Happy Almost-Friday and happy World Monkey Day. Birthdays: Stanley Crouch, Jane Birkin, Lester Bangs, Miranda Hart. What fragrance are you wearing?
I'm in Hermès Brin de Réglisse. The name is just right.
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 Watching the scene [cropped] by Rolf Dietrich Brecher at flickr; some rights reserved.
I am in Cartier Baiser Vole. My first thought was that the name is more fitting for a lipstick scent, but there is something sneaky and seductive in this lily scent, so maybe the name is right.
You smell lovely, Glannys!
I think it’s some sort of IFRA regulation that if the main ingredient in your fragrance is vetiver, you have to call it Vetiver. That’s what everyone seems to do, at any rate: it’s true of Fragonard Vetiver, so I wouldn’t change the name (at the risk of incurring someone’s wrath).
The saleswoman in the shop in Paris was certainly fibbing when she said the bottle I bought a couple of months ago was exactly the same as it had been in the eighties: it doesn’t match my memory at all. But it’s still pretty good! Bright green opening with citrus and I think a flash of dill, then gradually warming and sweetening as it develops. Very pleasant. Doesn’t last long, but you can reapply without bothering anyone.
I was sniffing at Macy’s a couple of weeks ago. The SA fibbed and told me Versace Crystal Noir came out 3 months ago. I had made the mistake of saying I wanted to try some new releases. Lol.
Maybe she misunderstood and meant it was stocked 3 months ago … 🤣
I remember Luca Turin saying something like that: “If you put more than a drop of vetiver in you might as well call it Vetiver since it takes over the whole scent.”
Sad but true. I dislike vetiver and it has ruined many otherwise lovely fragrances for me.
Hello.
Sotd is Amouage Love Tuberose. Correctly named and I do love it. Delicious tuberose chantilly cream.
Got to go get my watch fixed. It’s automatic movement but it stopped working, the second hand also fell off and now it’s swimming around the dial like those Chopard Happy Diamonds. I didn’t even drop the thing. Bizarre.
Hope your watch is an easy fix and it doesn’t have to be sent away somewhere. The screw-down crown fell off my old 1960s automatic recently for no reason recently and I missed it while it was being repaired.
I know the feeling. My sisters and I were trained from elementary school age to wear a watch every day. If we showed up to the breakfast table without it, we were sent back to put it on! I still wear my watch every day.
I am with you!
My exhusband gave me a Cartier watch for Christmas when I was about 30? It has been on my wrist for the last 40 years. Except every seven years it goes to the Cartier hospital for a tuneup.
My relationship with my watch has lasted twice as long as my marriage did!
I’m wearing Aromatics Elixir, and the name is perfect.
And you smell perfect!
Hello all-
Taking a day for myself today. Asked my partner to help with kids’ activities.
Need a break from running around, craving time for leisure reading. No library today, just staying in unless I choose to go out.
Feeling so exhausted, need some me-time.
SOTD is Shalimar
Fragrant hugs
Fragrant hugs back ltsg.
Enjoy your day.
Thanks!!
Yesterday a mom I was talking to smelled like this beautiful natural rose, she mentioned she is wearing a perfume from fueguia 1833. Has anyone heard or tried anything from this house?
Have passed their storefront on Madison Ave a few times when in NYC. Perhaps you could pop in & give us a field report sometime 😉.
Ok- I will try 😌
I tried the line several years ago from testers in a store, and I found most of them interesting, although none of them spoke to me enough to inspire an impulse purchase. I just took a Quick Look on Fragrantica, and they have more than 150 listed!
The one I liked the most is discontinued, so it wouldn’t surprise me if only the most recent are available. But worth checking out, I think!
Bergdorf carries this line and right now they have a card$$ special.
Hope you have a good rest today and recuperate.
Not sure if you saw my post yesterday but the library may or may not purchase that book. I will check in 1 month from now
Sending a fragrant hug to you, smelling fabulous in Shalimar. Enjoy your day!🌹
Enjoy your relaxing day!
Nice, hope you are recharged by the end of the day.
Definitely a good idea to take a break. This time of year is crazy!
I hope your “me day” recharged you!
I’m spending the morning in Francesca Bianchi’s Under My Skin, again. This is the extremely good floral leather scent in extrait format that I thought might become less special if I owned too much of it — that assessment is rapidly undergoing revision. There are two more sample vials on the way to me now, and the idea is to use them all up before springing for a FB. We’ll see. 😬 The name is obviously quite apt, at least as to yours truly.
I’ve heard consistently good things about this line. I’m not longer buying samples (we’ll see how long that declaration lasts😬) but I’ve been so tempted by many of her scents…
Keeping Under My Skin in mind for future reference… Love floral leathers.
I put this on the “to sample” list the last time you mentioned it, but trying to restrain myself from sample buying until February. We’ll see how that goes.
Hello all!
Been a rollercoaster of a day so far, and it’s barely 10am!
We had to cancel my birthday dinner (we were celebrating a few days early) because my mother woke up feeling unwell. I’m sure she’ll be fine but I don’t want to get everyone sick for the holidays.
Then I get a notification that my Calculus 2 final grade was posted. I was really dreading it but… I got an A! All A’s so far this semester but I was a bit nervous about this one specifically.
I hadn’t picked out a perfume for the day yet but now that my plans have changed, I might go with Cedar Sambac. I just adore it and could easily drain my bottle if I had a smaller collection. It might just be my favorite Nagel for Hermes this far. The name fits but somehow doesn’t capture the gorgeous quality of the scent. It feels like being swept up in a gust of warm fragrant wind.
Have a great day everyone!
Happy birthday and I hope your mother will be all right. Many congratulations on all those A’s! Wow!
I find myself wondering what Sambac is….
Got another A since I posted. Weird day haha.
I think it’s a reference to jasmine sambac. It’s the most glorious woody jasmine scent, if you haven’t sniffed it.
Hope your mom recovers asap! Also, kudos to you for not only going back to school, but EXCELLING at your classes!! 👏🏼👏🏼
Thank you so much. It’s been hard but I’ve been really focusing on it.
Ah, Professor Calculus! Well done.
Who knew? I really rather disliked it my first go around.
Congrats on your straight A’s, that’s quite an accomplishment! I hope your mom feels better soon, and you can properly celebrate. 🎂
Thank you! I’m waiting on one more but it’s probably a B. Luckily it was just a lab so it’s very minimally weighted. 😅
Calculus major here-well done you! I’m so happy for you :)All your hard work has paid off. Did you study matrices yet, or will you?
Thank you! Not so far but I do have to take calculus 3. Hoping I have an easier time than 2. Series were brutal.
FWIW, I found the matrices a bit easier-hope you have that same experience 🙂
I’ll let you know! 😂
Congratulations! Also, good call on rescheduling the birthday dinner!
Thank you! It was an easy call for me but now I have no birthday plans! 😂
Congratulations and Happy early Birthday!
Quick recovery wishes for your Mom!
Thank you! 🩵
Wow! Fantastic news on your grades. Be sure to celebrate a little. You have done very well.
Aww thank you very much!
You smell great. Congrats on the A!
I always forgot how deeply I love this one until I put it on. Thank you!
Congratulations, Coumarin! I hope your mother is doing better; I’m sorry your birthday plans went astray. Now you have more reasons to celebrate when you go out! 🎉
Thank you! Not sure what I’ll be doing on the actual day now. 😂
What day is it?
Saturday!
Congratulations on all those As! Hope your mother is better soon and you can really celebrate.
Thank you! We will ASAP.
An A in calculus!! I am officially impressed, go you!
Hope your mom is better asap.
Thank you! It was a struggle and I think very few of us passed. 😅
Congrats on acing that calculus exam! That’s quite the accomplishment.
Hope your Mom is feeling better soon.
Thank you so much Jalapeno!
Congrats on your A! My college days were many moons ago, but I still occasionally have “ooops, you didn’t really graduate” nightmares.
Happy Thursday! Another morning of blindingly beautiful sunlight! I haven’t been in the SW of the US in two winters and oh, how I’ve missed it! A little cooler today but still very comfortable in a long sleeved shirt.
The Bat Cave tour was AH-mazing and if you’re ever in this area, I highly recommend it. Since this cave system was discovered quite recently, and then kept secret for years, then sold to the state of Arizona, it’s been kept very pristine. One of the guys who discovered it was an amateur spelunker and student at U of A at the time and went on to work for NASA for much of his career. Anyway, we toured the maternity area which is only open about 6 months of the year, the other 6 months being closed due to the bats using it to birth and raise their pups. My perfume this morning has a direct link to bats, if you can believe that! And no, it’s not Eau de Guano! 🤣 There is another tour that focuses more on geology, so I might do the today. Yesterday’s tour focused more on discovery and conservancy. Plus there is a gift shop with lots of books…😁 Oh, and they discovered the ancient bones of a Giant Sloth in the cave!!
Here’s a link for a brief history of anyone is interested:
https://azstateparks.com/kartchner/explore/park-history
As for my scent today, and in honor of the bats, it’s CSP Amour de Cacao because bats are the sole pollinator of the cacao plant. 🦇
Was there a smell in the cave? How wonderful it’s being protected. And I didn’t know that about cacao pollination!
No, I didn’t smell anything I would classify as unpleasant. We did see roosting areas which were very identifiable due to the guano piles on the ground below. Since this cave was developed after the ADA act, it’s 100% accessible to all. I was so happy to see an elderly gentleman who obviously had a CVA in the past, but he was able to do the entire 2 hour tour without a problem. That’s huge for people with disabilities, because only 3 cave systems in the world are accessible to them. 🦽 You do have to pass through 3 or 4 airlock chambers, and in one you do get a bit misted, but seriously, you could take a small hospital bed through there! I cant tell you how happy it makes me! I had a friend years ago who was a quadriplegic and loved nature but could never “get out” and explore because these areas are just not accessible.
I love bat caves and habitats. There is a great bat house in Florida where my sister lives and in the Seychelles you really need to pay attention as giant fruit bats are hanging over you whereever you go.
Yes, our western sunsets are achingly beautiful and I plan on another one today.
Glad you had a good time:)
Thanks for the link. I think bats are very cool. Bats are the only native land mammal in NZ ( excludes marine mammals) Every other mammal is introduced. And, in a very controversial twist, they were entered into NZ bird of the year ( a big competition here ) and won.
I’ve never been to New Zealand, but from what I’ve heard, it sounds like birds basically occupy every animal-oriented ecological niche there!
I love bats! And I can see how that could be just a wee bit controversial! I wonder who thought that up, hoping it’s meant tongue in cheek. 😁 We have a problem with bat population decline here due to White Nose Syndrome. This can and has killed off 95% of some colonies. They are very diligent here to prevent this. If you’ve been in any cave in the past year with the shoes you’re wearing for the tour, they have to be disinfected. You cannot touch ANYTHING! If you accidentally brush up against a rock formation, one of the hosts immediately tags it for decontamination. They’re pretty serious here.😅 I did learn that if a colony is wiped out by WNS, the surviving 5% do pass on genetic resistance to their pups, but still…95%…! Here’s a link to info regarding WNS if you’re interested:
https://www.nps.gov/articles/what-is-white-nose-syndrome.htm
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/new-zealands-long-tailed-bat-is-crowned-bird-of-the-year-180978979/
I think it was more to raise awareness of them, as they are critically endangered. There was controversy this year, too, because the US talk show host John Olliver did a big promotion of an Australasian grebe for the NZ bird of the century and that won by thousands of votes, mostly overseas votes, which upset a lot of people here. It wasn’t seen as being in the spirit of the event.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/15/puteketeke-new-zealand-bird-of-the-century-winner-nz-john-oliver-campaign?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
For bird lovers
Wow, that was some crazy voting! Seems a single person voted 40,000 times for a penguin species..! Makes sense to me that only New Zealand citizens should be able to vote, but it also sounds like the voting system used is not very accurate and open to abuse. People are nuts. 🥜
My husband participated in the puteketeke frenzy as he’s a fan of John Oliver but I thought it was unfair interference in what I felt should be a local choice.
How cool! I’ve never been too a bat cave though there is a bridge in town where they like to hang out. There’s always a crowd around it when the sun goes down so people can see the bats take off.
They’re amazing. This cave system, which is huge, only has bats in it for birthing time. The cave is quite warm and very moist compared to other caves that are usually cool and damp. Farther south is a cave where bats roost year round as adults- it’s quite a bit cooler there. Bat experts ( I have no clue what their actual title would be…) feel that pregnant bats chose this cave due to the warmth and high humidity, ensuring baby bats a fighting chance at survival. I have never seen live bats roosting and/or taking off! That would be a real treat for me.
How cool! That sounds really fascinating. I’m sure you could find somewhere like that in your travels.
I just ordered a sample of Vanille Extreme by CSP. Have you tried that?
The bat cave sounds very cool😎
No, haven’t tried that one. “Extreme” in any scent category makes me pause, to be honest. I love vanilla in almost any iteration, but “extreme” screams, at least to me, screechy, fake, burning, plastic vanilla. I’m afraid to try it…😬 Let me know what you think of it. Their Vanille Apricot is about as sweet as I can get.
Oh, I may hate it. I am just sampling a bunch of vanillas. I have said before that I think it may just not be a scent for me if vanilla is a prominent note in a fragrance.
Thanks for passing along the info about bats being the sole pollinator of cacao plants. That’s important news!
Very cool.
Finished just about all of my Christmas shopping today. Will pick up a bag of treats and squeaky tennis balls next week for my dogs’ Christmas present. But I need to go to the store for some dog food and bread today. Wearing Lyric today.
You smell majestically beautiful.
Today I’m trying another of my new perfumes from Saudi Arabia, Reef Perfumes 36. It obviously needs a better name than that which might be Loud Ylang! Haha. The listed notes are pear blossoms, elderberry blossoms, ylang ylang and amber. I had tried this on skin in the little shop in my hotel because the lady told me it’s her favorite, but it was kind of screechy. However after that initial blast it softened a while lot and became so enticing that I decided to buy it. I’m not sure what pear blossoms smell like but to me this has actual pear in the mix. These fragrances have great staying power. This is on the sweet side so some won’t like it but I do.
Sometimes I really like pear! I’m glad you’re enjoying your new goodies.
I saw those bottles on your IG account and they are so gorgeous
Do you new perfumes smell different here in the US than they did when you purchased them?
I’m currently wafting a combination of my Rose Jam shower gel (perfectly named) and Aftelier chocolate-saffron body oil (also can’t argue with that one), and feeling fragrant enough that I don’t really want to layer perfume on top of all that.
Woke up to find that a plastic jug of local apple cider had *exploded* in my refrigerator, after fermenting, and then droozled out over rather a lot of the kitchen floor. Oops! So I’ll be scrubbing the floor for a while this morning…
Ugh and sticky stuff always makes the worst mess. Just think how clean it will be afterwards.
Oh no! I am surprised that has never happened to me.
Ewwwwwwwwwww. When fermentation goes wrong, it goes *really* wrong.
I’m going to join Dawn in Lyric. I have a long day ahead – volunteered to help at a seafood dinner and they told me “be there from 1 to 9pm and bring your apron”. Wow, OK! Tomorrow I have a live Zoom yoga class, then mammogram, mall errands and then a gift card making class. Looking forward to everything.
And I love the name ‘Lyric’!
You are a busy little bee.
Ha – yes, this week. But not usually.
Wow, I’m in awe of your energy to do all that in one day. I will have to join you and Dawn in Lyric. When I was trying to come up with a frag to wear today, I had a specific idea of the kind I wanted to wear, bot no name to attach to it. Now I do, thanks! 🌹❤️
Are you doing a “Seven Fishes” dinner?
Im wearing Tutti Twilly which I always seem to call Twilly tutti-frutti. The wind has finally dropped though it’s still cold for summer (12C). I am heading inland for the weekend, in search of a bit of warmth so I can at least wear sandals once this month. My Birkenstock collection is gathering dust.
Isn’t that one so pretty? I bought it for my mom who loves the original but she gave it back. I keep spraying it for the fun litchi note.
12C is just not fair! Hope you find some sun and warmth.
Hope you get some warm weather soon!
ok lots of good smelling people here. I’m in Le Lion, and where I live was pouring with snow-real blizzard-y sort of day. Halfway to work, only about 30 km, and it was blue skies and sunny. But here at work there is a raw north wind. Something about Le Lion really pleases me in the chill clean winter air. I’m sure it’s great for the summer, but I think of it as more of a winter scent.
Lots of great restorative yoga classes on offer here, and I’m taking advantage of all of them before the holiday. There’s something so fundamentally beautiful about choosing restorative things when it’s busy, especially cause we’re coming up on the shortest day of the year, and it’s the end of the year. It appeals to me.
Yesterday the kids celebrated Santa Lucia at school, it was a reminder of the long dark days ahead and how to bring light 🕯️ into our lives
The sun set a minute later than it did yesterday here. Reason to celebrate!
Off topic, but I need to make a star topper for my miniature roughly 2-foot high artificial Christmas tree. I’ve searched eBay, but can’t find any kind of tree topper for a miniature tree.
Please help me with ideas or links to how-to videos. 🙏
I have some pretty peppermint and gold foil wrappers from Lindor truffles that are one possible material to use, but how to shape and attach?
I have some vintage Pennsylvania Dutch origami star ornaments that I thought might work, but they are a bit too large and heavy.
Re perfume names, I often think a name is a mismatch. For example, Hermes Amazone perfume is way too soft and ladylike to fit the powerful image of an warrior woman.
Maybe use a paper plate to make the star and then the foil wrappers to make it shiny.
Thanks, Aurora — that would be a handy source of light cardboard!
You could buy some cheap battery operated fairy lights and then use twist ties to shape the strand any way you’d like. If the battery box is supported with a bit of tape to the tree trunk you’d never even notice it. Plus, those lights usually come with an automatic timer, so set it and forget it!
I really want some of those lights for my shelves, too!
Here’s one for dollhouses, so maybe a bit small:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxcwGePnTqA
and” DIY 3D Cardboard Star Christmas Tree Topper”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKR4u5ZnB04
which you could make in smaller size
Excellent, thanks for these links!
How about a birthday candle 🕯️? You can light it then sniff it out when you’re ready!
I could use my candy wrappers to make “flames” for the candles, too — that would be cute! Thanks!
What about using Origami to make a star out of lightweight paper?
I need to check out origami patterns!
Following Robin and Ringthing in wearing White Cube. Lots of other good names have been proposed for it already! I’m not feeling very inspired about work today, but I’ve been putting off a strategic project for too long and I’ve got to dig in. Guess I’ll head out to a cafe to force myself to focus.
Good luck getting it done ockeghem!
You can do it!
No smoothie but I had fresh green beans for dinner. It says it’s 8C but it feels cooler. Voyage EDT today, well named I think and tonight Franck Boclet Vanille which I would call Vanille Agrumes.
I jumped the smoothie ship the past couple of days and landed on the gingerbread ship…confessions are hard! 😅
Ah, but gingerbread is more in keeping with the season.
I think we were about the same temperature today. I hit 47F here.
Roughly the same temp here as well.
SOTD is FM Iris Poudre. This is another one of my favorites. I think the name probably fits. To me it is so elegant that it seems like it should have that as part of the name, but what do I know???
I love that scent, Kris 🙂 You smell fantastic.
Thanks Carole.
FM has great names- TF on the other hand ..
LOL. No kidding on TF names.
Yes, it gets tiresome, doesn’t it.
You do love your iris.
I never thought I would, but I really do. I will find something different for tomorrow.
Wearing 4160 Tuesdays Red Queen, which I think is well named. I imagine the Queen of Hearts in a deck of cards. It’s a lovely incensey rose.
Smelling great today!
It was very satisfying. 🙂
Trying Love Eau Fraiche today. This is the recent version…I never tried the original. Quite similar to original Love. Will see how it wears but I think Love Extreme is my favorite version. 🌹
Yesterday I tried the new Guerlain Rose extrait and it left me kind of perplexed. I get they are supposed to be accords and layered but it felt unfinished to me. The opening is lovely w/ a fresh rose and there’s quite a bit of patchouli in the dry down but it didn’t move me…it felt like a variation on a theme but I don’t know what the theme is supposed to be.
I’m not sure I get the marketing/sales angle for the extraits. When Guerlain, with the perfume legacy they have, comes out w/ extraits at those prices they better be delivering a remarkable experience…and I was not impressed.
That’s a shame. It seems so many brands that were renowned for quality and integrity in their business model have gone by the wayside. Everyone is cheaping out and then asking you to pay extra for it. SMH
Isn’t that the truth! Some of the prices are outrageous for what they deliver.
I feel the same. Across the board! Don’t get me started about clothing….
Woohoo on Love Extreme as your favorite of the iterations!
As to unfinished, I think many lines seem to be suffering from that!
I guess the positive outlook for those Guerlain extraits is “Money saved!”
The rose and bergamot extraits were my least favorites. But I agree they all seem kind of like sketches, not full perfumes.
I’m wearing Le Parfum de Thérèse which is one of my favourite perfume names ever. So evocative in all its simplicity. I think it was my third Malle (Angéliques and En Passant were my first Malle purchases) and I didn’t even like it much at first sniff. But I was intrigued, and that is usually a good indicator of long lasting perfume love, and so it was with me and Thérèse.
Have had a few few intense days at work and am looking forward to not working as much. Some newspaper headlines announced that retirement age in the Netherlands will probably be pushed back to at least seventy (it’s 68 at the moment). So I will guess I’m not done yet.
So sorry to hear that news! I’ll remain hopeful for you
I had the same “intrigued” sense with a different Malle: Une Fleur de Cassie. I went through 10ml without being able to decide! Now I have a back up.
It happened with Cassie as well
Is the retirement age rollback tentative, or a done deal?
Tentative
That’s tough news on the retirement age. My full retirement age is 67 in the US.
Love your Sotd – I think it’s one of the greats!
I’m in Baghari again. A little while later I’ll put on some Shalimar.
A cursory glance at Google shows that the word baghari means a dish of boiled meat and rice; another said that baghari is a dip in a road. Baghari is also a village in India….none of those seem to fit the perfume. Not sure what is a better name though. I get mainly aldehydes, orange blossom and incense, maybe Meditation on a Blossom.
Baghari is such a nice one! Love your name for it.
I’m wearing the chocolate patchouli goodness of Smell Bent Hungry Hungry Hippies, and I think it’s perfectly named! I think I just have subconsciously chosen a big, strong perfume for today to make up for barely wearing any yesterday. I went into the office for a team holiday gathering and wore just a couple dabs of 28 La Pausa EDT because I knew it would pretty much be gone by the time I got to work – and it was! One of my colleagues gifted us with holiday scented candles, so that was a nice surprise. The one I got was Berry Clementine with notes of cranberry, mandarin zest, and tonka. Between this and the two D.S. & Durga holiday candles I bought during their sample sale this summer (Prime Chanukah and Portable Xmas Tree), I better amp up my candle burning time!
Your SOTD is STRONG! One of the few perfumes I have come across that is too much for me.
SOTD is Jeraboam Ambra, with dark, dark juice.
Perfect 70 degrees in Los Angeles, a little cooler here by water.
Meeting with resume writer in a bit to see what he has prepared for me.
Dropped off package at post office, was not as crowded as I thought.
Finished Lady Tan and the Circle of Women and dropped off at library. I loved it, the reader was great. Now back to House of Doors.
I have had a great couple of weeks selling on ebay. Jewelry, clothes, shoes, handbags, some fragrance. I keep tags and keep everything in dust bags and boxes – no kids, no pets, no smoking.
So its been good to clean out and downsize. Did this seven years ago and its time again to keep decluttering.
Hope the résumé writer did a fabulous job for you! I found downsizing very difficult in the beginning. Towards the end, I was like “Nope, nope, nope, everything must go!” 70F is perfect, enjoy it!
Congratulations on good online sales!
RESPECT to you for being able to declutter and downsize.
SOTD = Zoologist Tyrannosaurus Rex
Smokey and intense, the better to annihilate the 🤢 Kayali Vanilla 28 (no bueno). T-Rex is aptly named, methinks.
https://www.instagram.com/p/C02YXuKxfj4/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
My neighbor across the street and I usually go out for a meal 2x a year and yesterday was the day. When we made the lunch appointment, she said that because I am not working, we shouldn’t exchange gifts but I had already gotten her gift back in November. Anyway, I ended up treating her to lunch at Olive Garden. We got home and I gave her the gift. Not 10 minutes later, she called me and said she needs to return the gift card because how can I afford to give her the gift card, now that I am not working? I am comfortable with what I have and don’t have to change my lifestyle, even if I end up not working one more day in my life. I have told her previously that I have no financial concerns and each time she said for me to be careful with my spending. I wonder if she thinks I may be somewhat irresponsible with my finances, not thinking maliciously but out of concern? In any case, I will attribute it to her as being concerned for my welfare, nothing more, nothing less.
Aw, you’re a sweetheart! Maybe she’s hesitant to accept because she is financially struggling, like so many right now, and doesn’t feel she can reciprocate? I love Olive Garden! My grandmother and I used to go there for lunch several times a month. We both got the “All you can Eat” soup and salad. Everything I know about being cheap is due to my grandmother, who lived through the depression and came out the other side thinking .25 cents was a good tip! We always had to bustle her out and then go back and leave a REAL tip! I miss her! 🥲
She is financially struggling although I think she has enough to go by. We also had the all you can eat but it came as part of an entree order (yummy).
I think it’s probably her just being concerned. I also think it’s more polite to just say Thank you when you are given a gift.
I agree with you. I pretty much said please just keep it because it was made with the season in mind.
The gift card issue could be a case of “A bit of Column A and a bit of Column B”. Your neighbor is concerned about finances, but it is not clear if it is hers or yours. Could be both.
It’s hers … and she’s also in her 80s so there’s a concern over a “young ‘un”.
Awwwwwwwwww. I have cousins that age.
I hope you both have a joyous Christmastide.
Running around trying to get things done. Got some answers that I didn’t have yesterday, and donated some stuff to the county animal shelter. Trying to pack more stuff.
I will be going radio silent for a bit. Gotta be in two places at once.
SOTD = commando, except for Korres Grecian Gardenia in the usual spots.
Best of luck with everything, Jalapeño! Hope you can tune in again before too long. Hugs
Thanks ringthing!
Safe travels, and hope you find a soft, safe landing after all you’ve been through!
Thank you Deva!
The best of luck Jalapeno. I will be thinking of you. Check back when you can 💙
Thanks lillyjo! I will take all the luck I can get!
Best of luck to you my friend!
Thank you hajusuuri!
Wishing you very good luck, Jalapeno. I hope it’s a smooth trip for you.
Thank you Gail! Appreciate the good vibes.
Best of luck, we’ll be keeping you in our thoughts, hurry back!
Thank you cazaubon! Hoping that the weather won’t muck up my return flight…
Hope all goes as smoothly as possible and looking forward to your return🌹
Thanks allo!
We will be here waiting when you’re ready! Hope everything goes your way.
Keep us posted when you can.
Adding Best wishes for everything you have to do. Come back when you can.
May the force be with you!
I went to a Christmas craft sale at my daughter’s school today. Everything was made by the students. I bought some Christmas cards, hot cocoa bags, an ornament, keychain and a framed watercolor made by my daughter. It was fun. I wore Angel Muse, which I think is a pretty good name match. Although it is so creamy they could have called it Angel Mousse. Lol.
It sounds like a fun Christmas craft sale!
It really was!
Sounds like today was much better than yesterday for you.
Definitely! Back to work for the weekend though. I’m expecting to be busy!
Wonderful that you could buy the frame your daughter made.
I’m wearing Dior Addict today. It’s not the best name for a fragrance but this is such a well-blended, smooth scent. One of my favorites in the winter.
We were almost twins today.
I didn’t like the name when it was first released. It just seems to fit now though. I do not know any perfume that I can compare Addict to. It’s really something special.
It really is a good one!
I hated the name so much that I didn’t even try it when it came out.
Maybe I should have been less grouchy? 😡😏
I hope you get a chance to try it! I also have the Oil Perfumery version; to me, it’s pretty spot-on (if you want to sniff it without having to track down a vintage sample). That way you’ll have a good idea if it’s for you.
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!
Wonderful news about your husband! That does call for a celebration.
That is great news!
That’s such fantastic news!
Thrilled for both of you!
What fabulous news!