It’s Hump Day, National Espresso Day and Fibonacci Day. (Plus, Thanksgiving Eve aka Drinksgiving / Blackout Wednesday — be careful out there!) Birthdays: José Clemente Orozco, Harpo Marx, Bruce Hornsby. What fragrance are you wearing?
I'm in Lush Turmeric Latte: points since I won't pay the price for the full bottle, and props to the kind NSTer who sent me a decant of the body spray.
Reminder: on 11/25, pick your Black Friday poison...wear the last fragrance you bought, wear a cheap thrill, or wear a fragrance you love but refuse to buy in a full size because it's too expensive. (We've done this project several times.)
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 is November 2014 [cropped] by Carodean Road Designs at flickr; some rights reserved.
Good morning!!!
I was away on holiday for almost 2 weeks and pretty much stayed unplugged (much easier than I thought!). It feels good to be back here. Hope everyone is well and happy. ☺️
Sotd is TF Lost Cherry. Points since I also won’t be paying full price for a bottle I don’t think.
Tea is Marco Polo.
I hope you had a great holiday!
Welcome back!
Welcome back!
That is a long time unplugged, good for you! Hope you were someplace fun
GIVINGTHANKS2022 for 20% off on all 30ml Eau de Parfums at April Aromatics, Wednesday 23th- Monday 28th
Thanks, Robin! It helps to get the sale info in small bites.
I (we?) have been inundated with multiple emails on sales, some lasting for just a day – what do they think that I read all emails everyday constantly and have time to stop and buy immediately? 🤣
Bring on the sales!
Yes, I noticed that too – odd approach.
Hello! Jardin Sur le Nil for the win, today. I got an instagram notice from La Via del Profumo in Italy – 30 percent off everything. I’m not affiliated-I really enjoy his work.
Best regards,
Carole
You smell great!
And that is tempting, I really want a couple things from LVdP.
I’m taking more CP points for the last full bottle that I purchased, and for cheap thrills. I purchased this bottle for less than $20.00. I’m scented for fall in Basic Black, by Bill Blass. It was cheap as chips and I think it is a perfect fall fragrance.
Double bonus points!
I am wearing vintage Balmain Jolie Madame edt. We can say this was a cheap trill since I bought this at an estate sale years ago for maybe around 10$.
This is how heaven would smell like in my mind, so beautiful!!!
You smell fabulous.
Hello!
Not qualifying today because this bottle wasn’t particularly inexpensive, but I chose BVLGARI Eau Parfumee au The Vert from a giant splash bottle I found in my travels. It’s 350ml and came with a golf tee and three golf balls which made me laugh. It’s also an older bottle which was more interesting to me, a non-golfer.
The scent is as good as I remember. Though it suffers a bit by having been copied by every sort of bath and grooming product type, it has such a lively balance between rosiness and acidity. May it bring calm today.
Have a great day all!
You smell great!
Thank you! I’ve been enjoying it.
A golf/ perfume set???
It’s so wild. I literally laughed out loud. There are a few listed on eBay if you want a laugh; just search the perfume name and 350ml.
Oh, I found it. It looks like a nice set, but so funny to see golf balls and a tee paired with perfume. LOL 😂
I guess they were really pushing that “unisex” branding!
A golf “The” maybe? Too funny.
😆😆
Dead!!
Clever, but I am also groaning at the pun!
Lol!
Wearing Tabu, which definitely counts as a cheap thrill. Very cozy for winter.
One of my favorites, which I wear a lot on the weekends.
Thanks to all those who had their fingers crossed for me yesterday, because I signed the contract this morning. Whoop, whoop! Starting 12/19, I will be on the beach in a very small town at a very small hospital (25 beds!) and T-Rex will have endless beach runs for the next 3 months on a peninsula along the SW coast of Washington. The pay package had been recently increased, so that’s a big plus, too.
In celebration, I’m wearing Shalimar MT, my most recent purchase. Although I didn’t get it on sale, I think the regular Guerlain price for this quality is still a deal.
Hope everyone’s holiday preparations are going smoothly! 🦃
Congratulations, Deva!
Thank you! I will be SO happy to get out of this city!🌆🌃🏙
That sounds wonderful, T-Rex will be very happy
Congratulations !
That’s awesome, congrats!
Congratulations! I’m very happy for you, and envious as well — I remember losing myself in the dunes on one of those peninsulas about 50 years ago, on a multi-family camping trip populated by far too many boys. 😝
Oh, that’s wonderful! 3 months of winter beach walking is a lovely thing. And a smaller hospital also sounds like a nice respite.
Hooray for nurse Deva and T-Rex!
Congratulations, sounds wonderful!!
I’m so happy for you!
Congratulations, Deva! I’m so happy for you and T-Rex!
Yay! That sounds wonderful!
I wasn’t present to cross my fingers for you but very happy you got that contract.
Congratulations 🎈
That’s fantastic news! I’m so happy for you and T-Rex.
Congratulations! If it is close to Oregon,Astoria is a nice place to spend time in.
W00t w00t w00t for getting that contract!
Sounds perfect for you both! Congratulations!
Oh hooray!
That’s great news, Deva, and I’m sure they are lucky to get you!
I’m in Lubin’s Epidor, which is pairing perfectly with this gorgeous sunny late autumn morning.
For anyone traveling today, I hope you have a safe and smooth journey! My travels will be from the living room to the kitchen and into the backyard, repeatedly.
Smelling great! Hope your long distance travel plans are smooth sailing! 😀
Warming up a bit and the snow is melting in the sunshine. I chose Zoologist Cow for it’s simple and calming prettiness, and because it’s a travel spray, which is a perfect size and price.
Don’t you love those travel sprays? I didn’t want to spring for the FBs so I got travel sprays in Bee and Civet. I figured that would be enough of each over the winter. I love the size and they are very cute.
It’s 47 degrees here! I took my coat off. Lol.
Me too. I think we are supposed to get close to 50 today.
Hey, isn’t that shorts and T-shirt weather for you guys? 🤣😉
I did see a few walking it shorts. The highest temp I noticed today was 54 at our place.
No coupon code, but tons of stuff half off at Yves Rocher.
How about Luckyscent? Are they having any specials? Asking for a friend😊
I’m watching my emails carefully for a LS coupon!
Let me know if you see something please. I have a few things in my cart.
L’Occitane, 20% off full priced items with code FRIDAY, can’t find expiration date
You are on a roll, lol!
Thank you, I got some Holiday items with the 20% off.
I’m taking half a point in Profumum Alba. It is my most recent acquisition, so a full point … but it was Not Cheap (beyond my normal limit by a lot), so half a point deduction for that. 😆 Mr. G tried Costes last night and found it extremely intriguing.
I ❤️ Costes and ended up buying a FB. I have a split decant from someone here!
❤️
Might follow Robin and wear Turmeric Latte today which I bought blind and, thankfully, love.
For sales (I have no affiliations):
Osme Perfumery is 15% off w/ code GIVING15. Also they do not charge sales tax, to the best of my knowledge, unless you’re in FL where their store is.
Krystal Fragrance has a tiered discount of 10%-25% off depending on what you spend…no code necessary and they kicked it off early. They have more deals listed here https://krystalfragrance.com/pages/black-friday-sale
Hey twin, maybe!
Good morning everyone ☀️. I am wearing Creed Royal Mayfair today and currently drinking my 2nd cup of Shalimar tea.
Some day I will buy that tea!
No CP points for me today; wearing Tolu because I felt like grabbing something from my OJ discover set. I like it but don’t love it, and so am unlikely to buy a FB.
Good luck to everyone travelling today! My father was supposed to be coming in tomorrow for a late Thanksgiving dinner on Friday, but then discovered a couple of weeks ago that his passport expired. I’m kind of glad it’s off, to be honest, because there’s a bit less pressure to do every Thanksgiving thing, especially when we’d only be 4 people, so would never eat that much food, and it’s not a holiday ’round here.
So, sorry/not sorry your father couldn’t make it! We are a small group too but we’re going to eat all the food
Making pumpkin bars this morning in Chanel No. 5.
Yum… pumpkin bars!
I am not a pumpkin pie fan, but can eat bars.
Might as well be smelling fabulous while baking!
That’s what I thought 😊
Do tell more about the pumpkin bars!
It is a cake type consistency that has a can of pumpkin and many of the spices you see in pumpkin recipes with cream cheese frosting. Kind of reminds me of carrot cake, but done in a loaf pan so much thinner than a cake.
Sorry, I meant sheet pan. They are quite skinny bars.
I’m joining the spice train in Five O’Clock au Gingembre with a dash of Turmeric Latte, which sadly at $130 for 100mls is pretty much a cheap thrill nowadays, given escalating prices.
We are doing Thanksgiving on Friday due to work schedules, which gives me an extra day to bake.
What will you be baking?
Pies and buns.
Yum!
Inquiring minds want to know what your baking plans are!
Pumpkin & pecan pies plus buns.
Sounds lovely! Happy Thanksgiving, cazaubon!
That sounds delicious!!
I hope everyone celebrating Thanksgiving has a wonderful time, whatever you are doing. No points for me, I’m wearing Rose de Petra from SHL 777, not recent or cheap!
But a great scent nontheless!
I’m in Molecule 01. I’ve been using up samples lately, I need to get back to my full bottles.
My college daughter is on her way home today!🤩😍🥳 Can’t wait for all the snuggles (yes we still snuggle) and giggles. Counting the minutes til work is done. Hopefully this afternoon goes fast.
I still need to pick up a few things to complete our meal. I’ll be off work until Tuesday then since I took next Monday off. A nice long weekend. Looks like temps won’t be too bad. I’m hoping we can make it to the tree farm to get our tree while everyone is home. It’s getting harder and harder to do with everyone’s work and school schedules
Did I mention my daughter’s on her way home?😂
Hey will your daughter be coming home? 😉🤣
Enjoy the snuggles!
Hehe, thanks lillyjo!🤣
Is your daughter coming home this holiday?
I hope you have a fabulous time with her. Have a great extra long break!
Thanks sistine, I’ve been counting the days until she’s home!🤩
Hope it is a perfect Thanksgiving madtowngirl, and that you get your tree
Thanks Robin!😀
Wearing Orchidée Vanille so no CP points. An old decant, but I wanted something calming. Am working 1-7 at the market doing checkout, and I anticipate lots of big carts and craziness. What’s stressful is calling for additional customer service (baggers) because we are full service with folks taking bags to cars. Trying to gauge the need is not easy for me yet.
On a positive note, I had a nice chat with an old, dear friend today. I was her maid of honor and she was in my wedding. But she has been impossible to reach the past year or more. Made me very happy, and I only lightly admonished her for being out of touch.
Hope your shift is quick and painless! Smelling fabulous 😀
Yay for getting back in touch with an old friend!
Eau Duelle for the burial of my boyfriends mother. This was a nice choice, soothing and not too overwhelming. There was a nice service, the grandchildren carried the urn to the grave and the chapel was packed! She had 5 siblings, so there was a great family gathering. As my family is very small ( with grandnieces included we are 8 persons) this blew my mind. His dad coped very well with the situation, now we hope he does not loose his will to live, like many old couples do….
It is less sad if possible when many people attend, glad you were comfortable with the scent you chose.
What a nice turn out for what sounds like a lovely service. Hoping his father will not lose his joie de vivre…
How nice! Hope it was a comfort to your boyfriend and his father to see so much family.
Eau Duelle is a lovely scent. I’m glad the memorial service was well attended. Your boyfriend and his father are in my thoughts.
Listening to Pink Floyd (live 8 reunion) while drinking my smoothie.
I wanted something cheerful because we’ve been having lots of rain which compensates from the lack of it this summer, so it was the citrus and almond of Mandorlo di Sicilia during the day, and tonight, Angel Muse edt.
I hope you get some sunshine back soon!
Thank you Lillyjo, the sun played peekaboo today so it was much more bearable.
We have stolen your sunshine, sorry! Glad you had Pink Floyd to liven things up.
Glad you are enjoying some sun, it was sunny at times today so more bearable.
That 23minute video of PF on YouTube is great, they were in peak form.
I will try to send a bit of sun your way when I am done with it. 😉
😃 We did get sunnier weather today, hope it wasn’ stolen from you.
I finished off a decant of Myrrhe et Delires that I received in a swap here a while ago. It was so satisfying to finish it. Decants sitting on top of the perfume cabinet call to me to use them up but the bottles in the cabinet reproach me for not wearing them if I choose a decant. It’s a first world problem that I didn’t have when I had a “signature scent” but I wouldn’t want to limit myself to one thing these days. Maybe I’ll start wearing more than one scent a day.
Oftentimes I have an official sotd but will randomly spray something later. Even if it’s just one spray I feel like I am using something up.
Sotd is LADDM on a crisp, sunny day. We had a great time having breakfast with our nephew and seeing a somewhat rare Black Scoter (for the Seattle area). Now off to do some Thanksgiving grocery shopping😊
What is a Black Scoter? I’ve never heard of it.
I’m wondering too.
They are in the duck family and their coloring is similar to a Puffin. I love this description:
“Floats rather buoyantly on water, often with tail cocked up noticeably.”
https://www.audubon.org/field-guide/bird/black-scoter
Thank you, I was going to wonder about it all night
The great thing about too many sales is that I can never decide which is better, so I don’t buy anything for myself! But I do get tempted to buy more for others. I really love picking presents.
I’m back from a long slog with the flu, which I was sure was just a cold on Friday. I’m still not feeling normal; this one has been rough. This will be the last year I fail to make time for the flu shot. I’m in a little dab of Nicolai Poudre de Musc Intense, which I would have purchased already if I didn’t already own Musc Intense.
Happy Thanksgiving, all!
Glad you’re feeling better and you smell lovely!
Glad you’re feeling slightly better. You can still get the flu shot after you’ve recovered.
Glad you are on the mend!
I love picking out presents too.
So sorry!! There is tons of yuck going around.
Nice to hear that you are feeling better. I’ve heard that the strain of flu going around is a nasty one.
SOTD = Les Indemodables Vanille Havane
Nice, very nice!
https://www.instagram.com/p/ClUc7ZGO0_l/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
Almost $600 later … got all sorts of stuff done to my car and I’m getting away easy. It has low mileage (26,400 miles) for a 10 year old car which is not good because it means driving short distances. Anyway, since I was at the dealership, I looked around and of course, I asked one of the salespeople what an SUV with my specifications (color first!) would cost and he said … $38 – $40K. Holy moly! When I got my car, it was in the high 20s but I did not think cars would go up by that much! The dealerships win in any case because the longer I wait, the more expensive the cars become and the lower the trade-in value of my car.
I keep my cars forever. I never thought about how the dealer wins either way though. Dang it! Lol.
Of course they win in the end! I try to keep my cars for a minimum of 10 years, but have had this one for 13 and might go even longer since I can’t find a new car that I both want and can afford.
I drove my last car until it basically fell apart. After 204K miles, I’d say I got my money’s worth.
Haven’t replaced it, because I wasn’t sure what I wanted at the time.
Another gorgeous sunny late autumn day. Almost got up to 60 degrees here today, which is a welcome change from the cold snap earlier in the week. 🌞🌞🌞
Well, my plans for Black Friday have imploded. I no longer have a ride to the friends who were hosting Friendsgiving. Mass transit would require taking 2 buses and light rail and eat up around 2.5 to 3 hours one way. And the light rail is on a holiday schedule, which means even if I get to my friends’ place, there is no guarantee I will be able to get home.
Time for Plan B I guess.
SOTD = still in Eau Provocateur EdT.
That’s too bad Jalapeno.
The mass transit situation would give me too much stress.
I don’t mind taking mass transit in nice weather, and with a flexible schedule.
But it’s supposed to rain on Friday, too. Phooey. I did enough bus riding during bad weather in junior high and college that I am giving myself permission to skip that.
That’s too bad. What is Plan B?
Taking myself out for lunch or dinner on Friday. Or ordering pizza. I am leaning towards a non-pizza option.
Aw, that’s a bummer!
Yeah it sucks.
Oh shoot! Sorry Jalapeno.
Thanks Robin.
Just got a call from the Las Vegas Guerlain boutique- they have a few bottles of the Tonka Shalimar if anyone is still looking. I was on their waitlist but told them I no longer need a bottle. Hope one of y’all can nab it!
Nice, thanks eldora!
I am, shamefacedly, commando. There are traces of Narciso for Her (black rectangular bottle, not sure what its perfumista sobriquet is) on today’s sweater, but that’s it.
Baked the pecan pie, made the cranberry sauce, have the corn pudding in the oven right now. Drove with Mr. Skal to pick up our (half) turkey and discovered a new-to-him (and to me, but I didn’t grow up raising cattle) breed of very pretty, small cattle at the turkey farm: Irish Dexter. Also picked up a total of two-and-a-third cases of wine at two different wineries (we are club members at both, and at one, we had not yet picked up any this year’s allotment).
I’m exhausted! Now sitting with a cat in my lap and a glass of wine at hand. If I don’t post tomorrow, Happy Thanksgiving to all who celebrate it!
Happy Thanksgiving skalolazka! That is a long day. We made cranberry relish, roasted beets & carrots and a pumpkin flan (my favorite!) then went out and bought parker house rolls, pumpkin pie and bourbon pecan pie. The turkey is spatchcocked and ready to go in the oven tomorrow…
Never had corn pudding, but I had to look up some recipes online after reading your post. I might try making some over the weekend.
After reading meredifay’s comment from last night about her newer bottle of Mohur Extrait not having as much oomph was her older bottle, I decided to crack open my recently purchased bottle. I’ve almost finished my second decant of it from an older bottle from a generous NSTer, and I had continued using the decant even when I bought a bottle during a Luckyscent sale this spring. Phew, I’m happy to report that I’m still loving the juice from this year’s bottle. It may be a touch less potent, but I’m betting it’ll age well.
Good news! And would not be surprised if it deepens as it ages.
I’m sooo tired. I was up all night with my daughter and then went to work. I picked up Arby’s for dinner and am home now but still have to go back out to the grocery store.
Update on my missing package- it has finally started moving again and hopefully will be here Friday. 🤞 thanks to everyone for making me feel less anxious about it yesterday.
My sotd is Black Orchid from the purse stash this morning.
I haven’t read all the comments but in case it wasn’t mentioned… Dame Perfumery has a few awesome GWP going on. I don’t want to screw up the details but it’s worth checking out.
Wow, that’s a long day, lillyjo! Sorry you have to go back out. And that’s good news about your parcel! Hope you got the 40% off deal.
Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family!
Hope you get an excellent night’s sleep tonight, lillyjo.
Yay for your package news! I noticed that my latest order from Fragrance Net is using a shipping company I never heard of before. Wonder how that will affect transit time?
Sleep well tonight and yay for movement with your package.
25% off Serge Lutens (with some exceptions – Bell Jars, unfortunately)
Wow, excellent deal.
Because of COVID, I am lying in bed and reading a lot (I already finished the first Brother Cadfael and partway thru the second, also partway thru Bel Canto. And I also have The Newlyweds: Rearranging marriage in modern India). If I were well, I would be wearing my new very discounted bottle of Fendi Furiosa for the CP. But I can’t smell anything right now.
Mr SP is bravely tackling the Thanksgiving dinner prep even tho we won’t be able to host anyone; we still had that turkey thawing in the fridge, so… I think it is not all bad—will be eye opening for him to see the amount of work I usually put in!
Hope everyone who celebrates has a great Thanksgiving tomorrow!
Best of luck to Mr. SP with wrangling the Thanksgiving dinner!
Sampling Chokedee today. This has a sort of toasted rice and pandan scent with a hint of banana and is just an easy-going tropical scent. I might get a bottle of this since it’s not really similiar to anything else I own.
Today is prepping for the slow cooker turkey mole. Seeding the 3 kinds of chiles and roasting and grinding them with almonds, sesame seeds and peanuts, toasting the chiles and grinding them and also grinding some of the other spices So grateful that I don’t have to do all the grinding by hand.