It's Monday, and if you're in the US, Memorial Day. It’s also National Biscuit Day and JFK’s birthday. What fragrance are you wearing?
And if you have a friend or family member who died while serving in the armed forces, and you want to tell us about them, please do.
I'm in Hermès Eau des Merveilles.
Reminder: 6/2 will be Powder Puff Friday...wear something powdery! This is a repeat from 2015.
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 San Diego - Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery [cropped] by Bill Morrow at flickr; some rights reserved.
Today I’m in ELdO Charogne, which reminds me of Hermès Vanille Galante, only less cloying. (Hard to believe a Hermessence could be cloying, but I have a very low tolerance for that one in particular.) Funeral lilies, vanilla, some leather. Confusing but fascinating. Hell of a thing.
I love Charogne and that is a wonderful description. A beautiful, weird hell of a thing.
I’m wearing Nina Ricci Fleur des Fleurs, which is the kind of civety classic floral that doesn’t exist anymore. I’m glad to have found a bottle at an antiques mall.
What a nice find, love it when that happens!
Remembering the men and women who gave everything for their country, today and everyday. 🇺🇸
I dithered about this morning trying to decide what to wear. Then I wonder, do I really need to dither? Maybe a should just do a week of sticking my hand in the black hole that is my “perfume cabinet” and blindly grabbing a bottle and calling it a day..?
No, instead I skipped over my full bottles all together and snagged my decant of Initio Side Effect. Works great on a cool morning.
I have appointments to make and chores to do, but I’m having a hard time getting started this morning…🥱
I do this too, dithering over a choice! I think random would drive me nuts though!
I hope you get to rest a bit longer today.
I do that too.😊
I went with my sample of Parfum de Therese. It’s beautiful and shares some aspects with my bottle of Femme.
It was 32 C yesterday-today it’s about 5 C and freezing. Had to take my plants in last night. Hope anyone who has today off gets to enjoy it to the max-holidays are pretty precious and I feel more strongly over this as I get over-we should all work less and live more 🙂
I don’t know where you live but we had EXACTLY the same weather here on the east coast of Canada: yesterday was 32°C, no real humidity so not quite enough for us to turn on the AC but right on the cusp, and this morning it was 4°. So random!
Pyramus, I’m in NS-I think we’re pretty close neighbours 🙂 I went for a bike ride around 7 pm, when it was cooler-got caught in a rain shower shower and when the rain really started to hurt I realized it was a hail storm 🙂 Didn’t last long.
I’m in NB: we were promised a thunderstorm last night (unsurprising, seeing as how the temperature plummeted 20° in a few hours) but it never materialized.
I thought you were in Nfld. I lives in NB for 16 years-loved it! I lived uptown , and then out in Rothesay. Had a perfect view of the SJ river. I still miss it!
Such a fabulous scent. You smell lovely!
Thank you, Coumarin 🙂
Not heard of this scent, but if it’s like Femme I bet it’s fabulous!
Hi, Kris-
It’s by the same perfumer, and it’s not identical to Femme, but they’re definitely related. PdT has a melon note, which I love. It’s the dry down where I find the strongest resemblance.
I’m in Carthusia 1681 today. It does have a wee bit of powderiness so it’s in keeping with the CP, but I chose it mostly for its rosemary note — rosemary for remembrance. I have had relatives who served in the military, and the one who always comes to mind on Memorial Day is my father’s father. I have a picture somewhere of the very young him with some of his army buddies, sitting in the mud under a tree somewhere in WWI Europe and probably enjoying a smoke break. He would have been 19 or 20 at the time, and he looks so different from the very reserved gentleman I came to know.
Gosh, 19 or 20 sounds so young doesn’t it!? Thank you to your grandfather.🇺🇸
Yes, horrendously young. He didn’t marry my grandmother until he was in his 40s, and I sometimes wonder if it took him that long to recover from his wartime experiences. He passed away when I was only 14, and I wasn’t sufficiently aware then of what war does to people to ask him about it.
I remember being shocked at how young my Dad looked in the few pictures I saw of him when he was in the Navy during the Korean War era. He was in his early 20’s at the time.
Those old photos are treasures.
My Dad was in the Army during the Korean War. I have some pictures, but a whole case of slides. He was really organized and dated them, made cute comments, but I don’t know his story. I intend on giving the slides or a copy to The Korean Memorial. I wish I knew his story. He was just about to go through them when he got sick.
From the little I was told, the closest my Dad got to Korea was Pearl Harbor. He really didn’t talk about it much.
Robin, you smell great! I recently thunked my second travel spray of that one. A perfume I discovered thanks to this blog. I think I may just as well go for the 100 ml next time.
I’m in Carven L’eau de toilette from a sample. It came along with the sample of Le parfum, which I do think I prefer, but this is nice too.
We are having the most amazing weather you all!🌞 Saturday I spent most of the day cleaning windows and it was a real hassle. Our house is 86 years old, so all of the windows have several leaded panes in them which makes for a tedious job. Yesterday I just kicked back and enjoyed the fruits of my labor lol. Ended the day out on the water in our canoe with my husband and teen doing the paddling. Doesn’t get much better than that.😉
Hey, you smelled great today too! Although like you, I preferred the EdP of that.
Other people doing the paddling…perfect.
Hello all!
A rather cool and cloudy Memorial Day. Not conductive to me doing much more than walking little Jicky and knitting, but I’ve got quite a bit of homework still.
Wearing a dab and a half of Coromandel parfum, just because.
Have a great day, everyone!
I’ll take cloudy if it means more cool!
I still laugh at your little dog’s name. 🙂
And, you smell divine!
You smell wonderful 😊
I’m wearing Patou Heritage Chaldee and smelling wonderful, especially since Mr ringthing is painting the bathroom ceiling with mold killing paint and boy, does it smell strong.
Powdery scents sound good this week, I have several choices. Chaldee, according to Fragrantica, “The fragrance is oriental, floral, spicy and powdery” so I’ll take CP points starting today!
Yeah, the bathroom paint is stinky! But fortunately it doesn’t stay that way.
And it works!!
After yesterday’s purchase of Amouage Memoir, I put a freeze on perfume buying. Just remembering my grandfather’s naval service in WWII. He helped clean up Japan after the war. Wearing no 5 edp today.
Dawn, you are singing my song! I have so many wonderful treats from the recent swap- and splitmeets, that purchases are best curtailed for a bit while I enjoy them. I always appreciate the efforts my NST friends put into sharing through the Meets!! But I am loving my sample of Amouage Opus IX, and thinking about going out with that. 🙂
No smell wonderful 😊
Obviously, I meant YOU smell wonderful 😊
According to Fragrantica all my iris scents are powdery, though I don’t know that I agree. Nevertheless, I will wear iris all week. Starting out with ELdO She Was An Anomaly today.
Candle of the week is Sea Salt and Orchid by Anchored Northwest. Some of you may be familiar with them as they are made in the PNW. I ran into them at a local shop, but noticed they do have an online store. No affiliation here, but you may want to check them out. Some lovely scents and come in wax melts too. 100% soy.
A week of iris sounds great!
I went to a beautiful vigil held for the fallen. Everyone held flickering candles as prayers were said, the colors were shown, the bagpipes played and the grandmaster of the parade giving a tearful speech. A vet honored our local fallen, calling each name back to the Civil War and a flag was placed for each soldier.
Wearing Lush Pansy. A pretty perfume for a pretty day.
It sounds very moving.
It was a tear jerker, for sure.
That was a wonderful moment. Thank you for telling us about it!
Thanks for reading. I just came back from our parade and was again so touched. Our town took the parade seriously.
Veterans, gold star families, active military, our town responders, police and firefighters were shown respect all along the entire town. People came for that one hour and left.
How nice.
So nice, Kris.
The outpouring of love felt like the way we should treat everyone, everyday.
All things are possible.
“Taps” always makes me cry, but especially on Memorial Day.
I was a mess. Last night really got me.
Especially, the Pastor/Veteran Representative saying, “Thanking veterans for their service is nice and you should do it, but ask them if they are getting everything they need. Benefits, insurance any support or help. ” He went on and directed us to the Veteran’s Rep-him- in a moment of levity. And then gave places to direct and spread the word.
What a lovely memorial!
Smoothie is satsumas and yogurt
I started the day in Private Collection Jasmin White Moss, not sure why EL mixes French, Jasmin, in with the English but the scent itself is very springlike and very like Cristalle EDP pre-reformulation.
Tonight I’m in Boudoir, quite powdery, so by chance it’s suitable for the CP, now that the scent is discontinued even though it’s still quite recent, maybe two years, prices have gone up ridiculously, honestly it’s a good perfume but it’s not worth all that money, but then with my mania for backups I can sigh with relief as I have two bottles quite by chance.
When did they reformulate Cristalle?
2 BUBs. That’s love. I rarely do BUBs, but now only in ones that I have loved forever. I’ve thunked quite a bit this year as I have been home and put hajusuuri to shame.
Between 2010 and 2012, EDP is now much more similar to the EDT which has always been drier and brighter which is lovely in itself but one version like that was enough, the whole point of the EDP was that it was sweeter and fruitier.
I’ll have to compare! Thank you for the information. You never know when this happens.
The price did go up ridiculously.
I don’t think you can really get it here anymore.
It seems it was here one day when I got a BUB and then gone and immediately inflated prices.
I had a small dabber sample of Cristalle ages ago and thunked that one rather quickly. Don’t recall if it was EdT or EdP.
Oh, I think it should be your next purchase, perfect for summer.
It’s very dark in the mornings now, but we’re also getting closer to the shoetest day. Even though the coldest days are yet to come, it’s nice to think that the days are getting longer again, minute by minute.
I’m in the mood for something a bit spicy today, so I’m wearing ELd’O’s Spice Must Flow.
Seasons are nice, do you think?
I was thinking I have 3 weeks until the longest day of the year.
And then it’s straight to fall! 🙃🍂🍁
You know it!
I’m closing the patio blinds at 8:45 in the evening now!
I’m wearing Atelier’s very odd Mistral Patchouli, such a weird scent but I love it.
Robin, thinking of you.
Thank you foxbins. This weekend was a struggle but we are still going.
Each Memorial Day I think of my dad’s youngest brother, my Uncle Chester, who was a medic in WWII and who was killed at the age of 23 in Luzon, the Philippines, trying to save a fellow soldier’s life. I also think of my dad, who was newly married and also in the Army attached to an Air Force unit, and who was stationed in England during WWII loading bombs into planes. He didn’t see my mom for 3+ years! Can you imagine? And I think of his other brother, my uncle, who was in the Marines serving in the South Pacific at the same time. And, as the mother of an adult son, I think of the strength my grandma must’ve had, to have all 3 of her sons serve in WWII at the same time, and one of them never came home. Can you imagine? I don’t want to. As the saying goes: all gave some, and some gave all. 🪖🎖️
Had a wonderful day today spent with my son and family in a belated Mother’s Day celebration. He baked me the most delicious – and beautiful! – Black Forest cake complete with perfect brandied cherries atop the whipped cream frosting. It was a work of art as well as ❤️. I wore L’Occitane’s original Cerisier edt, a soft cherries/rose/peony scent, perfect for a glorious late spring day when my peonies just opened and some of my shrub roses are in full bloom. 🍒🌸🌹
Your mother’s day celebration sounds wonderful Laila.
Thank you to your family for their service.
My dad spent four years in the Philippines during WW11
I keep a picture of him above my desk in his Capt. uniform, so handsome he was. The other picture is my mother working at sperry gyroscope in the Chrysler building in NYC during the war.
They went to school and high school together but it wasn’t until after the war, they bumped into each other on the Staten Island ferry and my dad said, I’m going to marry you!
My sister and I have drawn a lot from our parents stories of the depression and how war separated families over the years as we have gone through Covid.
Thinking of your family’s sacrifice.
Thank you for sharing your story; we often forget what they went through then. My mom not seeing her new husband (they were only married a couple of months before he left) for over 3 years!
It was. I told my son when he retires as a HS match teacher he should become a professional baker. The cake was absolutely picture-perfect, down to the cherries on top that he brandied himself. (Not to mention the wonderful time I had visiting with everyone!)
Your grandmother was an amazing woman. Gold Star families get all my respect.
I’m sure my grandma was like many others who went through what she did, but I just cannot imagine having all 3 of my sons in harm’s way, all at the same time!
Posting a little late today. It’s still sneezing season here, with plenty of pollen coating everyone’s car. At least it isn’t bothering the cats this year.
Thinking of the Memorial Day observances at Fort Logan National Cemetery. My family is lucky; no one that I know of ever died in service to the county. And I had plenty of uncles and cousins in the military.
SOTD = Korres Guava lotion on my shins. And a few tears, for the solemn occasion.
I was thinking of you today, remembering you come from a military family. I do also, and treat today solemnly.
It’s funny; I don’t think of myself as coming from a military family. My Dad was long out of the Navy by the time I came into this world. Various cousins were in and out of the service when I was growing up. So I see it as more a family tradition.
I’m still crossing my fingers. I have younger family members in the military, currently.
I know it really messed up a good friend of mine when he lost his team leader. Obviously, but, watching the impact on a soldier left after the ultimate sacrifice is made by another has led to such pain this many years later. The team leader wasn’t supposed to be there.💔
Fingers crossed for your family members to get out safe and sound.
In 1993, a young man I had gone to school with was killed in Mogadishu Somalia. I have been thinking of him all day. I went down a sad rabbit hole of reading everything from that time.
I am wearing Arizona for no particular reason and I paid too much for pizza because I don’t want to turn on the oven.
Losing a classmate that way has to leave an impact. I’m sorry.
That pizza was worth whatever you paid, IMO.
I worked today at our local market. Busy. Wore Riviera Verbena. Absolutely gorgeous weather here. Although I got hammered yesterday with allergies – even got a slight fever. Almost woozy from the tiredness. Ate some dinner in bed and conked out before 9. Felt fine today.
My grandfather died in WWII, but I believe he was a civilian. He was headed to the Persian Gulf a few months after we entered the war as part of an effort to enhance ports and supplies to Russia. He disappeared off the ship he was on in the middle of the night. An investigation was done but no resolution. He simply disappeared (not bad weather). My grandmother never really felt satisfied with the answers. My Dad didn’t supply much detail, but we found a suitcase full of the various official letters when going through things after dad passed away. My sister is considering trying to get more info.
I caught the last bit of taps being played at one of the memorials this weekend.
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Wow, how very sad about your grandpa! And he was never found? That makes it even worse. So sorry!
Wow, that must have been so tough, never getting any answers.
I went to high school with boys who went to Vietnam. All so young.
We lost a family member in 2018 in Iraq. The whole crew died in a helicopter crash. It has been so painful to see what a Gold Star family goes through.
Yes, I totally agree! I, too, went to school with boys who went to Nam and know some who never returned.
My sympathies on the loss of your family member, apsara.
Hey all, I am back from my vacation and have just been chilling out. We had a family get-together this afternoon and early evening – nice!
My SOTD = 4160 Tuesdays Clouds Parfum. I am taking points for the CP because it is powdery.
My nephew is in the Navy and is currently in training to eventually work in a submarine 🤞which I understand is pretty hard to get into as you pretty much have to be hand-picked by the Commanding Officer of a submarine. Regardless, he will end up getting assigned somewhere.
Welcome back! Hope you had a great vacation.
Was it fantastic?? Did you drink the 15 cocktails every day?
Welcome back!
Welcome back! How was your cruise?