It's Tuesday and International Country Music Day (aka Hank Williams’ birthday). More birthdays: Billy the Kid, William Carlos Williams, Hank Williams, Ken Kesey. Watch for the harvest supermoon + partial lunar eclipse tonight! What fragrance are you wearing?
I am commando for work+dentist today. My plan for late afternoon is Diptyque Tam Dao. Tea at the moment is a blend of Upton Indulgashinna Organic + Christmas Tea.
Reminder: on 9/20, we're off to Mainland Southeast Asia! Wear a perfume that is named for a place in Mainland Southeast Asia (we'll include Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam and West Malaysia), or that reminds you of a (real or imaginary) trip to to the region, or that features a local ingredient, or ?
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 Chiang Mai street food - cha yen [cropped] by Streets of Food at flickr; some rights reserved. [Ed note: in the US, that's known as Thai Iced Tea.]
Good luck with the dentist, Robin!
SOTD is Tauer Heraud, which I got today. I’m glad I got the sample set, rather than blind buying. I think others will love it; I’m iffy on gourmands, and this one is too sweet for me. I liked the opening, which to my nose briefly had incense (not in the notes), then cocoa and maybe a hint of tobacco (also not in the notes). But then came a cedar note early in the drydown that was overpowering on me; mercifully it receded to the background and is now there slightly complicating strong, sweet vanilla and cocoa which has lasting power even with just one spray. I will come back to it as the weather gets cooler to see if my take changes any.
And just as I say I’m iffy on gourmands, one of my scents this weekend was Felanilla, which felt just right for that moment, in slightly cooler weather (higher elevation). I usually only wear it in deep winter, but it worked beautifully last weekend.
Thanks for your report. I’d like to try this one at some point, but I’m guessing it will be too sweet for me also.
Thank you for your thoughts! I am verrrry interesting in Heraud. Does the cocoa ever become sweet chocolate?
*interested. ugh.
🙂 With the vanilla at the end, yes, it’s more sweet chocolate but emphasis on the sweet. I like my chocolate dark…this isn’t that.
And maybe more “cocoa” than you’re looking for.
I see. Thank you!
I’m 8 hours in. Definitely cocoa, not chocolate.
Ooh it sounds good to me and I’m not much on gourmands either except when I am 🙂 Thx for the report!
I am waiting for my large sample 🤣.
Dentist would have been just fine if I did not have a post-vax splitting headache! Anyway, it’s over 🙂
Thanks for the review on Heraud. Gives me an idea of what I might be in for.
I’m in Prada un chant d’amour. Tea is a vanilla latte.
I had a rough week last week and didn’t feel like posting. Got some upsetting news on Sunday which made for a week of horrible sleep, stomach aches, headaches and bouts of unwanted tears. Ugh.
Luckily I got a mental reset on Saturday because it was madtownteen’s birthday. And yes, even though we just left her at college 2 weeks ago we went over to spend the day with her anyway. Because, it was her birthday, it was a Saturday, and she will always be my baby. We had a lovely day. The weather was gorgeous. We went for a Mississippi River boat cruise during the afternoon which is something we’ve never done before. Her roommates just happened to be gone for the weekend so we hung out in her dorm for the evening and enjoyed cake and ice cream. She seems to be settling right in and already seemed like she is right at home there. Makes me happy.☺️
I’m sorry about your horrible week, it’s nice to see you. Glad you had a great time over the weekend. My mom, at 97, still calls me her baby even though I’m 65 lol.
Thanks ringthing.
lol, same here, and I’m 56.😉
I was my moms’ baby and I was 64 when she died at 95.
My nephew is 53 and my sister still says her baby.
Some things, blessedly, never change.
I’m interested in your SOTD, madtowngirl, if you feel like talking more about it. Sorry for the bad news and disturbed sleep-never any fun.
Ooh, yes- this is a lovely skin scent, which is one of my favorite categories. On my skin I get neroli, cotton flower and soft musk. It wears very close to the skin. I’ve got 5 sprays on each arm. Very pretty and I can’t imagine it would offend anyone which makes it an office friendly perfume for me.
This line is ridiculously priced imo but I recently got a great deal on a tester. Worth a sniff if you also like skin scents. I think you are not in the us?, or I’d send you a smidge to try.
I’m in Canada, so while I appreciate the offer, it probably wouldn’t work, but thank you. loved your description of it!
And I do admire the fact that you’re having a gross week, but still putting a good face on things. You smell great!
So sorry about the rough week. Glad you were able to celebrate the birthday together!
Thanks!
Glad you had the reset with madtownteen’s birthday, and I’m glad she’s settling in so well! Here’s hoping for a better week ahead.
Thanks!
I hope this week is better, madtowngirl
Thanks! So far, so good.👍🏻
Sorry you had to go through some bad times. But I am also happy for you that you got to spend some lovely time with madtownteen!
Thanks!
I’m sorry for your bad week. I’m glad you had a great Birthday visit with your daughter, and that she is doing well.
Thanks lillyjo!
So sorry for your upsetting week. Hope things calm down for you. Sending happy vibes!
Thanks Kris, happy vibes appreciated.😊
So sorry for the bad news but wonderful that you had a lovely time on Saturday, the cruis on the Mississippi sounds dreamy.
The cruise was so nice! Not sure why we’ve never done one before so her birthday seemed like the perfect time to take one. We saw several bald eagles which was pretty cool.
I’m so glad your Saturday managed to push away some of the pain from the week. Hope this week is happier.
Thanks Kanuka, it’s going better so far!
I’m so sorry about the upsetting news, but happy about your celebration with madtownteen. Life is so full of complexity, isn’t it.
It sure is!
Sorry to hear you had bad news, enough so to upset your sleep for days on end. Sending you hugs and glad to hear you had a good and fun celebration to disrupt the yucks!
Thanks tulipani, yeah, sometimes I think I think too much. Especially at 3 am, when all my problems seem bigger than they do during the daylight hours.
You have a nice way of bouncing back!
Time with my kids is always my way back.☺️
Glad you got to visit madtownteen for her bday. I’m sorry about the upsetting news. Hope it’s a better week.
Thanks KellyC!
Good news / bad news…join in with everyone else in being so happy you had such a lovely time with your baby and hope this week is better than last!
Thanks Robin!
Sorry to hear about your No-Good, Very Bad, Horrible week last week.
Thanks Jalapeño!
Wearing Chaldee today since I will be running errands and out in the heat. The CP is going to take more thought than my brain is capable of right now, I didn’t get much sleep.
I will be at my daughter’s house for the rest of the week. She has also lost a lot of weight and needs help finding a dress to wear to a wedding. I’m trying to be upbeat but I still have trauma from taking her and her friends to the mall when they were teenagers. Lol but not really, ha!
Oh! Almost forgot!
This is not about perfume but you all are a very intelligent and interesting group so I want to get your input.
I bought the most beautiful Italian marble statuette at an estate sale over the weekend. It was $15 and I about fainted. There was yucky felt on the bottom that I scraped off to reveal “Italy” carved in the base but searching online hasn’t turned up much except that she’s hand carved and very old. Where do I take this to get it appraised? There are some online sources but I want a real person, just don’t know where to start. Thanks in advance NST!
Sorry I have no answers but one thing you could do is a google ‘reverse image’ search that would show you similar statues and their prices. I’ve done this when trying to ID perfume bottles with no labels or ID marks.
Thanks DeniseH, I’ll try that.
Where are you? I would go to a high end Pawn shop or a really well established old jeweler shop that also sells knick knacks, and those people could express an opinion and tell you where to find a real appraiser in your area if it seems appropriate.
I’m in a medium sized college town in the rural Midwest. Thanks meredifay.
What great advice — I would never have thought of that!
Maybe someone in the Arts Department at the nearby college could help?
Maybe contact an Auctioneer and ask them where you could get an appraisal? Or maybe they do them?
Oh that’s a good idea too, lillyjo, I didn’t think of an auctioneer. Too much to hope that Antiques Roadshow would swing by my area.
Hello.
Hope the dentist trip is not a painful one Robin!
Sotd is Guidance 46.
Happy mid-autumn festival to anyone celebrating. It’s full moon tonight so I am going to go on a walk after dinner and do some moon-gazing.
Hope you had a lovely moonlit walk.
The moon was Bright!
No pain! Other than the pre-existing headache. Note to self: don’t get a vaccination in same week as dentist 🙂
Hope you get great moon-views! I am going to head outside to peek here soon.
Me and the doggo had a good, long look at the moon 🙂
Will you be able to see the lunar eclipse tonight?
I think I was too early because the moon was in full view. Still good though!
I’m in SL Dompteuse Encagee, which is just so pretty and easy to wear. we’re getting weather that feels like a second summer-wish I could just go to the beach all day. In my next life I might like to be a seagull, or eagle, or heron.
Wouldn’t that be nice to come back as a heron??
I’m really wishing for some cooler weather, since heat indices in my part of Texas are still in the triple digits. So I decided to start transitioning into fall fragrances. First up is Timbuktu, which is great because I can wear it almost all year round.
I’m thinking about getting my fall/winter fragrances out too. It’s still warm in the Midwest as well so still wearing some summer scents.
What a good choice.
HdP 1804, non-CP-compliant (that will be the case all week).
Since when did the West of Ireland turn warm and sunny? The flooding on the European mainland is heart-wrenching. Here in Galway, we are having a string of days in the high 60s/low 70s, and sun, sun, sun. I brought very little in the way of warm-weather clothes, so my outfits have been even more repetitive than anticipated. Mr. Skal and I are going to try a sea swim (probably Thursday) before heading off with the students on Friday for a multi-day excursion.
Your weather is headed our way here in the Rhein valley. It was cool and rainy for a week, though. Luckily the flooding seems all to be east of us. Today finally the sun has come out and it’s just above 20 now.
Loved Galway when we were there — it sounds lovely right now!
The flooding is terrible, and completely overshadowed here by the election at the moment.
Hope you get your sea swim!
I hope the visit to the dentist goes well.
I met with a friend yesterday. Her husband has recently joined the army. He is still in training and hasn’t been involved in any fighting yet, but of course, she is worried about him…
I also received news that I failed a recent translation test. I felt good about the test and honestly believe I should have passed. However, the more I read about the company, the more I suspect their testing process might be the issue. Well, maybe it’s for the best, and I shouldn’t be working for them anyway. What really annoys me is that they flat-out refused to provide any feedback, citing ‘company policy.’ I know the feedback exists in writing, so sharing it would require almost no effort. Why hide it from the translator unless you’re afraid it will reveal unfair judgment? Oh well. Gotta roll with the punches.
Oh, and I am wearing Geranium Pour Monsieur for partial credit. It has anise note (presumably star anise), and star anise is native to Vietnam.
so sorry about this, Glannys, and I’m glad you have a good attitude about your skills, which are clearly superb, and that you realize the problem is THEM not you. And yes, you’re probably better off not working for them since if their tests are that shoddy, they might also question your translations and give you many headaches. Good riddance!
I don’t want to be arrogant. But if it’s me, I would like to see where I went wrong so that I could learn from my mistakes. And you are right – there is a worrying number of translators’ reviews complaining about working with them. Ironically, customer reviews of this company’s translations are very mixed (you’d think with the stringent testing they would offer the highest quality).
I’m sure your translation skills are superb! 🙂
Usually when you sense that there’s something off about what the company’s doing, you’re better off not working there, at least in my experience. After seeing today’s news, I’m yet again feeling thankful that, realizing the culture was not a fit, I walked away from a company that kept trying to recruit me over a decade ago. I asked about company culture, and I was told “we work hard and we play hard”…well, at the time with a toddler, my hard playing was done on the playground, not with colleagues after work! 🙂 Today’s announcement that’s in the news is totally in keeping with that culture…so glad I dodged that one. Their interviews were also full of trick consulting questions that they thought had a single answer…like anything in life is that neat. 🙂 Haven’t regretted it.
I do hope all goes well for your friend’s husban
…your friend’s husband, that is!
Oh, “work hard and play hard” is a red flag for sure!
I can’t imagine that level of worry! Hope he will be safe.
And like everyone else, hope it will turn out to be best that you failed the test rather than work for them.
It sucks the company won’t give you any feedback. That sounds like a big red flag to me.
Fingers crossed that your friend’s husband stays as safe as possible.
I’m in “Marrakech Intense” from Aesop. I discovered it several years ago when I was searching for a replacement to my much loved and deeply missed “Eros” from Aveda. Both share a sort of “natural” feel to them; the Aveda had wonderful patchouli and bitter orange notes, while the Aesop is maybe a little woodsier. “Marrakech” is very nice, and a decent substitute, but I will always long for “Eros.”
Ahh, I miss those old Avedas as well. They were so unique. I associate them and the Crabtree Evelyns, L’Occitanes, and Caswell Masseys with the 90s mall stores that I used to frequent. They had quality fragrances and no snobbery. I like the Aesop frags too and agree it’s a similar vibe. You smell great.
I’m in Box of Eels today, wafting the remains from last night’s application, which was very cozy and beautiful, two things that don’t always go together but in this case mesh perfectly.
I was a huge Crabtree & Evelyn fan in the late ’80s / early ’90s. Quality fragrances that immediately trigger memories for me…
Those early Avedas were AMAZING!
FYI, I visited an Aesop shop yesterday. They have a new fragrance, Virēre, that “melds an intricate blend of ingredients to evoke the scents of summertime, from sun-warmed citrus fruits to fragrant fig trees,” that other customers were swooning over.
Not for me, as it has that note I can’t stand that also appears in Ubar. Doesn’t seem to bother most people, though.
I bought Ouranon, which they say is frankincense, hay, and myrrh.
Have you ever tried Virēre or Ouranon?
No, I’ve only tried those. But Virere sound amazing – all my fave notes. I need to try both of those. Thanks for the recs!
I’ll have to try that new one – thanks for the tip! (I’ve got Marrakech, Rozu, and Tacit – all three are good.)
Those smelled great, too, and it was hard to decide! I went for Ouranon in the end because hints of fall are in the air and I was in the mood for something resinous.
After a late exchange about it with jalapeno last night, I unearthed the remains of my Fzotic sample set and am in Vetiverissimo this morning. My sample has dwindled to just a few molecules, but it still managed to dispense enough for a test (or retest, clearly, since I must have sprayed most of it some time ago), and I do like it very much. I don’t think I need a FB, but there might be a travel size in my future. 😁
I”m so glad he offers travel sizes. There’s little these days that I need a FB of as I will never get through what I already have in my lifetime. Smaller bottles are so helpful.
They are. And often they’re really cute too!
If you get a travel size of Vetiverissimo, we will be twinning on that.
I have recovered from the John Mellencamp/Bob Dylan/ Willie Nelson concert, which I am glad I attended, but which was a bit of a disappointment. John rocked the house to its feet and was the high point. Dylan had a nice bluesy backup band, but played new acoustic style ballads and the words were lost in the echoing vastness of the venue- he did not play a single song I knew, and the crowd sorta sat like lumps while he played. I do not feel the need to seek out his recent work. Willie is Willie, and he played oldies, and the crowd was enthusiastic for him, but he looked like a 90 year old man standing up there playing, which was rather sad, and the wind died down and the cigar and cigarette smoke settled toward the stage ( we were at Pine Knob north of Detroit, an outdoor venue with a large covered seating area, with a lawn seating hill behind the seats.) and we left early cause I started getting an asthma attack. So not the best concert experience, but good enough! Leaving early we got ahead of the obligatory traffic jam at the gate, and were safely home in bed by midnight. LOL! I am glad I went. If Dylan comes around and plays some 500 seat indie theater, I would get seats in the front row and hope to understand the words. I have been playing Willie’s songs ever since-the man has an amazing catalog. All in all, a good experience.
I am in Tam Dao today, in an attempt to stay focused and get things done. All I really want to do is watch reruns of Ted Lasso and knit….Happy Tuesday, one and all!
Was the cigar smoke from the audience or the performers? You lasted longer than I would have. Sounds like kind of a historic concert to have attended, even if not ideal.
The only good thing about seeing how depressingly old the celebs of my youth look is that I don’t feel so bad about how *I* look. 😉
What fun to have seen amazing performers.
I have to say I’ve never gotten into Dylan, despite dear friends I trust being huge fans, and enjoying covers of his songs done by others. Mellencamp and Willie would be awesome, though!
Look, I am a massive Dylan fan but I am well aware that his goals in concert of not those of most entertainers. I saw him at the Mann Center (4700 seats under a roof, many more thousands outside) and was reasonably close to the stage. He did many old favorites but not so as you’d recognize them (he was 1/3 of the way through Tangled Up in Blue before I realized that was what he was playing).
Anyway, I knew going in that he was not there to give the audience what they want so I was not disappointed — I did what I wanted which was to see him live once. Even if he played a 500 seat theater near me I would not go, especially not with what concerts cost these days.
Mavis Staples, however, blew me away, she was amazing!
I think some of it is just that it all do so loud I took out my hearing aids and had earplugs in my ears to buffer the sound. Blood on the Tracks was the soundtrack of my life in the mid ‘70s, but he did not play Tangled Up in Blue at all. But, as I say, I am glad I was there! 🙂
Prin Lomros is from Thailand and frequently includes regional notes in his perfumes, so I’m wearing Sweet Celestials which contains pandan, mung bean and coconut notes
Oh, good to know. I can wear something he did for Zoologist, then!
Excellent!!
Journey Woman
I have a small balcony, and for the almost 10 years I have been living here I have never had a problem with pigeons. All of the sudden pigeons are coming on the balcony and I have bird poop. I think a neighbor near me must be feeding them. Good Grief.
I am really loving the TV show ShoGun, been slowly making my way through the series. I also love reading books by Japanese authors, need to add some to my stack soon.
Tea is a rose tea from Mariage Freres
I just realized that Shogun is on Hulu, which I do get, rather than on HBO as I had thought–which I don’t get. So I plan to watch it very soon. I’m really hooked on Pachinko, on Apple TV, partly because I’m a fan of Lee Min ho, the Korean mega-star, but also because it’s just plain good and beautifully shot. But it happens to feature the woman who just won the Emmy for Shogun, Anna Sawai. She’s very good in Pachinko and is incredibly beautiful.
I love that Apple series too (and the book!)
We have Disney and with that Hulu is bundled in so that is how I am watching.
I loved Pachinko — the book. I should try the TV series, but no Apple TV here in Germany, though probably we could subscribe on top of everything else. But we have the last season of Babylon Berlin to get through (which no one picked up in the US) and Kaos (which the kid is all over, and we enjoyed the 1st episode).
How many seasons of BB are there?
4 seasons — though it’s a bit confusing as seasons 1 & 2 were released at the same time. Netflix didn’t pick up season 4, but it’s just come out in North America on some tiny service called MHz Choice. Season 5 is supposed to be shooting this year, I think — I think that’s the last.
Too bad you don’t have any pigeon/bird repellent. 💩
A buck just trotted past my window. It’s rare to see them this close to people, so that’s my smile of the day.
Working alone today so I just sprayed about half a hajusuuri of Vetiver Oriental. This need to be an ice skating move like the triple Axel, Salchow, or Lutz. On some days I do a full hajusuuri, but today I’m not sure if I could pull it off, so I opted on the half hajusuuri for some points. Can you imagine the the host/commenter: “She’s going after the FULL HAJUSUURI today! It’s a difficult move and she fell earlier in practice. Here’s the set up…will she pull it off ?!? SHE DID IT! Stuck the landing and made history with the first FULL HAJUSUURI in a competition!” The crowd goes wild!
Happy Tuesday! 🙃
LOL, loved that description.
Ha! That was fun to read.
🤣🤣👍
PERFECT analogy and parody!
Now that’s funny 😄
How cool to see a buck so close. I saw your comment on the Yves Rocher new release and am pretty sure there are several Yves Rocher stores in Bordeaux if you are interested in that new release of the vanilla orchid perfume.
😄
Love this! I’m definitely an amateur with just a 1/4 hajusuuri on my best day!
LOL! The beauty of retirement (and not needing to meet people I care about) is I can go wild 🤣. With that said, I am still limiting myself to the 8 sprays.
I LOVE it! I’m on 1/8 a hajusuuri of the Tauer. and it’s still too much, 10 hours in. 🙂
The full Hajusuri…love it!
Excellent!!! But more like “she passed out earlier in practice” or “she sent two innocent bystanders to the ER earlier in practice” 😉
Got a laugh out of “half a hajusuuri”! So it’s a liquid measurement, like liters or gallons?
I’m doing the CP in Diptyque Old Palao, the EdP, featuring Laotian oud. I would not know one oud from another, but in any case I love this scent so much. I did major level spraying, though nothing like Deva’s Olympic-trial efforts, and I feel right now as if I could happily wear this all week. Whether the people I run into here and there would be equally happy remains to be seen. But who cares?
You smell great!
Thanks!
Who cares? That’s the way to go! (I can also get away with that here in Germany more than at home. 🙂 )
I started the day in Lush Lust. Since Mr. allo has been away and I’m spraying jasmine fragrances with abandon, I’m going to stay on my roll this week and double my CP fun because Southeast Asia is one of the of the places Jasminum sambac is cultivated.
When the cat’s away… have fun!
Speaking of fun, did you enjoy the house to yourself and perfume organizing when Mr. SP was out of town?
I did! 😀
LUSH Lust is amazing!
Otherworldly!
Going to meet a friend for lunch and will wear D’annam Vietnamese Coffee.
Hope it was a great lunch!
It was. A perfect September day by the Pacific. And a sweet to bring home for later.
Sounds like a lovely time!
Another warm one in the Midwest so am in Splendiris today. I am getting tired of the summer fragrances so I’m thinking I need to switch to the fall/winter scents soon.
I didn’t even realize that since Splediris is by Dusita that it would meet the CP today. It will probably be the only time this week as I did switch all my perfumes around.
I’m almost to the end of my Summer shower gels. I’m looking forward to switching to the Fall ones.
Yes, I switched those out too along with my lotions.
Not quite time for my fall perfumes here; it’s still too warm. But soon!
I had a wonderful catch up with Gaynor yesterday and she gifted me a bundle of samples. One of the samples fits the CP perfectly: Elephant ( zoologist). Yesterday was miserably cold, with some snow flurries and icy wind, really the opposite of an Asian climate but I’m really taken with Elephant. Still cold, still dark, still not quite spring.
Glad you had a good time with Gaynor.
How fun! I’m also a fan of Elephant. It was not an instant like but I kept going back to it.
Pleased to hear the two of you had a great time yesterday.
I finally decided to buy an Apple Watch, so yesterday I went to one of my favorite places in the DC area, the original Tysons Corner Center mall, which opened in 1968. (AKA Tysons I, which preceded the even higher end Galleria, Tysons II, nearby.)
While malls have been failing nationwide, this one is still vibrant thanks to how international the DC area is. You would be hard pressed to decide what country you are in just by looking at the young people who throng this mall — even on a Monday evening — or at the range of cuisines in its food court and tucked away in odd corners of the mall.
For example, there is a Saudi coffee shop, a Japanese matcha refreshment kiosk that offers fancy shaved ice and ice cream treats, a Turkish cafe with sweets flown in from Istanbul, and a revolving conveyer belt sushi bar, in addition to Indian, etc.
The first Apple store opened in this Mall in 2001. I always find the Tysons Apple store less noisy and more inviting in subtle ways than other Apple stores in the area. My sales associate yesterday was charming, diplomatic, and patient (I am old and not super technological). It was a luxury shopping experience in the best possible ways, and I have a new tool/toy to use and enjoy. 🥰
Afterwards, I had just enough time to sniff fragrances at the Aesop boutique and pick one, Ouranon, so I also smell great today, IMHO.
Have any of you been to the Tysons mall, and do/did you enjoy it?
I lived outside of Washington in 1973. For about two months before going to Iran. Tysons was just breaking ground. And the Concorde still landed at Dulles.
THOSE WERE THE DAYS! 😎
When I had no wrinkles!
I have not been there, but now I’d like to go. We’re heading to DC in mid-October to visit middleSPson so maybe I’ll get a chance. Do I have the right one — actually in Tysons, VA?
This is the one:
https://www.tysonscornercenter.com/
Also the nearby Galleria has Neiman Marcus and Saks Fifth Avenue with great perfume counters. Both malls are Metro accessible.
About 20 or 30 minutes away by car and accessible via a different Metro line is Arielle Shoshana, epicenter of niche perfumery. I would actually put that first on my priority list for perfume.
Your middleSPson might enjoy Tysons Corner Center more though, if he hasn’t already been there.
Mid-October is the PERFECT time to visit. I personally prefer fall here to DC’s famous cherry blossom spring.
Thank you very much!
I was at the Tysons Corner Mall only once, in the late 1990s. My memories of it are rather vague now.
Sniffing perfume took me out there, and also a friend took me to the unpretentious Turkish restaurant, where gracious Turkish-Americans make you feel so welcome and they have sweets like Turkish delight covered in rose petals and the food is delicious and (inexpensive).
Have not been there in years!! Did not even know it was still there, even though I am in Arlington a few times a year.
Hope you love your Apple Watch! I got mine by accident but now I could not live without it.
I am taking the Apple Watch one step at a time, but I already LOVE it.
Check out the Wikipedia chapter on Tysons Corner Mall, it’s fascinating.
The thing is, overseas in hot countries like Saudi Arabia, the Gulf States, Indonesia, Singapore, etc., etc., malls are fabulous and where whole families and groups of friends go to hang out in the AC. And it’s not as if DC has many months or weeks when it is truly pleasant to be outdoors. So that mall culture translates here, and Tysons is easy to get to.
Oh good!
Pear, banana, Clementine and yogurt smoothie
My departure is approaching and I’m nervous about forgetting something at the last minute, I started packing this afternoon even though I leave Saturday, I don’t have to take very much as I have plenty of clothes there. This morning I chose Kenzo Flower which has amazing longevity, I had forgotten as I havent’ worn it in a long while and tonight it’s Les Néréïdes Imperial Oppoponax which is basically a less imperious Shalimar.
I’m excited for you for your upcoming vacation!
Thank you Lillyjo, excited too but still half nervous.
Fancy smoothie for you tonight!
I tend to get nervous before trips too.
Fresh strawberries are now coming to an end, they’re more expensive, so it’s back to smoothies.
I think they are many of us who don’t enjoy flying, who does these days.
*there not they
After my trip this summer, I have realized that flying a non-budget airline does improve the experience somewhat. So I will remember that for the future.
You are smart, I would start packing on Friday and forget something for sure 🙂
I may still manage to forget something😀
At least you tried 🙂
La fin d’un été by Pierre Bourdon, which might have some ingredients from Asia. It’s a lovely fragrance and so very well suited for September, which is when I bought it 5 years ago.
I’m sure it does 🙂
I’m wearing my sample of Babycat (thanks to a lovely NST friend). Mr. SP is home from his weekend trip and although I had a nice weekend with various friends and a beautiful hike, I’m very happy to have him home. I’m going to bake Invisible Apple Cake for a fun dessert tonight which my son tells me is wonderful.
https://www.thekitchn.com/invisible-apple-cake-recipe-23603177
That cake looks delicious.
I’ll let you know tomorrow.
You are smelling great!!
Hermes Osmanthe Yunan today, have an exercise class later on and want to keep it low key. I’ll be able to spray this on again multiple times before I go at 6pm, so I get all the fun of that to look forward to 🙂
That one is SO lovely but definitely fleeing on me.
Lyric Woman for me today.
What a fun CP! I could easily do a week of Dusita scents with my samples. But other notes that come to mind as being SE Asian are: pandan, lemongrass, rice, and bamboo.
I did Lyric on the weekend. You smell fantastic!
Oud, too!
I’m in Absinthe Gaiac from Panouage Matieres Libres colection.
Nice to see you lucasai.
Songes for me today, which has nothing to do with Southeast Asia that I know of, but it sure is beautiful.
It’s got jasmine, plus it is beautiful!
Songes also has tiare and ylang yland, which I think are native to SE Asia.
SOTDs for the past two days: Versus and then Viva La Juicy.
A lady walked by me today wearing Viva La Juicy. She smelled great. I have never tried Versus.
Sampling Muscat by Ormond Jayne and I was going to post in answer to a query from the weekend that the house doesn’t usually work on me (perhaps the Iso E Super?) but I don’t detect that note in this one from 2022 and it does have oud, which as far as I know is ALL harvested from the Cambodia/Laos area, though most of Muscat, including the name, is from the wrong continent for the CP. I’m not big on oud so I don’t need a bottle of this but I was happy to try it, especially to satisfy my curiosity about the ‘date oil’ note. There is definitely the honeyed Middle Eastern sweets thing going on, dancing a tango with the oud to see if they will kill each other or have a one-night stand.
Ha ha, what a dramatic/romantic perfume it must be! Since I do like oud, and generally like OJ fragrances, I’m definitely going to try this one!
“Kill each other or have a one night stand!” Ha!
Thai Iced Bubble Tea sounds pretty darn good to me! 😋
Lots of weather alerts and warnings on my cell phone this afternoon. So far, all I’ve seen is some wind and a bit of rain. Hopefully it stays that way. Definitely experiencing a cool down here.
SOTD = Molyneux Quartz pour Femme. Much to my amusement, my bottle says “Berdoues Parfums et Cosmetiques” in very small letters on the back.
Excuse my ignorance, but what does your SOTD mean with the two different names, or I should say the name plus the one in small letters on the back.
Molyneux is the house, and Quartz pour Femme is the name of the scent.
Berdoues is who bottled the perfume. I remember back in the day Revlon and Charles of the Ritz having some kind of agreement with their products…
I knew that first sentence, but not the second one. Thanks for the clarification. I am not up on all that stuff.
No worries! 😉😉
I hope you don’t get any bad weather. I seriously need the rain here. It’s been nice out but it’s getting dry.
Nah, no severe weather here. It’s well on the way to Kansas at this point.
You might be getting some moisture later on this week.
Yay for opening your Quartz.
And I found my sample of Quartz this morning.
It’s been a long day. I started out in No.19, which I haven’t worn in quite a while. I am now wearing vintage Poison. I have basically smelled great all day, but my gosh this Poison is GLORIOUS!
House twins with you. Plus you do smell fabulous!
Vintage Poison is amazing!
Our collections are large, so ‘haven’t worn in quite a while’ is often added😃
I was in Chanel No. 19 Poudre today. Like lillyjo, I haven’t worn this in a long time.
I really, really liked that one the first time I tried it. That sample disappeared rather quickly…
It’s a good one! Glad it’s cooling off now to be able to wear some Fall scents.