Rabbit rabbit rabbit! It's September, and the start of the long Labor Day weekend. Our community project for today: wear a fragrance that pays tribute to your own work, paid or unpaid, or that will bring you good luck for the month.
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'm paying tribute to my work on Now Smell This in Carthusia Mediterraneo, which I was wearing back in May 2014 when we started doing daily scent of the day polls.
Reminder: on 9/8, wear a fragrance with saffron, if you have one.
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: the Lalique Toulouse rabbit ("Lalique celebrates 2023, the Year of the Rabbit in Chinese astrology, with the crystal Resting Rabbit sculpture") in Gold Luster is $650 at Bloomingdales.
Hello and TGIF!
As an orthodontist, I would be unscented for the CP, or wait, I would probably smell of bleach and disinfectant! So, instead, I chose to wear something that would bring me luck; Guerlain Herbes Troublantes. I imagine being surrounded by four leaf clovers would probably feel like this.
Strong wind and torrential rain for the past 3 hours. Only good thing is that it’s not as hot anymore…
Madtowngirl if you are reading, my Barbie is the perfume version, I don’t know how the body spray compares. Hopefully it will be nice though!
Ah, good to know. I’ll see if my store has the perfume- it is tiny.
Happy Friday everyone!
I’m wearing Sira des Indes that I blind bought for a great price. The banana note works well for the scores of bananas that I have served school children over the years.
I really like this one but it is, sadly, rather fleeting. I get lots of cardamom, which is nice, but it requires the hajusuuri method of application. We should have a code for that!
Quick PSA – For some inexplicable reason, Nuxe oil was $5 and change on Amazon prime this morning. Delivery isn’t until September 20 button I’m fine with that. Hope this is helpful!
Wow, wonder if it is a mistake?
I rechecked and it’s coming from a different seller using Prime shipping. My order was $5.02, but to find it, I needed to use the price search button. I had just happened to have a bottle left in my cart at $18 yesterday and when I went to purchase today, there was the new price. It will probably be corn oil lol
Ha, I hope not!
Thanks for the heads up about lack on longevity on Sira des Indes!
Yes it’s disappointing. The opening is great, it has some clever perfumer’s magic that creates a banana note out of ylang and vanilla orchid (I think) but before it can really develop, poof it’s gone. Beautiful bottle, too.
What a great tribute, Robin! You smell fantastic.
I was planning to wear Lush Lord of Misrule, but a few hours ago I came down with something, probably a stomach virus, so I am commando. However, I wrote the following comment in advance, so let’s just imagine I am in this perfume.
Today I am matching a scent with a book about books: Lush Lord of Misrule and “If on a winter’s night a traveler” by Italo Calvino. The book is very meta and a complete mindscrew. Imagine you bought a new book and look forward to reading it. You start reading, but just when the things get interesting, the rest of the story is missing. What would you do? Probably return the book to the bookstore and demand the normal copy. This is exactly what the protagonists do. And then it happens again. And again. And again. Oh, and apparently you, the reader, are the protagonist.
My choice of the perfume is the reference to a character in this book. He is a fake translator and a trickster who claims that the whole point of the literature is to confuse, mislead and deceive. So in his opinion there is nothing wrong when a translator, for example, replaces the names of the characters with the names from a completely different book or inserts the passages from another book. Yep, he is the lord of the misrule.
This is the book I have read recently, by the way. My favorite unfinished story in it is “Leaning from the steep slope”. To think that I will never know what will happen next to the prisoner and his girlfriend and whether the meteorologist is actually a member of a secret organization the purpose of which is…
Hope you feel better soon Glannys.
Stomach bugs are awful! Get well soon.
Feel better soon, Glannys!
I love that — I first read Calvino about a year ago (Invisible Cities) and loved it.
I don’t love the stomach bug, though — feel better soon!
Extra points, and sure hope the bug does not last!
Feel better soon!
Sending recovery wishes, you did well all week with the CP, this is no exception.
Yikes, hope you are soon on the mend. And I love your description of the Calvino.
I hope you feel better soon.
Your book reminds me, in a sideways sort of way, of B.S. Johnson’s The Unfortunates, where you can read the chapters in any order you want.
Hope you feel better soon. Loved your post! 🤗
I hope you feel better soon!
Ugh, stomach bugs are horrible. Hope that you shake it off super quick!
Thank you, friends! I managed to keep some food down, took ibuprofen and slept for seven hours. I just woke up and read your replies. ❤ Feeling much better already, and the fever is gone.
Oh good!
Rabbits!
I couldn’t think of anything that would fit the theme, and then I figured, well, I bought most everything I own, so that’ll have to do. Today — a surprisingly cool, fall-like morning — I’m in late-nineties Samsara EDT, which is pretty close to the version that hit the shelves upon its launch a decade earlier: so much jasmine, so much sandalwood, and so good.
Yes, so good. You smell great!
Lucky you, having that version of Samsara!
Darn, forgot my rabbits, again. I did enjoy reading the rabbiting link you include, Robin, esp the passage from a Trixie Belden story (not sure why I haven’t clicked on the link before). I loved Trixie.
We’re in Lake Geneva, WI for the weekend for a family wedding (hi Madtowngirl!) after a very long day of travel “adventures” yesterday. I am wearing Guerlain Iris Torrefie because I think it’s beautiful and that is sure to be good luck right there!
Omg, so close! Isn’t it gorgeous today?
I said a few extra sets of rabbits, so I’ll pass a set on to you.😊
Yes, beautiful day today! Thanks for sharing your rabbits. 😀
Enjoy your weekend, springpansy! I loved Trixie Belden too.
Have a wonderful time at the wedding!
I have not clicked on it in so long I don’t remember the Trixie Belden story and will have to read it again!
Enjoy the wedding weekend.
I loved Trixie! My sister and I would lay on the floor for hours to read.
I remembered my rabbits and I am going to go with a spray of Memo African Leather since we are leaving in two weeks!
Enjoy the festivities.
Enjoy your weekend in Lake Geneva, a beautiful place to be on a gorgeous day’ 🌞
Enjoy both the weekend and the wedding!
Rabbits! Wering Mona di Orio’s Dojima, which I love. I have it in the travel sprays-3 x 10 ml long test tubes. I love this format and find it elegant.
This is a warm scent for me-it has amber and woods and verryyy dry spices. It’s not like anything else I own or wear. I really love this house and find it a bit under the radar, in perfume land.
Long weekend here and the Exhibition is on town. Barns of 4 H crafts, quilts, and animals. 4 H is still a big deal here and I find it so charming to see what all the little kids make, and I love seeing them with their animals and the prize ribbons displayed. The weather is sunny and warm for the next week-I hope everyone has a great long weekend!
I think 4H is still a pretty big deal in the rural parts of my state too. Big farming country here. What part of the country are you in? Have fun.
I’m in Northeastern Nova Scotia, in Canada 🙂 And thank you-we will! I always wanted to eat a candy apple, but I always have so much dental work, even as a child. Maybe this year I’ll try one.
I can vouge that candy apples are just as tasty if you eat them like a lollipop rather than biting through the coating 😋
My high school had a 4H club. It’s still very much A Thing in the western US.
I could not fall asleep last night so I was still up at midnight and said my rabbits at 12:01. Good luck? I hope so. I said a few extras for those of you that forget.😉
If I had some Abel Nurture on hand, that’s what I would wear for the cp since I work with new moms and babes. I’ve thought about getting a bottle and making it my wear to work scent. Instead I’m in Vanille Insensee which is a close second. I’ve gotten compliments regularly when wearing this one and can’t imagine it would offend anyone. I think my bottle is suffering from evaporation though. The color has gotten darker which is usually an indication to me that the juice is becoming more concentrated. Better use it or lose it. When it’s gone I think I’ll replace it with Eau Duelle.
It’s a gorgeous morning here! Just a bluebird of a day. I was up early (despite my insomnia) and walked over to a local coffee shop that has outdoor seating. Enjoyed a latte and read in the sun.🌞 Wish I could start every day that way.
We have no major plans this weekend. This is the first Labor Day since 2017 that we’ve been home. Usually we get an Airbnb this weekend and help my college daughter move house. But, now she’s my college grad so this year we are home. Next fall we’ll start the cycle all over again with madtownteen.
I said my rabbits at 12:01 too!
Although I just realized you are an hour behind me .. but I still think it’s cool 😎🌞
Have a great weekend!
Oh wow, yeah, I never thought about the time change between us before! I should have though, when I was growing up we would head to the UP for skiing and we always had to get up super early because we would “lose” an hour on our way.
I love your expression “bluebird of a day.” We are having a bluebird day here, too.
Lovely!🌞 Then we turn hot for the next 4 days, I’m guessing you will too?
Yes but that’s ok. Good lake weather 😎 I think we’ll be in a boat Sunday afternoon with friends.
It’s been a bluebird of a day here as well!Sunny and perfect with a light breeze and 28°celcius!
Spring is heeeeere!!🌞🌞🌹
Enjoy!🌞 I had to look up Celsius to Fahrenheit, you have a much warmer spring than we do.😉😎
Hope you will fall asleep early tonight, we’re twins in VI.
Thanks Aurora! We smell great.😎
Gorgeous weather twins today! Sending you wishes for a great night’s sleep tonight.
Thanks Jalapeno!
Wearing Scherrer today. Scherrer smells like “wealth” to me, and I work for a bank (though I am not wealthy!). However, I’m taking a PTO day today LOL
It’s such a beauty, you smell delicious!
Ha, perfect!
You smell divine!
As I need focus and a calm and clear mind for my work, I chose a scent that helps me attain those things. I have a few of those, but went with Trayee, which feels meditative and calming. I hope everyone has a great weekend!
Hope the Trayee is working its magic austenfan.
I was a paralegal for almost the entirety of my working life, with a brief foray into bookkeeping, and one thing that has always, always attended my work is paper and ink (sometimes even fountain pen ink!). So my choice for the CP is Encre Noire.
Very clever! Well done.
Nice, plus you smell great.
Love the cp tie-in!
Oh perfect! I love the smell of ink.
I went literal with this one, and I’m wearing Biblioteca, a perfume oil by Alkemia. This is in honor of the 38 years I’ve been library director my small, rural library.
That’s amazing, 38 years.
I love all libraries. I bought a book by Alberto Manuel called The Library At Night. I bought it in part for the cover: a donkey, wearing saddlebags, and a sign around his neck that says Biblio Burro 🙂 The saddlebags were tightly packed with books. When we’d visit my grandparents in rural Cape Breton it felt like a special treat if the Book Mobile came to the highway. They stocked so many books, given their size, and would bring in things they thought my grandmother might like. Thank you for running a small rural library for 38 years 🙂
Yes, thank you, PriscillaE!
You could switch up later to something Dewey!
Love small rural libraries! As a shy girl in a small rural town on Long Island, the library was my haven of peace.
Today is my last day (and my 18 year anniversary) of working in a University library, it’s a tad bittersweet. Do you have a Dewey cat?
Congratulations on the completion of your library career! I worked in libraries in my teens and early twenties and loved it.
Since I am “retired” a goal is to keep it summer as long as I can, so my SOTD is “Summer Vibes”, in the delightful blue and white bottle! Does that count as CP adjacent, sort of? Adorable hubby is getting his next to last infusion before they will decide if he is indeed a candidate for surgery. So much waiting!
Fingers crossed 🤞🤞
Wishing him the best!
Hey, that works perfectly!
And more fingers crossed.
🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻❣️
I hope everything goes smoothly for you and your husband and you get good news and a helpful plan from your medical team. Lots of love.
Adding to the crossed fingers!🤞🤞🤞
Fingers crossed here, too. 🤞🤞🤞
🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻
Best of luck to your hubby!
My interpretation is simply wearing a Work Perfume, of which I have an entire tray. These are perfumes I usually wear just at work, and today, a non-workday, I’m wearing L’Attesa.
Smelling great! I love a perfume tray.
Rabbit rabbit! SOTD and for Friday, in celebration of a (big) promotion at work is Fendi vintage Extrait.
I start in the new department on Tuesday, much bigger, nine departments reporting up to the College Dean’s office, and over 400 employees (Faculty, Staff, and students).
It’s exciting and I’m more than nervous! But I’ll hit the ground running. Today, I just celebrated 18 years with the library, it’s a little bittersweet to move on.
Just as when I was a kid, I’ll get a new water bottle, pens, folders, and I wish I could bring my Josie and the Pussycats lunch box, but that’s an impossible wish! 🙂
Congratulations, that’s so exciting! And you smell beyond fabulous.
Congratulations!
Exciting news!Congrats!
Wow, congratulations to you, SmokeyToes! That is exciting.
Congratulations on the promotion, Fendi extrait must be gorgeous.
Congratulations 🎉
Congratulations, you’re going to hit it out of the park at the new job!!
Congratulations!
How wonderful. Good luck!
Congratulations, SmokeyToes!🎉🥂
Congrats! 🐇 🐇 are already working for you!
Thank you everyone, for the wonderful wishes! I have a student who loves perfumes, I gifted her with a hugs bag of samples which she can enjoy. I feel like a fragrant fairy godmother. 🙂
Congratulations!
Congratulations!
Congratulations, SmokeyToes! Smelling great! (I also loved getting new pens).
Congratulations! 🎈🎉🎉🎊
I’m going with Nomenclature Minted today, which I’ve been wearing a lot lately. The link to the CP is both the name and the colour of the bottle — I work in financial services, so at least if I lived in the United States both “mint” and the green colour would work. (Also our $20 bills are green up here…)
We’re also having a “bluebird of a day”, after a week of smoke and rain. My kid has been home all week and dying to organize an outing with her friends to the Exhibition here, less so for the animals than for the rides. Today she gets her wish, and it’s the first time she gets to go without parents, so we’ll see how it goes.
The kid is growing up!
I enjoyed Minted as well when I tested it(ended up with Iri_del(I think that’s the name!))
Glad to hear that you had a day of perfect weather and no smoke today!
In Imaginary Authors’ Memoirs of a Trespasser—because at work I write and write and write, but am only an imaginary author 😉
In personal news, my husband and I are heading to the motherland (his, not mine) in mid-September to celebrate our 25 years of hedonistic and adventure-filled marriage. Okay. I am just kidding about the hedonistic and adventure-filled—but I just wanted to write that! (Loving but frequently tested by the decades of health challenges faced by our younger son doesn’t have the same ring.) Anyway, we are off to Scotland for a big road trip, and I couldn’t be more excited.
How exciting!!
It’s beautiful up there at the start of Autumn!
Scotland is the wildest part of the UK, you’ll have a great vacation.
I like your scent for the CP. You have creative thinking on that one.
That is exciting. I imagine the countryside will look beautiful with all the heather .
Congratulations and have a wonderful trip!
What a wonderful trip! Very exciting, it must be gorgeous in Scotland in September.
Oh, Scotland will be wonderful! I’ve been there at all times of year (the last time was a February beach vacation to St. Andrew’s…my kid was on break and all the other families headed south, but we headed north since Mr. Ockeghem was speaking there and in York). It’s wild and wonderful and beautiful and full of sheep and the most amazing cows, from Edinburgh to Islay to Skye to Aberdeen to the Shetlands.
We’re landing in Edinburgh and then westward ho! All the way to the Outer Hebrides. My husband was born and raised in Glasgow, but we have done very little travel in Scotland.
That will be an amazing trip! I’ve always wanted to go to the Outer Hebrides.
Have fun!
Congratulations on your upcoming 25th Anniversary and trip to Scotland!
What lovely news! And the “story” about your marriage shows you are an author with imagination 🙂
Wearing Calvin Klein Obsession. The first perfume that I bought with my first job’s money. Even though I do not wear it often, it has a very special place in my heart and my collection.
Another gorgeous day here. I am leaving work in an hour and looking forward to the long holiday weekend. I will stay home doing my usual cleaning, cooking, etc, and most likely going out for grocery shopping and errands.
Happy Friday! 🌞
Happy Friday M!🌹🌹
👋🏻💕🌻
I love your SOTD, and I have since for about 35 years 🙂
I think that very few perfumistas like or wear Obsession these days, but like you, I love it.
I can join this club, I have Obsession from several decades and love it.
me too! I have a tiny kidney bottle of the parfum. Its smoky spicy goodness still takes my breath away.
Never could pull off Obsession back in the day. It went very much Eau de Dude on me. 😖
Since I am retired, I decided to pay tribute to one of my “unpaid” volunteer jobs. I do work for the Alzheimer’s Association and the signature color there is purple. Purple reminds me of violet and iris so of course I am wearing FM Iris Poudre today. I always get so many compliments when I wear this and it certainly is a beautiful scent.
Yes to Iris Poudre!
What a great match for your important work
You smell wonderful and thank you for all of the work you do💜
It is a passion of mine since I used to educate staff on Alzheimer’s when I was a nurse consultant and I had a mother and grandmother that suffered from it. I have dealt with it as an educator and a relative. Two very different roles.
Smelling wonderful, Kris! It’s already been said, but thank you for your important work.
You are welcome. See my note to Allo.
I’m retired, and I no longer own the fragrance, but this made me think of the time I dropped and broke a sample vial of Creed Spring Flower on the floor of the locker room at work.
We never forget the broken perfumes.
Now that has the sound of CP in the making…
😀
Sad that you dropped the sample, but I bet it greatly improved the ambience of that locker room.
Well, I thought it did!
Happy Friyay!
🐰🐰🐰!
Standby weekend,so far so good…
SOTD!
Guerlain Chamade,which to me has always been a cooler weather scent,but many a times people here have mentioned it as a Spring fragrance.And seeing as Spring has sprung over here it’s just gorgeous for today!
The SOTD-thread was an awesome idea Robin,I’m so glad it’s still going strong!
Enjoy your Labour day weekend up North!
XO’s
I think Chamade would work in 3 of the 4 seasons. The only one I can’t picture wearing it in would be summer.
The staying power of the scent of the day has been a surprise!
I’m another retiree here, but I’m wearing the first “grown up” scent I remember buying with as a working person. I couldn’t afford a big bottle, so I bought the purse spray of L’Heure Bleue parfum in the blue and white patterned case. I can’t remember how many bottles I’ve bought since, but I always buy the parfum. I think that despite reformulations it has managed to retain its beauty.
Smelling good 😊
L’Heure Bleue is lovely.
one of my favorite classics! You smell great.
Happy Friday and happy September, all! I chose Fille en Aiguilles for the CP. I’m a fire ecologist and worked for years in the spicy, piney woods (now mostly in mixed hardwoods and oak woodlands, which are less fragrant, but equally lovely), and this scent has always felt a bit like ‘home’ to me — a whiff of smoke and the scent of resinous trees warmed by the summer sun. Plus, the name of the fragrance — there’s me, a girl out in the pine needles…
I love the images you’ve created in my mind, and love your scent of the day.
The smell of sun-warmed conifer needles is a comforting and happy scent for me. Your post made me think of it.
Rabbits all around, and happy Friday to all.
I am also retired, but I started working in my field (theatre) when I was 16. My first big professional gig was on tour with Angela Lansbury in MAME about 50 years ago. She had a bottle of Elizabeth Arden’s Blue Grass on her dressing table and she always smelled lovely….if I had some Blue Grass I would wear it today.
Instead, I am enjoying Ineke’s Poet’s Jamine and will smell lovely for my book club at Happy Hour!!
Wow, wow, wow on Angela Lansbury. 🤩 What a dream that must have been. She was immensely talented and had such a prolific career…thank you for sharing. She and Diana Rigg are probably my two favorite actors of all time…both steal every scene they are in.
Just so you know that your admiration for her is not misplaced, she was the most amazing person and performer. I learned a great deal from her, life lessons as well…she was just the best.
What an awesome memory.
It was a pretty great way to start a career!! unforgettable
How fantastic! Have a lovely book club
Thanks, our book club is over twenty years old, yet we still have plenty to yackty yack about whenever we get together!!
Very cool memory! I have and love vintage Blue Grass – will wear some for you tomorrow!
Thanks so much, haven’t smelled it in years, but the memory remains…
What an incredible memory!
Hey you, I’m late to the party on this one…you are moving!!! what an undertaking….all best wishes.
Yeah. Change in life situation. I’ve been saying goodbye to NJ over the summer. I will miss it, and the friends I have made here.
But I will have the support of relatives out in CO. Two of my cousins are excited to hear that.
Love this, such a treasured memory. Thanks for sharing it!
17 years in an academic library – thankfully not all in the same position! It’s fun to spot other library folks here, I didn’t realize there are almost a handful of us. I’m wearing Santal Blush because something about it reminds me of paper. Maybe the dryness. It’s also just occurred to me that I could’ve worn something very synthetic and plastic or metallic – for all the electronic resources that libraries now purchase. Something from CDG perhaps?
Have a wonderful Friday, everyone!
Yes, and I am jealous of the whole library contingent! Wish I’d done a library MA years ago.
I worked in libraries during my teens and early twenties and loved it. I have the soul of a cataloguer. 😉
Trying Burberry Goddess today. I get lots of ginger and lavender in the opening. Lots of comparisons on Fragrantica to Mon Guerlain/Exclusif but I find it quite different w/ the ginger.
Very happy it’s Friday and Monday is a holiday…happy Labor Day weekend to all in the U.S.! 🇺🇸
I just smelled this the other day. Did you like it? I thought it was ok, but decided I didn’t need it.
I like the bottle ( from photos )
I think the opening is a bit generic but I like the vanilla dry down surprise surprise. ehaeheh 😉
I actually hunted down a woman at Target a couple weeks ago to ask what she was wearing which I rarely do and it was Burberry Goddess. I am a vanilla fool. 🙂
Happy for my American friends that this is a long weekend.
Twin with Madtowngirl in Atelier Cologne Vanille Insensée for the CP because Atelier has also Trèfle Pur (unfortunately I don’t own it) which means pure clover and clover is the emblem of luck, that’s a bit convoluted but I really was short on ideas. Tonight I chose Lalique de Lalique which is very potent and opulent like the perfumes of the eighties although it was created in 1992.
I am late for making my smoothie and dinner which will be a supermarket crustless cheese and onion quiche and gazpacho if I’m still hungry.
I had gazpacho for lunch today!
Meal twin!
That quiche sounds delicious! 😋
It was really good.
Cristalle Eau Verte for me, which I first encountered (and purchased) in duty-free ten years ago while traveling for work. It became my almost-daily scent the first semester I taught in Rome, and is just right for our very pleasant (turning hot soon) weather today.
I have never taught at a private college that observes Labor Day, and have reminded my FY students that yes, we do have classes on Monday. Still, I hope I get a little more down time this (two-day) weekend than last.
That’s a great work association, points!
One of my jobs ( once) was to be a Ghost Writer, writing someone’s autobiography. It was odd work as I had to inhabit her “ life” and mimic her voice, like an actor getting into character. It was a bit weird really and something jarring. So, I was thinking of a perfume dupe. I have a small bottle of an Australian perfume oil company called Calypso that is a dupe ( apparently) for Vilhelm Parfumier Mango Skin. I don’t know if it is or not.
Looking out at snow-capped mountains , under a clear blue sky and planning to take my e-bike out for a lakeside ride later. Nice work for those who can get it!
Sounds lovely! I’ve also been a ghost writer of sorts — I started life as an academic and in the business world have ended up one of the few people around who can write coherently for a large audience. So I’ve had to ghost write for a lot of execs, usually off the side of my desk because I have a more “business” job. Early COVID it became almost a full time gig, but I’m glad that’s over because writing in someone else’s voice is hard!
For today’s cp, I’m taking a cue from many years of volunteer work in the local history of my community. I’ve served on a city commission that was responsible for producing a photographic history of our community, and I also was a Board member of the local historical society and editor of its newsletter for many years.
I live in one of the oldest homes here in what was once an artists’ colony at the turn of the 20th century, a very modest structure that is rumored to have been a stagecoach stop in the 1860’s. I’ve lived here for decades but long before that my home had two additions, the most interesting was during the 1920’s when a commercial architect who designed several art deco movie theaters in the area lived here with his wife. They enclosed the front porch and added a large vaulted living room. When I first moved in, an elderly neighbor (she was a portrait painter who lived across the street when they did) told me about parties they had as members of the ‘social set’ and how he rode a motorcycle everywhere and she rode along in a sidecar. Supposedly famous lawyer Clarence Darrow was once here for a party! At the top of the antique plastered walls where they meet the ceiling there are 3 horizontal wavy lines that ring the room. My neighbor told me they represent the architect’s wife drawing the lines with her 3 middle fingers ‘because she wanted to leave her mark for all time’ (my neighbor’s words). And I feel her presence every time I enter the room and I think about all the parties they must have had during that era.
This past summer we had a fellow local history guru and his buddy metal-detect our property, hoping to find a relic from a long-ago silversmith adjacent to our property. What we found was a very tiny silver compact, complete with dessicated powder puff and bits of powder remaining, and I couldn’t help but think it was a remnant from one of those fantastic 1920’s parties they had; maybe it even belonged to the one who wanted to leave her mark for all time! I wanted my SOTD to reflect all that and, at first was going to wear Guerlain’s Meteorites as my favorite powdery scent but I wanted something vintage and chose Shalimar instead, since it was around in the mid-20’s and I can see ‘her’ tooling around town in the motorcycle sidecar wafting it!
Hope I didn’t bore you with all these details but I just wanted to share my love of local history with you and how it influenced my SOTD.. Wishing everyone a wonderful weekend ahead!
Thank you for this fantastic story. I love the finger-drawn lines. How incredible.
Yes! I’m not kidding you but whenever I enter this room and see those lines at the top of the wall I swear I can feel her essence in the room!
What a wonderful story! I love picturing the mystery woman and her compact, wafting Shalimar.
When we were in France years ago, we happened on a gallery in a small village and found a lithograph we immediately knew we had to bring home with us. It featured a man and a woman riding a bike, both dressed in white in evening wear that looked like it could’ve been from the 1920’s. The man, with white fedora perched rakishly on his head, white suit and white shoes, and a nonchalant facial expression, was steering; the woman, perched dangerously on the bike’s rear tire with arms clasped around the man’s midsection, glances over her shoulder at us with a come hither look, her backless white evening gown and leg slit showing lots of skin. We have it hanging right at the room’s entrance because it captured the ‘mystery woman’s’ spirit so well!
LOVE this story. Thank you so much for telling it. Our house was built in 1927, old for the area but not all that old. Anyway, there must have been a time in its history when the far back of the yard was used as a midden, as bits of glass, pottery, and metal from all sorts of goodness knows what shift to the surface every year. So far nothing terribly interesting has emerged, well maybe interesting (bits of coil and plugs, rum bottles, chunks of an old sink, a tea pot spout or two, and animal bones galore) but nothing I treasure! Yours sounds full of friendly ghosts.
I love the idea of friendly ghosts! Over the years in digging up the veggie and herb gardens we’ve found some interesting apothecary bottles; otherwise, much of the same kinds of stuff as you.
What a great story and how fantastic to know some of the history of your home and its former inhabitants!
Luckily for us, the previous owner was a writer for our local newspaper who had an article printed in the paper detailing some of the house’s history, which was given to us upon purchase. But it was the 90’ish neighbor who actually knew the couple when they lived here who brought them to life with her stories.
What a wonderful story!
Thank you. I’m glad you enjoyed it!
I’ll add my wonderful to the rest, what a great read! It must be a wonderful place to live.
My little bungalow was built in 1900, at least the middle room. It’s just old.
Oh, I love bungalows; there are lots of them in the Chicago area. Don’t say ‘just old,’ there may be an interesting history in its past if you dig a little, you never know!
I’m rather impressed the little silver compact survived its long burial in your yard.
It’s a tiny little thing, only about 1-1/2” in diameter. The outside of case itself is very plain, no markings, very tarnished but I think it’s silver or silver plate. Inside the lid is a glass mirror but broken into numerous pieces. What amazes me is that there’s still a powder puff, although it’s dried up, and a fair amount of powder still in the base! How I would love to know its story!
Are you going to replace the mirror or do any kind of conservation work on it?
No, not at this time, but I may try and have it evaluated by an antiques appraiser if the opportunity presents itself.
Celebrating my work as a therapist in Après L’Ondée.
Though oftentimes therapy brings up painful feelings and memories and creates more of a “storm” before the calm, I’ve found (personally) and as a therapist that the relief and freedom that follows is worth it all.
Beautiful choice and even better reason! So true.
Thankful people like you are doing that work. Some of my nearest and dearest have benefitted from therapy.
I have truly been helped by a few bouts of therapy over the years, and so have others in my family. Thanks for the hard work you do, you smell lovely.
I’m so glad, ringthing. I have too! We can all use someone to listen to us and see us when we’re having a hard time seeing ourselves.
Thanks for the work you do. I think everyone could use a therapist sometime in their lives.
BTW-after it was mentioned the other day and after receiving the hand creme and soap from you, I decided to go with another bottle of SL Fleurs d’Oranger for the orange blossom scent. I haven’t had it in years, but did really like it.
I’m so glad you are revisiting Fleurs d’Oranger. It’s such a beautiful orange blossom and you will smell lovely wearing it🌸
There are some great stories here that I’m looking forward to reading properly later, supermarket shopping and a very self-indulgent facial make for a busy morning.
I still smell very strongly of last night’s Salome, which is about the least work appropriate perfume I have (except maybe Absolu pour le Soir).
Hope it was a lovely facial Gaynor!
🐇 🐇🐇 x 5 sets so I can donate 4. September sure came by fast!
SOTD = L’AP Seville a l’Aube
Orange blossom goodness! It was my first FB L’AP purchase.
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In other news, I checked PayPal and all is well with the refund! Also, I opened another CD since the rate was pretty good for 13 months – 4.75% APR. what I found out today was my account was apparently opened over the phone (99.99% unlikely) which means if I showed up in-person to open the account at a branch, it shouldn’t be considered an online account, correct? There was nothing unfavorable either way but it boggled my mind when I was told the branch has to jump through hoops to open a CD. Overall the process was still not bad … although the weak explanation didn’t make me happy.
ITA that September came around a lot quicker than I anticipated.
Yay for finding the refund in your PayPal!
I can’t believe how fast August went by! Glad you got your refund!
Speaking of banking, I just read in my Local news that another person reported being scammed out of thousands of dollars by someone calling pretending to be from the U.S treasury.
I can barely smell it because I have a tenacious cold, but I went with BV’s Knot. I volunteer with an organization that provides legal services to veterans. They come in with what the org calls a knot of issues — some “legal”, some not, but all intertwined and causing them problems. Our job is to help tease apart that knot by removing the issues we can address, and making the rest easier for them to sort out on their own. I’ve always really liked that knot analogy.
Tea today is a strong masala chai because “spicy” is one of the few things my nose is picking up today.
Feel better! And I’m so glad that you work with veterans — so much work to be done there.
Hope that you get rid of that cold soon!
Yuck, sorry about your cold, hope you are feeling better soon.
Feel better soon, Vee!
I have not smelled Knot for ages, but I really enjoyed that scent. Sorry, you cannot smell it. Feel better soon!
I hope you feel better soon!
I’m going with the “lucky” perfume angle, since the things that I used to smell as a formulation chemist are NOT what anyone would want to waft!
Another day, another big honking load of laundry. So it goes.
I have been gifted many wonderful things from other NSTers, either as freebies or in swaps. Today’s scent is one of the earliest freebies I ever received.
SOTD = Chanel 31 Rue Cambon EdT. It also has some of the spine-stiffening DNA of No. 19.
Teflon kitty is feeling slightly better, but still off her food. She was much more interested in the world around her today. So please keep the positive vibes coming!
Definitely sending positive vibes your way and I hope she’s back on her food soon!
Thanks!
Aww, healing vibes for Teflon kitty! 😽
Thank you ringthing!
If Teflon is still acting strangely after the weekend, I will take her to the vet.
Sending all positive and healing vibes and thoughts to Teflon Kitty!
Thanks perfumelover67!
One of my favorite fragrances. Smelling great!
Thank you Kris! I’ve done a 180 on 31RC. Proof positive that tastes can change.
Positive Vibes are coming your way!
I’m going to resample 31RC, maybe this weekend.
Thanks lillyjo!
I’d be interested in hearing your take on 31RC.
Sending positive healing vibes to Teflon kitty from 😻😻and 😻and big 🤗🤗🤗 to you!
Hope Teflon will be 100% soon. You smell really elegant.
Thanks to both Laila and Aurora!
I saw Teflon eat a tiny bit of kibble today. That was a huge relief. But she is still acting strangely.
Sending continued vibes for Teflon! I gave my bottle of 31 Rue Cambon to chocolatemarzipan, for some reason I got tired of all my Chanels and got rid of them. Just not my house.
Thank you cazaubon! I think the positive vibes are helping.
But this morning I made a vet appointment for Tuesday just for my own peace of mind.
Today’s lucky plant or flower is peony, and I went with West Side by Bond No. 9. It’s such a perfumey perfume and so was OJ Champaca yesterday. I’ve had both decants for many years now, and it’s looks like I’m finally close to finishing West Side. I do enjoy it but doubt I’ll replace it.
So ready for this long weekend!
Hope the weekend is everything you’re hoping!
Thanks! And I meant to say earlier that I like your take on the CP. I’m glad you started up these daily polls.
The latest of the late!
Like Jalapeno, I went with luck for the cp. I am wearing YSL Paris from a very sweet nster.
It’s been a very long day and I have to go and pick my son up from work at 11:30! I am happy that I have tomorrow off.
Ugh, that is late to have to go back out! Hope tomorrow is lovely.
I’m fighting falling asleep on the couch right now!
I borrowed your idea lillyjo, so you were first!
Glad that you have tomorrow off.
Let’s hope we both have good luck for the rest of the year!🌞
Yay for good luck all around!
That was an ungodly hour for you both, hope you recuperated today.
Totally forgot to post yesterday, but for the first time ever I remembered to rabbit. Hope it brings me luck as I’m having quite a Mercury retrograde series of mishaps.