It's Friday! It’s also International Chefs Day, World Osteoporosis Day and Information Overload Day. Birthdays: Arthur Rimbaud, Jelly Roll Morton, Bela Lugosi, Tom Petty, Viggo Mortensen. Our community project for today: wear a fragrance that evokes one of Pantone's picks for the Autumn/Winter 2023/2024 NYFW Color Palette. (If you like, click through to the article and pick your fragrance based on the color name or description rather than the color itself, as in "Exuding the warmth and splendor of the sun, High Visibility expresses joy and good cheer." or "Sturdy and steady Burnt Sienna conveys a sophisticated earthiness." Also note that the set includes Viva Magenta, the color of the year...you could cheat and wear what you picked for that project.)
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 had Tender Peach plans for today, but instead I’m getting through the tail end of Covid. I'm commando and I slept in, again.
Reminder: on 10/27 we're doing Specialty woods... wear a perfume with guaiac, cypress, oak, or some other specialty wood note we haven't already done (we've covered oud, sandalwood, cedar and evergreens).
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 What a Peach Shrub 005 [cropped] by cs97009 at flickr; some rights reserved.
Hello all!
I’m in Y-06S today. After that initial crush of banana, it’s a lovely jasmine. More Tender Peach than High Visibility in my humble opinion. I’m up earlier than usual getting an oil change.
Have a great weekend, everyone.
Love that one, you smell great Coumarin!
Isn’t it great? My local store is getting rid of the line so I got a bottle for 50% off. Hard to pass that up….
Oh, excellent.
You smell fabulous!
Thank you!
I’m opting out of the CP (no imagination) but I’m wearing Purple Fig, a new decant for me. I generally hate fig scents, but I like this one. So far, with Philosykos, that’s two fig scents that I like.
That’s a great scent! If Vilhelm was cheaper, I’d buy a travel spray.
Sounds like you’re on the mend, Robin, and good to hear it.
Last day in Amsterdam before we head back to Paris by train. It rained alllll day and still is raining: we have unlimited transit passes so we took some light rail to a few places and then got tired of the cold and wind and rain, picked up sandwiches and drinks for supper, and headed back to the hotel. I don’t really have anything with me that calls to mind a colour: I’m in Gaultier Scandal Le Parfum, which is mostly sweet candied things, so no points for me.
But maybe half points for toothpaste! I know you like offbeat toothpastes as much as I do, Robin, and I know you’d want to hear about the Dontodent I got in Germany a few days ago (it’s the Drogerie Markt house brand, and they can be relied on to come up with some oddities): it’s Fresh Peach. Huh! I haven’t even tried it yet but I’m sure it will be strange in a good way.
What a shame about the weather, I hope you will have better luck in Paris!
I hope so too! It might be raining a little when we arrive tomorrow afternoon but the remainder of the trip should be fine.
Some cities I instantly love — Tokyo, Edinburgh — and others are more of a slow burn. Amsterdam was like San Francisco for me; it took me a while to warm to its particular charms, but the longer I’m here the more I love it. It’s a city like no other, and I’m so happy I came here. I’d recommend it to anybody.
It is slow! This has really been like having mono. But I think I am a wee bit better today.
Sorry for crappy weather on your last day.
And do report back on the toothpaste! I just bought Boka’s children’s flavor, Orange Cream, and am enjoying it but maybe not as strong a creamsicle flavor as I’d hoped. I still have not tried the Marvis tea trio, I need to get on the ball but I do possibly have too many flavors at the moment (just counted: 9 open tubes at the moment, although several of those are travel sizes).
I did NOT particularly care for either of the Lebon flavors I tried: Tropical Crush (pineapple & rooibos) and Back to Pampelonne (mango & mint). I have one more I haven’t opened yet: Villa Noacarlina (cinnamon & mint).
The worst thing about toothpaste for me is that my dental hygienist says I’m caries-prone and need to use Prevident 5000, a toothpaste with 5 times the usual amount of fluoride, which means I don’t get to use all the delicious ones like the Marvis very often (she was shocked, shocked I say, to discover that it has no fluoride whatsoever). I mostly brush with the boring SPF-5000 (as I derisively call it) and save the nice ones for occasional use.
I would definitely try an orange-Creamsicle toothpaste!
Some of the Marvis do have fluoride…my Black Forest and Orange Blossom Bloom both say “fluoride toothpaste” right on the front. So it is worth checking! My favorite, Karakum, does not have fluoride.
Ask your dentist what they think of Nano Hydroxyapatite for cavities…my regular toothpaste (I use it every night) is a Japanese toothpaste with Hydroxyapatite (it is by Apagard), and that is what Boka uses as an active ingredient too. I have seen studies saying that are comparable in terms of efficacy but I’m sure your dentist knows more than I do!
I brought back an Acacia tree toothpaste from Kenya that will be opened today!
Oh how cool!! Do report back.
I can totally see myself welcoming a special-toothpaste-lemming to the cage one of these days!
Be careful, once you get started…
Happy Friday all!
I’m wearing Mugler Aura for Carnival Glass today.
Listening to the new Rolling Stone album and liking it a lot.
Oh, I need to listen to that!
Happy Friday ringthing.
Aura is a great match for a vivid green!
Love your match – Carnival Glass is one of my favorite colors in the pallet, and it never occurred to me, an Aura lover, how appropriate the description is until you made it.
The Stones are my very favorite band. I have really liked what I have heard so far.
Hello and tgif!
Glad you are getting better Robin! Rest and sleep in all you need. 🙂
My CP pick is Rose Violet and my sotd is Hermes Violette Volynka.
Straight up violet with a suede/leather base. I love it! If only all the Hermessences were edp, then they would last longer…but maybe it’s the edt that gives them that watercolour or airy quality.
Bought 2 more pumpkins, will make honey roasted pumpkin and pie!
I’d better get well very soon because my house is a disaster!
Honey roasted pumpkin sounds delicious. My mom used to make a risotto stuffed pumpkin that was incredible, I should try it some day.
A risotto stuffed pumpkin sounds like the most amazing Thanksgiving side dish, ever.
I wanted to join the iris gang, but none of my iris perfumes seemed right for Persian Jewel: Shalimar Parfum Initial L’Eau is light pink or mauve, Iris de Nuit is a much darker shade of blue and I imagine Naiviris as greyish purple blue. Clair de Musc is lovely, but I am just not in the mood for musk today.
So my today’s iris is… lilac! En Passant for Persian Jewel – fleeting but very pretty.
Nice pick!
I tried En Passant for the first time in June and say you smell lovely.
You smell wonderful!
Matching Tom Ford Lost Cherry to Viva Magenta.
Happy Friday! 🍒
Happy Friday pl67!
Thank you, Robin!
I hope you are feeling better today!
You smell f-ing fabulous,
Lol! Thank you! 😀
TGIF to you, perfumelover67!
Thank you, Jalapeno! It was a very busy week, so I am looking forward to the weekend eagerly!
Hope you have a great weekend!
Thank you, Lillyjo!
I’m here in my jeans and hoodie, wearing Chanel Cuir de Russie. It is paired with Red Dahlia, supposedly exuding “elegance personified.” Elegance, yeah, that’s me. I have an elegant day planned, of swapping out the summer comforter for winter and maybe taking a nap later. I woke up too early.
All perfect!! Enjoy your elegant day!
Sorry you’re still under the weather, Robin. Hope with a few more days of rest and self- care, you’ll show Covid who’s the boss!
I ventured out of my comfort zone by pulling out Tubéreuse Criminelle to match Carnival Glass. “Mentholated green with an icy appearance”? I’d say so!
You smell great! I thought of TC too when I saw “mentholated” in the Carnival Glass description. I love that aspect of TC.
I am in FM Portrait of a Lady which I’m pairing with Red Orange, “a heated gregarious orange tone both spontaneous and self-assured”.
Happy Friday!
POAL is a beautiful scent 🌹
POAL is very self assured!
Did some online shopping last night. Got the Skyn Iceland face wash I like so much and some lotion since I am running low. It’s amazing how you can go from having a ton of something and then you are suddenly out of it. Drew a blank with the CP and in Kyoto today.
You smell lovely.
I chose the color Burnt Sienna today. The color reminds me of both woods and spices. For the woods I chose Diptyque Tam Dao for the sandalwood and woodsy notes. For the spices in the evening on the other wrist I am going to wear Jo Malone Ginger Biscuit which has notes of ginger, nutmeg, and cinnamon and is one I’m currently loving.
That’s a great match, kudos.
I’m matching Une fleur de cassie to the deep yellow of High Visibility (what an awful name by the way). Cassie’s character would probably be better represented by Red Dahlia (elegance personified, Cassie is a very elegant scent) or Viva Magenta (powerful and empowering).
Cassie is a proper old school perfume with plenty of character and a bold attitude. It’s one of my favourite Malles.
It’s very rainy in Luxembourg, which makes for somber days, but the trees needed the water, it’s been quite a dry year.
That’s a glorious perfume. When I heard a rumor about them discontinuing it, I bought a back-up. Seems unfounded but I’m glad I did it before the price increases.
I did the same thing (though the SA at the FM boutique in Paris assured me they had no plans to discontinue it)
Glad I’m not the only one!
Nice to see you, Austenfan and you smell lovely!
Mine too! You smell wonderful!
This morning I’m in Caleche and thinking it pairs well with Doe from the New Classics set. But later today we have a family wedding supper for Mr. G’s older son and bride, and I will be wafting Chanel 19 EDT all over the place. Haven’t worn it in far too long. I think it pairs with Kohlrabi — both the bright green color and the “dash of piquancy” from the description. Happy Friday everyone!
You’ll smell great all day.
Oh nice, enjoy the wedding supper!
Waft away!💃
Enjoy the wedding supper!
Hope it was a lovely supper!
Apologies if everyone already knows, but Fumerie has Tauer Nexin in stock.
Now you have to apologize for being an enabler😬🤣
Actually, I was thrilled to know that Fumerie has it in stock and that I can add it to my split tomorrow😊
I am indeed suitably sorry 🙂
💗🌸💗
Today I’m going with Mohur Extrait for Rose Violet, a tantalizing fuchsia. Perhaps too literally so, a rose perfume in a violet glass bottle.
Happy Friday to all!
Glad you’re on the mend, Robin.
Great match and stunning perfume! ( I wore it last week for India).
Waving hello 👋🙂
Hiya adanst!
I’ll have to report in later with my SOTD. I’m still commando and just now eating breakfast. I wanted to share this post; a lot of the items on the list are pretty mainstream but not all, and I enjoyed reading what they had to say and seeing all the pretty bottles.
I guess I’ll be celebrating National Osteoporosis Day by going this afternoon to get my bone-building shots. They hurt like hell, but the nurse/PA is very nice and chats away to distract me. This will be #11 out of 12–yay, only one more to go!
30 of the Best Perfumes to Fall in Love with this Year, from British Vogue.
https://www.vogue.co.uk/beauty/gallery/best-new-perfume-women
I hope you can treat yourself to something nice after your bone shots. Are you still doing watercolours? I am on week seven of acrylic classes and finding it quite immersive.
That Liberty Tudor perfume sounds nice. And I like Twilly Tutti…a good spring perfume.
Hope the shot will be as pain-free as possible.
Thanks for the article! good luck with your shots!
Ooooooof. Good luck with this shot, and the next one, too!
Color of the day is Persian Jewel to match Lutens’ ISM.
Just had a Wild Kingdom moment: something caught my eye outside the kitchen window: a brown hawk, 12″-15″ inches in height,
standing in the back yard, just losing its grip on a chipmunk. Saw the chipmunk darting away, hawk hovering right after it.
No carnage visible–prey either escaped, or was spirited off into the sky. My own personal episode of Nature!
How incredible…but glad I’m not the chipmunk. Its heart must be racing.
What dramatic event, can’t help but wishing the best for the chipmunk although the hawk needs to eat.
We’ve had a hawk that has snatched a few of our finches right off the bird feeders.
I’m wearing Amouage Fate (Woman) and headed out the door for a walk about with doggo! Happy Friyay!
Have a lovely walk Deva!!
Hope you had a great day!
Slept late
No project, no alarm clock.
All good at dentist, just a cleaning.
My sample of Tobacco Honey is here. Not sure if good thing or bad thing.
Sounds like a great morning! I got a sample of TH with my Shalimar MI order but all I can smell is oud..? I don’t get any honey or tobacco.
To be discussed. Over and over.
I only get honey 🍯 🐻
End of day check in. Honey, yep. Tobacco, not so much.
Soapy? Kinda.
Oh well, all that hub bub for me and my wallet to take a pass.
I got TH with my Shalimar MI too. At first it smelled awful on my skin, but the next morning it smelled pretty good. It obviously wasn’t too memorable to me because I don’t remember what it actually smelled like 😂
I’m surprised to see Shalimar MI continues to be available on the Guerlain site. What do you think about it? Reports of it being heavy on caramel to iris have stopped me from ordering so far but I’ve really enjoyed the last two millésimes so I’m wavering here…
I’m one of the rare people who have never gotten caramel. I don’t know why. Maybe try it? If you don’t like it, I’m sure you could either split it or sell the entire bottle, so not a high risk proposition.
I don’t get caramel.
I got mostly iris and vanilla but do smell caramel off and on. I loved it so much I got a BUB and I have never seemed to care for Shalimar before. Believe me if you don’t like it there will be someone here who will take it off your hands. I would be happy to have a back up to my back up 😀
Thanks for that enthusiastic endorsement! You’re giving me just enough of a nudge to push me over the edge of indecision. For the record, I feel as strongly about Shalimar MVP with a BUB squirreled away.
Trying Pas Ce Soir Extrait today which I happened to get a sample of. It’s nice and seems better than the original to my nose from what I remember of it.
BDK veers into the poser niche genre for me which is a highly subjective epithet I use to describe prolific niche houses that birthed themselves in the last 5-10 years and charge high prices but don’t necessarily deliver anything truly new or worthy. 🙂 Maybe I am just mad about the general onslaught of niche houses in recent years like fast zombies that keep spawning and can’t be killed..it’s possible. 😉
I like the term Poser perfume house. So many brands fall into that category now.
that was a total scrubber on me.
Oh She-ra that made me laugh. Poser Niche!
Poser niche! That’s a great term, I know exactly what you mean.
Some brands seem to arrive from nowhere with adulation already attached, from which I suspect marketing through social media and “influencers”. I prefer to be influenced by you lovely people on NST 🙂
Sounds like we need to do a CP on poser-niche!
We can all pull out our bottles. 🤣
I love the original! I like Posers.😂
Thank you for the laugh. That’s such a good description 👏
“Poser Niche” made me smile!
Loads of sleep, hot showers, drinking copious amounts of water, and fresh clean sheets–! The best one can do to slog through COVID in my totally inexpert, no-nothing opinion! 😇
I’m in 19-69’s Chronic, inspired by the Pantone color Kohlrabi. Vegetal and herbal this one. My husband loves it. It is supposed to have a ganja note–I don’t notice it, at least not like any ganja I have smelled! 🌱
Update on Royalty Scents:
About 36 hours after my initial email with the documentation showing the double billing (plus messages sent to them via Instagram and Facebook), I received a very gracious email apology and a promise that I will be reimbursed. So far, about 1/3 of what I am owed has been sent to me (they are sending as monthly refunds). I am guessing that they get charged for certain transactions, and the least expensive for them is to send a refund that exactly matches a charge. . . but I don’t know. Will keep you posted. So far so good, if not exactly fast.
Totally agree, but annoyingly enough there is nobody here to change my sheets, and I am too tired!!
So glad they are taking care of it, even if really they ought to refund it all now.
Yeah. Let’s see what happens. I am laughing at my no-nothing. What do I know? 😁
I hope you continue to mend!
Good to hear that things are moving in the right direction with Royalty Scents. But ITA with Robin; that refund ought to be dealt with all at once. I have to wonder if that is indicative of potential financial problems on their end.
Well. It is weird. The day has come to an end, and the refunds remain at about a third of what I am owed.
I started with Shalimar MI today, but then wanted something stronger so I sprayed Shalimar edp over it. I matched it with Burnt Sienna. When I got to work my coworker had brought her bottle of Melrose Place for me to smell. I told her it was really pretty ( it is!) And she told me she wanted me to have it! How nice is that!? So now I am wearing it too.( it’s about 20% full and she said she would be buying a new one for herself)
In other perfume news.. I saw on the Essentially Dacob channel that Chanel was repackaging Cristalle edp and edt in New bottles! So far this looks to be true only on the U.K website.
House twins, I bet you smell great in your layering. How nice of your co-worker, glad she surprised you with something lovely, I’m not familiar with Melrose Place.
It’s by the brand Ouai. They mostly sell hair care, I believe.
What a nice coworker friend! I bet you are smelling great!
At Sephora last month, I chose the birthday gift of a 4 piece Ouai kit (which included a sample of Melrose Place). I’ll have to try it tomorrow!
Report back if you like it.
It’s very spring like, but I think it would be cheerful during the winter blahs.
How cool! Bet that made your workday a little nicer.
It did! Especially since I was working with Miss Bossypants! Lol
FEH on Miss Bossypants!
That’s so nice, enjoy!
I will for sure!
Shalimar Tonka as well as a few sprays of the original queen EdP
The library has been keeping me so busy. Met with the curators to talk about the ERA exhibit
That sounds like a nice kind of busy!
I have perfume indecision syndrome because scattered everywhere in the house I glimpse a perfume saying “ pick me”! I don’t know how it happened but I have a perfume sitting on top of the bread bin ( Fiele Viola). I must have got distracted half way through tidying by the thought of a toasted crumpet dripping with butter and honey …okay, wearing Confetti to match all the colours all together, and feeling in awe of all the spring growth and colours…an incredible burst of pinks, yellows, crimsons, orange, purple…and bright green.
😃 at on top of the bread bin.
Only those down the rabbit hole get that!
Or *do* that!
I am afraid to bring perfume near the kitchen..the marble floors we have-I will break the bottle for sure!
We have tile in our kitchen; once when I dropped a saucepan on the floor, the floor was fine but the saucepan got dented.
Your spring sounds wonderful!🌞🌻🌷
Hope you are somewhat better Robin.
A lovely fall day, hope weather holds for the w.e.
ChocolateMarzipan wore it in copious amount yesterday and Cazaubon evoked a 250ml bottle, so I picked Mitsouko today, burnt sienna, I think and I made an experiment: applied vintage EDT on hand, vintage extrait on wrist and Avon Rapture on other wrist. And the little Avon held its own against the mighty Guerlain. It is supposed to resemble both Mitsouko and Ode. I smelled Ode only once with Victoria, so not sure how close it is (I wish I had some but it’s quite rare) and it’s only cologne concentration and lasted well.
I decided to eat more avocados and started this evening with avocado on toast, may have some soup but no smoothie today.
I had to look up that Avon, as it was not one with which I was familiar. Fragrantica gives the launch date as 1961; I find that so many of the “cheap” perfumes of the 1960s and 1970s really do hold up well against against their much pricier counterparts, and often smell much more expensive than they were.
Yes, totally agree, and it’s the case with Rapture, it really doesn’t smell cheap. No way to tell which decade it’s from, I would venture the 70’s by the bottle and spray mechanism. It’s now very faint but 5 sprays lasted 6 hours which is enough in my book, of course the Mitsouko extrait is still going strong, I would expect no less but the EDT has faded too.
Rapture smells wonderful to me, whereas Mitsouko never quite reveals its glories to me.
It’s easier to wear for sure.
Some of those old Avon perfumes were excellent.
I have and enjoy many of the 1960’s Avon perfumes. 10 years ago as I was falling, falling down the rabbit hole, they were a great way to experience Vintage Style for perfume-math free. I think that is still the case. Where I live, every thrift and resale store will have a bottle or two.
Finally decided on Vega as SOTD, just because it’s gorgeous and I haven’t worn it in a while. I’m going to match it with Viva Magenta, as I think Vega can be described as “powerful and empowering”. Basenotes lists rosewood among the notes, so it will fit with next week’s CP as well.
Oh, Vega, quite the unicorn, I bet you smell elegant.
SOTD = Iunx Talc
It’s a discontinued gem with sensual skin and orris. Boo Ghost slid in to complete the picture!
https://www.instagram.com/p/CyoYG3ExRMb/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
Please skip if you have no interest in poll worker stuff.
So I got a call earlier in the week and just in time I was able to sign up for a class. Apparently, no matter how seasoned you are, you have to take a class every 2 years. In any case, I have zero experience so it was brand new material for me. I was asked which political affiliation I am and I said what it was and of course I was perplexed. It became clear to me at the training where 2 people, one for each major political party, have to sign off on “stuff”. Anyway, I have to review the materials in the next week or so. There are many things to remember! I was assigned to an elementary school on Election and will be there by … 5:15 AM! Stay tuned!
5:15 is Too Darn Early in the morning! But those polls open at 6am, right?
They do! And I have to stay until after 8pm. We cannot turn voters away. The trainer said he thinks it will not be crowded.
Hope you have some snacks handy!
That’s going to be a super long day for you! I wonder do they pick people with no affiliation? Or if you don’t want to say?
There are rules that state that 2 people have to sign off on a number of things to avoid the appearance of bias.
I am in the vanilla mood lately, trying all the vanillas in my collection.
Today I am in Goutal Vanille Exquise and it’s perfect.
An oldie but goodie 🙂
Robin! I hope you continue to rest up and heal. Tender Peach was my runner up, but though I feel out of my bailiwick on this CP, I’m going for points in Estee, for Burnt Sienna’s “sophisticated earthiness.”
That is perfect, see, it is right in your wheelhouse 🙂
I’m still wafting last night’s perfume, which was one of my Paris holiday purchases in April, Rivalité Impériale from Plume Impression. It’s quite sweet, but in the dried fruit way that I am quite partial to. It comes in the most ridiculously hefty packaging, getting that back home in my suitcase was an effort.
I’m thinking of something lighter post-shower, maybe Le Jardin de Monsieur Li that Kanuka so kindly gave me.
That would seriously be quite the change in one day!
Went with my favorite Iris Poudre paired with Persian Jewel.
Wonderful. I was originally going to wear this but it was going to be too much for the poll worker training and the hair cut.
I’m deciding to match my SOTD MFK Lumiere Noire pour femme with Persian Jewel! Just bought a full bottle of MFK Grand Soir yesterday (birthday present to myself), but decided I had too much of a migraine today for that one.
Happy Birthday and I hope your migraine is quickly a thing of the past🌹
Happy Scented Birthday, indeed!
Happy Birthday! Grand Soir is wonderful!
Thanks to everyone for their well wishes about my bad shots today. They’re done and I survived! I’ve only got one more to do–next month will be 12th of 12. The nurse/PA said that other people in my cohort on the same time frame are all doing really well on their bone scans, and I’m due to get mine within this next month. Yay! And yes, Kanuka, I’m still doing my watercolors. In fact, since the nice nurse also does watercolor painting, I took three of them in with me today to show her, and she seemed appreciative. I’m learning how to do more techniques, to put small (blobby) people into landscapes, and to do better perspectives and shading. It’s fun!
I often stop to visit in a fancy jewelry shop in the big hospital/doctor complex, which also has cafes and restaurants, florists’, etc. it is fun to talk with the people there who are friendly and after my various bone replacement surgeries I’ve sometimes treated myself to a special piece, which is great fun. I didn’t get anything “BIG” today but found some pretty and not too expensive gray coin pearl earrings which they had, and which just happened to match the long necklace I was wearing today. Imagine that! Maybe after next month’s final shot and doctor consultation I’ll find an appropriate celebratory piece!
So my SOTD is Arctic Jade, which is a bit of a cheat to match with the Carnival Glass green. In part it’s because that color is described is icy, and “Arctic” goes with ice, right? And jade is sometimes a vivid bright green. On a deeper level it seems to fit, because this scent has been described as having an incense note that pierces through the initial sweet berry and floral blast. I find the sweetness to be appealing and while it’s quite potent, it’s countered by some kind of spiky note, which I can’t quite identify. It might be orange combined with the woods and resins.
If you want a minor treat I can thoroughly recommend Woody Sticks ( Stabilo brand). They are soft chunky pencil/ pastels that you can draw with, smudge, or turn into watercolour paints by layering on water ( on your drawing) or by mixing with water ( on your palette). They are really fun and handy for using outdoors. Plus you can use then over your watercolour painting for details.
Glad the shots went well. Funny how needles seem to get bigger and more painful the more you have them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgnN8C6ZzZ8
I’m wearing Tabu, matching it to Burnt Sienna. I really enjoy the root beer aspect of this. Just resprayed myself as I’m home alone, enjoying the quiet.
We saw a deer pass through the complex this morning. I just happened to be looking out the front window at the right time. He was quite big, but just sauntered on by continuing on his merry way.
I am not sure I have ever smelled Tabu. I have no scent memory of it at all. 🤔
If you enjoy Cinnabar or Opium, it may be worth a sniff! It’s a cheapie, but still a good scent for the cooler days when you don’t want “complicated”.
My bottle is a newer version. I bet the vintage is wonderful!
Good to know about the current version! I am familiar with the 80’s/90’s version and it was only second to Aromatics Elixer in strength.
I will keep my eyes open for Tabu, since I have both Cinnabar and Opium in my Perfume Bottle Stash.
Cool about the deer! I have seen them on the back streets of my neighborhood at night. Not so cool here because I am afraid they will run out in front of Me.
The county is trying to figure out what to do about it.
AE is a power house! I had a bottle way back in the day and remember wearing it to work. I have a current version too, it’s slightly different in the opening but morphs mostly back to itself.
Yeah. On the way to work, I’ve seen a family of them on the roadside, looking to cross the street. Please stay where you are!
The one we saw was alone. At first I thought it was a moose, he was pretty big!
Do you remember years and years ago when you could get the roll on Tabu?
I think so! Was it just a Christmas thing?
No, it was in a foil that you unwrapped and was a solid perfume that you applied on the skin. It was in a glass bottle and you could even lift the entire solid piece out.
It looked like a perfume stick or deodorant. You could buy it in the drugstore.
For today’s cp, Burnt Sienna totally fits my choice of SOTD, YR d/c Nature Millenaire, starting with the color and shape of its autumn leaf bottle, and then moving on to its slightly smoky cedar and sandalwood notes, and a touch of earthy iris and vetiver and some amber labdanum. I’m wearing the women’s version, which is my favorite fall scent ❤️, and I know pyramus is very fond of the men’s.
A busy day today. Yoga class this morning, then a trip to Aldi, went with Mr. Laila to get his Covid booster/flu shots (done with mine), now looking forward to dinner tonight at our favorite local seafood restaurant (family owned and operated since 1951),the next best thing to dinner on the Atlantic coast! Our trees are finally turning beautiful colors here, and we’re hoping to go on a mini-fall-foliage trip early next week.🤞
A special wish for you, Robin, to feel better soon – sorry you had to go through this again! 🤗 And a wish for a beautiful weekend ahead for all NST’rs 🍂🍁🥮
That’s a great pairing and I love Nature Millénaire too.
Your dinner plans sound so yummy!
Thank you Laila!
Sorry to be late. I fell asleep waiting for the post to drop.
Yesterday Samsara for the CP remembering the original Viva Magenta or Red Dahlia looking red bottles.
Hope you had a lovely nap😴
HA! It was a full nights sleep all. Yes, it was beautiful.
Holy smoke, we’re perfume twins for the CP!
Jalapeño, this makes me so happy.
Running really late today! I had an appointment this afternoon that got pushed back by a bit, and it had a cascade effect on everything else. A minor delay that was no big deal.
PSA: for those of you who are TF Cherry+ fans, Nordies has a set of all 3 (Lost, Electric, and Cherry Smoke) in travel sprays. Pricey but tempting!
SOTD = Samsara EdP in the red bottle (as it should be!) for Red Dahlia.
Hi, running even later😬 You smell divine!
Thank you! Nice to have company in the evening hours! 🤣
Oh that’s a wonderful pairing!
Thanks! One of Robin’s pictures this week convinced me that it was a perfect pair.
I have to review my recollection of the other two besides Lost Cherry. You smell great in Samsara EDP!
Thank you! So glad I have both EdT and EdP. There are noticeable differences between the two concentrations to my nose.
Great choices! Samsara is beautiful.
It is! One of my most successful blind buys. 😁
I don’t think I have smelled Samsara before. What does it smell like?
The main notes I smell in Samsara are narcissus, jasmine, and sandalwood. It does have a Guerlain signature to the base.
I would probably like it then.
I’m pairing Grandiflora Saskia with Tender Peach for its tender, velvety gardenia petals.
Nice choice!
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A good gardenia perfume is a lovely thing to behold!
I couldn’t agree more!
Wearing Blanc de Courrèges, which to my nose is not white, but Viva Magenta!
It was a successful blind buy, and under my blind-buy limit of $20. Due in part to my sample addiction, by the time I tried Commodity Orris and decided I liked it well enough to check the price, it had been discontinued. I looked for reviews (is anyone else having difficulty getting to blogs through search engines?) and at Fragrantica to find something similar, and was pointed to BdC. It is just as advertised: Commodity Orris (orris and pink pepper) with a big, bright thwack of rose on top. The rose and the pink pepper together make it magenta for me. It’s fun, the pepper isn’t suffocating, the longevity is quite good, and it isn’t like anything else I have. I like it very much. I’ve worn it quite a bit in the last year, although I suspect it would be a bit much on a really hot day.
Excited to read everyone else’s choices for the day. I don’t have synesthesia, but do find that scents suggest colors.
Forgot to wish Robin (and anyone else who’s under the weather) a speedy recovery.
Oh, and many thanks to Colognissimo for the heads-up about the Etro discontinuations. My bottle of Shaal Nur is getting low, but I had been thinking there was no particular rush to get another one. A BUB is now on the way from a discounter, at a price that is still reasonable. There should really be a law that companies have to announce when they are discontinuing or drastically reformulating a perfume.