Happy Almost-Friday! It's also National Barbie Day. Birthdays: Vita Sackville-West, André Courrèges, Ornette Coleman, Keri Hulme. What fragrance are you wearing?
I'm in vintage Guerlain Après L’Ondée, which smells like it was made before I was born, and of course it was. I would be just fine with a trip to 1906 Paris.
Reminder: 3/10 will be Time Travel Friday...be as creative as you like with the theme. You could wear a perfume that reminds you of a trip you once took, or that brings you back to a prior period of your life for any reason, or that calls to mind a place you'd like to visit in the past or future.
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: top image is A Wet Morning In Paris (1906) [cropped] by The Casas-Rodríguez Postcard Collection at flickr; some rights reserved.
I’m in Un Jardin a Cythere again.
I ordered a 4 pack of the travel sprays to split. Hermès did not charge shipping but did charge tax. Each 15 ml travel spray will be $39 plus shipping. Call dibs here and email me at p k wisdom (one word) in the yahooland. I have room for 2 more splitees.
After a terrible night of sleep Tuesday, I slept like a rock last night! It felt great. Strange dreams though. I was back on campus, a recurring dream for me, and living in the dorm. At my current age! Ha!😆
Woot, count me in on a travel spray! Will email shortly.
I also had a college dorm dream last night. It was a weird one.
Woot woot!🙌
Argh. I can’t decide if I want one. Hope someone else will claim the last bottle soon so I can stop thinking about it
Oh come on, Robin. You know you want one hehehe. It’s also highly swappable if you don’t like it.
OMG fine, twist my arm then. I can’t believe nobody else took it. I said I wouldn’t buy it unsniffed too, I hated Lagune.
Dibs.
The best disgruntled dibs! 😂
LOL
I’m not even an enabler usually so I don’t know what you into me. I sure hope you’ll like this one. I wasn’t a fan of Laguna or Monsieur Li, but the description of Cythere sounds more promising.
This entire thread gave me a good chuckle!
Me too, Jalapeno!
Me too. And now I think I want to try this one as well. And now voyages to Cythera–painting by Watteau good (if you like the French Rococo–I do, I studied it in college); poem by Baudelaire not good–are stuck in my mind.
SL Feminité du Bois, or, as I always think of it, Cedar Augustus. Nothing feminine about it: I have to assume the name was given so it wouldn’t scare women away from an overwhelmingly woody (and resolutely genderless) scent. It’s every inch a Lutens release — dried fruit, mysterious spices, a touch of weirdness. And it even fits the theme, because I bought it on my way out of Tokyo in 2012, a trip I look back on wistfully: I sort of wish I could go back, not just to the city, but to the time.
“Cedar Augustus” made me chuckle.
Me, too!
Very clever!
You smell fantastic. I wish I could go back to 2012 as well.
I am wearing vintage l’heure bleue edc. This smells much more potent then edp’s of today.
Enjoying it a lot.
You smell lovely! I have a mini of LHB and it’s incredible. I wish the current versions had more of this depth (to my nose).
I do have some vintage of LHB and it is awesome.
You smell great 👍🏻
I have some vintage EDCs that are definitely the olfactory equivalent of an EDP. I’m thinking particularly of Eau de Courrèges from the seventies, which for a cologne is just amazingly multifaceted and durable: still light, not un grand parfum, but a real fragrance rather than a splash.
I’m in Encre Noire and imagining being in a bookshop at the turn of the last century. Ink and paper, dust motes floating in front of a sunny window. Heaven.
That’s a perfect match between perfume and location, SheriG!
Excellent!!
I love that pairing!
I’m in a little spritz of Coco EdT this morning. My mom wore it on special occasions and I remember, as a child, watching her while she got ready to go out. I know many of us have those sorts of memories. She passed away six years ago today. ❤️🌹
Dear NSTers, thanks so much for all of the kind birthday wishes yesterday. I had a lovely day doing simple, fun things. I did make out like a bandit at the consignment store – scored a pair of Chico linen pants (and they’re long enough!) and a linen blouse to match. Ready for summah! 😎
I was going to ask about your consignment shopping 🛍️!
So glad you got your birthday treats
Happy belated birthday! (I did not manage to get to the comments yesterday but will read later today.)
A tough anniversary but nice you can remember your mum through Coco.
Hugs in memory of your mom.
My mother was 6 years ago last week. I feel ya. She liked Chicos.
More hugs for your melancholy anniversary.
Adding more hugs to you.
I’m glad you were able to find some nice gifts yesterday.
Ted Lapidus Creation (1984 according to basenotes). It doesn’t remind me of a time, but it does remind me how much my nose and appreciation of perfume have changed. I was just a kid in 1984, and of course would have shouted “old lady perfume!” if I had smelled this then. Now I love it so much. A sweet violet chypre. Guess I’m an old lady
Ha, I’m another old lady who found most perfumes too old lady in my youth!
Création is WONDERFUL, one of those unsung powerhouse scents from the mid-eighties (and I’m a hopeless sucker for any chypre from the era anyway). You smell great!
Wearing a few drops of Chanel Cuir de Russie parfum today — I picked it up yesterday as a birthday gift to myself <3
I am surprised at how good the parfum is! I had only tried the EDP before this. The parfum takes all the best parts of the EDP, smooths it out and amplifies it. The aldehydes and florals are smooth, the leather incredibly buttery. The EDP is still very good, but it has a roughness to the edge that the pure parfum does not. So incredibly elegant.
Cuir de Russie parfum is awesome. Have a few drops left of it.
Enjoy, I love Cuir de Russie parfum. It is absolutely beautiful.
Happy Birthday!
Ditto! beautiful fragrance for a special day!
Enjoy your birthday perfume.
Glad that you got something you enjoyed for your birthday.
That sounds so nice! Good for you; it’s great to treat yourself on your special day. 🎂
Currently in Bath and Body Works Dream Bright and it’s not really my deal. Found out that my federal refund will be in my bank account on Monday. Just trying to decide if I want that ginormous bottle of Infusion d’Iris, Au Couer du Desert, PHI Une Rose de Kandahar or Gris Charnel. Can only get 1. After my shower, I think I will wear Infusion d’Iris. But have to vacuum first.
Yay for a refund!
Lots of nice perfumes to choose from.
Great you’re getting a refund. Curious to know why you want to buy another perfume (nothing wrong with this). Perhaps save it for something “bigger” (perfume or otherwise)?
Twinning with you in Infusion d’Iris!
Those all sound like lovely options. Congrats on getting your refund!
Chai tea and some pea and potato curry for breakfast
The oud oil from Marrakech. Someone on here asked me what perfume it smells like? I am still thinking 🤔
I am missing Morocco so much.
I will try my baklava today and report back. According to my MIL I had to let the syrup sit overnight so it absorbs. The most difficult part was working with the thin sheets and making sure they don’t rip
Sorry you are wishing yourself back in Morocco! Will you go again, do you think?
(And, yes, jealous of your breakfast.)
When I was crying to my friend about all the things I missed she told me I should visit the south of Spain and I would find some similar / different experiences
Yes to this!
If you download the app Radio Garden you can tune into live radio stations in Casablanca or Marrakech and hear some of the sounds you might be missing. It is great fun for ( foreign) local radio stations and language learning. Maybe a few Moroccan novels will keep you going until your next trip.
I never heard of this radio! So interesting.. when I connect to Wi-Fi I will look for the app.
This morning while I was stretching at the gym I played the call to prayer on my Apple Music. I miss being woken up to the chanting, it was such a positive way to start my day. Reminds me of the chants I would hear on my Buddhist retreats
I have been told to read Edith Wharton’s Morocco memoir
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/23/books/tangier-morocco-books-laila-lalami.html
Here are some more suggestions from Laila Lamami. I have only read one of her novels and only a few of her suggestions so am not much help.
You are the best Kanuka!!
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/authorpage/laila-lalami.html
I think you would like most of these
Did you bring a nice tagine pot home with you to cook in?
No! And it was so cheap there but too heavy
I brought a tea pot !!
🙁🙁🙁🙁 should of just paid for the extra weight
You can get them in NY. they aren’t a lot.
Any place you recommend ordering one from in NY?
Ignoramus that I am, I was unfamiliar with every single person in the first paragraph. So. I looked them all up and almost spit out my coffee when Holme was described as “a very definite and determined child who inherently hate[d] assumed authority.” Go on with your bad self, lady! Now I feel I MUST read her because she’s my spirit twin. 😀
I bought a pizza stone and oiled it as per directions, tossed it in the oven and 10 minutes later had smoke billowing out every window. All the fans were on high to exhaust the fumes/smoke but I still managed to set off the fire alarm. 😬 Does anyone have any knowledge of these things? Do they smoke like this all the time?! It doesn’t make sense because the smoke is ridiculous and I imagine the odor would penetrate anything being cooked..?! Anyway, averted disaster by taking it out and leaving it on the picnic table to smoke and cool to it’s heart content. I was attempting to season it as multiple videos on YouTube directed. None of theirs smoked though…🤔
Still wafting a bit of Vanilla Flash on my hoodie, but I’ll switch it up as soon as I finish my coffee. We had two beautiful days of blinding sunlight (but still very cool/cold temps) and it was SO welcome. Back to gray, cloudy, and rainy again today. Bah! 👎🏼
Listening Alison Weir’s book about Anne Boleyn last night on Audible. Wowza! 😳
Do read The Bone People, it is fantastic.
Never had a pizza stone but now you’d convinced me not to bother, we do not have a good exhaust fan in your kitchen and we already trip the smoke alarm regularly.
The only reason I bothered with it is 1) very cheap kitchen item and 2) the most important- RV ovens don’t cook ANYTHING evenly as residential ovens do, so most RVers recommend a pizza stone on the lowest rack to more evenly distribute heat so your items aren’t burnt in the bottom and raw in the middle. 🤷🏻♀️
I will go check out “the bone people,” thanks!
Ah, that makes sense.
Well, when my husband seasons our iron pans he tends to do it outside. This says do it with a window open, which means maybe you are also better off doing it outside if you have a way to do that?
https://homemadepizzaschool.com/how-to-season-a-pizza-stone/
Thanks for that link. I did it correctly for the stone that I purchased, but apparently I should have left in the oven and let it “bake off” the olive oil until it stopped smoking. Honestly, I thought it was going to go up in flames. I should have followed your husband’s lead and done it in the fire pit yesterday instead of the oven. Oh well. It is now sitting on the picnic table getting rained on…😄 That book sounds very intense! I’m not opposed to violence in books and films when it’s appropriate and necessary to the scene, but I CAN. NOT. handle abuse and violence towards children and animals. Just can’t do it. I stopped watching The Power of the Dog as soon as Benedict Cumberbatch started whipping the horse. Nope. Nada. No Way. I’ll have to find something else by Hulme to read.
I read it years ago, and I still have my copy, but I could not read it now in my current state of trauma. So yeah.
Back in the day when I still ate pizza I LOVED our pizza stone. Nothing else can get a crust properly crispy. You do have to season it, but once that unpleasantness is done, it’s done forever: you just wash the stone with a little plain water and it’s good for the next pizza.
I’ve heard this endorsement over and over! If I could just get past the smoking stage…
Wearing L’Heure Bleu, which comes from the same era as my community project choice for tomorrow.
You smell wonderful, Desirae. 😊
https://www.glaciercountry.co.nz/operators/activity/okarito-township-and-lagoon/
I am time travelling to just a month ago when I went to Okarito, where Keri Hulme lived for many years. It is a beautiful place, a windswept shingle beach facing the Tasman sea on one side and an amazing lagoon, and views to the alps on the other. At one point in history it was a flourishing gold mining centre but now is small and quiet, home to many birds. Wearing ganja.
Looks gorgeous!
Seriously gorgeous.
I love this CP! Missed the cue this AM as I am just logging on. So I am in the final dregs of my small bottle of Baiser Vole. I have enjoyed this one, and Cartier gets extra points for making a 15 ml bottle of thick, heavy glass and an elegant design–feels timeless in the hand–but I won’t be replacing it.
Also, Vita Sackville-West! Happy Birthday. I have a first edition of her “Twelve Days” floating around upstairs somewhere. When I have time I would love to make it a project to read everything she has written. She is someone who inspires thoughts of time-travel perfume for sure.
When I have time I mean to visit Sissinghurst and see the white garden in person
But I have never read her and mostly know her from her gardens and her association with Virginia Woolf.
And I know practically nothing about her gardens, but read several of her travel books way back when.
Super excited to see my community project suggestion from 2017 as this week’s project!!!
Shout out to irisjasmine who wore Gap Heaven yesterday. That was the fragrance I wore exclusively during my first year of dating DH because it was the only fragrance he complimented me on. It was also my weddings day scent.
As I said yesterday I will wear it and Un Ete En Provence and Nocturnes de Caron (wish I had bought the extrait way back when!) this week as they evoke such wonderful memories for me.
Hope everyone who remembers me is well!!
I am glad you saw the post yesterday. As soon as I saw Gap Heaven I thought of you! 😀
Awww!! I’m touched you remembered!! I hope all is well with you!!
Good to see you CM8! For old times’ sake, maybe you can switch to the 3-eyed owl avatar?
Hi dear!! I can’t access the wordpress account anymore because I think the email account is gone
Good to see you here B!🌹🤗✌🏻
Hi darling! I pop in from time to time but it’s always when you aren’t around-LOL
I will tell you that my eldest is in graduate school for Nurse Practitioner after working two years as a nurse and my middle one graduated in May as a nurse and works at a local hospital!!!
Wonderful!Tell them I said congratulations!Tough career choice,but also rewarding and fulfilling.
XO’s🌹🤗✌🏻
Yes!! Thankfully they both love it!!
My sister is an NP. One of the first graduating classes and still working two days a week.
As I have told Deva many times, special place in heaven for nurses.
Oh wow!! That’s amazing!! I agree with you!! They are all angels!
https://nstperfume.com/2017/11/17/friday-scent-of-the-day-1117/
Wow! So many NSTers I miss…anyone know where bear went?
Unfortunately, no.
I do not, but I think of him often.
Nice to see you! Will have a dark chocolate marzipan candy with lunch today in your honor.
Ahaha!! Please do!!
Hi CM8! Great to see you and I like this cp (still plotting what I’ll wear tomorrow).
Hi there!! Hope you are enjoying retirement!!
It’s pretty great! And congrats to you on your daughters’ achievements! (Seeing you reminds me that I need to pull out Winter Woods for some wearing time. )
Aww thanks! I’m pretty proud of all three! My youngest graduates soon!!
Hooray for Winter Woods!! Don’t forget to wear it in the summer too!!!
Hello hello! Good to see you popping in today! How are the not-so mini Marzipans and your Grandkitties doing?
The minis are great
Info above about the girls
Youngest graduates college in May!! Finally!!
The three feline grandkids are beyond adorable and we love them so much! I don’t ever want to give them up lol although my middle one constantly reminds me that two are technically hers! I can’t imagine our home without all three of them.
I hope you are well!!
Heh, 2023 is less crazy than the past 7 years have been so far. Ask me again in December, though!
👍😂❤️
Glad you stopped by!
Thanks MossyBerry!!
Hey, waving to you from Houston, cm8! So good to hear the updates about your kiddos and kitties. We still use the “thunking” term around here. I think that originated with you…?
waving back!!! yes it did…and I am still thunking away LOL
Oh no, it is so nice to see you but now I feel terrible — this cp has been on my list for ages and it had no attribution. Crappy record keeping! I am so sorry I stole your idea !
So glad you & yours are all doing well.
not stolen at all and no worries.I am happy to see it and enjoy reading everyone’s responses
Hope you and yours are well too !
Mojave Ghost for half a day at work.I came back home exhausted and coughing like it was Day 1 of my illness.Had a good snooze and all is well again.I should be 100 by Monday.
Transport me to a desert with crisp clear air,hot sunbaked sand and not another person in sight,please.Thank you.
XO’s✌🏻🌹🤗
feel better!!
🤗✌🏻🌹
Hope you’re back to 100% very soon! Thought of you yesterday as I was dipping my rusks at tea time.
Haha!I’m skipping the Ouma rusks now,since a colleague started on a mad baking spree that includes buttermilk and good old anise rusks!
I hope you are 100% very fast, and maybe can even enjoy your weekend.
Glad to hear that you are feeling much better today.
Rest up JB!
Totally off topic in 4160 Tuesdays Silk, Lace & Chocolate. Hope everyone is having a good day!
Yum
About to transform myself into a grown-up (good clothes, good jewelry, makeup), for what will be a very long, important, and taxing rest of the day and evening at work. I will probably go with 28 La Pausa, because it’s subtle enough not to offend people, but it makes me happy. No travel memories, although I pretty much always have it with me when I travel, unless I have run out.
I love 28 La Pausa. Good choice.
Hoping for all success for your day, and I do love my subtle, happy scents too!
Tauer Sotto la Luna Tuberose for me today, for memories of a lovely vacation in Switzerland in 2016. We stayed at a friend’s house while they were away, and it was fun to live like a local for a little while! We also did a day trip down to Italian Switerzland, where I’d never been before, and it was beautiful.
What a lovely memory! Plus, you smell great.
Fzotic Monserrat today. I went to a little one-off art class last night and Monserrat felt kind of appropriate for that. Still wearing today. I’m thinking about signing up for a further class: painting with watercolors, this time. I can’t even begin to say how happy I am that spring is here and the days have more light.
I got a sample of Monserrat recently and liked it, but need to come back and wear it again. I’m drowning in samples right now.
But I loved the idea of the fresco / plaster note.
I’m with you on the more light.
I’ve been closing the patio blinds at 6:30 now! That’s almost 2 hours later than it was around Xmas.
I picked an Aqua Allegoria today, Flora Rosa, a fruity rose, pleasant but far from the perfection of Rosa Magnifica, my favorite of all the AA.
Tonight it’s Habanita, traveling back to the jazz age.
It would be nice to see a truly excellent Aqua Allegoria release in the near future.
I must admit I haven’t smelled the most recent ones, the price has really shot up for them, it used to be so affordable.
Perfect jazz age pick, Aurora.
Thank you Robin, I wish I had lived then.
My tax refund hit my account last night!
I was so worried since I had to close accounts and open new ones due to wallet theft.
Yay!
Tucking away for Africa trip.
SOTD is the new Parfum d Nicolai Caravanserail.
It takes me to Iran from 1973 to 1975 when my then husband and I drove from the North @ the Caspian Sea to the south at Bandar Abbass and west from Iraq to east in Herat, Afghanistan.
The work was to build a telephone and telegraph system across the country. There were not many main roads or paved roads and many of the trails we followed often had the remains of a caravansary from the Silk Route.
We would jump out of the land rover and explore what we could.
This fragrance is really nice. and very much a reminder of so much of the middle east without drowning one in oud.
It’s not super original, there are others with honeyed and dried fruits, but the name and the feeling spoke to me so I got a small bottle.
How wonderful. That’s an incredible memory. I plan to sample that one eventually.
That’s an amazing scent memory!!
What a great memory – and it certainly makes me want to sample the PdN!
Hurray for no issues with your tax refund! That’s got to be a load off your shoulders.
Its is!
Thank you. it took me a long time to get over the bitter and find the sweet.
I have a picture of the two of us in Baluchistan at a caravansary on my desk.
As Patty Smith put it, we were just kids.
Nice memory!
Another bright and sunny day here. The wind has gone, yay! But rain is expected to roll in tomorrow sometime.
SOTD = commando. I have a bit of a rash today, so it’s time to give perfume a break. Making do with scented lotion on my shins.
Hope the rash is not serious and will clear soon, can you use calamine lotion?
The rash isn’t serious, just unsightly. A bit of cortisone cream and a day or two off from spraying perfume should do the trick.
Eek on the rash! Good idea to go scentless.
Fortunately the lotion I used has enough “oomph” to make up the difference. I’m still smelling it!
And I have never had any problems with scented lotions, thankfully.
Is the rash in the same spot as last time?
Not quite the same spot.
Maybe I should start wearing a soothing lotion where I spray perfume?
It might be a good barrier.
Ugh about the rash – this is why I try to not let perfume and other perfumes things touch my skin.
I’ve quit using an alpha hydroxy lotion where I spritz. Pretty sure that was part of the issue.
Yep, that’ll do it!
SotD Beyond Paradise from an OG bottle. I’m only, err, accustomed to the opening, but I really like it after about an hour and it lasts most of the day. I spritzed again for a visit to our favorite Mexican restaurant later – looking forward to yummy pico de gallo and maybe a mushroom quesadilla or a tostado and some beans! I ventured into my vegetable garden today to worry over whether the rather thick leaf mulch I put down has broken down enough. We did not have a lot of wet, freezing weather this winter. I ran over some of it with a garden weasel to good effect. Also, discovered chives and cilantro “springing forward.”
Beyond Paradise had such a pretty bottle back in the day.
Your comment about springing forward reminds me we move our clocks forward on Sunday. Hooray for more sunlight ! I hate when it gets dark early
Yay for the cilantro and chives! It’s good to have “volunteers”. 🌱
My time travel for today is going back to Disney World trips as a child via Hiram Green Dilettante. It’s my favorite rich orange blossom perfume, and it evokes memories of the souvenir bottle of Florida Water perfume that my mom bought on our first trip there when I was 4. I so often would go smell under the cap of the bottle on her dresser and was just obsessed with the stuff. Years ago I gifted her a bottle of Ava Luxe Neroli Blossom, and she recently ordered a replacement bottle for herself. 😊
This is a sweet memory.
I have all the feels for this memory!
I love every part of that story, trf. ❤️
I’ve been sampling different perfumes today. I didn’t find one that caught my fancy. My official sotd is TF Orchid Soliel.
My washing machine broke today. I have someone coming out in the morning to look at it.
Fingers crossed for a cheap fix🤞
Also… why is it that we cross our fingers for good luck and also cross them when we ( well not me, lol) tell a lie? Is it to protect the liar from bad luck of getting found out? So many questions in this head of mine.🌞
Huh! Interesting question! I definitely cross my fingers (toes and eyes) when wishing someone good luck. I don’t remember crossing it for a lie but then I may be lying about this.
It’s supposed to be you are to cross your fingers behind your back if you tell a lie. I am just not sure why.
Lol, hajusuuri! 😂
Ugh. Washing machine repairs can be $$$$$$$$$. Hope that it is simple and (relatively) inexpensive.
I hope you didn’t have a load of wash in when it went kaput!
I did but fortunately only clothes and detergent. The machine never turned on. I think it might be the sensor.
I so hope it’s a quick and cheap fix!
Hope the washer is an easy and cheap fix!
hope you can get it fixed for the least amount of money!
SOTD = Diptyque Kyoto
Love it! 💓. IG post may be a tandem one with my SOTD tomorrow!
This seems to be a week of perfumed and other packages! The new Francesca Bianchi Byzantine Amber, a package from pfsh, the sample of Poof! I also got a Ring-like doorbell (I have yet to figure this out). Oooh, and I’m expecting a shipment of mini-owls too. Life is good!
I have been participating in a daily novena (for 9 days) for the repose of R’s soul. Normally I wouldn’t as it is a pray the rosary ritual plus a recitation of very Catholic phrases but I wanted to support my friend. There’s drama with R’s sister, subject for another discussion.
Unfortunately, family members passing away can be an occasion for drama.
Report back on your new perfumes!
You’re a good friend hajusuuri. I hope the sister doesn’t cause too much stress for the family.