It's the first Friday in October and the International Day of Non-Violence. (A couple PSAs: the swapmeet starts tomorrow. We don't have a community project today, and we might not have one the next week either, but I am hoping to get them started up the week after that.)
What fragrance are you wearing? And since we are not going to do a damage poll this month, do feel free to tell us about what you bought in the last quarter (July, August and September).
Yesterday I wore a drop of Tauer Phi Une Rose de Kandahar because allo mentioned it on Wednesday, and today I'm in a drop of Blackbird Y06-S.
Reminder: Personal matters are still taking up much of my time. Hopefully I will continue to post regularly and hopefully we will restock the Friday community projects soon.
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: top image is Neubelgische Aster [cropped] by Markus Kniebes at flickr; public domain.
Good morning, I hope Yoe are doing well, Robin. That’s all I came here to say.
Did you decide to have a scent free day, majokkobiachen?
Thank you!! Still crazy busy (I spent most of yesterday with movers), but otherwise I am doing as well as can be expected. I hope everything is going to calm down next week (fingers crossed).
Did you get a break from the rain?
I’m in a bit of Celine Cologne Celeste. Yesterday we were cleaning at work and I had brought a bottle of cologne for the redistribution fairy. didn’t I drop it on the tile floor in the bathroom-it shattered, of course. Can’t remember its name. I never wore it but I’ll remember it lol.
Hope everyone has a very firm grip on their SOTD:)
Yikes! I dropped my bottle of Hundred Silent Ways on the basement floor and I can still smell it
And you can probably still hear it – so much for ‘Silent!’
🤣
What will your “pet” spiders think?!1
😸😸hopefully they like the way it smells but it certainly isn’t Poison 😁
Well, mission accomplished – It was certainly ‘redistributed!’
Thank you for the laugh!
🤣🤣🤣
Happy FriYAY y’all!
Went down the classic/vintage path today with Guerlain Vol de Nuit EdT. Such an elegant beauty!
I went back several posts (I’m a curious George it has to be said..), and just wanted to give my condolences to Robin. It’s bad enough to grieve, but dealing with the “business” of someone’s death is hard too. Hugs!
Well said, Jada in GA!!
& you smell amazing in Vol de Nuit.
I love all iterations of Vol de Nuit, but the edt is especially luminous. You smell wonderful.
Hi stranger! You smell great!
Oh thank you Jada, that’s kind! The business part at the moment is worse than the grief part…primarily because I am too busy to grieve. At the moment, my grief is mostly expressed by extreme exhaustion.
Ah, there’s the OG “Happy Fri-YAY”!
I am wearing Bulgari Black today. I also wore a leather jacket, so hey, that matches.
I have a bottle from quite a few years ago-you do smell fantastic and you get extra points for the jacket:)
Nice one — I am just waiting for slightly cooler weather here to join in with my Bulgari Black.
Nice, I like it!
Hello and tgif!
Sotd is Prada Paradoxe Virtual Flower. Got the sample from a Sephora pack. It actually smells pretty good! I refused to try it for the longest time because of the name. Silly, I know.
The new purple flanker smells pretty good too.
Good to hear! The name is in fact silly!
I have done the same thing. Refused to try a perfume b/c I hated the name.
Another glorious fall day, warm for this time. I got a Prin Lomros discovery set and today I am wearing Mandodari, a big skanky floral. It’s really nice, and the samples are 2.2ml sprays, so you get a lot to test. I am impressed with the brand.
Another brand I have not tried, but always glad to hear people are still making and buying big skanky florals 🙂
Agree!
Yes to indoles!! 🥰🥰
Skanky floral, you say?! The skankier, the better!
Fresh White Musk
Hey cm8!
Hi Robin! Hope you are well. I seem to have missed something but I am sending condolences.
Hiya CM8! How are your grandkitties? And the mini Marzipans?
All good!!! And there’s a fourth kitty grandkid in the mix, rescued from feral parents. She lives with my daughter. Human kids are good too, busy with their careers. Thanks for asking and hope you are well!!!
Waving hi!!
Hi friend!!! I owe you a PM 😜
I’m in Bucoliques de Provence this morning. It’s more spring than fall, but I don’t care. 🙂
And why should you, LOL??
We had a summer day here anyway, low 80s.
Beautiful day here so went with the beautiful FM Iris Poudre.
Lovely
I am just checking in quickly. Wearing Caron Yatagan.
Smelling good
Fabulous stuff, Yatagan!
Be safe, and be well Glannys. Hearing grim news out of Ukraine lately.
Chanel Bois des Iles EDT today. It makes me feel “High End.” 🙃
Currently roasting beets in the air fryer. Is there anything more beautiful than the color of beetroot? It’s supremely majestic. 👑
You smelled high end! And, fantastic too. Not always overlapping 😉
I roast beets once a week, and yes, they are little miracles.
Someone should make a perfect beetroot lip stain or lipstick💄
I swear someone did make a tinted balm and that it was a lemming here! But I could be dreaming.
Aha.
https://nstperfume.com/2018/01/22/the-daily-lemming-295/
Thank you for finding this, Robin! I’ll check it out.
Still smelling the remnants of yesterday’s Like This — from my watch, I think? No time to put on a scent this morning as it was cleaning day and we needed to get out of the house. Then when we came home, it was clear the cleaners hadn’t been in. Sigh.
Oh shoot!!
I find myself unexpectedly at my mother’s house for a few days. She was admitted to hospital a few days ago, usually she would prefer I came to visit once she was back home and I could help her with anything, but she was getting very anxious about dealing , so I hopped in a plane.
Oops, that wasn’t ready to post! She was getting very anxious about dealing with her diabetes medication, following a muddle after her last hospital visit (the hospital’s fault). I’ve been able to bring her home for the weekend, which is nice for both of us.
I’m wearing Queen of the Night from The Merchant of Venice, and my one FB purchase was Dioressence from The Créations de Monsieur Dior range.
I have actually gone a bit wild and bought other things, but they are yet to be delivered, so I won’t confess them yet.
Sending good wishes your way for a healing weekend for your mom.
So glad you were able to get there when she needed you Gaynor, and yes, if you don’t have them yet you don’t have to tell Donatella!
Hope that your Mom’s hospital stay is brief, and everything works out well.
Hope your mom is feeling better!
I’m in a spritz of Milky Musk (Parle Moi de Parfum). I’ve been working out and cleaning all morning and now I’m gonna relax. Flu shot yesterday which never bothered me when I got the regular flu shot, but now that I am older, I “have to” (do I really have to? any opinions welcome) get the “senior” version and I felt awful last night, better today. COVID booster next week.
Never mind, I did some reading on this and while I can request the regular flu shot, it sounds like it’s best for me to have the higher dose adjuvanted version because it boosts the immune response in seniors. Oh well.
Ugh, sorry, and hope you are 100% back to normal by tomorrow.
I am hoping to do covid or flu next week and the other a few weeks later…can’t decide yet which to put off. Blech.
I got a very minor sore, slightly swollen-at-injection-site arm from my seasonal flu shot this week.
Well, thank you for mentioning this. Mr. Mossy and I got our flu shots this week. The pharmacist confirmed what shot I was getting, but I just heard “flu shot” and said yes. It was our regular person and place so I trusted them to do it right. Huh. Mr. M. and I just discussed it, and we think it was the “senior” version “cause I’m there.
If you have the paperwork, it might say “fluad” if it’s the senior version. (Maybe there are other types of senior versions? Not sure. Fluad is what I was given last year and this year.) It feels a bit like rubbing salt into the wound –not only am I old, but I also have to have the vax that bothers me more. (I know that it’s a privilege really, to get a vax that can protect me, I’m just complaining.)
I hope you feel better soon, SP!
I am thumbing my nose at this new heat wave to sweep L.A. (100 degrees today) and have doused myself with SL Santal Blanc. I had to go out in the middle of the day to buy ingredients to make a pistachio polenta lemon olive oil cake which I would like to make this evening, but at least it’s cool at home. I cannot wait for fall/winter weather.
Oh my goodness Denise, 100! I thought we were unseasonably warm at 80something. You smelled great today anyway, and gosh, save me a piece of cake.
House twin in Fumerie Turque but we are cool, cloudy and Fall-like here.
You smell amazing, MossyBerry! That is a perfect one for cooler weather. I actually thought about FT today but my hand went to the Santal.
ZOMG. That is too damn hot for this time of year.
Thanks, Denise, I think I am already better!
Hello dear fragrance lovers!
Despairing of the insane hot weather and after my last power bill 💸💸💸 trying not to turn on a/c u til bedtime, I’m wearing my drugstore Voluspa Neroli Sunbath to think cool thoughts.
Streaming recommendation: Amazon Prime’s The Love Hypothesis from Ali Hazelwood novel of the same name. 👍👍👍
Argh. I did not know about the hot weather until I saw Denise’s comment right above yours, but gosh, hope you have a really good fan!
I close off the doors to the Den and the second bathroom so I don’t waste cool air in there. I try to walk around with a wet tea towel wrung out and tied around my neck. That helps a lot.
You all have to cool off *sometime* soon, right?? I hope?
JP, I was at. 4:30 am – couldn’t sleep- and the fog was insane. I’m on the 10th flr and I couldn’t see across the street it was sooo dense. I thought ooh the fog is cooling so it won’t that bad today. Wrong. But the fog was enchanting to watch. Very mystical.
LesLiesse, I think it’s more cost effective if you set your A/C and don’t turn it off and on. California might be different.
I hope you can cool off soon.
I’ll investigate LLJ- thank you for the tip !
Robin, You smell fabulously banana-y in Blackbird’s jasmine wonder, Y06-S 🍌
I’m wearing to wear Tauer this week in his Shadid, a leathery animalic number. Hear me roar!🦁
It is such a great scent! I may buy some eventually.
Found the Tauer sample set that had L’Air des Alpes Suisses this afternoon. There is something in it that is heavily aquatic. IDK if it’s L’Air or Phthaloblue.
Aquatic!😬
I will report back after further sniffing to confirm which perfume is the offender.
After yesterday’s supremely ugly weather – dark, dismal, lots of rain and flood warnings (I didn’t even step out of the house all day) – today was absolutely beautiful! Clear blue sky, 🌞, nice warm temps and, best of all, trees just beginning to take on some fall color.
Ran some errands, including a stop at BBW to take advantage of 50% off the whole store, today only (+ I had 2 coupons). I got the remaining products I wanted for the Caramel Vanilla and Almond Biscotti collections that I got got last time. The young salesgirls at my nearby BBW are so pleasant it’s always a day-brightener just to visit there. And, best of all, while grocery shopping at Aldi, the Specially Selected Ice cream (that is the best ice cream ever and has been missing from the shelves for a long-time and rumored to have been d/c) was back in stock. Made my day!
SOTD is Coty L’Origan. Its bright orange, bit of spice and woodiness are perfect for today. Luckily a nice weather weekend is ahead for us, hoping to get to two nearby fall fests this weekend. 🍂🍁
Happy weekend ahead to all!
Ugh, more flood warnings? That’s been happening a lot for you.
I didn’t know that sale was just for today. I had planned on going tomorrow. Money saved I guess.
Sorry, yes, it was just for today. I just bought a couple of things and ‘hope’🤞I won’t be going back for awhile!
It’s for the weekend. I just looked it up. 50% off all weekend.
SOTD = Hiram Green Arbole Arbole
Very nice! More sparingly than autumn-like but I will take it any time.
In other news, here’s an article from the Wall Street Journal on retirement:
https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/inflation-proofed-retirement-cd2a387a?st=yRG1zT&reflink=article_copyURL_share
SotD SL Fumerie Turque. Activity of the day was making vegetable soup, which I like to do before we go on vacation. It uses up languishing veg like celery and carrots. Right now, it also helped with the ast of the garden’s tomatoes needing to be picked and cooked. Bonus is, I freeze some and the evening when we get back, dinner is available! The aged celery (with some bits that needed to be trimmed) smelled great with Fumerie Turque. Hope everyone’s weekend is off to a mellow start.
Safe travels MossyBerry!
Adding a safe travels wish and enjoy your soup! Fall starts Monday Soup Days for me, too, and I like to freeze some of it, too, when possible. Made a white bean/chicken chili that was delicious this week.
Have a safe and fun trip!
Fumerie Turque and your soup both smell amazing. Have a great trip!
An absolutely stunning early autumn day here, with completely clear deep blue skies and temps in the low 80’s. Perfect weather. Both Teflon kitty and I are appreciating it.
SOTD = back in Bottega Veneta EdP. Today I have paired it with Sol de Janeiro Rosa Charmosa Dewy Cream. Really enjoying this combo, too.
Glad you had a stunning autumn day; we did, too, except ours was in the upper 60’s, which was absolutely perfect. 🌞
You had some excellent weather for baseball today!
No baseball today. First game tomorrow in Cleveland; we get the third game here Wednesday. Weather looks nice for that and we have tix!
That body cream smells really nice.
The weather is perfect for Rosa Charmosa right now. I gave it a sniff during the brief cool down here, and it wasn’t quite right.
I hope things are settling down for you, Robin. SOTD is Bulle de Rose, by Parfums de Rosina. No particular reason, except that we’re traveling and I have it in a travel spray!
It’s 56 degrees here. Thankfully the sun came out today.
I’m still sick, but wearing perfume. My sotd is Zara Fleur de Patchouli.
Wow, that’s chilly!
Fleur de Patchouli is a pretty one. Too warm here at the moment to wear it, though.
Looking forward to the end of heat and humidity, can’t come soon enough. It’s hot and sh*tty here in San Diego. Wearing Le Plus Beau Jour de Ma Vie LOL.
California has humidity? I did not know that.