It’s Tuesday, National Umbrella Day and World Pulses Day. Birthdays: Boris Pasternak, Chick Webb, E. L. Konigsburg. What fragrance are you wearing?
I'm in Fendi Theorema, and I could just wear it all week? Tea at the moment is The Art of Tea Cascadia Breakfast brewed with cacao husks and cardamom.
Reminder: on 2/13, we're doing Long Lost Love Friday...wear a beloved fragrance that has been discontinued, or a fragrance that reminds you of a beloved person, pet, possession or place. (Suggested by Old Herbaceous.)
And for those of you who like to plan ahead, see Scent of the day ~ Friday community projects 2026, where I'll try (but usually fail) to have the next five or six weeks mapped out in advance.
Note: the Marimekko Musta Tamma Teapot ("The Musta Tamma pattern reflects Maija Isola’s recollections of her childhood, when she often imagined that she was running free in the woods together with a big herd of horses. This product celebrates the Year of the Horse and features the New Year stamp on the bottom") is $145 at Olson House.
Robin, I love today’s teapot! ☕️
I’m using my own teapot with a horse on it and sipping Simpson & Vail tea.
Yesterday I tried both Chanel No. 5 EDP and EDT. I loved them equally, but for different reasons: the EDP lasted longer and really melded with my skin, while the EDT felt more fleeting yet surprisingly more sensual.
Today our house is divided for the Olympics—USA vs. Canada in women’s hockey, a truly heated rivalry. 🏒
I finished Thirst of Love last night and got strong Madame Bovary vibes. I’m about 100 pages from finishing The House of Doors and absolutely loving it. Next up: The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea and Inheritance from Mother.
Today I am pairing Chanel Bois des Îles with the main protagonist Lesley Hamlyn— in the book I am reading The House of Doors—Lesley is composed on the surface but her inner world is very restless -this is how I find “box of eels” polite at first, then slowly revealing depth.
You smell great, and women’s hockey is very exciting. I’ll catch the replay this evening.
Both teams are strong 💪
I thought you would go for that teapot!
LTSG, wow, beautifully abundant in spirit of fragrance, literature and sport! I too tried to buy the teapot but it’s sold out. Since I bought the YOTH tea, I needed a matching teapot it seemed.
Marimekko US still has it, so does ShopBop, probably other places.
Ok, now you need an Enabler Coat, Hat, Scarf and Pin!!! I bought the teapot and 2 matching mugs! 🤯💸💸💸
Oh good! I love Marimekko, and that’s a great pattern — so cheerful.
I absolutely adore the nickname… “Box of eels” 🙂
Beautiful teapot, Rbin, and belated congradulations on the 21 anniversary of NST:)
I’m in Fleur de Cassie, for a cold snowy day. I’m so over winter driving and cannot wait till spring. Which is funny cause around here spring driving can also be treacherous lol. At least I smell good.
Drive safe!
Thanks Carole.
You smell divine!
Rose Anonyme for the CP!
I know the rose-oud segment is oversaturated, but it’s still a shame it was discontinued. There’s something special about this scent.
I still don’t understand how Atelier Cologne did such a bad job of branding and marketing…they should have had two brands, and Rose Anonyme should have been in the one not called “Cologne”.
Agree. Great scent which has nothing cologne-y in it. Very different from Atelier Cologne “regular” fragrances.
Beautiful rose perfume!
I’m starting Long Lost Love week in Tom Ford Violet Blond — how on earth they decided to discontinue this one I’ll never know. Happy to have snagged a big bottle. It’s the reason I have a section of the perfume shelf devoted to fluted bottles. Tea at the moment is a latte.
I may join you in a latte before this day is out 🙂
I love Violet Blond, too. I’m with you on the 🤔 for perfume company decisions. Unfigureoutable!
If you like something from Tom Ford, better buy it before it disappears. WIsh I would have picked up Orchid Soleil.
Sat outside last night, rocking my camp chair, watching the sun set and the stars turn from barely discernible tiny flat pinpoints of light to sparkling 3D disco balls carpeting the black void of the sky like a magic show. So gorgeous! 🌟
I think my perfume ennui may be lifting a bit. This morning I reached into my stash (again!) and came out with Fils de Dieu. It was like meeting an old friend after a long separation. 🥰
Stay safe and cozy, perfume peeps!
Night sky envy!
Deva, your post made me feel like I was right beside you- so vivid!
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/feb/10/planetary-parade-february?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Hope you get to see all the planets lined up soon. Sounds like you’re in an ideal spot.
That sounds marvelous Deva!
2nd on the night sky envy.
I always think of you when I wear Fils de Dieu. It’s so comforing😊
and comforting!
I’ve long associated you with Fils de Dieu!
Fils de Dieu and Eau de Crypt are what I consider your “signature” scents.
Wearing a spritz of Pehaligon’s Lily and Spice, which I’d dithered over and lost the chance to buy, as it felt like a lot. One spritz though is quite nice, and I am grateful to have a decant at least.
You smell lovely, AnnieA. I remember liking this one a lot when I sampled it years ago and like you, I missed out on buying it. I think back then I thought that most perfumes would always be around and so there was no hurry. Hah! Now I know better.
I absolutely love Lily & Spice. They should have never discontinued it
In L’Artisan Saffran Troublant for the CP. So sad that they discontinued such a great scent.
Happy Tuesday! 🌻
Accidental twin! I was looking in my cabinet and thought, oh, hey, I haven’t worn that in a while!
Back when L’Artisan introduced it, it was part of a limited-edition set of three spice-based gourmands in 15-mL sprays: Safran Troublant (saffron and vanilla), Poivre Piquant (white pepper and honey), and Piment Brûlant (red pepper and cocoa). The only one I really liked was Piment Brûlant, and then I wore it so much I got sick of it, but discovered that I liked Safran Troublant so much that I bought a backup bottle just in case, just at the time they were making the switch from the rounded cap to the weighty golden heptagon. It hadn’t been reformulated yet so it’s still fantastic.
I remember reading about that set here on NST:) I thought it was charming. I bought ST and PB during covid whet hey were really inexpensive. I’d like to go back in time and pick up a few more things-wish time travel was my super power.
I still have the little coffret of these three in the red box.
It still charms me.
I am glad I have full bottles of all 3. I love them all, but I never got the cocoa note from Piment Brulant. For me it has always smelled like fresh green peppers. Still, I enjoy it during summertime. I finished my first bottle of Saffran Troublant long time ago, and I am using my back up bottle now. I will greatly miss it when I am done with it.
I want L’Artisan to bring back Tea for Two, Dzing! and Saffran Troublant. All unique and wonderful fragrances.
I agree. They are all fantastic scents. Dzing never worked for me, but I always appreciated it.
Again… Another great one that got discontinued. I used to have a bottle of Safran Troublant but it was so long…
Yes, sadly discontinued!
So many lovely things that L’Artisan has discontinued.
Unfortunately, some of the best ones.
I’m wearing VC&A California Reverie this morning because it smells like spring to me. With ski season a bust, I’m looking forward.
Shame about your ski season. Maybe you will get a late winter dump of snow?
Still hoping for late season snow out here.
Happy 21st birthday for NST, Robin. What an achievement. Thank you. I had an associated idea for a CP which is: What perfume would you give to your 21 year old self? ( You can base your choice on what’s available today).
Nice teapot. Reminds me of the painted Dala horses. Definitely signs of autumn approaching: dark mornings, berries on the hawthorn and holly trees, and leaves turning on the maple. But, in full bloom now are all the Himalayan lilies ( and lots of dahlias) so I’m wearing Vierge de Fer.
I love your SOTD, Kanuka. Your fall means our spring is coming. Hope fall there is as beautiful as it is here.
Oh, I like this CP idea very much.
Great community project idea!
Great idea, added to list!
Happy Tuesday NST!
Sotd Love of:
FAMILY – IA How to Say Bicycle in French. I first wore last spring and my aunt commented how I good it was when we were hugging.
Enabler Bracelet to go with Pin? Well, Robin, not only did I buy the H&S YOTH tea but I tried to buy that gorgeous teapot above to go with it. Alas, sold out but I signed up for the restock notification. 🐴🫖
I have a decant of this and I love it-you smell soooo gooood 🙂
Thank you Carole! I love the herbal notes. Maybe we’ll twin someday in the future.
This and Libre Platine make me think of you. 😀
LP is a big favorite of LL, LLJ !
Theorema is wonderful. Wearing Jicky to work today. Just wasn’t feeling Cheirosa 62 or Infusion d’iris today.
You smell fantastic today Dawn!
Wearing Bottega Veneta, so gorgeous. I don’t know why I never wear it. I was dismayed to find that all the lettering is off the bottle and it’s just been sitting in my perfume cabinet for years.
Huh, that’s a little weird.
My bottle of Bottega Veneta did the same thing with its lettering. And I’ve kept mine in the box away from heat and light.
I saw it mentioned somewhere else online. It makes me sad because I didn’t keep the box and the frosted bottom of the bottle doesn’t have a label.
You smell great! My suede ribbon thingy came unglued. It irritates me.
Since the lettering is gone, that little suede thingy is the only identifier I have for it, now.
Wearing 1969 from a recently unearthed discovery set from Histoires de Parfums. Getting peach and rose so far.
Project Amber motivated me to find the set…yesterday I wore Ambre 114 and it blew me away! So damn good and I ordered a FB. I had tried it a while back and liked it but yesterday it was like an elixir from the Gods delivered to my nose. I guess the master appears when the student is ready. 🥰
Glad you found a new love, She-ra.
Thanks, ringthing! It’s always good to check our own cupboards from time to time. 😆
A moment of perfume grace.
Yes, like treasure hunting in one’s own house. 🥰
Ambre 114 is a BEEG amber perfume!
It’ is a BIG one and my sample set if from 2016!!! no less so it’s an older formula too.
Love the teapot! And wishing a belated and very happy birthday to NST – 21!!
I’m wearing Oil Perfumery’s version of Armani Code which sort of fits the cp as it supposedly smells like the older original formulation of Code which smells different than today’s version. Fendi Theorema will definitely make a showing sometime this week on my skin.
I’m wondering if anyone here has Penhaligon’s Changing Constance and can tell me what you think of it. It sounds like something I might really like, just curious about others’ thoughts.
Thanks springpansy!
I’m wearing Chaldée from Jean Patou. It’s discontinued along with everything else from Jean Patou 🙁 .
Sorry Gaynor!
Robin, I’m copying you today in Theorema, a much beloved and departed from this Earth fragrance. It also reminds me of a dear friend who knew I loved it and gifted me a bottle over Xmas, which is no easy or cheap task when you have to hunt it down on the auction sites these days.
What a nice gift (and gifter)!
Wow, that’s an amazing gift! It speaks volumes about your friend and the connection you have.
That is a dear friend!
Yes it is. She is a perfumista too and has been known to lurk here!
It is a lovely teapot, Robin!
The discontinued Shanghai Lily today. I fell hard for TF during this time; to me there were some stunners released.
That was then, this is now.
My friend who is in Kyoto now where it is snowing on the plum blossoms has been tasked with bringing me a bottle of Dior Vanilla Diorama which meets my never ending amber- vanilla path. I have never owned this one.
I was going to go with Guerlain Double Vanille but this one just felt right.
My sister lasted two weeks in retirement.
I loved Shanghai Lily, that was around the same time as TF Sahara Noir, another one I never bought.
Oh yes, that one too!
Wait, your sister has un-retired?!?
You’re kidding — your sister got bored that quickly???
There are rumors that Vanilla Diorama is being discontinued and will gradually get phased out…so wise to get a FB now.
Yesterday I was raving about Chanel Boy from a sample I got as a gift with purchase. Today I wore another gift with purchase sample: Comete. I have several samples now since that’s what Chanel sends with each order right now (well that’s the perfume sample they currently offer).
When I first tried Comete a couple of months back – it’s not that I was disappointed but it smelled different than I had (hoped?) for it to smell. It was much sweeter than I had imagined it to be.
Powdery – which I anticipated from Chanel and hoped for – but very very very sweet.
Today I wore it overall (before it was just one spritz on the wrist) and I absolutely love it. I put it on before 8 am when I left for work and it’s over 8 hours later and I still smell it.
But until 1 or 2 pm I was surrounded by a gorgeous cloud of it, wow when move around I still smell it 8 hours later!!
Lasting power – perfect. Perfect especially since it’s very expensive so that completely checks off.
It turns out I love Comete right along Beige, 1932 or Boy.
It performed absolutely spotless. Beautiful, beautiful fragrance. Special. Yes we had Cherry blossom/iris combo server to us many times before in perfumes but this one is truly special. Meticulous detailing in the notes.
It’s funny because to me Boy smells like a baby blue perfume and Comete smells like baby pink.
They could sell a fragrance duo: Boy and Comete in one set. Boy is truly unisex (and not masculine just unisex!) but Comete is definitely feminine. But I loved every second of it. I am not quite ready for the next big fragrance purchase yet (I consider buying a perfume that costs over $250 to be a big purchase) but when I finally am ready I will completely not know whether to get Boy or Comete first.
Hopefully one or the other will call to you when you’re ready to buy 🙂
Thanks for your thoughts on these. I always enjoy reading reviews here!
SotD is JOVOY Sans un Mot. A lovely person here gifted me a bottle with a little bit left in it, saying she loved it and was going to buy another bottle. I hope she did, because the next bottle I bought smelled so sadly unlike the first. Reformulation strikes again, greedy thief!
The fragrance is not my usual thing, a big powder bomb, but to me, it was a very sexy French powderbomb. I still have a few drops left; c’est la vie, hmm?
Well, hello there, stranger!
👋🏻 Hi there, hottie!
https://youtu.be/CGtf9QfITQw?si=8gOVk5ykcoE5a5cY
Here’s a song match AnnE
Wow, I had never heard of him. Where was I?
What joy it was to open my eyes this morning to 37 degree temps! 👏 It got up to 48 degrees today, and I’ve just returned from enjoying some bird-watching 🐦⬛from my covered backyard glider swing, something I haven’t done in ages! Yesterday I went for a dip in our hot tub, something I also hadn’t done for several weeks. Little by little . . . 🌱
Sticking with vintage again today in my SOTD, JCB Ombre Rose from the early 1980’s, a lovely powdery, aldehydic floral. (I also have and love the Ombre Bleue and the Ombre Violette Menthe.). The Ombre series has some of the prettiest bottles in the perfume world.
Relaxing with a cup of cranberry-hibiscus tea and looking forward to Finding Your Roots tonight – as a history lover and student of my own genealogy, it’s one of my favorite PBS programs. Happy evening to all! 🌃
You and I were temperature twins today. It’s cooling off out here, so warmer weather might be headed towards the east.
Yes, we’re happy to send you our cold temps and we’re even happier to receive your warm temps. And 😻😽😺 are thrilled to go out onto the screened porch for longer than 2 minutes and not worry that their paws will freeze!
I’m happily following others in Safran Troublant, thank you! It’s tough to type. I am feeling a bit better. Thank you Robin for nurturing this wonderful and stimulating, friendly space for 21 years! Hurrah!
I’m glad you’re feeling better💐
Seconding what allo said!
Echoing the others, glad you’re better! Little by little each day . . .
So glad you are feeling better Calypso!!
We are all rooting for your speedy recovery and return to pain-free days, Calypso. I’m glad the operation is behind you at least.
I’m in a tiny spritz of Antonia’s Flowers, perhaps the origin of my obsession with fragrance. The bottle I have has gone off to a great degree but I can still smell the hidden beauty. And hopefully, the promised “redux” will be coming soon…💗
Fingers crossed! Tiempe Passate is one of my (many) regrets, tho not likely I’d buy it now. But it was a great brand.
I should have mentioned that Antonia’s Flowers (the brand) is selling Tiempe Passate already and promising to re-release Antonia’s Flowers (the fragrance). TP isn’t cheap, but so little is these days😕
https://antoniasflowers.com/products/tiempe-passate
Maybe a 21st Birthday present to yourself???🥰💐
How unexpected! Thanks for the news, allo. I had a bottle of Tiempe Passate once upon a time; it was a beautiful fragrance – and bottle.
Me too and this one has definitely tempted me😋
Oh thank you allo! But no, I don’t need so much. If they come out with a 10 ml spray I will buy it, but I would regret even 60 ml!
sotd = Vanille Galante
I smell like a boozy banana! 🍌🥃 Vanilla often smells like banana to me. I love both. ❤️ Both vanilla and banana that is, not so much the booze. 😁
You smell great today tiffanie!
Cute teapot!
Seasonal weather here today. It dropped 25 degrees from yesterday. One of the Denver-area meteorologists mentioned this morning that roughly half of the winter days so far have had high temperatures above 60 degrees. Not the warmest on record yet, but mighty close.
SOTD = Jo Malone Rose Amber Cologne. So glad I have this one! Pairing it with The Body Shop Pink Grapefruit Body Yogurt.
I like your sotd. I actually bought it once but then stupidly returned it the next day.
We were rose twins today!
I’m kind of bummed out that I couldn’t get the 2 other rose perfumes that JM released at the same time. But they seem to bring back items from their archived catalog ever so often. Maybe you will have another chance at Rose Amber?
It’s been a hectic day. I ended up working a split shift.
To my fellow Baseball fans.. I am super excited to see that Justin Verlander will be pitching for Detroit this season! Woo and Hoo!
Sotd is PoaL. I did 4 sprays and gassed myself out this morning, but I am smelling mighty fine.
Death by POAL? ☠️
What a way to go, though.
Oof a split shift! But a cloud of POAL sounds amazing.
Best smelling gal in your time zone, methinks!
Ugh, the dreaded split shift. Sorry to hear that your place does that.