It's Tuesday (and Donatella will be dropping by shortly). It’s also World Introvert Day and National Science Fiction Day, plus the 9th day of Christmas (ladies dancing). What fragrance are you wearing?
I'm in good old Diptyque Tam Dao, and taking community project points for "conjuring up an air of calm, offering us a space to be, feel, and heal and to flourish from". Tea at the moment is a blend of Numi Chinese Breakfast and Numi Golden Chai.
Reminder: on 1/5, wear a fragrance to match Peach Fuzz, Pantone's color of the year for 2024. "PANTONE 13-1023 Peach Fuzz is a velvety gentle peach whose all-embracing spirit enriches heart, mind, and body. Subtly sensual, PANTONE 13-1023 Peach Fuzz is a heartfelt peach hue bringing a feeling of kindness and tenderness, communicating a message of caring and sharing, community and collaboration. A warm and cozy shade highlighting our desire for togetherness with others or for enjoying a moment of stillness and the feeling of sanctuary this creates, PANTONE 13-1023 Peach Fuzz presents a fresh approach to a new softness. An appealing peach hue softly nestled between pink and orange, PANTONE 13-1023 Peach Fuzz inspires belonging, recalibration, and an opportunity for nurturing, conjuring up an air of calm, offering us a space to be, feel, and heal and to flourish from."
And for those of you who like to plan ahead, see Scent of the day ~ Friday community projects 2024, where I'll try (but usually fail) to have the next five or six weeks mapped out in advance.
Note: the Primavera Teapot in Coral on Peach enamelware is €41.50 at Bornn in Instanbul.
Les Nereides Opoponax.
Another massive attack – 4 hours. My town was not hit, we are fine.
Glannys, I’m so sorry! Glad to hear you are okay and your immediate area was not bombed. Have you a plan B should you need one?
Glannys, I’m so sorry. Good to know that you are ok.
PS – you smell wonderful.
Glad your town was spared. May there be better, peaceful days ahead.
Hugs, Glannys.
I will hope it is the last attack, and I am glad you are ok. House twins! Testing my first Les Nereides today, Patchouli Antique.
Wishing you and yours calm and continued safety under these terrible circumstances. May peace come soon.
I cannot say it better than spiderplant above. Sending you big hugs and strength, Glannys.
Thinking of you and hoping that this will end soon.
I want to say thank God you’re safe but what I really really want to say is the war is over and Ukraine prevailed.
I’ve been thinking of you in the past few days. I hope you stay safe!
I’m glad to hear you are OK, I think of you often.
So glad that you are ok. Sending hugs.
Glad to hear that you are okay!
My thoughts and prayers with you, Glannys.
Praying for your safety and for the war to end.
I’m glad to hear you are safe, but sad that there’s no end in sight for the war. Sending you lots of hugs!
Oh, no! Glad you are safe. Hugs to you.
I hope your town will continue to be spared.
Glad you are OK, Glannys. Sending more hugs to you and praying for this to end.
I am so sorry, Glannys.
Demeter Leather, reapplied frequently. Even for a Demeter it has no lasting power: it’s as evanescent as a citrus cologne, but for a few minutes it’s a very convincing replica of a black leather jacket.
Demeter is usually good for at least a few really fun minutes 🙂
It’s very chilly this morning but I’m up extra early so there’s that. Wearing PdE Ambré Russe decant from years ago. Amazing how this one has not evaporated one bit, changed color or gotten hazy at all. It’s been everywhere with me, from Florida to Alaska back to Florida and all over the west coast. Talk about a good traveler! Same gorgeous perfume as when I first tried it.
Finishing my second cup of coffee then will confront my 50+ work emails. Another 10 dropped yesterday. I have no clue WHY people would be doing this crap on holidays. I’m already annoyed and haven’t even stepped foot into the hospital yet. 😅
I hear you. My employer is officially closed from 24 December until 3 January, and the emails still come. (I have not answered any.)
Good for you! I’m attempting to do my testing but was now just told my phone will not be adequate to identify rhythms and I must use a lap top or desktop, neither of which I have…🤓
So many emails … to me it smacks of automation. Like the hospital on-boarding process automatically sends a few emails to a group, and then some in that group have automated responses set to “reply to all”. 😖 Reply to all should be banned — forcing people to actually type in all the intended recipients might make them really think about who really needs to be included. Rant over. 🙃
These are all testing modules and some policy and procedure acknowledgments. Possibly automated by my role, but still…these should not have been sent to my personal email address. They should have gone to a work email. Wah wah wah…
It’s awesome to hear that Ambre Russe holds up so well! I wore my sample yesterday and it’s so good. I’d get more if I wasn’t already overflowing with choices for ambers.
I like many of the PdE perfumes, almost all that I’ve sampled in fact. I think they consistently create quality perfumes that have broad appeal, but are different enough to be interesting. And let’s face it- MAC is pretty easy on the eyes! Now that they’ve brought back the 50ml bottles, I may be tempted to purchase a couple this year, I just don’t know how to go about choosing WHICH ones… Really wish they would offer a 10-15ml size because I would snap up quite a few. The only full bottle I have is Corsica Fusiosa.
I’m on the cusp of ordering Le Cri! And I want to sample more, I’ve only tried about 6 of them.
I think I will wear HdP 1804 today — I think of it as pineapple and as much brighter than “peach fuzz,” but peach (or peach blossom) is listed as a note in Fragrantica. I love the scent of peach but apparently have few perfumes that feature it. Not sure I even have the once-ubiquitous-in-my-collection carded samples of Trésor.
But — in my browsing I came across “Winnie the Pooh Piglet” perfume! Have any of you tried it? I’ll paste the Fragrantica link below.
Transitioning back to work mode today. I’ll ease myself back by allowing at least a couple of hours to read a novel that will be part of my new spring course (I read most of it 18 months ago when I first started developing the course, but am starting now from the beginning).
https://www.fragrantica.com/perfume/Winnie-The-Pooh/Piglet-28282.html
I don’t think I have any peach note perfumes, but that Winnie the Pooh is super cute! I do love the Pantone Peach Fuzz color though! So soft and floofy!
SOTM is Cuir Cannage, from a dwindling decant. So very gorgeous. I broke down and ordered a FB of Under My Skin after wearing it exclusively for many, many days in a row and not even remotely getting tired of it (and turning Mr. G into Gomez Addams sniffing my arm and murmuring “Tish”), but this morning I thought I ought to remind myself of some other leathers on the shelf.
Lol at “Tish” 👍🤣
I knew you were a goner when you ordered 3 samples 🤣
That Mr. G is a funny guy! (Meant in an admiring way, of course.)
I’m wearing Rose Rebelle Respawn from an untouched sample. This one is decant worthy, but I’m trying to do a moratorium on decants for a few months anyway.
Good luck!
Today I’m wearing Roxana Illuminated’s Gracing the Dawn, a sample I got with my Greenwitch order. It’s floral and a touch creamy-spicy and I definitely want to explore more from this line. Maybe 2024 will be my indie perfume year.
A year of indie would be fun.
I spent half an hour looking for my decant of Ambre Russe so I could twin with Deva but couldn’t find it, so I’m wearing En Voyage Captured in Amber instead. It’s beautiful and very warming.
Hey, we’re twins in spirit! 👯♀️
Joining you all in gearing up for 2024 this morning. An early meeting was cancelled so I have a little bit more time to get my head back in work mode before going to the office.
I’m twinning with Robin this morning in Tam Dao. A cute 30 ml bottle made Donatella and me very happy last month😊
Hey twin! At least one of us made Donatella happy!
No CP today, spending some time on my personal quest for My Favorite Patchouli in Les Nereides Patchouli Antique from a batch of Luckyscent samples that I ordered a few months ago. As much as I love smelling strong patchouli, I am quickly finding out that it takes a barbershop direction on my skin, which is out of my comfort zone. I am giving it a full testing though. I wonder if I already know what I need to know about patchouli-heavies via Angel?
Gosh, it has been so long since I’ve smelled a straight up patchouli! I used to like the Reminiscence Patchouli Elixir, and that’s all I can contribute to that conversation 🙂
Awarding myself partial CP points for vintage Shiseido Murasaki, which is decidedly purple in its outlook, but does have a peach note.
Also part of Our Lady’s Damage Report, since I picked up a vintage set with three Shiseido travel/purse sprays including this one in the fourth quarter of 2023.
Points for you! And you know you can award points to yourself based on anything, including how that color makes you feel.
The First Paradox rule of CP point awarding is that no rules apply; and yet all the rules apply. Therefore: It is impossible to cheat at CP.
🙂
Wearing Clinique Happy Heart today. It’s a nice Happy flanker but doesn’t really come across as a Happy flanker.
I wonder if the newer ones come across as Happy flankers? I did not smell any of them.
Revisiting two from Giardini Di Toscana today: Bianco Latte and Borabora…both quite different. I prefer and am enjoying Bianco Latte.
I have Bianco Latte, need to check out Bora Bora, it seems to be the second most popular from that line.
Bora Bora is nice but I think Bianco Latte is better. I tried BL for the first time a few days ago and at first I thought hmm, nice niche vanilla but kind of standard fare…but then I loved it more and more as it wore and the dry down is lovely. The dry down is usually the best part for most fragrances b/c vanilla of course. 😉 So now I am thinking I may need a bottle.
Wearing Jil Sander No. 4 today and trying to ease back into work while no one else in my house is working.
World Introvert Day is one I can get behind. Also, I like that teapot. I tried a new line of teas at a cafe the other day — probably not new to anyone here (Harney & Sons) — and really liked their Hot Cinnamon Sunset, which was perfect for a cool winter day. I may go back and buy a tin of it.
Have you checked Barnes & Noble? The teas are usually on sale right about now.
Thanks! We don’t have B&N up here…but the place I got the tea is a cute little neighbourhood cafe / grocery that I like to support, so I’ll probably buy a tin there, and explore more of their teas!
FYI Upton’s Christmas tea is mostly cinnamon. It would match the idea of “Hot Cinnamon Sunset”, but I’ve never had that one. Anyway, I drink the Christmas tea all winter.
Wearing Marions-Nous by Oriza L. Legrand. A lovely aldehydic floral that I got in Paris in 2022.
I’m so glad December is over, though to be honest, it wasn’t that bad this year. Thinking I was going to hate it, was actually the worst part.
I spent a couple of days in the Netherlands between Christmas and the New Year and most of our main rivers have risen outside of their usual confines. It makes for an impressive landscape, and so far the flooding seems under control. I wouldn’t mind some dry weather and sunshine though, it seems like months ago, that it wasn’t grey every single day.
Yeah, the anticipation of the event is usually worse than the event itself. This is what I keep telling myself anyway. 😉 Hope you a relaxing holiday with friends and family!
I’m yet to decide on my SOTD, possibly my recent purchase of Scherrer 2 post-shower.
First, I’m going to clean the oven. It’s on the list of things to do over the holidays, and the holidays are rapidly passing.
Oh dear. I cannot remember when I last cleaned my oven. Good on you for getting it done!
Good for you on the oven cleaning. Mine desperately needs cleaning, every time I bake something it sets off the smoke alarm.
Hello.
Sotd is Bitter Peach.
It was either this or Lost Cherry. Felt like wearing something fruity today.
Go fruity!
World Introvert Day! That’s for me! Does that mean I don’t have to leave the house today? 😅
I’m wearing Indigo Smoke, because I am in love with it. However, following Robin’s lead, I think I will tie it in to the CP with this part of the description- “a fresh approach to a new softness.” This is the softest incense fragrance I’ve ever smelled, and I probably love it because of that. Plus the tea, which is a note I’ve been drawn to recently.
Speaking of tea, mine is MF Marco Polo, thanks to the original NSTer.
Happy New Year AnnE!
Thank you, and same to you, lillyjo!
We are introvert twins! I’m thinking that Indigo Smoke is a winner. Lots of fans here on NST…
I never would have pegged you as an introvert, Deva. Huh! Well met. 🤗
I love days when I don’t have to leave the house 🙂
Really, you too? 👏🏻
Introvert day! I am celebrating!
Wearing Shalimar Millesime Iris and almost thunking my decant.
Busy start of the year at work, as usual. I am glad this is a short week.
Having my third cup of coffee and a couple of dark chocolate coffee flavored truffles. Delish!
Happy Tuesday! ☕️
You smell wonderful!
Thank you, Hajusuuri! So do you!
You live in a magical world of treats I have never seen! Lol
Those truffles sound delicious!
Lol! I got those chocolate truffles from my local supermarket. I was not expecting them to be so good. I survive having treats and coffee during working hours. I usually skip lunch or have it very late in the afternoon.
Scent twins. I reached for that one again today. I must really like it since I bought two BUBs.
Millesime Iris is so beautiful, and I love that it has good sillage and longevity.
SOTD = Francesca Bianchi Tyger Tyger
Peach! 🍑
I should have known! I looked up peach as a pre and there were many peach notes. I decided to pick “peach” and saw several that I owned.
https://www.instagram.com/p/C1m7SpyxasJ/?igsh=MnEwaHdjd3Y1cGRh
So I downloaded the newer version of Instagram and it is now giving me Threads posts every 8 or so regular posts. There’s also no way to mute it so I am stuck! I did not join nor would I ever. Does anyone know of a workaround?
You smell great, didn’t think of that one!
I just got a new ipad and it has the center stage feature on zoom where the camera follows you when you move. Spent several minutes trying to figure out how to turn it off as I do *not* want the camera following me, I want to be able to move off screen! Turns out it’s a button on the left side of the zoom screen where you see the gallery view button.
I noticed those thread posts on my daughter’s IG. I tried to get rid of them but couldn’t.
I am seeing the Threads posts in my general feed, but I rarely ever look at that feed because I also don’t like the ads. I haven’t been seeing Threads posts in my “Following” feed, fortunately — so maybe that’s the workaround? (click “Instagram” at the top left and choose “Following”)
If they start showing Threads or ads in my Following feed, that would be really annoying.
I had no clue you could do that!! Thanks for that tip, makes me less likely to delete my account! 😃
It was a lifesaver (or Instagram saver) for me. I can’t stand feeds that show me stuff based on an algorithm because then I miss a whole bunch of stuff I want to see, and they invariably show me a bunch of ads, too. I prefer feeds that show me the people I follow in reverse chronological order.
No clue as to work around but I get so much 💩 on IG I’m ready to delete my account..
I’m wearing Chanel No. 5 parfum on this cold rainy day. Time to bring in the outdoor Christmas decorations, too. So I’ll be getting wet later…
The parfum version is lovely. Maybe during Sephora’s spring sale.
Do you want me to remind you of your 2024 resolutions regarding perfumes?
In HdP 1725 today
https://www.instagram.com/p/C1mRV8roV4b/?igsh=MXV6aW9zMzZ3bHFpMQ==
My holiday break is over, back to work tomorrow. Oh no…
You should send this picture to HdP and they should immediately hire you for their advertising!
Good luck tomorrow!
I agree.
Waiting for the cleaning woman to leave so I can call the CRA and figure out my tax issues. Wearing 4160 Tuesdays Randall’s Random Amber, which she made for her husband. At least it’s sunny and bright.
Good luck! Hopefully they will have answers for you.
Well, I got the answer. They disallowed the pension splitting between my husband and me, which increased the tax owed, as well as $371 in interest charges because it took them 4 months to process my reassessment and I have to pay for that. It chaps my ass that I only have 30 days to respond but they can take as long as they want and charge me interest for their slowness. Grr.
So sorry cazaubon!
Now we need to pray that I don’t receive the special assessment for the AC replacement this year, which will be at least $20,000. Hoping it will be pushed out one more year….
Argh. Fingers crossed.
I hope you get a quick and easy resolution! I’m sure you smell fantastic; is that from the JJB?
Yes, it’s day 1 🙂
How fun! Enjoy!
Quick but not easy; they disallowed our pension splitting. I have to call another dept tomorrow to find out why.
I have been working my way through my NM 12 Days of Fragrance “Advent Calendar”. Today being the 9th day of Christmas, SOTD was Jo Malone Myrrh & Tonka. So far, this one, Histoire d’Orangers, CC Rock Rose, and Rose of No Man’s Land have been my favorites. I find some of the others to smell too masculine to my nose, so I will likely pass them along to DH.
That sounds like a great calendar, are you enjoying it?
I am enjoying it. It is nice to have largish samples (really minis, not samples, I think they are all at least 5 ml) that I can either spray or splash rather than dab. I love mini bottles anyway (that is, those that are mini versions of the FB), so even if I don’t care for the fragrance, it isn’t a total loss. The little mini Jo Malone, Penhaligon’s, l’Artisan, etc bottles are adorable! So far, I haven’t outright hated anything, I just thought some would be more suitable for DH.
The calendar is OOS on NM’s website, but it appears that at some point it went to 50% off, or $77.50, which really would have been a good deal. Now, however, I am seeing it show up on ebay for some very inflated prices. People are asking ~$400 for it. I don’t know if anyone will actually pay that, nor should they.
Thank you! I will watch for that next year. I love minis.
Not all of them are minis; I would say about half. The others are standard cylindrical travel spray vials. I checked the sizes; two of them were not labeled, at least not in any way I could read, but I took them to be 5 ml. They range in size from 5 ml to 10 ml, for about 85 ml total, so the $155 price is not at all bad for the amount of perfume you get.
Again, thanks. Hope I will remember come next Xmas…
I have a large bottle of Rose of No Man’s Land thanks to a generous NSTer and I absolutely love it.
I liked the calendar and thought it was worth the money, even at full price. They are generous minis (yes, all 5-10 ml). The Rose of No Man’s Land is why I bought it, in the end — tried it years ago and liked it, so it seemed to make sense to get a mini, which is all I will ever need of it. In the end, nothing in there that I MUST buy, but I don’t regret having the minis (except for the Oud Maracuja. Never again on that scrubber that I couldn’t even scrub off).
Yes, I thought it was one of the best value advent calendars this year.
Thanks ockeghem, that helps!
I’m in SL Fleurs d’Oranger. Cold and overcast here, but at least the wind isn’t blowing much.
Sort of a cp choice, considering the color of the juice is kind of peachy? Am I a fragrance weasel?
Seriously, you may interpret the cp howsoever you like!
Yes, that one is very peachy colored.
It’s been very windy, some showers and mild. I picked Aveda Chakra 3 balancing from the bathroom, it’s pleasant as a room spray but a little sharp to wear tbh. Tonight it’s Missoni Gianduia, my favorite chocolate of all time.
That Missoni sounds so nice!
Robin, once I got it I thought, now I won’t need other chocolate perfumes.
But it’s discontinued, right? So still worth it to explore options just in case 🙂
I’m in Samsara today. I’ll have to find my BBW peach body butter to try as a combo.
Hope you found it Gail!
Inspired by all the sample thunks, I’m making a dent in my sample of Plum Japonais. I probably won’t thunk it too rapidly since it’s discontinued.
It’s cloudy and rain is expected later, I hope to sneak a walk in today before it gets wet. Enjoying the day off before back to work on Thursday!
Is anyone a fan of the book The Flavor Thesaurus? I recently saw that there’s a part two, More Flavors, and just ordered it.
I had not heard of that book, and it does look fascinating.
For Christmas my Boss gifted me 5 vintage mini perfumes.
Passion, Ceasars Woman, Todd Oldham, K de Krizia and Anne Klein. Today I am wearing the Anne Klein. 2 drops and it is glorious! I immediately get civet. Fragrantica says civetta? I don’t know what the difference is but I smell fantastic.
He also gifted me a partial bottle of EL Dazzling Gold. Unfortunately it has gone a bit off. I keep randomly spraying it, hoping to bring it back to life.
Wow, that is so thoughtful of your boss! Unheard of most workplaces. I hope you resurrect Dazzling Gold.
You smell amazing! I had Anne Klein way back when, maybe even went through 2 bottles.
Possibly a few sprays of the EL will help clear out the nozzle. I love that your boss did this.
I remember that Anne Klein! Glorious, indeed.
How nice of your boss!
That’s thoughtful and your sotd sounds wonderful! Hope you enjoy them all.
Oh my goodness, what a boss! (That said, as much as I like my current boss he should not buy me perfume ever. 🙂 )
Thoughtful boss, enjoy your minis, I also have a partial bottle of Dazzling Gold. It smelled fine but I haven’t used it in several years, time for a check.
Happy New Year y’all since I didn’t get around to commenting over the long weekend. For the CP today, I’ve taken inspiration from those phrase in the color description: “a feeling of kindness and tenderness, communicating a message of caring and sharing, community and collaboration.” I think there’s a lot of all that in the perfume community, especially here. So I’m wearing a perfume gifted to me by our own She-ra, Boucheron Trouble. She saw me lamenting that my Trouble dry oil had gone off and offered me her unloved partial bottle. Such kindness in sharing perfume!
Happy New Year!
I can’t imagine a kinder community than NST.
Perfume people are the best, especially here at NST. Enjoy your Trouble.
Yay…so happy that snake cap bottle found you! 🥰
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