Happy Friday and happy National Coffee Day! It’s also World Heart Day and International Day of Awareness on Food Loss and Waste Reduction. RIP Michael Gambon. Birthdays today: Elizabeth Gaskell, Colin Dexter and Diana Vreeland. Our community project for today: Wear one of Vreeland's favorite perfumes (reportedly YSL Opium and Chanel No. 5), or wear something equally bold, or wear something from her posthumous perfume line, or take inspiration from a Diana Vreeland quote (more here), or ?
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 redoing yesterday, since I was out sick...I'm in Myrrhe Églantine for the deliciously ludicrous Vreeland quote "Why don't you...have an elk hide trunk for the back of your car? Hermès of Paris will make this".
Reminder: 10/6 is Mad Hatter day. Wear your silliest perfume, or come up with a silly excuse to wear whatever perfume you wanted to wear anyway.
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 a still from the documentary Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel.
Néroli Outrenoir
Its raining cats and dogs
in reading news..I couldn’t get into Tom Lake. I will put it down and pick up something else and come back to it.
Glad you are feeling better Robin
You smell wonderful!
This is a beauty
Sorry you couldn’t get into Tom Lake. I thought it was quite good, I hope you go back to it.
yes-I was having a hard time keeping the characters present and the past separate. I will go back to it one day
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/riku-onda/honeybees-and-distant-thunder/
I think you might like this book. It’s not very demanding but has some beautiful descriptions. About a piano competition, Japanese.
ok-when I volunteer next the branch across has this book..
This does sound good.
Our local Walmart cancelled my Covid vaccine appt. because they ran out of vaccine. Life is a small, rural town. SOTD is Krazy Krizia, so not doing the CP.
Well, but the same thing happened to my friend yesterday here in Houston! I guess the demand on the vaccine must be strong.
Don’t feel bad. I had to go to three different pharmacies before I found one that had any and I live in a city of 200,000. Some of the pharmacies had it, but ran out. However, they were all getting more. I think they are getting small quantities at first until they get an idea how many people plan to get vaccinated this time. Many have said they are not getting another dose of it.
Glad to hear you are better, Robin!
I am in Chanel No. 5 EDT (my favorite concentration). Vreeland probably wore extrait.
My two personal favorite Vreeland quotes are:
“I believe, you see, in the dream. I think we only live through our dreams and imagination. That’s the only reality we really ever know.”
“Elegance is refusal.”
And the second quote is not just about elegance, in my opinion. “Less is more” can give great results in different aspects of life.
I love the second quote.
I love No.5 EDT as well. It doesn’t last on me but lasts long enough for a good meal.
Yes, it has moderate to average longevity on me. But I do not mind spraying it again during the day, especially since I have a travel spray – it fits great in the palm of my hand, and it is so satisfying to twist the top to make it pop up.
Scent twins❤️
Hey twin! Such an enjoyable scent. 💗
Elegance is refusal! Reading that, I feel like I just became slightly more grown-up (and slightly more elegant…)
“Elegance is refusal” — very true! Great quote.
I chose the Vreeland quote “To be contented—that’s for the cows.” – wearing Zoologist Cow, of course.
Next week’s CP sounds like fun! Happy Friday, everyone.
Love it! 😄
Excellent!
Wonderful!
Witty!
Darlings, isn’t office life fun? Reporting in with a solid spritzing of Ensens Mythique, since it’s not quite cold enough for an actual cashmere throw
You smell great!
Scent twins!!
That *is* a great scent for the office! You smell wonderful.
I am taking inspiration from the Vreeland quote “Why don’t you…wash your blond child’s hair in dead champagne, as they do in France?”
I don’t have a blond child (or any child), my own hair is brown, and I seem to be all out of dead champagne, but I am wearing Germaine Monteil Champagne.
I’m glad you are doing better, Robin. I have had three COVID vaccines (an initial J&J shot and two boosters of the Pfizer), and I had a pretty rough time with all of them. The J&J was the worst, but even with the Pfizer, I have learned that I need to plan it for a time when I don’t need to do anything much for a day or two afterward.
I’m the same with the Covid vaccines. I’m out of commission for the next day.
What is your scent like? I’ve never tried any from that line (and I’m old enough!)
I would describe it as a very bright, light, not overly sweet floral. I don’t get much of the heavier notes (vanilla, tobacco, musk) that Fragrantica lists for it. I think the name fits it very well. It seems to have only been sold for a few years, and bottles of it go for rather impressive prices online. I managed to snag one that was more reasonably priced. Somewhere I read a description of the bottle as “Art Deco meets Star Wars” and I think that is very apt.
Mmm, sounds pretty. That bottle description is a hoot!
This is my fourth shot, and like you I was sick from each of the first 3. I am definitely better but I definitely don’t feel well at all. I am at least out of bed and getting some stuff done.
I expect I will be 100% tomorrow, and it is so much better than having covid that it is well worth it. Next month I will get the flu shot, we’ll see how I do with that.
I tested positive for COVID back in July, and I honestly would not even have known I had the virus if it were not for that positive test. I am telling myself that it was because I have been vaxxed. If the vaccines did in fact keep me from getting really sick, then I guess the side effects were worth it. The most recent booster had me completely out of commission for a weekend, and really low in energy for about two weeks.
I had the same experience last July, and it took 3 days to realize it was Covid, and not just allergies or a cold. I’ve got my vaccine appointment lined up!
I never did get any real symptoms from the actual virus, at least not during the supposed active infection. The only reason I had tested myself at all was that I was attending an event where they were asking everybody to test. About a week of so after the positive test–and after subsequently testing negative three times–I developed a persistent (although not severe, just annoying) cough, and a general lack of energy.
I wouldn’t be surprised if I had it, as well. I had the 2 step Moderna and then one booster. I’ve been sneezy and snotty for the past couple of weeks, occasionally short of breath but I think that has more to do with de-conditioning and altitude rather than Covid/RSV/Flu. We’re ALL going to get it eventually so it’s just a matter of decreasing severity of symptoms at this point. I will look into get updated vaccines this fall, but since I’m not working, hence no medical coverage, I’m not sure how much it will cost..?
In my case, the “symptoms” for the first week or so were as mild as could be, namely, nothing. The timing, OTOH, was the worst it could have been. I was 2000+ miles from home at a week-long music workshop (Sunday through Saturday) in the Seattle area. I tested negative on the preceding Friday, the day before my flight. I tested negative again on Sunday before arriving at the workshop. Then Wednesday morning, lo and behold a positive test. I had to leave the workshop and find a hotel to stay in for the remaining days I was supposed to be staying at the workshop facilities. I had planned a couple of days of sightseeing after the workshop and before flying home Monday, but I was concerned that I shouldn’t be around crowds of people when I was knowingly positive, even though I felt fine. I ended up spending five days isolating in a hotel room (with a kitchen so I could make my own meals) feeling perfectly healthy, but doing none of the things I had planned. I wish I could have just tested positive the preceding Friday before I left my house. I could have cancelled/refunded the hotels, rental car, and most of the workshop fees and rescheduled the flights for another time. I don’t think I’ll be attending another workshop that I can’t just drive to.
Deva, you be able to at least get the Covid booster w/o insurance. I’m covered by Medicare, but when I went the other day for my appointment, the pharmacist told me that Medicare had been down for a day-and-a half so she could not give me either the flu or the RSV shots since she was unable to bill Medicare for them. But she said I could get the. Covid booster (which I did) because she could run that one through as ‘uninsured.’ So you might want to check that one out.
I’m glad you’re feeling better! And yes, I think vaccine side effects are preferable to actual COVID. I got my updated vaccine earlier this week, with my flu shot, and the only side effect this time was a sore arm from the flu. But I took it easy the day after, just in case.
Gosh, my experience with covid (fall 2022) was horrid….nothing at all like a cold or even a mild flu. I knew I had it pretty much right away. And that was after 2 shots and a booster.
And the flu I had the following month was the worst I’d ever had in my life. My doctor said it was probably because my immune system was shot after the covid.
I’m not home and all I have is a travel spray of Sandalwood in Oak, but will try to spray something fabulous at the Arquiste event tonight at Etiket.
Here is my favorite Diana Vreeland line:
“There’s only one very good life and that’s the one you know you want, and you make it yourself.”
Enjoy the Arquiste event. How exciting, report back please.
Enjoy the event!
So Sandalwood in Oak is not fabulous?
It’s very nice but it’s not very Diana Vreeland. 😉
😄 Gotcha.
That’s a fantastic quote!
Wearing no 5 edp today. Trying to create a grocery shopping list with a somewhat strict budget. I am trying to save up some money for my next vacation in December and some Christmas shopping. Most of my gifts have already been purchased but my nephews are always the biggest chunk of that budget.
Good luck with the shopping budget Dawn!
One of the joys of being a perfumista: wearing No. 5 while doing a shopping list so as to save money. You smell wonderful.
Hello and tgif!
“A little bad taste is like a nice splash of paprika. We all need a splash of bad taste—it’s hearty, it’s healthy, it’s physical. I think we could use more of it. No taste is what I’m against.”
And so, I am wearing a bit of “bad taste” – the new La Vie Est Belle L’Extrait.
I think I may be in the minority that I enjoy LVEB. This new version is said to contain oud but I do not smell it. What this version is, is a less sweet older sister of the original. It is decidedly iris heavy (I pretty much yelled out “CARROTS!”) and is denser than the OG. The “oud” base gives it a warm/woody feel and a somewhat nutty note. I like this.
I detest the original LVB, for some oddness I can’t quite pinpoint. Oud tends to drowned out everything in its path, so I might try this. Thanks for a positive mention…
I’ll join you as one of the few who enjoys the original LVEB, but I’ve not tried the new one or any of the other flankers.
I’ve noticed that LVEB smells better on others than on me. But I’ve been enjoying the Iris one, and I found an OG at a good price on Ebay. I can wear it too, and am not one to argue with its popularity. As Gaia Fishler once said: “worst trend in perfume: not wearing any.”
Hey, everyone likes what they like in perfume. Vive la difference!
You smell so good Robin. I absolutely love that scent. Wish they had in a travel spray, but last time I looked they didn’t. Glad you are feeling better too.
Scent twins with Glannys in No 5 EDT.
They have definitely made it in 15 ml because that is what I have, but they always remove out of stock things from the website which is annoying.
Wearing Chanel No. 5 Parfum for the CP.
Raining violently with severe floods in the city right now. I am glad we are wfh today.
On my second cup of coffee and pumpkin pancakes with feta cheese.
Happy Friday! ☕️
Ack, I was going to make pumpkin pancakes, too! In the end, I was too lazy and didn’t want to mess up my nice clean kitchen, so went with cheerios. Stay high and dry! ☔️
Thank you, Deva!
Passing you some pumpkin pancakes! 🥞
Cheerios: don’t leave home without them.
I’m glad you are at home!
It is very bad outside. A The governor has declared a State of Emergency in the city.
Yike, stay safe!
Wow, glad you don’t have to get out! Your breakfast sounds delightful as usual.
Thank you, Ringthing!
You are the pumpkin queen!
Lol! I really enjoy the season!
Oh my goodness! I hope you are high and dry!
I am, but the situation is supposed to get worse tonight. It won’t stop raining until tomorrow afternoon, so the damage throughout the city is going to be very bad.
Hope it won’t get worse! I was thinking about all my New Yorker NST pals today.
It has stopped raining for now, but we are expecting more rain after midnight. Hopefully, it will be over tomorrow afternoon.
Pumpkin pancakes w/feta cheese sounds yummy! I’m just now beginning to buy some pumpkin items – little pumpkin coffee cakes and pumpkin bagels at Aldi this morning. Hope you and yours all stay safe, sounds pretty scary there now. Take care 🤗
Thank you, Laila!
I need to stop at Aldi next weekend to get some other pumpkin items. ‘Tis the season!
You smell wonderful. I am stocking up on pumpkin stuff. I was at Trader Joe’s on Wednesday. I’ll have to take another run in the next few weeks! Oh, and I have the frozen pumpkin waffles – too lazy to make them myself!
Thank you, Hajusuuri!
Lazy twins! I have also been stocking up on Fall stuff from TJ . This is the only time of the year when I enjoy seasonal food the most!
Glad that you were WFH today!
Those pumpkin pancakes sounded like they were very tasty! Did you have maple syrup with them? 🥞
Yes! I always have maple syrup with pancakes or waffles.
No CP compliant, sorry Ms. Vreeland.
Instead I’m celebrating National Coffee Day by sipping some scorching brew and wearing CSP Vanille Café.
Apropos of nothing, why is women’s deodorant twice as expensive as mens? Almost all brands are twice as much as an even LARGER stick of mens..? So, in addition to Vanille Café, I’m smell a bit of Old Spice. Because I’m cheap and I don’t like injustice of any kind, even in the deodorant aisle!
That is just ludicrous. I will have to check whether Europe has the same sexism regarding deodorants.
Report back please! I saw a recent tv show about how food producers that add all kinds of crap to foods distributed to the US market, where as the same company, making the same thing for European consumption has just the minimal ingredients. Yogurt is a big one, and oats, too. Apparently, oats sold in the US market have some type of chemical to make the oats “creamier.” Also, the Bill Gates created “Apeel” which food distributers in the US don’t even have to declare to consumers..! Not related to deodorant at all, but there ya go. That’s the way my mind works (or doesn’t work🙃).
I buy my own in French parapharmacies and I think they are unisex. I will investigate in both France, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.
I met a man from your neck of the woods last week at Navajo National Monument. I was walking doggo in the campground and noticed a car with Florida plates and a man sitting in a camp chair, so I asked him “What part of Florida are you from?” He said, “I’m actually from Holland, the car is a rental.” Would have liked to chat with him but he was fixing dinner and I didn’t want to intrude. There were mostly non-Americans at that campground, which I thought was interesting.
A man will use the same bar of soap to wash his body, face and hair. ( I’m generalizing)
They can get more money out of us.
Well, they’re not getting more money out of me. I’ll smell like Old Spice until I die, I guess. 🙃
And, at one point, I used Dr Bronners the same way as you say men do with a bar of soap, but it’s not not my favorite…😬
https://www.buzzfeed.com/angelaandaloro/examples-of-the-pink-tax-from-2023
Looks like womens deodorants have a 13% mark-up over men’s
Well, when I was last at Walmart, the most expensive man’s stick deodorant was 3.74 or their abouts. The cheapest women’s stick with a lesser volume was 6.50, so apparently Wal-Mart is not satisfied with a measly 13% difference. Please don’t get me started on feminine hygiene products, birth control, etc. So infuriating 😠
True. My hubs uses TJ’s Tingling Tea Tree for everything.
Men’s vs. women’s haircut prices also chap my hide.
That I can kind of understand because women’s cuts are more intricate than mens, and usually, but not always, women have longer hair. Of course some men have very fancy cuts, but overall, I think women’s cuts, drying, and styling are more time consuming than mens.
I understand that too, but there is no way for me to go in and just have two inches taken off the bottom (super simple) and get the cheaper men’s price. I have actually gone to a men’s barber shop and gotten them to do it but it’s not easy to find ones that will.
That’s true. I got a real haircut at a salon in Oregon right before I left. Wash, simple cut to shape the layers, which already existed, no blow dry, just some curl cream. Start to finish 15-20 minutes. $65! This is why I cut my own hair most of the time. Did I mention I was cheap? 😂 I never thought of going to a barber, but I might try that!
Pink tax! In the US a women pay on average 7% more for “ gendered” products. Anything from personal hygiene to bike helmets
Yeah, pink tax. Who came up with that? Oh right, it was a man. This kind of crap really gets my goat. 🐐
I hate pink. There. I said it.
Sorry if I have offended any pink-lovers here. It’s just the associations that annoy me no end.
Ha! I’m neither anti-pink or pro-pink, but I love when people tell it like it is! At least to them. I hope you have a “Pink Free” weekend!! I’m thinking you’re not about to go see the Barbie movie! 😉
To your comment below: you’re right, no Barbie movie!
I never paid attention to the price difference between men’s & women’s antiperspirants/deodorants. Mostly b/c I can’t stand how the men’s versions smell.
Not on CP, but wearing Zara x Olivia Giacobetti Vapeur Blanche today. My take is that it’s a nice perfume to wear when you want something lighter and closer to the skin with cedar. For $25, I can’t complain in the least.
We’re observing Truth & Reconciliation Day here (officially it’s tomorrow and the holiday in lieu is Monday, but we’re off both days). I do appreciate that I work for an organization that encourages us to take the time to reflect, both today and throughout the year.
Props to Canada, this is a nice page with helpful resources.
https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/campaigns/national-day-truth-reconciliation.html
I’m wearing Kiss me Intense by Nicolaï.
A wistful scent for a wistful last day of my vacation. It was well spent, however. I got some goat cheese at a very local cheese maker(blessed are the cheese makers) went for a really good lunch in Saint Michel l’Observatoire and spent the afternoon in Banon, which is a small village with a really large book shop. I got a really interesting book called “A la recherche des odeurs perdues” plus a beautiful edition of the Fables de La Fontaine with illustrations by Chagall.
I will be driving back tomorrow, it will be a long day but the first part of it will be driving through the Alps.
It sounds like you had a smashing vacation. I know that feeling but experienced it especially as a kid.
It was bliss!
Rentre bien! Sounds like it was a wonderful holiday. Some day when I am free of my responsibilities I hope to make that kind of trip.
I hope you will be able to. Both of the regions I visited are well worth a trip.
Safe travels. I can’t wait till your next holiday. Your book finds sound great.
Thanks! I’ll keep you posted.
Ah, blessed indeed are the cheesemakers! 😀
I’m glad you caught that one.
As always I looked up your towns. Looks like another lovely day.
How on earth does the 4th largest bookstore in all of France (if it is that, I saw that on a website) manage to stay open in a town of 1000 inhabitants?
I haven’t got a clue, the Lubéron is quite touristy but all the books are in French. They organize cultural things as well. But the area is not densely populated at all and the nearest University town us probably Aix en Provence.
It is a wonderful place, a real book lovers bookshop.
Very cool. I wonder if it is just a labor of love.
Just guessing – perhaps it is the 4th largest small bookstore in all of France using a calculation that includes the number of year-round inhabitants?
Could be…another website called it the 7th largest independent bookstore in France, not the same!
Safe travels home!
Wearing Chanel no 5 today and dying at that quote. The completely casual tone of “Hermes of Paris will make this” is too good.
It really is funny on a million different levels, not least of which for me is picturing an elk hide trunk in the back of my Honda Fit 😉
Happy National Coffee Day! (It’s up there among my favorite holidays, along with Bloomsday and International Clash Day.)
I took the day off and have been dawdling, so nothing for me, yet, but I think I’ll dig out my last few hoarded drops of CdG Wood Coffee, would that they would reissue this one.
Went to the post office this morning and sent off all my swapmeet packages. Send offerings to the postal delivery gods…
Glad you’re feeling better after your shots, Robin. I spaced out flu and the C this time around and was completely wrecked by the flu shot, which is very unusual for me. I was also pretty worn out the day after booster #gazillion, which I didn’t realize until I felt *so* much more lively the second day.
I’m hoarding my bottles of Nomad Tea and Wood Coffee as well.
Nomad Tea is once again available, I think? But truly it is a sadness that Wood Coffee is gone.
I am feeling better but not 100%, and not looking forward to my flu shot next month 🙂
Most shots knock me out, it’s just the way it is.
SOTD = Diana Vreeland Daringly Different
I was originally going to style the IG photo with something EXTRA but got too lazy looking for EXTRA. Anyway, Daringly Different has a not-in-your-face presence which works since I am meeting a friend and her brother (whom I’ve met over the years) for lunch!
https://www.instagram.com/p/Cxx8_tPOXtq/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
In other news, news. Someone prominent passed away very recently. For the longest time, whenever this person was in the news, there were many negative comments. Today, 98% of the comments were positive. What gives? If I am strongly opinionated enough to leave a previous comment, I would either not comment now or leave a similar comment as my previous one. Off my soapbox.
I think you can file that in the “Vagaries of Human Nature.”
Loving the IG photo! 🎃
I noticed the comments too, and thought the same thing! I could go on and on about two-faced people.
Oh gosh, now I want to know who, what, where, when, and how! 🤣
Last night and female politician is my guess.
And no matter what side of the aisle you’re on, I would agree it is very hypocritical.
Ah, got ya! Better steer away from the politics while I can! But really, who believes ANYTHING ANY politician ever said?! Not me….
What Kris said 😉
I think people have been taught not to speak ill of the dead, so no matter what they thought of the person in life, they will look for the positive now.
Off to check the news.
Quick point:
A wise man once said, “Everyone’s a Saint at their funeral.” This wise man put on a great face at his brother’s funeral. He felt very differently about his brother, even after the funeral.
How was your lunch today?
At least the naysayers weren’t attacking the deceased after their passing today. And it’s a sad world where I had to think of that.
I intended to wear No. 5 today, but forgot to include it in my travel selection. None of what I brought (Tam Dao, Snowy Owl, and a sample of something called Lotus perfection, or something like that, from some house I don’t remember, but it does smell fabulous) have anything to do with the world Vreeland inhabited, so I am failing the CP but just bought hundreds of dollars of yarn (alpaca, mohair, hand dyed, etc) for Christmas presents. Yay! Happy Fall, everyone.
Hand-knit presents from mohair and alpaca? Sign me up!
Your yarn stash sounds amazing!
High quality yarn gets very expensive! I know a few people who are into fiber arts.
Chanel No. 5 EdP for the community project! Her remarks about No. 5 in her memoir made me want to smell it when I was a teen.
I’m staying home today to avoid the extreme weather-related flooding in NYC today. Hope everyone is well (and dry)!
A lot of us had the same idea for the CP and we smell gorgeous!
Glad that you stayed at home safe today! 🌊
99 per cent of her “Why Don’t You…?” is extravagant, flighty nonsense for anybody but the ultra wealthy and maybe even for them, but some of the ideas are actually good. “Why don’t you… paint a map of the world on all four walls of your boys’ nursery so they won’t grow up with a provincial point of view?” is a pretty neat thing to do, although I don’t know why you’d limit it to the boys: surely you don’t want the girls to have a provincial point of view either. And she definitely invented/appropriated the French memory board with “…cover a big cork bulletin board in bright pink felt banded with bamboo, and pin with colored thumb-tacks all your various enthusiasms as your life varies from week to week?” (She did love bright pink: “I love that pink — it’s the navy blue of India,” she famously said.)
I don’t have either Opium or No. 5, alas, but I wore something that I feel she would have gravitated towards: vintage(ish) Clinique Aromatics Elixir, a proper chypre with a real kick to it.
It really seemed intended for rich people who bought their clothing from the spreads in HB & Vogue…it could as well have been called “Quirky ideas for rich people”.
Like happy888cat, taking inspiration from the bad taste is like a dash of paprika quote–in the tiniest spritz of the unapologetically loud Diva.
In advent calendar news, here’s one that’s on preorder at Anthro:
https://www.anthropologie.com/shop/the-2023-george-viv-beauty-advent-calendar?category=holiday-george-viv-collection&color=000&type=STANDARD&size=One%20Size&
I went with vintage Opium EDT for the CP, which is, as expected, so big with just a tiny spray to each arm. I can’t believe people used to spray themselves down with this and then go out to the clubs. I’ll just be sitting here working from home today so not an activity that really lives up to this perfume haha.
Just wanted to update that my dad went home from the hospital on Wednesday and I talked to him for a while yesterday. He’s doing well, all things considered. The hospital staff told him that if he’d waited any longer to come in, the result could have been very different. He had sepsis pneumonia among other factors listed for his hospitalization. So he’s loaded up with prescriptions and has an oxygen tank but is doing much better. He is very stubborn and hates help from anyone, so of course he was telling me how he would have returned to work today if only they’d already delivered him a backup oxygen tank. Sigh. I told him to take this time to rest and don’t work again until his body allows. He unceremoniously retired during the pandemic but has been working part time for the last year plus. His job keeps him on his feet and doing some manual labor, unfortunately. Hoping he will really let himself rest and recover.
Hope you all have a great Friday!
I’m glad your Dad is home. I hope he decides to rest.
I think you smell great!
I’m glad your dad is home and hopefully resting. Your dad sounds like my dad – they persistently elude our best efforts to make them take care of themselves. I’m sorry for the stress that you bare because of it😌
And you smell wonderful!
“bear”🐻
Wishing your dad a great convalescence, so glad his illness was caught on time.
Sepsis causes about 20% of deaths worldwide, although this number is probably higher in actuality as many people die (especially in undeveloped countries) before getting diagnosed and treated. I cannot express how important it is that he FINISHES his antibiotic treatment COMPLETELY, even if feels 100% better. People with underlying heath issues are even more vulnerable. I hope he follows the directions of his doctors, which they give for good reason. Hope he feels better soon!
How stressful for you – may your dad recover quickly and not push himself to do things he should not.
I’m glad your dad is back home. I hope he has a speedy recovery.
Great news that your dad is better and such a relief he avoided anything more serious. I, too, can relate to having a refusing-to-rest Dad coming out of retirement!
That’s good news and I hope the rest of his recovery goes well
Wishing your dad a speedy and complete recovery!
I hope he takes it easy.
Oh boy. I’m glad your dad is home and doing alright, and I hope he can rest and make a speedy recovery!
Glad to hear your dad’s home, and here’s hoping he can just take a few days to rest. (But my grandfather was the same way, always restless, couldn’t stop, needed to keep going no matter what.)
Scent Twins! I sprayed just a tiny bit, too.
Best of luck with easing your dad into a slightly slower mode of living. ❤️
So glad your father is coming home.
And you smell so beautiful.
Sending wishes for a full return to good health for your dad. 🤞
I’m glad your dad is doing much better. I think that doing light (?) manual labor and standing is better than sitting although he should go back to it until he fully recovers.
And Opium sounds great. I need to pull mine out.
Hiya scent triplet!
Glad that your Dad is out of the hospital now. I hope he decides to chill out a bit for his recovery and not rush things.
So happy for you and your Dad that he is home!
Happy Friday and Diana Vreeland Day!
I’m wearing vintage No 5 Eau de Cologne (it smells SO good!) and thinking of this quote which I think is quite psychologically astute of Vreeland🧐
Couldn’t we replace “prohibition” with “discontinued”?
“Prohibition. Insane idea. Try to keep me from taking a swallow of this tea and I’ll drink the whole pot.”
This quote reminds me of my Mom. She would double down on anything she was told not to do. Lol.
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I’m CP compliant in Shalimar Millesime Iris for the quote ““Everything is new. At least everything is new the first time around.” It’s the first time around for me wearing my SMI. Thankfully I like it, not as much as my Shalimar Mexique, but I will wear it. I have a lot of iris-centric fragrances so I have to share the love amongst all of them.
All these good reports on MI have me happy, happy, happy! 😀
I think you’ll be pleased with it.
I agree that you will be pleased. When do you get it?
Well, it’s complicated (of course!). It’s currently sitting at my mail forwarding service in Florida and ready to be sent to me. The hitch is my credit card number was hacked so that account is frozen. This is the same credit card that is charged for my mail forwarding service. The bank has already sent me a new card, which is also sitting at my mail forwarding service ready to be sent to me. So I will have to switch everything over to my debit card so the mail forwarding company can charge me to send all my mail and packages which will include the Guerlain and the new credit card. Once I get the new credit card, I have to switch everything to that new card…Plus, I’m headed Santa Fe way next, but have no clue how long I’ll be there. I already have mail waiting from me in Taos and a fed-ex package waiting in Santa Fe, because the post office in Taos will not accept any mail from Fed-Ex. Mail and veterinary care are the absolute biggest hassles with this nomad life, I have to admit. Sorry, more than you EVER wanted to know! 🙃
😂 You answered my question.
You are the Nomad Queen, but I’m glad you share the darker moments to keep it real.
Hello all!
As glamorously over-the-top as DV, reading one of her books made her pretty unappealing to me. We don’t have to get into why!
Test 3 today but it should be the easiest by far.
I’m in Gio by Giorgio Armani today. I ended up shuffling some perfume around and one of my bottles ended up right in front. Sweettart opening and huge glamazon base. Pretty funny for class.
Have a great day all!
You are kicking some serious academic butt! You must be so proud of yourself! How much longer do you have? I’m of the same opinion re: Vreeland.
Aw thank you! I took a bit of a breathing this week I think but I’m ready to take this weekend and reset. Not quite sure how much more I have but probably 3 more semesters. We’ll see how much I can pack in this summer.
Ahh! I am so jealous of your Gio!
It’s so pretty, isn’t it? I happened to find this one at an antique mall with the sprayer stuck in the cap, it it was cheap! I can’t remember quite what I did but I think some pliers were involved.
Good luck with your test. Hope you get the weekend off!
Thank you! Just lots of studying this weekend. Luckily today’s test was very easy
I am so jealous! Gio ! wow!!!
I can’t believe how lucky I was to find it. Such a unique scent.
Hope that your test went well today!
I think so! It was super easy, luckily!
For me, every day is National Coffee Day, but I suppose I can use it as an excuse to enjoy an extra cup or two today.
I’ve gotten all my freebies sent off now except for the last one. I may need to scrounge up some more packing material. I seem to go through the same cycle over and over; I save up peanuts, bubble wrap, and crumpled paper from packages we receive, then I get to thinking I have too much and I start tossing it, then I need to send off a bunch of packages and I run out. Rinse, repeat.
Re the Damage Poll: do we count bottles ordered but not yet received, or do they count for the quarter in which they actually come into our possession? My only FB purchase for this quarter will almost certainly not be here by Tuesday, so I didn’t know whether to count it this time or next time.
I count it for the quarter that I paid for it. I think most people count it when it arrives though.
I do the same thing with packing material. You aren’t alone 😊
I count when I paid the $$$$ out, like lillyjo.
I used to have a bunch of packing peanuts when I would ship Xmas gifts out of state, but haven’t done that in several years now. I do have a bunch of small boxes that are going to come in handy for my upcoming move.
I reluctantly admit that counting it when you pay for it seem right.
I do not think it matters how you count so long as you are consistent.
From my very limited stash here in Provence, it had to be Shalimar Tonka, so plush, I’ve fallen in love all over again as I had left it behind last year. I kind of like the idea of being able to wear it only when in France although I will miss it, the bottle will last longer this way. Anyway, I think DV would have approved.
Oh that’s nice you left it there. It’s a special perfume now.
I agree, it makes it more special. I wanted to give you an enabler pin as I tried and liked LVEB iris absolu after you mentioned it and ended up with a bottle, that’s in lieu of Millésime Iris which I am definitely not purchasing.
Does No. 5 Eau Premiere count? I wore that earlier in the week. Today, I’m wearing DV’s Body Cream, which is actually divine. I first tried it when her fragrance line was sold at Saks, and the SA showed me how nicely it layers with the whole line. It has a luxurious texture, thick and rich, and it feels wonderful on the skin!
Oy! I loved the body cream. I may have one more jar lying around here somewhere but may have to ditch it because it may be too old. It’s unopened though so there be hope yet.
Mine was old and unopened until recently, and it’s just fine, so I hope yours will be too!
Smelling great today!
Thanks! I do love Eau Première. My mom wore the original No.5, so that’s “her” scent, but I like wearing its younger sister.
A walk with a friend got canceled, so I don’t have to worry about holding back with my fragrance today. I’m wafting Encens Mythique, smelling so good while I grind through some spreadsheets!
Have a wonderful Friday, everyone.
You smell fabulous!
House Twins.
I almost wore your SOTD today. It’s so beautiful.
..smelling so good while grinding through spreadsheets. That’s fantastic!
Glad that you have something to enjoy while you are up to your eyeballs in spreadsheets!
I can hear the wind whistling and it’s about 5C and it’s not going to get much warmer today. I enjoyed watching the Wes Anderson short film The Swan yesterday and it’s depiction of a willow tree, which I associate with spring ( when the leaves open so early compared to other trees). The story about willows coming to NZ is quite interesting. They were said to be introduced by the first French immigrants, who took cuttings from the copious willows growing around Napoleon’s grave. It’s such a good story I haven’t checked it for accuracy. I am wearing JM Willow and Amber.
https://napoleonswillow.weebly.com/the-real-napoleons-willow.html
Seems the story is true
How interesting, I didn’t know about the French settlers in NZ, I thought it was only British.
I always associate willows with spring, too. I hope you love your scent! It’s a new one on me; I’ll have to look it up.
It’s just started to snow so I may have to try something cosier. The willow is from the wild flowers and weeds collection, a really pretty bottle…not a great scent
Snow? Ugh. I hate getting snow when it’s supposed to be spring.
Too bad your scent isn’t lovable. Those Jo Malone special collections are impossible for me to keep up with.
Did you mention liking clover a while ago when I wore one of hers? If so, check out Fragrantica! There’s a new clover-centered fragrance out. 😉
Thanks I do like clover
I don’t know what Diana Vreeland would have made of Aftelier Cuir de Gardenia, but it’s what called to me this morning, so SOTD it is. This is hands-down the sexiest perfume in my collection — a floral that smells like an animal that melts entirely into the skin and smells like *me*, only better.
I read through the Diana Vreeland quotes and this one caught me: “When I arrived in America, I had these very dark red nails which some people objected to, but then some people object to absolutely everything.” I love that. Some people would object to all manner of things in my life that are objectively fabulous. What can you do? Roll your eyes, and carry on being fabulous.
I’ve heard wonderful things about the Cuir de Gardenia from Aftelier.
You smell wonderful. I think you may like L’AP Dzing ! as it has what I call good 💩.
Oh, I love Dzing!
Robin, I hope you’re back to 100% today.
I’m celebrating National Coffee Day with my third cup!
I’m twins with therabbitsflower today in vintage Opium. I have a small bottle which a friend gave me, and although I don’t wear it much, it’s always beautiful.
There’s at least 3 of us wearing Opium today!
Triple Crown!
More rain here, but nothing much compared to some parts of the country, and other parts of the world – I hope NST people in New York are OK.
We’ll have to venture out to the supermarket, we’ve got a car so it’s hardly difficult, but I really don’t want to go out the door in this weather. We’re going to have northerly and southerly winds, so at least all the windows will get washed 🙂
I can still smell traces of last night’s Arrakis, from Tiziana Terenzi. It’s a nice spicy scent, but similar to many others, and I’m telling myself I don’t need just because of the link to Dune. I might wear it again today and think some more about not buying it.
Stay safe! I do the same kind of thinking for many, many things. 🙃
Wearing Wicked Good today which always makes me think of the kind and generous hajusuuri who gifted me a travel spray of this beauty. 🥰 Haven’t worn in a while and I had forgotten how potent and good it is.
Happy Friday, friends!
Woohoo! Now I need to find mine!
I’m halfway CP-compliant in CdG’s Copper – not a conscious reference to a Diana Vreeland quote, not one of Diana Vreeland’s favourites (obviously not, given its release date) and not a scent from Diana Vreeland’s line either. Still, even before I saw today’s picture, I felt quite sure that Diana Vreeland would have been a women continually surrounded by a cloud of smoke. And, even though neither tobacco leaf nor tobacco smoke is listed in the official notes, Copper to me really is the ultimate tobacco scent (of those I know, at least, which, alas, do not include such classics like Tabac Blond), so it somehow seemed to capture the personality I imagined Diana Vreeland to have had.
Excellent choice, and sorry I’m a day late to say so!
Happy National Coffee Day!☕️ in honor of my favorite beverage and today’s cp, I’m wearing YSL Black Opium for its coffee note (which I drink strong and black just like the fragrance) and the closest I can come to a Diana Vreeland-appropriate scent. I know who she was but little else about her. Black Opium is said to be the dark and mysterious side of Opium, and although she appears to have been bold and outspoken, I wonder, did she have a dark and mysterious side as well?🤔
Robin, hope you feel much better by the end of today after you rest. Like you, I had my Covid booster on Wednesday. Although, other than a sore arm, I’ve never had a reaction to any of the shots previously (and no symptoms when I did have Covid) I was surprised that I did this time. My arm was extremely sore, didn’t sleep well at all, and woke up yesterday feeling out of sorts. And, of course, we were going to our last WhiteSox game of the season yesterday, the last thing I felt like doing. But I went and it was a good game, but I was uncomfortable throughout, couldn’t eat any of the yummy ballpark food, and the traffic was horrendous on the way home. I crashed when I got home and was asleep by 9, which I can’t remember doing for eons! Today I feel much better with only a slightly sore arm.
We’re making a mini-trip to Milwaukee later this weekend, the highlight of which will be a Peter Gabriel concert. It costs less to stay overnight and see him there than it does just to drive a few miles for a concert ticket in Chicago!
Hoping everyone has a great weekend ahead, with special wishes for all NYC’ers to stay safe from the floods🤞.
I’m envying you re: Peter Gabriel! One of my all time favorites. I hope you have a fabulous time!
Peter Gabriel put out some new music earlier this year. He still sounds great. Enjoy the concert! 🎼🎵🎵🎶
Ugh, sorry your booster ruined your game! Hope PG is wonderful though.
I’m still waffling on Le Labo. I had a discovery set last year.
I know I loved Cedrat, but Guaic or another called me. I have Vanilla, dislike the Tobacco and don’t like tea roses. I have the Patchouili, but I don’t like it.
Any more thoughts? I might just grab the Iris now. Any thoughts on that?
Since the Iris is potentially going to be unavailable later on, get that one. At least you won’t have FOMO.
If it doesn’t work out, there are swaps.
I would get the iris as well.
Intermittent rain here today. Thankfully nothing at all like what NYC is experiencing. A friend of mine who works up there was sent home around 2pm this afternoon. Thankfully he made it back to NJ in decent time.
No amusing Vreeland quote for me. I’ll just enjoy everyone else’s picks.
SOTD = Opium EdT. My bottle has a manufacturing code from 2006. Not sure if that counts as vintage by now. But I remember now why I wear it infrequently. Love the opening notes, but this stuff will still be going strong tomorrow morning.
Scent twins!
Hiya scent twin!
If it’s on clothing, Opium will be there for days!
I would love it in a shower gel that would fill up the bathroom.
It is.
I can smell it on both shirts I am wearing today. It’s going to take multiple runs thru the wash to get it out. Hopefully the rest of the load won’t smell of Opium when it’s done!
Nice! I remember being smart and clearing the atomizer mechanism at a Walgreens parking lot. Never again because it blew back up on me …
🤣🤣🤣! How badly did you get dosed?
For the CP: two perfumes that I happened across whilst tidying up. I chose Angel as SotD, associating it with Ms. Vreeland’s long-lasting presence in popular culture. Later, having seen today’s theme picture, my vintage Habanita caught my eye. I added a tiny spritz – that’s the good stuff – and it does go well with cigarette smoke! I’m behind on comments due to working outside. But the weather is so beautiful here, it’s the best time.
Enjoy the great weather while you have it! Especially this time of year, when things can change in a heartbeat…
BUMMER about Michael Gambon.
Having a cup of coffee right now
2 more hours until I get 3 days off. I took Monday as a personal day to take my stupid car in.
My sotd is Angel Innocent. I was going to wear 24 Faubourg for the cp, but I wasn’t feeling in the mood for it. 24F makes me feel fancy but also like I don’t belong.
Hugs lillyjo.
More hugs!💕
You’re the universal perfumista. You belong everywhere!
SOTD = Serge Lutens Fumerie Turque
Vintage. And 😱, with tobacco, smoke, resins, incense, patchouli, tonka etc. etc. etc.
https://www.instagram.com/p/Cx3fmmZxyCk/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
Swapmeet is still going on!
And here’s my Caturday contribution from my mini calendar!
https://www.instagram.com/p/Cx3hi1AxrN2/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==