It's Hump Day and National Cream Filled Donut Day. Don't forget the swapmeet is coming up this weekend! Birthdays: Charles Dana Gibson, Geraldine Brooks, Amy Winehouse. RIP Ramsey Lewis and Jean-Luc Godard. What fragrance are you wearing?
I am feeling more human today so I'm definitely on the mend, but still no real desire to wear perfume. I'm guessing I'll sit this week out.
Reminder: on 9/16, wear a fragrance by Etat Libre d'Orange. Suggested by Oakland Fresca and seconded by MadtownGirl, AnnE and Kris.
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: top image shows a Dunkin' Vanilla Latte ("coffee donut filled with Bavarian cream and topped with white chocolate").
Glad to hear you are feeling better, Robin!
Wearing AdV Copal Azur.
On my second cup of coffee and a couple of pumpkin cranberry crisps.
Happy Wednesday! 🌻
You smell fab!
Thank you!
Thanks, and you do smell great!
Thank you!
What exactly is a pumpkin raspberry crisp?
Very thin, small toasts.
I’m wearing Nahema edp, which is my third rose this week. Robin, I’m glad you’re feeling better. I do understand the lack of interest in wearing fragrance when you’re sick. When I’m sick I can’t even stand scented body wash or soap.
You smell wonderful!
Seconding this — Nahema is lovely.
Yes, exactly! The smell of a new conditioner yesterday was so strong it was unbearable and I had to wash my hair again.
I’m glad you are feeling better, Robin.
Wearing Imaginary Authors Slow Explosions on this cool fall morning. We’re expected to have high temps in the 90s by the weekend, boo. I’ve really been enjoying this taste of fall.
If anyone is a Mrs Meyers fan, their new scent, Fall Leaves, is really good. Just FYI 😊
I 💯 % agree with your comment on Fall Leaves!
Oh good, will take a look at Fall Leaves.
Oh, I need to find that Fall Leaves. What store do you buy it at?
I order from the Mrs Meyers website.
I got mine at Target.
Fall Leaves might be more my thing that the Mrs. Meyers Mint is.
ELdO 500 Years today, a chocolate rose with Oud that smells like leather to me. A little much for work when I first sprayed, but it’s calmed considerably.
This school year is definitely off to a better start, but I think it might take me years to redefine what teaching means after living through the past few years. I’m sure many professions are experiencing the same.
I’m glad your school year is off to a better start! The past few years have been…a lot.
Thank you! Yes—a lot for everyone I’m so many ways!
Better is better, right? But hope things settle into something you’re happy with.
That’s the logic I’m trying to hang on to: better is better. Also perfume helps.
My wish is that your year keeps going well, and is far easier than the last few!
Thanks, Sistine! How is your first No-school school year going?
OK. It’s very odd not being in the classroom. But I’m taking classes and helping my father-in-law, so I haven’t really had time to miss the routine.
Good to hear that this new school year for you has started off better than previous ones.
Good morning.
Sotd is Shalimar MVP.
Cream filled donut, yummm. I think the last time I had a donut was probably over 6 months ago.
Currently drinking rooibos with honey.
Speaking of yum, you smell great!
I cannot remember my last donut…I would have marked the occasion if I’d have known 😉
But why have you not had a doughnut in so long? I feel you should fix that!
As I have aged, I have had to give up more food groups in order to keep my weight down and my joints happy. I can still eat my most favorite foods, and I do allow myself a cheat now and again, but I am very specific about my cheats (not only what they are, but where I get them…best if there are no cheats available in my town, for instance, because then I would cheat too often).
It is all good and I get chocolate every day and ice cream nearly every day, so no complaints here…if they come for my ice cream, I will give up the joints and weight 🙂
Whaaattt….I have AT LEAST twice-weekly donuts!
NY cheesecake from Krispy Kreme,thank you very much!Haha!
That one looks darned good.
I’m in 2 more ELdO scents today. Like This on the left wrist and Fat Electrician on the right. I like them both.
Today is my youngest’s birthday. She is 17.🥺 How did that happen? I blinked, we had a pandemic, and she grew up. I don’t have Facebook, but every now and then my iPhone gives me a ‘you have a new memory’ message with photos. This morning it was a slideshow with music from this day in 2018. Yeah, I had to fight back the tears. She has changed so much. Still my bookworm though! One of her gifts is a book that Kanuka recommended: Hudson Bay Bound. I think she will enjoy it. On our trip to IKEA a couple of weeks ago, we got her a new “Billy” bookcase for her room that goes almost to the ceiling. After we put it together she said to me “I’ll be sad when I leave for college and can’t take all my books with me.” ❤️ that girl.
That is so sweet, it is nice to hear that kids still like physical books too!
She is such a voracious reader that we have a hard time keeping books on hand that she hasn’t read. Thank gosh for the library!
Awww. Happy birthday to your bookworm!
Thanks sistine!☺️
I literally remember feeling that way about my books!!
Kindred spirits!😉 It was with the Harry Potter series that began her love of books. She read the entire series the summer that she was 8! (almost 9) I thought nothing of it at the time, but in hindsight that’s pretty good. It would take me all year!
Good for her!
I think my serious love of reading started with the Anne of Green Gables series.
And no need to tell her yet, but some day long after she has kids of her own, she’ll have to start to worry about how she will get rid of all those books, LOL…in fact, I should just send her all my books now 😉
Happy Birthday to madtownteen! Hope that she is enjoying it. 🎂🎁📖
Thanks Jalapeño!😊
A girl after my own heart. 🙂 Happy birthday to her!
☺️Thanks cazaubon!
Aww, she sounds awesome! My second year of college, I moved into an apartment, and my grandfather built me a bookcase so I COULD take all my books with me.
Aww, happy birthday to madtownteen 🙂
That donut does look good. Today I’m wearing Mackie by Bob Mackie, a tuberose and fruit bomb that I grabbed on a whim and actually really like, for all that it does go through an odd stage of smelling just like a dryer sheet.
Oh, you smell great, I like Mackie very much and have a bottle, very eighties perfume to my nose.
Taking double points (ELDO and Rose) in ELDO Eau de Protection Rossy de Palma.
Deliciously delectably double protection!!!🌹🌹✌🏻
🌹🤞🌹
Demeter Dulce de Leche. Bit of cheap fun, nothing wrong with that.
Nope.
SOTM is Soivohle Journeyman, a rare successful impulse blind-buy made after hearing that Liz Zorn is phasing out her “modern” line.
Yay for success!
Loving the cooler weather today. I’m celebrating the imminent arrival of fall with SL Chêne.
Oh, perfect choice.
I’m steadfastly refusing to believe that autumn is coming. It’s still summer in my heart, cooler weather be damned.
It definitely smells like and feels like fall at night here.
Trying the not-so-new Billie Eilish perfume today. I would describe the opening as shampoo vanilla and will see how it develops. 🙂
Robin, happy to hear you are starting to feel better.
I’ve tried that when I’ve been in Ulta and like it!
Funnily enough I don’t hate the bottle!!
Thank you!
My scent of the day *was going to be* a new Goutal acquisition but the bottle arrived shattered in a gazillion pieces, so the the SOTD for my apartment is Heure Exquise. Seriously, my place smells glorious.
Couldn’t help but notice the brand returned to the women’s classic ribbed bottles recently. There must have been a dip in sales and outrage from their clients over their discontinuation and replacement, so now they’re back.
Enjoy this day, scented peeps! And hi, Robin!!! 🙂
Oh then it smells very elegant in your home, sorry you received a broken bottle, yay for the return of the romantic-looking bottles.
Oh no! What a disappointment.
Oh, I just tweeted an image of the bottles earlier today! Anyone who is curious can find the link on the sidebar.
Wish they’d put Annick’s name back too!
But so sorry yours arrived smashed, hope another is on the way.
That’s a shame your new perfume bottle arrived in a million pieces.
Like several others I am enjoying slightly cooler temperatures and my SOTD is Ta’if, which never disappoints.
I have absolutely no ELDO scents in my collection and have not kept even the odd sample I’ve come across. Go figure.
Robin, I’m glad you’re on the mend!
Thank you, and you smell fantastic!
I have no scents for todays category. Oh well. I’m visiting a friend in the hospital, so I’m wearing CJ Scents Goddess of Dreams. Soft, comforting, nothing to jangle anyones nerves. She had surgery yesterday and is up for a visit today. She’s requested a chocolate malt so she must be feeling better 😉.
I hope her recovery is quick and smooth! Man, I would love a chocolate malt.
Ha, so would I.
I arrived with hot fudge malts for each of us, with extra malt powder and a new sudoku book. She was thrilled and the nurse was jealous. She gets out tomorrow morning, yay!
Weird surgery…her arm was broken as a toddler in a car accident. It never healed straight, her forearm was curved. As she got older, the curve worsened and has been causing her pain. So they had to re-break her arm, cut and reshape bone, insert pins. Besides healing bone she needs some physical therapy to prevent nerve damage. Astonishing what they can do! She lamented today she should have done this a decade ago, but at least it’s done.
Ouch ouch!! So glad it’s done and I hope her physical therapy goes well.
I’m in a dab of Monyette Paris on one arm, and a dab of Lubin’s Grisette on the other. I’m enjoying Monyette Paris much more than I expected, and I believe if I want to really explore Grisette, I’m going to need a decant. Dabs don’t get it with this one.
Had the Covid booster yesterday, so today is a quiet day.
I can’t believe I missed last week’s community project – I like a good hay note. I will have to backtrack to see what came up!
Yay for the booster, even if it knocks you out for a day!
Glad you are better Robin!
Still in my iris week. Today I am testing Vivacious by Hiram Green. I can already tell I am going to like this perfume house. However, this came on as a BWF like tuberose on me and not as much iris. I still like it. Can hardly wait to test Moon Bloom as I love tuberose. I see some have compared Vivacious to L’Heure Bleue, but I have not tried that. Are they similar?
Moon Bloom is still my favorite HG 🙂
I didn’t like Vivacious but I do like LHB. YMMV of course.
YMMV? Not for sure what that is.
Your mileage may vary
Thought so, but just checking.
Hey Kris, please email me when you can. Click on my username to get my email address!
I emailed you just now.
Trying BDK Gris Charnel. I don’t love it, I don’t hate it, I go in and out of even thinking anything about it. Might just not be for me 🙂
You smell fabulous!
Yay for feeling better Robin.
28C low humidity, never any in Provence except when it rains, it rained this morning for a couple of hours, much needed.
More duty-free memories, I tested Moschino Toy Two Bubblegum, it’s very much a ‘novelty’ perfume, the bottle, the color. Received a compliment on it from a fellow traveller, so kind of her to tell me.
Just from the name it ought to be a novelty, right? Are you buying perfume while you’re there?
Oh yes, it smells alright but it’s not my thing to smell so sweet. I resisted duty-free and where I am it’s a little town, although there is a Marionnaud Perfumery, it’s the only one.
National Cream Filled Donut Day!!! This is the day for me.
PoaL today. Back to work after a day spent in brain fug and full-body soreness from the bivalent Covid booster. I’ve still never gotten Covid (afaik), and hopefully this booster will help keep it that way!
Glad you’re on the mend, Robin 🙂
Go ahead and don’t ever get it, that’s my advice. Several people told me it was just like the flu, no big deal, and that is about how it was for my husband, but boy not for me. A day of soreness & brain fog is well worth it.
I need to go get a shingles shot soon too, and am expecting a day of general misery from that.
Oof! I’m so sorry it was so much worse for you. And best wishes for your shingles shot. I only just learned what shingles actually is (there was a pamphlet in the vaccine waiting room), and now I am totally terrified and wondering if I can get my shingles shot at the age of 35. (The pamphlet said I have to wait until I’m 50, but I have always been a bit of an overachiever.)
No, you must wait…you’re not likely to get it at your age, and I don’t think the immunity from the shot lasts that long. So you want to wait, and indeed I have waited even longer, despite my mom having had shingles twice.
And in case any other oldsters have been procrastinating like me, the chance of shingles apparently rises for about 6 months after you’ve had covid (presumably because your immune system is plumb worn out).
Yesterday, something went wrong with a pipe in a second story bathroom. Good thing that it was caught real quick. The pipe was fixed and the guy said that a little section of pipe wasn’t done right when the house was built. We have all of these de humidifier things going so things can dry out. Whoever came out was telling us about a couple who lived overseas for 8 month out of the year came back to find that their multimillion dollar house had flooded while they were gone. That must have been a huge mess. Wearing Pleasures right now.
Oh noooo…. That is my fear every time we go away for more than a day.
So glad it was caught quickly!
That’s why we turn the water off when we go away. You can also install a device called a water cop that will automatically shut the water off if it detects a leak. Well worth the trouble.
Those industrial strength de-humidifiers do their job well, but they make an incredible racket! Good news that your leak was caught early.
That donut. You know, we have a donut shop about a mile from our house, and I pass it with longing all the time. Honestly, those 11 simple words nearly move me to tears: “coffee donut filled with Bavarian cream and topped with white chocolate.” Sigh.
Woke up this morning craving Mure et Musc (extreme), a perfume I have fallen a little out of love with. But today, it plus Yves Rocher’s Lavandin et a la Mure hair mist scratched my blackberry fruit salad itch.
I am very seriously thinking of getting in the car to get that donut.
I am trying not to think of getting into the car . . .
You guys are cracking me up. If someone gets that donut, do report back, I want to know if it is actually delicious.
I’m a Krispy Kreme fan myself, but can’t even remember what year it was the last time I had one. They also have better photography than Dunkin, and if I’d not been so tired this morning I would have found this first:
https://www.krispykreme.com/menu/doughnuts/double-dark-chocolate
Ooh! This doughnut I’ve had! It’s good, though I would prefer Bavarian cream.
Oddly enough we watched an episode of The Bear tonight that had a donut sub-plot, so my husband and I were talking about Krispy Kreme, the plain chocolate glazed. It is a good thing I have no access 😉
Very few perfumes do not work on my skin or turn to “bugspray” on me….unfortunately this one does.GORGEOUS on a blotter,vile on my skin!
Enjoy!!✌🏻🌹😉
Talking about mure et musc extreme,that is!
I can understand that. I luurved it when I purchased it, but now it is generally too screechy for me. It is an interesting scent more than a beautiful scent, I think. But then there’s me wanting to be interesting this morning. 😉 Pass me the maple syrup and lime zest, and I am a fruit salad extravaganza.
I also purchased on impulse,from a fellow perfumista who downscaled her collection.
How I wish it was gorgeous ON me!!(somehow works on clothing,so that’s Plan B)
The doughnut shop that used to be 1 mi from my house is now 2.5 mi (I moved). I think this is a good thing. This means I need to walk 5 mi to get a doughnut instead of 2. If it’s not prohibitive, at least I will have worked for the doughnut, right?
Rooted around in my drawer of shame where neglected perfumes go, and came up with La Panthere. I am liking it more than I remembered, and realized between this one and L’Envol that I like Cartier and they have some really fantastic bottles! I may have to explore more from this house.
Also kind of kicking myself for giving away my eldo sample set. It would have come in handy for the cp and I remember liking Like This and would like to try it again…
Cartier arguably does the best bottles of any designer or jewelry brand? (Too tired to think it through, but many of their bottles are gorgeous, and just feel nice in the hand)
CP compliant today with 500 years. As Irisjasmine said, it could be a bit much for work in the first few minutes, but it will have settled by the time I walk there.
I’m interviewing for a new team member today, so hope I don’t overwhelm anyone in a small room.
Hope it faded to acceptable levels in time 🙂
I wore Rossy de Palma this morning for the CP. It made me crave Tauer roses, so after my shower I switched to Phi de Rose de Kandahar. Swoon. I smell gorgeous.
I really want donuts now.
What a beautiful smelling day you’ve had so far🌹
I’m with you on the donuts. You smell great!
I love Rossy de Palma. I have a sample of that Tauer one I plan to try soon. Thanks for reminding me!
You do smell gorgeous, sistine!
SOTD!
Tom of Finland.A leather I enjoy immensely!!NOT work-appropriate,but I wore six(6!!) sprays to work today.
You only live once,hey?
XO’s🌹✌🏻
And yes to better health,Robin!🌹🌹🤗
I remember giving away my bottle …
I was put off by the name, but I like leather perfumes. Maybe I should give it a try?
Yay, Robin, glad you are starting to feel a bit better.
I started the day in ELdO Cologne, which I remember not liking and still do not like. I think it’s the orange blossom. Post-shower, am in Fils de Dieu, which I like — and, as with Dangerous Complicity, will happily use up the sample but probably not want a FB.
Mr. Skal is still quarantining and feeling bad; I am still symptom-free and testing negative. Continuing to cross fingers on that one!
I didn’t like ELdO Cologne either.
Oh yay…keep those fingers crossed!
Glad you have many comforts & distractions. It’s finally cool enough in Los Angeles to wear Replica By the Fireplace. Though not to use an actual fireplace.
LOL same here in San Diego. I’m looking forward to fall/winter when I can actually use my fireplace.
Yay for feeling closer to human today, Robin!
Too bad Krispy Kreme isn’t closer to where I live. 😋🍩
SOTD = ELdO Spice Must Flow EdP, from the sample stash. Someone here mentioned it yesterday, and reminded me that I have a sample of it. It’s a woody, slightly spicy rose on me. Definitely could be worn by anyone who likes rose perfumes. 🌹
You sound like you are enjoying the ELDO project!
I rather like the samples I have unearthed for it, but nothing has been FBW so far this week.
So I was unsuccessfully cruising the mall trying to find a store with a Tom Ford Lavender Extreme tester. Stumbled across the new MFK 724 tester. OMG it was awful. Intense headache-inducing white laundry musks and Tide soap fumes. Rushed home to scrub it off asap. Do not recommend.
Oh my, that sounds pretty bad! I hope you were able to wash it off!
Ew! No no no no no no!
Same here. I tried MFK 724 yesterday. The description sounded good but did not live up to it. I was sorry I gave it the primer real estate of my left wrist when I could have tested something else.
But I am sure I will find others to love.
Thank you…figured I would not like it since I really don’t like most of the line, but good to have confirmation.
I didn’t like it either!
SOTD = Frederic Malle Superstitious
Soapy, dirty, animalic … w00t!
https://www.instagram.com/p/CigRe2LugRa/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
In other news…I have done my 3 days in the office so will be WFH for the rest of the week. I know the potential railroad union strikes are unlikely to affect NJ Transit but I don’t want to risk it on Friday because there could be a sympathy strike. Who knows, I hope I’m wrong!
Definitely get aldehydes with that perfume!
I’m a Krispy Kreme fan too. Unfortunately, they didn’t stay open where I live. Not sure why. They seemed busy enough.
How did this get here??? It was supposed to go under Robin’s post on being a fan of Krispy Kreme. Oh, well.
It’s ok, Krispy Kreme has a way of popping up just when you thought you could forget about it 😉
I planned on wearing Fils de Dieu but ended up in Knowing instead. I was looking for the white box, and ended up grabbing the wrong one. Knowing ended up being a good choice for this cool day.
And yes, I’d love a donut! I remember a KK cinnamon bun donut that was exquisite!
Robin, I’m glad you are feeling better!
Yes, looks like they have some sort of Churro / donut mash up thing…
I wore a sample of Liis Floating. Nice but I have a lot of similar scents.
Starting my vacation officially, after I got some pesky work out of the way. Did errands and cleaning but also took a walk. Beautiful sunny day.
Yay for the start of vacation!