It's Monday and World Children’s Day. RIP Rosalynn Carter. What fragrance are you wearing?
I had a busy Sunday and am behind on the weekend comments...I will try to catch up by tonight! Meanwhile, I'm looking at a busy morning and probably won't manage fragrance until the afternoon so I'll check in then.
Reminder: on 11/24, pick your Black Friday poison: wear the last fragrance you bought, wear a cheap thrill, or wear a fragrance you love but refuse to buy in a full size because it's too expensive. (We've done this project several times.)
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 At the playground [cropped] by Maria Eklind at flickr; some rights reserved.
I’m wearing a perfume that is both a cheap thrill and one of my most recent purchases, Shiseido Memoire. I picked up an 80 ml bottle for only $35, which, in perfume math, is practically free. Memoire is a very light, sweet, powdery floral. it does not last long on me, but at the price, who cares? I get maybe a couple of hours, after which I can either reapply or switch to something else.
Love cheap thrills
In perfumath it *was* free, or they paid you to take it off their hands, howsoever you prefer to look at it 🙂
Hello.
Sotd is Cherry Oud.
I am not ready for a new week but at the same time I am excited for this weekend because I will be seeing my best friend who I have not seen for 2 years! Plan is that we will spend the whole time eating great food till we burst.
How fun! Nice to look forward to.
I just did this on Saturday! It had been many years…
Have a great time!
Sounds wonderful; hope you enjoy your reunion!
Yay!
That’s a great plan for this weekend! Enjoy!
I’m wearing Cuir Cuba Intense, which was a sample from Luckyscent that I received when I bought my last Nicolai full bottle. Nice!
Another FBW?
It might just be. I love the fact that Nicolai still has smaller bottles that are in my price range. And I have yet to buy something of hers that didn’t work for me.
Yes, yay for 30 ml! And her prices are not insane.
30mL bottles are a Very Good Thing!
Today it’s CSP Vanille Abricot, one of my old reliables, a real mood elevator.
Yes it is!
Thank you all for your birthday wishes during the weekend. They lifted up my spirits and put a smile on my face. I spent the day by myself, as expected. It was very soothing and relaxing.
Wearing Serge Lutens Daim Blond. I have not worn it in a long time, so I am really enjoying it on this sunny but very cold day.
Happy Monday! ☕️
happy belated birthday, friend! glad to hear that it was a relaxing day <3 what a pleasure to have met you via NST 🙂
Why thank you, pfsh! 🌻
House twins!🙌
Yay! You smell great in Vetiver Oriental!
House triplet!
Welcome to the SL club! 😀
Happy late birthday! Glad you had a peaceful day and I hope the rest of your week goes well.
Thank you, Kanuka!🌻
happy birthday wishes a bit late! Daim Blond, mmmmmmmmmmmm.
Thank you, Apsara! 🌻
What a good idea, I am going to put some on right now.
Twins! We smell great!
Glad to hear that you enjoyed your birthday weekend!
Thank you, Jalapeno!
Belated birthday wishes 🎂🎉🥳🎈to my fellow Scorpio! I’m so sorry I missed it, guess I was too busy celebrating mine 😔. Glad you had a relaxing day and Wishing all good things to come your way in the year to follow!😘
Thank you, Laila! I hope you had a wonderful birthday! How was the concert?
Very fun! Sinatra-like crooner, Sal Valentinetti, America’s Got Talent winner, has a remarkably mature stage presence (and voice!) for a 28-year old, and guest tenor Jonathan Cilia Faro, who sounded like Pavarotti. A very Italian night!
Morning! SOTD is Cuir de Russie extrait. No explanations, I just went through my shelf and started sniffing bottles until one felt right, and this one did.
Had a lovely weekend attending a lace guild meeting in the city and learned the basics of needle lace. I was new to the guild so it was socially exhausting but still rewarding. The teacher was lovely and I have a newfound appreciation for handmade needle lace now!
I’m incredibly pleased that lace guilds exist.
Yes, after reading sad news in the paper today, this brought a smile to my face.
Yes! There’s also a local handweavers guild that is popular 🙂
https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/gallery/2023/nov/15/how-she-communicated-without-words-ruth-bader-ginsburgs-collars-in-pictures?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Here’s a bit more lace for you
Thanks for that, Kanuka! My first piece of learning today. I never knew she wore any collars except white lace or crochet ones.
Thank you, that was fascinating!
Cool article, thanks!
Ooohhh, lace, nice. I’ll have to hunt it down, but there’s some C amazing lace creator I follow on either Insta or TT.
You also smell divine
Wearing Halston this morning, really fond of this one lately with it’s cigarette smoke and bitter flowers. One of those perfumes that captures an era really well, and of course it’s a cheap thrill these days.
Yes…one whiff and I am back in the late 70s!
Oh, that sounds like a cheap thrill I should check out. Putting it on the list!
Yesterday: Le Jardin De Monsieur Li. Today: another dose of Lovely. Also that time of year for my Bath/BodyWorks and V. Secret lotions and body cremes, some of which I have the frags/body mists to layer them with. Dry skin is no bueno!
I am very low on scented lotions and probably need to do some shopping 🙂
Was lying in bed last night when for no reason whatsoever, SL Vetiver Oriental popped into my head. Good enough reason to wear it today. As delightful and rich as I remember. 😊
The wind was ferocious yesterday and last night, got a little rain, and now it’s all blue skies and sunshine again. I’m finishing my coffee watching as T-Rex sits outside, captivated by road runners scampering from bush to bush. Meep Meep!
Finally decided on a location for Christmas and after fumbling around in their website was finally able to snag a nice spot. It’s in Arizona in the middle of some lofty saguaros, which I’m looking forward to. Not a free site, but it’s Christmas, so I’m going with it! 🎄
Happy Monday!
You do you, Deva. I’m sure your BFF will follow you wherever you go!
As long as I have food, she is a steadfast fan..!
I love Arizona. Sounds like it will be a great place for you and T-Rex!
I love it, too! 🏜️
Love the road runners, they’re so cute!
So animated!
Hope you love your Christmas spot! You’re wearing one of my desert island scents. It engenders an inward sigh of pleasure just thinking about it.
Thank you! I can’t remember where I first sniffed it, but I knew IMMEDIATELY a FB would be mine! 🙃
Ain’t perfume grand? 😊
Never have seen a roadrunner in Real Life, but I remember being so excited as a kid when I found out it was not just a cartoon.
Meep, meep!
They’re really fun to watch. They have a ton of personality. When I see them darting back and forth, I can really imagine a velociraptor ancestor. 🙃
I forgot what the CP was so I am inadvertently wearing a cheap thrill, Roberto Cavalli Oro. I got my bottle on clearance at TJMaxx years ago. The plastic snake was broken which brought the price below $10. I learned about Oro from Gaia at The Non Blonde, really enjoyed her blog.
I think it had only been in the last few months but my Marshall’s now has all the perfume in locked cabinets and I don’t like it one bit. If the perfume is already open, I will spritz; if not, I just leave it alone.
Mine too. I was going to buy a Mugler Aura shower gel that was locked up. I pushed the help button twice. Nobody came. Money saved!
Sampling Aura Perfume Gwen today. Was wracking my brain trying to figure out what it reminded m…went to Fragrantica and saw the dupes…BAM…dead ringer for Sensual Orchid.
Side note: I googled if it is wrack or rack for brain and they appear to have been used so interchangeably either is acceptable at this point. I feel like I have seen wrack in print historically so that is what I went with. 😉 🧠
I vote for wrack as well. You smell lovely – I haven’t tried Sensual Orchid, but I sampled Gwen and liked it.
Regardless or Irregardless – it irks me to see irregardless even though it is now “acceptable”
The worst — since when is sandalwood spelled as “sandlewood”? I kept seeing this on Instagram and I DMd the person. She refused to change it because she is convinced that she’s spelling it correctly. Google it!
And the WHOA I grew up with is now also WOAH. Interesting.
“Woah” drives me up the wall.
The worst thing is when you spell something correctly, and someone else tries to “correct” your spelling, especially when they are rude about it. I had someone do that to me online when I had said something about Tabasco sauce. This person insisted it was “Tobasco”.
🙄
“Whoa” makes me think of horses, while “Woah” makes me think of stoners.
whoa, I agree.
Ha! Agreed.
Ok, curious minds, here is another definition, according to dictionary.com: to strain in mental effort: to rack one’s brains
So, in the final analysis, who knows, lol!
Hmmmm. So did they give up and use both spellings or was rack the correct one all along!
And look at this that I found: “Rack” is considered the more correct spelling, though “wrack” has become acceptable through common usage.
I stand corrected!!
Sorry, I wasn’t correcting you, just adding to the general confusion.
Oh I know – I stand corrected by the info online!
Huh. I always saw it spelled “wrack” even back in my elementary school days, and that was a LONG time ago.
Interesting. I think of wrack, not rack. I wonder if this has changed in recent years.
You know, I’m going to go with wrack, too. The same dictionary also says, “to torture; distress acutely; torment:
His body was racked with pain.”
But that just seems wrong to me.
Can you see me standing arms akimbo? 😄
ahahaha!
On a similar note, one of the best t-shirts I’ve seen says, “I’m silently correcting your grammar.” As a spelling and grammar nerd, I had to love it (although I would never wear it in public.)
I had that on a coffee cup at work!
😄 You’re a braver soul than I.
Or more obnoxious.
Since I worked as an executive assistant, I think it was more expected that I might be silently correcting everyone’s grammar. 😀
And actually, DO feel free to correct me any time. I love this stuff. (Weird, I know.)
I am strongly of the opinion that it must be ”wrack”, even though I’ve done the same research and there’s no authority that will definitely back up my opinion.
When I see “rack”, I just think of a physical object and it’s always jarring.
Words are so funny! Whenever I see “rack” I think of a literal torture rack used in medieval times. I’m not sure why I associate that with “racked my brain” other than pain, distress, etc… And why is that image at the forefront of my mind? No clue except maybe I read about medieval torture devices as a child and it made a huge impression on my little sheltered mind…
I read the same stuff at a young age. I think some of it might have been in actual school books.
When I think of rack, I automatically go to “nice rack” lol. Not that it could have ever applied to me.
My definition of “rack” is not NST-safe. And it’s painful.
To anyone in the Seattle area who enjoys shopping at Essenza in Fremont, I just got an email that the owner is closing the store at the end of the year. It’s been open 25 years, so I am sure there are other fans here too.
I usually do some Christamas shopping there for my mom and myself, and it is my go-to place to buy baby shower gifts, sniff candles and niche scents and gawk at the jewelry.
Bummer!
I saw that, too. I bought my bottle of Tam Dao there recently. Sad news! It was fun to shop there and chat with them.
Oh no! I used to like stopping in there when I was in Seattle, as well. I got a nice honeysuckle soliflore on sale there many years ago, and I seem to recall that she used to carry L’Artisan Parfumeur so I think maybe I got my bottle of Dzing! there.
Very sad news. I go there at least once a week to hang out with the great folks who work there (my office is in the neighborhood). For the last several years on Christmas Eve, I bring bubbly and apps for a festive celebration after they lock the doors and head out for the evening. Like many small shops, it’s a small community in and of itself.
😞
This closure sounds like it’ll be extra sad for you, allo. I’m sorry you’ll lose a valuable part of your community.
I was so sad to see this yesterday too. It’s the best store for perfume sniffing and shopping in Seattle in my opinion.
Wearing Stella today because Hilary Mantel mentioned Stella Rose Absolute in the article Robin posted below our daily poll. I never got to try the Absolute, and when I found this fairly inexpensive Stella roll-on at a discount site, it was also already discontinued.
Has anyone tried Pierre Guilllaume La Nuit de l’Orchidee? It sounds quite interesting – the below is from osswaldnyc’s website:
Pierre GUILLAUME offers to the skin the vertigo of a liquid leather: the scent of black pods struck by lightning on a stormy night.
NOTES: Spices, Vanilla Orchid, Amyris, Leather.
I wished I still had some Stella when I read that!
I decided to go with Angel today. I like it. It is not as strong as I remember so either I sprayed lightly or my sense of smell is getting weaker in my old age. 65 next month. Noooooooo!
Yay – join the 65 years crew, we’re fun!
The Medicare group! I think sometimes I dress like I am still in my 20’s or 30’s with my leggings, sweatshirts, boots, etc. My mom always dressed and acted a lot younger too so maybe I got it from her.
I read an article years ago that said Vera Wang created a business empire wearing black leggings every day.
I wear leggings every day, with a hoodie and allbirds or birkenstocks. I have from 5 dollar to cashmere ones for winter.
And I am now 70.5 and got my nose pierced at 70.
YOU do YOU.
Good. Then I know it’s not just me that wears things the younger girls wear.
I am looking forward to Medicare, the only benefit of being 65 in my eyes. And I am still wearing jeans, tshirts and hoodies at 57. I don’t expect that to change.
I do too.
Same age and wardrobe choices, ha!
I’ve found Medicare itself to be pretty good, although the amount of information to be waded though is daunting.
PSA: I recently used a federal program called SHINE (Serving the Health Insurance Needs of Everyone.) It’s a free service, and they have volunteers to help with questions on Medicare, and to give guidance on choosing plans. I highly recommend them!
Ann, I believe every state has a group of volunteer advisors that help with Medicare questions (it’s a great program called SHIP which stands for State Health Insurance Assistance Program). The name of it depends on the state — for Massachusetts, it’s SHINE as you mentioned, for Wash state, it’s SHIBA, etc. I’ve included the link below for anyone interested. You can click on the orange button in the upper righthand corner that says “find local Medicare help” and it will provide a list of all the states so you can click and find phone and website information for your particular state.
https://www.shiphelp.org/about-us/about-medicare
That’s great, thanks, springpansy! Now I stand corrected. 😉
Ha – I just wanted people to know it has different names in different states. But why it does, I don’t know.
Thank you both for paving the way! I’m not far behind you😊
Luckily, my husband is about 4 years older than me and a retired financial advisor so knew all that stuff. It made it a ton easier for me as he told me what I should get.
Maybe it’s time for me to dig out my travel spray of Angel EdP and give it a sniff…
LOL 🤣
I’m wearing the opposite of a cheap thrill, Guerlain’s new Vanille Planifolia extrait. Will give it the hajusuuri full 8 sprays to see if I can get a better feeling about it. With one spray it is quite meh, even thought it’s an extrait. All the others were more dramatic from just one spritz.
I enjoyed my 8!
… and I already placed my order for iris. My choices were buy one bottle or 4 bottles and I just couldn’t stomach the 4 in one go concept.
I did the same – iris was my first choice pick as well. I just emptied my Vanille sample onto myself, at least 8 sprays, will see how it wears
Congrats on your FB purchase.
Joining pl67 in SL this morning. It’s gray and dreary here so I am in the furry warmth of Muscs Kublai Khan.
Kanuka, I join you in loving Chypre Mousse. I am not a fan of green perfumes but CM is just so perfect–not heavy on the galbanum and with that glorious mineral note.
You smell fabulous.
Nice to hear you’re a fan! Hope you get some sun later.
You smell great!
The heritage roses in the cemetery are at their very best just now, all freshly blooming and some incredible colours. Unfortunately, they’re not labelled ( with one or two exceptions) but they are listed. I’ve been trying to identify which one is the Anna Olivier rose ( a peachy, pink tea rose) from a copy of a watercolour done in the 1890s that I have. I know it’s there and think I have it correctly identified but might have to contact the heritage rose society for its location. It’s still cold so the smell isn’t very strong yet but in a few more weeks it will gather strength. Wearing Chypre Mousse again…I don’t really “ do” Black Friday, as we don’t have Thanksgiving.
My kids asked me why there is no Thanksgiving on their calendar on the wall, and then I realized that it was a calendar from Canada- so Thanksgiving is back on 😂😂
I noticed this week that lots of stores in Europe are doing “Black Week”, so it may be coming to a store near you…
A dull foggy day here, one of my team is flying in today, her plane is on time, but this is the sort of weather that frequently causes problems. We seem to get this every time she visits, or I visit her.
Meanwhile, I’m wearing Rivalité Impériale from Plume Impression, one of my Paris purchases from earlier this year. I’ve sprayed very lightly, it’s nuclear strength and lasting power.
Hope she made it without incident!
Banana, pears and yogurt smoothie
Kiehl’s original musk today and tonight AdP Profumo which I haven’t worn in a long time. I think it’s discontinued now.
I almost wore Kiehls musk today. Maybe tomorrow.
We would have been twins😀, I enjoy it, it sticks around even though it’s not a projector.
A perfume I love but don’t want to buy a FB is Musc Ravageur
So pricey !
Beautiful day at the library. The wreathes go up on the lions after Thanksgiving 🙂
Oh, I must look for a picture of the lions with wreathes!
I have been reading but not posting so much.
It was two weeks ago on a Sunday evening I went to have dinner with an old friend, we met at Disney 20 some years ago. She had her first long awaited baby the week before the world shut down for Covid and I didn’t see him till he was 18 months old.
We truly live at opposite ends of Los Angeles, so we met up in Pasadena for dinner – kind of the middle.
Her dad was in the hospital and he died the next evening. She was there in time to be with him. So the past two weeks have been a blur of driving to help with her now almost four year old, and help with services. Her mom died when she was just in her early twenties, so she has not had it easy.
I did wear Indochine for the memorial service, other than that – nada.
So, cheap thrills…indulge me for using perfume math on this one.
I got an email from Indigo Perfumery showing three new fragrances from HIMA JOMO. So, I actually bought five samples for 20.00 instead of blind buying a bottle. Such restraint, I know.
Yesterday I tested Winter to get my RVS or RSV vaccine and it’s a pass.
Today I have on Pashm. OMG, it’s calling to me. It smells like being in the Himalayas.
Aw, so sorry about your friend’s dad. She is lucky she has you to help out, that’s extra hard with a 4 year old.
Thanks, Robin. Sadly, her husband is more of the kidsit than parent your child. I just keep my mouth shut and play with trains on the floor with the little one.
One good memory she did have a destination wedding in Kaui 11 years ago and her father was there to dance the first dance with her and be there when to see his first and only grandson.
She wore Aromatics Elixer, we sprayed it on her something blue hanky and she carried it with her bridal bouquet. (her moms’ bottle, kept in her night drawer all these years)
What a lovely memory of that wedding. Sorry she’s going through a tough time now
I’m wearing Ambre Russe for some warmth on another rainy day. I think it has been raining every single day since the start of November (plus it rained plenty in October as well). Good for the trees but the lack of light is a definite downside.
You smell great. The darkness in November is hard for me too. No nice bright snow, just cold and dark.
Today would have been my Mom’s 93rd birthday. I’ve been thinking of her all day.
I was either very motivated or very masochistic earlier this afternoon and decided to go shopping for jeans. I have lost 3 sizes over the past year. Got very lucky and found 2 pairs for under $30 at Kohl’s! And one of them was a Silver Tab Levi style, no less.
However, any savings there was eaten up (pun INTENDED) at the grocery store. Sigh. Win some, lose some.
SOTD = back in Heeley Eau Sacree, and fitting in with the CP just fine. A full bottle is too rich for my budget.
Glad you found jeans you liked at a price you liked, good for you! And yes, spent a wad a the grocery store just yesterday, don’t really know how since we’re hardly cooking.
Thanks Robin! Getting those jeans was a major “Bleep yeah!” moment.
I hope warm memories comforted you today as you thought of your mom. And good news about the apartment you posted recently. In my own life I have been where you are now, so I wish you strength as you take those baby steps into your new life. I know you can do it!🤗
Thank you Laila!
I wished Mom a Happy Birthday and then tackled almost all the errands on today’s “To Do” list. And cleaned up a hairball from Teflon kitty.
Finding new jeans that fit is a pretty big accomplishment. I’ve been looking for months.
Sending hugs💙
Thanks lillyjo!
I was cursing up a blue streak when I discovered that all my other jeans didn’t fit. I had several pairs from Lucky Brand that were almost new… 🤬 I liked their Easy Rider style.
Ouch. I always wanted Lucky Brand but never had any.
Happy birthday thoughts for your mom. I advise you to keep all those new pants if you have room, weight can fluctuate and like you I lost a ton of weight on the divorce diet. I have three sets of pants, skinny, average and fat. Over the last 25 years I have worn all of them, depending on what’s going on in my life.
Thank you cazaubon!
I’ve packed away the “old jeans” but am definitely keeping them. Some of the shirts that fit me now are from 20 years ago.
Started the day in Grandiflora Saskia, a beautiful Gardenia fragrance and a recent purchase.
Gardenia perfumes are a good pick as Autumn edges towards Winter.
I went to the dentist today and found out I have more work to do. I was sitting in the stupid chair and just started to cry. I’m already out of benefits so will go back in January. Also, over the weekend somebody wiped out my paycheck by using my debit card info to buy stuff from another part of the world.
Sorry about the whining.
My sotd was Ilio hair mist in the morning and now LVEB Iris Absolue. I might talk myself into getting this during the next Lancome sale.
Hugs.
What a horrible, no good, very bad day. I’m sorry.
I have to have gum surgery sometime in the near future, so I feel that pain.
Thanks Jalapeno.
Oh how awful! I am so sorry for you, you so didn’t need this. I hope you can get the money back from your bank. Sending hugs.
The bank said I should get it back in about 10 days. They have to do their investigation first.
Ouch, that’s a long wait. Hoping for a speedy and positive resolution for you.
Oh no, lillyjo. So sorry about all of this. I hope some blessings will come your way and even things out. Sending a big hug!
Ughhh, I’m so sorry. I won’t even admit how long is been since I’ve been to a dentist (first it was a job change, then a move, then COVID, and now… ) Sigh. I’m terrified because I know stuff needs to be done, and I don’t want to be yelled at or made to feel more guilty than I already make myself feel.
At least you’re braver than me!
Dental work is the worst. I hope you’re not in any discomfort before you get the work done in January and that you get your money back sooner than later. Sending more hugs💕
Ugh! I missed this yesterday. Very sorry to hear this. Sending you hugs and strength today!
I haven’t sniffed Iris Absolue and will have to scout it out.
SOTD: L de Lolita Lempicka, because my order of a BUB arrived today. Would have been a real cheap thrill back in the day, I think, but now it’s just tolerably affordable when compared to the price of niche and luxury fragrances these days.
All packed up to head to my parents late tomorrow after work. I’ll be commando once I get there as they’re not perfume fans.