It's Tuesday, plus National Lemonade Day and World Mosquito Day. What fragrance are you wearing?
I arrived home last night after a week of vacation, and now I'm looking at a day of laundry, chores and errands, wearing Guerlain Vetiver. Tea at the moment is Tali's Masala Chai from Art of Tea.
Reminder: 8/23 will be Cypress Friday...wear a fragrance with a cypress note.
And for those of you who like to plan ahead, see Scent of the day ~ Friday community projects 2024, where I'll try (but usually fail) to have the next five or six weeks mapped out in advance.
Note: the Louis Vuitton LV By The Pool teapot ("...creative reinterpretation of one of Louis Vuitton’s most iconic signatures. Finely rendered in blue on extra-white Limoges porcelain, its mosaic-like pattern of Monogram Flowers is styled after a motif from the House’s ready-to-wear Resort collection") is $645.
National Lemonade Day! I am actually drinking lemonade right now (to keep kidney stones at bay: I was instructed to drink half a cup of lemon juice a day, which I turn into 2 litres of lemonade, which has my dental hygienist in a state of despair — she wanted me to drink the whole half cup in one go and then brush my teeth, which not a chance — but as I told her, I can get dentures, but I cannot go through that again). I sure wish I still had some Fendi Life Essence, which always reminded me of a frosty glass of lemonade. But instead I’m wearing SL Fumerie Turque, because….
After all these years I finally got some decanting supplies! First thing I did was make multiple vials of the two SL bell jars I got in Paris almost 15 years ago but hardly ever opened because I was afraid of contaminating them. They’re still in perfect shape, no evaporation or decomposition at all, and now that I have my own decants, I don’t need to worry about them any more. I sort of went nuts and made decants of every single thing I have that’s in a pour bottle, and some in spray bottles just to have them handy, especially when we travel next. I didn’t even know until recently that you could buy decanting spray caps with long nozzles, so you can pop the sprayer cap off a bottle, attach one of these, stick the nozzle into the vial, and fill it with no mess at all. A game-changer!
That does sound like a useful and clever invention. Good for you!
I have never had one of those decanting things either…
Hello.
Sotd is Florabloom Forte. Gentle tuberose with a touch of coconut.
Went to TWG to pick up some tea leaves – T6175 Macaron Noir to be exact. There was a Macaron Noir candle by the cashier and it smelled delicious so I knew I had to order the tea. I also picked up 2 500g golden tea caddies to store my leaves / as kitchen decoration. They also have 1kg size caddies which I have no use for but verrrrry tempted to get because it’s pretty.
Oh, now I want that candle!
Robin, hope your week away was relaxing and rejuvenating!
We had some pretty rough storms yesterday and this morning-wowza! Just gorgeous cool air, no smoke, views go on forever! Just lovely. Still, expecting it to heat up around 10-11am and then the A/C is going back on.
I’m alone in the office today so I’m wearing Salomé from Papillon Perfumes. She’s a big girl and needs room to roam into every corner of the place. My doggo loves this one! For unimaginable reasons some people don’t really care for it…crazy, right? 🙃
Since it Teapot Tuesday, for the tea enthusiasts here I thought I’d share this little video of an artisan making a teapot, old school style.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C97-_m_PjTG/?igsh=MTJkcTR1OGt4MjVoMw==
It was, thanks! Saw the Berkshires for the first time in my life, and spent some time in other parts of New England. Seriously tempted to move north, I am done with the heat here.
Dusan, many thanks for that link, that was amazingly relaxing to watch and I will feature one of his teapots on a Tuesday.
Robin, I was just in the Berkshires (Williamstown) this week visiting my mom and sisters. It’s where I grew up, and if I ever leave Los Angeles, returning home to Berkshires would be my top choice. I’m fine with the heat and humidity of New England; it’s the cold that I don’t miss. Alas, my blood has thinned since moving west.
I hear you, I hate winter and loved the weather in San Diego during the time I lived there. I want to be on the East Coast now, near family, but the heat in SE Pennsylvania is becoming unbearable.
I did not get to see Williamstown…was staying in Stockbridge and also saw Lenox, Lee and Great Barrington (all briefly).
I grew up in New York and the line from James Taylor Sweet Baby James always runs through my head…
Though the Berkshires seemed dreamlike on account of that frosting, with ten miles behind me and ten thousand more to go…
That wistful, bittersweetness again.
Ah, love that, aspara
typo, I mean apsara. Like on the temples, right?
Like on the temples, yes.
Yep…I think it is impossible to be my age and not have that line running through your head as you enter the region 🙂
I’ve been to the Berkshires six times and each time it was more beautiful. I used to travel with the Newark Museum and concerts at Tanglewood were the main highlights!
It is a magical place, and I did not even see a proper concert. We did walk around and saw several practices, including part of an opera.
Glad that you got a break from the heat Deva!
Oh count me in as one of the crazies because I just can’t with Salome.
I cannot sit with it, either.
I’m in Eau de Rhubarbe Ecarlate from a mini that I purchased this year. I love the minis from Hermes. I’m going to have to check to see if I have any cypress scents.
I love them too 🙂
Love them too!
Me too, i love that they come with pouches. I carry always one in my purse.
Wow, there are a lot of cypress fragrances listed on Fragrantica. Hard to believe I only have a few! But today, it was 48F when I got up so I went with Montale Cafe Intense Ristretto. Lots of coffee, some rose and some notes I can’t identify.
Supposed to be back to the high 80s by the weekend so I’m not even ready for transitional scents yet. Don’t leave quite yet, summer!
I have Cafe Intense Ristretto as well but what I didn’t know when I blind bought it was that I am 120% anosmic to it… 😭 I keep trying it though because I am hopeful one day I will miraculously be able to smell it.
Mine was a blind buy too, after really liking Intense Cafe but not getting as much coffee as I wanted. I’m sorry you are anosmic to it, that’s frustrating.
48 degrees?!? Wow, that’s chilly!
The weather has been beautiful here and we’ve had the windows open. This morning it was freezing inside, like a meat locker. Drank my coffee wrapped in a blanket. It’s supposed to get hot again next week.
I am saving Kyoto for Friday’s CP. But I am currently in Eau Premiere today. Eau Premiere has become my work perfume so I can wear everything else on my days off. There are joys of working 3 days a week, I have 4 days were I can wear whatever I want.
Kyoto is perfect! One of these days I will get more.
According to a fragrantica search, I could do 10 days of scents featuring a cypress note without a repeat. But this morning the hand went straight to Au Delà Narcisse, and I’m loving it — so gorgeous.
Wait until you try Au Dela Narcisse in the winter! HIGHLY recommend!
Back from a week of vacation too, being hostess to an out-of-town friend. First day back at the office, in a spritz of Dia.
Dia is so beautiful and discreet, you smell elegant.
Acqua Viva – its lemon and cypress notes make it an excellent choice for both the CP and National Lemonade Day.
I am sure mosquitoes play a part in the global ecosystem. I am sure. But I am not celebrating their day!!
This year must be the year of “Glannys buys expensive home appliances”. The fridge died. The technician said that while it is possible to repair it (replace the compressor), there are other age-related issues, so we will have to spend more and more money on replacing different parts, which means it’s better to buy a new one if we can. The fridge is over 20 year old, so it makes sense, but why does it all have to happen within one year? Sigh. It is hot again, so we are trying to prevent food from going bad while we are waiting for a new fridge.
Well that’s stinko Glannys – to borrow a word from lillyjo.
You smell great, however!
Glannys — what apsara said. Sorry to hear this.
20 years is a pretty good run for a refrigerator. But that’s an expense you sure didn’t need right now! Sorry to hear about it.
Hope that none of your other appliances get any ideas about quitting.
Thanks, guys.
When the heat breaks, I start reaching for woodier scents . Today is Seville a l’Aube, orange blossom with heft!
Yesterday I got some retirement stuff sorted out for adorable hubby and myself. Trying to make this transition smooth and cheerful, rather than a stress fest.
Today, having located copies of each of our birth certificates, I am filling out the new passport forms. Tomorrow we will stuff up and got get new passport photos taken, and send off those applications! Then we can start narrowing down the first place we will go once they come to us. It’s good to have things to look forward to!
Love that teapot today! It fits into my mother-induced headspace of all teapots should be blue and white, while rejecting the toile adjacent decorations which can sometimes be too umm, toile-like, since I do not exactly live a cottage-core life… Hope everyone’s Tuesday meets or exceeds one’s positive expectations!
Spiff up, clean-up and look alert and prosperous, dress for the passport photo camera! Stupid spell-check. LOL. Looking rag-tag and desperate in a passport photo draws the wrong sort of attention!
I never really thought about it, but you’re right about looking respectable in passport photos. I look vaguely peeved in mine, which is how I generally feel anytime a camera is pointed at me. 😵💫
I usually have an epic case of RBF when I get my driver’s license picture taken.
LOL
Peeved is ok, I think, it suggests you have something more important to do! What you don’t want is a general air of down-and-out-ness. Which is why I need to give adorable hubby a haircut this afternoon.
Nary a cypress in my collection so I guess I will wear whatever trips my trigger. First up in Shalimar MI.
Sounds like you and I will be CP twins this week.
Oh, good. Then I won’t be the only one.
I’m wearing “3 Fleurs” from Parfum D’Empire for the first time. Golly, it’s so lovely. The three florals, (rose, jasmine, tuberose,) blend so beautifully together that it’s reminiscent of a classic abstract creation.
Had a lovely visit east, but my luck didn’t last: no row to myself on the flight home.😊
That scent sounds lovely. I am not familiar with it. Is this a new one from this house?
Basenotes and Fragrantica list it as a 2009 release, but I only heard about it a few months ago.
Yes, I looked it up later and noticed it had been around a while.
After a couple of days of biting cold wind from the south, snow flurries and rain I was out in the graveyard yesterday morning ( which is pretty shady and frosty first thing) and noticed one patch of sun on the wet grass which had attracted the attention of six rabbits, who were all just sitting and absorbing the heat. It had the look of a garden or art installation. Once they sensed me they all hopped away and hid under the cracked and broken concrete grave-slabs. The leaves on the chestnuts are beginning to open now but most of the trees are still without leaves. Another month or more for some. Wearing Marrakech Intense. Thanks for all the birthday wishes the other day.
That is interesting because rabbits here rarely move away from humans unless you get REALLY close. I have had to honk at rabbits in my driveway to get them out of my way.
I am wearing Guerlain Champs Elysees and drinking my second cup of gunpowder green tea.
I love gunpowder tea 🙂
Testing Tuesday!
I did a quick Johannesburg trip after work today,picked up my long awaited Iris Palladium(pretty good iris in the opening,not entirely thrilled with the ambroxan-vibes in the heart and drydown,but still happy to add it to the iris-stash!)
I tested Atelier des Ors Iris Fauve which was unimpressive.
Also tried the “viral” Kajal Lamar and Aican(mostly boring)
Tested two Penhaligons in the portraits collection again because the other day I tested one which had a beautiful coffee-tobacco note,but I could not detect it today,maybe my nose was overloaded by that time.
Also tested Vanille Supermassive,the new Amber extrait and something from BDK which was somewhat forgettable.
Always fun to try all the new shiny things,and a relieve when they are not lemmings!
SOTD was a mix of dregs from tuny sample vials of Sale Gosse,Pour un homme de Caron,B683 and Encelade.
It was a very fragrant day indeed!
XO’s✌🏻🌹
Oh,and retried the Malle Acne Studios….it’s growing on me!
It’s a maybe…🙈🙈🤣
Really JB? Say some more about this one.
It’s a very sparkly rose/violet with some peachy vibes kind of perfume!I like the powdery drydown,it somewhat reminds me of Bendelirious which is of course my favorite perfume of all time.
Have you tried Acne Studios yet?
That sounds more compelling than I expected.
I have not.
I have been underconsuming and not buying much of anything until I made the decision to to retire.
What would Donatella think?
I don’t even go to stores much anymore as I continue to downsize.
A few weeks ago, I did go to the Chanel counter for a new bottle of foundation and sprayed on Gabrielle for the first time, which I really liked. I also sampled Jo Malone Hinoki & Cedarwood. The scent didn’t last but what seemed like a few minutes.
Money saved for you on this fragrant expedition! 🤑
I am wearing something from Cartier? The print is soooo small.
I got my watch serviced last week and she gave me some samples when I picked it up all shiny, new cleaned. 41 years on my wrist and still going.
I sometimes have to pull out the magnifying glass to identify samples 🙂
Glad you got your watch fixed!
indeed, Robin. Every lipstick same color of something.
I have that same problem and what I do is put my phone photo function on highest magnification and take a photo and then enlarge the photo on my phone. Usually works if I’ve taken a clean photo.
It’s a cool morning here in Seattle and I’m wearing Ormonde Woman. I think it fits the cp theme even if it doesn’t specifically have cypress as a note. A reviewer on Fragrantica said she finds Woman to be a “continuation of a lineage of Blue Grass to Coriandre to Aliage to Ormonde Jayne Woman”, which I particularly liked as my mom’s signature was Blue Grass!
That’s perfect then…I like the idea of that continuum.
I used to wear Coriandre so maybe that’s one of the many reasons I love OJ so much.
😊
I’m wearing Goutal Heure Exquise. My low-key goal is to finish this bottle by year end. I oversprayed today, maybe 12?
It doesn’t appear that I have any cypress frags in my stash (I just perused Fragrantica and nothing familiar jumped out at me).
Smelling great in Heure Exquise!
I don’t have much with cypress according to Fragrantica, but I do have Kyoto, which I’ll save for Friday.
I’m wearing Chanel’s 1932 today. It’s lovely but unobtrusive, which seems appropriate for my medical appointment this morning.
Hope the appt went well Gaynor!
Fresh strawberries. It was Zara Jour ensoleillé, my one Zara, wore it not long ago because I plan to finish it in the fall. Tonight it’s Outremer Vanille, a simple but delicious vanilla.
Fresh raspberries for me at lunch today! But I do have some strawberries in the fridge too.
Twins one day apart, I had fresh raspberries yesterday evening.
Outremer Vanille is wonderful!
Isn’t it just, glad you love it too.
I have a few options for this week’s CP but today I’m not CP compliant in Fracas. A great empowering and uplifting scent.
The teapot in the picture is very pretty, but far too expensive.
Love Fracas!
I’m wearing Chanel Gardenia. I ran into Target for a minute and it was full of college students buying stuff for their dorm rooms. I’ve never seen so much ramen at Target before either, pallets of the stuff!
Ha, brings back memories!!
I’m wearing Chanel Sycomore and glad my college days of eating packaged Ramen are over!😬
You smell wonderful and agree re the ramen! (Although I actually make it for lunch now and then with lots of fun additions.)
Okay, now you’re making me want to make ramen😋
I had an instant ramen-heavy semester in college, too. Couldn’t look at it for a while after that… 🤢
I went thru a semester of PBJ three times a day using eating a gallon of coop peanut butter on 50 cents a loaf day old bread. Splurged on jam. Those were the days…
Oh but there are more ramen choices these days! The key is to add whatever you want to it.
Hello,
Love lemonade and now I want some lol. Wearing Amouage Memoir.
Hugs to everyone! 🌹
Hugs back atcha, Omega!
Hugs, Omega!
Hugs back, Omega! Hope you are doing well 🌹
I’m non-compliant as well, wearing the obscure Daniel de Fasson from 1990, a big animalic bite-y (is it civet?) floral spice thing that no one ever writes about or wears, it seems. The same bottle was later used for a Paris Hilton fragrance. I really like it but can see how it bombed, in the minimalist era that CK1 and other aquatics were ushering in. This frag is the big opulent 80s with shoulder pads and dripping jewels.
On another note, I just read the Oppenheim book about how Creed fragrances manufactured their history shamelessly (they date to the 1970s/80s, & *not* the 1760s) and basically stole, ahem, sweet-talked Pierre Bourdon into GIVING Olivier Creed his amazing formulas which big multinational fragrance companies had rejected due to stupidity and a desire not to offend anyone with anything remotely interesting. Creed then claimed he’d created the fragrances himself and was a 6th generation perfumer to royal courts and movie stars and made hundreds of millions off the juice. The firm was bought for $1billion by a hedge fund recently. I like and own several early Creeds (Angelique Encens & several others) but the hype surrounding them is insane.
The book is also filled with all sorts of interesting gossipy factoids and history. I did not know that the co-founder of Comptoir Sud Pacifique also co-founded Montale and Mancera and has a bit of a checkered past himself counterfeiting Gaultiers. (the author dug up court cases in France). I’m sure the book was legally vetted with a fine tooth comb or at least I hope it was.
I read one page of the Cliff’s Notes version and I have to say that Creed spun quite a yarn with all the lies.
Wow, that’s so interesting! And apparently pretty easy to do.
Side question: I have been looking at Montale lately and Mancera comes up a lot. I know it’s under the Montale umbrella but how do they differ or compare? I’ve only tried a few from Montale and no Mancera. You are a knowledgeable person to ask 😉
Alas, I’m not, ringthing. I’ve never tried a Mancera and only a verrry few Montales. Years ago when oud first became a thing, I really liked Montale’s Black Aoud, rubber band-aid top note and all. And I know the Montale coffee frags have a lot of fans. The book was quite focused on Creed, and the little side trip into the founder of CSP, Montale, and Mancera was just to show that Olivier Creed is not the only dubious fellar in this industry. And BTW I could never understand the cult of Aventus, but then I don’t care much for most acquatics. I’m clearly in the minority.
I liked Black Aoud too, back in the day. That book sounds really good!
Getting ready for another district visit tomorrow. I’m thunking Phlur Phloria tonight.
Weather was 70 degrees when I came into work. I wore a jacket. Lol.
One of my friends in NJ said that their overnight low was 59!
Keep warm and🍀 for the visit.
Good luck on the corporate visit tomorrow! As to the jacket, you have thin skin 🤣.
Kinda warm today with a high temp of 96 here. But things are on a downward trend for the next 10 days, which is reassuring. It will be nice to get down to “average” temps.
No perfumes with cypress in them for me. So it’s going to be whatever I want to wear for the CP.
SOTD = back in Nahema again. It’s a lovely warm weather rose perfume. I sprayed more today, which made a little difference; got some notes that I didn’t see yesterday. 🌹🌹
Yay for your coming weather, I get passionfruit from Nahema among other notes.
It will be nice to have temps around 90 here.
I noticed a honeyed note this morning when I applied. That was something new. Still got the powder, spices, and rose later on.
Nice with the temps. These days, I am not sure of what average is anymore. We’re in for a few days of nice temps / low humidity in these here parts.
I get reminded of what “average” temps should be on the local newscast. It’s been running about 7 – 10 degrees above this summer.
Enjoy the break in your weather!
Nahema is nice.
Yes, it is!
That’s the heat that’s headed our way. Nahema is lovely, I forgot I have some.
Now would be a good time to break out your Nahema, then!
SOTD = Papillon Artisan Perfumes Epona
… from a sample bought at LuckyScent. Horses, hay, violet! A bottle is in my future!
https://www.instagram.com/p/C-6UJgcRzrW/?igsh=MWg3N3Y4Zmd2eHo2YQ==
Posted late so will leave it here.
Love at first sniff for you?
Yes!