to be the biggest apple-growing state in the nation.
I did not know that fun fact. When I think apples, I think Washington state, although I think Minnesota has a lot of apples too…🤔
Wow, you never hear about apples being a major crop for Arkansas back in the day. I didn’t know that either. 🍎🍏
Started off testing 4 samples from the new line Hima Jomo at Indigo. Sadly all of them were not good on me. Had a wash and switched to Love Tuberose.
But: money saved!😁
True!
It’s 31 Rue Cambon EdP for me today. Looking away from heat of summer fragrances to maybe something a bit more transitional.
I should wear 31 RC sometime soon!
House twins today!
You smell wonderful – this one is on my FB list!
Started out with Issey Miyake Pleats Please L’Eau – love this one. Just light and easy. Very work friendly, imo. Found FB on fragrancenet for cheap. Worth it!
Now moved on to J-Scent Shaft of Light. Similar vein, a light pretty floral with a fresh linen and skin vibe. Hints of citrus in both. Will drain my sample and then maybe, maybe order a bottle.
Wow, the testers are dirt cheap!
Yay, I’m so pleased I remembered to rabbit this morning! To be honest, I only remember when I’m on my phone first thing and see something to remind me it’s the first of the month. It’s a terrible habit to always reach for the phone first thing in the morning.
SOTD sample of Lyric woman. Squeezing in a heady scent before it really heats up this weekend!
I leave my phone downstairs in the living room to avoid temptation. Then I don’t allow myself to touch it until after breakfast. If only I had that much willpower with my perfume purchases!
I did Lyric the other day! You smell fantastic.
In Keiko Mecheri Tuberose and thinking that the strong similarity to Tubéreuse Criminelle is probably not a coincidence:)
I am thinking the same 🙂
I remember thinking that Keiko Mecheri Myrrhe & Merveilles smelled remarkably like La Myrrhe! Also probably not a coincidence.
Rabbit rabbit! SOTD is still Chanel No. 19, but I wore Nicolai’s Musc Intense last night and it was still lingering this morning, so I ended up with a bit of a mix. Looking forward to Labor Day weekend and a leave from my job after that!
Whoo hoo!
Posting late today! I “rabbitted” at 12:11am this morning, after I finished a phone call with my brother. We shall see if the rabbits find this acceptable and good luck heads my way.
I got busy doing some of the things I had ignored yesterday, so today was productive. More cooking and cleaning will be in my future.
SOTD = more Box of Eels EdT. I still have half of my little dabber sample of this one.
It counts as long as you said it!
SOTD = The Harmonist Royal Earth
The Harmonist line doesn’t get mentioned here much so I am doing my best to spread the word. Royal Earth is a great iris!
I took a slightly later train today and would you believe I got to work EARLIER than when I took the train before (17 minutes earlier). Anyway, that’s mass transit for you.
I am working from home tomorrow because I have a feeling that since the weather will be nice, there will be a good number of train engineer / conductor callouts. Not only is there still a shortage, there are no consequences to this egregious behavior.
In the meantime, I have to figure out why my Apple Watch is not updating the weather for my area – it’s been stuck 75F Partly Cloudy, High of 90 and low of 75. I was astounded that the numbers seem very uniform day after day and then I realized they haven’t changed in the past few days. Oy!
Good call on WFH tomorrow!
Givenchy Eau de Givenchy
Such a good one!
SotD TF Noir. Solid like. Been very busy with home garden work. Great success this year with okra and tomatoes. Lima beans TBD; squash and hot peppers (red Datil) barely okay. We are about to be in a drought, but the temperatures are mild. Happy Friday Eve to all.
When we used to grow lima beans they were always very late, but DELICIOUS, never knew how good they were when they were that fresh.
Robin! Not sure you’ll see or respond to this late comment, but I just recently bought Y06-S. The thing is, I *loved* the spray sample I had of it but my bottle just doesn’t match up. Something about the synthetic top notes is a bit abrasive to me now, and I had so looked forward to the fb purchase because the banana-like ylang drydown is delicious. Do you love it?
I am extra late because having another beach weekend, but here I am!
I do love it. Possibility…set the bottle aside for a few months, maybe it will age into what you remember of your spray sample? I have had similar things happen with brand new bottles of various fragrances.