Rabbit rabbit rabbit! If it's Saturday, welcome to April and happy April Fools Day. It it's Sunday, happy International Children’s Book Day (aka Hans Christian Andersen’s birthday).
We’re celebrating all the occasions (and preparing for Donatella's visit on Monday) with our standard open thread poll. Talk about anything you like — the fragrance you’re wearing today, the last fragrance you almost bought but didn't (yet), whatever.
Or, ask a question about fragrance, then see if anyone else has asked a question that you can answer…
Note: the 85g chocolate bunnies, stuffed with chocolate fish, are available in dark and milk chocolate at La Maison du Chocolat USA, $32 each.
Good morning- Rabbit x3
Rainy day today, April Showers…
I am smelling cozy today in Gris Charnel. Like have a plate of figs with a nice cup of spicy tea. Perfect for today
I am still reading Let it Come Down
Also, have been listening to apples new classical music app. So far I like it.
Gris Charnel hand me down bottle by the way- was a gift from a friend. I don’t think she didn’t like it per se, but she broke the sprayer and couldn’t be bothered to fix it.
We had a rainy morning but sunny skies now
Trying desperately to catch up with New Yorkers, so that is my reading today.
I am a little confused by the chocolate rabbit filled with fish. Why fish? Is there a rabbit/fish connection of which I am unaware?
I can’t believe it’s April already, but I say that about almost every month that goes by. Today I am wearing Aedes De Venustas and thinking about my next vacation. Maybe somewhere in the continental US, I haven’t been to DC in a while.
In France you can give chocolate fish for Easter, it’s as popular as giving chocolate rabbits and I suppose La Maison Du Chocolat combined the two; I believe the origin of the tradition is that early Christians recognized each other by drawing a fish as a cryptic sign.
Thanks!
And in Iran, goldfish are part of the Nowruz table.
Yes, for Nowruz I have my kids draw a fish lol 😂
Also, instead of April Fool, the expression in France is Poisson d’avril (April fish).
Last one I almost bought (and still might) is PE Iskander, because Beautyhabit had a code last week. A classic, can’t-go-wrong citrus chypre.
But I bought plenty last quarter, which Donatella will be hearing about next week…
If PdE would just do travel sizes I would buy them all
I second this!👏🏻👏🏻
10.5 hours sleep.
haircut day
We have one granddaughter turning 13 today. A teenager!
Made appointment for nose piercing. one tiny diamond stud before I turn 70 in May. why not?
Fenty today post shower. This is one of my most complimented fragrances.
170 days to Africa.
Well done on the appointment for the nose piercing! I got mine pierced about 35 years ago, and have worn a little ring ever since.
cool! I have only pierced ears done at 13. Never did anything else. After the stud heals, a silver ring will be there.
I had my ears pierced at 13, too. My Mom would not let me do it any sooner than that.
Mine made me wait until I was 16. And then she made me have them pierced in a doctor’s office. Good thing too, because I fainted afterwards. 😂
Ahhh. I went with a friend years ago when she had her nose pierced. I loved it.
Hello NST folk, coming to you from Cairo! It’s 6pm on Saturday evening here, and it looks as if I’ve arrived nice and early for the weekend poll.
Everything has gone very well so far on our trip. I told myself that I wasn’t going to believe that I was going to visit Egypt until I actually got here, and here I am
We’ve had a day trip to Alexandria, seen some of Cairo and visted museums, and tomorrow is the pyramids at Giza and Saqqara.
I don’t have any perfume news yet, I sniffed a few new-to-me things in Sydney airport, but we didn’t have enough time in Dubai airport for serious exploration.
We spent about 2 minutes in a perfume shop outside the Egyptian Museum just before our bus left, but I’m hoping for further opportunities.
there you are!
Enjoy!
Have a wonderful time!
Glad you made it and are having a good time. How amazing to see pyramids in real life!
Wonderful!
Have fun!
So excited for you! Can’t wait to hear about it all. You are on my dream trip. 🤩
Yay, so glad all is going well!
So very exciting!
Glad to hear you made it there and are having a wonderful time!
Rabbit, rabbit, rabbit! 🐇🐇🐇.
Rainy, but warm and humid day. We will reach the mid 60’s, so I am keeping all windows full open. I was thinking about postponing my errands, but decided to go outside and enjoy the warm temperatures.
I am starting a week of incense perfumes. I need some calm and peace feeling during this Holy Week. Layering Aftelier Ancient Resins Body Oil with Comme des Garcons Jaisalmer.
Finishing my second cup of coffee and a toast with peanut butter and jelly and ready to go out.
Happy Saturday! ☕️
I love incense perfumes so I look forward to seeing your choices. Enjoy your mild weather!
I think we have not done an incense community project in a while. I will give some love to those incense perfumes that I don’t reach for often. Or I may also mix them with some of my favorite ones.
We are having beautiful sunny skies now and 68 degrees. This is the first warm gorgeous day of the season. I am really enjoying it! 🌞
I found a bit of L’AP Passage d’Enfer this morning and pulled it out for this coming week. You and I were on the same perfumed wavelength!
I have Passage d’Enfer on my list to wear, so we will be twins this week.
What a great idea to wear incense perfumes this coming week!
It will be very comforting.
Rabbits for all! And also fish, because the French term for “April fool” is “poisson d’Avril”, “April fish”.
I’m in Molinard Habanita EDP, the excellent 2012 reinvention.
Thanks for the explanation, I also did not know why fish.
SOTD = Le Lion de Chanel
I will sound like jalapeño and say so near yet so far. I really am one wearing away from thunking the bootle, so there’s that!
https://www.instagram.com/p/Cqf-J2Uu3qG/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
And my Saturday gift to you is:
https://www.instagram.com/p/Cqf7LTkudrH/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
I’ll come back again with more later!
I am wearing “hajusuuri” amount of sprays today -8 sprays
Love it! Maybe there can be an I dare you to use 8 sprays CP!
So cute!
Thank you!
Hello, hajusuuri!
HK and Le Lion are an inspired combination!
That was a coincidence!
So, what did you get at LUSH? Do tell!
Sticky Dates Co-mingle (shower scrub)
Sticky Syrup Soap
Candy Rain Conditioner
Lush x Lazy Oaf Body Spray
I chickened out of buying Golden Egg shower cream because it was too … golden.
Ah, I might want that scrub. I love the shower gel.
Rainy Saturday here too, but not warm enough to open the windows. I’m spending my Saturday (and probably the next couple of weeks) cleaning up all the paint splatters my #%&$! painter left all over my beautiful hardwood floors. So easily avoidable if he had covered the floors properly. There is no such thing as good construction work. It’s either messy, poorly done or both. And it’s crazy expensive, like everything else nowadays. Enjoying a Cadbury egg in preparation for Easter, as well as some lovely hot cross buns.
That must be so annoying. Good luck.
Oh no, so frustrating for you, hope it’s coming off easily with turpentine,I assume.
I’m hoping our bakery will have some hot cross buns during today’s weekly shopping run. I may go on a quest next week if not, for I love them. Sorry about the paint mess!
I got my hot cross buns today. I didn’t want to wait until next week because they usually sell very fast at my local bakery during this season.
Hot cross buns have become so popular here,we get them all year round.I like the chocolate chips version because I do not eat raisins.
Pass me a cadbury egg.
Drat, hate that. Hope the egg helped.
ZOMG, what a pain! Sorry about your floors.
I was really surprised to come across a bottle of CDG Daphne in a shop here. I thunked a bottle ten years ago and hadn’t seen it since so I sprayed the sample and it seemed pretty much the same as I remembered…big and strong. The trees are all golden now and the leaves are dropping, and crunching underfoot. But even so there are signs of regrowth as all the rhododendrons are already forming new buds, they will open in late August.
I have a bouquet of Daphne from our yard and am obsessed with sniffing it. I’m also looking forward to the blooming of another Daphne in our yard that puts out smaller, jasmine scented flowers. Ah, Spring!
Oh, how nice to have daphne in your yard! It’s pretty abundant in my neighborhood, but I’m sad that one of the closest apartment buildings with daphne bushes in front removed the bushes over the winter. I can’t understand why either. They’ve planted new things but I will really miss getting my daphne fix there.
Why would they do that!?! I know what you mean about having special smell spots in the neighborhood. I’ve missed certain bushes when someone thought they could improve upon a Daphne. Impossible!
I love smelling daphne in the neighbourhood. It is such a mood lifter.
Are you going to re-purchase that bottle?
I’m thinking about it. Not sure what to do. I also saw that Kalamet is available in NZ from a place that sells a lot of Middle-Eastern scents and objects, clothing…and that is tempting, too though it would be a blind buy.
I have seen Kalamet mentioned on here-you should get it and then tell me how it is. lol
Daphne is a unicorn here.
Now I am really tempted to go back and get it.
How fabulous you found Daphne!
That particular CdG is impossible to find here. Grab it if you like/love it!
I agree!
Smoothie Gala apples and yogurt
As I did not participate yesterday – fell asleep early after several too short nights – I am wearing Paris, one of the flankers, Roses Enchantées, really good, like many I have also the original which I love too.
Still debating what to wear tonight.
I hope you have a great weekend
Thank you Kanuka; about CdG Daphné, it found you so you’re meant to be together😃
Luckily the shop is shut on Sundays so I can act rationally until tomorrow!
Happy April! Got a marketing email from Evan Healy (organic products company) that actually made me LOL; an announcement of their men’s skincare line, featuring photos of men in rugged outdoor settings performing various ablutions. Following the pics, it says April Fools, skin is skin and “good skincare is genderless.” Tell that to the poor beleaguered Old Spice guy & his bodywash!
April’s come in like a lion in my neck of the woods with damp chilly winds. Am in 24 Faubourg, since it was mentioned a few times last week.
My favorite April Fools was Tom Daley’s crocheted toilet paper!It’s even washable!🤣🤣🤣
We are having yet another dreck day, the temperature has dropped 12 degrees F since I got up this morning. It’s also alternately pouring rain or wet snow, with high winds. But the grass is beginning to green up and the buds on the maple trees are popping so hopefully we’ll get some ☀️ soon.
After that long whine, I’m wearing Gris Clair for the melancholy aspect and watching old movies this afternoon. Maybe I’ll be less crabby after a nap.
Falling temperature-twin – burrrr. Grey skies blowing in too.
Ugh, I’d be whining too.
I think I would take your weather instead of the Tornado Watch that was just issued for my area! 🌪️
Angel Muse edp today – chocolatey and woody. I never knew Angel OG in all its glory. I was not aware of Mugler fragrances at all until rabbit-rabbit hole.
The first one I tried was Alien edp which I liked right away, so I never bothered to look into Angel. But eventually I branched out. I really enjoy Muse, and Angel edt, standing star version. I’ve got a bottle of Muse edt on the way, as I think several NST’ers recommend it. Scary winds and NWS warnings last night; I was awakened by a couple of small-but-from-high-up branches falling on the roof. No damage but they made thumping and crunching noises so that it was a while before the adrenaline cleared out! I was surprised how small they were when I saw them this morning.
Congratulations on your coming bottle, the EDT is fruity goodness, quite different, you’re right to have both soon.
I’m so glad April is here! Hopefully we’ll all enjoy mild, sunny days very soon.
SOTD is Puredistance no. 12.
I did not get a chance to post yesterday but I celebrated Tour Eiffel day in le Parfum de Therese.
Best wishes to all of you!
I’m a big fan of Le Parfum de Therese – you smelled lovely!
Ah, great call on the Therese!
After a typo of a couple of days ago I was thinking about what perfume of mine might be considered a Party Perfume – have to go with ELO’s Bendelirious, the cherry-cola/iris concoction that says Wheee! when it’s sprayed on.
But of course Bendelirious!!
Always and forever my go-to party perfume!!
Happy Saturday!
🐇🐇🐇!
SOTD!
Dr Vranjes Rosso Nobile edp.I think I manifested this one,as I’ve always wished their room spray could be an actual perfume!(Love the Rosso Nobile room spray and have been using it for eons).Notes say grapes,but I get a solid strawberry note too.Lovely stuff.
Donnatella will be very happy on Monday!Haha!
XO’s
I bet you smell delicious.
It’s a fun fragrance,and the ambroxan in this one is luckily just a whisper that is bearable.
Happy Saturday! Or Sunday!?
I always look forward to reading the Damage Poll.
Haha!Well it’s Sunday now!
8:06 am.Sunny blue skies and what looks like one final Hurrah of a Summers’ day.🌞🌞🤗
Enjoy it!🌞
Our April Fool’s treat was snow this morning. And lots of wind. Followed by sunshine and melting.
Afternoon shower followed by Aveeno lavender body lotion. I love lavender. So, added a couple spritzes of Burberry Brit Rhythm.
Anyone recommend a good lavender scented (or non-Eucalyptus scented) shower bomb?
LUSH has a “Sleepy” scented shower bomb, but I have only tried the shower gel. The gel is definitely lavender and tonka.
I love my Burberry Brit Rhythm shower gel followed by the perfume when I’m in the mood for a lasting lavender fix. 😊
🐰🐰🐰!
It’s WARM and muggy after a rainy, thunder-y start this morning. The little weather widget on my new laptop said that it was 71 degrees F here not too long ago. I turned off the heat around lunchtime. But it will probably be turned back on tomorrow.
So I guess Mother Nature is having a bit of April Fools fun.
SOTD = Guerlain Aqua Allegoria Rosa Rossa EdT, from the Sample Stash and hajusuuri. She and I are “so close to thunking this” twins today. 🤣🤣🤣
We have about 2 weeks to go before we hit 50….
There is a truly nasty looking weather front headed my way this afternoon, according to the local weather folks. It’s probably going to hit within an hour.
Stay safe!
Logged in to let you know that I am OK. The Tornado Watch became a Tornado Warning, but all I got was lots of rain, pea sized hail, and lots of straight line wind.
No broken windows, and the power is still on.
Oh how scary!
I’m glad you are ok.
We had major rainstorms here last night and today was only in the 30″s.
I’m down so many rabbits already this year, there’s probably no hope for me. But, spring is in the air and I’m wafting BF Au Delá today.
Worked last night, slept today, woke at 5pm, had breakfast and coffee, fed and walked the doggo, then got a called off due to census drop. WIDE awake at this point and probably will be all night….🙄
There is always hope, rabbits or no rabbits
What is a census drop?
It’s when the number of inpatients dropped to the point that management decides a unit is “over-staffed” and proceeds to cancel nurses scheduled to work that particular day/night.
Gotcha. That seems unfair, like everything else.
Remembered to rabbit at 3 am in an on-and-off night’s sleep. Got a much-needed haircut this morning, and watched just about every kind of weather — we had torrential rain, gorgeous sunshine, hail with thunder, howling winds … ah, springtime in Oregon. Wore Tam Dao for serenity, and think I will join pl67 in a week of incense — sounds lovely.
It would be very nice if you join me in a week of incense. I am interested in what you will be wearing, since incense is one of my favorite notes.
Delighted! I’m starting the week today (Sunday) with La Via Del Profumo Hindu Kush, a very amber-y incense.
You smell great! I finished a sample of Hindu Kush a couple of years ago. It is a very nice green spicy incense with an interesting pine sap note.
Best chocolate rabbit image ever! Rabbitx3 !!
SOTD=Mon Precieux Nectar, best impulse blind buy ever!
Hope today was a good start of Spring for everyone!
Don’t those look delicious?
Wearing L’Artisan Passage D’Enfer for my week of incense scents.
After a warm, sunny day in the upper 60’s yesterday, today is very windy with temps feeling in the lower 30’s. This is crazy!
Having a cup of hot chocolate with a dash of cayenne pepper and a hot cross bun for breakfast. I hope to finally finish my taxes today.
Happy Sunday! 🌿
Your hot chocolate sounds wonderful!
Delish!
Wearing L’Artisan Passage D’Enfer for my week of incense scents.
After a warm, sunny day in the upper 60’s yesterday, today is very windy with temps feeling in the lower 30’s. This is crazy!
Having a cup of hot chocolate with a dash of cayenne pepper and a hot cross bun for breakfast. I hope to finally finish my taxes today.
Happy Sunday! 🌿
Oh my god, that is real weather from the sixties to the thirties.
You smell discreetly elegant in Passage d’Enfer, I have a bottle too, never tried the newish extreme.
Drastic changes in the weather are becoming more frequent lately. At least the day is sunny, which I appreciate.
I haven’t tried Passage D’Enfer Extreme yet, but I hope it is as good as the original one.
I’m back home from Esxence.
It was exciting but also super hectic and tiring. Especially on Saturday when visitors without accreditation could enter the fair as well. It was just too many people inside to be able to be productive.
But I smelled my fair share of what I wanted to smell and tried also some stuff I haven’t given a go before. Plus many brands I just decided I won’t try since I wasn’t tempted to approach them just by looking from the distance. Yes, I’m being a bit judgemental but Esxence is not a Pokemon game and you can’t “smell em all” – gotta filter the good stuff from mediocrity.
Welcome back, Lucas!
Hello there NSTers.
Relieved by today’s calm weather. It’s about 20 degrees cooler than yesterday, and there is a Freeze Warning for tonight. So I am on the same temperature roller coaster that PL67 is.
The National Weather Service confirmed that a EF-1 tornado did touch down in my area last night, 2 towns away. A little too close for my liking.
SOTD = Guerlain Aqua Allegoria Rosa Rossa again.
I don’t know if we actually had a tornado but we got some serious wind and a bit of hail. The temperature drop today was stunning but we did have a nice walk in the sun anyway.