It's Tuesday and World Snake Day. Birthdays: Ida B. Wells, Ginger Rogers, Cal Tjader, Anita Brookner, Will Ferrell. What fragrance are you wearing?
I'm running late in my DIY scented lotion (Carina Organics unscented lotion + blood orange & ylang ylang essential oils). Tea at the moment is Upton Yunnan Golden Buds organic.
Reminder: 7/19 will be Mint Friday...wear a fragrance with a mint note. Extra points if mint is in the name!
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: top image is real mint tea [cropped, rotated and contrast adjusted] by Ali Edwards at flickr; some rights reserved.
Updated info on Jo Malone Hinoki & Cedarwood
https://nstperfume.com/2024/07/12/jo-malone-hinoki-cedarwood-new-fragrance/
Hello.
Sotd is LV Myriad. I love it and am happy to find out that it is wearable even during Summer.
Woo Snake Day! I was born in the year of the Snake! Dunno how I can celebrate though. Maybe a packet of gummy wor…I mean, snakes?
I am going to celebrate vicariously 🙂
Cartier La Panthere Eau Legere thanks to a generous NSTer whom gave me a decant of this awhile back.
It’s hotter than the hinges in hell in NYC today. Stay cool
I am off to the library… I am hoping to not smell like the armpit of a man who has been on a back of a camel for days without a shower when I show up to NYPL.
😂😂😂 That imagery is too good!
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i was going to ask whether you’d put on Muscs Koublaï Khan(!), but no, it would be due to the trip…
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LLOL 😂
I almost had quite the spit take when I read your camel comment.
This is my fear sweating on the platform while I wait for the subway. 🚇
I’m wearing 4711 AC Lychee & White Mint today.
Extra points!
Cologne Indelible body milk and fragrance, on a hot day with loads of training. The office air is quite fresh tho-for which I give thanks 🙂
Never tried the body milk, but I love the Cologne! You smell amazing.
I’m wearing Shalimar body creme right out of the fridge again today. My container is getting fairly low but at todays “discounted” prices, I don’t think I’ll be repurchasing. So dry here that I think I’m flaking away, skin cell by skin cell…
On a non-perfume note, I got a bunch of packages from the post office yesterday including my Korean skincare/makeup haul. I’ve stocked up on many CosRx things because they are less than half price compared to Ulta. Stoked to try everything!
Has anyone tried the TirTir red cushion? I’m interested in your thoughts if you have because I’m a base junkie…
Also got a letter from the IRS stating I over-paid for my 2022 taxes and a refund would be mailed forthwith. The check was also in my forwarded mail and IMAGINE my excitement! Yep, it was a check all right! For exactly one dollar and forty-six cents! I may be able to buy half a gum ball if I can finagle a deal! 🤣
Happy Tuesday!
I once got a pay adjustment check for .01. Plus, they mailed it so they had to pay postage to send it. I never cashed it, I framed it and put it on my office wall. I imagined the bean counters trying to balance the account for a long time…
Ha! How crazy is that! 0.01!?! Nuts! I love the idea of framing it! 😀
I once received a statement for a credit card that I had paid off showing the payment and the remaining balance of $0.00. All good, right? A month later I got a statement with a stern warning that I had an overdue balance of $0.00 and that I needed to pay it immediately! I figured that the balance probably had a fraction of a cent remainder and somehow the system was not configured properly to round it down.
I decided to play along with them and sent off a check for $0.00. I did not get any further overdue notices.
Oh, how *naughty* of you, 50 R! LOL.
Hey, whatever works, right? I love it!
That is funny!
Had to look up TirTir – that does sound good. I seek moisturizing, high spf, primers/foundations.
I love Shalimar cream
I’m expecting my order of Korean skincare items to arrive today–got a notice that they are out for delivery. We can compare notes!
Yes, let’s compare! I really got into skin care in a serious way during the pandemic and still find it so soothing and calming. I hope you like what you purchased! So many good deals and the quality so far is fantastic!
LOL at the refund story!
What Korean skincare products do you and Calypso use?
Not sure about calypso but I bought a bunch of CosRx skincare and some Korean sunscreens because they have a very high SPF with added skincare. Some are chemical sunscreens, which I tend to stay away from because I get very painful breakouts. But, I’ve heard Korean sunscreens are light years ahead of American ones in performance and non-irritating/non-comedogenic, even the chemical ones. Also bought some peptide and retinol products…and some make-up. Trying to find products that do double or triple duty so I can lighten the load in my carry on this fall.
Thanks. I thought maybe there was something special with a certain brand. I guess I have never heard of Korean skin products. I guess I have used Clinique too long. 😊 Not up on all the products out there.
I’m wearing HG Arbole, Arbole again. Yesterday was not a fluke, I really like it, and so I will put it and Tryst on the “To Buy” list when Indigo next has a sale.
Yay, a winner!
After enjoying the invigorating citrus of “Artisan Pure” (John Varvatos) on Friday, I’m breaking out my bottle of “Dark Rebel Rider.” And you know what? It’s pretty darn good, too. Leather, smoke, gasoline, bitter orange – hints of Guilty Absolute Pour Homme, Ambre Sultan, and Musc Ravageur. It has a lot of big things going on, yet somehow it’s quiet. I don’t want to oversell it; it’s not a masterpiece. But for a mainstream “masculine,” it’s really solid.
Happy Tuesday, all!
I liked Dark Rebel Rider when I tested it, too.
Dark Rebel Rider is what I hoped Bvlgari Black would be.
I have one, possibly two minty perfumes, so will can play along on Friday. In the meantime, wearing Dusita’s Douceur de Siam, which will soon softly drift away.
I love that fragrance and have worn it quite a few times this summer. I know that and Splendiris are not long lasting, but I still love them.
Hello all!
Robin, I didn’t get to comment over the weekend, but I didn’t quite finish I Love Dollars either. I really enjoyed the title story but it was nuts and probably deserved a better warning. I laughed out loud several times.
Sweating it up in Houston today, wearing Givenchy’s Insense, a straw-colored fougere with a slightly floral heart. Better than most fougere s.
Have a great day all!
It was really nuts! I enjoyed reading it.
Humiecki & Graef Eau Radieuse:
Green banana
Fresh mandarin peel
Fresh lemon
Italian fresh mint leaves
Rhubarb juice
Bamboo sape accord
I think this is my most cooling perfume, and I am wearing it on (probably) the hottest day of the year. Or maybe tomorrow is going to be the hottest day? Anyway, the temperatures are expected to go down on Thursday. Can’t wait.
We made it to 96. Don’t know what the heat index was but it felt hotter than that. I might not leave the house tomorrow except to run to the pool.
Same – I saw 36C (almost 97F) today on the thermometer. Yikes.
Kora still came to snuggle with me – it makes it hotter, but she is so sweet that I can’t say no.
I saw the temps in your area on the news earlier today. Crazy hot!
I saw the temperature maps of Europe – Ukraine and (if I remember correctly) Romania have the highest temperatures now. It’s crazy – apparently it has not been so hot here since the 1950s.
I am wearing Voskanian Histoire d’une Rose, this has mint I think, it’s a minty rose.
It’s still humid, I am happy I am inside at the office with AC.
I forgot to tell a very nice perfume story. Last week a patient of the clinic I work for brought me two big size perfumes. Whenever she comes in, she smells great so I complimented her a couple of times, she said she is in perfume business and that she will bring me some bottles. Btw, the one she wears is Narciso Ambrée, smells amazing on her.
What a lovely perfume story!
Nice.
Note twins, and that is a lovely story. 🙂
That’s an awesome patient!
It’s nasty cold and I had to put my jumper on in bed last night to warm up so I’m tricking my brain with Eau Moheli, for a bit of tropical pleasure. My friend is “ popping over” to Rarotonga next week and I’m feeling quite envious. The Pacific islands are only three hours away from NZ and so tempting at this time of year.
I am hope your cold goes by fast
Hello,
Enjoying some a/c after being in the heat for a little bit. Chanel Paris-Riviera. Hope everyone has a lovely day 🌹
A/C is a wondrous thing!
I enjoyed the sample of Paris-Riviera I had. Didn’t get around to getting more, tho.
Like AnnieA, I think I’ll save my favorite mint for Friday, though a Fragrantica note search might remind me of something else in the hoard. Yesterday and today I’m in rose garden-mode. Monday was Idole, from a sample and yes, we have a “thunk.” I did not groove to all that pear and candy-sweet stuff going on. But this morning, the rose had mellowed to the kind of musky rose I enjoy. I spritzed on some Rose Barbare for today. Much better opening, a boozy-rose. I don’t remember what happens in the dry of RB, but I don’t think of it as a Guerlain love.
I have not yet rummaged around to see what mint I have other than Saint Julep, Herba Fresca, Mandragore. I must have others.
Frozen mango and yogurt smoothie
Pretending it’s warm instead of 19C I chose Miller Harris Tea Tonique which is meant to be worn in the heat. Tonight it’s Molton Brown Muddled Plum which suits the weather better.
Ha, and I am pretending it’s cold 🙂
😀 Trying to send this weather your way.
Here’s some sun🌞
Thank you Lillyjo, it’s supposed to warm up.
Trying to push some warmth your way. It just has to get across the Atlantic.
Thank you Jalapeno, it will warm up later this week.
SOTD is Shalimar MI. I don’t know why I even mention it as I wear it so often. I should have just skipped posting today. Oh, well. Carry on 😊
You should always post about Shalimar 😉
I for one like hearing when a NSTer is loving something so much that it is in daily or near-daily rotation
Me too.
Glad you don’t mind.
I always read Shalimar MI as Shalimar Michigan. Lol.
I love that you post regardless of scent!
LOL.
Glad you don’t mind my repetitive posts.
Hey, I post when I am having a perfume monogamous streak. I wouldn’t mind company! 🤣😉
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I’m wearing a sample of Fragonard’s Seducteur. It has been sitting on my desk and I am trying to tidy up. It was easier to use it up than to find a home for it (it was one of those scent towelettes that Fragonard uses for samples – too big for my usual sample storage). It is quite nice. Citrus opening following by a lovely nutmeg heart. Simple but well done. Probably better suited for cool, rainy day in spring or fall, but not too heavy for today’s heat.
Mr. Vee tore out a Bleu de Chanel perfume insert from one of his magazines last night and handed it to me saying “you can put this in your locker and stare dreamily at Timothee Chalamet between Math Class and Band Practice” 😂 Meanwhile, if I still had a locker at my gym I probably WOULD stick it on the back of the door as a locker “home” scent (and for TC)!
Tea today is chocolate supreme from the Philly Nut Head. Yummy.
Citrus and nutmeg sounds awfully nice to me!
Me too!
Got a laugh from Mr. Vee’s escapade!
SOTD = Chris Rusak Ochre
I haven’t worn this in a while and today, I smelled iris! Maybe additional maceration reveals some previously undetected notes. Anyway, love for sure and why don’t I wear this more often? 😍😍😍
https://www.instagram.com/p/C9f2hS-R5LH/?igsh=azEzOW42amd2bDh1
It is seriously too HOT, too HUMID outside right now and I.just.can’t.
For World Snake Day, I ‘lol just look at one of my perfume bottles and call it a day.
Stay cool!
Yesterday was my hottest day with the cool down starting today. Hopefully it is heading your way.
Hope that you will get a break from that weather soon!
I’m back from Santa Fe and a very good trip there, with friends, good conversations and presentations, bits of cool weather (mainly in the mornings), scenery, shopping, and interesting art museums. I didn’t find any perfumes there (didn’t really look) but bought some palo Santo incense sticks I haven’t tried yet.
Today I’m back to the heat and humidity of Houston but the HVAC company has promised to come first thing tomorrow and work on replacing my air conditioners. It will make such an improvement!
My SOTD is Delina. I don’t think it has mint at all but it’s just so pretty, I felt like wearing it.
Huzzah for replacement A/C units! Hope it doesn’t take long.
So glad it was a good trip! And good luck tomorrow.
Yesterday I ordered myself some snow boots and they have already arrived! I bought a pair from last season on clearance plus I had a coupon. They were originally $120.00 and I paid $37.00! It’s worth shopping off season.
The heatwave and rain have ended but it’s still quite cloudy. I am wearing Angel Muse.
High five on the boots! And you sure do smell really nice!
Thank you! It makes me think of you😊
Excellent bargain you got!
Oh I also got free shipping!
Even better!
Where are you finding these deals?
There is nothing more satisfying than a good deal! I feel the same way about my Korean skincare and makeup haul- so much for so little. These days, it’s a rare thing. I hope those snow boots keep your little piggies warm and toasty this winter! ❄️
Got Robin-approved temperatures here today! I think the high was 87 or so. But very unsettled skies and plenty of lightning alerts on my cell phone. More of the same is in store for tomorrow.
Had a Jury Duty notice in the mail this afternoon. For New Jersey! Not happening, I think.
SOTD = Baby Phat Golden Goddess EdP. It’s a bit sweet for me this time. Maybe I need to wait for even cooler weather now for it.
I’m supposed to get alerts on my phone but it only works about half the time.
Some of my weather apps are set to “Silent Update” because they were annoying me with Too Much Information.
But my phone will scream if there is a Tornado Warning in effect.
We had huge storms tonight, thunder & hail & all!
Got a massage on Sun that involved hot towels, ashiatsu, massage with something mentholated, Thai massage stretches and maybe even some stones so I inadvertently complied with the project. Today I’m deliberately project compliant in Vine Street from Soivohle.
Will be in NY this weekend and will hopefully get some sniffing in. I’ve got a seminar on Sat and Sun but maybe I can go sniffing after I land on Fri or before I depart on Mon
I wore La Chasse u Papillon Wednesday. Lovely stuff. Might wear it again Wednesday.