Happy Almost-Friday! It's also Darwin Day and Lincoln’s birthday. There are 36 days until the spring equinox, but only 16 days until the first day of meteorological spring. What fragrance are you wearing?
I'm in vintage Old Spice, which reminds me of every high school boyfriend ever...really it just reminds me of high school (I wish I still had some Devin but I don't.)
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: top image is From directly across Commercial Street [cropped and contrast adjusted] by El Payo at flickr; some rights reserved. (You can read more about this Banksy work in San Francisco here.]
Another discontinued scent – L’Artisan Parfumeur Œillet Sauvage.
Thanks for sending warmth and sun. It looks like we’re going to need it – after the electricity situation improved a little yesterday, there was an attack in the early hours of the morning. As a result, we’ve had no power since 7 AM (it’s almost 5 PM now). First it was a scheduled outage, then an emergency outage, and by the time they fix it, it’ll be another scheduled outage. So, probably no power until tomorrow.
Fingers crossed for power sooner!
Got it 5 minutes ago!! Fingers crossed is stays long enough to charge my stations.
I thought of you this morning as I watched war correspondent Philip Ittner talk about the attack on Kiev last night from midnight til around 3 a.m. He’s reported on the power outages in recent weeks, saying that power was being limited to 4-6 hours per day and would probably remain that way for about 2 months during one of the coldest winters Ukraine has experienced. Praying for your safety.🙏
Thank you! I am not in Kyiv itself, but in one of smaller towns near it, so the situation is better here. But yes, we also had periods with only 4-6 hours of power per day. So far, I’ve managed to charge everything and keep the apartment warm even on days with longer outages – my problems are limited to anxiety and lack of sleep.
Glannys, keep on charging, staying warm, and breathing. And smelling great!
We’re all rooting for you here. ❤️
Wishing I could send you a couple days of uninterrupted electricity in addition to the sun.
I am in Donna Karan Black Cashmere, another wonderful discontinued scent. I still have half a bottle that I wear in very small amounts and in rare occasions. I love it!
I came to work at 5:30am, so I am on my third cup of coffee and a big l piece of chocolate filled panettone.
Happy Thursday! ☕️
Wow..that a great pair! Chocolate and coffee-breakfast of champions.
😄
Ouch, 5:30am! Hope you’re hanging in there and get to leave early!
Trying my best. We have a deadline in two weeks and we are behind, so I am working late. I will survive! ☕️☕️☕️
Yum! Chocolate pannetone & ☕️☕️☕️😋
Delish!
Panettone is delicious as it is. There’s a chocolate-filled version, too?
There are different fillings. My brother-in-law recently brought some pistachio and chocolate-filled versions from Italy.
This is a US online store that sells them. I have never purchased from them:
https://giustosapore.com/products/panettone-with-pistachio-cream-28-21oz?srsltid=AfmBOopZ6JmUMJFZ2WA6yt_gksLzzP0Fk0iGiwVHuC7OGanWEo-8kH-x
https://giustosapore.com/products/panettone-with-chocolate-cream-28-21oz?srsltid=AfmBOooT-Xd5BbcAYXKR0ZR7dvX93p1C_DYSvHcYwzbKPkAJ8Dzx2qCN
Temptress! 🤣🤣
Pl67, I adore Black Cashmere. I have two bottles but neither one are full. I will miss it when it’s gone.
I will also miss it. It is such a beautiful scent!
My scent today is Iris Ganache by Guerlain, sadly discontinued
I don’t know about the rest of you, but I’ve barely left the house this week. I have cancelled all my volunteering and other engagements. I am just home reading…
Books: Inheritance from Mother feels a bit heavy for me right now, so I may set it aside and continue with The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea — quite a mouthful of a title
I’m sipping Earl Grey from Postcard Teas, enjoying a few madeleines, and planning to watch some hockey and other Olympic events later today..
After the shower, I switched to Coco.
I was not feeling Guerlain today..
Also, wearing a deep coral lipstick.
ltsg – are you planning to watch the movie after you finish the book?
There is a movie?
ummmm…yes:)
Today’s discontinuation is Halston Catalyst for Men, a gorgeous clove bomb in some of the best packaging ever devised — test tubes in racks for the EDT, Erlenmeyer flasks and round-bottomed flasks for the other products. Sheer genius, and an extraordinarily good scent.
Oooh, I love that packaging!
Really good, creative marketing is always a pleasure.
I am hugely ignorant of most fragrances geared towards men. A clove-bomb, huh? Gotta look up this one!
Great name for your SOTD in addition to the packaging.
I have so many old loves in my collection but today I chose a more recent perfume. I was craving rose maybe because of Valentine’s. Voskanian Histoire d’une rose which reminds me of Armenia. It’s a perfect rose for me.
Did you see the new perfume add from Guerlain, LPRN Parfum, an animated add with roses and dresses dancing, soo beautiful!!!
I ordered Charlotte Casiraghi’s new book from France and loving it a lot, la fêlure meaning the crack-up. I am not sure if it’s been translated into English though.
I will see if there is an English translation. Did you see her picks?https://www.chanel.com/us/fashion/event/literary-rendez-vous-charlotte-casiraghi-2025-summer-readings/
I am still waiting for Albertine to let me know when Leïla Slimani’s 3rd book in her series will come out in English. Probably this summer
Thank you. I am noting these recommendations.
I love Leila Slimani and even though i didn’t read the first two books, I really loved the 3 rd one. J’emporterai le feu.
Did you read the first two books?
I did read the first two books — they were recommended to me by my friend, who read them in French. I’m always drawn to novels with a strong sense of place, and I really love her writing.
My favorite book set in Morocco is one Kanuka recommended to me, Under The Sheltering Sky.
Lately, though, I seem to have relocated to Japan & Malaysia — at least mentally. My passport hasn’t moved, but my bookshelf certainly has..
I’m in Lea, which is my most loved discontinued perfume. The sprayer on my bottle broke so I had to decant my last 10 mls and I think there is some evaporation happening so I really need to use it or lose it forever.
More olympic watching last night and I am bummed that the US did not win the ice dancing☹️ but happy that the speed skater not only won the gold but set an Olympic record doing it, and he’s from wisconsin!😁
We are finally warming up and temps are predicted to get up to 50! this weekend. There is a car wash in my future, my car is dirrrTY! and also white so there is no hiding that dirt.
You smell wonderful!
It will do your car good to get rid of all the road salt, too.
I finally got my car washed today, it looks so nice, everything was coated with salt residue.
Happy Thursday NST!
Robin, you smell very alluring in your Old Spice. I’ve been known to follow around men wearing that scent at a party or the supermarket. Old Spice – being out the stalker in the ladies (like Hai Karate Light😆
Sotd Love of:
LOVE! – Jones Road Beauty’s newest scent En Route, inspired by Bobbi Brown’s long happy marriage to her husband Steve. #CoupleGoals
This scent makes me think of the great 60’s film Two for the Road w Audrey Hepburn & Albert Finney, and its seductive soundtrack, especially the title song, sung below by Johnny Mathis, conducted by Henry Mancini himself.
https://youtu.be/wQFHU3ktzj8?si=JGDkkMjRhDwrarrV
LesLiesse, that was a great movie! It’s what I think of as a very ”adult” movie. Thoughtful, moving through classic themes in relationships, yet doing so with style and wit. I don’t know how I happened upon it, probably bored and came to TCM. I haven’t had that channel for a long time, wonder if it still exists….
Yes TCM still exists and they’re getting ready to start their annual 30 Days of Oscar month in the lead up to the 3/15 ceremony. AE that’s an apt description of the movie. It’s a favorite of mine!
I was wondering if you had tried the newest perfume from Jones Road.
Guilty (w pleasure) as charged.
I wish my high school boyfriends had worn scent, but not a single one did. It just wasn’t a thing in my high school time, I guess.
Anyway, this morning I’m taking points in vintage(ish, probably) Bal a Versailles extrait, a nearly untouched bottle of which was lurking, in its presentation box, underneath my mother’s scarves. Mom passed away last year and I am beginning the melancholy process of going through her things. My more recent memories of her perfumed self are L’Air du Temps, Coco and Gucci EDP, but now that I’ve applied stopper-dabs of BaV to my skin my seventies-era mom memories are coming back to me. She wore this in the seventies (and maybe even the sixties), but since this bottle is mostly full, I suspect Dad or one of us kids gave it to her as a birthday present without knowing that she had moved on, perfumewise.
Better than high school during the Axe years at least!
True! 😂
SheriG,
Yes, melancholy but necessary work.
Who knows, maybe it was your moms back up bottle!
Melancholy and bittersweet, yes, but how nice that your Mom can ‘return’ to you in a way through the magic power of scent. 🤗
What a lovely keepsake to find!
I was a House Twin with AnnieA yesterday, wearing Parfums DelRae Amoureuse. If anything can catapult me into spring, it’s this glorious fragrance🌸
And today I’m wearing DelRae Mythique, another beauty from this house. I’m lucky to have most of the line (thanks to those blessed perfume “garage” sales!) but I keep my fragrant fingers crossed for a perfume miracle and a resurrected Parfums DelRae🙏
Sad that DelRae is no more…
So sad😔
After the mentions of Safran Troublant earlier this week I have put on a spritz of it this more. I still think of it as an interesting smell rather than a perfume, if that makes sense. Will see whether underspraying makes a difference.
Makes perfect sense to me, and often those are the fragrances I prefer 🙂
Holy cow-my arms are longer than yesterday from all the shovelling, and it’s still coming down. what to wear for snowpocolipse-La Chasse body wash. So delicate and always ha such good memories for me. It is comforting, and beautiful. I know when I get home the plow will have struck again lol. onwards and upwards 🙂
I wish you could send it west. We are in such a drought.
Yes! The mountains are eerily brown, as opposed to the usual whiteness of winter in the Cascades.
Sounds like a workout
*sighs wistfully at the mention of snow*
Hello from KL Malaysia!
Spent the whole day travelling and now I am so ready for bed.
No sotd because plane travel but I do have on some Aesop hand lotion that smells great.
I heard and read KL does amazing Lunar New Year celebrations so I am looking forward to experiencing them. I really want to see lion/dragon dances.
I hope you have a great trip and get to see the celebrations
Hope you get to see the lion/dragon dances! 🦁🐲
Are there any other special events you are looking forward to?
Yay! Hope the NY celebration is fantastic, I am sure it will be.
The scent of high school boys when I was in school was Polo, and A LOT of it. But none of my boyfriends back then wore scent. (If we moved on to university in Europe, we’d be talking Cool Water…so much Cool Water.)
Today I tried to wear Feu d’Issey, but the sprayer on my decant isn’t working, so I’ll have to redecant it later. So instead, my long lost perfume is Aedes Oeillet Bengale, which I have thanks to an NSTer.
Yesterday I wore Jil Sander No. 4, which is what a boyfriend bought for me back in the Cool Water years.
Funny thing about the Axe — when we came back from Germany last year, Ockeghem Teen had to take one of the only unassigned lockers left, which was next to the gym. Apparently it was jock row, and one of them had commandeered the empty locker — when they cut off the lock so OT could use it, she found about six bottles of Axe, which she promptly threw out. 🙂
😁 Funny story about Axe!
I don’t remember any boys wearing scent in high school. Or, more likely they did, but I wasn’t in the right circles for that, haha.
I would have loved it if it had been Polo. I had to wait for college for that.
SIX bottles of Axe?? Bleurgh!
Did Ockeghem Teen have to fumigate that locker afterwards?
Apparently it hadn’t been sprayed that much in the locker. 🙂 She survived. But yeah, the jocks aren’t her type.
Bvlgari Black for the cp. I smell like I’m drinking tea while buying new tires and wearing my leather jacket that has a dash of a vanilla perfume on it. Kinda. Anyway, it’s great.
About to head to the store to get lasagna ingredients. Have a good day, all. And please send any extra snow out west!
I am shocked I have never tried this
Happy to send you a little decant if you’d like to try it! Click on my screen name above to get my email in case you don’t still have it.
So the PNW is hurting for precip as well? That sucks.
Yes, I think most of the west needs mountain snow (not just rain) to get us through the warm and dry months.
Yeah, it’s a hard winter up here on the north side of the PNW. I can see one of the three ski areas above the city (when it’s not cloudy / raining), and there’s no snow at all on the lower slopes.
Time for me to up the snow dance then! ❄️☃️⛄
Not really doing the CP this week so haven’t been commenting.
SOTD does remind me of Lesliesse today since she likes this perfume house-Courreges Blanc.
You smell lovely.
Thank you. I really like it.
I haven’t done it all week, but I might tomorrow.
I’m happy to see you commenting today 😀
Thanks Lillyjo!
Three sprays of L’Essence for moving house day. It’s been nice to have a bit of company but I’m ready to be on my own again. I don’t think a lot of people understand that when they hop in a RV, they are not leaving their issues behind. Currently in a town to do grocery shopping, taxes, and hop on a regular computer to complete some work stuff. Thank God for public libraries, no matter how tiny and dusty they are. Still quite warm here and if you’re standing in direct sunlight without a hat and proper sun blocking clothing, you will sizzle like a steak in a hot cast iron pan.
I’m feeling the tiniest bit hopeful for the world today. Just the tiniest bit, but still, it’s better than feeling hopeless…🙃
Stay safe!
I must have missed something..
Was someone traveling with you?
No, I met a solo retired traveler a few weeks ago at a campground, and we struck up a conversation. She was afraid to boondock on her own so I told her she could hang near me for a while to see if it made her more comfortable. When I moved out into the desert she met up with me for a few days. Hope she feels a bit more confident now that she knows Freddie’s not going jump out from behind a saguaro and get her. 😉
That was very kind of you, Deva.
I join you in your gratitude for public libraries. They were my refuge growing up.
+1 for a tiny bit of hope, you are so right that it is better than none.
It’s a big year for cicadas here, it’s quite noisy even inside. Our cat is getting a lot of extra protein 🙂 . Phaedra brought one in this morning as I was getting out of bed. It looked quite lively so I took it outside, it flew away and she was a bit annoyed.
I’m wearing another Jean Patou, Deux Amours.
I miss the sound of cicadas here. I heard one yesterday but its so rare that I stopped and listened for a few minutes
My tinnitus does a pretty good cicada imitation!
What a great name for a cat!
I miss hearing cicadas in the summer. They are in some parts of Colorado, but aren’t near me.
Teflon kitty would probably freak out if she ever had a cicada near her. She’s strictly an indoor creature.
I just cleaned my house and am waiting for my daughter’s service girl to come. Hopefully she will be able to walk up my driveway. We can’t get more than a day over freezing so there’s still a lot of ice over here. Salt doesn’t help much.
I’m wearing Zara Fleur de Patchouli. I must be on a patchouli kick lately.
I hope they were able to navigate your driveway! I have not smelled the Zara Fleur de Patchouli but I bet you smell good!
I think you would like it. It’s very nice.
Fleur de Patchouli is so pretty! I saw that Zara had it back in stock recently.
Yes, and Romance d’Iris too, but they upped the price.
Looks like the Romance d’Iris is a parfum concentration this time instead of EdP. So it might smell different.
I’m in Love les Carottes. I’m not sure if this has been discontinued or not but it was difficult to find anywhere for awhile. I finally got my bottle around 2 or 3 years ago once I saw it was in stock again (very briefly).
It mostly reminds me of a fantastic nst’er who mentioned this one a few times here. I knew I had to get this fragrance because of her!
You smell wonderful!
I think Ostara has been discontinued? Wearing it anyway as it brings a bit of light to another drab day.
I got some Sun today. I will send it your way!
It has been discontinued. According to some (maybe many), it smells like stale flower vase water; on me, it’s a wonderful yellow flower perfume.
Dzing! for the day. I loved the bottle immediately, good thing the fragrance was a winner, too.
For those who asked about my sister and her short lived retirement…yep she was born a nurse. She will work 4-5 days a month. They took her back immediately.
4-5 days a month sounds not too bad!
SOTD = Guerlain French Kiss
The name had been retired and it was “reborn” as Rose Cherie. It has definitely been reformulated so as far as I am concerned, French Kiss had been discontinued.
I haven’t decided yet what I am wearing tomorrow because my PP has quite a few discontinued perfumes. PP is Perfume Portfolio so it is best to take your mind off the gutter 🤣🤣🤣.
Thanks to those who responded to my question regarding empty candle jars. I haven’t responded yet but will do so shortly.
I never tried French Kiss, but have greatly enjoyed a sample of Rose Cherie that I am pretty sure came from you. So thanks!
As a lover of gourmand scents in the cold winter months, I really enjoyed BBW’s Tutti Dolci line which consisted of edt’s as well as body products, long-d/c and now considered vintage and going for high prices on evilBay if you can even find them. I’m staying with chocolate for the second day in a row, wearing Chocolate Fondue from the TD line, only a couple sprays left in my bottle before it’s a thunker. With its chocolate-covered fruit notes, it harmonizes nicely layered over BBW’s Red Velvet Cheer (also d/c) body products with similar notes.
Will be putting all these winter fragrances aside for awhile in the next week as we’re expecting slowly-climbing temps to the mid and upper 50’s, maybe even 60 by early next week! There’s still slowly melting snow on the ground but walking to the theater last night was a pleasure, as the sidewalks and crosswalks were completely free of ice and snow for the first time in forever!
Looking forward to our monthly Global Neighbors program at my library tonight, this month featuring Africa. It’s always a wonderful mix of music, culture and food, + I’ll enjoy walking there!
Happy almost-weekend to all!🌍🎶🥣
Sounds like you are getting a honest to goodness thaw out there! Enjoy!
I don’t know any of those scents, Laila, but what I do know is I wanna live in your neighborhood! So much to do there, it sounds like a fun place.
I’ve been sleeping non-stop, guess I got worn out by getting cleaned up and going to the Medical Center yesterday for my first post-op checkup. Everything seems to be going well. That’s good, and I enjoyed having an outing, but wow I have been so tired. My SOTD isn’t CP related but I’m going through my bottles from L’Artisan and today’s selection is Fou d’Absinthe. It’s so unusual I don’t wear it often.It reminds me of a magical scene in Coppola’s Dracula where Dracula (Gary Oldman) takes Mina (Wynona Ryder) to a movie and then to an absinthe parlor.
I remember seeing that version of Dracula in college with a bunch of friends.
Wonder if the current Dracula movie is any good?
Oh I think you smelled great today!
And so glad it is all going well even if you are worn out.
Under the weather today. Hopefully my issues are short lived, and a good night’s rest will get rid of them. Teflon kitty spent part of today being a little furry nurse, and snuggling with me in bed.
SOTD = back in Diane EdP and Korres Jasmine Body Butter.
I hope you feel better after a good night’s rest. I’m sure the kitty snuggles will help.
Thanks lillyjo. Teflon was so sweet today.
Hope tomorrow is a better day for you!
Thank you PL67! I hope so, too. Don’t like feeling cruddy. 😠
Aw, nurse kitties are the best 😸
Hope you are feeling like yourself soon.
Thanks ringthing. Tired right now, but feeling somewhat better.
Robin, I’m betting you wear that Old Spice well. I never knew any boys who wore it in school. We must be of slightly different vintages because it only reminds me of an uncle, and the patriarch of the family who hired me for my first job ever at their restaurant.
Today I am basking in vintage Jean Louis Scherrer EdP. At first spritz, all I could think of was “this is what all the pretty young things today would be wrinkling up their noses at and saying, eeew,” lol! Excellent article link you posted earlier, by the way.
I am probably older than you…in my school, the boys were wearing Devin, Old Spice and Grey Flannel. Or at least, those are the ones I remember.
I think not by much. 😉
I never noticed those frags, but they could have been there, for all I know.
I also had an uncle who wore Old Spice.
Back in my day, boys in high school wore Brut and Polo. Brut was pretty penetrating 😦
I ended up being commando most of the day but I had planned to wear Aura. Instead I put on some PoaL hand cream when I got home, which is nice by itself.
I remember some boys wearing Polo back in the day in high school. Sure smelled better than the ones who were smoking!