It’s Tuesday and National Peanut Butter Day. There are 55 days of winter left to go. Birthdays: Edith Wharton, Neil Diamond, Aaron Neville, John Belushi. What fragrance are you wearing?
I'm commando for an acupuncture appointment, and I'll pick something when I get back.
Reminder: on 1/27, wear a fragrance by Narciso Rodriguez, if you have one.
And for those of you who like to plan ahead, see Scent of the day ~ Friday community projects 2023, where I'll try (but obviously sometimes fail) to always have the next five or six weeks mapped out in advance.
Note: the Gokvalla teapot from Ikea ("Pour your hot beverage in style and make the moment together feel extra festive. This decorative teapot with light-blue decor is part of the GOKVÄLLÅ collection that also has matching kava cups") is $28.
Snowstorm yesterday and more coming Thursday morning, followed by a *lot* of rain, so that’ll be fun. I’m temporarily forgetting the outside world exists in a warm cocoon of SL Un Bois Vanille.
Nice teapot, and what a bargain.
Oof, rain on top of snow, what a slippery mess.
Ugh. We have had so little snow (never more than a flurry or two).
Mmm you smell great. Just forget about the outside world for as long as you can!
I’m in full winter mode, it’s supposed to snow tomorrow, finally. So today it’s Patchouli Antique while I go get coffee and cat food. It’s truly mind-boggling how pricey pet food is now! Floofy Larry is worth it tho.
I don’t even have a pet and I’ve noticed the hike in pet food!
Pet food has gotten ridiculous and I have 2 dogs.
Your references to your cat always make me smile. When I was newly single, I dated a series of Larrys. My family started numbering them when I got to the third one (“was that Larry Number Two or Larry Number Three?”). 😂 Number Four was alternately the best and worst of them (and also the last of them), but he was also the one that my own cat loved the most, hence my smiles.
I love that SherG! Thanks for sharing! Wonder how the planets were aligned to provide all those Larrys?
Weird, right? One more story: Larry Number Four and I went to a block party in his neighborhood and randomly sat down at a picnic table with four other people and introduced ourselves. The other four people introduced themselves, of course, and their names were (I kid you not) Barry, Mary, Gary and Jerry. We almost died laughing.
I recently spent $2.50 a can on wet food for Teflon and Spooky. And it was the small cans, too.
Love that tea pot
Drinking Bois Cherie 🫖
Eau d’ Hadrein
Reading the Sound of Waves by Mishima
https://bowdoinorient.com/2021/10/22/snow-country-review-love-in-a-wasteland/
Have you ever read Snow Country( Kawabata)? You might like it, especially after reading Winter in Sokcho. Also short, spare, similar setting.
I haven’t! I will see if my local branch has it.
Book recommendations are always welcomed! Thank you Kanuka
Ok-I found that book…
I think it influenced Sebastian Faulks recent novel, Snow Country
ok! I think you and I could talk about books and perfumes for hours… 🙂
Nice rec. Love Kawabata. Thousand Cranes has always been my favorite. And a few months ago I picked up a copy of the wonderful and tragic Palm of the Hand Stories. (All in translation, I should acknowledge.)
Just in case you didn’t see this on the weekend poll, I’m happy to send you the Francesca Bianchi sample set that hajusuuri mentioned. Shoot me an email at my NST username at gmail if you’d like it!
Thank you so much for offering. ♥️ I have tried one of her samples in the past, and it wasn’t for me.
Totally understand!
Wearing some Estee Lauder Pleasures today. Had over $400 worth of rewards at Ulta and used $250 of them on another bottle of Pleasures and no 5 edt and a couple lipsticks.
Wow, that’s awesome!
So fun! Congrats on your bounty!
How fun, Dawn! Enjoy.
Lucky you! Our Ultas here don’t carry the Chanels. I was just in there on Sunday and checked. Sounds like you took in quite the haul. Good for you!
The online stores have some Chanels but it’s a crap shoot for the stores.
Wow, that’s a lot of rewards! Have fun shopping!
Nicely done with your rewards!
Congratulations on the goodies.
Sweet deal!! enjoy every bit!
What a haul! 🤩
I also love that teapot, and compared to some others featured on Tuesdays it is cheap as chips. I’m in another of my Rogue Discovery Set, Derviche. Too much vanilla for me, but it certainly works for cooler weather. I will say that so far, all of the Rogue fragrances would work better in cold weather, no spring or summer scents so far.
I mentioned yesterday that I purchased one of their tuberose scents. I am wearing it this winter so maybe a lot of the fragrances at Rogue work best in cooler weather. Not sure since I have only sampled two of them.
The tea cups / tumblers are quite cute too.
It’s a hard cold day here-waves crashing in the ocean, and the water is really green and choppy. Wearing Le Lion, and my heaviest sweaters 🙂
Sounds so atmospheric and you smell wonderful.
🙂 thank you !
I’d love to be there right now. And seconding allo that you smell wonderful.
“A hard cold day” sounds like a good excuse to stay indoors!
Lovely teapot and nice price!
I’m wearing Bvlgari Omnia today from that poorly designed bottle that spits and drips. I keep thinking of getting a BUB of this before prices skyrocket as it becomes less accessible…..
That’s a nice scent. I have not worn it for years, but I notice a lot of people do on this site.
I love Omnia , beautiful perfume
I can’t believe I still haven’t tried Omnia. I should see if there’s a cheap mini I can snag from eBay.
Omnia always reminds me of you, that spray is rather a pain🥲
I think that I am partly anosmic to Omnia. I get a lovely tangerine top note, then a bit of spicy soap and that’s it. A very quiet and reserved scent on me.
Happy Tuesday. I’m having an incense day. On the back of one hand I have Tam Dao (old mountain temple). On the back of the other, Kyoto (old box of memories in attic). In the crease of one elbow I have Ummagumma (chocolate incense) and in the crease of the other, Encens Suave (vanilla incense). Of course, those are very brief descriptors, there is much more to all of them. And I like them all!
Reading The Blue Castle, hat tip to ringthing and just finished Winter in Sokcho, hat tip to ltsg!
Funny, I never think of Tam Dao as an incense fragrance — will pay more attention next time I wear it.
Same.
Maybe I’m wrong! That’s just how I think of it.
Sandalwood incense can be fabulous!
Me too.
Tam Dao is woody but not incense to my nose.
As another incense lover, your incense choices sound wonderful!
Incense twins today! I love the ones you chose.
Incense lovers, do incense scents sometimes smell soapy to you? Not all of them, but I’m thinking more of the churchy ones like Avignon, La Liturgie des Heures, maybe Bois d’Encens…. I’m trying to figure out what note they contain that makes me think of soap.
I do think frankincense sometimes smells sharply soapy. But maybe that’s just my nose!
I agree with you. Frankincense can read as soapy and clean sometimes.
Thanks for chiming in springpansy and therabbitsflower! I’m relieved to know it’s not just my nose.
How did you like the book?
I did like it very much. I wanted it to end a bit differently, but oh well.
Me too 😇
I tried Ummagumma recently but only for an hour before a shower. Really liked it but need to see how it plays out. Chocolate incense didn’t sound to me like it would work but I think it will. Glad to be reminded of it!
Sounds like a very good smelling day!
You smell so wonderful in all of that beautiful incense😊
Which Kyoto perfume were you wearing? The Diptyque, or the CdG?
CdG!
It’s a little confusing now that there are 2 Kyoto perfumes.
Hmm…55 days of winter sounds doable and horrible at the same time.
I’m wearing Providence Perfume Irisque again today. I really like it, but by midday I do have to smash my wrist to my face to remember what it is.
Agree…18 days is how many I can stand 🙂
How specific! I could definitely do 18. I hope the universe is listening.
We have people coming early today so I had to set an alarm (unusual in these post-retirement times), and I was so deeply asleep when the alarm went off that it completely discombobulated me. As a result, I needed something light and pretty and soothing to scent my morning, and I chose Iroaz. It’s working well — I’m feeling much more grounded now.
Hope you get to sleep in tomorrow SheriG!
Me too!
I tend to be in a light sleep state around 4am then fall back into the deep sleep state just about the time my alarm goes off, so I feel ya. Tomorrow will be back to no alarm again though?😀👍🏻
Ack, that’s the worst! Yes, it’s back to sleeping in tomorrow … not that I ever make it past about 7. But at least no jolting alarm clock!
I find it so disruptive when life doesn’t respect my retirement schedule!
Yikes! I am so close to a retiremement schedule.
Think I am closing in on a six month project that will take me to Labor Day and then we go to Africa.
Perfect if it works out. Fingers crossed.
SOTD is Awake by Akro.
🤣
Blargh! Rough start to your day. Why were people showing up at an uncivilized hour today?
Well, it was my house cleaner, so while the hour was uncivilized, overall I can live with it. 😂
SOTD is Chanel No 5 EdT.
Please slap me upside the head as I said no buying this year except for samples and I have already failed miserably. I have purchased two travel sprays and two FBs and it isn’t even February yet.
Aw, but it’s ALMOST February! And really, there are no failures in life, just learning experiences right?☺️ So now you have learned that a no buy is an unrealistic goal.😉
You got that right!
*slap*
(But hope you got lovely things!)
Two travel sprays (back up) from Zoologist, FB Chanel No 5 Edt and FB VC & A Bois d’Iris. I think they are lovely.
I’m glad you’re enjoying your new purchases-no slapping. But what is the Bois d’Iris like-there’s some left at the discounters, and I’m tempted. Some of the hideously priced serge Lutens scents too-I’m tempted by those, too 🙂
First of all, I am terrible at describing perfumes, but many on here wear it so maybe someone else will chime in. If you like iris scents then you will most likely enjoy it. It was a blind buy for me and I am so glad I bought it. I find it to be mostly Iris and maybe woody with some powder too. It is very soft and would be office friendly. I think it is close to the skin and doesn’t project a lot, but enough. Any others care to comment?
I recommend the VCA B’I. It’s woody iris with a touch of vanilla, not really sweet, but just enough to soften it a bit.
Congratulations !
Thanks.
There’s always next month to start afresh, meanwhile enjoy your new lovelies. I’m on a low buy but didn’t set an exact number as I felt bound to fail.
Yes, I should have know my goal wouldn’t last😊
I feel your perfume resolution pain! Hoping that I will be able to stick to mine this year.
We’re getting a new prime minister today as Jacinda Ardern resigned last week. I don’t know if she wears perfume ( but I imagine something that would link with the sea, maybe sea salt and wood sage). From an early Vogue interview I know she listened to Fleetwood Mac Gypsy so I’m wearing Smell Bent Gypsy today in her honour,.
Wow, I knew she resigned last week — lots of coverage of that here — but did not know you already had someone new.
We could do a flash CP on this! I need to think…
What about Heeley Sel Marin?
Something about the clarity of the Heeley line matches my image of her, which is really only based on video clips of some of her speeches and her appearance.
I listened to her resignation speech on NPR and was moved to tears.
Why do good ones resign and the bad ones stay ?
In L’Artisan Couleur Vanille.
Last night, I sprayed on a sample of Roja Dove Beguiled. What a huge mistake! It was a creamy sandalwood bomb on me that triggered a very bad headache a couple of minutes later. I was not expecting the sandalwood to be so strong on this perfume. No matter how many times I try, scents with a sandalwood dominant note become a torture for me. Anyway, another sample goes to the goodbye pile. I am gonna have tons of fun going thru the big pile of samples and decants!
Happy Tuesday! 🌞
Blargh sorry about that perfume headache. I hate how fast those can come on.
Sorry pl67. Hope you are feeling better now.
Aw, what a shame that you had such a horrible reaction to that perfume.
I’ve picked Hiris for today. As I’ve mentioned many times before, it was the hunt for Hiris that started my perfume madness 🙂
Hiris is a worthy point of entry; and, of course, you smell beautiful.
I am wearing Givenchy Very Irresistible today and drinking my second cup of Irish Breakfast tea.
I am about to leave to bring my Mom to physical therapy. She requested that I make some French Onion soup. Its been a while since I’ve made it. Now I remember why I don’t make it that often. I had to stop twice while chopping to clear my eyes. Anyway, that will give her something to look forward to after PT.
That’s so sweet of you to make French Onion soup for your mom – it’s very labor and time intensive!
Ditto – nice gift of your time and talent.
That’s a lovely thing to do for your mom. Mine has given me two old recipes she wants me to make and the one is such a pain to make, I’m dragging my feet.
Your SOTD and Soup of the Day are both wonderful!
I don’t have any NR perfumes so instead I’m doing a week of Ayala Moriel perfumes. Hers is a name I never see mentioned these days, but she was talked about more in the MakeupAlley days. She’s a natural perfumer in Canada, and I recently came across a baggie filled with samples of her line that are virtually unused. I also had some samples outside of that baggie, so I’ve got plenty to work with. Today I’m in a gorgeous green chypre called Ayalitta. Yesterday was an even more gorgeous spicy citrus floral called Palas Arena.
One thing I appreciate about the fleeting nature of most natural perfumes is that you can easily wear more than one perfume in the same day. I’ll reapply some Ayalitta in the afternoon and then wear something completely different in the evening.
Oh, that’s a great idea! I have a bag of AM vials somewhere.
Oops just saw my phone autocorrected the name of the perfume I wore yesterday to a not-correct name. It is Palas Atena not Palas Arena.
I’m in Narciso edt again.
There is a little bit of sun and blue sky coming in my window today, and it’s making me so happy.🌞
Yay for sun.
I know!🤩
Sunshine twins today! Wasn’t it great?!? So welcome after days and days of grey.
Yes! We’ve had sooooo much grey lately.
Every day I hear I might see the sun and every day it stands me up. At least it is spending time with my friends 🌞
Ugh!! Maybe tomorrow since you are often a day behind me?🤞🌞
Next up in my Jovoy sampling is La Liturgie des Heures. It’s really really nice. I don’t know enough about incense scents to know how this ranks with others, I’d love to try some side by side. Of the ones I’ve tried, this reminds me most of Avignon.
It is a nice one.
But I want more incense. CdG Black is one of my favorites and incense takes up about 1/3 of my collection.
Ooh, I’ll have to keep my eye out for Black, I didn’t even realize it was an incense scent!
Le Liturgie des Heures is one of my favorite incenses. Avignon was just “too much” for me. I guess I should revisit it. Recently I find myself thinking everything need some champa flower and frankincense!
I had so much fun wearing Caron Pour un Homme to bed last night that I just repeated it today.Sunny lavender to boost a broody mood…(work,my banks’ incompetence at sorting a simple problem,heatwave…)
Happy Tuesday!
XO’s
Oh, you smell divine.
CM8 used to call that one “Pour un Gimme” when she posted regularly here. I always laughed about it.
CM8 used to call that one “Pour un Gimme” when she posted regularly here. I always laughed about it.
Lol and now you have the cm8 stutter! Coincidence or conspiracy?!🤣
The Universe has a sense of humor!
We are broody mood twins!
Sunny winter’s day right now, encroaching clouds with weather advisories and predicted 8 inches snow tonight so getting shopping done today, tomorrow have a stay at home and snuggle sort of day!
Failing CP this week, no NR of any sort…SOTD is Killian’s Amber Oud, very light on the Oud … I would love to smell some of most recent offerings by the House…
That’s a lot of snow.
Now they are only forecasting three inches tonight, 3 more over the next few days. The new normal for weather forecasters seems to be go with drama first. Several of my friends who have to go into the hospital tomorrow will be glad they over estimated.
And they hold on to that drama until the last possible minute!
I guess the all figure “warm, sunny, slightly breezy” won’t win them a prize…LOL!
I really love Amber Oud so I think you smell great today.
Amber Oud is one of my favorites for winter wear..,
“Stay inside due to weather tomorrow” twins! But I will have heavy rain again.
I am glad it will be cold enough to snow here. If we don’t get some freezing temperatures I am afraid the trees and shrubs will be confused. Stay inside stay warm and dry. 🙂
Thanks! Hope that your snow event turns out to be no big deal.
Hope your rain is just enough to soak in and help the grass grow next spring!
HOW is it late January. I have way too much to do for it to be late January. Scheiße.
Things really pile up toward the end of January due to the slow start post-holidays. 🤯
The Oscar nominations are out and for the second year in a row, I have not seen any of the nominated films. I didn’t go to movies often before the pandemic and I don’t know what would lure me back now. Waiting to see them at home is not difficult for me. Today I am wearing Stash and going to H Mart for ramen, hoisin sauce, and mushrooms I can’t get anywhere else.
I would like to see The Whale. I love Brenden Fraser and hope he wins.
Like foxbins, I have no clue what’s what. But like you, I would love to see The Whale, although I’m quite sure I would bawl much eyes out like a 9 year old. If you do see, please give feedback!
Yeah I already know I will cry like a baby. Most likely I will wait until I can watch it at home.
I streamed Everything, Everywhere, All at Once; I think I rented it on Amazon Prime Video.
Same here…had mostly stopped going already by 2020, now I have zero desire to sit in a theater. And not surprisingly I have not seen a single one of the nominated movies either.
I was getting too used to winter sunshine I suppose, so it practically didn’t appear today, wearing I Profumi Di Firenze Hayan at the moment, earlier I sneaked in a spray of Red, my guilty pleasure of the moment.
Apparently Jalapeno and madtowngirl are holding up the sun. Lol!🌞
The sun was on its way to Somewhere Else this afternoon in my area.
😃 Ah yes, happy for them but I did miss the🌼
Bopping in to say hi and thank you for your well wishes yesterday! The side effects of the barium are slamming me, so I’m off for the night.
This is such a happy place.
I hope everyone has a smile or ten today.
Sending hugs and love, Annie! 🌹
Adding well wishes as I was MIA yesterday, hope you can have a restorative night.
I’m glad your medical appointment is behind you, hope you’re well recovered by tomorrow!
Rest well!
Have a good and restful night!
I must have missed the news! Have a good rest.
Sleep well!
Yesterday was the first day of our semester, and my first day of teaching on my home campus since December 2021. I got through it, but discovered that at some point in the past year a mouse had come into my office and eaten the contents of about 30 K cups of hot cocoa – chewed right through the seals. So I am gathering cleaning supplies to deal with that tomorrow (our housekeeping staff has been reduced severely, and it will be faster for me just to take care of it myself). I never keep food in my office, but I honestly didn’t think that these things would be a problem – and with the pandemic leading to so much time off campus for everyone, I kind of forgot that they were there.
I am traveling to an international conference next week, my first solo international travel in many, many years, and I am not looking forward to the travel part, although the conference itself is quite exciting. please send any good travel vibes you can spare my way!
Given my anxiousness about the trip, and the need to bring some kind of coherence to my presentation, I probably will be away from NST until I return. But for today, I am enjoying my two heavy sprays of Winter Palace!
Wishing you safe travels! Have a great time!
Best of luck with your presentation and the travel. I bet it will all be fine. Wear something soft and comforting!
Sending you safe and easy travel vibes!
Good luck with the travel and presentation, I’ve been a very anxious traveler since the pandemic, so I 100% relate. I hope everything goes smoothly for you!
Safe and sane travel wishes to you!
I wish you well in your travels!
So I share a birthday with John Belushi? *That* explains a lot, LOL! 🤨
A laid-back day for me with plenty of blue skies and sunshine. I ran a couple of errands this afternoon to take advantage of today’s nice weather. It’s supposed to get really squishy tomorrow.
SOTD = a bit of No. 5 L’Eau and a bit of Box of Eels EdT. I have a double sample thunk today!
Happy Birthday! And Happy Thunking!🥳
Thank you lillyjo! I am glad that those samples were enjoyed and used up. Time to work on some others.
Happy birthday, Jalapeno! You’re smelling great, in such classics!
Thanks tulipani! Happy that I have a bottle of No. 5 L’Eau!
Best wishes on your special day.
Thank you!
Happy birthday! Sunshine and Chanel, what a great day!😎🌞
Yeah for sure! Thanks!
Yay! Your birthday and double thunking! Congratulations! 🎂🍷🌹🎉🎁
Thanks!
How is your Mom doing?
Woot! Happy Birthday! Love your scents of the day and happy thunking! I am glad to be working from home the next 2 days.
Thank you! I was rather pleased by today’s double thunk!
Weather forecast here is definitely yucky tomorrow and I think it “improves” to partly yucky for Thursday. Not a fan of high winds.
Happy birthday, Jalapeno!!
Thanks springpansy!
Happy Birthday, Jalapeno!
Thank you Holly! I am gently reeking havoc today. 😉
Happy Birthday!🎂
Thank you! And thanks for your comment about cataracts yesterday. Still kind of creeps me out, though.
Totally understand. Any kind of eye or toe surgery makes me cringe, too.👀
Happy Birthday!!! Don’t you just love L’Eau?
Much to my surprise, yes I do! Never figured myself as a Chanel aficionado. But I would happily get bottles of No. 19 and Egoiste sometime in the future, too.
Happy birthday!! So glad the sun came out for you today.
Happy belated birthday, Jalapeno!
I spent from around 12:30 to 3:30 glued to the TV for weather news as a strong storm system moved through and we had tornado warnings. There was a bad tornado in the southeast quadrant of town, and images of the damage on TV now are pretty horrible. I feel lucky. The sun even came back out here for a bit! I do have perfume news to report but have been too distracted and worried. There was tremendous rain with thunder and lightning.
I’m glad you are safe Calypso!
Yikes! Glad that you were unscathed.
Wow! And here I was wondering why our security folks were issuing tornado warnings one right after the other. At the end of the day, no amount of warning will make it better or worse.
I am under a snow advisory for tomorrow so went and did grocery shopping today. I had a five dollar coupon that was only good at a certain grocery store. I drove 5 miles out of my way to use it. Lol. My sotd is Agent Provocateur. I’m going to organize my decants later and will probably choose something else then.
You smell wonderful today!
AP always makes me think of you!🤗
Hope the snow decides to go somewhere else very far away! (to J B)! 😄
Good luck with those decants!
Ha! If only I could! (jk J B)
Glad you were able to get your grocery shopping done today! We’re supposed to get snow as well and maybe I will take out the garbage tonight instead of waiting until tomorrow night.
I think tomorrow will be a good day to stay in for a few of us.
SOTD = Diptyque Kyoto
Love! It is in a red / fuchsia bottle – very pretty!
I saw several geodesic domes at Bryant Park on my walk in to work this morning. I asked what they are being used for and was told that there will be filming going on for Sex and the City!
https://www.instagram.com/p/Cnzm4-OOWtE/?igshid=Zjc2ZTc4Nzk=
In other news, I was supposed to take the day off this coming Monday but it seems that our CEO will be visiting the floor! I decided to withdraw my day off as I am curious to see what he has to say!
I hope the filming doesn’t interrupt your commute too much.
Are you nervous or excited about the CEO coming?
Those dome frames remind me of some playground equipment I used to see ages ago! Kids used to climb all over them.