Tell us about a summer vacation, any summer vacation: one you took, one you plan to take, one you'd like to take. And tell us about the perfume that best matches that vacation.
Or, as always, just talk about something else.
Note: top image is Famous pink chairs at Sundown [cropped] by Kirt Edblom at flickr; some rights reserved.
Happy weekend!
5 years ago I went to Nice. I visited lavender farms, Fragonard factory, museums and spent a day in Monaco. The people were so charming, nice (no pun intended!) and happy. I bought so much Fragonards and olive oils that my luggage was almost overweight. There was also so much good food. One can never be hungry in France!
I didn’t bring much perfume with me because I knew I’d be shopping. What I did bring though I felt matched – Brin de Reglisse. Maybe it’s the lavender?
Sounds like a great trip!
Hermessence Brin de Reglisse sounds like the perfect choice. I treasure my half used bottle now that its disco’d.
I love Nice — was there in 2019, before the world shut down. I agree — lovely people, fantastic food. I would happily go again except that I have too many other places on my bucket list!
Sounds perfect!
Nice is NICE! We were there a year or two after the terrorist attack. We were there twice, along with a side trip to Monaco and of course the Fragonard museum!
I love Nice. I spent a great week there in I think February 2017. It was cold (even for Nice) and we even got some snow. On the final day of my visit the skies finally cleared and I had this glorious view of the red, pink and orange of Nice against a backdrop of white mountains and a deep blue sea on the other side. I’ll never forget it.
Good morning & happy weekend! I’m up early because I dropped Mr. O at the airport. I actually really like being up early sometimes, especially on days like today when it’s finally somewhat warm and sunny. That said, I don’t want to do this every day. 😀
I’ll choose my two Eau d’Italies, Paestum Rose and Sienne l’hiver, for today’s vacation reminiscence. They remind me of a) the trip where I bought them, in September in Munich in 2008; b) our trip to Rome & the Amalfi Coast in November 2015 (and visit to actual Paestum!); and c) the trip I’m planning this October, where we’ll be in northern Italy. Ockeghem Teen is quite excited to visit Venice, but we’ll also be in Tuscany and I’ve promised her as well that after her dad leaves the trip early to go give a talk, we will celebrate her birthday early by going somewhere else on the way home. She hasn’t decided where yet, though.
Realizing I misunderstood the assignment — those aren’t summer vacations. 🙂 Oh well.
It still sounds like vacation spots🙂
… nice vacation…
They are great trips, quite close enough!
They count 😇
A dreary day with lots of rain in the forecast, but what care I? I’m in the luminous I Profumi di Firenze Limone do Sicilia concentrato, a brilliant ray of Italian sunlight. Doesn’t stick around for long, as citruses generally don’t, but it is so wonderful while it lasts.
What a glorious scent & one people rarely talk about. I found a used tester of it at New London Pharmacy (in Chelsea, NYC) and I had to drench myself in it to get it to stick but wow what a realistic lemon/citrus note. Just thinking of it makes my mouth water. Enjoy!
Another warm one today but we had some overnight rain so things seem fresh and clean right now.
As for summer vacation, I wouldn’t vacation ANYWHERE in the summer because of crowds, heat, and higher than usual prices for everything. I’m a shoulder season or off season traveler. I don’t know how I could pick one place, so maybe I would take one of those Smithsonian Private vacations which cost the earth. However, you’re jetted and/or driven with just your group of friends or family, have your own crew of highly educated folks who can teach you all kinds of things about the history and culture of the areas you’ll be visiting, have your own cook who will cook scrumptious meals and snacks, and generally you get to leave the working/worrying world behind. They’re pricey but who cares if this is all an imaginary game, right? If anyone ever jumps on board this train (plane or automobile), let me know how it is! 🤩
https://www.smithsonianjourneys.org/tours/tripfinder/?&travel_styles=00010%3APrivate%20Jet
Currently wearing Hermés Vetiver Tonka. It’s been a while, but it’s as good as ever. Happy weekend, Peeps!
Found this interesting blurb about spraying perfume on your décolleté…
https://youtube.com/shorts/Z0Dj9IRqf_g?si=MM7JBivffHO_wGyD
I never even thought of this, but it does make sense.
Interesting, thank you Deva, it’s on the nape of my neck that I apply so protected from the sun by hair.
Interesting, but I’m not convinced. I think most of the ageing of that particular part of your skin is due to sun exposure, but what do I know?
Hope you are doing well in the Wild West!
Those trips are a little spendy🤣
Just a little! But hey, I dream BIG! 😀
FYI: I was updated today about prairie dogs by the Bird Lady who thought she had observed some altruistic behavior after one dog went under the lawn mower and another retrieved it and dragged it into the burrow. Turns out prairie dogs are cannibalistic. I was never so disappointed to learn an animal fact in my life. I had to look it up to confirm, and sure enough, it’s true. I’ll never look at them the same way. 😳
Oh dear.
Animal instincts perhaps with T-Rex?
I remember hearing about cannibalistic prairie dogs as a kid and getting skeeved out. That, and discovering they could be plague vectors. Yeesh!
My stepmother went on the Smithsonian Journeys trip to see the prehistoric cave paintings of France & Spain last month, she LOVED it. In case you want to pretend that’s your next vacation 🙂
(Also, they went into the caves without other tourists, which she said was great because as they’d leave and see the lines to get in, she’d realize she didn’t even want to be in a cave with that many people)
That is the exact trip I’ve wanted to go on but can’t afford. I ended up choosing something similar, but cheaper, from Road Scholar, which is a mix of prehistoric cave paintings and lectures, history of SW France through the ages, mixed with wine/vineyards education and tastings, as well as Museé Toulouse-Lautrec, and Museé de Aquitaine. I’ve rescheduled twice now, so hoping I can finally go in October, which I figured would be a less crowded time for tourist things, but the trip has been sold out for some time now. I’m so glad to hear your stepmom had a great time! I bet her photos are AH-mazing! Did she go solo?
She loved it. I do think Road Scholar might get you a slightly younger crowd, Smithsonian from what I hear is mostly retired folks?
She did go solo and it was her first group trip as a solo (my dad died in 2020) and it worked out fine & she liked the people.
She has nice pictures but none from the caves, photography not allowed in many (or all?) of them. And, they were told at at least one cave that they are thinking of closing it to tourists, all the people trooping in and just breathing is starting to damage the paintings. So go now while you can!
Yes, I knew about the “no photos” in the caves. I know some are only open to academics doing research, and then there are caves that have had replicas built. I did go on a Smithsonian Tour, in 2011 I think. It was a “winter safari” in Yellowstone, and it was wonderful and very affordable at the time. Happy to hear your mom had a great time and enjoyed the people in her group. 😊
SOTM is Hiram Green Arcadia, somewhat liberally applied from a dabber. I just can’t decide if this is me, or if it’s too similar to Dryad, or any number of other excuses keeping me from investing in a FB. If they would just do smaller bottles …
Anyway, I recently discovered that Hermes Rocabar (sample bought for Mr. G) is really nice on me after the first too-fougère-y ten minutes, so a bottle of that will shortly join my collection. It would match well with my favorite summer vacation too — a mash-up of a real one, on the south coast of Fidalgo Island a few years ago, and a fantasy one in the same place but with no super-loud Navy jets flying over every 20 or 30 seconds. I know they have to train, but yeesh.
Yeah, those jets…
Happy weekend everyone! I’m with Deva, not a big fan of heat, humidity and crowds, my favorite time to travel is someplace warm in February. But this summer I want to go to Warren Dunes, about an hour away from here; for the first time in I don’t know how long, I can walk on sand! Dune climbing is hard but sliding down is fun.
Wearing by/Rosie Jane Missy today since it was talked about yesterday. Very pretty and beachy, I would wear this on my dune trip.
Oh we used to go there as kids and loved jumping around in those dunes!
Summer vacation to me (as a young kid) was coming out to the Okanagan . We’d gorge our young selves on cherries and peaches. And go to the great beaches.
Fast forward many years later, I am living in the area. People flock here for summer vacation. Luckily we can head to the beach and if its too busy, we can be home in 5 minutes.
My summer staples now seem to be Bronze Goddess, O de Lancome or EA Green Tea. Today I’m wearing 1 spray of Serge Lutens Fleurs d’oranger with a few sprays of Kiehl’s Musk.
Ooh, I love Fleurs d’Oranger, and I’m quite fond of the Kiehls. Never would have thought to combine them – I’ll have to give it a try!
It’s a nice combo! I went light on the SL because it’s going to be quite a warm day here. I hope you enjoy it!
I do love going out the Okanagan for wine and peaches. We’ve really only done the beaches once or twice, though. It’s so nice out there!
It’s lovely; I feel lucky to be here. Kal Lake has nice beaches in the North Okanagan and SunOka Beach is another good one in the south.
I’ve rarely taken summer vacations, but my fondest summer memories are of being a camp counselor at a YMCA camp on a lovely lake in New Hampshire. Loved taking care of the kids and teaching canoeing. (It was also where I first fell in love.) I don’t really associate a fragrance with those summers, but all I wore as a teenager was Devin by Aramis, so if I wore anything, it was that.
Today I’m in Misia from Chanel, a recent discovery. It’s pretty special.
I like your scent today, Daniel.
I’m quietly crazy about it.😊
And I remember one of our first trips to New England and loving all the lakes in New Hampshire & Maine. That’s a great place to be a camp counselor.
Like many of the rest of you, I am not a big summer vacation person. I like going places in the winter when it is cold in the Midwest.
SOTD is Fleur de Patchouli by Zara. I love it! Thanks to Jalapeno for mentioning it on here. For any of you that are on a budget but would like to try some scents by some great perfumers out there, I would definitely recommend Zara. I have purchased four scents from them. One did not work on me, but the other three did. I have no affiliation with them. I will say that to me most of them are on the cologne side and the staying power is not always the greatest.
I just picked up Livre Blanc. Passing you an enablers bauble! I know it’s been mentioned a few times here on NST. It seems like an easy-going scent that’s probably good for summer plus I won’t mind re-spraying. Plus Olivia Giacobetti!
Which other Zara’s did you get?
I just received the one I mentioned above which is peony and patchouli. Also, many of us have purchased Leather Jardin which is mostly grapefruit and leather. Both of these were done by Jo Malone.
Do you like the Livre Blanc?
I haven’t received it yet! Hopefully should be here early next week.
Let us know what you think. I know Allo really likes it too.
Kris, I bought one pair of kind of jogger-ish leggings from Athleta. I really loved one pair and I’m struggling with the price.
If I stop buying perfume for a bit…
I know they are kind of expensive and even a little more so at Lululemon, but they seem to last forever plus they are washer/dryer friendly.
Have you tried Nordstrom? Their Anniversary Sale should be coming up soon, if it has not already started.
Very pleased to hear that you are enjoying the Fleur de Patchouli! Fortunately, the florals don’t really read as peony to me. It has a decent evolution on my skin. How about you?
Unfortunately, I might have found another perfume on Zara’s website to tempt me. 😭
I get the peony scent and probably picked it up a little more by adding a BBW lotion that has peony. Let me know it today’s post what Zara you are eyeing now.
Hi all! It’s been a while since I popped by, hasn’t it. Currently sitting at my local free cycle swap meet, hoping my stuff all disappears! Poof! Usually I would head home for a break, but… Beach traffic. Even though the fog has returned (whew) and it’s cooled off from the heat blast earlier this week.
No scent yet unless you count my car’s perfume 😁 It’s a used car and we’re still working on de-musting it. I bought a car diffuser in Hawaii that smells quite nice – ginger & florals, not too strong. Maybe I am having a little summer vacation in my car? Lol
Our summer vacation this year will take us to way northern Canada — cruising the northwest passage. Can’t wait. Will need to bring my winter clothes though, it won’t feel summery!
Nice to see you pixel.
Hi Pixel! It’s great to see you and I hope your stuff goes poof! 😀
I’m waving at your from up on the northern coast of CA. We too feel lucky to have missed the inland heat. The weather has been perfect here, if quite windy at times.
Have a great time in Canada🚢
Hi pixel!
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Hello all!
I finally decided on my SOTD– California Clementine from Atelier Cologne. My bottle is one of those pretty limited edition ones. I’m still surprised they closed up shop.
Hope it went well and all your stuff is gone gone gone!
Hiya Pixel!
I really love summer vacations where i don’t have to pack coats, boots etc.
My favourite one is the one we took to Cinque Terre , Italy years ago. At that time Cinque Terre wasn’t that touristic and we had such a good time, my daughter who was a teen loved it too, people were friendly, the sea was amazing, the food out of this world.
I am wearing vintage Rochas Femme.
Cinque Terre is magical. The fig trees along the path were baking in the sun when I visited and the air smelled just like Premier Figuier.
I took lots of summer vacations until I wised up like a lot of you and started vacationing when the crowds are gone. But my favorite summer vacation was the one I took to Acadia National Park. I was poor, in my twenties, so I slept in my Plymouth Fury (a big car, could sleep 4 in a pinch). I bought lobsters from seaside stands and cooked them in disposable aluminum pans over campfires and swam in the ocean until my lips turned blue. I climbed Mt. Katahdin and arrived at sunrise. I ate a “Mile-High Pie” at a diner in Bar Harbor. I don’t think I wore perfume on that trip, I’d wear something like Azemour if I went today.
SOTD today is Aedes de Venustas Encens Japonais, for the trip I’m taking this fall to Japan.
What great memories! I love Maine and one of our favorite family vacations when the kids were little was to the “family camp” program in Bar Harbor, which included a visit to Acadia. What a great adventure you had!
You smell wonderful!
I have still never been to Acadia, it is on my bucket list!
But I well remember young & broke vacations sleeping in the car 🙂
No summer vacations for me this year (saving $) but I have a very distinct memory of first wearing vintage Habit Rouge (Eau de Cologne) by Guerlain on a cruise (Puerto Rico>Cancun) and strolling into the beautiful dining hall all tanned and hungry wafting that wonderful leather/lemon/woods scent. Every time I spray it on now and close my eyes I can see the cruise ship interior, me standing and spraying it on…the color of the curtains in our room, the carpet. A very vivid olfactory memory.
Same, no summer vacations for me either. The house needed all sorts of things. I love olfactive memories – while I don’t have one as lovely as yours, my strongest related to vacations is the scent of lake, dirty sand, and the odd fish from growing up and spending every day on Lake Erie. Not a scent I’d buy but it does make me feel like home!
My favorite summer vacations were always with my family when I was growing up.
As an adult, I, personally enjoyed a trip to VA a few years ago. It was a weekend and I wish I stayed longer. They were midst a heatwave and I have no pride, so I jumped in the public water sprinklers when the kids got out. The concert was pretty rocking, too!😝
I love the South. Such a breath of fresh air.
I’ll be reaching for L’Hadrien shortly. Old faithful.
Mine were always with my family growing up too and they were many times to northern Minnesota. We were from southern Minnesota🙂 However, I did take a nice motorcycle trip with my husband to Yellowstone, and we stopped in Sturgis for the motorcycle rally. It was a honeymoon trip 24 years ago.
I saw a lot of cool things all over the western US during family vacations when I was growing up.
Grew up in Manhattan as a young child–parents were academics, so we spent summers in the Burlington, Vermont area, near UVM. Would love to revisit those environs/Lake Champlain, but in the fall. The colors must be spectacular, and fall’s my preferred time of year.
In a sample of Un Bel Amour d’Ete, which is giving me major flashbacks to the late 1990s iteration of CSP’s Tiare–nice.
Oh, I bet the colors would be beautiful in the fall.
My favorite summer vacation is the one I’ve been taking in September to my brother’s house in Drôme Provençale for several years now. I wear the perfumes I have there, Bien-Être Eau de Lavande, Un Jardin après la Mousson and Shalimar Millésime Tonka.
September will be here before we know it Aurora!
I always feel happy for you when you go there.
Thank you Lillyjo, you are so right, time flies. It’s also where we spent childhood holidays, so we have plenty of happy memories there. My father discovered the area when he was sent there to recuperate just after the war, he was a veteran of the Armée Secrète, very brave.
I now have a sample of Chloé EDP lumineuse, I think it’s the one you love, so pretty and all natural.
That’s nice that your Father was able to find something wonderful for his family after he went through something horrible.
I think Luminous is so very pretty and also has that sparkling quality that makes me feel happy. I’m finding that lately I have been wanting to wear brighter perfumes to lift my mood.
Shalimar 👸
I would like to go to Scotland
Any perfume recommendations?
Sunday SOTD
Shalimar tonka version
Now that tonka imperial has been discontinued I am enjoying this similar but different SOTD.
I wonder what other Guerlain perfumes are on the chopping block.
Something with a whiskey note!
DS & Durga HYLNDS Spirit of the Glen!
Except it’s probably long since discontinued.
Check out Jorum Studios, a Scottish perfume studio. My favorite is Arborist? And they have several lovely others.
ooo! ok!
Chanel Paris – Edimbourg.
a good choice also
I’m currently wearing one of my perfumes from Saudi Arabia’s Reef Perfumes, this one, #42, which has rose, peach, and musk. It’s rather simple and pretty.
This summer I’ll combine a bit of vacation with a conference by going to Santa Fe for a bit in July. I plan to book an evening at the opera there to see “La Traviata.” For us in Houston a summer vacation usually means getting somewhere out of the heat and humidity. It’s warm in Santa Fe but the air is dry and it cools off at night. What to wear, hmm, Palo Santo? Or maybe I can find something locally made once I’m there?
I’m back at the hospital. Mom is still here, getting a bunch of IV’s for low electrolytes and anemia. She’s asleep now.
I hope she’s recovering!
Oh, I was so hoping your mother was going to go home. Darn. I hope she gets better soon.
Well, I’m glad they kept her longer if she was anemic & maybe dehydrated. But sorry.
I’m thinking of travelling to Sardegna this summer.
Anything from an Italian perfume brand, perhaps something slightly citrusy or salty/marine would be best.
I’m in Diptyque Ilio today.
https://www.instagram.com/p/C79ddC1oeWQ/?igsh=MWQwYXNmNXkyOXhkcg==
Love the presentation in your picture.
PdE Acqua di Scandola would be a good choice!
Our family just got back from two weeks in France, visiting Normandy and Brittany. It was just wonderful! We were able to attend the Memorial Day ceremony at the American Cemetery above Omaha Beach, in addition to touring many of the D-Day sites with a guide. As this is likely the last time the whole family will be able to coordinate an overseas trip, now that they’re all out of college and in full-time jobs, I wanted to share these important sites with our kids. And the only time I had been there before, I was a teenager; and my husband, who served in the US Navy, had never seen them. Very moving, very powerful. We also saw the newish British Memorial above Gold Beach, which is beautiful.
We visited Bayeux, Mont St. Michel, several medieval towns, the standing stones at Carnac, and the “Sentier des Douaniers” on Brittany’s “Pink Granite Coast.” On our way from Mont St. Michel to Bayeux, we stopped in Granville to see Christian Dior’s childhood home, which is now surrounded by a park with an amazing rose garden, right above the ocean. Gorgeous! Roses were in full bloom everywhere we went, and I had brought one fragrance with me, which was Mizensir’s Rose Exaltante, so that’s the fragrance of the vacation.
We may go to New Hampshire in July to visit family, but otherwise no more summer trips are planned. Maybe we’ll do some weekends away once the kids have settled into new apartments and new jobs!
What a wonderful vacation! One that will provide lots of good memories.
Isn’t that area of France magnificent? We did the Canadian version of your trip in May eight years ago (i.e., Juno Beach).
Wow! That sounds like a wonderful trip.
It sounds like a wonderful holiday and full of historic sites.
Normandy is on my “bucket list”. Lucky you!
I strongly associate summer holidays with childhood, when we went somewhere a few hours drive away for a week every year, but I’ve never got into that rhythm as an adult.
I’m starting to think about my next overseas trip with my sister-in-law. We were intending to go to Italy next year, now it looks like the year after, but it’s never too early to start planning. We’ll visit lots of wonderful old buildings, including churches, so I think a suitable perfume would be Bois d’Encens.
Yes, my childhood trips were like your trips. Not too far from home.
The most scent-associated vacation I can think of was when I was 11, and my mom and I went to Phoenix, AZ. We also visited the Grand Canyon, etc. At some tourist store somewhere, I bought some scented…somethings. Maybe they were to scent bureau drawers? They were ridged, oblong, terracotta colored, maybe 2-3 inches long, and they smelled wonderful. I had them for years!
That is a nice place to visit.
When I think of favorite vacations I think of the smell of wine cellars and cathedrals in France…that lovely, slightly musty, incense-y smell. Hoping to go back to the UK next summer for more walking and France for more smelling🌸
I have an ongoing question: Does anyone who has smelled Lush’s Revive (formerly R&B) hair moisturizer know of an Orange Blossom, Jasmine and maybe a tinge of Coconut scent like it? I wish Lush would make it easy on my and just create a perfume version.
My senior year of high school I was able to visit the cathedrals in England and France. They definitely have that musty, incensey smell.
It’s those early trips that often leave the longest lasting (scent) impressions.
Where do you go walking in the UK? I once met an American couple who were hiking a long trail across England, a little bit every summer. Sounded wonderful.
There’s a book I love about walking in the UK called The Old Ways by Robert MacFarlane. Makes me want to go there.
We walked in the Cotswolds for 7 days last summer and are planning to walk another stretch of it or maybe the Thames path or South Downs Way.
Mr. allo just told me he read The Old Ways and loved it.
Robert MacFarlane is an old fave of mine and his books make me want to visit all the places he goes, though some of them also scare me (bivouacing on icy peaks). Currently reading Landlines by Raynor Winn after falling in the Love with The Salt Path (which someone here recommended), in which Winn and her husband Moth, who has a degenerative incurable disease, walk a remote trail hundreds of miles through the Scottish Highlands. Also thanks to someone here, I also have read and wildly recommended Wilding by Isabella Tree, about letting her family’s farming estate go back to natural meadowland woods. Fascinating. Now my friend & I want to visit Knepp Estate, which has wild ponies, boar, auroch-like cattle, & one of the highest concentration of endangered birds, butterflies & other species in all England.
An orange blossom jasmine? Yes, pretty please!!!!
I know! Such a great combo!
My husband and I took a daytrip to Boulder yesterday and went to Dawn’s studio and there were people leaving when we arrived but we then had Dawn’s attention for a couple of hours which was great. My husband had 2 scents and so mostly it was Dawn helping him. We ended up buying 5 scents–1 for me, 3 for him and 1 possible share. 4 of them are Upcycl scents and he figured since he liked them he’d get them (the Upcycl ones are made once and then they’re gone). He bought Estancia from the regular collection and will probably eventually get Foxy from the regular collection. I got La Courtisane while he got Smoking on the Balcony, Sweet Honey and Estancia and our shared scent is Fleurs de Coquette. I had kind of thought I’d get something and maybe he’d get something but I wasn’t expecting my husband to go wild (grin)
It sounds like a lovely day.
What fun!
Going all out summer in the OG Bronze Goddess. Full sun protection in my Columbia Sun Proof joggers and long sleeved hoodie. Take that, UVA/UVB rays! Getting my bike back in condition after living on my front bumper for the past few months. I’ve lost a couple of pounds from cutting out most refined sugar/baked goods/ice cream. Back in the summer protein and fruit smoothie habit. I’ve got a couple of visors coming from Amazon to shield my face when I bike. Got my biking playlist pulled up and ready to hammer Metallica, RHCP, Slim Cessna’s Auto Club, Rob Zombie, and some rave music. I haven’t (so far) gotten the summertime sadness I usually get every summer. Can’t ask for more than that! Stay cool, stay safe, and be happy!
Sounds like you are having a great time. I am so happy for you.
Thank you! I have to say it was a rough start but I am amongst the nicest people now. I can’t tell you how much it means to me to be working with straight up good people. No power struggles, no he said/she said, no snide remarks with the “oh, I’m just kidding” after which some people think gives them absolution for their mean, nasty, and rude remarks. Yesh! 😝
Everything worked out so much better than I ever could have expected. I’m literally a happy camper! ☺️
This is super!
I’m so glad that everything has turned out so well. It must be such a relief after your previous jobs.
I think I picked up those pounds that you lost!
Seriously, I am glad that you are having a great time. You’ve had some epic poop tornadoes to deal with at your previous assignments.
Never was much of vacation person, never had enough cash to go anywhere. Currently wearing Worth Courtesan today.
Same here Dawn.
This sounds like a fun perfume.
Another person who doesn’t take too many vacations due to the same reasons 🙂
Dawn you smell great-I haven’t tried Courtesan, but I love Je Reviens:)
It’s a gorgeous day here, but I will be heading into work shortly. I am wearing Rose Jam which I layered over BBW Coco Paradise. I’m enjoying it.
The other day, I was gifted a large decant of YSL Babycat from a coworker. I get vanilla, suede and a rubber note. I think it leans masculine and don’t really like it. It has many good reviews, but I don’t get it. I put it in the Swap pile.
Missing pl67 and Cazaubon lately.
I bet you smell great. I hope pl67 is OK, it’s been a while, Cazaubon more recently I think.
Enjoy your weather, it’s been grey all day here, June has been cold for the season, as was May.
Thanks Aurora. It was another nice day here today.
Your description of Babycat sounds a lot like Bvlgari Black…
Yes! It did remind me of Black.
I don’t like summer.
And it doesn’t like me.
I did love summers when we lived in Greece.
SOTD is the beautiful Pharoahs Passion from Diane St. Clair.
She discontinued this one and I do have some evaporation going on, so yeah, I better wear it.
Why did you love summer in Greece, apsara?
The blue, blue sky.
Homers’ wine dark sea.
Peaches and tomatoes bigger than your hand.
Sugar white houses with blue doors sparkling under the sun up and down the hillsides.
Long, lazy lunches at the tavernas with sand under your feet.
The scent of rosemary and basil growing by my door.
The silver green gray of olive groves hundreds of years old in the Pelopponese.
Iced coffee, glyco – sweet but not too sweet.
That’s a worthy list! I would love all of that. But I do love summer in general.
Summer is not currently my favorite season, but I have good memories of family vacations in the Adirondacks when I was a kid. Fishing, swimming, making s’mores by the fire. There was that time a bear came down from the woods to check out our picnic!
I recently drove through the Adirondacks state park, and some of the old cabins look exactly the same. I can’t BELIEVE my parents and aunts and uncles put up with roughing it for a week, but us kids had fun.
I was thinking recently about a cabin by a lake in the Shenandoah area of VA that my mom & her brother used to rent and bring all the kids…it was a lot of roughing it but probably worth it to have all the kids occupied and out out of their hair! Of course things were different then, but the kids basically ran wild all day and fell into bed comatose at night.
I’m late posting on Sunday night but we’ll be carrying on the conversation Monday, so I wanted to report that my SOTD was Hermes Osmanthus Yunan. It seemed light and refreshing for our hot and steamy weather.
And there’s good news: My mom was discharged and went home today to her place! It was a long day with the usually hospital delays compounded by it being a Sunday, and I was so very happy and relieved when we got her back (by ambulance) to her unit. The staff people there were visibly overjoyed to see her back–I guess they hadn’t had any updates since Wednesday and were fearing the worst. It was most gratifying. And we also had a truly special nurse today, a young guy named Jay from the Phillipines, who absolutely went above and beyond in his care. He was persistent, humorous, careful, and quite personable, and even called me after awhile to make sure Mom got into her place safely. I’m going to recommend him for a staff award. It was a relief after going there day after day and not having enough communication, to my mind.
I’m so glad to hear she’s back at home…or at least her current home now. And that nurse is definitely worth recognition!
That’s great news, Calypso! And a nurse like that is a treasure.
Glad to hear this, Calypso!
What good news, Calypso! It sounds as if you have found your mother a wonderful place with an extremely caring staff. What a welcome! And Jay sounds like a treasure. Sending best wishes for a little rest and relaxation in the next few days.
Great news, calypso!
So glad for you and your mom.
So glad for you and your mom.
Oh, I am so happy she is home. I think this is great to recommend this young man for a staff award.
Glad your Mom is home now.
Very happy to hear that your Mom is home now, and that she has someone so capable and caring looking after her. Definitely worth a shout out.
Wearing Mythique from DelRae Parfums this morning, which is so gorgeous, soft, and spring-like. perfect for the transitory season in Los Angeles where spring still hovers, the hills are still green, flowers everywhere, mornings cool (our June gloom) and we haven’t yet descended into the cauldron of fire. I have a decant from the last swapmeet (thank you, NSTer!) and it’s so meditative, soft florals, green buds, loads of iris. I wish I had bought this entire line when it was still available. But I thought I had ‘moved beyond florals” into more edgy frags. Well, everything comes around eventually so here I am.
You smell lovely! I had to laugh at “cauldron of fire.” I’ve never been to LA, so have not experienced it. Here in the Northest, we descend into a cauldron of HHH – Hot, Humid, Hazy. I dread it. On the other hand, our spring has been lovely this year. It hasn’t been up to 90 yet – that’s next week.
Oh, you’ve given me the idea for my SOTD! Thanks! it’s definitely SUMMER! here but I can pretend it’s spring.
It’s such a shame that Parfum DelRae no longer exists. One of my greatest perfume regrets is never trying Wit.
Yay!
Chanel No 5 L’Eau. This scent reminds me of being in Paris when Hermes Galop and Chanel No 5 L’Eau were brand new in 2016 .
I was shopping at Galleries Lafayette and experiencing their wonderful beauty department and I got to try both of these fragrances then. The Hermes Galop tester strip was a ribbon with Hermes written on it and it looked like a horse race ribbon given to the winner. It was exciting for me 🙂
I ended up buying a bottle of Chanel No 5 L’Eau later on the same trip. It took me about a year to buy a bottle of Galop.
Love both of these. And, I ended up framing the Hermes tester strip!
I have No 5 L’Eau so I know you smell great. Have always wondered what Galop smelled like. Can you give me a description of it?
I am terrible about describing scent sometimes, but here goes -Roses & Smokey Leather. My friend who was there with me said he smelled tar in it also. It may sound horrible by my description, but it is a very pretty scent.
I can’t say the tar does, but the rest of it sounds very nice.
Kris: FWIW, I don’t recall smelling any tar in Galop. The roses and leather sound on target. I think I also smelled some kind of stone fruit, like plums?
Thanks.
Today I’m in Roja Dove Unspoken, which I bought on my first trip to London, long ago. This was way back when the only place he had his line was the fancy boutique on the top floor of Harrods, and simple bottles. This was my perfume pilgrimage on that trip.
I don’t know what this fragrance is called now. I think he changed the name; maybe he discontinued it. At any rate, it’s a vintage-style classic chypre and I love it!
Can’t wait to go back to London! I’ve only been there one other time. Actually, I would love to go anywhere in the UK, and I’ve been dreaming of a ramble somewhere since allo mentioned it yesterday.
I also visited that fancy boutique on a trip, I think back in 2010 or so, and very much enjoyed it. I did try some of those Roja Doves but don’t remember which. You’re lucky still to have that! I remember looking for the boutique when I got off the elevator and instead first found a very fancy little pet shop on the same floor. Who knew? I remember seeing a King Charles Cavalier Spaniel there, and thinking, well, that’s exactly what one might expect at Harrod’s, right?
Too funny! I think I had read about it somewhere, but I still had to ask an SA on the first floor for directions. I don’t know if he was there for very long.
Do you remember the collection (his own) of vintage bottles he had there? Lots of eye candy, for sure.
Yes! My eyes were bugging out of my head!
Heading to work in a few minutes while wearing Eau Premiere. Just have to remember to take the 2 candles I picked up at BBW for my boss.
Feeling like Carmen Miranda today in CSP Vanille Banane… may bust out into song at any moment! Copious sprays, and just now thinking that this and Coco Figue would layer together spectacularly. I’ll have to try it sometime.
Exciting day today! I’m off work and headed an hour away to the nearest grocery store. 😆 My definition of “exciting” has definitely changed over the years, for sure! I even applied some make-up so as not to frighten the locals. Happy Monday you all ✌🏼
Enjoy your shopping trip!
Enjoy your day off!
Hope you had a good day. It’s amazing how an outing can change, depending on circumstances. Grocery shopping is a fun day out for me now; makeup would be the bonus!
CSP Vanille Banane is such a fun scent! You smell great 👍!
Whoo hoo, day off and shopping expedition!
I’m currently on holiday in France, in the southern part of Burgundy, very close to Tournus.
I’ve been doing quite a bit of light hiking and so far I’ve smelled some roses, elderflowers, honeysuckle, wet earth (prior to my arrival there had been lots of rain) and linden trees. My most memorable scent memory is the smell of linden trees on the Place Bellecour in Lyon. Cities tend not to smell too great in my opinion (unless you like the smell of car exhaust fumes) but as I was walking to a tea shop I passed this large square and was very pleasantly surprised by smelling linden trees in full bloom.
I don’t have particularly strong smell associations with this part of France (unlike Provence, where I just smell the garrigue when thinking of it). Maybe it will be Spirituelle, as I bought it on this trip. Last years purchase of L’Esprit Libre was also made in June, although in a different region altogether, but wearing that fragrance I’m instantly taken back to that day in Dinard.
No scent just yet, I’m going sniffing later on, and hoping that the Zara boutique has testers. I might stop by Celine and Chanel as well, though I’m not dressed up. But as my father used to say, my money’s green!
Would love to hear if you test some from Zara.
No, the expedition was a bust as far as perfume was concerned. No testers. But I did buy a shirt at Uniqlo and some See’s candy.
Love See’s Candy. Well, at least you were able to buy a few things.
Super late posting. Had “Stuff” come up this weekend, which I will talk about in a bit.
Thinking about a favorite summer vacation: I had just graduated from college with a shiny new Batchelor of Science degree. So my Mom, my brother and I decided to drive from the Denver area to Las Vegas. My Mom and I were in one car, trading off driving, while my brother was in his truck. He was used to the trip and didn’t mind soloing. Also, he has a friend there he would visit after my Mom and I left. Hence the separate vehicles. We communicated using notepads in the windows, since this was way before cell phones. We kept each other in sight for the whole trip, which took around 8 hours, IIRC.
None of us were/are gamblers, but we managed to amuse ourselves anyway. Did get out to Lake Mead and the Hoover Dam, among other sights. 3 days was the perfect length of time to spend there before we all got itchy to leave.
If it had existed then, I would have scented that trip with Bruno Fazzolari/Fzotic Unsettled. The first time I smelled it, I immediately thought of the Strip in Las Vegas.
And now for the “Stuff”. I found out over the weekend that one of my favorite cousins was having surgery today to remove a cancerous kidney. Did a lot of crying about that.
I heard this afternoon that she came thru her procedure fine, and was staying in hospital for a few days.
SOTD = commando.
Sorry to hear about your cousin. Hope your week and your cousin improve.