Happy Hump Day! It's also National Violin Day and National Hot Cocoa Day. Birthdays: Mary Todd Lincoln, Emily Carr, Ella Baker, Dick Van Dyke, Jamie Foxx. What fragrance are you wearing?
I’m in Narciso by Narciso Rodriguez (white cube) (copying ringthing yesterday). I can't find the right word in Spanish, but I'm going with Gardenia Mullido, maybe? Even Narciso Blanco would have been better than just Narciso.
Reminder: on 12/15, wear whatever you like, but tell us the name your fragrance should have had. (If the name is perfect, that's an acceptable answer.) Someone suggested this recently, raise your hand if it was you!
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 Rosa 'Hot Cocoa' [cropped] by M's photography at flickr; some rights reserved.
Hello.
Sotd is Chanel Jersey. To me it should be Cashmere because of it’s fluffiness and comfort.
I bought Diptyque’s holiday Sapin (Pine Tree) room spray and it is so wonderful. It has a touch of sweetness just like the fresh pine needles and doesn’t come across as cold. Okay, confession, I bought 3 bottles. But only because it’s a tiny 50ml size! 3 of them equal to a normal 150ml spray bottle of the usual scents! Don’t judge please…🤣
I can’t think of a more “no judgment about scent” zone than NST. The room spray sounds perfect for this time of year.
Love your SOTD
Ditto.
I don’t usually do room scents (okay, once in a blue moon I’ll get a diffuser). This sounds lovely. I’m going to check it out, since I have a fake tree
I bought the sapin room spray last Christmas and love it!
That sounds delightful! I love the smell of actual pines, but I find that many pine scents can lean either antiseptic or somehow kind of melancholy. DSH’s Seve de Pin has a golden, warm sweetness to it that sounds like what you’re describing…
I’m wearing Calligraphy Saffron, which should currently be called “Why do all my favorites get discontinued?”
#truth
Today I’m in Lush Let The Good Times Roll, which I like more every time I wear it. I still can’t detect any popcorn, but now I think it smells like sticky toffee pudding, dates and all. (I could be imagining this.) I don’t love the name, but I’ll concede it’s not the worst thing in the world. They certainly could have called it Sticky Toffee Pudding, although frankly they could have called it absolutely anything: many of their names are fanciful and have only a tenuous connection to the scent (why should Mamma Mia smell of grapefruit and vanilla?).
Really not a bad name though!
I am copying Robin’s Monday scent, Theorema. I forgot how orangey it is! 😍
Possible names:
A Song of Orange and Spice (sorry JRR Martin)
Orange Grove in Winter
Winter Orangeland
I think if you mean “Fluffy Gardenia”, it would be probably “Gardenia esponjosa”. But my Spanish is rusty.
Thank you, mine is even rustier!
I am wearing vintage Chamade. The name doesn’t go with the scent for sure.
It is soft, powdery. I would maybe change it during the day since i don’t really feel it, this will be nicer during spring or summer.
I went to see Parajanov’s the Colour of Pomegranate movie yesterday night and slept really well afterwards, I think it transported me to a different time and place.
Hera,
I fist discovered Chamade at Christmas time in 1995, so I associate it with Christmas 🙂 You smell amazing !
Beautiful photo in the header, Robin!
Just a very light spritz of JM Ginger Biscuit this morning as I’ll be touring a Bat Cave 🦇 later this afternoon.
We had such a stunning sunset yesterday it almost made me cry! I’ll be dramatic and say transcendental. 😊 There was an appearance by two deer friends so I felt extra blessed and in awe. Just what I needed after 2.5 hours in health credentialing and then making a Very Bad Decision to go to Costco to enroll. Mobbed is an understatement. When I finally rolled out of Tucson, it was 83F…😭
Have a great Hump Day everyone!
Sunset and deer 👇🏼
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Hello,
Deer are so plentiful here, too. I loved your instagram pictures, and gave you a follow-hope that’s ok.
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it and of course happy to have you follow. These Arizona sunsets…! 😊
BTW, I followed you as well! 👍🏼
What a gorgeous sunset! I’m glad your unpleasant day ended on such a great note.
Wasn’t that sunset a beaut?! 🥰 The day wasn’t so much unpleasant as tedious. And I have realized the older I get, the less patience I have with this kind of stuff. For instance, had to fill out 8-10 pages online, then had to fill out the exact same stuff on paper before the appointment, only to have the MD ask the exact same questions verbally on exam. Who knows
how much time I have left? I don’t want to waste it on this kind of redundancy. I’ve been told I have a RBF and it seems I’ve developed a RBP (resting bitc* personality) as well. Oh well. 🤷🏻♀️
Fantastic sunset and the deers.
It warmed to the cockles of my cold and bitter heart! 🥰
These are the very moments that to me, make up our lives.
Savoring coffee under the cherry blossoms on a small street in Kobe.
Riding the Star Ferry for 50 cents in Hong Kong.
Watching the sunset from the top of a temple over the Irrawaddy in Burma.
Getting unexpected flowers delivered to my door.
I’m glad you had few moments of splendor.
Absolutely agree with everything you said! 😊
Please send the heat towards the East Coast! It’s been cold putting stuff into storage. 🥶
So nice and hope it made up for the crap day…I can’t imagine.
Wearing Rochas Femme today, though that is very appropriately named.
Yes it is! That gets points!
I’m copying MossyBerry from yesterday in Mugler Aura, which I would rename Neon Vanilla. There’s a lot of unique greenery in Aura, so maybe Jungle de Neon? Avec Vanille?
Anyway, we are enjoying a stretch of clear bright sunny weather, it could stay like this all winter if it were up to me.
I was thinking the same thing about winter so far. It would be a dream come true for me if it stayed like this. It turns out 35 degrees isn’t that cold when you take out wind and snow. Lol.
Wind makes winter weather so much worse!
I’m wearing DS&Durga I Don’t Know What, which isn’t that well named because I know exactly what is in it (it’s on the package!), and it smells like it (iso e super & vetiver). And it just sounds weird to say “I don’t know what” when it just makes more sense in my head as “je ne sais quoi”.
On me it smells like a very strong version of Molecule 01 — big sillage, so there’s no comfort / wafting in a way that people feel is pleasant but they don’t know what it is. “Kinda generic but balanced unisex that leans male” might be a better name. (Molecule 01 doesn’t recede to the background on me, either, but it’s softer.)
Anyway, I tried it last night when I got it, and just wore it alone. Today, I’ve paired it with Diptyque Eau Rose, since I also got a small bottle of that and I thought it needed something to punch it up, but the DS&Durga is overwhelming it.
Every time I see the name of your SOTD, I think of Abbott and Costello.
SOTD
A few drops of Samsara, from a small red bottle of the parfum extrait
Should be called sandalwood bliss
Kanuka-the library heard my plea for that Japanese book and they told me to check back in with them in one month to see if or when they will purchase.
Loads of good smelling people today (and every other day). Samsara is gorgeous. I bought a very small size of sandalwood essential oil- I hope it’s good.
let us know.
I just checked the price of the small bottle of Samsara parfum I have. Its shocking how expensive it is online now..
I am shocked!
My package just arrived-it’s a really good oil, in my opinion! I have the small spray of samsara parfum to fit in my meteorites case-how bad is the parfum now?
I have four minis of the extrait. Here in Spain I have found it for a very reasonable price. It´s wonderful, isn’t it? All that sandalwood and jasmine…
I remember when Saks, NM and Nordie’s used to sell Samsara parfum. It went for around $192 back then.
This was maybe 7 years ago?
I’m in Carnal Flower, and I think I smell amazing. Used about four spritzes. A lot of my time today is spent helping people complete some forms, to help the afford some sort of energy for their homes. I’m as well groomed as I know how to be, I have the small sizes of Aveda handcream to give them, and two tins of Quality Street. Everyone that want to can have some of the good lube for hands and a bit of sugar. It’s nice to see the customers face to face and hopefully they take a minute and enjoy themselves, a bit, while we get their forms processed.
Hope everyone’s day is decent, in the overall 🙂
another great SOTD
I adore Carnal Flower, and for me it’s one of the few scents that works equally well in summer (sweaty tropical lusciousness) and winter (white cashmere and frost-sparkled beauty). You do indeed smell amazing!
My favorite perfume, EVER.
You do smell amazing!
Wearing Mitsouko which suits the rather gloomy weather conditions that just seem to never end.
Just received my Mitsouko EdT in the mail the other day. I really do like it.
SOTD should be no surprise as you all know I have become enthralled with Shalimar MI. I would call this “Heaven”. Real original, right? 🤣
Ha, it works!
Apple and yogurt smoothie
Coriandre PDT, well named I think and tonight Acqua di Parma Profumo which I would rename Signorina di Parma.
Love Profumo…you have such a an enticing collection.
So sweet of you and so glad you love Profumo too, it makes me feel instantly elegant.
Profumo might be my desert island perfume! Sigh!
It’s close to that for me too.
I’m wearing Rose Cherie today, I’ve been craving roses. I’ve never sniffed French Kiss, but apparently Rose Cherie is an incarnation of it. And French Kiss might be a better name since it alludes to it being a lipstick scent.
Off to the optometrist this afternoon.
Hope that your optometrist appointment went well today.
Great scent!
Last night was Ferragamo Leather Rose, which would more accurately be Rose Leather (a nice jammy rose like in Rose Flash), which makes me think it really would have been Rose & Cuir, and the Frederic Malle one definitely needs a new name. That one was a disappointment to me. Need to find my sample to see if my opinion has changed.
The Ferragamo one is discontinued, but a bunch of bottles for the more recent “Tuscan” collection are <$100 on discount sites right now, including one with same notes (plus orange blossom) and same perfumer. I’m tempted by a couple bottles in that collection, but they’d be bound buys.
Oh, and so far I’m just in Shalimar body lotion. Deciding what to layer on top…
You’ve been on a Ferragamo kick lately, it seems.
I just have the two! But yes, have worn them the last few days. Thinking I’ll keep working through the FB collection one brand at a time like this.
Ferragamo moved to InterParfums in 2022 and I think lots of the older stuff is discontinued.
Wearing a spritz from my new bottle of Mona di Orio Dojima and feeling mad and disappointed. It smells nothing like my old decant, all I smell is pepper. More money down the toilet. Reinforces my decision to stop buying perfume altogether.
Scrubbed and switched to Atélier Materi Cuir d’Iris, which actually does what it says on the bottle.
Bummer about the other. Cuir d’Iris has a promising name, though
18 days, except for your BG gift card + whatever $$$s you get during the rest of the year. And there’s always the buy gift cards now to use later …
Correct, my husband always buys me a bottle for my birthday, plus my father sends a check, and the gift card I currently have. But I’m going to be very strict on smelling the current version of something before buying, which was I think my downfall here.
Sorry you had such a disappointment, it’s maddening when a bottle scent is different from what we sampled.
I really didn’t expect it to be reformulated as it is such an obscure scent and none of the ingredients have been restricted by IFRA. But it taught me a good lesson.
Gosh, what a disappointment! Maybe there’s a glimmer of hope that it might age into the scent you remember?
I am not overly optimistic, but I will let it sit for a couple of weeks and try again.
That’s a bummer about your new Mona di Orio perfume. Kind of surprised, since I’ve always seen good things about them here at NST.
Oh that’s too bad about your bottle. How disappointing!
Oh no, so sorry!
Taylor Swift’s birthday!
SOTD = Hotel Costes Costes EDT
Very nice and soothing. I suppose it’s “ok” to give it the name of the place where this was made for but for the 99.99% + of people who have never been there before, HOW would they know? I would have called this “Soothing Lavander Sauna”.
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Question about tips – when do you and when do you not tip? Nowadays, other than grocery and department stores (and I would lose it if they do), the keypad has how much tip do you want to give. I have no set rule but it is so insidious that I may need to set up a set of rules to guide me.
Love Costes, especially the dry oil.
As for tipping, if the person is not actually providing service, I refuse to tip. Ringing up my purchase at the register does not qualify as service in my book. I do leave $1 at the local bakery/coffee shop when I buy pastries though, because they are so sweet & cheerful.
I follow the same basic principle — tipping for service, but not simply for a product purchased at a register.
I tip for dining in or delivery.
I do not tip if I am picking up my pizza. I also tip hairdressers ( and I tip alot if they cut my daughter’s hair and treat her well)
Tipping for me is all about the level of service…just ringing up my order is usually not enough. Like cazaubon, I tip at the local coffee shop where I am a regular because they start my order when I open the door….otherwise, I reward the extra step.
More and more places have a setup where you order at the counter and they bring your food and drinks to the table. In a full service restaurant I tip at least 20% but at these places I am only willing to give 10%. They’re giving you some service but not a lot. The problem is that the software for tip options starts at 20% and goes up from there! I just take the extra seconds of clicking custom tips and typing in the 10% amount then signing.
I used to tip at the salon where I had my hair done. I’d been a client there since the late 1990’s, so I had a long standing stylist that I trusted.
I also tip the pizza delivery guy. Usually it’s something like $3 – $5.
Edit to the salon comment: since my last visit was back in the summer, I haven’t been spending money there or tipping. I didn’t just quit tipping out of the blue in that instance…
My role is thumb: if I would have tipped for this kind of service 10 years ago, I will tip. But if 10 years ago a similar business would not have had a tip jar, I’m not tipping at all.
I do tip on takeout in certain restaurants, since I believe many of those businesses are still not paying a liveable wage and are operating on the tip model, although I agree with others that there’s no real service provided. You’re ringing me up and handing me a product.
For those interested, there’s a topical article in the Wall Street Journal today: “The Tipping Backlash Has Begun”
Not including link b/c paywalls and I access via Apple News.
Thanks for your responses. I will need to come up with a rubric!
Thanks, everyone, for your warm comments yesterday. Biscuit and I are getting our Christmas tree today, and I’m wearing Theorema, which I think should be called something like “Wassail” or “Pomander.”
And perfect scent for decorating the tree!
Ha ha — well, we *got* the tree; decorating it will be a task for another day! 😉
Hey, it’s a start!
A perfect photo for my perfume today. I finally found a mini of Guerlain Rosa Maginifica. The name is just perfect. It is indeed gorgeous, pure rose smell.
Also, I found Ormande Jayne´s Woman perfume online for a great price. Now I have a full bottle of a perfume that maybe should be called Witches spell or Into the woods…
Glad you are feeling better and those are great perfume names!
oops, meant that for Isabella, but yours are great too!
Yay for Ormonde Woman. So beautiful and I like your name ideas.
Me too!
Both of those perfumes sound lovely!
SOTD is more of Aedes Cafe Tabac, I think I’m in love.
The dry down is beautiful, not too sweet, not too boozy, not too tobacco.
The copy for this fragrance sure makes it sound BIG, but it’s more like for Goldilocks, just the right size.
A bottle may be my final purchase of the year.
That sounds lovely. Added to the “to sample” list.
I might have to break my two year, no buy streak to try out those 4711’s===maybe the sample set would do it.
SOTD–Ambre Sultan, which seems aptly named.
A 2-year No Buy? Very Impressive! 🏆
You get all the gold stars! Well done on the no buy streak!
WOW! I need to try that sometime.🤣
Bravo for the 2 year no buy!
Another day, more crazy. CCO inspection completed; all good. Dropping stuff off at the title company. Discovering that airport shuttles seem to have been killed off by COVID. Picked a mover and signed that paperwork.
SOTD = commando, but thunked the last of my Bum Bum cream on my shins today.
Yay for checking off many things on your list today! And a thunk!
Thanks tulipani.
Woohoo except for the lack of airport shuttles!
Everything I am finding is either insanely expensive, like a limo ($300 one way), or comes off as a sketchy AF, fly by night company.
I figure if someone isn’t returning calls left to their answering service, they aren’t legit.
Sending sunshine and warmer temperatures! You got this girl! 🌞
Thank you Deva.
So, this must mean you are getting closer to moving. Will it be next week?
Closing is the end of December. Hired a mover today, too. Things are weird with Xmas and New Year’s added in the mix.
Getting stuff done, good news! Wishing you smooth sailing for the move.
Thanks cazaubon. I can use all the good vibes and wishes that I can get.
Awesome job with everything!
Thank you Gail.
We can still get shuttles here, but it’s usually cheaper to Uber.
From where I am at, Uber and Lyft isn’t cheap. It’s $90 one way.
Interesting. I am an hour from the airport, so a limo service usually wants $100 or more, I got an Uber for $70 -$80. So I guess it depends!
Well done. Hope you can get a good option to go to the airport. You’ll see everything will turn out OK.
Hello everyone! I’m back from my amazing trip to Saudi Arabia, really quite an experience, and I did indeed find and buy perfumes there! My SOTD is Reef #42 and a name like that definitely can be improved upon. Its notes are rose, peach, and musk, and it’s quite an edible smelling and somewhat dusky sweet scent, so maybe Pillowy Peach Buns, or some such thing?
My over-the-top glitzy hotel had a branch of Reef perfumes right there in the lobby, with a very sweet SA who let me try everything. I sampled scents there and bought two. They had a “Golden Friday” sale on, buy two, get two for free, so I came home with FOUR new perfumes in gorgeous bottles! I’ll post pictures on my Instagram account. I think all four are very interesting. They have good lasting power and a kind of purity in the ingredients. And the best thing is that I only spent a total of $140 for what are really quite high quality scents!
Reef has a website in both Arabic and English, and if you search on them by numbers, such as Reef Perfume 42, you’ll turn up eBay listings with more descriptions. They are mostly set at around $140/bottle, which is kind of ridiculous since that’s about four times what I paid in Riyadh.
I will chime in more later (probably tomorrow) with a few more reports about scent experiences over there, but the entire trip was so overwhelming that it is going to take me a long time to recover. Glad to be home with my kitty-cats, who are suitably clingy and loving.
Welcome back!
Welcome back! Rest up; that was quite the adventure.
Mashallah!
I’m looking forward to future tales of your trip, when you’re ready to download
Welcome back!
Welcome home, glad your travels were enjoyable. Been following you on IG and those bottles are stunning!
Welcome home! How fantastic about your new fragrances! Looking forward to your report.
I have been wondering how it went. I am anxious to hear more about it.
Welcome home and congrats on the new scents!
Fantastic, hope you are not too jet lagged.
Working tonight and wearing Alien. The perfume and hair mist. I think the name fits.
The Alien sprayers are the worst. I have 10 to 20 ml. Left in most of my flankers but they don’t spray very well anymore. I am also now hoarding what I have left, as the new version of regular Alien is filled with Ambroxan.
That sucks. Time to start haunting the Bay of Evil?
I haven’t used mine enough to suffer the wrath of the wayward atomizers.
Boo hiss on reformulation and wonky sprayers.
Ambroxan, whyyyyy!??? (shaking fists in air)
I am so late posting today, I was finishing up a couple of craft projects. I’m wearing Ginger Biscuit, aptly named, but JM still is not one of my favorite houses. It’s as if they dilute their fragrances to appeal to people who don’t want to offend.
I tend to agree with you. Sad, but true.
Exactly. And this is why I tend to wear Ginger Biscuit when I’m close among the bipedal population. Plus, I feel that single dry down of every JM fragrance I’ve tried it the same…🥱
Hope all your crafting turned out well!
Jo Malone is what sent me down the rabbit hole. It probably was a good start for me as the fragrances are soft and easy to wear. At the beginning I really did enjoy them. Now, several years later, I don’t have any Jo Malone colognes. Not that I don’t like them, I just feel like my taste has changed and now I branch out a little more than I did at that time. Plus, now that I am retired, I don’t have to consider people in the office/workspace.
It needs to be at least twice as concentrated. Like DVN for Frédéric Malle, which I find to be similar but way better.
I wore 2 sprays of Wrappings today. I’m loving my colder-weather scents this year; I’ve missed them!
Yes to Wrappings!
Thank you! It’s so good!
Put on Wisteria Hysteria this morning, but it is gone, gone, gone. Off to the summer boxes with it! I love winter florals, Mohur Extrait, Snowy Owl, Mon Precieux Nectar, Oeilette Rouges, Seville a l’Aube…which of course found me looking at the unopened $1300 bottle of Attrape Coeur on EBay. Ugh.
I need to just give away all the mostly full (therefore unworn) bottles I have, and focus on enjoying the well loved favorites… Adorable hubby has gotten such a clean bill of health from his cancer doctors, he needs no additional chem at this time. Maybe a CT or MRI in April, just to check. We are both sort of stunned. Now I need to think about how to celebrate the holidays!
meredifay, you know you put this on the Weds poll? (And it’s Thursday?) Hope you will go to repeat the comment on today’s poll because everyone will want to hear your fantastic news about Mr. meredifay, that’s fantastic.
Oh I am so out of it! Thanks, Robin. You are the best!