Happy Friday! It's also Star Trek Day and International Literacy Day. Our community project for today: wear a fragrance with saffron, if you have one.
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.
It's hot out there — again! — so I'm happily copying all of you who took saffron points in Hermès Eau de Néroli Doré.
Reminder: on 9/15, we're off to Italy! Wear a perfume that is named for a place in Italy, or that reminds you of a (real or imaginary) trip to Italy, or that features an Italian ingredient, or ?
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 In the garden iii (Crocus sativus) [cropped] by John Knight at flickr; some rights reserved.
Hello and TGIF!
I had to resist BR540 for todays CP and I went for one of my favourites from Amouage, Overture Woman – Apply brandy spiced with saffron, served on a leather table. So, so nice.
It’s been raining giraffes and elephants (forget cats and dogs) as the weather observatory claimed it to be the heaviest rainfall in 140(!) years. I hope everyone else has much nicer weather!
I am in a nostalgic mood these days it seems. Re-watching Downton Abbey for the 3 time.
APPLE brandy!
Funny-I read that as apple brandy, and didn’t understand the correction. Gotta love the auto correct/typo mistakes 🙂
I didn’t notice the typo at first, either.
You smell great, Robin!
I thought about wearing Saffran Troublant today, but as Hajusuuri said yesterday it is TOO HOT AND HUMID for it. So I am wearing OJ Ta’if for the CP.
Having my second cup of coffee and a guava turnover.
Happy Friday! ☕️
Yum, I love guava turnovers!
They are delish!
You smell wonderful!
Thank you!
Happy Friday, I bet you smell great.
Thank you, Aurora!
You smell great too! That was also on my list, decided it was possibly too hot for Ta’if.
Thank you, Robin! I think Ta’if was a bit overwhelming for today’s weather. I am glad it didn’t last too long on my skin.
Yeah, it was stinking hot here. Heat is supposed to break tomorrow.
I’ve had a guava empanada before, and it was delicious!! 😋
It is! I might get more this weekend! 🙈
I was thinking about Safran Troublant, too, but it’s supposed to be getting quite hot here too-so Neroli Dore bath wash and that excellent body balm they make. I like the Hermes body products – they cleanse well, and the scent really lasts. My bathroom smelt fantastic when I left.
Only six hours left in the work day and I’ll be reaching for caffeine and sugar to get through-hope Friday is good to the NST community.
And I am so late you should be off work by now! Happy weekend carole.
Thank you, Robin, and I love the image you chose to represent the saffron theme.
Oh good!
Nice to know about the Hermes body products. Maybe someday I will splurge on those.
Damn the heat and humidity, I’m going for Songe d’un Bois d’Été.
Got to smello Tobacco Honey, Deep Dark Vanilla and Heaven Can Wait yesterday. Tobacco Honey was the winner. Heaven reminds me of Guerlain Lui and Deep Dark Vanilla was just woody on me.
You smell amazing!
Thanks for reducing my curiosity about Heaven Can Wait. I already have Lui and like it but don’t love it. Tobacco Honey on the other hand….. I’m very curious!
Ah, the lovely Songe! You smell wonderful.
So lucky!
Thank you for sharing your thoughts on these 3!
ITA on “Damn the heat & humidity”!
Thank you for the quick review of the scents-lots of F Malle fragrances are interesting, to me. I will definitely try HCW:)
Good Morning-
This morning I am boiling some water to blanch the tomatoes to make sauce today. I am volunteering today, but not at the library, another organization I am involved with.
Question: I see the city exclusive scents are at Le Labo-does anyone have one that I must try as I will be down that way next week. Is there one that has beautiful silage..or something unique?
Black Saffron today for the CP. Points!
Enjoy the “second summer” weather for my new englanders
You could try the new La Myrrhe. I quite liked Baie Rose and Cedrat.
Thank you!
Another vote for Baie Rose.
How fun! I’m partial to Poivre and Mousse de Chene, both of which have lovely sillage.
Ooo! Ok 👍🏻
I love Tabac 28 and Vanille 44.
Mousse de Chene also lovely.
Mousse de Chene will go on my must sniff
Have you tried the Le Labo Iris 39?
My favorite from LL is Ylang 49.
No, never tried iris 39
Safran Troublant. It has that sort of medicinal smell that I love, bolstered with rosy vanilla. It’s fascinatingly unsettled. When I got that set of three spicy L’Artisan scents (before they eventually added them all to the main line), my first love was the chocolate/red-pepper one, but then ST took over: I traded away the other two and their brocade case, but kept ST and eventually emptied it — thank goodness I had already bought a backup bottle.
Speaking of which: the bottle is that 7-sided one with the matching cap, so different from the rounded cap from the previous octagonal bottle. It’s made of zamac and so extraordinarily heavy that this morning I weighed it: the almost-full bottle without the cap is 143 grams, the cap itself 71 — so just the cap makes up a third of the weight of the capped bottle!
Twins!
Interesting facts about the bottle. I have a humble decant, so I did not know all that.
Pyramus, I’m intrigued by the chilli pepper scent-do you have time to tell us about it, please?
Butting in to say Piment Brulant is a favorite of mine. Fruity red pepper, tomato stem, and the barest dusting of butter cocoa. It smells like rain to me!
Coumarin, that sounds amazing! I love the smell of chilli peppers and tomato stem, and the smell of rain.
Personally, I cannot smell any cocoa/chocolate at all in Piment Brulant. It is a fresh peppery scent – it smells of pepper flesh, not the dry powder. I love it.
Thank you, Glannys-those are the aspects I most enjoy too-sounds like I sound try this 🙂
Good perfume planning on your part, getting that BUB of Safran Troublant.
Safran Troublant, of course. Thankfully it is 22 C (72 F), so I can enjoy its creamy spiciness while enjoying the sun outside.
Perfect weather!
Excellent perfume & weather match!
Also in the Hermès Eau de Neroli Doré, since I remembered my husband had some once. I pawed through his scent drawer and found it. I may have to steal this one. Not a lot left in the bottle, and I don’t think he wears it much.
It’s amazing how the weather here knew that summer tourist season is over. Boom! We are in 60s, and yesterday was decently chilly. I had trouble sleeping last night and heard our heat/AC come on, which was confusing. My husband, the temperature wimp, had set it to heat at 70 degrees. What?? I fixed it.
We are a decent sized EdND crew today 🙂
Time to give that bottle a bit of love!
I’m wearing Imaginary Authors Slow Explosions for saffron, it’s perfect for the transition to fall.
Cool, cloudy and damp today. Happy Friday everyone!
I thought about this one for today, but ended up going a different direction.
I thought about that one, too! One of my faves from IA.
I chose Ganymede for the CPF. Right now it’s in its “gorgeously beautiful” phase, which alternates with a “weirdly wonderful” phase that is, to borrow a phrase from pyramus, fascinatingly unsettled. I love it, as long as I’m in the mood for it, and remember to spray very lightly as it’s powerful. Hey, happy Friday everyone!
Not familiar with Marc-Antoine Barrois – but it looks like he’s interested in astronomy!
8 sprays did the trick for me 🤣
😳🤪
I’m wearing Felanilla for the CP today. It’s going well with a cool morning.
If I get very, very lucky (but I am not holding my breath), I may get the last panel of glass for the shower today, and have the vanities finished tomorrow (with the exception of the pulls, which the designer waited way too long on and now I have to wait 4-6 weeks for). I hate this end phase of renovations, where there are just one or two last things that need to get done and it seems to take much longer than the rest of the renovation for them to get finished.
You smell fantastic ockeghem!
Fingers crossed, hope you got your panel today.
Your bathroom renovation seems to be taking forever.
EONS. Panel went in today and the silicone has to dry until Sunday.
Newly painted vanities and lights were slated for tomorrow, but no, almost 3 weeks after ordering the lights are still in a suburb and won’t be in town until Monday.
These last bits take forever. But I am loving Felanilla to getme through it. 🙂
Also in Saffran Troublant. There’s a tinge of autumn in the air, so it seems to be working well today.
So glad to see it nicely represented…such a great scent.
You are wafting wonderfully today!
Hello all!
I’m in a tiny drop of Saffron Hamra, the uber spendy attar from Amouage. It was apparently inspired by wet clay and somehow it rather luxuriously does. It lasts forever, which it would need to for that price.
Only one class today but I’ve got in my head to finish a good amount of homework before the weekend officially starts. I’m going to get started right after my breakfast.
Have a great weekend, everyone!
Glad to hear it is worth the price, or at least, not spendy garbage 🙂
I’m wearing Nanban from a sample today.
ooh, nice one.
It’s not too warm yet this morning for me to join those of you in Safran Troublant.
Thanks for all the well wishes earlier this week, my cold is 99% gone and I can smell again. Hooray!
Oh yay!
Hiya scent triplet! Glad that your sniffer is working again!
No points in Lubin Kismet today, but blessedly cooler after the rain yesterday.
BF and I are foolishly trying to renovate my apartment during the hottest summer LOL. We’ve painted, installed new flooring and baseboards, and built a buffet out of two kitchen cabinets. After avoiding big box home improvement stores my whole life, Lowe’s is now my happy place.
I’m also on a decluttering journey and trying to live with less. Maybe by 2025 I’ll have it all done 🙂
It’s a patience journey too!
Good for you, taking your time with decluttering. A lot less stress doing it that way.
Ah, decluttering. I find it’s easier with time. After the last reno 2 years ago, we put a bunch of stuff into the storage space, and I’ve just now realized that I’ve never missed it since, so it’s time to go. Also, after the bathroom reno I had a sudden realization in the storage space that all those random paint cans I was keeping because all the eco paint companies went out of business after the 2018 lawsuits and I needed those paints for touch-ups…are no longer needed, since we’ve redone the bathrooms. Also the leftover paint from when we painted Ockeghem Teen’s room when we moved in, 13 years ago, and have long since redone.
Renos are great for that — kudos to you!
It’s FriYAY! Just finished my workout and heading out for flu shot in one arm and pneumonia in the other. After that, a library stop and a couple of errands, THEN finally SOTD will be Mx. for both enjoyment and CP points.
You smell fabulous and thank you for the inspiration. I didn’t know that Mx. and Mxxx. both had saffron notes😊
Maybe I’ll put on Mxxx. instead!
Getting a shot in one arm is bad enough, but both?? I’m gonna hide under the bed now…
Happy Friday!
In Mxxx., thanks to springpansy for the saffron nudge. I must admit I smell quite good.
Heading to the Bay Area and then north to celebrate Mr. allo’s uncle’s 70th birthday at the Thunderhill Raceway in Willows, CA. His uncle owns a driving school – for people who want to learn how to drive fast/race their cars so it sounds like I’ll be taking a “hot lap” or two around the track. Wish me luck!
Have fun and good luck (and be careful :D).
🤞😬🚗
Have fun! Taking a “hot lap” on a racetrack sounds SO freaking awesome!
Enjoy your trip! A hot lap around the track sounds like it would be most fun!!
That sounds so fun!
So steamy here in NYC! I’m wearing a spritz of Goldsmith Saffron Rose for the CP and it has an autumn feeling, so it’s really making me long for my autumn clothes and autumn fragrances.
Enjoy the weekend, all! I’m giving a talk tomorrow and then just hoping to chill (literally) at home. 🙂
We are now in “second summer”
in NYC
Keep cool.
The temps may not feel like Autumn, but the sky has changed over to an autumn hue. And it’s dark about 45 minutes earlier now.
I was noticing this morning during swim class that the sky was a deeper blue.
SOTD = L’Artisan Parfumeur Safran Troublant
I am scent twins with many of us. Lucky to have these remnants plus a BUB. Points for the CP as well!
https://www.instagram.com/p/Cw7_9IOuhtH/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
It’s been so hot and humid that I’ve taken to only open a sliver of my kitchen window black out curtains. This too shall pass as jalapeño reminded me of a cooling trend; however, even though the path is still uncertain, I am keeping watch over my friend Lee.
Still the “OG” saffron fragrance for me!!
You and I are scent twins today!
I’m watching over Lee too, and hoping for the best in terms of where that thing hits.
Somehow ended up with an end of summer/early fall cold. It’s not too bad yet but still. Wearing a little bit of Eau Premiere today. I think that I will wear Theorema for next week’s CP.
Well drat, sorry Dawn!
Ugh, sorry to hear that you’ve caught The Crud.
Oh, that was me earlier this week. Get well soon! I always tell myself that if I catch a summer cold, it means I won’t get one in the winter!
I recently discovered I had an unsniffed sample of Saffron Veil by Phoenix Botanicals. I tried a tiny bit about a week ago and am giving it a full wearing today. It’s a nicely spicy scent, very warming, with a detectable tuberose absolute note under the spices. It’s an easygoing companion for a busy workday.
A spicy perfume with tuberose sounds great!
I will caution that this smells like pure tuberose absolute, which is more medicinal and spicy, a bit hard to describe. It’s not the big in your face sweet narcotic tuberose.
I was saving BR540 for the cp, but it’s still quite humid here even with the cooler temps and I just wasn’t feeling it so I’m in 31 RC.
It was overcast this morning, then it sprinkled, now the sun is trying to peek out.🌞
After the Labor Day cp last Friday I got to thinking about Abel Nurture again. I checked the bay where there just happened to be a mostly full bottle up for auction with an extremely low starting price. I just won it this morning for 7.50!😳🤩 Plus the five dollars for shipping, I’m gonna call that perfumemath free! I hope it’s real, but even if it’s not, I’m out the price equivalent of two lattes.
That was a good score for the Abel perfume. Definitely perfumemath free!
I think I will join you in 31 RC.
I hope that Abel Nurture is the real thing!
31RC is one of those perfumes that has become an “always right” scent for me.
Totally free!
Amazing deal!
For today’s cp, I chose Givenchy Ange ou Demon, which I never knew had a saffron note. Haven’t worn it in awhile and it’s smellin’ good today!
Luckily I had 2 samples to take with me today as I’m posting this from deep in the foothills of Appalachia in NE Kentucky at a mountain music festival. We’re on our way to a fiddle gather’n, followed by an old time banjo gather’n, followed by a dulcimer gather’n (which I’m hoping will inspire my [very] slow and [not very] steady progress in learning this beautiful instrument when I return home. The performances are held in a small outdoor amphitheater nestled deep within the woods. But there’s always lots of jammin’ everywhere, with much of the music the tunes brought here by the original settlers from England, Ireland, and Scotland and played – and learned – in each other’s homes cuz it was never written down.
Wishing everyone a beautiful weekend ahead!🎻🪕🎶
Sounds like great fun, enjoy.
Have a great time!
That sounds so fun! I love to see people just jamming on their instruments — one of the best performances I’ve ever seen was in a bar in the Shetland Islands where locals just came in and sat in and played. So much joy, so much talent, so much love.
Greetings from Nyons, late last evening when I arrived the main square smelled of lavender, the distillery must have been in use during the day.
There will be no smoothie of the day, the blender is at home, instead fresh fruit from the market, tonight it was green gages, I think it’s the right translation, we call them reine claudes, they are plums and delicious, also picked up figs from a wild tree. Weather is gorgeous, while some parts of France are experiencing a late heatwave.
Proud to have thought of the CP, I packed a mini dab bottle of Néroli Doré, it smells so good, I hope it won’t get discontinued.
Have a wonderful vacation Aurora!
Thank you so much Lillyjo, I feel already more relaxed, slept like a log.
I love greengages. So sweet and delicious. We used to have a tree when I was small but now they are harder to find. I hope you have a wonderful holiday.
Thank you, those greengages are in season, they are organic, still popular and possible to find in France, I’m glad to report.
Ah, Nyons! Beautiful place. I will be in the South of France in a little over two weeks, not in the Drôme but in the neighbouring département of les Alpes de Haute Provence. I used to buy olive oil in Nyons and lavender oil. Hope you have a great time!
Thank you so much, so glad you know Nyons, yes, delicious olive oil and fragrant lavender, we will be neighbors, AdHP is beautiful too.
Sounds like your vacation is off to a lovely start! Enjoy!
Thank you Jalapeno, I feel already more relaxed, the magic of holidays, untroubled sleep.
My package moved from Guam to Honolulu. At least it’s moving east.
I’m wearing Safran Troublant, too. It’s cloudy and cool here. The landscaper guys are coming for the first time this fall to pick up the maple leaves. Enough have fallen already for the lawn to be covered in places.
Honolulu!
“Always look on the bright si-i-i-ide of life (C’mon Brian, cheer up!”
🌈
Hoping your package doesn’t do what my order from Hawaii did a couple years ago — shipped from Hilo, ended up sitting in LA for weeks. But then, it was in LA for export to Canada which apparently takes forever (even though it was just a pair of earrings).
In 1804, which AFAIK has no saffron note 🙁 It is what I decided on for last night’s dinner (which was fun!), and Mr. Skal — as he always does when I wear 1804 — commented favorably on it.
Humidity here is oppressive but at least the intense heat has passed. My FY students seems to have hit the wall; today was my first “pulling teeth” class
…of the semester. It had to happen some time.
It seems soon, hope that is not a bad sign but just a remnant of the humidity!
I love that Mr. Skal comments on your perfume. Mr. Ockeghem just kind of takes it in stride that I will smell different and sometimes good from his standpoint and sometimes not so much, and he just keeps it to himself.
I just came here to scream about the new Shalimar Millesime !! IRIS !!
https://www.fragrantica.com/news/With-the-New-Shalimar-Millesime-Iris-Guerlain-Returns-to-the-World-of-Gourmand-Iris-18869.html
No CP points for me, I am doused in Guerlain Neroli Vetiver Harvest to satisfy my floral honey cravings today. Would be in Safran Troublant otherwise 🙂
I scream, you scream, we all scream for I-(ris). Or something like that! Suzan at Shop France is on the lookout for this, and someone on Fragrantica said they’ve already got a bottle on the way from the Bellagio Boutique in Las Vegas.
Hahaha! Well lucky for our perfumista friends in LV! I’ll have to drop by my local Guerlain to see if they have it.. but it takes forever for things to get to NY usually!
Hiya!! It’s good to hear from you. I’m so excited about the Shalimar Iris too!
Hello friend! How are you? I’ve been so busy that I dropped off the face of earth. Hope we both get to smell the new Shalimar Iris soon!
Welcome back! Life gets really crazy sometimes.
It’s warming up , going to be 18C today and I’m in CDG Daphne for the CP. I have been all the signs of spring….now it’s the turn of the cherry blossom. So beautiful. I ordered a pair of Birkenstocks yesterday , big buckle sandals, to celebrate the longer days. Perfume and sandals, yay!
You smell wonderful! I wish I could find Daphne in the US. The samples I have leave me wanting more😊
Cherry blossoms! Yay spring!
Hubby and I had our RSV vaccine today. No scent yet as I was busy making bars that involves using my hands up to my wrists. Now that I am done I will follow Madtown Girl with 31 RC.
Good for you for getting it early! Any side effects?
Applied Rose Opéra for the CP very early this morning. No vacation goes unpunished at work– and I was working very late last night. I anticipate this pattern until we are ✈️ The saffron and rose is still going strong and making me very happy.
Glad it is making you happy and hope you did not have to work late again!
Run to that plane and don’t look back!
Chilly Friday here. I dug out my bottle of DK Black Cashmere for the CP. I know how much love it gets from so many, but sadly I am not among you the appreciators. (Rec’d my bottle as a gift from a generous perfumista some years back.) I have never been able to get past my perception that it smells just like spice gumdrops taste. And perhaps best not to ask me how I feel about spice gumdrops…
Haha, yes, I think spice gumdrops are enjoyed by a select few, lol! Along with the licorice ones.
Black Cashmere is one that I swapped/sold a long time ago and lived to regret it. Safran Troublant, too. Do you think you might enter it in the swap meet? 😉
licorice gum drops and jelly beans I do like.
and funny you should ask…watch this space…
I do like the licorice ones, too, in small amounts.
Thanks, I will keep my eyes peeled. 🤓
I’m wearing Cuir by Lancôme. Someone was wearing it yesterday and mentioned it had saffron, so here I am.
I’m completely knackered. Work is busy, finishing a big translation which has had quite a few hiccups over time. Plus the person reviewing is keeps delaying. He is a brilliant translator but crap at time management. On top of that my very elderly parents need help, but refuse to get any, and kind of forbid us (their 3 children) to organise it for them. It’s both annoying and very concerning. I hope I will be more reasonable and realistic at that age, if I manage to get that old, of course.
On the bright side, I have two weeks of holiday planned and I will be leaving next weekend. I’m so looking forward to it.
Sorry you have so much on your plate austenfan. One more week til vacation …
Very sorry you are understandably concerned about your parents.
Happy Friday!
Busy busy week,and I totally forgot the theme of the cp this week.
SOTD!
Donna Karan Gold.Lovely lily fragrance on a lovely sunny day!
Finally got down to Skins and tested some newbies:
Ganymede Extrait:heavy on the immortelle but lovely.
Heaven can Wait:Definitely has the JCE sheer signature,but a lovely Iris-Geranium note.Something also carries the iris-note quite far in the drydown and I love that.
The 4 perfumes from Off White(Solution 1-Solution 4).I ADORE the bottles,one of them smells pretty much like Elizabeth Arden Blue Grass,but they are overall nicely done!(and I like the 4×7,5/15ml discovery sets offered)
D.S.&Durga I don’t know what was extremely forgettable.
Penhaligons Legacy of Petra is also well done,but it smells too familiar to a thousand perfumes that came before it.
All in all a great-smelling day!
XO’s
Thanks for your mini reviews, you smell wonderful in Gold.
2nd that — thanks for reviews! I think that’s the first I’ve heard about the Off White set too.
Love the chance to have a smelling day! Thanks for the reviews! I’m going to try Heaven Can Wait when I find it here.
My pleasure you guys!I love a proper sniffathon,and the SA’s at Skins know by now to just let me be….Lol.
I’ll be getting a 50ml Heaven Can Wait,it’s just too good in the far-far drydown!(7:25am Saturday morn,did not shower last night!)
XO’s
I’m in Taif but swear I can’t detect any saffron in it. I’d prefer other rose scents that have it.
Our heat is, as ever, intolerable.
Going to try some soft blurry cat watercolors this afternoon.
I am really looking forward to temps dropping next week…hope yours are too?
I didn’t smell any saffron, either, when I wore it earlier this week. But the notes say it’s there?
Soft blurry cat watercolours are the solution to everything. 🙂
For the CP points, Atelier Mimosa Indigo. I can’t suss-out the saffron from the leather but I do enjoy this one. I am quietly an Atelier fan, at least pre-L’Oreal. Silver Iris, Cafe Tuberosa, and Oud Saphir always wow me. None that I’ve smelled disappoint.
IIRC, I liked the Mimosa Indigo when I tried it from a small dabber sample.
Another sunny start to the weekend, that makes me very happy.
I wore Absolu pour Le Soir last night, and unsurprisingly I can still smell it on my clothes this morning, it will likely take more than one wash to make that disappear.
I was thinking about Noir de Noir for saffron, but the spring day calls for something green, maybe Guerlain’s Chant d’ Aròmes.
Ahh…Chant d’Aròmes…a perfectly lovely scent for spring. 💚
SOTD is Deep Dark Vanilla, 8 sprays
I was in my car alone when I was able to tune into the fragrance. I find it to be almost a dark chocolate note along with the non sweet vanilla.
I am liking my purchase.
Glad it’s a good one!
Productive day today, despite it being hot and steamy once again. Mailed some things at the Post Office, filled the truck up with gas, and made a batch of chili. Teflon kitty was begging for both the meat I used in the chili and the sour cream, but I couldn’t give her either. She’s on a limited diet until late Sunday. I feel like such a meanie…
Yesterday we had the Realtor over looking at our place. He was happy with the placement of all our furniture, so all that’s left is decluttering. Then we can take photos to start the sale process.
SOTD = L’Artisan Safran Troublant, from the Sample Stash. This blooms beautifully in hot weather! I like it much better than the first time I tried it.
It sounds like a very productive day. I hope the real estate transaction goes smoothly!
Thanks Gail. The decluttering is proving to be more difficult than I expected. So. Much. Stuff.
Sometimes I look at the houses for sale around here. I’m always amazed how clean the houses are in the pictures. I didn’t realize that the realtors were giving instruction. I hope it all goes well Jalapeno.
There are guidelines for how your place should look for those real estate photos. I have the handout on the dining room table.
One thing I consistently hear about selling a house is “Declutter and clean”.
Thanks lillyjo.
Teflon kitty! Glad to hear she’s wanting chili ingredients!
Yeah, the whole real estate thing — just had this conversation the other day. So many people in our city pay to “stage” their houses to sell them, but then you basically have to move out while they’re staged. (We have a lot of foreign buyers who are investors, and they want generic homes.) We sold our last place unstaged (didn’t have a choice, we had a 1-year-old and trying to erase her crib and toys when we live in a city with no family around was impossible, all we could do was tidy and trust we had decent taste), and it didn’t seem to hurt us. We bought our current home unstaged, because it had personality (though not our personality so we did paint when we moved in).
I just saw an article in the Washington Post citing an academic study that many people now are renovating their houses to be what they think buyers want, even if they’re not selling, because of the influence of HGTV. That’s never been my guiding principle, but I guess I’m against the grain. 🙂
I’d say, definitely put things away, but allow your house to have personality. You never know how that might help others feel like they could live in the space. 🙂
Thanks for the info!
The Realtor said that we can pretty much keep most of our belongings in place, which was nice to hear. Means a lot less work for us.
It seems that townhouses are quite the hot commodity in my area. People are getting tired of single family detached houses and the yard maintenance that comes along with it. I’ve seen at least 3 new townhouse developments being built in the last year or so here.
Glad for you things are moving along nicely, good luck with organizing clutter, poor Teflon losing on tasty morsels, spoil her a little bit when the treatment is over.
Teflon has only 1 more day left on the bland/restricted diet. She will definitely get a little dab of sour cream when it’s all said and done.
I wore a green tea oil perfume today so I am definitely not cp compliant.
Yesterday I walked the golf course (hubby golfed) with 3 ladies, all with the name “Judy”! They were very fun and we discovered that 2 of them are neighbors to each other, and that they live very close to us. My sotd was sunscreen (my feet are still recovering from the walk).
Happy Friday, everyone!
A green tea oil perfume sounds perfect for hot and sticky weather.
It really is! Summer is still going to be around here for awhile so I will get some more use out of it. Thankfully the nights are cooler though.
https://youtu.be/Jh9rgEBr9WY?feature=shared
I looked for a clip where he says Judy Judy Judy. Apparently though he never said it 3 times. Only once. It’s a nice clip anyway.
It is a nice clip! I can hear the “Judy Judy Judy” from somewhere so I know it’s a thing.
And that’s also my sister’s name, so it made me chuckle. Very popular name back then!
I have a cousin named Judy. Definitely one of those generational names.
I got a Hermes travel set a couple months ago and added 24 Fauburg into the mix. It is really pretty but a bit overwhelming. I am not a huge white floral person. It is starting to calm down a bit, and I think I like the base. I am kicking myself for not getting on the Neroli Dore bandwagon again.
24 Faubourg is too much for me too, although I do think it smells good. It just isn’t me.
Late to the ‘welcome, weekend!’ party, but claiming double CP points for layering Safran Troublant (in good company) with L’Eau de Tarocco. It was too hot earlier to wear only ST, so I started with just one spritz of that and added the Diptyque. It worked pretty well!
I used to have an original bottle of this, and guess how many times I’ve told myself, “shoulda kept it” since I’ve been wearing it today? 😬 I’m wearing it from a decant which I swapped for with a lovely NSTer because I’ve been missing it for a while before this, too. Remembering that the reason I let it go was because it went too sweet on me, and now it doesn’t seem to be doing that. Huh.
I had no idea that saffron was in so many gorgeous scents! Today has been like reading about a treasure trove of jewels.
Funny how a perfume can change!
Isn’t it, though? Why do things have to change?!? 😅
I wore Agent Provocateur for the cp today. I also thunked a travel spray of TF Eau de Soliel Blanc.
The weather has turned and I might have to think about turning the furnace on soon.
I have AP, but totally forgot about that one; smelling great! Congrats on the thunk.
The original AP is SO good. 😇 Yay for the TF travel size thunk!
It seems early to have to turn up heat. Funnily for our otherwise similar tastes Agent Provocateur didn’t work for me, long time ago, don’t remember why, but I have and love l’Agent.
I keep looking for L’agent. I have never tried it.
Pretty sure that L’Agent is high grade Unobtainium at this point. I don’t even see it on Evilbay.
It was 107 degrees today. Wore Safran Troublant anyway! Woo hoo!
Dang!
How did that go?
GAH! That is so far beyond stinking hot that I can’t even.