It's Tuesday, plus Coast Guard Day, National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day and Louis Armstrong’s birthday. What fragrance are you wearing?
I'm in a favorite summer chypre, Parfum d'Empire Azemour Les Orangers, and I'm giving serious consideration to just wearing it for the rest of the week. Tea the moment is Rose Black by The Art of Tea.
Reminder: on 8/7, we're doing Chypre For All Seasons: pick a season, any season, then wear a chypre that works for it. Suggested by Jalapeno.
And for those of you who like to plan ahead, see Scent of the day ~ Friday community projects 2026, where I'll occasionally manage to have the next five or six weeks mapped out in advance.
Note: the Judith Leiber Embellished Teapot Clutch Bag ("Coming in hot – and embellished with crystals – Judith Leiber’s Teapot clutch bag marks another playful addition to your collection of minaudières. Instead of the kitchen cupboard, why not proudly display yours on a vanity table?") is £5,395 at Harrods. [You can see older versions here and here.]
Hi all, my SOTD Chypre week! (probably my favorite genre) is Niki de Saint Phalle, extrait, from the cobalt bottle with the snake top.
It’s going to be a scorcher today, so drinking my fluids and staying indoors. And I love that it’s National chocolate chip cookie day.
I am planning on eating some sort of chocolate chip cookie today.
Great choice…hard to think of a chypre with better packaging. But you have to name a season!
Oh ! I forgot…. It should fit squarely into Fall, given the heavy greens and patchouli, but it also blooms beautifully in the summer.
Chypres are so perfect for fall – I’d say most chypres are for this season!
Smelling great in NdSP!
Tea is Mariage Frères Vanille des Isles
I was thinking to myself it’s been a “Chypre” summer for me. I have been wearing Melograno, and the last few days Ralph Lauren Safari. I bought some lipsticks at Sisley Paris (yes that is plural lol) and I sprayed some Eau de Soir, another chypre. I am so interested in seeing what everyone else’s favorite chypres are!
I am just back from vacation in the San Juan islands off of Seattle. Very relaxing,as there is not much to do, and that is the beauty. Spotted some bald eagles, read a lot, and mostly took in the fresh air. Went to some amazing bookstores in the city, but compared to my last visit to Seattle over 15 years ago, I felt that there was a lot of change and not for the better.
My SOTD is Rose Novella by SMN from a sample. A floral chypre.
Your vacation sounds fantastic! Now inquiring minds want to know-which shades did you get from sisley? I love their matte line but 22 Sheer raspberry has been a repurchase shade for me-think I’ve bought it continuously in the past five years.
A rose shade, let me get back to you with the color name, its not one I can remember. I loved it and bought 2! This will be more go to summer lippy. And the shiny lipsticks I bought the color BelAir
N°21 Rose Nouméa-a beautiful rose shade for me
yes, it’s a beautiful rose! I have the cute little samples they give out in the same shade. I bet it’s beautiful on you-I hope you enjoy it in the best of health 🙂
I’m headed there (Seattle and San Juans) at the end of the week. And I agree with you on Seattle. I lived there, on and off, and go back a lot. It’s not the same city it was. A lot of that change had started when I last lived there 20 years ago, and I was living on Capitol Hill. I was downtown this winter trying to shop, and downtown has been decimated. But the light rail is nice now.
Oh, that is sad to hear. I was last in Seattle in 2010 and had a great time playing tourist at Pike Place Market. Also wandered up to the Space Needle.
Chypre of the day: Balenciaga Paris.
Season: spring.
Now, the question is: is this even a chypre? A chypre is normally characterized by strong contrasts between crisp, cool top notes, heady florals, and a warm, earthy oakmoss–labdanum–patchouli base. The structure is kind of there, but the “chypre effect” is missing. There is nothing strong or contrasting here. As Robin described it, it is muted.
Still ike it. And I claim partial credit.
It is a neo chypre…which to me might as well not be called a chypre but that never stopped anybody and if they call it a chypre, which they do, you get points 🙂
Thank you for being so open-minded. 😉
It has never occurred to me that Balenciaga might be a chypre. You’re so right, it has all the requisite notes but is somehow missing that chypre feel!
Gotta have that contrast and movement to feel like a chypre!
I’m in SL Rahät Loukoum, because I felt like it and realized after checking the spreadsheet that I haven’t worn it since January. It’s really cheerful.
It really is!
I’m in another surprise-to-me chypre, LVNEA Ghost Pine. The bright top note here is pine needles, the moss is mixed with fallen leaves, and I think the middle is some sort of tree resin although fragrantica just says “woody notes”. LVNEA’s website mentions pine pitch, and that seems spot on. Definitely a scent for autumn, matching the yellow-orange skies here lately. The wildfire smoke has descended … sigh.
And a rant: why, oh Apple emoticon gods, are there two for “needle” (🪡 💉) and still none for perfume? Sushi gets two. Santa, car and bread all get three. C’mon man!
That sounds lovely!
There are so many missing emoticons, but yes, perfume is a serious lapse.
And there isn’t an emoji for raspberries (the fruit), either. Why??
SOTD is vintage Raphael Replique extrait. I find this to be solidly in the chypre category, with the characteristic citrus/floral/oakmoss structure, although Fragrantica for some reason classifies it as a “woody” scent. I find this one to be a more mossy, green chypre than some others, and definitely wearable in summer. This type of fragrace always puts me in mind of a walk in the forest, with the scents of damp earth and leaves.
Oh my gosh, I remember Replique, I had a bottle long ago! I had forgotten all about it. You smell great!
oh yes that’s indeed a chypre. I haven’t heard about this one in a long time. I went through a big Replique phase years ago. You smell marvelous, 50_Roses!
Sometimes I find Fragrantica’s scent classifications to be wildly incorrect.
I’m still commnando while I eat my usual breakfast of Greek yogurt with berries. Does anyone have a link to a good source somewhere that offers a helpful list of chypre perfumes? I am sure I have some but don’t feel sure about which ones.
And thank you to everyone who offered kind condolences this weekend on the death of my very close friend. I appreciated all of your support. In fact today is her birthday so it’s another tough moment to get through, helped by so many fun memories of her.
I am sorry about your friends passing. Fragrant hugs
Hope the fun memories help you 😊 through your 😭.
I know you already found some ideas on Fragrantica and Reddit, but I also left a separate comment with a list of chypres I have. Maybe you have some of them?
As for your friend – hugs.
Geez. Your friend’s birthday being so close to when she passed away is going to be really tough. Be gentle with yourself, Calypso.
Hello.
Sotd is Balenciaga Extra. Golden immortelle nectar sprinkled with crushed pink pepper.
I am feeling very grumpy today because 3 things had gone wrong.
1. A document that I applied for from Ontario government should come back to me in 8 weeks and now it’s been 12 and when I called this morning, I was told it requires additional “review time” and can take another 8-10 weeks!? If I want it processed sooner I need to write letters of explanation and attach proof of urgency etc. I mean how hard is it for them to just press print and get me my papers??
2. I bought my mum a very pricey designer bag and the packaged arrived last Friday and guess what? The box was EMPTY. I don’t know how or when the content was stolen and now I have to provide photos and a write up to have that processed.
3. I saw a lab diamond ring on Pandora on sale but for some reason my card couldn’t pass check out. I was told buying a gift card would solve that problem. Guess what? It doesn’t work! To make matters worse, I was informed gift cards cannot be refunded because it’s final sale. That’s a lot of money and now I am forced to have to spend it on things I DO NOT WANT.
🤬🤬
Sorry, rant over.
That’s a lot of bad stuff, happy888cat. If your card gives you grief like that again-check with the service provider, and make sure all the information is correct. Visa had an incorrect postal code and that was the cause of my own issues with them. Sorry this happened to you.
Hope you get some joy with your gift card and the problem gets solved. Soon
Wow, any one of those things would annoy the heck out of me, but all three at once is truly over the top. I hope you have good luck finding some resolutions!
Wow! That’s not just ‘things gone wrong’ that’s ‘things gone wrong in a very complicated manner!’ Hope that one way or another things get resolved and something really nice comes your way soon unexpectedly!
Oh geez! Sorry about all the troubles. Lately it seems that the simplest things cause the most problems. I hope things get straightened out sooner than later.
What a freaking pain! All of it!
My goodness. So sorry for all the yuck. Hope you get all 3 resolved.
Oh dear. What a day! I am wishing you an awesome day when everything goes right!
Wow, that’s some blingy teapot/bag. 😐
T-Rex is off her food this morning which always worries me. I got a couple of freebies with my rewards points yesterday at BBW. Since they STILL had no banana in stock I went with Tangerine and Ginger in hopes that it would perk up my energy levels (or at least my nose). Haircut yesterday was 👌🏼 💇🏻♀️ !
Wearing CSP Coco Figue and off to get unsexy but very expensive tires installed on Biggie. 🛞🛞🛞🛞🛞🛞
Stay cool!
You can’t beat a good haircut! Hope T-Rex is OK.
Thank you! I gave her a Pepcid wrapped in cheese which usually does the trick. ❤️
Too blingy for “your collection of minaudières”??? LOL!! As though we all have that collection laying about some place.
Yeah, that a new for me. Had to go look it up. The reference to “smirk” got me. I’ve been guilty of that. 🙃
min·au·dière (mē′nō-dyâr′)
n. pl. min·au·dières (-dyârz′, -dyâr′)
A small ornamental case for cosmetics, jewelry, or personal items that is often carried as a handbag.
[French, from feminine of minaudier, affected, smirking, from minauder, to simper, smirk, from mine, appearance, countenance, from Old French, probably from Breton min, muzzle.]
Hurray for a great new haircut! Hope that T-Rex is feeling better by now.
I finally located my bottle of Mandarine Ambre, so that is my SOTD. Such a cheerful citrus and lasts ages on me.
Hope everyone has a spot of shade from the extreme heat we’re all experiencing. I mowed the lawn last night cause we were supposed to get some rain. Forecast has changed and so the lawn will be as brittle and brown as all the rests of the lawns around here 🙂
Our rain yesterday was cancelled too, and our heat warning starts Thursday. I expect to be brittle and brown myself by Monday 😉
I’m back to report that I found some good lists of chypres both on Fragrantica and on Reddit. Among ones I was surprised at and have was Ormonde Jayne Woman, which I an now happily wearing!
This is an interesting one. No usual chypre ingredients (like citruses, moss, patchouli, labdanum), but other notes are selected in a way that it actually creates a chypre effect or at least comes close to it.
What about naming a season?
We had a lot of snow yesterday so I stayed inside as our road wasn’t cleared and it was a bit slippery. I have an early morning hospital appointment today for a MRI so may just walk down the hill as we’ve had a hard frost in the night and it will be very icy ( and our road doesn’t get gritted). So, I will have to leave before 7am…brrr. My dog won’t understand why I’m going for a walk without her. Not sure what to wear for perfume but I will take one of Gaynor’s samples so I can spray for the walk home which is all uphill, so will bring out the scent. I’ll be in a hat and mittens thinking about you all in the heat over there.
Careful on the icy road! Admiring your hardy trek. Hope all news is good🩵
mThank you, ltsg. I’m glad your trip was nice.
kanuka around here we use those funny spring/coil things on winter boots, to give traction. Do you guys use them too? Might be a good investment. I don’t bounce like I used to 🙂
Oh gracious, I will be thinking of you at 0-dark-thirty trudging off to an MRI in the ice…be careful!
Be careful on that slippery walk, Kanuka!
Since I spent so much $$$$$ on a new roof, I decided I needed to treat myself to something nice. I have wanted Jour d’Hermes Absolu for a long time and found a tester bottle at Jomashop, so I bought it. While I was there I saw Pamplemousse Rose, which lasts about five minutes on me but the five minutes are really nice, so I bought that, too.
In January I made a New Year’s resolution to get strong in 2026. I worked out with weights for about two weeks and then…well, you know what happened. Now it’s August. So I went to a local gym and picked a personal trainer. Yesterday was the first session and today my quads are so sore after my first-ever proper squats. It seems when I did them on my own I was not going low enough. So today I am recovering and taking Tylenol. SOTD is another sample and I’m wearing Marlou Carnicure. If MKK and Slowdive had a baby, this would be it. I get musk and honey, but it’s fading fast.
foxbins good for you for setting a goal of getting stronger! I’m right there with you. It’s an uphill battle so I’m trying to enjoy the process 🙂 I hope you do, too.
I’m as weak as a new born lamb. A month or so ago, I did manage to drag my box of hand weights down to my office. . . the box fits nicely next to my bookshelf.
It hasn’t move.
Still there.
I have had a similar excuse for my recent perfume buying binge. We had to get new siding on our house as well as a new side door. Both very much necessary, but both fall into that category of nearly invisible repairs. That is, the new siding and the new door look very much like the old ones, so I have spent $$$$$ to end up with the house looking about the same as it did before. I figured I deserved to spend a (relatively) little bit of money on something for myself that was not simply a replacement in kind.
Argh, you started off personal training with leg day?!? That’s brave!
Well good for you! Taking care of my mom as she ages really motivated me to get going and get stronger. So far I am sticking with it pretty religiously, hope you will too. It is not fun to be old and frail, that is for sure.
Too funny. I thought that was an actual tea pot, not a clutch. I love it as a tea pot. Not so much a clutch. Who wants to clutch a tea pot?
Anyway. I’m having a feet of clay moment with my perfume hero Bertrand Duchaufour. The L’Entropiste house. Anyone else tried anything from this line? I ordered six samples from the collection of 8 (the other two were not available in the US). Interesting notes? Absolutely. Fabulous names? Ye-es! Wearable? Not so much. Today I’m in Jodphur 6 AM. It is reminiscent of Hiram Green’s Shangri La. It is one of the easiest to wear from the set. But I already own Shangri La and I am working too hard to fall in love. Another one that I liked, not loved was Altamura, which I can no longer recall. I see the packet on my desk, so I know I thought it was worth revisiting. . . . sigh. Bertrand, is this the beginning of the end. Ain’t life a brook and all that?
In other Duchaufour news (I’m sorry if I already mentioned this at some point!), at the SF ScentFest I picked up a bottle of No. 11 Josephine that he created for the winery owner JCB. It wears like a spritzy cologne. Mostly, I bought it for the jade green, jolie laide bottle and how much Jean-Charles Boisset makes me smile. Check this out:
https://vimeo.com/719202832?fl=pl&fe=sh
You smiling?
Honestly I was smiling before he even opened his mouth!
I’m going straight for a classic chypre – Mitsouko! It’s great at any time of the year.
Gaynor, you’re absolutely right-you smell fabulous. Peachy-mossy 🙂
I wore it yesterday – probably the ultimate chypre! You smell awesome.
All hail the Empress of Chypres!
No CP for me today. I thought maybe there was a chypre in my set of bases from Abdes Salaam, but no dice, and I love the spice base so I just put it on instead.
I’m with Happy888Cat today, lots of grumbles. 1) My hometown in Washington State is burning. Fortunately my dad’s house is on the other side of town, but it’s still pretty grim. 2) I went for my first volunteer shift with Ockeghem Teen at a shelter on Saturday, and staff had me put my purse in a locked room while we worked in the kitchen. The next day, random purchases and attempts started showing up on my credit cards, which I still have, so someone needed time to get into my purse, find them in two different places in the purse, and photograph them. That was the only time my purse was outside my possession, so it had to be someone there. Sigh. So, all my credit cards are cancelled now, my new debit card isn’t working, and I have no way to pay for anything. Guess I’m on a no buy for a few days!
Oh my! Usually banks will add your new card right away to the digital wallet
Sadly, not this side of the border? One of my cards was removed right away after I reported it, the other I had to remove myself, and neither gave me the option to add the new card. I have a rush order in, and may have it 3 days, though knowing this bank it’ll be screwed up.
Washington is tragic (actually the entire PNW). I’ve been following the fire for days and to learn that it was started by a person intentionally is really grim. I’m sorry about your cards. There’s no safe place anymore. I have downsized my wallet to a card case and if I’m going to be away from my bag at anytime, I just slip the card case in a pocket and keep it with me. Hope your new cards arrive quickly!
Yeah, I was SO mad when I saw it was arson.
That’s truly awful, Deva. Sending you some positive energy. I wish they had left you alone and in peace.
Oy! Terrible experience! At least the “good news” is you’re on a forced retail diet.
Oh, I’m so sorry and hope everyone stays safe from the fires! And what an incredible story about your credit cards! There should be an investigation as to who had access to the ‘locked’ room while your purse was in there, or who maybe forgot to lock the room? Seems like someone should be held liable for this.
Sorry to hear about the cards! What a horrible start to your volunteer shift.
I’ll keep my fingers crossed that the fires will be contained soon, I think I saw on the weather report that smoke from those PNW fires are expected to blow into the SF Bay Area this week.
Sorry about your cards! Wow, just mind boggling plus all the irritation to fix it. I hope things get sorted quickly.
I saw the reports on the Spokane fires. Good to hear your Dad’s house is OK. It’s so damn tinder dry here in the Okanagan too. There was the fire started by an atv’er a few days ago; not good. Plus all the other fires already going too. The province needs a month of rain.
Yes — every day it says it’s going to rain, it doesn’t rain enough.
Wow, it sucks having your cards compromised like that.
I went to college in Spokane for a year, so the news reports coming out of there now are rather sad. I remember all the conifers surrounding the city. I hope that arsonist rots in jail for the rest of their life.
Oh what a shame, I am so sorry about your cards!
Happy888Cat & Ockeghem I am sorry for all the troubles. Sometimes the world seems to pile on at once. I hope you both have speedy resolutions to everything. Having your info stolen while you are volunteering and helping people must be especially galling.
Chypre week is easy peasy for me, I’ve got lots, so today I’m in Fendi Theorema, a golden orange chypre that I can never get enough of.
And it works in all 4 seasons 🙂
I do probably wear it more in fall & winter, but it does work in spring and summer.
Posting and running..
Today I am wearing Sylvaine Delacourte Vahina. I need to catch up on comments later.
You smell nice, always!
Meep meep!
SOTD = Parle Moi de Parfum Orris Tattoo 29
Lovely! At the proverbial end of the day, I still ❤️ iris the best!
In other news, talk about helicopter parenting! I thought it was just for elementary school, then on to high school, then college … and now, even finding jobs for one’s offspring. When will it end? Here’s an article from the Wall Street Journal:
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/helicopter-parents-adult-children-careers-146601ab?st=WzYqc8&reflink=article_copyURL_share
Unfortunately it has long been this way for grad school and beyond. I can see where for some parents, the job search doesn’t seem off-limits, because so many well-positioned parents over time have used their networks aggressively to place their kids. That was all done behind the scenes, of course, one senior person to another — not so obvious.
I worked in admissions for my MBA program, and it was insane what the parents would do — for their kids in their mid 20s (and mind you this was 20 years ago). While I was there, there was one mom who would clearly have a bit too much to drink every night and she would call the Director of Admissions’ voicemail and plead for her kid, over and over. But there were many other stories. And no, it does NOT help the kid’s case (quite the opposite).
It has been my dream to see my kid’s become independent. Here I am though with a mid 20’s son who is struggling to find a decent job. I wish I knew people that I could call, but I don’t. I only know people with crappie jobs like me. Lol.
I’m wearing Bulgari Eau Parfumee au The Vert today & for the next 3 days – had a medical appt today & have a dental appt tomorrow – not keen on being poked & prodded at all, a bit squeamish about it to be honest – but on Thursday we’re having lunch with my husband’s former colleagues which is always enjoyable, & on Friday we’re going to our favourite Indian restaurant for dinner with a dear friend of ours, so looking forward to 2 days of pleasure after the 2 days of, I won’t say pain as that’s over-dramatising things, but certainly discomfort!
Hope that your appointments are all routine and that nothing serious shows up.
Thank you, Jalapeno. Just back from the dentist & everything is fine & he’s happy with the non-invasive treatment, recommended by my previous dentist, that I’ve been doing since I was diagnosed with periodontitis 10 years ago. it’s kept under control using hydrogen peroxide, water, bicarbonate of soda & salt – for me, certainly much more preferable than actual medication.
Glad you have treats planned to compensate!
Indeed, Robin!
I had fresh blueberries at teatime. Vintage Eau de Givenchy this morning, very summer-appropriate but no citrus, a gentle floral, very distinctive nonetheless and tonight for the CP Cacharel Eden (vintage), Fragrantica doesn’t list moss but all other sources do and I agree, definitely my strangest chypre and to this day one of the oddest perfume ever created I think. Lots of fruits, watery flowers and humid, earthy base with both moss and patchouli.
I agree about the moss in Eden. Also the humid smell! It’s like a greenhouse.
Eau de Givenchy is absolutely lovely.
Greenhouse is a very apt description. I have both vintage and modern and they’re both good, vintage is just a touch stronger on patchouli.
The only Cacharel perfumes I remember seeing back in the day were Anais Anais and LouLou.
Oh, you have to test Eden, it’s so unusual, the modern version is still good, just less patchouli.
Eau de Givenchy is so good! I went through least 2 bottles back in the day. I haven’t sniffed Eden but I remember Super Dacob reviewing it quite awhile ago; I remember he mentioned was a bit unusual.
So glad you like EdG.
Do I have any chypres? Well, I am simply going to see everyone else’s choices this week and with luck there will be an aha! moment at some point. No perfume today, since the Yowzilla body oil I put on in the morning would probably have trounced any offerings.
Sometimes that’s the best strategy!
For the past couple of days I’ve been smelling mostly of mentholated muscle patches. Sigh! Got an ache or pinch in my shoulder that’s bothering me. I don’t know if the patches actually do anything to heal the problem, but the temporary icy hot sensation does help distract from the pain.
I’m wearing Eau Capitale for CP today.
Ugh, sorry to hear that your shoulder is hurting.
Blech, hope it gets better soon!
A bit of excitement this morning here. As I was getting breakfast for 😻😽😺, I heard a sudden squeaking noise, turned and saw 😻leap through the open window back into the house from the screened porch with a tiny chipmunk in her mouth. She quickly dropped it and thus began lots of running and chasing through the house while we tried to rescue the poor creature. We gave up after a bit as we couldn’t corner it in just one room. Finally all 3 😻😽😺all wound up back on the screened porch. We removed them, closed off all access to the porch and opened the door to the outside a bit so the little guy could hopefully find its way out. 😻then continued to wander through the house searching but thankfully nothing has turned up yet 🤞. But 😻blames us for making her new toy disappear and she is very upset with us!
Another nice 🌞 warm but not hot day and I’m back to my ‘sea’ scents, enjoying Hermes EdM Bleu. Spent a good part of the afternoon volunteering at the library and looking forward to our town’s National Night Out tonight and dinner from whatever the food trucks are offering.
Have a nice night! ☪️
ZOMG! I hope the chipmunk was able to escape. That definitely is one way to wake up in a BIG hurry.
Oh dear. Hope it is outside, safe!
I thought I’d share the list of chypres I have, going roughly from the strongest to the weakest match for the project. Maybe it will be helpful.
Guerlain Mitsouko
Estée Lauder Knowing (old version)
Ungaro Diva (vintage)
Francesca Bianchi Etruscan Water
Gucci L’Arte di Gucci (vintage)
Clinique Aromatics Elixir
Chanel Cristalle
Tauer Une Rose Chyprée
Estée Lauder Private Collection (vintage) – apparently both floral green and green chypre!
Amouage Beloved Woman
Ann Gérard Perle de Mousse
Diptyque Eau Capitale
Balenciaga Paris
Comme des Garçons 2
Ormonde Jayne Ormonde Woman
Hermès 24 Faubourg
L’Artisan Parfumeur La Haie Fleurie
Tom Ford Noir de Noir
Serge Lutens Daim Blond
Berdoues Somei Yoshino
Lush Lord of Misrule
Thank you Glannys! This is so helpful.
Thank you for this list!
Wow, you’ve really done some research on this.
Cristalle is a chypre? Done! Thanks very much
It is! Fragrantica classfies EDT as Citrus Aromatic and EDP as Floral Green, and it became less mossier with reformulations, but it still has the structure of a classical chypre and is widely recognized as a chypre staple.
Hiya NST! Figured I’d give you all a break from listening to me kvetch about the weather, so I didn’t post yesterday.
The promised drop in temperature certainly arrived. I’d say it was close to a 50-degree drop between yesterday’s high temperature and the low temp this morning. I was able to turn off my A/C!
Getting smoke from wildfires both in state and out of state here. Air quality has been hanging out in the “Moderate” to “Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups” since yesterday morning. This smoke plume might be headed East, too.
SOTD = Chanel No. 5 L’Eau. Because I wanted to wear it.
Two scents I found listed as chypres on Fragrantica are Azuree and TF Moss Breches.
Woohoo on the No.5 L’Eau!
I swear it smells better and better each time I wear it!
Congrats on your cooler weather, but a 50-degree drop is extreme!
We expect cooler weather by Saturday, while Wednesday and Thursday are going to be real scorchers.
And thank you for the idea for this CP!
I’m glad you are enjoying this CP!
A 50-degree swing sounds extreme, but it isn’t the biggest here. My brother was around for a 70-degree plunge in October 2019. That apparently tied for 4th place in the meteorological records. It went from 83 degrees to 13 degrees. So far, the all time champion of insane weather roller coaster temps is a whopping 76 degrees back in 2008.
You can mention the weather any time; mine here is ridiculously hot and bone dry. Of course it’s been a dangerous wildfire season too. I hate complaining about it, but it is worrying. We had a reprieve on Saturday but back to more of the same for the week.
Smelling great in your Chanel.
I totally understand your concern about bad fire seasons. The worst one in recent years for Colorado was 2021. The mountains were invisible due to a heavy shroud of smoke for weeks on end. It was creepy AF.
Thanks for the perfume compliment!
On the contrary, I like getting your weather report!
I think it got up to 72 here today?
This respite from the summer heat won’t last, though. It’s supposed to be back in the 90’s by Thursday. And ridiculously hot over the weekend again.
I like these variations though…we have not seen 72 in a very long time and likely won’t until late September…
Of course I might be wrong but I would be very happy to be wrong!
Quite a drop indeed, enjoy it. Love your weather reports.
Sometimes I think Colorado weather has its own Main Character energy.
I’m wearing DSH Muresque, a blackberry “fruity chypre” and one of my favorites. I claim extra points for eating blackberries off the vine today.
Fresh blackberries definitely get points 🙂
And they were so tasty!
That’s such a good one! I don’t have a lot left in my travel size. Maybe I’ll remember to wear it in Saturday as I already have another chypre planned for tomorrow.