It's Tuesday and National Sloppy Joe Day. The swapmeet is open for another week! Birthdays: John Updike, Charley Pride, Wilson Pickett, Queen Latifah. What fragrance are you wearing?
I'm in Cartier Baiser Volé.
Reminder: 3/21 is International Fragrance Day. Wear a fragrance and tell us why you picked it.
And for those of you who like to plan ahead, see Scent of the day ~ Friday community projects 2025, where I'll try (but usually fail) to have the next five or six weeks mapped out in advance.
Note: the "Shoryu Kiln Teapot, Tenmoku Gold Picking, Red and White Plum Pattern" is $144 at Amazon.
Calyx
Love that one, cm8 — you smell wonderful!
Thank you!!! It was my signature in the 1990s!
Lovely!
Thank you JB!
It’s still cold here, so I am still wearing winter perfumes. Today it’s Naomi Goodsir Cuir Velours – boozy gourmand suede.
Thank you for the birthday wishes yesterday. Jalapeno, your virtual soup seems to have helped too!
Happy belated birthday, Glannys! I hope it was a good day!
Happy belated birthday, Glannys!
Wishing you all good things.
Wishing you a belated happy birthday!
Happy belated birthday to you!🌹🌹🤗
Happy belated birthday, Glannys 💐
Thank you!
Late best wishes on your birthday and some flowers💐
CV is such a beauty!
Glad the virtual chicken soup helped! 🐥🥣
I’m scent twins with Robin today, also in Baiser Vole. I rarely wear this but I don’t know why, since it is very pretty.
I was just about to say it to Robin – you smell very pretty!
I don’t remember to wear it very often either.
Eau des Baux from L’Occitane. Such an excellent and reasonably priced scent, very warming on me and long lasting, quite unlike a cooling ‘eau.’ Extremely unisex, reminds some of Tom Ford Tobacco Vanille at a much better price point. Oh how I love my 80s/90s mall shop perfumes.
I LOVE Eau des Baux! It’s cosy and long lasting. I agree it’s unisex. Sort of a balsamic or benzoin vanilla. You smell amazing!
Thank you HemlockSillage!
Such a good one.
No. 19 edp today.
My forsythia and daffodils are in full bloom at the new house!
Wow! I have neither as of yet.
Love seeing forsythia in bloom.
For no reason but a whim I’m doing housework in vintage Dior Poison Esprit de Parfum: I have a tiny amount left and the colour’s changed rather drastically but it still smells great (perhaps just a little weird at the top, quickly gone). So much better than what they’ve been peddling under that name for at least the last 15 years. I sure will miss it when it’s gone, but we had a lot of good years together.
I am sure it is better! Wish I’d bought Hypnotic when it came out.
DSH Oeilettes Rouges, or something like that. Carnationy goodness in the dense DSH style, excellent fortification for chilly days! I am more than ready for spring!
Great teapot as usual Robin. I love a good tenmoku glaze.
I found an even prettier one but it was sold out…
I tend to see sold out items and think- aww, that would have been perfect for me. Rather than having exclusive and unique taste, it seems that I like what everybody else likes! LOL
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I love John Updike’s work, but lately I haven’t been able to concentrate well enough to read his marvelously dense prose. Even re-reading things of his that I’ve enjoyed isn’t working — I loved A Month of Sundays so much and picked it up again a few months ago, but so much of my reading consisted of going over the same paragraph several times that I had to set it aside.
Anyway, this morning I’m in Memoirs of a Trespasser and looking longingly out at my back garden. There are some big pots of day lilies that need to be transplanted, and a heavenly bamboo that needs serious pruning, but March is still in its lion phase here with intermittent heavy rain and wind — not very inviting. Here’s hoping that April comes in lamb-like!
Interesting because I have not been moved to reread Updike either. Was going to say it seems of another age but I reread quite a few even older authors…reading Sebald again right now with no problem.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, a long time favorite author, is another I can’t seem to find the way back to…
I’ll be in Leather Jardin today, since I took the bottle out to snap a photo for Hajusuuri. (My bottle looks completely different than hers.) I missed it while in Germany; it’s just such a comfortable scent.
Packing to head to London today. Does anyone have any perfume recommendations that I should check out in my short time there? Les Senteurs won’t be far from where we’re staying, but I’d love to check out someplace new.
Harrods and Selfridges have a very healthy selection of perfumes, exclusives and I think early launches.
Wish I could be in London too.
I’ll be in London this spring too, so also keeping an eye out for suggestions. I did like going to Liberty, but that was partly due to the beauty of the store itself.
I’m going this June and am planning to go to Bloom Perfumery (Luca Turin has talked about it), Les Senteurs, Fenwick and The Dover Street Market.
I second the Harrods, etc idea. Patricia de Nicolai has a shop in London.
Bloom perfumery might be worth a visit if you have time.
We had a wonderful time sampling lots of goodies at Penhaligon’s in London, although that was a long time ago
Thanks, all! I think Liberty has Astier de Villatte, and I’ve never been to Liberty in all these years, so I may try? I think Bloom is close to some of the shows we’re seeing, though, so if I can get there I will.
I don’t know Fenwick and the Dover Street Market, so I will take a look! Thanks, allo.
If I find anything else, I’ll report back. (Though it’s a short trip and apparently we’re going to the Imperial War Museum when we’re not seeing plays, b/c Ockeghem Teen has been learning about WWI and II in school and finds a simulated trench where she can learn about trench foot more interesting than the British Museum. Interesting about face from when she was four, when it was all about the mummies. 🙂 )
Now I am curious what your Leather Jardin bottle looks like. Is it not a round bottle with a black magnetic top?
No. It looks like a flask and has a gold ribbed top. I’m having a hard time sharing here from Instagram (or you can follow me at lslouffm to see it; it will only let me share to Facebook and I don’t have a Facebook account). Anyway, if you look at the Fragrantica image (https://www.fragrantica.com/perfume/Zara/Leather-Jardin-69129.html), it’s close to what I have, except my bottle has a red label glued to the front.
Ok. Mine doesn’t look like that. I hope it smells the same!
Hello.
Sotd is ELdO 500 Years. Rose oud with a delicious deep cocoa. I am still not sure if I should get a fb after my sample because I am saving my pennies for a potential purchase of MFK Kurky and LV eLVes.
500 years will still be there when you’ve had a chance to smell the other 2!
500 Years is a good one.
Finishing off the Lost Cherry, right before the end of winter. Will look out for Cherry Smoke to sniff sometime.
Thunk?
It’s a cold dark damp day here-perfect for Le Lion! But I also wanted to wear Coromandel so I sprayed one fine mist over my fingertips. I know-the canary was alive before I got here 🙂
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In L’Artisan Mure et Musc perfume and body lotion for my first day of back to work remotely. It has been a rough morning, but I am glad to start being active again.
Lentil soup for lunch. It is a breezy, kind of cold today, but it is very sunny and bright. Very uplifting!
Happy Tuesday! 🌞
I love your SOTD, PL67. A friend of mine used to wear this scent and it was brilliant on her. I also have an MPG room spray that is very similar, and I love that product, too.
Mure et Musc is indeed a very nice scent, Carole. I love it!
Good luck!!!
Thank you, Cm8
I hope the rest of your work day goes well! Mure et Musc always reminds me of Makeupalley fragrance days…. sigh.
Thank you, Tulipani! Mure et Musc is such a comforting scent. I treasure my minis a lot!
So good to “see” you here M!
Hope you are well!
XO’s
Thank you, J B! So glad to see you back! 👋🏻
Happy first day, pace yourself. You smell lovely.
Thank you, Aurora! 🌹
Happy return to work! Hope it gets easier soon 🤞
Thank you, NinaV! 🤞🏻
Hope that your first day at work turned out well! You’ve got this. 👍
Thank you, Jalapeno. The day went ok. I can’t complain.
Happy Tuesday, everyone!
I’m still smelling of Portrait of a Lady, which I wore last night. It really is an extraordinary perfume. As unapologetically huge as it is, it’s also remarkably well-balanced. I don’t wear it as often as a bunch of other Malle fragrances, but when I’m looking for that “wow” factor, this is my choice. And it always makes me feel like a million bucks.
I’d love to smell this on someone else, Daniel. It’s a beautiful scent. My preferred version is the hand cream, which is a pretty perfect product, too.
I’ll second the hand cream, it’s lovely.
$1,000,000 -Wow!!!
Have you smelled it? I can send you a sample. It is definitely on my top 10 list.
Always feature in my Top 5 list as well!
I always always think of you whenever someone mentions it
Me too!
Kris, you’re sooo kind. I have to demur. I still haven’t been able to sample the magnificent, voluptuous Jasmine Attar that Daniel generously added to the Infusions de Mimosa pkg AND thegoddessrena sent 200+ samples that I haven’t been able to sort properly yet. Thank you for looking out for n00b moi!
Are you sure? Maybe it’s in the 200+ you received, but you must try it. It is another one by Frederick Malle.
Love this one!
I’d love to see a guy wearing POAL and a tux together. That combination would probably work very well.
That’s a great combo. Will try!
SOTD is Or du Serail. I might do a week of Bertrand Duchaufour scents, he is one of my favorite perfumers.
Ditto! I own more BD than any other perfumer—from a variety of houses. He mixes high and low, fizzy and dense, musk and spice . . . to perfection.
Yes, I love his work also.
I’m a fan, too. It will be fun to look for your sotd this week.
I’m a big fan, too and will join others in following the fragrant trail of Duchaufour scents you waft this week😊
Happy Tuesday NST! Happy Extended Swap Meet too!
YSL Libre L’Absolu Platine for its calming lavender properties as it’s still fairly frenetic around here on too little sleep.
Robin, I’m hitting that Harney’s French Super Blue today to enhance my lavender cloud inside and out. 🫖🫖🫖
Yay!
I have not had any lately…I tend to go thru more of it in summer when I drink more Earl Grey.
Do you layer them similar to layering fragrance?
I just add a little dash to Earl Grey before brewing…
SOTD is Ferre Eau de Parfum. This reminds me so much of Iris Poundre, which I love! It also reminds me of the wonderful NSTer that gave it to me a few years ago😉
In fact, I might even like the Ferre a little more.
I really like it a lot. Probably a toss up between the two.
You smell lovely🌸
Thanks dear friend.
Sounds like you needed both Ferre and Iris Poudre in your collection! 😉
Actually, I didn’t even wear iris until a few years ago. Now I have seven different ones!
I’m wearing Scherrer, because it’s a fabulous green perfume and I am a fan of green perfumes.
Always a good enough reason!
Confession—I have now explored dupe territory. I generally do not like the idea of a company remaking a perfume on the cheap. I think of perfume as art and the noses/perfumers as commercial artists.
I got a bunch of samples from Niche4All and I’m wearing their Apple Musk on one arm and Roja’s Elysium parfum on the other. Shockingly close and the Apple Musk is wearing longer…
Many of the samples are very loud and not for me. I decided to secret them in bathrooms at work and use 1-2 spritzes as room spray. One spray from that tiny sample atomizer is massive.
I hope your explorations are fun and fragrant. Be well.
Interesting! I have never really tried any dupes, or at least, not since I was in high school. Do let us know if any of them turn out to be FBW.
High school dupes! Primo! If you like Giorgio, you’ll like…
Yep!
Have you ever taken a shower and when you go to turn the water off the handle breaks off in you hand?
Well, there is was soaking wet and needing to go outside to turn off the water.
Oye ve. Made for interesting weekend. Repair or replace the entire shower? and of course, it’s upstairs in my townhouse.
SOTD is Bois Imperial. This bottle I think has been my most worn over the past few months. I love the crisp opening.
Going out for a brisk walk. Sunny, but windy and chilly here by ocean.
Read the Careless People book about Meta. Having worked at both startups and media/entertainment here in California, I can attest to the how important these clowns think they are.
I’m listening to the audible version right now. I only had 12 hours left (LOL!) of The Mysteries of Udolpho to plow through, but needed a break from all the tears, fainting spells, and verdure/verdant landscapes! Laughing out loud at Careless People.
Oh my goodness, so sorry about your shower apsara! What a pain.
Argh! That’s quite the misadventure.
Sorry about the shower. And the tech companies. Been there, done that, escaped but not with the big bucks. Very interested in reading that book.
I am wearing Dusita Melodie de l’Amour, a BWF scent.
With a name to match 🙂
Saw some wild turkeys walking in my backyard this morning and the dogs were going crazy. Wearing Infusion d’iris today.
Tis the season. I was at a busy intersection today (three lanes in each direction!) and three turkeys were just kind of looking around, stopped mid crosswalk. https://www.instagram.com/p/DHWoxvKy1gg/?img_index=2
😂
Turkey Lurkies!🦃
Crazy!
Frozen cherries and yogurt smoothie
MB Rosa Absolute EDT today or POAL light as it could be named and tonight Berdoues Vanira Moorea which I adore, marshmallowy like Oriana but with the added green edge of petitgrain.
If it smells like POAL it has got to be good.
Yes, I have three decants of POAL but somehow reach for RA more often because it’s easier to wear.
Such a shame that MB discontinued Rosa Absolute.
Yes, even bizarre.
SOTD = Atelier Cologne Sous Le Toit de Paris
Oy! So good with mineral green violet, among others. I really really mistook wear this more often! 💚💜
https://www.instagram.com/p/DHWnSV8RWNI/?igsh=MWV1Y3pnbjVudDV5Ng==
Etiquette question — my cousin’s son got married in early November 2024. I have come to realize that the couple has about 6 months after the wedding to send a thank you note. Also, the bride had her shower in late September 2024. This past Saturday, I got a notecard which was a combined thank you for the shower AND the wedding. Because he is a godson, I gave VERY VERY generously to the tune of $$$$. I know people are busy but I am taking umbrage at the combined thank you (why? And I don’t accept being too busy as the excuse) and really, how long does it take to send in a picture and have it printed on notecards? Maybe I am being too sensitive in my “old age”? Or do kids (late 20s) don’t care anymore as to what’s proper?
I learned 50 years ago to thank for everything promptly. With the virtual world, I think the younger generations know nothing about written thank you notes. I now get texts from people as a thank you. I, myself, still do written thank you notes. Just my opinion.
And I agree with Lillyjo that they should have been done separately.
I agree with you 100%!
I think the thank you cards should have been separate.
In my extended family if they didn’t get a thank you after the shower they would have told the mother or father and then they would have gotten after the kids. Lol.
🤣
Me too … I tried this with my godson’s sister but my cousin-in-law said that they were waiting for pictures and wanted to give me the thank you in person. Really?
Thank you card etiquette has been lost. I used to be a reluctant thank you card writer as a kid but now, as an adult who has been more on the giving side, I am glad I did it.
I regularly send nieces and nephews money and gifts and never once have received a thank you of any sort. I would even take a text message or email since part of what I want to know is that the gift made it there.
I send thank you cards as appropriate but for close family members, I often text them or – sometimes send a photo of the gift along with a text about how grateful I am.
I’m with the texting or even email (with texting issues of unknown origin). I check obsessively weekly and after a month, I just ask if they ever received the notification of a gift card.
I should wear that one more often too. I sort of forgot I had it. So sad. Thanks for reminding me.
You’re welcome! I love it so much I would have bought shower products if they were available but sadly no.
ITA with Kris and lillyjo: the shower and wedding thank yous should have been separate. I can see extending a grace period if the couple moved after the wedding.
Never got any thank you notes, calls, emails, or texts from Mr. Jalapeno’s nephews when we got them gifts. Both of them are in their 20’s now…
Seriously, the lost art of sending thank you notes!
Wanted fruit. Stone fruit. Stat. So in Ananda to mix metaphors, I mean scratch that itch.
LOL…I had to read that twice. Glad you got what you wanted!
Sampling Baba Yaga from Fantome which is spicy and musky.
As it should be! Your perfumes always have great names, thegoddessrena.
Fantome did a whole collection based on Russian folk tales
That’s a great idea.
Commando at the moment as I was just awoken by the emergency alert system because of high winds and a Tatooine-like dust storm. Had to move the camper because the winds were hitting broadside and gusts are around 65mph with sustained winds 35-45mph. Glad I only have to drive from one end of the parking lot to the other end today because this is what I’d call sub optimal driving conditions. 🤣
Based on that, I’m going with something easy and calming because my sinuses are in an uproar again. Omnia for the win! 🙌
Stay safe! Our storms are returning tomorrow.
Stay safe Deva!
Gosh! Hope it calmed down.
Those cell phone emergency alerts can wake the dead!
Soft 🌞 and a temperature of 69 degrees, Beautiful 😻and Pretty 😻 are relaxing with me on our screened porch, enjoying lots of cardinal songs – nesting season is here! I’m enjoying vintage Guerlain Meteorites, a Springtime favorite of mine and soft like the day.. I love violet scents and like to feature a different one each month – Meteorites is my March choice.
Looking forward to our monthly Green Drinks get-together, tonight’s program features many of the local candidates running for offices in our April 1 non-partisan election. I really like hearing what they have to say in person rather than just reading about it in print or online. We’re fortunate to have so many good community-minded individuals.
Hope you’re all having a good day! 🪻
Love your kitties’ names 🤗
Beautiful and Pretty are sisters we adopted from a friend who adopted their pregnant mom from a shelter – she kept the mom and two brothers after they were born, gave the last brother to another friend, and we got the girls. They have ‘real’ names, but our friend started calling the eldest sister Beautiful and her sister Pretty, so we often call them that, too. My third 😻that I found in my backyard when she was lost and just three weeks old, our friend often says she’s adorable, so though she also has a real name, too, we often call her Adorable!
Lucky kitties, watching the cardinals!
Hello NST!
I am in VC&A Bois d’Iris, just checking if I made a right decision when I bought it 😊 My answer is yes!
Glad you think so. I felt a little unsure for a while, but now love it.
For me it works best on a chilly day. But it’s undoubtedly beautifully done.
Me too. I don’t wear it in the summer.
It was a super busy day at work today. I think most of the customers were spending tax refund money. I had to be a cashier today because 2 didn’t show up.
My sotd is Armani Si.
I hope you are relaxing this evening😊
I am thank you!
Oy! I would rather be cashier anyway!
Not when the line never ends you wouldn’t. Lol.
I like being a floor person because I can walk away when I need to.
You smell lovely.
Thank you!
I really enjoy Si.
My brother had a couple of stories from his job that were doozies recently. I think of you when he mentions the shenanigans…
Gorgeous teapot today Robin!
Been having some very lion-like weather here. Yesterday the wind was so bad I could feel my apartment building shaking every so often. In addition to that, at least 3 wildfires have broken out in Colorado. None of them near me, and none were large. All of them have been contained.
On the plus side, this morning was Teflon kitty’s last dose of the detested ear drops. We will find out on Thursday if this round was enough to knock out her ear infection.
SOTD = still wearing SB Florist’s Fridge. Getting close to the end of this sample.
That’s some crazy wind! I am getting storm’s tomorrow and then it’s back to winter for me.
Good luck to TK on Thursday!
Yep. Got a bit of rain/snow mix falling outside to go along with the wind now. It’s yucky out.
Teflon kitty thanks you in advance for the well wishes!
I’m pretty sure I remember what Florist’s Fridge smells like! OTOH, that is some crazy wind!
Florist’s Fridge is lovely!
Wow, that is some wind! You and Deva both.
And fingers crossed that the meds worked…
It’s easily been tropical storm force winds here where I am at. Some places have even been up to hurricane strength.
Fingers crossed for Teflon.
Thanks Aurora!
Yesterday I wore Memo Irish Leather for St. Patrick’s Day. Today it was a thunk of a sample of Les Indemodables Escale en Haiti. I figure I’ll wear perfumes this week that either have a different country in the name or are from different countries.
Great idea, and you smell wonderful!
I am twinning with Daniel today in POAL. It’s a powerhouse for sure but I love the way it evolves throughout the day.
Since I’m on the FM path, I might as well wear them as my CP this week because I enjoy so many of the fragrances.
His fragrances are definitely good!
“Majestic” would be a good word to describe POAL.
I picked No 19 this morning and it had worn off by the time I got home from having tea with a friend, so I switched to Bapteme du Feu. Yummy.