Happy Friday and happy National Mint Julep Day! Today's birthdays: Countee Cullen, Benny Goodman, Colm Tóibín. Our community project for today is Rainbow Friday...wear something that makes you think of your favorite color. Bonus points if the color is in the name! Thanks to pyramus for the suggestion.
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.
I'm in the OG Prada Infusion d'Iris, for purple.
Reminder: 6/6 will be Signature Friday...wear a fragrance that was your signature in the past, or that you could live with as a signature now, or that you'd like people to remember you by? From suggestions by madtowngirl and chocolatemarzipan8.
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: top image is Playing with color - chrysanthemum [cropped] by GT#2...Off permanently at flickr; public domain.
Hello and tgif!
My sotd is for gold at the end of the rainbow – J’adore l’Or. Claiming bonus point for the name!
Ordered my first paint by numbers. I ordered 3 for my mum last month and she just finished 1 and it was gorgeous, so colour me tempted (pun intended)! Mine is 3 kitty chefs cooking up mayhem in the kitchen. Cute animals, food and funny, what’s not to love?
My sister says she is going to spend her summer doing paint by numbers…
If she picked a painting with lots of details/colours, tell her to have a magnifying glass handy because some numbered spots are the grain of rice with the numbers barely legible.
Oh, good to know! I think she ordered her first set and hasn’t started yet.
I just love how you made it the gold in the pot at the end of the rainbow! It made me think of that viral video of the man so excited about seeing a double rainbow! Now that would be a mind-blowing amount of gold!
I thought my favorite color was green, but looking around the house it appears my taste is broadening a bit these days —there are pockets of teal blue, coral and sunshine yellow here and there. Consequently, my choice for the CP is Au Delà Narcisse. It’s a chypre so green is covered, but it’s so vibrant that it feels multi-colored, almost like a kaleidoscope. It’s a very happy scent, for a lovely sunny Friday. 🥰
Yay, hope you have a suitably happy day!
So far so good!
I hope you did find it to be a very happy scent for a lovely sunny Friday! Mom loves green – specifically spring green, the color of the Earth’s rebirth as she says (since we came from the East with lots of snow). I’ve grown to love it too! Your choice encompassing a kaleidoscope (perfect word) of colors in the chypre was quite creative !
Au Dela Narcisse = 😍😍😍
I don’t have one favourite colour, I have a favourite half of the spectrum, the cool half — green through violet, with blue smack in the middle, and I guess if I had to pick one, it would be blue (but really blue-green, aquas and turquoises). The only scent I have with “blue” in the name is Bleu de Chanel, which I’m wearing today: it’s pretty much the definition of “mid”, but there are worse things to be inoffensively, averagely wafting through the air. Tomorrow I’m going to wear something with real presence as a form of penance.
Speaking of the cool half of the spectrum, some people wanted to see my latest quilt, so here it is, every shade of blue/green/purple I could rustle up. https://www.instagram.com/p/DKLZ7LFM1c5/
(P.S. happy888cat, did you see last night’s Taskmaster? UTTER havoc! The most deranged episode ever!)
That quilt is really impressive–vibrant!
Beautiful and cooling just to look at it. Congrats on this, pyramus
Absolutely gorgeous, and love the color scheme.
Sorry to say your fragrance does not match the quilt 😉
Your quilt is beautiful!
Pyramus, your quilt is just beautiful!
Wow! Your quilt is just so beautiful. I love the colors!
Your quilt is aaamazing!
I haven’t watched it yet. I was saving it for the weekend but now you’ve gotten me thinking of clicking play the second I’m free!
The colors are so restful, you’re really talented, love the Japanese characters.
Beautiful quilt! I love the color combinations!
Wow, absolutely beautiful quilt and medley of colors. You are very talented. 👏
Your quilt is amazing!
Gorgeous quilt and how perfect for the rainbow CP!
Stunning quilt! Hope you can eventually get it finished.
Wow, your quilt is gorgeous! I love all your colors. Quilting is on my list of crafts to try now that I’m retired, lol. It’s a long list!
Belatedly adding my love of your quilt!
Happy Friday to all!
I’m in “Oud & Pink” from Cartier. The name is a little misleading – it’s more rose than oud, (the oud here isn’t especially barnyardy,) and I’d say it’s a deeper shade of red than pink. Beautiful, compelling, and just a wee bit strange.
Still, points!
Daniel, for a visual artist, you write with poetry and wit – barnyardy that word’s a keeper 😁. I bet you smell more marvelous than you give yourself credit for!
Cartier has some hidden gems in their lineup.
Happy Friday everyone! 😎
Sun at last, and my roses are almost in bloom – it’s supposed to warm into the 70s this afternoon and that should open a few buds.
My favorite color is green and I’m wearing Chanel No 19 edt, claiming extra points because the juice is green even though green isn’t in the name. Enjoy your day NST 💚
And also you are getting an enabler pin. I did get the Jergens Sandalwood Body Butter and decided to try the rose one too😉
Do report back, I have the rose in my Amazon cart lol
😊
Hurray for your roses!!
My favourite colour is the absence of colour, I guess, and so I’m in Bulgari Black today. This could also stand for Mr. Ockeghem’s mood this morning, as he’s just finishing colonoscopy prep.
I actually love all colours, and all colours together, but I’ve worn mostly black since high school. Many shades of green, and International Klein Blue, are also favourites.
Happy Friday!
Good luck to Mr. Ockeghem!
You smell so wonderful!
Lotta people seem to be getting colonoscopies lately!
Best of luck with the mister’s colonoscopy! No fun, but necessary.
Beige for the color Beige
Had a good riding lesson – I have to say half of my battle is my own mental blocks and self confidence
Perfume twins…
Lovely scent.
Those are the battle for almost everything, right? So you’ll figure it out 🙂
My plan was to wear CdG Rouge today for the CP, but I’ve been under the weather the past few days and can’t smell much, so I’ll wear it in spirit.
Tea today is lemon, ginger, licorice herbal tea that. I only ever make it hot, usually because I’m sick, but it is so humid today that I’m tempted to try it as an iced tea.
Feel better soon Vee♥️
Hope you feel better soon.🤗
Hope you feel better soon.
Sounds like it would be very refreshing made as iced tea. Hope you’re feeling better soon!
Aw. Sorry to hear that you aren’t feeling well. Hope you are feeling up to snuff very soon!
I’m stealing yesterday’s idea of Etro Dianthus for carnation which also reads red on me, though there are also white carnations I think. And maybe pink? I really like a lot of the older Etro scents and used to put them in the same camp as Diptyque (simple niche scents that smelled very natural but also artful), but that brand has soared in recent years while Etro seems to be somewhat treading water. Dianthus doesn’t last that long on me though so will then switch to L’Heure Bleue, another recommendation from earlier this week. My bottle is the 93 ml refill bottle of vintage EdT that was meant for the beautiful gold lattice case, which alas I do not own. But the juice never disappoints.
You are the second person bringing this scent up this week. I think I better try it.
send me yr addy & I’ll send you some.
I’m ladenisa then the dot with no space in between, then hamilton — at the geeeeee maile
Oh, thank you Denise. I will email you shortly.
Such a shame that Etro’s scent portfolio is shrinking. Their perfumes are starting to get really hard to find even at the discounters.
Very true about Etro & Diptyque.
At Etro the fragrances have always been an afterthought to the fashion.
L’Eau d’Hiver, for periwinkle blue/purple! I thought of it when I saw your illustration for this post.
Nice one!
Perfect, and glad the picture helped!
My favorite color is pink (rose) so I used BBW Rose Shower Gel and Rose Lotion this morning and topped it off with Guerlain AA Rosa Rossa. I think I probably should get a gazillion points for three different forms of rose scent, plus it’s in the names and plus my Rosa Rossa is pink juice! Did I win? 😊
Jalapeno-Chanel no. 19 is nothing like Hiris. When I tried the Chanel it was way too green on me and I couldn’t wear it. Let me know if you would like me to send you some of my Iris scents. You may find one you like.
Yes, I feel that No. 19 has some iris in it but is not actually an iris scent.
I couldn’t smell the iris past the green😐
Yep, you win!
Our Gold Medalist for Layering CP Scent is….(drum roll please)!Madame Kris 🏅🏅🏅
I agree you win!
Almost twins with you. I used the BBW Rose shower gel, body cream, body lotion and body spray and topped it off with the soft pink of philosophy Amazing Grace Ballet Rose for grocery shopping this morning, then switched to my SOTD for the cp this afternoon.
Oh, wow! We are almost twins.
Kris, I appreciate the offer on the iris perfume samples but will pass for now. I am actually making a small dent in my Sample Stash, and am kind of excited about that.
I will eventually get back into sampling after a few more thunks!
OK. Let me know later if you want to try anything.
Sounds good!
We have a hot day today and the agapanthus will probably be in full bloom this weekend.
SOTD will be Chinatown, the bottle is cheery enough and it’s a sunny, happy fragrance to me. Not quite the cp.
I think you at least partial points for the vivid pink on the bottle 🙂 .
Agapanthus is such a glorious bloom!
My favorite color is green and my SOTD is the very green Premier Figuier Extreme from L’Artisan. My bottle must be at least 20 years old and is still about half full. It’s the old kind of bottle, the big one with the fancy cap. I know many people prefer Phylosykos as the more figgy and greener scent, but I love the coconut-creamy aspects of this fragrance. I’m off later this afternoon to get a fresh haircut and also on the sad errand of picking up the memorial items for my beloved cat who crossed the Rainbow Bridge two weekends ago. I don’t usually go in for this kind of thing but he was so special and so much loved.
It was such sad news about your beloved cat. Such a loss and I’m glad you’re acknowledging his life and the connection you felt.
Thank you. I have a little plaque now with his name and paw print. It’s corny but sweet.
I think that’s such a beautiful way to honor the love the two of you have shared💕
I have pawprints from 4 of my cats that have crossed The Rainbow Bridge. They’re on little pieces of cardstock that I keep in a safe place.
Oh gosh Calypso, I’m so very sorry about your cat! 🤗
I don’t have just one favourite colour but several. My SOTD is Emotionnelle by DelRae for orange, my favourite cheerful colour.
I have quite a few DelRae scents, luckily, but never got that one. Could you please say more about why or how you feel it’s associated with orange? I love orange a lot, too!
Me three. And I think we both love orange cats as well as in perfume! (So sorry for the loss of your kitty).
Very simple really, it smells of a juicy cantaloupe, which has orange flesh.
Thank you! And that reminds me of why I never bought it. 😉
This made me laugh.
My mother went through an orange phase in the 70s: orange carpets, orange walls and orange half-hemisphere plastic light shades. When she transitioned from orange to brown everything looked like jaffas ( orange coated chocolate balls). It doesn’t seem that orange has made the come-back that bright yellow has.
I love orange, but not in that 70s orange and brown way – I’m still scarred by that!
It was quite popular at the time, wasn’t it?
I have an orange chair, but generally prefer orange clothes to orange interior decoration.
It’s funny, because it’s kind of our national colour as well, and I remember wearing some orange during the Sochi wintergames.
I don’t think it’s the main reason why I have always liked it do much, it’s just so very uplifting.
I remember those 1970’s appliance colors: burnt orange, avocado green, harvest gold, and brown. Did not care for them at all.
Ha! Exactly.. we had avocado green.
Yep, my mom too. I particularly remember a scandinavian style couch with orange stripes.
So did my mom! Though the orange was mostly in the kids’s area of the house my parents built in 1971. The kitchen was a symphony of harvest gold and avocado green, lol. It was a very cool house, tbh. I wish I had photos of the interior but there are very few, mostly taken in the living room that was more traditional.
I remember reading a biography of Sinatra, whose favorite color was orange. He called it the happiest color. I recall seeing photos of his weekend pad in Palm Springs, I think it was. Multiple shades of orange throughout the house.
I am wearing Frédéric Malle Synthetic Jungle for my favorite color which is green. (The name of this perfume has since been changed to Synthetic Nature, for whatever reason.)
I love Synthetic Jungle and will never call it that other name. What were they thinking?
I seem to remember that it was a trademark issue, but I am not 100% sure.
Bvlgari Eau Parfumée au Thé Bleu – blue and purple.
That one is so pretty!
My favorite color is yellow, so today I’m wearing Guerlain AA Pamplelune. My bottle is from its release in 1999 and is, thankfully, holding up well. I don’t care for grapefruit to eat but I love it in perfume.
I used to like that but then it developed into the dreaded B.O. note on me.
We have a grapefruit tree so at certain times of year I am giving away bags of grapefruit and juicing many many others in my old school 1970s Proctor Silex Juice-it which I have had repaired three different times I love it so much! But I do not love the grapefruit note that much in perfume so I am the opposite of you.
Happy Friday NST! I do love color, highly saturated tertiary colors in particular (blue-green, red-violet, yellow-orange) but my very favorite color is azure blue, like the Mediterranean Sea’s Côte d’Azure! That said EL Azurée has notes I’m allergic to, so the obvious pick won’t work for me.
Instead my CP is FM Iris Poudre. Iris was the flower of my sorority because it is one of the few flowers that cone in blue, and our colors were The Blue and The Blue (deep blue and powder blue). Powder Blue = Iris Poudre à gift from the fabulous Kris!
FYI: for my first mani-pedi in 10 wks early morning and the gal asked what I was wearing because I smelled sooo good. Iris Poudre FTW!
I get lots of compliments on Iris Poudre. It seems to be a crowd pleaser.
Ugh, not fun finding out you are allergic to something in a perfume!
Actually I found out from the actual flowers in bouquets: freesia, gardenia, tuberose- no Bueno!
Not a fan of freesia either. It’s sickly sweet to me. 🤢
Doesn’t help that the first time I smelled the fresh flowers was in a funeral arrangement.
🤗
Someone wore Gris Clair earlier this week and it reminded me that I do really love a silvery grey color. I would pair Iris Silver Mist with it but can no longer find my decant. Instead I’m in Dusita Pelargos which comes across as a bracing blue green. It’s quite good for the hot day up ahead.
I had a huge project due today but it just got extended to early next week, I think I’ll aim to finish most of it today regardless. Will feel so nice to get it done.
Have a wonderful Friday, all!
Hope you accomplished what you wanted to do!
I too live a silvery grey, especially offset with black or red! Glad you got an extension the. Have the peace of finishing early!
Today is the last day of school. My daughter missed the bus because I fell back asleep. I think she thought she was going to stay home but I drove her.
One of my favorite colors is burgundy. I can’t tell you how much effort I have put in looking for the perfect burgundy lipstick. I stopped looking about 5 years ago. I never did find it.
I’m matching my color with Hugo Deep Red. I think the scent actually matches the name, but I couldn’t tell you why.
Tuesday is the last day of school around here. Always enjoy summer,
because the street the school’s on ceases to be one way–saving me a longer route by about a minute, lol.
You might like Nars Explicit lipstick in Last Night/#868.
I don’t exactly know when the last day of school in these here parts but I am also excited because I now don’t have to go by when schools let out – it’s terrible being caught behind an unloading school bus!
Clinique Black Honey lipstick – not quite the same but pretty iconic.
That’s the very first one I thought of too, totally iconic!
How has Clinique not launched a companion fragrance to Black Hiney lipstick- it’s an icon!
Color twins. You are a dedicated mother😀
Deep Red is one of my favorite ‘red’ scents but I only wear it in the winter. I was almost going to pull it out for today’s cp but it’s too warm for me to wear that today – so I’m an ‘almost’ twin!
I’ve thunked a couple bottles of Deep Red. Still have part of the third one left. You smell great today!
Oh gosh I adore the color burgundy! Whenever I drink burgundy wine, I relish seeing the color in the candlelight of the table-it’s exquisite!
Pink is my favorite color so I’m in Prada un Chant d’Amour, whose juice is a pale pink to match. I wore a LOT of pink in the 80s lol, but not so much anymore. My bridesmaid dresses in ‘93 were hot pink, and looking at the photos, I still think they look good.
Looks like we are finally going to get some summer weather this weekend. I’d love some blue skies to go with it, but we are getting some of the haze from the wildfires in Canada. The blue skies we had during my 7 am barre class are sadly gone.
We will be getting the smoke too. 😢
It’s making my eyes itchy!😩
We are under an air quality alert.
It’s an odd looking gloomy sky.
Ew, I heard about the Midwest getting nasty air quality from those wildfires. I hope that’s not how your entire summer is going to be like.
Even though I’m dark-haired and an Aries (signature color red for its fiery qualities), I never quit developed a relationship with pink or red until the last few yrs. Now when Mr Engineer wants to cheer me up (that’s pretty much 24/7!these days) he wears a pink shirt! I developed a good feeling by about red after volunteering at a museum with a red exterior- talk about red! Red! Red!
Happy Friday and long time, no post! 🤗 Wearing 4160 Tuesdays Skin today which was part of the Tempest Rose crowdfund and the description is below. It’s a very nice, your-skin-but-better type fragrance.
On the work front, we got provisional status on our audit which is pretty miraculous and something to be celebrated given how little we had in place. We will need to be reaudited in the next year and have a lot to still demonstrate/maintain for the auditors but we are overall quite lucky. 💪🏻
On the personal front, going to the Big Island next month for vacation and I am soooo excited. 🏝🌋 Have not been to the BI before but have done lots of research the last couple months. Please let me know if you have any activities/places/food to recommend or avoid. 🌺
Skin – a sensual, musky, honeyed fragrance, that reveals more as you get close to it. We used an extract of honeybush and essential oil of everlasting flower for added intrigue.
Hiya She-ra! Glad to see you!
🎉 for the audit status! I really enjoyed the BI- very lunar looking, stark in places. No recommendations because it was too long ago, but Hawaii is just divine – those trade winds! Have an amazingly relaxing and revitalizing time!
SOTD = Puredistance White
Oy! So delightful! Not perfect for today’s muggy weather but eh, no big deal. And I am with the community project in both the perfume (name) and accompanying decor.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DKScyzqxWx3/?igsh=MXAxbTExbHpya3J0Ng==
In other news, what I thought was the Pope Leo XIV bobblehead was actually my auction (NOT eBay) win. I have yet to open the box but not worried. It seems that I may receive the bobblehead figure later this year.
Also, my bro, SIL and grandniece will be visiting in July so I now not only have to make decent dent (this is good) in my forever “spring cleaning”, I also now have to plan the get together. How fun 😭…
Did you see the new Starbucks reward system? I thought of you when I was reading about it.
Did you ever have a stuffed Snoopy when you were a kid? Or a Snoopy watch?
I still have my Snoopy watch.
I do too! But it is in desperate need of a new watchband. The original plastic one broke ages ago.
I ADORED my stuffed Snoopy!
Me too! A big one!
For the CP: Bulgari Blv II epd. Blue is my most chosen color, especially in the teal/aqua range. I agree with the many reviews on Fragrantica that find Blv II a cousin of Lolita Lempicka. Added to the enjoyment of the scent is the bottle, which is very nice in person, being heavy and sculptural.
I never tried your sotd. I think I assumed it was like Cool Water. That’s what I get for assuming instead of smelling!
I love everyone’s colour choices and the variety of responses. I think, for me, my preferences change with the seasons so at the moment I am enjoying the moody greys and blacks of winter skies and bare trees. The colour I wear most often is denim blue ( jeans) . So, I will go with a muted, cool wintery palette with the windswept Melancholy Thistle. I wouldn’t be surprised if there is snow on the hills this morning ( dawn isn’t until 8.20 so I can’t see them yet). A good day for the movies, maybe the new Wes Anderson though they’re becoming a bit same-same.
I totally agree! My daughter and I were just taking about that a few days ago. I said I feel like he’s trying to be *too* Wes Anderson, if that makes sense. The newer movies seem less about the story and more about his film style, idk. We recently rewatched Tenenbaums, and there’s a real story and message there. I didn’t get that from Asteroid City, but again, maybe just me….🤷♀️
I wear denim almost every day. Year’s ago I had a pair of denim boots.
I do love Wes Anderson as a rule, but have not even seen Asteroid City yet — I think for just that same-same reason.
Cracked up though at the aesthetics of his new Criterion box set, and was even briefly (very briefly, I have zero need and not even sure I have a working blu ray player) tempted to buy.
https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/8208-the-wes-anderson-archive-ten-films-twenty-five-years
Royal Tenenbaums and Rushmore are among my absolutes favs! Especially the soundtracks.
Ditto! And The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. The scene with Bill Murray running around in his bathroom on the deck of the boat leveled me.
Life Aquatic is the one I have rewatched the most.
I do love his Moonrise Kingdom!
My favorite color for as long as I can remember is red, but as the seasons change I expand that to include what I think of as the whole spectrum of red, from the palest pink to the deepest burgundy.
My SOTD for today’s cp is the long d/c YR Pur Desir de Rose edt, a soft but spicy red rose, my favorite kind! It reminds me of my favorite rose I planted years ago and I don’t even remember its name, only that it is a deep red spicy rose that blooms only once during the season; its buds are now forming, so this is a perfect scent for today! 🌹And some of my roses have already started to bloom, albeit they’re the pink ones.
Happy Friday to all!💐
Next time I pass by some roses in bloom, if I can stop to sniff them, I will. Your post reminded me to do that. I’m kind of surprised at how often roses are used in commercial landscaping out here.
This sounds like a very nice scent. I am not familiar with it, but it looks like it has been around for quite a few years.
I’ll be wearing Indigo Smoke after my shower. It fits the CP, but I also want to compare it with the last of my sample of Russian Tea – they seem similar, but they might actually be completely different when I compare them side by side.
My sample of Russian Tea is years old, but it is growing on me and it’s creeping on to my list of future purchases.
Report back, I am curious!
Lush Lust for me today, and now my arms are stained an orange-red color. 🤣 This is definitely a dangerous perfume.
Ooh, I like your new avatar thingie!
Lush Lust is such a crazy, wonderful, OTT fragrance, and that color!
LUSH Lust is something else! Have you ever paired it with Flying Fox showergel?
For my favorite dusky blue,SOTD FK Lumiere Noire pour femme (maybe discontinued I think?)
I love dusky blue but not sure I tried LN.
Frozen blackberries and yogurt smoothie
Cerruti 1881 pour femme this morning, as we reached 25C today this perfume kept me fresh-smelling I think, tonight it’s Giorgio Red for the CP, in attire I usually prefer a red accent like a scarf or even shoes.
Another favorite Aurora.
I did some research when looking for Red that the vintage boxes have the stripe down the side. I’m still not sure how the bottle’s differ.
Red really is a beauty isn’t it? and my vintage bottle is still fresh smelling, the bottle is tall and rectangular with a gold slim cap, you can also go by the short ingredients list to ensure a real vintage. I never appreciated the original Giorgio because it was everywhere in NY in the eighties.
Wearing Green Spell today because Kelly Green is my favorite color. I don’t wear the color or have it in my house but it’s been a favorite since I was little.
I’ve been seeing more people wearing Kelly Green this Spring.
It’s such a pure color. I can’t explain why I’m so drawn to it.
Robin, today’s picture is really cool!
I’m wearing one of my favorite colors today, red. But not matching scent with it. Instead, I am off in left field with something that has a rainbow-colored bottle for the CP.
SOTD = Angel Eau Croisiere EdT, with that fabulous bottle. Perfect scent for the weather today, which is warm and quite unsettled. Saw a couple of impressive lightning strikes out my bedroom window earlier this afternoon. 🌩️⚡
The Eau Crosiere bottles are so gorgeous. I wish I would have bought both of them, and the Iced Star. ( plus they all smell great!)
I thought you got the Iced Star?
Oh, I loved that bottle.
Probably one of the best Angel had. The red star one would have been pretty cool to get, too.
Isn’t it a great image? I really should play around with photo manipulation more, I bet creating something like that is not that hard.
Definitely an attention getter, that pic.
RIP Loretta Swit.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/obituaries/loretta-swit-dead.html
My favorite color is blue, so SOTD had to be L’Heure Bleue! My second favorite color is pink, so any fragrance with “rose” in its name would count, lol.