It's Hump Day. Happy 82nd to Bob Dylan! It’s also International Tiara Day aka Queen Victoria’s birthday. And, PSA, the splitmeet is still going! What fragrance are you wearing?
I'm flight-adjacent, in L'Artisan La Chasse aux Papillons.
Reminder: on 5/26, we're celebrating National Paper Airplane Day. Wear a fragrance inspired by air travel, or with "air" in the name, or do whatever you like with the theme, the sillier the better.
And for those of you who like to plan ahead, see Scent of the day ~ Friday community projects 2023, where I'll try (but usually fail) to have the next five or six weeks mapped out in advance.
Note: top image is Bumblebee, [cropped] by Lord Jim at flickr; some rights reserved.
Hello!
Wearing Iris Silver Mist, on a clear cold spring day here. Plus a dab of Je Reviens parfum on one hand-I thought these two scents were similar, but they’re not. They evoke a similar reaction in me, but they’re not similar.
Hope everyone’s day is good-I get my new glasses later today-bifocals-eep. Hope I get used to them quickly. Bering able to see things clearly will be a treat!
Good luck! My first progressives were a hard adjustment, but after a couple weeks they were fantastic.
I had the best interaction with my optrician over my new progressive lenses. She informed me it was time, as I am getting older and my eyes need the help. I said something like “okay, sounds good….and this will help delay any continued sight deterioration, right?”
Her response: “Oh no, I am so sorry if I gave you that impression.”
I guess some things just go south!
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2579627/
An article about how our sense of smell deteriorates in old age….start using up all your perfume now!
Noooooooo!
ACK!
Hello all!
Today, “air” is En Passant, the scent of walking under a lilac tree. On the one hand I wish I’d bought a big bottle, but I’ve been really enjoying my Lilas Exquis for my lilac fix. Even A Drop d’Issey has a surprisingly lovely lilac note.
Have my first test today. Nervous but I should be good!
Have a great day everyone.
Good luck! I’m sure you’ll go great. I may have missed it , but have you said what you are studying? And are you back on campus?! Fun!
Thank you! Just finished! I’m finally going to complete my bs in Chemistry. Taking a few classes this summer to reacclimate and should be transferring to a 4-year college next semester.
Very good luck, hope you ace it!
Thank you! It seemed to go well! And he’s very generous with the extra credit so fingers crossed.
Yay! Good for you.
Good luck!
Thank you! 💓
You’ve got this! And you smell wonderful.
Thank you! I’ll report back when I find out. ☄️
Best of luck, how brave to go back to college.
Good luck! Wishing you well for your test.
Good luck with your test, and with the semester!
Robin you smell great! La Chasse was one of the first samples I ordered from luckyscent when I fell down the rabbit hole. So pretty.
I’m in Un Jardin Cythere today. This morning it is just a little cooler but still sunny, it felt just great. Should be perfect for a lunchtime walk.🌞
It was an early purchase for me too. I am surprised at how well my bottles (regular & extreme) have held up.
when I visited my mother last week I noticed “something smells gooood”
Turned out she was wearing Cythere, from a sample… she wore it so much better than I do.
To be honest I only tried it once but on my skin it fell flat, when my mother wore it I could pick up something nutty (almost pepper’y) and fresh at same time.
Lunchtime walks are good idea, I should do it more often!
I’m continuing my L’Artisan week in Bana Banana. Now this is sweet, but not too sweet and I definitely get the banana (flower?) note.
I’m not a big fan of sweet, but this one has always intrigued me.
I love Bana Banana! It’s pure happiness to me. I will say that I find it pretty dry, rather than sweet. I wish it smelled like the top notes forever but I do enjoy the base.
This smells just like Ambush, the original, to me. You smell like my mother. ❤
I am continuing with MossyBerry’s theme from last week on perfumes I have learned about through NST friends. Today is Chanel Paris-Deuville. Can’t remember who it was I gave the enabler pin to, but maybe that person remembers. It is going to be warm today here and this is scent is perfect for that. On me it is very limey/lemony. I like it 🍋
I forgot, if Pfsh is on today, I left you another note on yesterday’s post.
Hi friend, I saw your comment! Thanks for sharing your thoughts on PdE, I will have to test them sometime, I am curious to see if my reactions to them will be similar to yours.
I’m in Hypnotic Poison again, by accident. My vintage bottle showed up behind a bunch of stuff and on the wrong shelf. I thought it was thunked years ago, it certainly looks empty, but I got a couple of sprays. It smells fabulous but not that different from my newer bottle of HP, which is good to know.
That is very good to know, and you smell fantastic!
What a pleasant surprise!
I always liked the texture of the vintage bottle. I don’t know why they changed it.
Oh thanks for the report! I don’t love HP and have been curious to try the vintage to see if it was messed with at some point.
Nice to know that some perfumes have survived in a recognizable form to the present day.
Maybe that would make a good CP?
I am wearing Madame Rochas from a vintage bottle layered with a rose body lotion.
It is crazy busy at work, trying not to loose it, the perfume helps.
Have a great week.
Don’t lose it Hera! And good luck!
You chose a beautiful scent for a rough work week-you smell great!
Good luck!
I hope the crazy busy week calms down so you can catch your breath and relax a little
Twins on almost.losing it,also why I chose to have my weekend start today!!
I almost lost it yesterday with stress. Hope that everyone who is really feeling it gets a break from that.
Hello fragrant friends!
Today I am in a sample of Guerlain Iris Ganache, thanks very much to the generous hajusuuri who is on a cruise right now
I maintain what I said last time about Iris Ganache — it’s more of a meringue than a ganache thanks to the airy quality it has. On me, it is a lovely vanillic violet and doughy iris dessert. Guerlain does great vanillas, always elegant and never too much.
Going for a concert tonight for a local electro-synth-rock queer pop musician! On a weeknight! Still deciding what perfume to wear for that.
Have fun! If you want to stick with Guerlain, I suggest Insolence EdP. I call it a PhD candidate in latex. 😂
I have a sample of Insolence somewhere! On me it veers too sweet but I’ll have to retry with your image in mind haha!
I have not tried Iris Ganache, but it sounds like it may to be too sweet for my taste. It sounds like you are enjoying it. It was discontinued, wasn’t it?
Ignore the ganache part,you totally should sample it(original,I cannot speak for the re-issue).It was love at first sniff.Totally fun iris!
In Heeley Hippie Rose today, thanks to a generous NSTer. Today is going to be a very rose-themed day. My ultra fragrant pink old roses are in bloom and I’m going to harvest a bunch of them this morning and turn them into a tincture/extract. And this afternoon, a friend is coming over to help me dig up and pot and hopefully not kill all of my rose bushes. After four years of happy, beautiful, successful gardening, my landlord has suddenly decided that she doesn’t want flowers or shrubs on the property, so everything will be cut down unless I dig it out first. I’ve gone through all of the feelings about this, and have arrived at “The heck with it all; let’s just put on some surf rock and get out the shovels and have a laugh.”
What kind of person doesn’t want flowers and shrubbery? Especially if someone else is taking care of it. Jeeze Louise.
https://youtu.be/69iB-xy0u4A
Couldn’t help myself. Lol.
Ha ha! I think I’ll have to quote that a few times this afternoon. Landlord is elderly and becoming increasingly irritable and irrational, so what can you do? In her mind, bare dirt is better looking than beautiful clumps of hummingbird sage, lilies, penstemon, dahlias, and David Austen roses. Such a bummer.
Do you have any pictures posted of your garden-I’d love to see it, before it’s rearranged
Sounds like dementia. Do you know any of her relatives you could call on to intervene before you destroy it all?
Boo to no-fun landlords but hope you have a good time repotting regardless!
A rose tincture sounds lovely, do you dry them before tincturing or fresh? I’ve been getting into making tinctures (mostly resins and woods so far) so I’m curious what folks are doing
I’m trying this for the first time, but on the recommendation of all the wise witchy women on the internets, I’m just steeping fresh petals in cheap vodka. The hope is to have a big bottle of multi-functional pink loveliness that can go in cocktails, bath water, wee doses in tea to lift the spirits, etc.
That sounds lovely! I’ve got tinctures of pine resin, patchouli, lavender and sandalwood going in 80 proof and 190 proof alc, also hoping to use those as a nice little refreshing spritz every now and then
The pine and patchouli are super fragrant already even though its only been a few days.
I also used to work for an herbalist and we made medicinal tinctures, pretty much always using fresh materials. My medicinal herb garden (which I do get to keep) is cranking this year thanks to all the rain, so I’m planning to give the medicine cabinet a nice boost!
Your landlord needs to have his head examined. What a killjoy! 👎🏼 I hope you can save some shrub and plant lives today.
The landlord should have been pleased to have a garden with zero effort on her part. Good luck with saving your rose bushes.
Wait…..WHAT???🤷🏼♂️🤷🏼♂️
So sorry you are renting from a deranged person, I hope all your lovely rosebushes survive!
WTH? That is nuts, pure and simple. Plain dirt allows for invasive weeds to grow plus you have to worry about erosion.
Here’s hoping your bushes live long and prosper in their new home. I wonder if your landlady is thinking of selling the building, and got some not good advice about “staging” the property by taking away all its personality and patina. That way, it would look like a “Housing Unit” rather than people’s homes. Maybe this is paranoid, but given the trend toward neutral that I’ve detected, the thought crossed my mind. Rose twin in Guerlain’s Rose Cherie.
Cool day today again, so I’m continuing my week of “scents I had to fly to buy” with La Curie Ossuary. I’m not sure I would have discovered this one if I hadn’t stopped in and tested scents while we were in Tuscon.
You smell great! I’m a big fan of Ossuary and Incendo, both have so much depth and are so well done.
I’m back in L’Artisan Santal for my “Time Flies” version of the CP.
Long discontinued (my first experience of losing a beloved perfume), it takes me back to the early days of exploring the world of fragrance.
Interesting, I cannot remember my first discontinued perfume. And I must have smelled the Santal at some point but I don’t remember that either.
It’s definitely not the most ground breaking scent but it really resonated with me at that time. I bought 2 bottles on the spot when they told me it was being discontinued (I didn’t understand that I could find it on the secondary market, at least for awhile).
I’m CP adjacent in vintage Amouage Ciel (Sky). At least, I think it’s Ciel. It’s from one of those old beautiful ornate bottles with a cap that looks like the top of a mosque that has no indication of which perfume is in it. It’s definitely either Ciel or Reflection, and some years back I was able to try current versions of Reflection and Ciel and decided my vintage is Ciel, both in juice color and scent. But I do second guess myself sometimes. 😆
I’ve worn some heavy hitters so far this week otherwise. Monday was L’air de Rien, which I’ve been craving lately anyway so was a perfect chance once the CP was announced, and yesterday was L’air du Desert Marocain. I’ve got a really old bottle of that one in original packaging that has about 8-10ml left. I am curious to sample the current version to see if it smells the same.
I’ll send you a sample of the current LADDM so you can compare😊
That is so nice of you! ❤️
If you do compare vintage and new LAdDM, please let us know what you discover.
I will!
I had to get a test done today at the hospital so I am wearing Ilio hair mist.
It’s a gorgeous day here. It looks like I will have a couple of more day’s before I will have to turn on the air conditioner. It’s might get to near 90 next week.
Good luck on the test, Lillyjo. Already 90 next week? It’s too soon, hope you don’t have to use AC at all this week.
Hope the test results are good. Enjoy your gorgeous weather
Hope all is well, lillyjo. Hasn’t this been a beautiful string of sunny days? But I’m not ready for August temps yet.
I’ll hand over Summer to you now.Keep her safe till I need her back.🤣🤣🌞🌞🌹
Cool & rainy here today but we’ll be near 90 next week too. Way too soon!
Hope that your test results are good!
Hoping that I don’t see 90’s for a while. They usually arrive with a big whopping dose of humidity, yuck.
Hope your results are normal and the test was painless.
💜
We’re having a spell of overcast mornings followed by sun and temperatures in the 70s, so I’m taking advantage in my favorite sweet cloud — Profumum Alba over a dusting of Le Dix powder.
The combo sounds divine.
My brain is not computing 82= Bob Dylan…😳
Wearing Le Lion today which at first would seem to have no possible connection to anything remotely resembling “air.” Sadly, I have a small decant from a previous split-meet that is rapidly evaporating. So there’s my air connection. Not the kind of connection anyone wants! 🥲I think the top notes are beginning to turn as well. I’m glad I have a decant but see no reason for a full bottle.
The heat is starting to ratchet up and so is my level of irritability. How did I live in Florida for 30 some odd years..?!
I have a Le Lion decant that’s doing the same thing. I’m spraying liberally to use it up and an NSTer also recently commented on how well it wears in the heat.
Totally agree that it wears well in the heat! I’ve been doing a single spray up until now. Not anymore! Numerous sprays is the way to go. 👍🏼
That’s the main reason I don’t like decants. I have the worst luck with them. I hope you get to enjoy it too it’s fullest.
I’ve had pretty good luck with decants over the years. Never had one evaporate this fast. Ever. But i think almost everyone would prefer full bottles if they could afford them….
And he is about to start another tour.
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s Moth! (for a flying thing)
😀
Nice one!
Well done on cp-points!!🙌🏻🙌🏻
Excellent!
Clever!
Smoothie is Gala apple and yogurt
An old school chypre today Alix Grès which smells fantastic and not unlike Private Collection but for tonight I was in the mood for sweet, so it’s Lush American Cream.
Do you use plain yogurt in your smoothies, or flavored?
Plain yogurt😀 for fewer calories.
I’m linking the air theme to breath, so wearing Breath of God.
Happy birthday to Bob….note to JB: He’s never played in Africa during his world tours/ never ending tours. Add him to your list!
Another cold water day, hopefully the last.
Boo Hiss to Bob Dylan!(but also happy birthday,as I appreciate his talent).
I wanted to go on another rant about our exclusion from the world on so many levels,but I’ll give it(and NST!) a rest.
So many of you have been to South Africa,so you know why I am passionate.🌹❣️
South Africa is Toppie!
I am terribly sorry but I think there is actually a note in the comment policy that prohibits boo hissing Bob Dylan.
You may boo hiss ANYBODY else who has failed to come to Africa, I don’t mind a bit.
Hahaha!
Noted.
But thanks for letting it slide this once.🤣🌹
Wishing you a hot shower soon!
Breath of God! This could be a cp. A Lush week or a house that is for protecting the environment and all creatures.
Had to do some grocery shopping today and have to finish the rest of it tomorrow since I just about ran out of funds. Currently in Lyric today.
You smell wonderful!
Weekend starts NOW!!
No surgeries tomorrow and my admin is fairly up to date so I am taking a long weekend.
But so much to do!
In other exciting news,my Hermès scarf collection has grown by 2….eeeeeeeekkkkk!!!!
Wish I was still active on insta to link some pics,but these two are stunners.And they are NOT going to the dry cleaners again,thanks to you guys and the tutorial someone linked(sorry I forget!)to an at-home safe silkwash.
Nothing to report on my SOTD,other than I got really stuck on the complexity of Vanillary,and how nice it layered with Dirty to create a pineapple-ish note.
Hope everyone has a good week!
XO’s!🌹🌹
Enjoy your well deserved long weekend! I’d love to see those scarves…wish I had the fashion panache to wear them.
They are so precious that it would really need to be an occasion or fabulous event for them to come out of storage…!
Ooh how exciting, which two scarves did you get??
https://www.1stdibs.com/fashion/accessories/scarves/hermes-le-matin-neuf-silk-twill-scarf-joachim-metz/id-v_2445773/
This is one of them(not this particular one,I’ve relayed the story about my source)
Congrats on the scarves! I have a couple but don’t have the moxie to wear them.
Oh fabulous!
You should wear them!(says he who stores them only to be taken out and gawked at every so often!haha!)
After the crazy week you had, it must feel great to have an extra day of rest. Plus new scarves!
Yay to everything you said,YES!
Yay for weekend!!!
And congrats on the new scarves ☺️
Thanks Jiji!🌹🤗
Happy Weekend and happy scarf collecting!
Thank you babes!🤗🤗🌹
😊❤️
Expecting eventually you’ll be reporting your 100th? And they’ll have to have their own dresser, ha!
Haha!Imagine a collection that big!That would be awesome!!
Watch this space!
I need one of those antique haberdashery display cabinets they used to have in stores,so guess that is my next obsessive mission!
🤗🌹
Running late this morning, so racing by to say that I’m wearing Chaldée today, and looking forward to reading everyone’s comments later.
Do you like Chaldee?
RIP Tina Turner. I wasn’t expecting this news today.
I’ve been sitting down with a heating pad for most of the afternoon. My back was extremely unhappy when I woke up. It started aching yesterday but was not bad enough to keep me awake last night. I think it’s a combination of overdoing stuff and stress. Bleah.
SOTD = Korres Guava lotion again.
Wow, bad news about Tina, I loved her. Healing vibes for your back. I’m still grinding my way through the bad cold so I sympathize.
Thanks cazaubon. The Advil and lack of errands today seem to be helping.
Is your cold getting any better?
It just keeps shifting painful locations but not gone yet… right now the sinuses are the worst.
I hope your back feels better soon. Sometimes sleeping with my feet elevated helps.
Thank you lillyjo!
Tina Turner? Ugh.
Hope your back eases up. The heating pad is a really good thing.
I have always wished that I had legs like Tina Turner.
I know, it was a shock.
Really sorry about your back, hope the heat is helping.
SotD
Ombre Leather, Tom Ford
For a long and very busy day in the office.
It was sticky warm inside, with lots of intensive meetings.
When I stepped outside and felt the cool wind it was such a relief!
(office is in The Hague, a coastal city which means there often is a nice breeze… well nice in summer. In winter it can be too chilly)
I once gifted Ombre Leather to my husband, but I think I wear it more often. 😄
I can feel the relief along with you! I hate long days of meetings.
I came back to post about the new Laura Mercier Neroli du Sud that was posted about the other day. I stopped at Macy’s earlier and sprayed it on skin ( because I am really not too smart) it is very much straight up Neroli, which I always struggle with because it turns to dirt smell on me. It drys down to ambroxan so right now I am smelling miserable. If you like Neroli though you might like it.
I tried the Vanille and Amber Vanille too. I didn’t detect any difference between them and the original release, but I only sprayed on paper.
You *are* smart! Just enthusiastic about perfume sometimes. 😉
Too enthusiastic for my own good! Lol.
You have talked me out of the neroli, so thanks for taking one for the team!
Another perfume from NST’ers that I might have put off trying even though I am a Guerlain Fan Girl: Rose Cherie. Though Rose is not one of my best notes, Rose Cherie was perfect for meeting a friend today for lunch and enjoying some time at her beautiful old farmhouse. She and her husband moved to the country in 1974 and steadily fixed up the old place. They also cultivate lovely beds of native plants. Their house hits the sweet spot between an historic monument and Great Grandma’s old place, if that makes sense.
Your friend’s place sounds like how I always pictured Elrond’s house in the LOTR books.
Adding in the gorgeous weather and singing birds and towering trees, especially the sycamores, you’d not be too far off. If I wasn’t such a born and bred suburbanite, I’d be a wee bit jealous.
But they do have a poison ivy problem!
Heh, there are places here in the suburbs that have poison ivy issues! Some towns and cities are using goats to deal with it.
SOTD: Rodin 3 Olio Lussa
Thank you to all of your kind comments yesterday. It really meant a lot.
I went to the doctor’s parking lot. I didn’t want the no show. I texted I was there. A nurse was sent out and I waved her away, wrote ‘covid’ and held it up. They didn’t tell her. It turned into a circus. They were not happy I told her. I couldn’t believe they through her to the wolves.
Just so happy to be home.
That poor nurse! And poor you! What a 💩show.
Oh my goodness. I hope you got good rest today after all that, and that you sleep well tonight.
I am commando today. Got up @ 5am for a meeting and was able to squeeze in a shower.
Scented or not – I couldn’t let the day go by without a nod to BOB – just for Robin.
Am listening to Blood on the Tracks now while finishing up some work.
Thank you apsara! I can’t listen to Blood on the Tracks today because it’s too sad, so I feel like you listened to it for me
Was in a group meeting this morning, so went with one of my pleasant, inoffensive scents…Twilly.
Am laughing about my eye doctor. He’s very good, but he prescribed me something 2 weeks ago that is prohibitively expensive and not available in a generic version. So I asked him to change it to a concentration that does have a generic version. He didn’t believe me. Two weeks later, after some research, he’s writing a new prescription. Sigh.
Allergies are making me tired. Either that, or it could be I’ve just been busy.