Saturday is 420 / Weed Day; Sunday is World Creativity and Innovation Day.
We're marking it all with our standard lazy weekend open thread poll: talk about anything you like — the perfume you’re wearing today, the last perfume you tried and loved because you read about it in the comments here, whatever.
Or, ask a question about fragrance, then see if anyone else has asked a question that you can answer…
Note: top image is Rhododendron flowers [cropped] by Raita Futo at flickr; some rights reserved.
Wearing Iris Ganache, decided to start using it up before it goes bad. Having a nice sunny day, yay!!
I may copy you!!!
Me too!
I was just eying my decant yesterday!
The end of Etat Libre d’Orange week, and today I’m in Nombril Immense, their patchouli scent, and very nice it is, too. (Tomorrow I’ll be in Eau de Protection, one of my favourite dark roses ever and possibly my favourite ELdO scent.)
The Big Bellybutton is the only patchouli perfume I have and wear.
Oh, I love Eau de Protection. If I think about it, I will wear it tomorrow too.
Hello and happy weekend!
Really stormy weather today, even the doggo’s afraid to go outside (and I wouldn’t let her!) The good thing is that it cool the temperature down a little.
I am staying dry and comfy indoors with my sotd – Kilian Rolling in Love.
I made myself a tall glass of iced coconut latte with tiny coffee agar jellies. So fun and yummy! Yes I have those thick bubble tea straws 😋
Your drink sounds delicious!
Wearing Dior’s Cologne Blanche from a decant acquired at the last Swapmeet and rediscovering my love for that trilogy (with Bois d’Argent and Cologne Noire). As for discovering new scents here, I have added many to my ‘test’ list after reading about them here.
That trilogy was so popular at one time! Rarely see them mentioned now, glad you got your decant at the swapmeet 🙂
Wearing Serge Lutens Santal Majuscule.
Running errands right now on this warm, but cloudy day. There is a beautiful explosion of flowers everywhere. Most trees and plants are in full bloom. That puts a big smile on my face. So uplifting! Nothing beats the intoxicating smell of lilacs. I will be taking walks around my neighborhood everyday to enjoy the beauty of the season.
Wishing everyone a happy and healthy weekend! 🌻🐇🌷🌸🐤
I walked down the street to check our local lilac bush, still in the budding leaf stage. Usually they bloom the 2nd week of May here but it’s a mild spring so I will watch them carefully. Lilacs are my favorite scented flower.
Many of the lilac trees are already in full bloom here, others almost in the full bloom stage. So sad they don’t last longer than 2 weeks. But until May they will be greatly enjoyed!
I agree, if only they lasted longer.
You smell lovely. Oh, how I miss lilacs in bloom! Enjoy your weekend!
Thank you, Adanst! Lilacs are so amazing! I need to bring my lilac perfumes to the front of my perfume cabinet, even though their scent are pale in comparison with the real flowers.
Good morning! Just put up my swap list and am headed out to have lunch and a shopping date with some friends. It is very overcast today, which may be fine as we will be mostly indoors. No perfume today yet, but might put on my trusty Eau Premiere. Have a good weekend everyone!
Eau Premiere is a perfect go to, all the time. Have fun with your buds today!
Since I’m meeting a friend who’s a big Guerlain fan, I am wearing Limon Verde, although I might have to re-spritz before I leave for lunch.
Oh, and I have an idea for a CP: Enabled Perfumes. NST naturally and by its very nature sparks “Oh, I must try that!”
Oh, I like that CP. I think a lot of mine were enabled by someone😉
Love Guerlain
I’m rounding out last week’s CP in Under My Skin. It’s a bit too much for the glorious golden morning we’re having, but I couldn’t resist. And I want to know what kind of rhododendron that is in the photo up top — I’ve never seen rhodie flowers like that. Which reminds me that we haven’t been to the rhododendron test garden here in town since before the pandemic. Need to remedy that.
I am no expert, but it looks to me like Korean rhododendrons…there were some blooming a few weeks ago (so they are early) at Winterthur gardens near me. They are deciduous and look a lot like azaleas (which are in the rhododendron genus).
The latin name is Rhododendron mucronulatum.
Thank you!
It’s a balmy 47 degrees here in Ohio. Wearing no 5 edp today.
I’m sitting at 42 here in Michigan. Lol.
38 here ☹️
40 here😕
It’s soared to 47F. And windy.
The weather apps on my phone and laptop don’t agree with each other. I figure it was between 36F and 39F for a high here today. 🥶
I’m in spritzes of several items on offer next door at the swapmeet, just seeing if they work. 🤣
Always test first if you can!
It is cool again today so thought I would wear Shalimar MI before it starts to warm up. I don’t really see this perfume as a spring/summer sent.
Oops. How about scent.
We knew what you meant 😉
Predicted temps are mid to to high 60’s but my prediction (since I have all the education and weather tools at my disposal😉) will be low to mid 70’s. The sun is blasting down like what will be death rays come summer, and the wind is just a mild breeze. In summary, perfect! 😊
Strangely enough, my future boss is in my neighbor until Sunday. Not within eyesight as they are apparently a couple of miles down the same road on their own patch of sand. In this whole wide world, never would have thought to bump into anyone I had any connections with out here. Anyway, we’ll meet up sometime later today to say “Hello, nice to meet you.”
I was a little stumped with perfume this morning but went with NV Trayee for its dry, semisweet incense. Happy swapping to those participating in the swap fest. Hope you find your hearts desire. 😍
Sounds perfect to me!
This is your boss for the campsite host job? How cool!
Yeah, small world. They are on their way down from Idaho, but need to arrive a bit earlier than me. They’re a nice couple and we had a great chat. I’m looking forward to the job and hoping this is a brand new direction for me. Or I could go into weather forecasting because it topped off at 75F today, just like I predicted. 😉
I missed the announcement about the campsite host job, congrats! Hopefully this will help you transition out of nursing?
Also weather forecasting would be a useful skill as a campground host 🙂
I’m in Villa Primerose from Atelier des Ors today.
Yesterday I had a check up at the doctor, a week after my lasik surgery. The doctor confirmed that the eyes are healing well and that we achieved 100% correct vision effect, fully getting rid of my myopia and astigmatism! So happy!
https://www.instagram.com/p/C5-tpb4IPyN/?igsh=MWE5dDY4dGo4aG53eg==
Wonderful news!
Wow! I didn’t know such surgery could deal with astigmatism. How wonderful! Good news for you!
That’s great news!
Excellent news!
Congrats!!! 🥳
Busy Saturday – a couple of portrait sessions scheduled for today. Leaning towards Les Indémodables “Vanilla Havane,” but also considering Chanel “Coco Parfum.”
Hope the portraits went well today Daniel!
I did not wear perfume while I was up north for my brother’s funeral and related matters, as I didn’t want any negative associations. But I had just placed an order with Luckyscent and it was here when I got home on Wednesday. I am trying, for the first time, some Hilde Soliani scents. My order was for five, and I’ve tried them all now. So far my favorite is the embarrassingly named Orgasmo, which is not at all what one might have expected, but just a truly enticing vanilla almond bomb. I think I may buy a bottle. The other one I like is Il Tempo delle Mele, featuring a tart apple note. Oh, and actually I like the patchouli one a lot too Christina, but don’t think I”ll get a bottle because there are other patchoulis I like better.
In happy news, I have just facilitated the adoption of two kittens by some young friends, and it makes everyone so happy–my friends, the cat foster mom, and me! Plus, we are all sure, those little kittens. They are said to be especially rowdy and playful and my friends are so excited to have them join them up north in Colorado!
Dear Calypso,
I was away last week and just now reading about your brother.
I am so sorry and hoping his last days were peaceful and without pain.
I’m so very sorry Calypso.
My condolences, Calypso.
Sorry to hear about your loss!
You should order a bottle or Orgasmo pronto
YOU are hereby awarded an enabler pin! I took your advice!
📌 📌 🧷
So sorry to hear about your brother. Be sure to take care of yourself.
I was so sorry to read about your brother, my condolences.
The kitten adoption sounds like success all around!
So glad you had a scented package waiting for you after the sad days you had, you must have been a great help to your sister-in-law, and more wonderful that you arranged the adoption of two kittens.
I am sorry for your loss, and glad you have comfort in perfume and kittens.
Yay you for finding those kittens a good home! Glad to hear you are finding some comfort in things like that.
Deepest condolences to you, Calypso in the loss of your brother. That was very kind of you to help arrange the kitty adoption. 🤗
First, a question – can anyone recommend something that’s a fairly accurate and straight-forward tiare? I want to build my familiarity with the note. Thanks!
SOTD: Jour d’Hermes, for the sunshine it brings. (The weather isn’t reliably delivering)
Tea: Mightly Leaf Green Tea Tropical. I’m going for all the alternative sunshine options
This community might appreciate this math story:
Husband: How many ounces in a liter?
Me: I dunno. (pause) Well, there’s 3.3oz in 100 ml, so 33?
Husband: You’re right!
Me: (laughing) You know why I know that, right?
(He certainly did)
Ha! I have done math that way too.
Perhaps perfume is the way we can finally get Americans to adopt metric?
👍👍!
OJ Tiare is nice and maybe the Chantecaille too.
Terracotta and Bronze Goddess, also those bottles of monoi oil, Monoi Tiki Tahiti which have a dry tiare flower inside.
10 hours sweet sleep.
I think I have slept really well all week. In Florida, the AC is usually on.
Still a bit on the cool side here by the Pacific and there are no complaints from me.
I wore Vietnamese Coffee to see my sister and she asked me to shower it off and not wear again. Said it had some funk. 🙁
Again, she sat across the street while I spent three hours at Santa Maria Novella, so maybe it’s her and not me.
I watched Oppenheimer, American Fiction and Anatomy of a Fall on my flights to and from.
All were great.
Have one new job interview for Tuesday.
Mani /pedi later today.
I think I will reach to the bottom of the CdG stack and wear the original one. hopefully, no funk.
Oh my! She must be super sensitive! Do you get anything at SMN? Inquiring minds want to know! Best of luck with your next interview. Hopefully they will be a bit more communicative than the previous company.
I did!
I bought a ton of stuff including the terra cotta pomanders, wax melts, and topped it all off with a double scoop of gelato when I finally left the shop.
Perfect! 🍦
I ran into that ancient bottle of 1000 by Patou on my way to CdG and wowzer, opened it.
The stopper is sticky w. resin, but I smell great!
I’m in Lea. Officially thunked my bottle and transferred the last 10 mls to a decant because the sprayer broke months ago. Sad to see it go but there are always new perfumes to try right?
I was up early and it was sunny and gorgeous on my walk to barre class. I thought oh wow it’s going to be another gorgeous day. Clouds moved in and by 9 it was gray and overcast. 😞 On the bright side at least I was up early enough to see it, got a good workout in💪 and enjoyed a latte. Now it’s laundry and chillaxing at home with the teen.
It looks like October over here with all the gray clouds.
It’s the Notre Dame football Blue & Gold game today and it looked just like fall college football weather.
Your Lea perfume went out the way perfumes are supposed to: loved and worn.
Back in my sample of Viole Nere. If you’d told me five years ago that I’d one day be into violet, you could have knocked me over with a feather.
Just saw that Charlotte Tilbury’s releasing a line of scents with predictably eyeroll-inducing names like More Sex and Love Frequency.
There’s not a single bit of class left in the fragrance naming industry. 😆
Twinning with cazaubon!
In laws are here so I am with chai. He has gone back to making it with tea and not coffee. 🫖 ☕️
The memoir More is a dud, I will finish the book, but will not recommend
Yay for Iris Ganache and fresh chai!
It’s a lovely day here and I am wearing BDK Rouge Smoking. I have stuff in the swapmeet, so take a look, please! It’s past time for some things to leave.
My knee is still sore but there is a definite improvement from yesterday. I think I will stay off it until Monday, and then see if it will stand some short walks.
Happy to hear that your knee is finally feeling a little better.
I’ll decide on a perfume after doing some long overdue housework, possibly my latest purchase, Ambra from Omnia Profumi.
I was away last weekend for another visit to my mother. It was lovely to see her, but I’m glad to be quietly at home this weekend. She has recovered very well from her broken arm, and I’m hoping my next visit will be a less busy affair when I can catch up with Kanuka and other friends.
So glad your mom is still doing well! Hope you got all the chores done too 🙂
Cooler today, like in many places, eating hummus with a toasted roll. Coty Reve de roses today and tonight Omnia.
I love hummus.
It tastes wonderful doesn’t it, and is full of good fats, as a vegetarian it’s a life-saver for me.
Me too. Many times I’ve eaten it with carrot sticks and triscuits and called it good.
Ditto here – that’s a meal. 🙂
Oh yes, carrot sticks and celery stalks too go very well with hummus.
Hummus works really well with broccoli florets, too. 🥦
Oh yes, or cauliflower florets.
I’m wearing what I found while looking for something else, L’Arte di Gucci. I thought I only had a sample and here was a sizey decant, so nice surprise. The older I get, the more “surprises” I encounter, all that stuff I misplaced that pop up later and I’m glad to find.
Do you get distracted in your collection and wear something different than you had planned? Does it work out well?
Oh swoon, you smell wonderful! I usually stick with my intention, but I have so many “why don’t I wear this more often” scents, that a last-minute switch never disappoints me.
I did a last minute switch today and it worked out.
You’re smelling beautiful today. 🌹🌹
Wearing Bulgari Black today for a day of errands and chores.
Oh yum, such a great scent.
Beyond perfect weather today so feeling Springy in Champs Elysees edt. My relatives who visited for the eclipse sent me a thank you gift of orange coneflower plants for my garden today. I think I have just the spot!
What a great thank you gift!
I’m working the late shift and wearing Cafe Tuberosa. It’s going to drop below freezing tonight.
I’m drinking the new fun Dr.Pepper flavor creamy coconut. It tastes like coconut cream pie. Pretty delicious 🌞
Dr. Pepper flavor creamy coconut??? I have to check when I go out tomorrow!
Oh yes! It was in a special display not in the regular soda pop aisle.
Oh! Good to know! Thank you! If I find it I will report back.
That new Dr. Pepper flavor sounds like a really good take on cream soda, IMO.
If you like coconut flavor it’s worth the 2 dollars.
Hope that late shift wasn’t too busy, Lillyjo and that you had a good sleep afterwards. Café Tuberosa sounds interesting as does the Dr Pepper😀.
Thanks Aurora! I slept in. I have the late shift again tonight.
That Dr Pepper sounds yummy. Love Cafe Tuberosa too. 🙂
It’s so good!
Another gorgeous day out in the boonies. 🌞😎
Wearing Tauer Une Rose de Kandahar. Lovely deep, intricate perfume which always reminds me of a deep wine colored brocade. Very regal. I feel so fancy schlepping around in my dusty joggers, t-shirt, and slippers. The cherry on top is a very messy bun. So chic! 😉
Messy bun twins! Mine is held in place by a fuzzy pink scrunchie. Lol.
Extra points for the FUZZY! 😃
Andy Tauer made such beautiful rose perfumes.
SOTD = L’Artisan Parfumeur Safran Troublant
Very nice on a day that has not decided what it wants to be yet. I will try to think it this year. Yes, I have a BUB!
https://www.instagram.com/p/C6CLsyMRRO_/?igsh=b21oNG54b2hxaTBk
I was overly curious about the B&BW Laundry soap that I bought 2 of them – Vanilla Suede and Champagne Toast. They are on limited distribution so I reluctantly paid shipping or I would have had to buy 4 due to the sale. I may use it on a blanket just to try it out. 🫣
Report back on the laundry soap.
That stinks about the shipping
I will report back! Shipping fees are an ugly reality.
I am guessing the Champagne Toast smell like the body products with name. That would mean champagne and berries.
Looking forward to trying it!
At first glance your Owl of the Day looked like a grinning skull with very big, pointy teeth! I did a double take.
🤣 it does have that look!
It cleared up but is cooler today. Still feels like spring. I’m going with En Passant for the lilac bushes up the street that have just started to bloom. I so want a lilac bush for myself, but I tried that in my cave of a tiny backyard and it failed due to lack of sunlight.
We had an interesting night yesterday on my usually quiet little street. There was a huge protest outside the Ukrainian church hall next door to my house — not Ukrainians, though, but Eritreans. There were many police cars, some fighting, and pepper spray, and my house was surrounded by police and protesters for 6 hours. Turns out the Eritrean church that rents the Ukrainian hall was hosting some speaker affiliated with the Eritrean government, which is apparently quite authoritarian, and other Eritreans were protesting it. I know so much more about Eritrean politics than I did at this time yesterday! (As in, I now know a very small amount). All is quiet this morning, though, after they finished up the offending speech & reception and then their usual all-night church service.
And now you have shared your knowledge, so I also know slightly more (as in anything at all) about Eritrean politics. Thanks for sharing!
Same here.
Glad that your neighborhood is back to being quiet again.
OJ Sampaquita whilst looking through the swapmeet. Is it just me or do many of the OJs dry down to be the same base scent? She definitely has a signature.
I know I bought Boucheron Homme recently because someone mentioned it. And I think @pfsh mentioned Eau Premiere a few weeks ago so I got a bottle of that, too. I think I found my No. 5!
The signature is usually iso e super…esp. in all the earlier, lighter scents.
Perfume people, I had such a great perfume day! I was out on a bike ride and stopping off at various rummage/yard/estate sales. At one of them, there was a 100mL bottle of Penhaligon’s Babylon, about a quarter used up. I asked how much they wanted for it, and they said $1!!!!! I sprayed it and it smells fine. I definitely bought it. They also sold me a 25 mL bottle of Lauder’s Beautiful, half gone, for $1. Since I thunked Coriandre (my go-to biking scent), these might become my new biking scents.
That’s awesome! They definitely should become your new biking scents.
Great find! 🚲
NICE!
What a deal!!! Nice!
It’s a gorgeous day outside and I’m in Aesop Karst. Just played Rummikub with my buddies, so will read a bit here and then work out.
One of our Rummi players is moving out this week, and we will miss her!
That’s so nice you have a game group…great way to spend a Sunday.
Back on the weather roller coaster here. It got up to 63 degrees F today. So I turned my heat back off after having it on for 3 days. The couple inches of snow I had are a distant memory now.
SOTD = Givenchy L’Interdit EdP, modern version. I opened up my bottle on Saturday for the first time. It’s a linear floral amber, but I like it. Not every perfume I have has to be complicated.
I really like your sotd. I keep almost getting it or a flanker.
Opening a new bottle is so exciting, no matter how many times I have done it.
Turning heat off and on twins! In the past 10 days, I’ve done it 3 times!