It’s Almost-Friday and National Pumpkin Day. Birthdays: Mahalia Jackson and Natalie Merchant. What fragrance are you wearing?
Me: same as yesterday...90% over Covid but still commando. If I had any Comme des Garçons Sequoia, I might not be able to resist.
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 Giant Sequoias, along the Crescent Meadow Trail [cropped] by John Buie at flickr; some rights reserved.
Hi all. I’m getting vaccinated this morning so I am wearing one spritz of Cashmere Mist, my go-to for doctor’s appointments. I looked it up on Fragrantica and it has cashmere wood, whatever that is, listed in the notes, so I guess I’m CP compliant too.
Robin, I hope you are at 100% after the weekend.
Good luck!
I was curious about cashmere wood and wondered what that is and what it smelled like, and whether it’s the same as cashmere. So I looked it up! I found an informative article and learned it’s in Delina, so that gives me my answer on what to wear today! Thank you. It’s entirely a synthetic product, and is the same as cashmere. I’m sure I have that as a note in some of my other perfumes. Here’s the link: https://www.fragrenza.com/blogs/notes-in-perfumery/cashmere-wood-in-perfumery#:~:text=Cashmere%20wood%2C%20also%20known%20as,and%20high%2Dend%20cosmetic%20products..
Interesting! Thanks for sharing your research!
It’s basically a synthetic woody musk.
I’m wearing one of my all-time favorites, Aftelier Secret Garden, for which Fragrantica lists a note of Brazilian Rosewood. Basenotes doesn’t include that note in it, and the Aftelier site doesn’t mention anything about rosewood in it, but I am pretending it is there for the CP points.
That works for me!
Someone mentioned SL Miel de Bois yesterday, and it’s all I could think of, so that’s what I’m wearing. I just love it.
Got our flu shots and COVID boosters yesterday, one in each arm. Today I’m feeling sort of flu-y, that whatever-it-is that feels like electricity running under my skin. It’ll pass. Went to the gym anyway (hoping nobody would be there to be annoyed by MdB, and nobody was), though my heart wasn’t in it: I’ll go for a walk after the laundry is done, that’ll make me feel better.
I was influenced in the same way! Just a spritz of MdB since it’s so precious.
Hehe. It was me. Glad to see it is getting some love. With Robin, there are at least four of us, MdB fans, here.
I’m another fan of MdB, I wore it a couple of evenings ago.
Hello.
Sotd is Guerlain Rose Barbare. Not a straightforward rose but very beautiful nonetheless.
I heard Embruns d’Ylang is being discontinued, so if you’ve been thinking, maybe now is the chance to bite the bullet!
I will be going to Penhaligon’s to try their new Potions and Remedies collection. The bottles look amazing. I will report back.
Oh, do report back…don’t think I have heard a word about any of them.
I meant “time” to bite the bullet… 🙄
I’m wearing Woody Mood from my Olfactive Studio discovery scent. If sequoia counts than I am CP compliant.
Of course it counts!
I keep reading this as Moody Wood!
Hello all!
I’m in Miel de Bois as well today. I can’t bear to put on more than two sprays since I don’t have a lot but it is magical regardless. I didn’t realize that it seems to be gone, even the reformulated bell jar version. I can’t tell you how sad it is watching all these lines lose some of my favorite scents.
Have a great day, everyone!
It’s like a double loss…losing a scent smell we love but also the direct link to a memory of a time and place
In the case of SL, like a triple loss. I feel like I brand I used to be able to count for on for certain things is now not that.
I know what you mean. Though I am not quite over Lutens I don’t seek them out anymore. Though I am still pleasurably surprised from time to time
Absolutely. Miel de Bois isn’t my personal pick for greatest loss from Lutens but I am always struck by its glamour when I put it on.
Love that photo! The best view ever!😍
Just finished my porridge, working on some not so hot coffee, while T-Rex tap-tap-taps the table to let me know she has not had breakfast yet. I have a space heater oscillating right at knee level, the sun is blasting, and I feel better than I did yesterday, which was a washout for me.
Going big today with Kenzo Jungle l’Elephant with all its spicy warming goodness. One of my all time favorite cold weather scents.
Happy Almost Friday Day!
Agree on the photo!
I’m sure T-Rex has long since had breakfast, and hope you are having a good day Deva.
It was hard to choose between Chene and Bois Farine today, but eventually Bois Farine won. After all, I wore an SL scent yesterday.
I may still add Chene later though.
I might be in Chene tomorrow 🙂
Ach! Uncompliant in Exit the King.
But hopefully, happy 🙂
Intermittently rainy day today, with full cloud cover. The tiger sumac in my yard is red-orange, and is glowing.
Started the day craving fruity (litchi?,grapefruit?), maybe over some rose, so dabbed on some Lubin Grisette. Not what I was looking for, so going to try again.
I’m pondering wearing cold scents in winter. I recall a fun conversation somewhere online about this, but didn’t bookmark it. More digging required.
Have a good day, everyone!
I have a few glowing trees too…
Even if it didn’t scratch the right itch, you still smell wonderful!
I’m wearing Angels’ Share this morning, notes of oak and sandalwood. Thinking that the oak counts for the CP. We have the first frost and freeze warnings of the season in the wings, so today I’ll do some yard tidying.
Absolutely counts!
And wow, first frost already. Seems too soon.
*Apartment Please Wait Here for the hinoki. Crazy day today; long company meetings this morning while I draw jack o’lantern faces on mandarin oranges for orchestra snacks on Saturday. This afternoon I have to go to a team bonding event, but most of my local team is way out in the suburbs, so I have a 1.5 hour one-way commute to an escape room ahead of me. Going to be a crazy couple of weeks; this is just the start.
Good luck and I hope you find some quiet time, to.
Ack, that sounds very busy. Hope some of it is fun too.
Ahhh, today’s photo is so dear to me! I lived and worked at Sequoia NP for a huge swath of my career, and Giant Forest and Crescent Meadow are as intimate to me as my own home.
Not particularly woody today in Safran Troublant. We had our first frost of the year last night, and it was a heavy one — everything encased in ice all at once! Now everything is melting, drip, drip, drip in the golden sunshine, but it’s a day for cozy sweaters and alpaca socks and the fragrance Biscuit always refers to as “The Most Mama.”
Yay for Safran Troublant and yay for your memories of Sequoia NP.
Yes, Sequoia NP never fails to move me and remind me of where and why I live here.
Totally non compliant in Fire by The Maker today.
Hello!
Everyone smells so good today 🙂 I’m in Kelly Caleche , which is about 15 years old, I think. As soon as I spritzed it it reminded me of when we bought it years ago. Amazing how that works with scent-takes you right back to a certain time, doesn’t it?
I’ve had so much good mountain biking this month-tonight it’s going to be warm, and so I’ll get another run in. Winters here can be so long and I just dread them, so I’ll try and stay active and see if that helps ye olde mental state 🙂
I love Kelly Caleche , one of my favourite Hermes scents. I hope you have a nice ride
Thank you, Kanuka!
It definitely helps me with our long gray winters here in Seattle — not just being active, but getting outside!
what’s the expression-no bad weather, just bad clothing-right???
I love this expression, never heard it before.
A big low from the Antarctic blew up in the night and this morning the hills are covered in a bright layer of snow. Quite a contrast from yesterday’s foehn and 21C. It’s late for snow, arriving when there are lambs everywhere. Adding to the white all the hawthorns are now in flower, lots of white spots on the green paddocks. I think we will be back to spring tomorrow . Wearing Datura Noir to warm me up.
Ah, the last gasp of winter! We get those crazy snows in April and even sometimes in May in Quebec.
Wearing Deneuve edt today since we are having spring like temps. Next week it’s going to be pretty chilly and maybe some snow.
WOW! Deneuve! So gorgeous
I wore Memoirs of a Trespasser at bedtime last night and still had traces on my wrists this morning, so that’s my SOTD. Apparently it has both guaiac and oak, so extra points? 😏
Of course!
Wearing DSHPerfumes Muresque today. Beautiful winy blackberry complete with leaves and branches. I especially love it in the fall.
We have cool weather and brilliant leaves. I enjoyed my walk yesterday very much. I went grocery shopping this morning which is often a chore, but I’ve been enjoying it much more lately with lots of good ideas of what I’d like to cook.
This afternoon is my yearly skin check. Crossing my fingers that all is well. Have a good day, all!
You smell great! And I too have been enjoying the beautiful fall weather here.
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Hope all goes well at your appointment. Your perfume sounds lovely.
I love the CPs because they often get me to wear more of my collection (it’s too large) that I don’t think to wear often. Today I’m in a sample of Goldfield and Banks Desert Rosewood, which is the only sample of theirs that I held onto after trying 4 or 5 of their original offerings. DR has something I don’t love going on in its opening, but once we move to the mid development and dry down, I really like it. A primarily rosewood, patchouli, and leathery vanilla to my nose.
We’ve got a five day stretch of sunny, clear weather that I’m super happy about even if it’s gotten cold too fast for my liking. And the moon has been sitting low and big in the sky the last few nights. We’ll have a full moon on Saturday night. I highly recommend some moon viewing if your weather allows!
Moon looked very nearly full here tonight!
Banana, apples and yogurt smoothie
A beautiful fall day with golden light, 16C.
It was LVEB Iris Absolu today, smelled a great deal of patchouli on this wearing, and tonight it’s Eau des Baux, CP compliant because of cypress.
Points, and extra points for a beautiful fall day with golden light 🙂
Thank you Robin, today it’s the same, just a little cooler.
This morning’s Secret Garden has faded out, so now I am in Aftelier Antique Ambergris, with its note of aged cypress.
That sounds like a good sequence.
I picked Nuit Andalouse in a rather random way this morning. I bought one of those wonderful MDCI sample sets years ago, and this is one of them. It has sandalwood but no specialty woods. Still a nice perfume, that has kept me company during a busy day at work.
More important than points, right?
I’m wearing Fort and Manle’s Meraki today, it has a touch of cedar, so nothing very exotic, but it leapt to mind this morning.
I’ve booked in for a Covid shot today, I’m relieved to have that refreshed protection.
Good for you and hope the side effects are minimal!
Happy birthday Natalie. I love her and have seen her several times in concert both with the Maniacs (yep, I’m that old) and without.
I’m in Vanille Insensee, and old work friendly favorite.
A wonderful thing happened to me yesterday, I had a text come through asking me to confirm my massage appointment for Friday. My massage appointment?!! Omg, I had completely forgotten I’d made it! That text made my day.😁
A NOT so wonderful thing happened this morning. When my daughter was showering, the ceiling in the living room started to leak.😩 Our house is 86 years old and it’s obvious this has happened at various times over the years given the fault line in the plastered ceiling. The bummer is we just had this fixed over the summer. Sigh. Fingers crossed for a quick and easy fix, the plumber will be there first thing tomorrow morning.
Oh noes!! Sympathy vibes for your leak.
Thanks cazaubon!
10,000 Maniacs Our Time in Eden tour is still one of my most favorite concerts I’ve been too. The tee-shirts they sold on that tour were beautiful! I got one at the time and then years later my first e-bay purchase was another one in a different design.
Nice! That was a beautiful album cover. I’ve got tees from the In My Tribe tour and one other…they’re packed away down in the basement. Now I’m wondering what the other one is.🤔
I’m very empathic. We had a shower leak into the living room ceiling and had to put mutiple holes in the ceiling to drain the water and avoid more damage😬
Yikes, I think we caught it early.🤞
Ugh. I hope it will be fixed easily.
And hopefully the massage will help lower your stress caused by the shower situation.
Yes, I hope so too. Good timing for a massage, I guess!
Good luck with the water problem.
Hope the massage helps you forget the drama, even for a while
Wearing Cypress in Oak, along with a couple other things I’m decanting.
Hope they are all mixing nicely 🙂
In my new little decant of La Myrrh, which is a resin which comes from a tree so that must be CP sorta compliant, yes? LOL!
(Caution possible TMI alert) Adorable Hubby came through his operation with a svelte cancer -free “Happy Liver” as the liver surgeon said, but then proceeded to have increased tactile sensitivity in withdrawal from the anesthesia, flinching to the lightest touch, excruciating pain around his incision, spiking blood pressure, and reflexive vomiting -sorry for TMI – so they put him on a morphine drip which did stop all that but then they took turns all night making him talk to keep his O2 above 90%. Poor guy. There are clearly some reasons his early experiments with drug abuse are not recalled fondly and once his tummy quits hurting I don’t think he will be seeking extra OxyContin or whatever they give him tomorrow instead of the morphine drip. I am just focused on the Happy Liver part- all the short term drama will pass. But I might sedate myself with French fries and mayonnaise for dinner. Hope everyone’s days continue to improve by whatever metric is availed foe a desired outcome!
I hope he is able to get some relief and safe rest soon
Glad his liver is “happy” and I hope the nausea and pain diminish quickly. It must be an incredible relief and pretty overwhelming for everyone. Hugs to you!
Glad the surgery is done. I hope for a speedy recovery!
Poor baby! But happy liver is very good news.
(And that calls for french fries & mayo AND ice cream)
I’m taking CP points in Scents of Woods’s Praline in Maple. Maple wood isn’t listed as a specific note, instead the whole thing is meant to evoke a maple tree in early spring – wood, leaves, sap and all. I get freshly fallen leaves in there too, so to me it is more of a maple tree in autumn. I’ve taken a break from my hunt for the ideal forest + juniper scent, but this one would be a good contender for the forest half of that equation.
Tea today is French Grey because I had a little extra time this morning and that one is not forgiving on steeping time, so I prefer to make it only when i can stand next to pot for a while without distractions.
We’re Scents of Woods twins today. Praline in Maple is gorgeous!
SOTD = Scents of Wood Birch in Acacia EDT
It is one where I kept asking myself who smells so good and it was moi! For an EDT, it is still chugging along quite nicely.
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Today, I did a practice run to get to the elementary school where I was assigned to be a poll worker. It is way deep in suburbia and I did not see a store anywhere! I probably should have reminded myself to look for places to eat or else I will need to be ready with prepared food that may not require refrigeration.
That’s so good of you to work the polls Hajusuuri.
Gah! Went to sleep and forgot to post before. I was so excited too.
Wearing Oliban by Keiko Mecheri last night and it has CP forward pallisander rosewood
Haven’t decided for today yet
90% over C19 sounds pretty good Robin.
It is not bad! This case was much better than my 2022 bout.
In a spritz of AdV Pallisandre d’Or for the cp
Points!
Mayan Chocolate today since it apparently contains palo santo
And sounds delish!
Super late and Super tired.
Today I wore TF Metalique.
I bought chocolate cupcakes at the store on the way home. I forgot the bag! Lol! I had to go back and get them. I think the universe is telling me to give up chocolate. 🤣
Ha, no, the universe is just telling you that you have to work for it 🙂
For the CP, Roberto Cavalli Nero Assoluto. Caramel, vanilla, orchids and ebony. I find it very light for all that it brings together, but it has some nice moments.
Yeah, that does not sound light!