Happy Mood Changer Friday! (Also, National Roller Coaster Day.) Our community project for today: wear a perfume that instantly changes your mood. Thanks to pixel for the idea!
What fragrance did you pick? As always, do chime in with your scent of the day even if you’re not participating in the community project.
Me, same old: I am on a road trip this week and will be behind in all the usual ways (posting will be light, I will be even slower than my usual slow to read comments and attend to emails). My fragrance, possibly for the whole week, is my DIY lotion with blood orange & ylang ylang. No points for me this week although my lotion does make me happy.
Reminder: on 8/23 we will have a community project! I just don't know what it is yet, sorry.
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 White Heron [cropped] by Artur Rydzewski at flickr; some rights reserved.
Thunder and rain rain rain here. I put on Seville au l’Aube, pretty but grounding.
Rain twins, and you are smelling wonderful today.
We had that last night!
Hello and tgif!
Sotd is 24 Faubourg edp. It is golden sunshine in a bottle. Makes me feel brighter, happier and glamorous (and expensive – who doesn’t want that?).
My best friend just messaged me saying her husband’s company’s annual department trip in October is cancelled and now she has a week to spare. We have decided to go on a bestie’s trip (her husband has to work). Destination is Bangkok because she heard me having so much fun last month and she really wants to go (I don’t mind going again also).
I wholeheartedly agree with your description of 24 Faubourg. as golden sunshine in a bottle!
I have never tried 24 Faubourg, but think I need too.
do try! It is sumptuous. 💖
😊
It’s one of my favourites, I also encourage you to try it 🙂 .
Then I must try one of your favorites.
Oh excellent, you get to go back!
Hermes Rhubarbe Ecarlate – such a happy scent!
Today is pleasantly warm, but another heatwave is expected tomorrow.
Yay for a happy scent!
My sotd is Serge Lutens Encens et Lavande, which I think of as calm in a bottle. I have some left in a decant that’s at least 18 years old. Why it hasn’t evaporated or turned is a mystery as I have lost other, newer decants to both. I tend to just sniff this as a relaxing potion but it smells so good on skin.
Happy Friday everyone! From my spot on my porch, I can see some leaves starting to turn colors or just getting that bleached look right before they start to change. I love fall but I’m not ready to let go of summer quite yet.
Oh no! I do not want the leaves to turn yet!
I’m not taking cp points, but I’m wearing Tauer Orange Star from a discovery set. I think the base notes are overpowering any freshness from the citrus top notes. Of course this is several years old and has likely deteriorated.
That one was not light anyway, if I remember correctly…which possibly I don’t.
Happy Friday!
Standby weekend,wish me luck!
SOTD!
Guerlain Iris Ganache,the original release.Soft vanilla iris,top notes this morning was kind of sweet and plastic that reminded me of L’Artisan’s Vanilia.Both so good and two joyous perfumes!Definitely mood-boosters!
XO’s
Here’s hoping everyone stays healthy this weekend.
🤞for an uneventful weekend!
Here’s to you, J B 🍀🤞🍀🤞!
🍀🍀🍀! C’mon, get lucky! No whammies!
CSP Amour de Cacao always puts me in a good mood, and in my experience anyone within sniffing distance. It smells like a pan of brownies and is so cheerful and unexpected that it’s one of my go-tos when I just don’t know what to wear. (Their Vanille Abricot is the other. It’s never the wrong choice.)
I assume they layer well together?
I’ve never tried them together! Vanille Abricot and Vanille Banane are what I almost always layer.
You really ought to give it a shot and report back 🙂
Another CSP fan here, wearing the fun and flighty Banane Vanille. Sometimes being 100% UN-serious is the ticket to win it!
🍌♥️🍌😁
Excellent choice, I could have worn that today if I was home.
I wore Élixir des Merveilles today.
But it wasn’t the fragrance that was a mood changer for me: I picked up an Hermès scarf for next to nothing!
As far as I can tell, it’s authentic (hand-rolled edges, Hermès logo, design name, artist’s signature), even though it’s missing its tag. I’ve compared it against scarves I already own as well as online pictures of the design, and it looks and feels like the real deal!
Oh, and I also picked up a vintage set of J’Adore de Dior Eau de Parfum (batch code: 4C01) for a song. I’m guessing it’s from 2004.
Wow, great find on the scarf!
Excellent finds – how fun!
Wow! That’s quite a find.
Wow, those are the kinds of finds I dream about, congratulations!
What a find! Congrats!
Great finds, enjoy.
Those serendipitous discoveries are so exciting!
I love when that happens….years ago, I got an Hermes scarf for a song, and it was the real thing! Makes me happy every time I wear it!
You hit the jackpot with that scarf! 🌈
I chose Azemour les Oranges for the CP. It never fails to transport me to a sunny orange grove.
Orange perfumes always lift my mood.
Perfect!!
That’s a popular one here.
In HdP 1804, which would be lifting my mood if I could actually smell it. (When I plaster my nose to my arm, I can do so.) Stupid COVID.
I love that one!
Are you currently sick with covid or is your impaired sense of smell the result of an older bout of covid?
I had it last week (first time). Smell and taste disappeared on Day 4. Now I have a sinus infection, though am heaps better than I was last week!
Glad to hear you’re on the mend although it sounds like it will take you a while before you can smell properly again. Here is to a complete olfactory recovery!
Wishing you ‘better and better’ each week and🤞soon you will be able to enjoy your fragrances again!
If you can smell it close up, that’s a great sign.
Ugh, sinus infections are horrible. Hope you shake it off quickly!
Hello everyone!
Another sleepy morning, but I put on one of my favorite perk-up scents for the poll: Epice Marine. There’s someone about the woosh of spices in the top notes that makes me giddy.
Have a great weekend everyone!
Happy Weekend!
I loved the story of the creation of that fragrance.
I think it has been discontinued as have a lot of other Hermessences.
Hope you have a great weekend!
I am pretty much wearing eau de camping and ocean air (which, yes, makes me very happy). We are packing the tent today from our 4th camping trip so far this summer: Kalaloch, on the west coast of the Olympic Peninsula. Spectacular setting, happy families, decent campsites, crappy (pun intended) bathrooms. But it was wonderful. I also scattered my parents’ ashes where they had requested (and per Olympic National Park guidelines) while hiking yesterday. A bittersweet trip.
Camping trip sounds fantastic. And bittersweet indeed re your parents’ ashes, though good on you for getting that accomplished.
A friend’s dad died during the pandemic (of old age, not covid) and my friend feels guilty that they haven’t done anything with the ashes yet. Too many family members to corral, and deciding on a time & place.
For sure – we waited quite a while too — waited for my sis to come with and finally she said just do it. I took lots of pics for her.
You smell like my idea of heaven. 🌊🌲 I love camping near the ocean.
Thank you for mentioning Kalaloch. I’ve never camped in Washington and would like to try. Was it difficult to get a campsite during summer?
Yes, it was difficult but not impossible. We had to keep trying. Another nice campground on the water is Salt Creek Campground on the north side of the Peninsula near Port Angeles. A little easier to get a site there and you can hear the waves there, too.
super! Thank you for sharing. 🙏
I have done a lot of beach camping in California, but it has become almost impossible to get a reservation within the state parks system. Too many campers, not enough sites.
My dad and his sweet wife recently moved to Washington state. I’ve never been there so it would be fun to explore together. 🏕️
Oh, I envy you your Eau de Camping scent and the ocean air! Never been up there but it’s on my list. This is the first summer in many years we’ve not camped but I’m hoping for some good fall camping in September/October.
Hope you get to go!
I’m glad that you were able to get a spot at one of your favorite campgrounds. It’s sounds so summery☀️
And though it was bittersweet, it also sounds like it felt like the right time and a very meaningful place to spread your parents’ ashes💕
Thank you—it was a very good trip. ❤️
Wow. That would be a bittersweet occasion. Hugs.
Sounds like the beauty of your surroundings is a counter to that.
Thanks – yes, so much beauty and so much life cycle all around us.
Wearing Une Rose de Kandahar today. Forgot how good it is, eventually I will get a bottle.
Une Rose is so pretty.🌹If I’m ever in a perfume buying mood again someday, I will have a hard time resisting a mini bottle. 💕
It is popular for sure as it keeps going in and out of stock quite frequently.
Yep, you smell great.
SOTD and meets the CP is Shalimar MI as it always is a mood shifter for me. I’m sure this is not big surprise to any of you.😂
It makes me happy that MI makes you happy!😊
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Back in your favorite today!
I know. Same story, different day.
Amouage Beloved, the most comforting of the Amouages I’m familiar with.
Which ones are you familiar with? I would like to know which ones you like.
`Gold Woman, Gold Man, Dia Woman, Ubar, Jubilation XXV and 25, Myths Woman.
The Opuses, although I only remember III. Fate Woman, Memoir Woman, Epic and Lyric Woman, Honour and Journey (can’t remember which is which, I remember I absolutely loathed one of those), Bracken and Ciel. And I think I tried Tuberose and Mimosa at some point but don’t remember them.
I own Gold W, Dia W, Jub. 25, Ubar, Myts W and Beloved.
Beloved is fabulous, it’s not mentioned as often as many others from Amouage.
I happen to love it. And it’s so comfortable to wear. Not as spectacular as some of the others, but who cares, it’s just lovely.
Hi! We are in Corsica and guess what I found here? Corsica Furiosa! I got a sample from the lovely lady from the shop. It seems that the perfumer is from here. In love with the perfume. This island smells sooo good.
Also, I bought a discovery set form a perfumer called Sylvaine Delacourte (worked for Guerlain, according to the sales lady ). She has 5 different perfumes for a collection called Fleur Doranger. Really nice!
How wonderful to spend August days on an island. 😍
I tried the vanilla Sylvaine Delacourt samples, they were all very good! I hope you like the scents you are sampling.
Interesting that the perfumer was connected to Guerlain, I adore so many of their fragrances.
I met one of her best friends who has a small boutique in North Carolina. She carries just one of her scents-Vahina. I always stop in when I visit my grandkids. Wish she would carry more of her fragrances.
Oops. I meant that for Gabriela.
Love her perfumes, and met her years ago when she was working at Guerlain.
Ohhh, how lucky!
Sounds wonderful!
sotd = l’Artisan l’Eau du Caporal
Instant mood lifter, it smell like Irish Spring soap. Reminds me of my grandparents home. They always had unwrapped bars of Irish Spring and Lava soaps in their linen cupboard so towels and sheets smelled wonderful.
Scent of Thursday was 4711 eau de Cologne. It’s a little hot here. 😥💦
Yesterday I got twitterpated over the new Hermes pillar perfume and forgot to post!
That heron photo up top today is gorgeous. Hope your vacation day is beautiful, Robin, and that NSTers everywhere are enjoying happy-scent moments.
I had to look up twitterpated!
Thank you, am having a lovely week. Sleeping late every day, and got another paddle in this afternoon 🙂
I have a less positive childhood memory of Lava soap than you do.
I got the seat upgrade on my flight yesterday so enjoyed more leg room. Today I am CP compliant in Acqua Viva. The lemon burst always cheers me up.
Glad you got your upgrade! I have to wear my Acqua Viva!
It was the Luck of Daniel, I know it! Congrats on a comfortable flight. ✈️
Flying again on Monday.🥹
We’ll see if my luck holds out!
Hurray for the seat upgrade!
Nice! Upgrades don’t happen nearly as often as they used to.
Here’s to more leg room!
Fresh strawberries, they are all amazing at the moment, the UK is a big producer, almost no travel and cheap. For a second day in a row Zara Jour ensoleillé, one of my only 2 or 3 coconut fragrances and tonight for the CP Avon Casbah, so sandalwoody and old enough that it is likely Mysore, it used to be so affordable like all vintage Avons but these days not so much.
I thought I just read that Avon declared bankruptcy recently?
Yes, I believe they face lawsuits.
I just looked up Casbah. Avon has gone up in price!
Yes, some discontinued scents are also less affordable, like Timeless.
You smell wonderful! In my dozen years down the rabbit hole, I have wondered why the older Avons were always *dirt* cheap on Ebay. I am not surprised to hear that people have caught on. Imperial Garden, Persian Wood or Imari are not to be missed IMHO!
I always think of you when I wear vintage Avons, no longer cheap indeed here in the UK either.
Yay for fresh, in-season strawberries! They are so delish! 🍓
Summer fruits are such a treat.
Inspired by Austenfan’s mention of Beloved, I’ll spray on some Jubilation 25 after my shower. It’s guaranteed to make me feel good but, even better, I’m talking to a travel agent this morning about a trip to Europe next year. There’s a lot of thinking and planning to go, but this is the first tangible step.
Where will you go in Europe?
Glad to have inspired you to wear Jub. 25, I might wear that myself tomorrow. Have you ever tried L’Ame Perdue by Galion? They are slightly similar.
SOTD = Lush Confetti
It’s a party and that makes me happy!
https://www.instagram.com/p/C-vkSj6RWPi/?igsh=a3gza3VjcHAwYXNu
I usually go to a Korean grocery after my Whole Foods visits (usually Tuesdays for the soup and Fridays for the sushi); it is on the way home… Anyway, I saw this cute thermoflask and I thought why not for caturday?
https://www.instagram.com/p/C-vlDE2x8Me/?igsh=NHl4cnJneWhpNHdx
OMG I need that thermos thingie.
Cute thermos, I’ll bet it’s popular.
For today’s cp, I knew I would choose a lavender scent, as that note always calms me and promotes tranquility. I chose L’Occitane’s Terre de Lumiere, a beautiful blend of lavender softened with a comforting honey note on a base of tonka and almond. Its name means ‘land of light’ and it’s meant to celebrate that short moment just before dusk as the sun falls, the sky fills with golden and purple light, and the air is filled with fragrant Provençal scents.
It also holds special significance as a reminder of the first glimpse I had of the Mediterranean Sea from our hotel room in Nice, France at that same ‘golden hour’ reflected in this scent. A surreal moment, I was completely mesmerized by the many different shades of blue and green deepening to purple I saw in the gentle waves, and then all of a sudden as the light grew dimmer the colors just stopped, just went away, and the Sea was just one dark color. It happened so quickly but I will never forget those precious moments! And they always calm me upon remembrance.
Hoping to get to our last community park concert tonight – a big band one – but the weather is calling for storms so we’ll see🤞. Otherwise a quiet weekend ahead, hope to spend some time doing some much-needed tidying up after several weeks of neglect due to hot, sticky weather, storms, and just general running around! Wishing everyone a calm and pleasant weekend ahead😌
For the CP win: Champs Elysees edt. A love at first sniff for this Guerlain fangirl, CE is to me fun, elegant and has a great scent bubble. All these qualities make it a mood-lifter. I also wear the edp, but must admit the edt is my favorite. Wonderful rainy morning here, a long, much-needed and gentle rain with some nice thunder and lightning, but no scary winds.
Are you waiting for the new LE Shalimar coming out this fall?
And how! 😀
CE is not the most popular Guerlain but I have a soft spot for it too, you smell great.
More deep blue skies again today, along with temps in the low 90s. Pretty nice!
Last night, however, was completely different. Had an impressive batch of thunderstorms roll on thru between 11:30 and midnight. The thunder was loud enough that Teflon kitty refused to come out of my bedroom closet until it was over. And it shook my brother’s house enough to set off one of his smoke detectors! Hopefully tonight is not a repeat.
SOTD = still hanging out in Lime, Gardenia & Benzoin. It makes me feel composed and put together, even if I might be sleep deprived and a little derpy.
So glad you are enjoying your perfume!
Now go to bed🤣
Thanks to you, I am!
I am aiming to stay up to my regular bedtime so I don’t throw off my sleep/wake schedule. It doesn’t take much to mess it up anymore. 🥱😴😒
Poor Teflon Kitty! I hope it’s a calm night for you.
I was a little surprised, since Teflon experienced Superstorm Sandy as a kitten and it didn’t faze her at all.
Nothing exciting predicted for weather here tonight, thank goodness!
Poor Teflon, hope you had a restful night.
I’m working tonight in a back to school shopping hell.
Good thing I am wearing Coco to make me feel better.
Also expecting storms right as I will be heading home. I hope It’s not too bad.
Fingers crossed you have a boring drive home! 🤞🤞
Forgot to post this earlier: RIP Greg Kihn. If you were an 80s kid, you remember his songs well.
Yes and also Jack Russell of Great White. Sad for both.
Late to the party today!
SOTD and CP is Chinatown. I start smiling just getting the bottle out.
I feel young and free and my sister and I have nothing to do but enjoy the streets of NYC.
Enjoy that sister-time! Just had a wonderful week of it myself, with her adorable grandson in the bargain!
Have a wonderful time apsara!
You smell wonderful!
Hi Apsara! Glad you’re having so much fun in NYC!
Have been wearing Aether Arts Mayan Chocolate this week–it’s always interesting and seems to make me alert and centered so it was good for finals week.
Late posting in Antonia’s Flowers Sogni del Mare. Now this in Aquatic fragrance I can get behind. And it does wonders for my mood.