It's Friday, plus National Mario Day, Harriet Tubman Day and International Bagpipe Day. Our community project for today: we're doing 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.
What fragrance did you pick? As always, do chime in with your scent of the day even if you’re not participating in the community project.
I decided to revisit my honeymoon, so it's Prague in the late 1990s, but this time, I'm wearing fragrance (if I was the first time, I have no memory of it, but who knows). Ormonde Jayne Ta'if would go perfectly with that sky.
Reminder: on 3/17, wear green for St Patrick's Day. (This is a repeat, probably many times over.)
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 Charles Bridge [cropped] by Thomas Fabian at flickr; some rights reserved.
Happy Friyay!
Feeling much better today!
SOTD!
Caudalie Parfum Divin.My desert island paradise island fragrance.Take me back to palm trees,cocktails and hammocks in the sun on a tropical island please!
XO’s🌹✌🏻🤗
Sounds like paradise
I need some “paradise” today!
So glad you are feeling better!
Thank you!🤗🌹
Take me with you J B!
Let’s gooooo!✌🏻🤗
Glad you’re feeling better! I’d like to join you on that paradise island!
Sending continue-to-get-better wishes your way. With snow on the ground again here, a paradise island sounds lovely!
A sunny tropical paradise sounds great on this yucky, rainy day!
Some of those Caudalie scents are quite lovely.
Orange blossom oil from Morocco is my SOTD
My last chai tea as my FIL left early this morning and left me some in a thermos.
The baklava turned out amazing!!! Next time around I think I will add more rose water to the syrup, and make sure I cut all the way down
Enjoy your chai! I’m sure you smell amazing.
Your home must smell lovely today.. orange blossom, chai and baklava!
You must smell amazing!
Morocco is still on my to-do list as well.
Morocco would have been amazing. I did a day trip to Tangier in 2019 from southern Spain and would love to see more.
I recommend Marrakech
“More rose water in the syrup” is perhaps a general principle that I can vote for :D. And, you know you are loved when someone leaves you a thermos of chai <3
Enjoy your fragrance today – I bet it smells amazing! Now I think I’ll have a cup of chai. 😉
We got snow overnight and into this morning. It didn’t look like much from inside but then I walked to get a latte and it was actually pretty deep on the sidewalks that weren’t shoveled. I think we did get the 7 inches they predicted. It’s hanging in the trees looking all Ansel Adamsy and if I weren’t so over winter I’d think it was pretty.
For time travel Friday I’m in Casmir and going back to 1992. I was thinking back on all that happened in that year for me and there was actually quite a lot going on! That was the year I graduated from college, got engaged, went to the second ever Lollapalooza, and voted opposite of my then fiancé in the presidential election lol (I will abide by the comment policy and not say more than that)- he married me anyway. Then in December of that year as part of my job, I witnessed childbirth for the very first time and it was an epiphanous moment for me. I can remember bursting into tears, it was the most amazing thing I had ever seen. I immediately began researching nursing schools, because I knew that I wanted to be part of that world. You just never know where life will take you!
What a great year that was for you!
It was pretty great!
Obviously, that was a huge year for you!
There was a lot going on, that’s for sure! That was a fun time in my life. I’d go back in a second.☺️
What a wonderful year! ’92 was one of those for me, too!
It was, glad it was for you as well!
I really enjoyed your reminiscences about that certainly very pivotal year. Thank you for sharing!
Thanks Laila!
Wow, what a big year! Are you still enjoying the Casmir?
I am! I don’t wear it as much as I used to back in the day because, you know, too much perfume. It will always be part of my collection though.
Wonderful! And I’m only too familiar with the “too much perfume” thing. 😬
Aw, we were almost perfume twins today!
Aw, it’s not too late!😀
The one perfume I wish I could wear today is Penhaligon’s Lavandula…
I gave my bottle away years ago and it is of course, discontinued and impossible to now find on the secondhand market. If anyone knows where to get a few drops, please let me know.
I wrote a piece about it a few years ago as it holds a special place in my heart: https://piratefsh.github.io/2016/11/13/short-lived-first-love.html.
“Lavender has a special place in my heart, not because it’s a traditional note used in masculine perfumery – my father to my memory did not wear lavender. It was because my mother loved it. You would find lavender essential oils in our ceramic aromatherapy diffuser, lavender scented sachets for drawers (scented beads, not the real dried stuff), and bars of gifted lavender soap from Crabtree & Evelyn, which were fancy by our middle-class Malaysian standards. We just couldn’t get enough of the stuff, and I grew familiar with the smell of lavender.”
I no longer desire to return to that part of my life, but it would be nice to be reminded of how far I have come!
I hope you will one day find a bottle of it, and that smelling it will bring back the memories. Only the good ones..!
Going back back back to the early 1990s, when we couldn’t really afford to travel but we went to Toronto or Montréal every now and then because you kind of have to get away, and you will do without a lot just to be able to get on a plane. We stayed at the Bond Place Hotel in Toronto and Hotel Arcade in Montréal because they were the cheapest ($85 a night!), and Ogilvy had a Comptoir Sud Pacifique boutique, where I dreamed of buying everything on the shelves but settled that first time for Vanille Café, my first CSP, which I still have and am wearing today. It is the perfect coffee scent because it is *just* coffee, a little bitter and sour as coffee is, thoroughly sweetened, doused with cream, and laced with plush vanilla. I have never actually gotten coffee and the delirium of adjectives surrounding it, but I’ve always loved the smell, and this is it.
That sounds delicious. If coffee tasted the way it smelled I think I’d drink a lot of it.
That is a cool story. I bet you smell wonderful.
Off to Montreal in a couple of months and will have to pop into Ogilvy’s, and probably Etiket too. Not going to let a pesky conference get in the way of sniffing…
😄 That’s the perfumista attitude!
Oooh, I remember the CSP counter at Ogilvie’s. I really loved their perfumes, vanille banane, vanille abricot… and they are the only perfumes i got compliments for.
Sounds delicious! How have I never smelled this? I love coffee scents.
It’s still being made, although it’s been “updated” with things like green almond and white musk, so I have no idea how it would smell nowadays. Worth a shot, maybe?
Hello all!
Time travelling to 3023 in Thierry Mugler’s Cologne. Bright light greens and musk for days. It was such a perfect compliment to his fashion, though I think by that time his line was winding down….
Have a great day everyone!
Very fun interpretation!
2nd that! I like.
I thought about that one too, but then decided in going in the other direction.
FREEBIE:
I’ve received so many lovely freebies from NSTers lately, and I’d like to give back.
I have bundle of three travel mini’s: Diptyque Oyedo, Shalimar edt, and Different Company Rose Poivree. Please take all.
Please dibs here and contact me
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All are about 90% full.
dibs for rose poivrée.thank you
I decided to go literal with the CP, and chose Carthusia 1681. That was reportedly the year in which Cartesian monks began making fragrances, and if this really was one of theirs then they were perfume geniuses. The notes are tangerine, bergamot, coriander, lavender, petitgrain, rosemary, thyme, iris, neroli, black pepper, sandalwood, cedar, incense, ambergris, vanilla and musk. I’m kind of a sucker for scents with a black pepper note, and petitgrain is high on my list too, but the stars here are the sandalwood, iris and herbs. Very soothing.
Perfect!
I’m wearing Narcisse Noir, which smells like sitting in some shadowy corner of the Moulin Rouge. I wouldn’t want to live in the Belle Époque, but I’d sure like to visit.
Exactly, I’d say the same as my choice yesterday.
You smell fabulous!
I love vintage Narcisse Noir. Reading the descriptions of it, before I first ever smelled it, did not prepare me for the experience. It certainly takes you back in time.
I’m still commando, on the last day of my “staycation”, but after showering I plan to wear the original 4711 Cologne. As a child in the Sixties I was an Army brat, and my family spent more than seven years in Germany. 4711 is definitely the smell of Germany in that time. I remember smelling it on both men and women.
We had relatives in Heidelburg, I can smell 4711 right with you.
I’m in Penhaligon’s Hammam Bouquet for a trip to late-19th-century London, looking at all those hidden gems of architecture and engineering that have since been lost to the developers.
Also would have been perfect for the steampunk CP. Nineteenth-century England thought of itself as so relentlessly modern!
Scent: Jour d’Hermes topped off with Bulgari Eau Parfumee au The Vert. Nearly hit that combo with Le Jardin de Monsieur Li, but holding off for now. There’s no CP participation here, just reaching for what appeals today.
Ooh, did the green tea tame the stinky grapefruit topnote?
I *should* be wearing Cristalle Eau Verte, which is always and forever associated with my first semester in Rome (2013), but it’s clear and cold this morning, with snow in the forecast for the afternoon, so I grabbed Dzongkha — it fits the weather and I’ve not worn it much lately.
Thanks for the good wishes re: yesterday’s big event. It was successful beyond what any of us involved in the planning could have hoped; it provided good exposure for my institution and for a couple of programs I am involved in. I feel like I pulled an all-nighter but am so pleased.
And now, off to the dentist for a second attempt at a new permanent crown (the first one didn’t fit properly, so had to be remade).
Good luck with the crown!
Ugh, that is a bummer. Hope this second attempt goes well!
Bleah, hope that your second crown fits the way it should! What a bummer!
So glad something already went well, and now hope the crown did too!
Wearing L’heure de Nuit today since I couldn’t come up with anything for the CP. On Fragrancenet, Worth Courtesan is back in stock and had to snap up a bottle. The price was right for me.
Congrats on your Courtesan!
Psa.. Dame Perfumery is running half off many of his soliflore bottles.
After last night and today’s snowfall, my city has had 103 inches of snow. I entered a snow prediction contest in the fall and guessed 104. Everyone said I was guessing too high but I knew we would pay for last year’s great Summer.
I left the house without perfume mostly because I had to brush off the car. From the purse stash I am wearing Do Son. My original plan was to wear Ysatis to travel back to 1987. I will take points for the tuberose connection.
Thanks for the PSA.
That is a lot of snow. I don’t remember where you live. We have had around 60-70 inches this year in South Dakota. Expecting a few more tonight and tomorrow again.
Michigan. My normal is 80 inches, which is bad enough. I can’t imagine living in the U.P!
I sure hope you win a nice prize for just about hitting the mail on the head regarding snowfall totals! Like maybe a nice trip to Aruba….🌴🍹🍍
The prize is getting into a raffle for a gift card. Lol.
We are expecting more snow this weekend so I am thinking I won’t get entered.
Good news though… the washer was a cheap fix!
Oh good! Happy to hear it! 🙌
I hope you get entered anyways! And glad the washer was an easy fix!
Any of these soliflores you would suggest Lillyjo?
I’m not too familiar with the soliflores. I have had the tuberose and found it very realistic. Hopefully pl67 or cm8 will chime in, as I believe they have sampled more.
I have tried Osmanthus and didn’t care for it, but many do. I liked the tuberose. I thought about getting the honeysuckle, but that is not on sale. Would be curious on the freesia and peony if anyone knows about those.
Butting in to say I would recommend either the Narcissus or the Tuberose. I haven’t tried the Peony or Freesia.
Kris, I sampled and got full bottles of Mimosa, Osmanthus, Gardenia and Honeysuckle. I enjoy them a lot. I tried Wisteria and also Fressia & Peony and didn’t like them. My next purchase will be a full bottle of Narcissus.
Thanks for responding PL67.
Wow, that’s a lot of snow! I’m not sure how much we have gotten this year but I know it’s more than we’ve had for the past few years.
Speaking of 1987, my husband showed this video recently:
https://youtu.be/XJCjUHX7N9k
That was a great year!🤘
This is so awesome I couldn’t stop smiling!
Great lyrics 🤘
OMG, what a fun video!
I want to go back to that time even for just a day!
Another snowmageddon! DonSon seems like a nice antidote to it all.
Re your other comment re the U.P.: my brother went to Michigan Tech, and he said they sometimes had snow drifts up to the 2nd floor. I can’t imagine.
Yeah it gets treacherous up there!
Sounds like you might get snow all the way to the Spring Equinox.
I wouldn’t doubt it.
I’ve been thinking about all my friends in MI a lot this winter…
103!! And we got 0!
But.. I think you had a less sunshiny summer than I did. My theory is great summer = horrible winter and vice-versa. Lol.
A favourite perfume memory is visiting the cute English town Lewes and wearing Elixer des Merveilles. It was such a beautiful pairing that I bought a bottle after I got home. Alas, despite the similar climate, it just doesn’t work as well here, but I’ll be sure to make a decant the next time I travel to England.
I have never been there but it does look beautiful, and I assume it is the town Lewes, DE is named for.
Not participating in the CP. Felt like wearing ELdO Eau de Protection today.
Something Molly Millions would wear, I always thought, so…futuristic?
Traveling back in time to when I thought I would never see this beauty again… 😢 I kicked and screamed and beat myself up for not buying when it was widely available…if there was a hair shirt available I probably would have worn that in self-recrimination. Who has a cat-o-nine tails? I would have used that as well. Yes, speaking of my beloved Onda from Vero Kern, who I admired as much as the perfume. So completely original, just like her perfumes.❤️
Love this one so much and so happy I was able to finally score a bottle! 🥰
In other news, I’ve moved on from Anne Boleyn to Jane Seymour, whose father slept with his son’s wife which resulted in all kinds of mayhem. That’s as far as I’ve gotten in this novel, but based on this, I’m assuming there is a whole lotta nastiness about to go down…🫣
Will attempt pumpkin bread today so if you see plumes of smoke originating in the PNW that’s just me baking. 😉
Happy weekend! It’s a sunny beautiful day here and doggo and I are taking a short walk while the sun still shines.
Dang! Sorry Kris, I did it again…🥺
No problem!
SOTD Past & Future/Time & Travel: Shiseido Koto Parfum.
Back for its long discontinued loveliness; future because in the still very early stages of planning a long-awaited (and by long I mean decades) trip to Japan. And as it happens, the koto is the national instrument of Japan.
That is such a pretty one! I didn’t know it had been discontinued – I’m glad you still have it to enjoy.
Yes, it is pretty, isn’t it? I believe Koto is still out there in cologne formulation.
Oh, I hadn’t noticed you said parfum! That must have been special stuff.
I may still have the cologne floating around somewhere.
No SOTD yet for me today, but I may dig through Mr. Ockeghem’s drawers and pull out his old bottle of Molton Brown Cool. (This is a perfume that is so long discontinued that you can’t find any mention of it on the internet — it’s not one of the ones they currently have with “Cool” in the name.) He wore this through the late ’90s when we were grad students / in our late 20s in Boston; he bought it at a swish men’s department store just off Newbury St., the name of which I can’t remember, because it reminded both of us of the cologne he wore when I met him, which he kept in a film container :o. (He’d swiped some of his dad’s Abercrombie & Fitch cologne from the ’80s, from when they were more an outfitter and not…what A&F became.)
Anyway…I’ll say it reminds me of the millennium celebrations, because he would have had it along. We went to London for New Years and stayed in a boutique hotel in Knightsbridge that also had MB toiletries. We went out into the crowds along the Thames for the New Years celebration and had a lovely dinner at The Square. I hit up the after-Christmas sales at Harvey Nichols and bought a sweater I adored. Miss those days!
Nice memories! What did you end up wearing?
I put on some MB Cool yesterday afternoon. Hadn’t smelled it in forever. Mr. Ockeghem doesn’t wear it anymore, but then he doesn’t wear scent much at all.
I’m going a bit literal in Hiram Green’s Voyage 2019 today. I last wore this on a very hot summer day, during the pandemic, and it really transported me to a field of flowers in the late summer. It’s a thick, honeyed floral. This is not my usual thing at all, but Hiram Green has such a natural touch to his scents that makes this very evocative and not too cloying.
Have a lovely weekend, all!
Ooo this sounds amazing and while I have head of Hiram Green a bunch I’ve never smelled. Going to treat myself to a sample. I love a honey scent. Enjoy your weekend too!
Sadly, Voyage 2019 was a limited edition. But if you’re a fan of honey scents, you definitely should try Hiram Green’s Slowdive!
Its a most beautiful scent that was my blind buy… and not really my thing either, it turns out. My skin just hates vanilla, in most of its forms. I have to think what to do with the bottle, since it deserves to be loved, just maybe by someone else.
I hope you find someone who appreciates the scent! I have a large sample and find that that’s all I need, although now I’m a bit concerned the sample is slowly evaporating.
Trish McEvoy n9 Blackberry & Vanilla Musk. I used to work in Nordstrom at the Stila Cosmetics counter in 2003, which was next to the Trish counter. My manager and I would douse ourselves in n9 often. Oh wow, that was literally 20 years ago. It just hit me.
I was going to say I still feel as young now as I did then, but actually, I don’t. I was just starting to develop myself as a young adult and beginning the hard work of shedding adolescence and stepping into more advanced ways of moving through emotions and responsibilities. And that journey isn’t easy for anyone, lol! But I do feel firmly on the other side of that, and thank goodness because dang that was hard work!
So what I will say is that my spirit feels just as young now as it did was I was 22. And in Blackberry & Vanilla Musk I smell exactly the same!
That’s just a lovely snapshot of the past, nebbe. Thanks for sharing it.
I’ve completely abandoned the CP today for sniffing another line that’s new to me. Last Friday, I found a newly-opened shop with Sana Jardin. Yesterday Friday lunch time, I walked into a shop that I hadn’t been in for years and discovered Stora Skuggan.
I don’t really know why I’d wandered in yesterday, it’s one of those clothing shops that caters to younger folk than me and is so desperately cool and hip that my brain hurts. But lo and behold, there was the full range of six Stora Skuggan and also Abel.
What fun!
I’m wearing Bvlgari Jasmin Noir to travel back in time to when my parental grandma was still with us. She died in the mid 90s. Jasmin Noir reminds me of perfume she wore, which was certainly Avon, and probably Mesmerize. She was my caretaker while my parents worked prior to starting kindergarten and then also sometimes after school. And some of my last memories of her center around getting her help to practice and prepare for the spelling bee. I participated in the spelling bee from 4th to 6th grade. Anyway, I love the scent and comfort of Jasmin Noir.
Good memory! My Grandma always had a bottle of White Shoulders on her dresser, but when I first sniffed 1990’s Margaretha Ley, I realized that was the perfume I associated with her most!
My grandma wore White Shoulders, too. I hardly ever saw her because she lived so far from us, but I did adore her.
Oh, I haven’t smelled that in years, but I really enjoyed that one back in my early perfume days.
Aww, this post made me a little teary.🥺 My grandma was my caretaker when I was little too. I miss her dearly. It’s so nice you have a scent that reminds you of her.
I love this! You were lucky to have a grandmother with you had a relationship. My grandmothers were very different – one was an avid gardener (no child-sitting) and the other one was efficiently running a household with hired help (no child-sitting).
Your story made me think about my Grandma.
She never wore perfume, but she always had Starlight mints around for us kids whenever we visited. And a new handkerchief for my Dad.
Insolence has once again captured my heart, so doused myself today with Insolence Eau Glacee, which is like the edt but a bit fruitier. I might backtrack for a few CP points, because Eau Glacee is reminding me of early rabbit hole days day of learning that: 1. edt’s are not just lighter versions of edp’s or parfums; 2. flankers are not always different bottles or concentrations; 3. collecting different bottles *is* fun, and 4. if a tempting, different bottle has the same perfume, you might end up feeling like you have too much of the same thing. Today, March is doing the lion thing in our parts and, as I stood in the cold wind trying to make sure I did all gasoline self-serve things properly, I wished I gotten gas yesterday.
I braved it out there at a little after 5pm. It was cold and drizzling. I’m thinking it may turn into something solid later ❄️
That’s a nice list of lessons!
Trying Eau My Soul today. I am on the 4160 Tuesdays mail list and saw they are doing crowd funding for a new version and began to wonder…have I ever smelled the original? 🤔 It’s a prolific house but the more I pondered it I didn’t think I had so I ordered a sample. Sweet, spicy, woody goodness…and, as I suspected…new to me.
My birthday was this past week and for some reason I really missed my parents this year. Started that day quite sad but felt more peaceful and grateful by the day’s end.
Happy belated birthday <3 and glad you were able to find peace.
Thank you, Koyel!♥️
Happy Belated Birthday, She-ra. 🎂 I’m glad you found a happier place at the end of the day. Those times when grief settles in unexpectedly are hard to get through. ❤️
Thank you, AnnE! Yes, the intensity of my grief still surprises me at times.
Belated birthday wishes for you, She-ra.
I’ve been missing my Mom a lot lately. I wonder if it is something about this time of year?
Thank you, Jalapeno. Yes, I feel like my grief level has been higher in 2023 so far for some reason.
Happy belated Birthday!
Thank you, lillyjo!♥️
Happy belated birthday, She-ra! 🎂
Thank you, PL67!
Wishing you a late Happy birthday – sorry I missed it earlier.
Thank you, springpansy!
And I think you recommended Milk Musk a long time ago and I bought samples of the EDT and EDP (finally!), loved the EDT and bought myself a FB…so belated thanks for that rec. I think the EDT blooms and is more interesting than the EDP.
I joined that crowd funding but be prepared for the exhorbitant shipping 💸.
And a happy belated birthday to you!
Thank you♥️! And thanks for the shipping reminder too…I know it’s pretty high.
Happy birthday, She-ra! I often think of Eau My Soul as a hug, and I hope it is one for you today!
Thank you, tulipani!🥰
Belated happy birthday, She-ra!
Prior to the pandemic, we spent many long, mostly camping, weekends from April thru October visiting historical sites, music events, and enjoying nature, with at least one longer trip. We had so many favorite places we never tired of but that all ended for such a long while. Only last summer did we finally begin to revisit a few, so for Time Travel Friday my wish and my hope is to resume our former travels. 🤞
It’s hard to choose just one place to revisit but one that we haven’t been to in a long time and holds special memories is the Great Smoky Mountains. I had such a surreal, powerful response the one time we were there, I instantly felt felt like I had come home even though I was born and raised in Chicago. Viewing the scene from the top of the trail, puffy white clouds and blue sky over the very green, ever so gently rolling mountains, I had such a strong desire to lie down and slowly roll myself all the way to the bottom of the deep valley below, until I was totally enveloped in Mother Nature’s warm embrace. My choice for SOTD to capture this scene is the aptly-named Scent from Above – who best to celebrate the beauty of the Smokies but its queen, Dolly Parton!
It’s been a busy week filled with lots of fun things – seeing my former coworkers at our annual credit union meeting after the long pandemic absence, a new book group we joined focusing on science and ecology, lunch out with a friend to celebrate my town’s Restaurant Week, and the second film in our new classic film series, Love on Parade (from 1929, featuring Jeanette MacDonald and a very young Maurice Chevalier, I didn’t even recognize him!).
Looking forward to a quiet weekend at home putting away the very last of the winter things and looking forward to Spring, with a head start from Dolly’s pretty floral fragrance. Wishing everyone a good weekend ahead!
What a wonderful memory! And it’s hard not to love Dolly Parton. 😊
Perfect pick for the Smokey Mountains! I would like to go again sometimes, I visited in less than ideal circumstances both times I was there…once, way too cold, later, way too crowded.
It sounds like you used to work for a credit union. I’m a credit employees myself. I’ve been at mine for 9 years and could see myself continuing to work here up to retirement.
It’s Turbulences de Révillon for a trip back to 1981, I don’t wear it enough and I’m making up for lost time.
Nice, Aurora!
It was a fun CP with all that time travel.
I decided to go back in time, to the first proper perfume I ever smelled.
When I was a child, growing up in then communist Poland, there was no perfume around, other than occasional mini bottle of 4711, but I was fascinated by scents, flowers, fruit peels and whatever I could find. One day I was rummaging through boxes in my grandma’s attic and found an actual bottle of perfume. It was small rectangular bottle filled with vivid green liquid, with amazing, green, mossy scent. I was very keen on finding the name of the perfume, but the bottle had absolutely no markings on it and when it ran out, all I had was my memory of the smell.
Over the years, after smelling a lot of perfumes and raw materials, I concluded that it must have been a green chypre, but none of the perfumes I tried fit the bill.
I finally started thinking about what would have been actually available in Poland at the time, and realized it could have been something from the lineup of Novaya Zarya, the Russian/Soviet era perfume company. Looking at photos of their scents, I picked out three vividly green scents: Shypr, Ruskiy Lyes or Troynoy. During a trip to Moscow few years ago, I walked into a Novaya Zarya store and bought all three of them, but smelling them, I still could not find the exact match. Maybe the formulas were no longer the same. Then something strange happened: I got a sample of Emerald Moss, the Reserve Series, limited edition scent from Strange Invisible Perfumes, advertised as having notes of matè, ginger, temple mandarin, lavender, vetiver and rose. It was a vivid green color little potion that smelled exactly like my lost perfume. I got a full bottle immediately, and kept smelling it and wondering how a modern, all natural perfume from an American company that did not exist back then could be such a close match. Whatever it is, I’m so happy every time I smell it! Just to be on the safe side, I got two bottles of it. Not missing out on a good thing, this time around.
I took photos of the intrepid NZ trio and the green liquid of the Emerald Moss and posted them here: https://www.instagram.com/p/Cpn0QBFOqbi/?igshid=MDJmNzVkMjY=
What a lovely story
I’m glad you found a dupe for this scent from your grandma’s attic, even though it is not the original.
What a great story! The happy ending is best. 😉
I so enjoyed this story! Thank you!
I love this story!
Thanks for sharing this story. And I’m a fellow Strange Invisible Perfumes lover too, although I haven’t kept up on their limited edition releases in recent years. I’m so happy you found your old love in Emerald Moss.
I’m kind of taking an easy route for the CP too, by wearing HdP 1873 (Colette). I like Colette’s writing and have enjoyed this scent before in warm weather, which we have here already, so it seemed like a good plan. For some reason though today this just came at me as it wafted about and gave me those knives in the skull pains as if smelling Angel! Horrors! I think it’s the combination of some sharp pungent citrus, vanilla, and above all else, caramel, but here caramel has turned on me like a sweet candy that just got scorched. Sad!
Sorry to hear that your SOTD gave you a nasty headache. 😢
Oh how weird, I think of it as a relatively easy going scent! So sorry.
In Cuir Sacre today, which reminds me of being a grad student in Toulouse when I was a baby perfumista, sniffing my first-ever non-floral-ultra-feminine designer scents. Ahhh, my 20s.
Gosh, why didn’t I spend my 20s as a graduate student in Toulouse?
🤣 I do recommend it
I’m wearing Vol de Nuit today, because I first bought it in Paris. I went on a special perfume tour with someone I knew from MakeUpAlley, which was of course, a wonderful experience! So, there we are in the Guerlain boutique, and I had finally decided in VdN (it won out over Parure.) After I purchased the bottle, the saleslady picked up the tester and asked if I wanted to wear it, and I thought, sure, and assented. Meanwhile I notice my friend and husband both mouthing “no!” and waving their hands at me. Too late. The salesperson took that bottle and spritzed me from head to foot! Hahaha. I had no idea! It was a miracle that I could sniff anything else the remainder of the day.
That’s hilarious!
I was shocked, I tell you, shocked! 😅
Ooooooof, you got perfume bombed!
LOL! 💣
I had a medical appointment today, so I went without perfume for that. And then I forgot to put perfume on when I came home. 😖
If I would have remembered, I would have spritzed from my ridiculously cute 30mL bottle of Casmir. A sniff of that takes me right back to the late 1990’s and/or early 2000’s.
I had to interrupt my post to clean up a hairball. Ugh! 😾😾
Ugh to the hairball!
How is Spooky doing?
It’s taking a while, but the probiotic is starting to work. Her “litterbox emissions” are looking better.
Oy! Glad Spooky kitty is doing better.
(… as she adds “litterbox emissions to her repertoire …)
Spooky was *not* the hairball tosser!
I’m wearing SSS Winter Woods today mostly because of seeing ChocolateMarzipan8 yesterday, but also it fits the cp: reminds me of outdoors and all our fun family camping excursions. Looking forward to more camping this summer!
Hi springpansy, I just sent you an email!
SOTD = Aftelier Alchemy
“Every time I wear this, I tell myself I have to wear it more often.”
This came in a rollerball format, one of my most hated dispensing applicators; however, I decided not to McGyver this to make the application method more palatable. Instead, I just roll it several times on my hair and voila!
I am with the CP because if I had a very small limit on how much liquid I can carry on my travels, this would be it. It is very wearable and won’t gas anyone out pretty much no matter how much of it I wear. I can’t remember when I bought it but it has never travelled with me. I may bring it on my cruise in May (historic coasts Boston to Boston via Holland America).
In other news, I know it is past the deadline of selecting Medicare plans but here is food for thought (my thought is never pick Medicare Advantage) for next time. Also, how terrible it is if you are not allowed a choice, which I think is illegal – I am not a lawyer, just a lay person expressing my views.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/10/business/medicare-advantage-retirement-nyc.html
Wow, you will be going on that cruise pretty soon! Getting psyched?
I am traveling back to 2005 and my perfume is SJP Lovely. I was just getting into perfumes and my family got Lovely for me for Mother’s Day. I remember the ad copy for the fragrance with Sarah Jessica Parker in a pink tulle ballet type skirt. I was not young then but my career was still forming and I had a lot of angst. My father was still alive. Weird to look back and consider the losses that were yet to come. But a lot of good has come also.
Lovely smells as good to me now as it did then. I wear it less now because I have so many more perfumes.
Safran Troublant– has it really been at least a decade since I first met Hajusuuri in person? We met up to go sniffing at the Caron boutique in NY and she gave me a decant of Safran Troublant.