It’s our same-old open thread poll, just-before-the-holidays edition: Christmas Eve is Tuesday, Christmas Day and the first night of Hanukkah are both on Wednesday.
Talk about anything you like — the fragrance you’re wearing today, what you’re hoping to see on fragrance counters in 2025, whatever.
Or, ask a question about fragrance, then see if anyone else has asked a question that you can answer…
Note: top image is Silent Night [cropped] by Roy Harryman at flickr; public domain.
Happy weekend and winter solstice!
Today I am +1 years old. I will be having cakes and ice cream for lunch!
Sotd is Youth Dew because it’s my long time favourite.
Aww enjoy your day and your special lunch! You smell great.
Happy Birthday! 🎂
Enjoy it all!
Happy birthday!
Happy Birthday to you!
Enjoy your level up! Happy birthday!
For your birthday you are going to get longer days!!! Hope you got other good things too…cake and ice cream is a great start 🙂
Happy Birthday! Hope you enjoyed that sugary lunch, birthdays are meant to be indulgent.
Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday! You smell fabulous. 🎉
Happy Birthday 🎉🎂🎊!
Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday! May the year ahead be filled with good health and much happiness!
Happy Birthday! May the year ahead be filled with good health and much happiness!
I arrived at my family home for a long Christmas break today.
Wearing Nishane Nanshe today
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I hope you have a great time with your family.
Enjoy the time with your family!
Merry Christmas Lucasai!
I’m happily wafting Ambra Aurea this morning. Mr. G approves. 😆
Oh, that a real beauty! 😍
83F here yesterday! 😅
Thanks to lillyjo for mentioning Devotion recently! I found myself at Ulta yesterday and gave it a whirl as I browsed around. I liked it quite a bit and a travel spray was available so I picked it up. So, that’s my SOTD, layered over BBW Vanilla Bean Noel body cream, which IS sweet. The combo is lovely!
Happy holidays! 🎅
It’s a good combination, isn’t it?
I am going to have to try that eventually 🙂
Smelling great Deva!
I’m wearing SL’s Écrin de Fumée and about to start the first of the tasks I’ve set myself for the holidays – cleaning under the bed. I’ve got a huge number of shoe boxes stored there, it’s getting a bit muddled (and very dusty!) and it’s getting harder to find the shoes I want each morning.
I don’t do much of a spring clean but I do a big pre-holiday clean, so that is exactly the sort of chore I’ve been doing for the past week. Enjoy your new shoe organization Gaynor 🙂
Wearing Aesop’s Marrakech Intense parfum. I enjoy many from Aesop, including Rōzu, Tacit, and Virēre, but this is my favorite from the house.
Add some sugared ginger and I imagine you’d approximate what I expected from the perfectly pleasant (but somewhat disappointing) “Five O’Clock Au Gingembre,” which I wore for the first time yesterday.
Wearing Caron Nuit de Noel parfum while wrapping Christmas gifts. Perfect combo! It is sad that they discontinued such a beautiful fragrance.
Wait, what? Discontinued? What a shame.
SOTD=Irisss! Good all year round.
Tidied up the house and took a bunch of recycling to the recycling drop point, so that feels like I accomplished something! Tommorow I am going to call each of my siblings and other extended family I am close to for holiday chat, since they are all far away…
Monday I will bake those mincemeat pies!
Today I wore Meo Fusciuni Luce to clean out the den closet. Why oh why did I keep all that tissue paper and bubble wrap? Once those were cleared, I put all the ornaments that are too large for my (now tiny) Christmas tree into a “donate” box. Then I sorted through all my handbags. I found a quarter, a lipstick, hand sanitizer, and a few pens. I also put six handbags in the donate box. I ordered some hooks so that I can hang the remainder from the rod. I feel like I accomplished something today because the closet looks so organized now.
Yay! I should do this too. I seem to have a lot of “I should do this too” comments!
SOTD = Scents of Wood Plum in Cognac Vintage 24
It is much deeper than the original although one may think that I actually now have 4 of these! Whatever! It is wonderful!
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So yesterday’s dinner was great although it was a sh-t show from the get go. There was accumulation and it was lightly snowing when I went to pick up the food. I could.not.find parking and ended up illegally parking by a fire hydrant thinking I won’t be long because pick-up. I got to the maitre d’s desk and there was no order for me, from the gift-giver nor my sister. After a few (OK, a lot of) back and forths, we finally figured out that the order was placed at another location 40 minutes from where I was – no can do. We finally ended up ordering another set and since it was going to take about 20 minutes, I went back to my car to see if I can park at a better spot, which I finally did. Anyway, we had a great time and the dessert I brought (from an Omaha Steaks order) was also fabulous.
Happy Solstice, all! I’ll be lighting some candles tonight.
SotD is Miriam Mirani Aqaba. Such a luscious, spicy, rosy amber. Do any of you remember this from old MUA days? ♥️
Rooted through my samples in the closet, and found a few 4160 Tuesdays items. I chose Creamy Vanilla Crumble; applied about 8 sprays. It’s very nice but fairly short-lived on me. I’ll use up my sample but won’t need a bottle.
Good day to make shortbread; it’s foggy and grey out. Very glad to be home.